Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Big Bim Little Bim - the Practical Approach to Building Information Modeling - Integrated Practice Done the Right Way!

by Finith Jernigan ...

The breakthrough book BIG BIM little bim gives practical approaches that architects, engineers, owners, educators, students and builders can understand and apply today. Based on twenty years of successful integrated projects, this book will help you to cut through the hype to achieve clarity about integrated practice and building information modeling. ... Read more

PHP582.34

The breakthrough book BIG BIM little bim gives practical approaches that architects, engineers, owners, educators, students and builders can understand and apply today. Based on twenty years of successful integrated projects, this book will help you to cut through the hype to achieve clarity about integrated practice and building information modeling.
... Read more
Cladding of Buildings

by Alan J. Brookes, Alan J. Brookes, Maarten Meijs ...

This key text addresses the topic of lightweight claddings in buildings and is a useful guide and reference resource.Written by well-known specialists in the field, this fourth edition of an established text has been revised throughout to incorporate the latest environmental issues, the use of wood and terracotta in cladding, and use of new materials, particularly the new moulded materials. Two ... Read more

PHP6,003.51

This key text addresses the topic of lightweight claddings in buildings and is a useful guide and reference resource.Written by well-known specialists in the field, this fourth edition of an established text has been revised throughout to incorporate the latest environmental issues, the use of wood and terracotta in cladding, and use of new materials, particularly the new moulded materials. Two
... Read more
Construction Operations Manual of Policies and Procedures, Fifth Edition

by Sidney M. Levy, Andrew M. Civitello Jr. ...

The latest tools and techniques for successfully managing construction operations CONSTRUCTIONFully revised throughout, the new edition of this practical guide offers a wealth of proven strategies for effectively running a construction business, delivering high-quality projects on time and within budget, and maximizing profits--all gleaned from the authors' decadeslong experience in the ... Read more

PHP3,200.29

The latest tools and techniques for successfully managing construction operations CONSTRUCTIONFully revised throughout, the new edition of this practical guide offers a wealth of proven strategies for effectively running a construction business, delivering high-quality projects on time and within budget, and maximizing profits--all gleaned from the authors' decadeslong experience in the
... Read more
Building Support Structures, 2nd Ed., Analysis and Design with SAP2000 Software

by Wolfgang Schueller ...

This textbook provides a unique and comprehensive perspective on the analysis and design of building structures. Striving to bridge the gap between how engineers and architects view structural support, this book’s numerous examples employing SAP2000 illustrate how modern analysis software can provide a common language for understanding and exploring structural behavior. Using an organic approach ... Read more

PHP757.22

This textbook provides a unique and comprehensive perspective on the analysis and design of building structures. Striving to bridge the gap between how engineers and architects view structural support, this book’s numerous examples employing SAP2000 illustrate how modern analysis software can provide a common language for understanding and exploring structural behavior. Using an organic approach
... Read more
Architecture Design Notebook

by A Peter Fawcett ...

Architecture Design Notebook focuses on the process of design as pragmatic and non-theoretical. Dealing systematically with the core design curriculum, it clearly demonstrates the skills required for designing at undergraduate level.Providing students with fundamental maxims of design, and a framework within which they can approach their work, this book supports undergraduates as they learn to ... Read more

PHP3,205.49

Architecture Design Notebook focuses on the process of design as pragmatic and non-theoretical. Dealing systematically with the core design curriculum, it clearly demonstrates the skills required for designing at undergraduate level.Providing students with fundamental maxims of design, and a framework within which they can approach their work, this book supports undergraduates as they learn to
... Read more
Operative Mapping

The Use of Maps as a Design Tool

by Roger Paez ...

Operative Mapping investigates the use of maps as a design tool, providing insight with the potential to benefit education and practice in the design disciplines.The book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and ... Read more

PHP837.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

Operative Mapping investigates the use of maps as a design tool, providing insight with the potential to benefit education and practice in the design disciplines.The book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and
... Read more
Beginner's Guide to Japanese Joinery

Make Japanese Joints in 8 Steps With Minimal Tools

by Jin Izuhara ...

