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  • Urban Design Futures

    Edited by Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland ...
    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Read more

    Free

  • Sustainability in Interior Design

    by Siân Moxon, Sian Moxon ...
    Series series Portfolio Skills
    The environmental impact of interior architecture and design practice is immense. This book highlights the need for designers to adapt the way they work and relearn lessons that have been lost.Contrary to many preconceptions, sustainable design can be sophisticated and stylish. And by its nature, a sustainable approach means considering the whole life cycle of a project and therefore improving the ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Generative Design

    by Asterios Agkathidis ...
    Series series Form + Technique
    Generating form is one of the most fundamental aspects of architectural education and practice. While new computational tools are enabling ever more unpredictable forms, critics argue that this leads to a disconnection between architectural output and its context.This attractive, pocket-sized book uses 11 different architectural projects to explore how generative design processes can integrate ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Enterprise Architecture Turnaround

    by Nagesh V. Anupindi, Gerard A. Coady ...
    To provide structure and transparency to the complex world of IT, Enterprise Architecture was created. However, we created complexities within Enterprise Architecture with Frameworks that are not easily understandable and purposefully implementable. In this book, Nagesh and Gerry help to turnaround Enterprise Architecture organizations. They introduce a simple IDEA Framework that is based on ... Read more

    14,51 €

  • Designing Spaces for Natural Ventilation

    An Architect's Guide

    by Ulrike Passe, Francine Battaglia ...
    Buildings can breathe naturally, without the use of mechanical systems, if you design the spaces properly. This accessible and thorough guide shows you how in more than 260 color diagrams and photographs illustrating case studies and CFD simulations. You can achieve truly natural ventilation, by considering the building's structure, envelope, energy use, and form, as well as giving the occupants ... Read more

    116,01 €

  • Die schönsten Fertighäuser

    by Barbara Brubacher ...
    DIESE PUBLIKATION VERSAMMELT DIE TOP-PROJEKTE DER FERTIGHAUS-BRANCHE in ihrer ganzen architektonischen Vielfalt. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bundesverband Deutscher Fertigbau e.V. und der Autorin Barbara Brubacher werden die besten Fertighäuser Deutschlands jeweils auf mehreren Seiten und in aller Ausführlichkeit mit Plänen und Grundrissen vorgestellt. Daneben gibt es ein informatives und ... Read more

    39,99 €

  • idea journal: (extra) ordinary interiors: practising critical reflection

    vol. 18, no. 01

    Edited by Julieanna Preston ...
    Series Book 1 - idea journal
    (Extra) Ordinary Interiors features research articles and visual essays by academics, research students and practitioners that demonstrate contemporary modes of criticality and reflection on specific interior environments in ways that expand upon that which is ordinary (of the everyday, common, banal, or taken for granted). ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Urbanismo sostenible

    Un enfoque desde la planificación

    by Juan Alfredo Rúa Rodríguez ...
    Gran parte de la población colombiana vive actualmente en ciudades. Las tendencias muestran que el crecimiento de la población seguirá concentrándose en las áreas urbanas, puesto que favorecen la disminución de la pobreza y ofrecen un mercado mucho más amplio de posibilidades para mejorar sus ingresos y, en consecuencia, su calidad de vida. Sin embargo, dicha tendencia plantea retos importantes en ... Read more

    11,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drawing for Interior Design

    by Drew Plunkett ...
    Series series Portfolio Skills
    This book covers all stages of visual presentation as part of the interior design process, from the most basic initial sketches, to models, to fully developed computer-generated visualizations. In four chapters this easy-to-follow text explains the basics, conception, presentation and production.With a varied and comprehensive range of images, this book is an invaluable, inspirational and ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Architecture 101

    From Frank Gehry to Ziggurats, an Essential Guide to Building Styles and Materials

    by Nicole Bridge ...
    Series series Adams 101 Series
    **A crash course in designing and constructing buildingsToo often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture into tedious discourse that would put even Frank Gehry to sleep.** Architecture 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you explore the world's greatest structures.Featuring only the most important facts, building ... Read more

    1,13 €

  • Architectural Precedents

    Historic Case Studies on Spatial Density and Seclusion

    Edited by Rubén Alcolea ...
    The use of historical precedents as references has been widely used in modern and contemporary architectural practices. "Architectural Precedents: Historic Case Studies on Spatial Density and Seclusion" presents a set of examples to look at as a generative source for students and practitioners, pointing to universal compositional principles such as structure, symmetry, scale and density. This ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • Interior Architecture: From Brief to Build

    by Jennifer Hudson ...
    Interior Architecture provides an in-depth study of the creative and construction processes behind 30 contemporary interior designs. Covering a broad range of international projects, the book illustrates the working methods and creative concerns of both long-established and emerging international designers. Every stage of the project is included, from the demands of the original brief, through ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The Society of Interiors

