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  • How to Build Shipping Container Homes With Plans

    by John Davidson ...
    TABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION TO SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMES:ADVANTAGES OF SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMES:DISADVANTAGES OF SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMES:CONTAINER SIZES AND SPECIFICATIONS:NEW OR USED CONTAINER:PERMITS AND REGULATIONS:CHAPTER TWOFOUNDATION FOR SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMES:SITE CONDITIONS:CLIMATE:MARKET FACTORS:BUILDING DESIGN:EXCAVATION AND FOOTINGS:TYPES OF MATERIALS USED FOR... ... Read more

    R47,49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

    by Matthew Frederick ...
    Get 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from drawing lines to color theory—in this classic architecture book.These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from the basics of “How to Draw a Line” to the complexities of color theory—provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often ... Read more

    R291,51

  • Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition

    A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design

    by Barry Starke, John Ormsbee Simonds ...
    The most comprehensive, current guide to the theory and practice of landscape architectureFor more than 50 years, this pioneering guide has served as the foremost resource on the principles and practices of landscape architecture. Now, the book has been revised to address the latest developments in the field, providing a comprehensive, current presentation of the profession.Richly illustrated with ... Read more

    R1 490,50

  • Inflection 06: Originals

    Journal of the Melbourne School of Design

    by Sir Peter Cook, Alison Brooks, Beatriz Colomina, Sean Godsell, Adam Peacock ...
    Series Book 6 - Inflection
    Architects are expected to create original ideas resulting in a unique, bespoke design. With the rise of Modern Architecture, originality became ingrained in perceptions of good design. As a result, originality has become a barometer against which we measure the value of design. However technology today allows for ease of replication and copies, thus originality in design has become an ostensibly ... Read more

    R309,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation

    Evolving Perspectives

    by Johnathan Djabarouti ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation
    Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods that are often taken for granted within building conservation, architecture, and adaptive reuse.The meaning of heritage is changing. From pastness ... Read more

    R1 146,59

  • Breaking Glass

    Spatial Fabulations & Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality

    by Städelschule Architecture Class ...
    Series Book 6 - SAC 6
    Within a relatively short time, Augmented and Virtual Reality have emerged centre stage in architecture and the arts as novel means for exploring how their creative output is produced, mediated and experienced. Feeding the continuous spectrum between the "fully real" and the "fully virtual," the underlying technology of these media present machine-generated sensorial input where to date the image ... Read more

    R309,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detail in Contemporary Hotel Design

    by Drew Plunkett, Olga Reid ...
    Series series Detailing for Interior Design
    Hotel interiors need to satisfy the imaginations of their customers and whet the appetite for a return visit or recommendation, and the design that gets the formula right will do as much to prolong the life of the business as the service delivered within the hotel. This book explores in detail 36 of the best recent hotel interior design schemes, featuring projects by leading architects from around ... Read more

    R791,65

  • Designing Public Spaces in Hospitals

    by Nicoletta Setola, Sabrina Borgianni ...
    Designing Public Spaces in Hospitals illustrates that in addition to their aesthetic function, public spaces in hospitals play a fundamental role concerning people’s satisfaction and experience of health care. The book highlights how spatial properties, such as accessibility, visibility, proximity, and intelligibility affect people’s behavior and interactions in hospital public spaces. Based on ... Read more

    R1 495,62

  • Building the Architect's Character

    Explorations in Traits

    by Kendra Schank Smith, Albert Smith ...
    An understanding of architects’ character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits include leadership skills necessary to coordinate a team, honest and ethical behavior, being well educated and possessing a life-long love of learning, flexibility, resourcefulness, and visionary and strategic thinking. Characteristics such as these describe a successful ... Read more

    R1 495,62

  • Kirchen in Mecklenburg

    by Dörte Bluhm ...
    Sie sind weit mehr als ein bleibendes Ergebnis der mittelalterlichen Besiedlungsgeschichte: 664 Dorf- und Stadtkirchen gibt es in Mecklenburg. Die meisten davon sind wahrhaft ehrwürdige Gemäuer, überwiegend aus dem 13./14. Jahrhundert, manche sind sogar noch etwas älter. In ihrer Architektur spiegelt sich ein Reichtum wider, der auf tiefer Gläubigkeit basierte. So haben selbst kleine ... Read more