If you want to make Japanese joints, without spending money on expensive tools then read on...Are you a weekend carpenter that wants to make traditional Japanese joints?Do you want to apply Japanese ingenuity of design to everyday furniture and give them a special character?Do you want to do so without spending a lot of time or money?For centuries before the invention of screws and fasteners, ... Read more

PHP174.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

If you want to make Japanese joints, without spending money on expensive tools then read on...Are you a weekend carpenter that wants to make traditional Japanese joints?Do you want to apply Japanese ingenuity of design to everyday furniture and give them a special character?Do you want to do so without spending a lot of time or money?For centuries before the invention of screws and fasteners,
... Read more
Design Research in Architecture

An Overview

by Murray Fraser ...

Series series Design Research in Architecture
What is the role of design research in the types of insight and knowledge that architects create? That is the central question raised by this book. It acts as the introductory overview for Ashgate’s major new series, ’Design Research in Architecture’ which has been created in order to establish a firm basis for this emerging field of investigation within architecture. While there have been ... Read more

PHP5,362.30

What is the role of design research in the types of insight and knowledge that architects create? That is the central question raised by this book. It acts as the introductory overview for Ashgate’s major new series, ’Design Research in Architecture’ which has been created in order to establish a firm basis for this emerging field of investigation within architecture. While there have been
... Read more
Science and Digital Technology for Cultural Heritage - Interdisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis, Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Graphic Information Models

Proceedings of the 4th International Congress Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (TechnoHeritage 2019), March 26-30, 2019, Sevilla, Spain

Edited by Pilar Ortiz Calderón, Francisco Pinto Puerto, Philip Verhagen, Andrés Prieto ...

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace. Systems to explore, research and analyse their materiality, to control the different scopes, or to represent and model them have reached an unprecedented dimension in recent decades. The Network of Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage ... Read more

PHP4,138.16

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace. Systems to explore, research and analyse their materiality, to control the different scopes, or to represent and model them have reached an unprecedented dimension in recent decades. The Network of Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
... Read more
Regeneration of Abandoned Spaces: A New Design Approach

by Luciano Crespi ...

Our urban landscapes are filled with "leftovers" — abandoned buildings and unused spaces, remnants of industrial decline and societal transformations. Regeneration of Abandoned Spaces: A New Design Approach investigates how design and architecture can revitalize these neglected areas, transforming them into dynamic, livable environments.This book is organized into three parts, each providing a ... Read more

PHP2,273.40

Our urban landscapes are filled with "leftovers" — abandoned buildings and unused spaces, remnants of industrial decline and societal transformations. Regeneration of Abandoned Spaces: A New Design Approach investigates how design and architecture can revitalize these neglected areas, transforming them into dynamic, livable environments.This book is organized into three parts, each providing a
... Read more
Post-Occupancy Evaluation (Routledge Revivals)

by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Edward White, Harvey Rabinowitz ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Post-occupancy evaluation, focusing on building’s occupants and their needs, provides insight into the consequences of past design decisions and forms a sound basis for creating better buildings in the future.This book, first published in 1988, includes a review of the evolution of the field, a conceptual frame-work for POE, and pragmatic information on planning, conducting, and reporting POEs. ... Read more

PHP3,380.37

Post-occupancy evaluation, focusing on building’s occupants and their needs, provides insight into the consequences of past design decisions and forms a sound basis for creating better buildings in the future.This book, first published in 1988, includes a review of the evolution of the field, a conceptual frame-work for POE, and pragmatic information on planning, conducting, and reporting POEs.
... Read more
Play and the City

How to Create Places and Spaces To Help Us Thrive

by Alex Bonham ...

Play is essential, for children but also adults. It's how we relax and revitalise ourselves, build and maintain friendships, try new things, learn and innovate.Cities have always been sites of play, bringing people together and pushing the boundaries of what is humanly possible. And now we need our cities to encourage and facilitate play of all kinds more than ever. If we want a world for our ... Read more

PHP907.79

Play is essential, for children but also adults. It's how we relax and revitalise ourselves, build and maintain friendships, try new things, learn and innovate.Cities have always been sites of play, bringing people together and pushing the boundaries of what is humanly possible. And now we need our cities to encourage and facilitate play of all kinds more than ever. If we want a world for our
... Read more
EnerPHit

A Step by Step Guide to Low Energy Retrofit

by James Traynor ...

