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  • Kominka

    The Beauty and Wisdom of Japanese Traditional Folk Houses

    by Kazuo Hasegawa ...
    For centuries, traditional wooden folk houses known as " kominka" have embodied the cultural values of the agrarian, merchant, and samurai societies of pre-modern Japan. Their huge sturdy posts and powerful beams have withstood earthquakes and other natural disasters, demonstrating the artistry of Japanese carpenters and the strength of handcrafted wood joinery. Preserved and reconstructed today, ... Read more

    RM 65.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Village Inn of Secret Dreams

    The joyfully heartwarming read from Alison Sherlock

    by Alison Sherlock ...
    Series Book 3 - The Riverside Lane Series
    From the bestselling author of The Village Shop For Lonely HeartsAfter escaping her parents’ unhappy marriage to sleepy Cranbridge a long time ago, Belle Clarke dreams of staying at The Black Swan Inn forever.But with the rundown Inn threatened with closure, Belle may be forced to leave, unless a buyer can be found … quickly.So, when her oldest friend Pete Kennedy returns from working abroad with ... Read more

    RM 15.96 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building-Integrated Photovoltaics

    A Technical Guidebook

    Edited by Nuria Martín Chivelet, Costa Kapsis, Francesco Frontini ...
    Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is an innovative technology offering a variety of building envelope solutions, materials, and colours for virtually any building surface. These BIPV products generate on-site renewable electricity, turning buildings from energy consumers to producers. BIPV is expected to play an indispensable role in the transition towards decarbonisation and energy ... Read more

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  • New Adobe Home

    by Dottie Larson ...
    THE NEW ADOBE HOME PRESENTS THE SOPHISTICATED, elevated use of adobe through a variety of elegant homes in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Mexico. These homes comprise a combination of history, furnishings, art, and interior and exterior spaces with adobe construction, adobe style, or detailing. This beautiful volume features examples of luxurious adobe or adobe-style homes, including a ... Read more

    RM 48.69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die besten Einfamilienhäuser aus Holz

    Die 50 besten Projekte

    by Katharina Matzig ...
    HOLZ GILT ZU RECHT ALS EINER DER BELIEBTESTEN BAUSTOFFE – er vermittelt Behaglichkeit, ist nachwachsend und ermöglicht zudem eine große Gestaltungsvielfalt. Ob in der Stadt oder auf dem Land, ob massiv oder als Rahmenbau, ob groß oder klein, ob gebrannt, naturbelassen oder geölt – die Möglichkeiten sind unbegrenzt. Der Leser erhält Einblick in 50 individuelle Planungsgeschichten von Architekt ... Read more

    RM 146.79

  • Three Birds Renovations

    400+ renovation and styling secrets revealed

    by Erin Cayless, Bonnie Hindmarsh, Lana Taylor ...
    Holy reno inspo!Before & aftersStyling how-to'sMoney-saving reno tips'Australia's most fabulous renovators' Real Living magazineWhen best friends Erin, Bonnie and Lana ditched their corporate careers to start Three Birds Renovations, they were rookie renovators with big ideas. Today, with many incredible house transformations under their toolbelt, they're a power trio turning neighbourhood ugly ... Read more

    RM 60.39

  • Naive Intention

    by von Ellrichshausen Pezo, Edwin van Gelder ...
    Introduced by an essay about the vague contradiction between intentionality and chance, necessity and accident, reason and futility, authorship and anonymity, the book presents a selection of images that inform Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s cross production between art, architecture and academia. Each page contains a single picture and a brief caption describing it.Beyond a comprehensive depiction of ... Read more

    RM 45.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    RM 505.01

  • The Comedy of Errors

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to ... Read more

    RM 3.94 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Natured

    Iroje, Seung H-Sang

    by Seung H-Sang, Hyungmin Pai ...
    A compedium of essays and projects that creates a projective document capable of setting up new scenarios for the architecture of the next decade. This publication wants to transmit the constant values of the Seung H-Sang's architecture, which has been routed on principles and ideals driven by sensuous and essences of raw materials, echoing the extemporal features of the culture where buildings ... Read more

    RM 85.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Profitable and Sustainable Real Estate Investing

    An Investor's Guide

    by Suhail Y Tayeb ...
    Sustainability is no longer a niche strategy in real estate investing. It has become a set of constraints that shape risk, valuation, financing, operating costs, and long-term returns.Ignoring those constraints does not make them go away. It simply pushes risk downstream.This book was written to help investors understand that shift and respond to it intelligently.Profitable and Sustainable Real ... Read more