    R407,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Architecture

    Its Elements, History, and Meaning

    by Leland M. Roth, Amanda C. Roth Clark ...
    The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.Significant features of the fourth edition include:Expanded global essays outlining the encounters and ... Read more

    R2 293,42

  • The Design and Installation Guide for Roof Tiling

    by The Roof Tile Association, The National Federation of Roofing Contractors ...
    The Design and Installation Guide for Roof Tiling is the definitive guide to obtaining successful results in pitched roofing construction using clay or concrete tiles. It was written by a team of experts from the Roof Tile Association (RTA) and the National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC), the representative trade associations for pitched roofing. This book is in line with British and ... Read more

    R1 146,59

  • Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements

    The Built Environment at Work

    Edited by Edmundo Werna, George Ofori ...
    Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways. This unrivalled edited collection of chapters analyses problems and presents possible solutions related to the employment and conditions of workers in the ... Read more

    R4 736,93

  • Out of Architecture

    The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

    by Jake Rudin, Erin Pellegrino ...
    Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education, and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills, passions, and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways.Written by design professionals and expert career consultants, this book is informed by numerous client accounts as well as the authors’ ... Read more

    R598,10

  • Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter

    OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin

    by Helena Huber-Doudová ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaas, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).This book argues that Koolhaas formulates his approach to architecture on the basis of the “written sketch ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Architectural Styles You Can Identify - Architecture Reference & Specification Book | Children's Architecture Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Are you interested in architecture? Those archs and curves belong to an era. Identify different architectural styles with confidence. Use this wonderful reference book that includes pictures and features in every page. Extending your knowledge beyond your school curriculum is never a bad move. You’ll never know when stock knowledge will come in handy. Grab a copy now. ... Read more

    R65,65

  • Living with Heritage in Cairo

    Area Conservation in the Arab-Islamic City

    by Ahmed Sedky ...
    The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Nevertheless, despite the extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulnerable. Ahmed Sedky investigates the reasons behind this condition, exploring and comparing regional ... Read more

    R496,67 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 150 Best Minimalist House Ideas

    by Alex Sanchez ...

    R349,70

  • The Complete Guide to Building Affordable Earth-Sheltered Homes: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply

    by Robert McConkey ...
    Earth-sheltered building has existed since the heyday of Skara Brae in Scotland 5,000 years ago, and is used today by people around the world. If you have ever looked at your power bill in stunned disbelief, if you are interested in green building techniques, or if you want your home to stand out (or hide out), then this book is for you. With The Complete Guide to Building Affordable Earth ... Read more

    R232,75 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know

    A complete introduction to the key concepts and styles of architecture

    by Philip Wilkinson ...
    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    In a series of 50 accessible essays, Philip Wilkinson introduces architectural movements and styles throughout history, as well as describing some of the greatest architects' most important and representative works.From the Pyramids of Giza to the Guggenheim, the classical orders of Vitruvius to the most recent contemporary trends today, 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete ... Read more

    R201,70

  • Universal Principles of Architecture

    100 Architectural Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries

    by WAI Architecture Think Tank, Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski ...
    Series series Rockport Universal
    Take an expansive and provocative tour of architectural theory and practice, exploring everything from basic concepts to speculative design and subversive interventions.Universal Principles of Architecture illustrates in 100 concepts the importance, possibilities, challenges, and roles that architecture plays in shaping the world. This radical and perhaps surprising survey is divided into five ... Read more

    R589,71

  • Architectural Styles

    A Visual Guide

    by Owen Hopkins ...
    Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present ... Read more

    R341,42

  • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

    American Architecture in the Depression Era

    by Catherine W Zipf ...
    New Deal Book Award 2022 Honourable MentionFrank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater explores the relationship between the economic tumult in the United States in the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the construction of his most famous house, Fallingwater.The book reinterprets the history of this iconic building, recognizing it as a Depression-era monument that stands as a testimony to what an American ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Territorios improbables

    by Pedro Torrijos ...
    «Originalidad, solidez y belleza, tres cualidades de la arquitectura literaria de Pedro Torrijos. El talento de un relator de historias fascinantes en las que querrás quedarte a vivir», Raquel Martos«Nunca sé si Pedro Torrijos está loco o es un genio. Supongo que es una mezcla. Lo que si sé es que me encanta leer lo que escribe», Juan TallónLo que hacemos los seres humanos es construir. Desde ese ... Read more

    R194,90