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  • 101 Things I Didn't Learn In Architecture School

    And wish I had known before my first job

    by Sarah Lebner ...
    Your first architecture job can involve a very steep learning curve.This book helps students and graduates of architecture kick-start their career and shave months off their professional development.This book will help you:Understand construction basics so you can avoid embarrassing situations and quickly understand instructions.Grasp an overview of the industry and business of architecture so ... Read more

    RM 35.25

  • Free-Standing Tension Structures

    From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems

    by Binbing Wang ...
    Series series Spon Research
    Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports. Tensile and cable-strut structures are one method of producing such spaces. They also enable the creation of different shaped spaces allowing architects more scope for innovation. Free-standing Tension Structures: From Tensegrit ... Read more

    RM 372.42

  • Homemakers

    A Domestic Handbook for the Digital Generation

    by Brit Morin ...
    From “Silicon Valley’s Martha Stewart” comes a new manifesto for the modern homemaker in the digital age.Over the past three generations, the rules of homemaking and our very notions of what a homemaker is and does have radically changed. We are still a nation of makers, but we are crafting and creating beyond the home, in both the analog and digital worlds. And in the next ten years, “making” and ... Read more

    RM 55.59

  • Valences of Historiography

    Essays on Architectural History

    Edited by Gevork Hartoonian ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of architecture histories, working toward the theme of critically re-writing history. Essential to each author's contribution are specific traditions created by the mole of history burrowing through the past. This book concerns the historian's conjectures ... Read more

    RM 254.80

  • Digital Transformation of Building Permitting

    Edited by Judith Fauth, Dogus Guler, Rita Lavikka, Francesca Noardo, Peter Nørkjær Gade, Silvia Mastrolembo Ventura ...
    Series series BRI Research Series
    This book represents an initiative to amalgamate research findings from a diverse array of international perspectives on building permits, addressing their innovation and digital evolution. With a comprehensive approach, the publication endeavours to encapsulate global scientific advancements, practices, and takeaways within the realm of digital building permit systems. Ranging through a diverse ... Read more

    RM 243.04

  • La autogestión de una casa

    Morfología de la vivienda

    by Xavier Fonseca, Armando Fonseca ...
    La autogestión de una casa es una guía donde se describe paso a paso cómo materializar el sueño de tener un hogar propio. Explica qué es el diseño, para qué sirven los planos, cómo se elige el terreno, qué se incluye en los costos y mucho más. Todo esto desde un enfoque social y autogestivo sustentado en el derecho humano a una vivienda digna.Esta obra de la colección ¡… una casa! es una ... Read more

    RM 49.09

  • Integrated Strategies in Architecture

    by Joan Zunde, Hocine Bougdah ...
    Series series Technologies of Architecture
    This key text presents students with a holistic view of the building design process, bridging the gap between the theory and practice of constructing and assembling buildings.Integrated Strategies in Architecture encourages and enables students to gain a sound understanding of the purpose of buildings, the specialisms that contribute and the available technology. Zunde and Bougdah thoroughly ... Read more

    RM 305.77

  • Proyecto Arquitectónico En Zonas Sísmicas

    by Alejandro Rojas Contreras ...
    La arquitectura mexicana actual est mostrando su talento en las obras que proyectan. Sin embargo, sea cual fuese el proyecto arquitectnico, es indispensable considerar las condiciones que existirn en eventos ssmicos. No hacerlo as significa exponerse a incertidumbres de servicio o riesgos de estabilidad, que pueden inhabilitar o hacer fallar la estructura que se trate. Fue as como se perdieron en ... Read more

    RM 15.64

  • Are you an inclusive designer?

    by Julie Fleck ...
    Despite improvements in the last 20 years we still have a long way to go before all of our buildings, places and spaces are easy and comfortable for all of us to use. This book puts forward a powerful case for a totally new attitude towards inclusivity and accessibility. Exploring both the social and the business cases for striving for better, this book will empower architects to have more ... Read more

    RM 235.04

  • Buildings that Changed History

    by DK ...
    Series series DK History Changers
    Explore the world's most fascinating historical and contemporary buildings, from ancient pyramids to hi-tech skyscrapers, in this essential guide to architecture.Buildings that Changed History gives you an overview of the history of architecture from the ancient world to the present day. It takes you on guided tours of more than 50 masterpieces of every architectural style, from the Great Pyramid ... Read more

