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Architecture requires a broad definition. It involves more than simply questions of style, esoteric theory, or technical progress; it is the physical record of a culture's relationship to its technology and the land, and, most important, of the system of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788898774739Author Gian Marco ChiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLab

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786200092793Author Rahel LemmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Since its publication, the four-year study on the globalized city conducted by the philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe at the Universita Iuav de Venizia has achieved the status of being a standard reference. The intricately structured two-volume book, in which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783038602170Author Architekturzentrum WienFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Park BooksPublisher Park BooksWeight(grams) 222g

Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage 2020 includes contributions on the protection, and restoration of architectural monuments and the reconstruction of major historical urban development sites, as well as various complex issues and...

This book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities, and design processes within digital culture.Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and...

This book charts the city of Tripoli's rapid economic, environmental and physical transformation, investigating how these new developments have failed to incorporate the cultural and historic values of the urban fabric. As a result, the city is...

Technological development of materials has left a designer spoilt for choice. Component Design helps you to cope with this amount of choice by viewing it as an opportunity for innovative and unique design. This comprehensive guide explores the history of...

By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting major cities - globalization and ecological and sustainable building design. While such structures tend to be...

This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from...

This title was first published in 2001. Public childcare provision in Britain is an issue that raises much passion and has been the source of much disappointment. Free childcare in Britain is limited. Public policy has been slow to change in terms of...

The Optimum Imperative examines architecture’s multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782889154845Author Franz GrafFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires RomandesPublisher Presses Polytechniques et...

This book from Jürgen Claus is a milestone among the books dedicated to the planet seaA knowledgeable overview of marine architectures from both the Pacific and Atlantic regions Discusses the seascape as a fluid studio for visual artists Book...

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...

Construction Project Administration in Practice provides a practical guide to the administration of construction projects, from inception to completion. It is intended to give an overall view of the construction process, its problems, risk and...

"Dimensions" is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. "Dimensions" investigates the constitution of architectural knowledge and...

Relationships between architects and clients - built upon expressed values, as well as their import into the final work of architecture - are typically not discussed in architectural education, rarely considered in architectural criticism or theory, and...

Promoting resilience in underserved populations. The fourth volume in the Interdisciplinary Community-Engaged Research for Health series departs from the traditional view of resilience driven by individuals and reconstructs it to hinge on the community...

This book looks at alternative ways of analyzing traditional and contemporary architectural design and building practices in South Asia with a special focus on India. It showcases how collaborative projects between architects and local communities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946226501Author Victor DeupiFormat HardbackImprint Oscar Riera Ojeda PublishersPublisher Oscar Riera Ojeda PublishersWeight(grams) 215g

This book is set in Karachi, Pakistan and investigates the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban process and their impact on built form, addressing how locals associate with the urban spaces and how they value it. Thus, the...

This is the second volume of the first English translation of Benevolo's well-known history of European architecture and urban planning between the middle of the fifteenth century and the early years of the eighteenth century, based on the revised second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646994243Author John Shannon HendrixFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams)...

First published in 1977, this volume was intended as a sourcebook for designers and attempts to specify the ingredients necessary to develop a design program rather than postulate a model program for which no consensus exists. As such it filled a void in...

Tourists in Historic Towns examines the relationship of culture, heritage, conservation and tourism development in historic towns and urban centres, debating the impacts of tourism on historic towns and the role tourism plays in conservation and urban...

Buildings Used takes the reader on an exploration into the impact of use on buildings and users. While most histories and theories of architecture focus on a building's conception, design, and realization, this book argues that its identity is formed...

When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the...

"The greatest influences of German architecture on America are bipolar: Folk Architecture and Modern Academic Architecture. In between are the lower keyed stories of less dramatic contributions." From log houses, corner beer halls and...

This book provides a concise introduction for small and medium sized architectural practices considering introducing computers or using them more widely.Book InformationISBN 9780419213109Author Christopher WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint...

Why do some cities grow and expand, while others dwindle and decline? Why is Milwaukee a town of the past, while Minneapolis?St. Paul seems reborn and infused with future dynamism? And what do Milwaukee and the Twin Cities have to tell us about other...

With a population of 15 million persons in 1990, Mexico City is one of the world's largest cities. It is a famous center of civilizations and culture and one of the economic capitals of the Americas, but it also has serious social and economic problems,...

Here is a retrospective of the career of Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, visual artist, graphic designer, multimedia developer, writer, researcher, educator and visionary conceptualist. It includes many previously unpublished texts and artworks of the last two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783858818591Author Benedikt LodererFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Scheidegger and SpiessPublisher Scheidegger and SpiessWeight(grams) 191g

Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal...

No other city in the Indian subcontinent can lay claim to having so many lives as Delhi. This book examines Delhi in the politically and culturally dynamic nineteenth century which was marked midway by the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule as a...

Interloop-Architecture is a Houston-based design office founded in 2001 by principals Dawn Finley and Mark Wamble, who both also teach as professors at Rice University's School of Architecture. The firm's focus is on innovative building technologies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934510841Author Nicolas Delgado AlcegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Harvard Graduate School of DesignPublisher Harvard Graduate School of...

With the continued growth of PhD programs in architecture and the simultaneous broadening of approaches, InterVIEWS: Insights and Introspection on Doctoral Research in Architecture begins a timely survey into contemporary research at academic...