    RM 37.79

  • Development of Ultra-High Performance Concrete against Blasts

    From Materials to Structures

    by Chengqing Wu, Jun Li, Yu Su ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
    Development of Ultra-High Performance Concrete against Blasts: From Materials to Structures presents a detailed overview of UHPC development and its related applications in an era of rising terrorism around the world. Chapters present case studies on the novel development of the new generation of UHPC with nano additives. Field blast test results on reinforced concrete columns made with UHPC and ... Read more

    RM 769.59

  • Inside Retirement Housing

    Designing, Developing and Sustaining Later Lifestyles

    by Sam Clark ...
    Many developed nations face the challenge of accommodating a growing, ageing population and creating appropriate forms of housing suitable for older people.Written by an architect, this practice-led ethnography of retirement housing offers new perspectives on environmental gerontology. Through stories and visual vignettes, it presents a range of stakeholders involved in the design, construction, ... Read more

    RM 113.89

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the ... Read more

    RM 3.94 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death and Rebirth in a Southern City

    Richmond's Historic Cemeteries

    by Ryan K. Smith ...
    This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital.Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds show the sweep of Southern history ... Read more

    RM 123.79

  • Fabricating Plasticity in Aluminum

    by Heather Roberge ...
    This book argues for the value of the material prototype as a critical site of design innovation, through a series of design and architectural case studies. Illustrated by physical objects such as chairs, columns, and building façades, these full-scale material investigations reflect their designers’ deep knowledge of material, manufacturing, and geometry. The projects do not simply express how ... Read more

    RM 218.68

  • Moved Earth

    Designing Landscapes with Discarded Fill

    by Chiara Geroldi ...
    Moved Earth explores discarded fill to construct designed landscapes from a designer’s perspective. Some geologists estimate that humans now move more earth than natural processes. The 20th century saw an increase of ‘made ground’ and of discarded fill production, accompanied by the fact that an ‘away’ for waste disposal no longer exists. So far, discarded fill materials have been addressed ... Read more

    RM 218.68

  • Creating Sensory Spaces

    The Architecture of the Invisible

    by Barbara Erwine ...
    Creating Sensory Spaces celebrates spaces enlivened with sensual richness and provides you with the knowledge and tools necessary to create them. Drawing on numerous built case studies in ten countries and illustrated with over 85 full color images, this book presents a new framework for the design of sensory spaces including light, color, temperature, smell, sound and touch. Bridging across ... Read more

    RM 242.54

  • Meus Roteiros

    by Armin Franz Isenmann ...
    A coletânea dos roteiros para ensaios de química engloba diversas áreas, sínteses orgânicas e inorgânicas, assim que simulação de reações da química industrial. É lógico que a química analítica, via úmida e instrumental, não faltam nesta lista. Os requisitos à vidraria e ao equipamento são baixas, de forma que o experimento possa ser realizado numa escola com orçamento limitado. Cada roteiro é ... Read more

    RM 27.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Textiles, Polymers and Composites for Buildings

    Edited by G Pohl ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
    Textiles, polymers and composites are increasingly being utilised within the building industry. This pioneering text provides a concise and representative overview of the opportunities available for textile, polymer and composite fibres to be used in construction and architecture.The first set of chapters examine the main types and properties of textiles, polymers and composites used in buildings. ... Read more

    RM 1,020.09

  • Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture

    by Mark R. Cruvellier, Bjorn N. Sandaker, Luben Dimcheff ...
    This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture. As such it provides students and professionals alike with an essential sourcebook that can be mined for visual inspiration as well as for textually rich and authoritative insight into the links between structure, architecture, and cultural context. The ... Read more

    RM 318.10

  • Materials for Architects and Builders

    by Arthur Lyons ...
    Materials for Architects and Builders provides a clear and concise introduction to the broad range of materials used within the construction industry and covers the essential details of their manufacture, key physical properties, specification and uses.Understanding the basics of materials is a crucial part of undergraduate and diploma construction or architecture-related courses, and this ... Read more

    RM 330.03

  • Cognitive Architecture

    Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

    by Ann Sussman, Justin Hollander ...
    In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment. Discussing key biometric tools to help designers ‘see’ subliminal human behaviors and suggesting new ways to ... Read more

    RM 250.50

  • The Art of Landscape Lighting

    A Designer's Companion

    by Janet Lennox Moyer ...
    Following on from the critically acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book, this is the lighting design companion every professional and student in landscape architecture needs. Written by an award-winning internationally renowned landscape lighting designer, with over 40 years’ experience in professional practice, The Art of Landscape Lighting takes the reader step-by-step through Janet Lennox Moyer ... Read more

    RM 306.17