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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...

Geometric Computation: Foundations for Design describes the mathematical and computational concepts that are central to the practical application of design computation in a manner tailored to the visual designer. Uniquely pairing key topics in code and...

Cisterns: Sustainable Development, Architecture and Energy was written on beliefs that based on historical evidence and actual findings, Iran is most probably the country where cisterns, or "Aub-anbars" in Farsi, were first developed and built...

Sustainable planning and building have become a key issue in architecture. Climate change, resource depletion and economic crises are also increasingly forcing architects and planners to question traditional methods and solutions. In recent years,...

Wie und wo entsteht heute Architektur? Wovon lassen sich Architekten inspirieren? Welche Entwurfswerkzeuge kommen zum Einsatz? Das Buch gibt den Blick frei hinter die Kulissen von 20 international hochkaratigen Architekturburos und vermittelt...

Renato Salvi (b. 1956) completed his studies at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich and at Sapienza University in Rome and served as assistant professor under Flora Ruchat and Vincent Mangeat. In...

The Fundamentals of Architecture, 2nd Edition is an introduction to the basic ideas that inform architecture. It is intended to unravel the complexity of architecture to explain its process and make it more accessible. It guides students through the rich...

Following his studies at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and various internships, Andreas Heierle founded his Atelier für Architektur in Lucerne in 2012. Since then, he has produced a number of architectural gems, including a small, ...

If we want to continue existing on this earth, an era of renewable energy and materials is urgently needed. What role could mass timber, with its potential to replace concrete and steel, have in ensuring the planet’s survival? This book retraces wood’s...

Building Theories speaks to the value of words in architecture. It addresses the author's fascination for the thoughts of architects, builders, and craftspeople whose voices, however faint, remain captured in text. Building Theories also considers how...

The Great Festival presents and analyzes two historical festivals - the ancient Dionysus Festival and the present Roskilde Festival. The purpose is to set up two comparable structures or 'codes' to explain the universal artistic effects, structures and...

This book questions flexibility as a design approach by providing a longitudinal analysis of an innovative architectural experiment called the School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) project. The SCSD pioneered the use of performance...

First published in 1988, this book argues that discussions of urban development often neglect to consider that much of the urban environment is designed by architects and planners, and that the particular world-view of architects and planners is crucial...

For hundreds of years, Ireland has been a testing ground for colonizing techniques. Postcolonial Dublin shows how perpetrators of colonialism have made use of urban planning and architecture to underscore and legitimate ideologies. From suburban...

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)

Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Canada. Indeed, reconstruction has been the primary tool at the most influential historic sites, for example:...

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...

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...

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...