In order to meet UK Carbon reduction commitments for 2020 and 2050 building owners will be required to upgrade their buildings to meet an increasingly stringent set of energy performance requirements. In the absence of any clear advice from UK Government on how this can be achieved, the EnerPHit standard offers a very clear methodology. This is a practical guide that gives architects the tools to ... Read more

PHP3,669.49

In order to meet UK Carbon reduction commitments for 2020 and 2050 building owners will be required to upgrade their buildings to meet an increasingly stringent set of energy performance requirements. In the absence of any clear advice from UK Government on how this can be achieved, the EnerPHit standard offers a very clear methodology. This is a practical guide that gives architects the tools to
... Read more
Computer Analysis of Skeletal Structures

by T. Johns, C T F Ross ...

First published in 1981. Computers are now increasingly used by structural engineers to speed up the lengthy calculations involved in the analysis of structures. This book by an author who has already published a series of similar manuals on ALGOL programs, presents computer methods for the analysis of skeletal structures. The main feature of the book is that it contains five full programs in ... Read more

PHP17,779.12

First published in 1981. Computers are now increasingly used by structural engineers to speed up the lengthy calculations involved in the analysis of structures. This book by an author who has already published a series of similar manuals on ALGOL programs, presents computer methods for the analysis of skeletal structures. The main feature of the book is that it contains five full programs in
... Read more
Visual Research Methods in Design (Routledge Revivals)

by Henry Sanoff ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1991, this book is about applications and issues relating to the visual environment. The content pertains to the understanding of human behaviour in the environment by recording behaviour and actions or by direct interaction with people. The author examines research and planning methods that primarily stress the visual features of the physical environment. Traditionally, ... Read more

PHP3,496.95

First published in 1991, this book is about applications and issues relating to the visual environment. The content pertains to the understanding of human behaviour in the environment by recording behaviour and actions or by direct interaction with people. The author examines research and planning methods that primarily stress the visual features of the physical environment. Traditionally,
... Read more
Design Intervention (Routledge Revivals)

Toward a More Humane Architecture

Edited by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Jacqueline Vischer, Edward White ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Design Intervention: Toward a More Humane Architecture, first published in 1991, intends to demonstrate that interest in social issues is alive and well in architecture, that there is a small but effective cadre of dedicated professionals who continue to commit themselves to solving social problems, and that architecture is being applied to the alleviation of the social ills of our time.The ... Read more

PHP3,671.83

Design Intervention: Toward a More Humane Architecture, first published in 1991, intends to demonstrate that interest in social issues is alive and well in architecture, that there is a small but effective cadre of dedicated professionals who continue to commit themselves to solving social problems, and that architecture is being applied to the alleviation of the social ills of our time.The
... Read more
Precious Metal

German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology

by Peter H. Christensen ...

With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing steel’s incredible properties, steel itself was busy transforming the natural world.Precious Metal explores this quintessentially modernist ... Read more

PHP1,629.19

With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing steel’s incredible properties, steel itself was busy transforming the natural world.Precious Metal explores this quintessentially modernist
... Read more
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Design Review (Routledge Revivals)

University of Cincinnati, October 8-11, 1992

Edited by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Brenda Case Scheer ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address the growing tendency of local governments to institute programs of aesthetic control. The editor argues that the widespread adoption of design review processes in the years preceding the conference necessitated thoroughgoing professional criticism and ... Read more

PHP2,855.74

First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address the growing tendency of local governments to institute programs of aesthetic control. The editor argues that the widespread adoption of design review processes in the years preceding the conference necessitated thoroughgoing professional criticism and
... Read more
To the Queen

by William Shakespeare ...

"To the Queen" (or "To The Queen by the players") is a short poem attributed to William Shakespeare. It was included in 2007 by Jonathan Bate in his complete Shakespeare edition for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The poem, written on the back of an envelope, is thought to have been written as an epilogue for a performance of As You Like It given at court on Shrove Tuesday in February 1599. ... Read more

PHP28.00

"To the Queen" (or "To The Queen by the players") is a short poem attributed to William Shakespeare. It was included in 2007 by Jonathan Bate in his complete Shakespeare edition for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The poem, written on the back of an envelope, is thought to have been written as an epilogue for a performance of As You Like It given at court on Shrove Tuesday in February 1599.
... Read more
Happy by Design

A Guide to Architecture and Mental Wellbeing

by Ben Channon ...

Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? Happy by Design explores the ways in which buildings, spaces and cities affect our moods. It reveals how architecture and design can make us happy and support mental health, and explains how poor design can have the opposite effect. ... Read more

PHP1,920.73

Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? Happy by Design explores the ways in which buildings, spaces and cities affect our moods. It reveals how architecture and design can make us happy and support mental health, and explains how poor design can have the opposite effect.
... Read more
Por el camino del "gringo"

La conservación patrimonial urbano-arquitectónica -entre lo local y lo global- de Esperanza, Humboldt, Pilar y Rafaela

by Ruben Osvaldo Chiappero, María Clara Supisiche, Juan Cecilio Ortiz, María Graciela Mancini ...

Este libro trata de un conjunto de ciudades surgidas como colonias de la gesta "gringa" del oeste santafesino durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, con identidades claramente identificables según fueran la poblaciones que las habitaran y el contexto en el que se asentaran. Asimismo, trata del estudio de la relación entre aquellas idiosincrasias y los cambios en la manera de habitar derivados de ... Read more

PHP479.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

Este libro trata de un conjunto de ciudades surgidas como colonias de la gesta "gringa" del oeste santafesino durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, con identidades claramente identificables según fueran la poblaciones que las habitaran y el contexto en el que se asentaran. Asimismo, trata del estudio de la relación entre aquellas idiosincrasias y los cambios en la manera de habitar derivados de
... Read more
Vivienda y arquitectura tradicional en el Pacífico colombiano

by Gilma Mosquera Torres ...

Series Book 1 - Libros de investigación
Este trabajo, fruto del proyecto "Reconocimiento de los valores culturales de los afrodescendientes del Pacífico Colombiano y fortalecimiento de su identidad" pretende como objetivos generales el rescate, valoración y difusión del patrimonio urbano y arquitectónico de la región del Pacífico colombiano, el cual incluye desde la vivienda y su arquitectura hasta los modelos urbanos y los componentes ... Read more

PHP499.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

Este trabajo, fruto del proyecto "Reconocimiento de los valores culturales de los afrodescendientes del Pacífico Colombiano y fortalecimiento de su identidad" pretende como objetivos generales el rescate, valoración y difusión del patrimonio urbano y arquitectónico de la región del Pacífico colombiano, el cual incluye desde la vivienda y su arquitectura hasta los modelos urbanos y los componentes
... Read more
Building a Home in a Silo

by Glenn W. Worthington ...

The author found an abandoned, 50-year-old grain silo and made it into a 5-story round house. In this true story he tells his challenges and triumphs in completing this difficult task of transformation without any blueprints. Numerous photographs from the project are shown so the reader can visualize this unique building project. ... Read more

Free

The author found an abandoned, 50-year-old grain silo and made it into a 5-story round house. In this true story he tells his challenges and triumphs in completing this difficult task of transformation without any blueprints. Numerous photographs from the project are shown so the reader can visualize this unique building project.
... Read more
Materials and Meaning in Architecture

Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings

by Nathaniel Coleman ...

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image and visual representation.Arguing that architecture is primarily experiencedby the whole body, rather than chiefly with the eyes, this broad ... Read more

PHP2,027.69

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image and visual representation.Arguing that architecture is primarily experiencedby the whole body, rather than chiefly with the eyes, this broad
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Methods & Materials eBooks

Big Bim Little Bim - the Practical Approach to Building Information Modeling - Integrated Practice Done the Right Way!

Cladding of Buildings

Construction Operations Manual of Policies and Procedures, Fifth Edition

Building Support Structures, 2nd Ed., Analysis and Design with SAP2000 Software

Architecture Design Notebook

Operative Mapping

Beginner's Guide to Japanese Joinery

Design Research in Architecture

Science and Digital Technology for Cultural Heritage - Interdisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis, Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Graphic Information Models

Regeneration of Abandoned Spaces: A New Design Approach

Post-Occupancy Evaluation (Routledge Revivals)

Play and the City

EnerPHit

Computer Analysis of Skeletal Structures

Visual Research Methods in Design (Routledge Revivals)

Design Intervention (Routledge Revivals)

Precious Metal

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Design Review (Routledge Revivals)

To the Queen

Happy by Design

Por el camino del "gringo"

Vivienda y arquitectura tradicional en el Pacífico colombiano

Building a Home in a Silo

Materials and Meaning in Architecture