Discover design ideas that will help you rethink your space in terms of style and sustainable living.Rethink: The Way You Live inspires and challenges. Filled with evocative images of homes around the globe, the book illustrates how design game-changers are weaving age-old resourcefulness with new technology, creativity with sustainability to construct a more meaningful existence. We can think small (bringing more nature inside) or big (installing moving wa...

Amanda Talbot demonstrates how architecture and interior design at their best can make us safer, healthier, more efficient, enlightened and productive - all contributing to a fundamental sense of wellbeing. In essence, Happy shows us ways in which design can help us live a happy life. This global survey reveals how designers are creating joyous living spaces that play to our emotions, speaking to our hearts as much as to our heads, through strategic planning and execution and by u...

PERSPECTIVE: Using the Grid System for Interior Design SketchingThis electronic book is a rewrite of the original paper book, rewritten by the author Donald Gerds, for electronic reading devices. Both books teach basic perspective drawing using the grid system with a focus on doing interior design. The grid system is a simple and efficient way of learning perspective quickly and accurately with a minimum of work and effort.This E-Book will enable you to sketch an interior o...

The study of human body measurements on a comparative basis is known as anthropometrics. Its applicability to the design process is seen in the physical fit, or interface, between the human body and the various components of interior space.Human Dimension and Interior Space is the first major anthropometrically based reference book of design standards for use by all those involved with the physical planning and detailing of interiors, including interior designers, architec...

When you get a copy of my handbook, you'll get these following benefits:* You will know relationship between your personal number and year of trigram.* You know what to do when you find the negative energy in your home.* Why you should put things to exacerbate the luck of money is very important.* How to change your furniture to help you have a better relationship with others.* Which directions should be taken care of in 2017.* A lost of solutions ...

The definitive tracing file for design professionals--updated and expandedPacked with hundreds of traceable drawings and more than 1000 photographic images, Entourage, Fifth Edition, provides a quick and easy way to create visually persuasive architectural presentations. This fully revised volume offers a vast assortment of contemporary entourage figures that allows architects, commercial artists, interior and graphic designers, and draftspersons to bring designs to life...

U.S. audience: architects (113,000), construction managers (389,000), engineers (228,000), urban and regional planners (32,000)All federally funded construction projects must be, by law, design-build projects

Today's Most Effective Guide for Applying Project Management to Implement Organizational Strategies -- Now Updated and Expanded!Project Management: Strategic Design and Implementation delivers complete guidance on applying the theory, processes, practices, and techniques of project management to support strategic planning. Written by two world-renowned project management leaders, this new edition presents the latest methods for using flexible teams to impl...

Feng Shui Tips: Kitchen Renovations offers a fresh perspective of the most important space in our homes – the kitchen. Lee explores the history of the heart of the home from ancient times to the modern kitchen and beyond. This book provides you with insights, ideas and real how-to tools for your own kitchen design and renovation project.Lee shares how you too can bring more abundance into every area of your life by creating the heart of your home in a mindful manner. She does this ...

This book discusses the effect of different school building rehabilitation strategies on the classrooms’ indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and presents a multi-objective methodology for school building enclosure optimization combining artificial neural networks and lifecycle costs. The special features of this book are that it (a) presents the state-of-the-art in school building rehabilitation, (b) covers the IEQ assessment of several school buildings, including non-rehabilitated and reha...

With over 350 full-color photographs and in-depth text, Classic Thai showcases the finest interior design art and architecture of the Kingdom of Thailand.From the glittering chedis of Bangkok's Grand Palace to the rustic simplicity of village dwellings, Thailand offers a rich diversity of art, architecture and design. Classic Thai seeks to define the unique characteristics of Thai style, be it through the country's rich arts and crafts tradition, ...

The ultimate feng shui guidebook for the Year of the Horse, the 2014 Feng Shui Forecast outlines what you can expect in the year ahead in all areas of life -- from career to love, finances to health. This complete feng shui guide explains in down-to-earth terms exactly how to handle difficult feng shui energies in the year ahead and maximize good fortune energy for a happier, healthier, more prosperous year. The 2014 Feng Shui Forecast has been published annually for eight years on Redlotu...