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Take a tour of high-end log homes in this inspiring compendium. Photographer Roger Wade focuses on the finer features of 25 very fine log homes found throughout the United States. More than 200 full-color photographs and detailed floor plans act as a...

Waterjet technology is used in a variety of industries including civil engineering, mining, geotechnical engineering, tunnelling, defence, construction and conservation. This book is essential reading for all those engaged in waterjet technology - from...

Originally published in 1848, according to the author, 'every person has an individual interest in Architecture as a useful art, and all who cultivate a taste of the Fine Arts must give it a high place among them.' The chapters include examinations of...

The 15th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference considered the issues of sustainability and environmental friendliness at the city scale. Some 150 papers address the many and varied questions faced by architects and planners in reducing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080285Author Fabrizio LeoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLabWeight(grams) 230g

Verfuhrung und Genuss, Inszenierung und Ernte, Biotop und Klimawandel: Die Bedeutungsebenen des Parks Sanssouci in Potsdam sind ebenso vielfaltig wie die in Jahrhunderten gewachsenen unterschiedlichen Partien des weltberuhmten, von Friedrich dem Grossen...

Analysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and emerging digital image-based technologies, the contributions explore the expanding range of 'mediated' narratives of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641724975Author Maddison CunninghamFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Larsen and Keller EducationPublisher Larsen and Keller EducationWeight(grams) 594g

The purpose of this title, first published in 1972, was to bring into focus the work and viewpoints of individuals and groups that were engaged in man-environment research, design and education. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field of...

This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture. It examines how these discursive mechanisms and technologies combine to normalise and aestheticise everyday practices. It queries the means by which...

Presents an organised, comprehensive and easy to understand overview of the lighting design process. It covers every topic from the nature of light itself, through selecting the correct equipment, to preparing project plans and the finished design...

Architectural education is under pressure to meet the demands of an evolving construction industry and to cater to the increasingly varied career destinations of graduates. How should architectural education respond to these professional challenges? How...

Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion and more intangible...

Im Zentrum der Monographie uber Santiago Calatrava (*1951) steht die Rolle seiner Architektur als Mittlerin zwischen Medienwelten und Mensch. Der renommierte spanische Architekt verschmilzt in seinem OEuvre Bauwerk und Skulptur zu einer phantastischen...

Der reich bebilderte Aufsatzteil des Jahrbuchs behandelt herausragende Objekte und Fragestellungen der Denkmalpflege, diesmal schwerpunktmassig aus der Denkmalforschung. Dendrochronologische Untersuchungen der mittelalterlichen Unteren Burghoefe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728423579Author Walt BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Lerner Publications (Tm)Publisher Lerner Publications (Tm)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789979339489Author Birgit AbrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint Mal Og Menning,IcelandPublisher Mal Og Menning,IcelandWeight(grams) 145g

Tendering constitutes the transition from the drawing and planning stage to the construction phase. In addition to its economic and contractual dimension, it is also an essential tool for translating design quality into built quality. This volume...

The Designer's Workspace presents an extensive resource of distinguished firms' responses to the design of their own offices. Featuring everythingfrom technical detail to interior design, it illustrates what these designers see as the major...

This book provides the first study of approaches to appraising and conserving mainstream architecture of the twentieth century - commercial buildings, industrial buildings and housing. Architects, surveyors and conservationists are now appreciating the...

Black Elk speaks of the "square boxes" his people were forced into, and Winona LaDuke of the "boxes of mints" on Native lands. As long as the government was deciding what tribal buildings should look like, Native custom and culture were bound to be boxed...

This timely study deals with the heating and cooling ofbuildings using innovative systems that can reduce fossilfuel and electric energy requirements by as much as 80 percent.Emphasis is placed on thermal storage, utility rate structures,peak load...

Carved out of century-old farmland near Chicago, the Prairie Crossing development is a novel experiment in urban public policy that preserves 69 percent of the land as open space. The for-profit project has set out to do nothing less than use access to...

Keeping alive the tradition of Eternit AG's architectural journals, this book presents new directions in architecture, design and art: a panorama sweeping the multifaceted world of cement composite, illustrated with photographic essays.Book...

Fur protestantische Reichsfursten war die Kirche im Schloss ein Herzstuck der Reprasentation. Ebenso prachtvoll wie programmatisch gestaltet, fuhrte sie neben der gottgegebenen Macht des Landesherrn auch sein Kirchenregiment im bewegten Bilderschmuck des...

The First Amendment is perhaps the most important - and most debated - amendment in the US Constitution. It establishes freedom of speech, as well as that of religion, the press, peaceable assembly and the right to petition the government. But how has...

This volume presents architectural syntheses distinctive of the oeuvre of architect Ioannis Vikelas. The selection is based on chronological rather than thematic criteria, so giving a diachronic picture of Vikelas' work and enabling the reader to follow...

Security Sector Reform (SSR) remains a key feature of peacebuilding interventions and is usually undertaken by a state alongside national and international partners. External actors engaged in SSR tend to follow a normative agenda that often has little...

Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing chronicles the emergence of a low-cost, low-rise housing architecture that conforms to M.K. Gandhi’s religious need to establish finite boundaries for everyday actions; finitude in turn defines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780332882017Author Fred W. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 441Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Originally published in 1985 this book explores, in four interwoven essays, the many ways human life and built form interact and the place that professional designing takes in this interaction. Together, the essays touch on a number of ideas: the idea...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788829713349Author Elisabetta SptizFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Marsilio EditoriPublisher Marsilio EditoriWeight(grams) 241g

This book provides an historical perspective for modern tensile architecture in the 20th century. It explores the tents of nomad cultures, geographical distribution of tent types, the effect of the dromedary on the distribution of the black tent, and...

Originally published in 2001, this book examines the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia...

The architect's interest in continuing education has increased as a result of the national trend of state initiatives requiring continuing education for architect registration. Architect's Essentials of Professional Development assists registered...

A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a new century. The country's economic boom in the 1980s produced a surge of interest in land and building, and...

The complex art of architecture embraces all of the concerns of the world's cultures. It meets the fundamental needs for shelter from the elements, but, almost from its origins, has acquired other purposes and meanings. The Selective Environment is an...

This book has been developed in association with the Cultural Heritage Department of the Council of Europe. It examines key themes and objectives for the protection of the architectural and archaeological heritage in a range of European countries. The...

This book explores the important relationship between the way we see and the way we draw architectural ideas. The text deals with sensory experience of space, the spatial cues represented in architectural drawing and the relationship between drawing type...

Both professionals and students are increasingly committed to achieving high-performance metrics in the design, construction and operation of residential buildings. This book responds to this demand by offering a comprehensive guide which features: ...