    by Tatjana Schneider, Tor Lindstrand, Petra Pferdmenges, Peter Lang, Rochus Hinkel ...
    Series Book 2 - The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice
    The Society of Interiors discusses a variety of spatial practices which critique, reveal, and resist the economical logic of a neo-liberal market. A market that caters for exclusiveness and individualities, where public space becomes an interior, that is highly controlled and privatized. The different essays unpack, develop and expand a diversity of interior and spatial practices in urban contexts ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • La arquitectura a través del juego

    by Anabel Varona, Carlos Arruti ...
    ¿Quién no ha construido una casa en la infancia? árboles, muebles, sábanas y tantas otras cosas han servido a la imaginación de niños y niñas durante generaciones. La curiosidad y la intuición les han permitido aprender a través de la experiencia conceptos relacionados con la arquitectura, que sobre todo resultan útiles para el ejercicio de una ciudadanía atenta a los cambios de las ciudades y ... Read more

    8,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Della architettura gotica

    by Carlo Troya ...
    Io prendo a ridurre in un corpo solo ed a compendiare le cose, che ho sparsamente scritte sull'Architettura Gotica, secondo le varie occorrenze ora della mia Storia d'Italia ed ora del mio Codice Diplomatico Longobardo. Fondamento primiero d'un tale studio è il fatto da me posto in chiarezza, che i Goti altri non furono se non i discendenti de' Geti di Tracia, ricordati da Erodoto, ed indi ... Read more

    1,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Illustrated Guide to Door Hardware: Design, Specification, Selection

    by Scott Tobias ...
    Your one-stop, comprehensive guide to commercial doors and door hardware—from the brand you trustIllustrated Guide to Door Hardware: Design, Specification, Selection is the only book of its kind to compile all the relevant information regarding design, specifications, crafting, and reviewing shop drawings for door openings in one easy-to-access place. Content is presented consistently across ... Read more

    93,99 €

  • Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination

    Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas

    Edited by Esra Akcan, Iftikhar Dadi ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to the partitions of the twentieth century and the Muslim diasporas in Europe.Turkey and Pakistan have ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • Innovation District Planning

    Concept, Framework, Practice

    by Tan Yigitcanlar, Surabhi Pancholi, Niusha Esmaeilpoorarabi, Rosemary Adu-McVie ...
    This book aims to fill the knowledge gap on how to plan, develop and manage innovation districts that are competitive in terms of both productivity and quality of living, justifying the massive investment put into place and at the same time doing both in a delicate and harmonious way.There is a need for smart urban land use that is wired with both hard infrastructures (e.g., telecommunication and ... Read more

    52,50 €

  • Architectural Technicities

    A Foray Into Larval Space

    by Stavros Kousoulas ...
    Series series Architectural Borders and Territories
    This book poses a simple question: how is this architecture possible? To respond, it will embark on a captivating journey through many singular architectural concepts. The entasis of Doric columns, Ulysses and desert islands will outline an architectural act that moves beyond representation. A ferryman who stutters will present two different types of architectural minds. A stilus and a theory of ... Read more

    57,39 €

  • Social Practices and City Spaces

    Towards a Cooperative and Inclusive Inhabited Space

    Edited by Kyriaki Tsoukala ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. From a social-cultural-and-ecological perspective, it explores the modes of engagement of all factors in the constitutional processes of inhabited space.Throughout this interdisciplinary collection, built space is ... Read more

    52,50 €

  • Achieving Sustainable Highway Infrastructure in Developing Countries

    Creating a Viable Public-Private Partnership Model

    by Isaac Abiodun ...
    This book investigates the challenges being experienced in the traditional procurement methods for road infrastructure in developing countries and explores the features of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as an alternative procurement method with the potential of achieving a more sustainable highway network in Nigeria and other developing countries of Africa.The book starts with an investigation ... Read more

    203,95 €

  • Seeing and Making in Architecture

    Design Exercises

    by Taiji Miyasaka ...
    You always aim to achieve that moment of insight that leads to ingenuity and novelty in your design, but sometimes it remains elusive. This book presents a variety of techniques for mapping and making hands-on design/build projects, and relates this work to real architecture. It helps you to learn new ways of seeing and making that will enhance your creative design process and enable you to ... Read more

    68,38 €

  • Digital Vernacular

    Architectural Principles, Tools, and Processes

    by James Stevens, Ralph Nelson ...
    Digital Vernacular addresses the why and how of digital fabrication in hundreds of step-by-step color images, illuminating a set of working principles and techniques that join theory with practice. Authors James Stevens and Ralph Nelson reconcile local traditions and innovations with globally accessible methods and digital toolsets. By combining ethics with hardware, the book will root you in the ... Read more

    75,71 €

  • The Architect and the Academy

    Essays on Research and Environment

    by Dean Hawkes ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes’ impressive 50-year academic career.The book considers the relationship between the technologies of the environment and wider historical and theoretical factors, with chapters on topics ranging from the origins of modern ‘building science’ in ... Read more

    57,39 €