    RM 111.89

  • Parametric Building Design Using Autodesk Maya

    by Ming Tang ...
    Due to its comprehensive tool-set and great potential for 3D modeling, more and more architectural design and interior design firms are adapting Autodesk Maya and integrating it into their practice. There has been no book aimed at architects and designers who wish to harness the opportunities presented by this software, until now.....The book promotes parametric design. It integrates the ... Read more

    RM 266.56

  • Pianificazione urbanistica, strategica e marketing territoriale

    by Mauro Parilli ...
    MAURO PARILLI ([email protected]) Con l’accordo fra INTA (International Urban Development Association) e l’INU (Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica), siglato nella città olandese di Den Haag, sede del governo e tempio della pianificazione territoriale, si è aperta una nuova era nello sviluppo del nostro Paese. Un accordo volto ad innescare quel processo virtuoso di sviluppo che coinvolge in ... Read more

    RM 43.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building Material Estimates and Rates Build Up

    Second Edition

    by Moremi Mareka ...
    The script is entitled Building Estimates and Rates Build Up .and aims at empowering Technical educators, Technical, Brigades and Community colleges students, Apprentices and individuals in the building profession with the necessary skill and knowledge. As an experienced professional in the building industry, quantity surveyor( building material estimator) and a former lecturer for technical ... Read more

    RM 34.09

  • The Ten Books on Architecture

    by Vitruvius ...
    Series series Dover Architecture
    Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of years, the specific instructions he gave in his "Ten Books on Architecture" were followed faithfully, and major buildings in all parts of the world reveal the widespread influence of his precepts. ... Read more

    RM 41.69

  • Architecture China: RE/DEFINE Tradition(Winter 2019)

    Edited by Li Xiangning, Jiang Jiawei, Mo Wanli, Rebecca Gross, Gina Tsarouhas ...
    Series series Architecture China
    Focusing on the leading edge architectural designs with regional characteristic, Architecture China is a journal whose mission is to disseminate the creative works of contemporary Chinese architecture, and to deepen an appreciation of Chinese architectural traditional and trends. This issue, focusing on how the architectural tradition is maintained as well as redefined in the contemporary context. ... Read more

    RM 81.66

  • Digital Fabrication in Architecture

    by Nick Dunn ...
    With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advanced modelling software and hardware has enabled architects and students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional methods.The use of CAD technologies in ... Read more

    RM 106.09

  • So You Want to Build a House

    by Don Lohnes ...
    For starters, this book is not a technical manual; it is a guide of what to Consider prior to making the first steps towards achieving your goal of a comfortable living space for you and your family. It looks at the issues of the site or location of your home in some detail and provides samples of what to consider for the location, slope, soil type, and other issues that may have an effect on the ... Read more

    RM 39.17

  • Healing Architecture 2025

    Ausgezeichnete Projekte

    by Oliver Herwig, Matteo Thun ...
    DER HEALING ARCHITECTURE AWARD ZEIGT WEGWEISENDE PROJEKTE, die Architektur als heilenden Faktor im Gesundheitswesen begreifen. In Zusammenarbeit mit führenden (Innen)Architektinnen und (Innen)Architekten präsentiert das Buch herausragende Beispiele, die innovative Raumkonzepte und zukunftsweisende Designlösungen vereinen. Mit beeindruckenden Fotografien und tiefgründigen Projektanalysen ist es ... Read more

    RM 266.89

  • 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

    RM 122.19

  • Morphing

    A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects, Designers

    by Joseph Choma ...
    Cylinders, spheres and cubes are a small handful of shapes that can be defined by a single word. However, most shapes cannot be found in a dictionary. They belong to an alternative plastic world defined by trigonometry: a mathematical world where all shapes can be described under one systematic language and where any shape can transform into another.This visually striking guidebook clearly and ... Read more

    RM 141.49

  • 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

    RM 53.29

  • Das Haus der Zukunft

    Das große Handbuch für eine ganzheitliche und zukunftsorientierte Bauweise

    by Barbara Brubacher ...
    DER TREND-RATGEBER IM FERTIGHAUSBAU! Dieses Callwey Buch ist der große Ratgeber für zukunftsweisende Trends im Fertighausbau. Als ultimative Inspirationsquelle widmet es sich dem ganzheitlichen Planungs- und Bauansatz eines Fertighauses und zeigt in aller Ausführlichkeit wie klimafreundliche und zukunftssichere Neubauten umgesetzt werden können. Die Kapitel beleuchten die einzelnen Komponenten ... Read more

    RM 144.69

  • 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

    RM 112.49

  • 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

    RM 278.32