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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...

* Draws on emerging practices of foresight to re-examine, enrich, and expand long-standing design practices * Expands how foresight can be used to build resilience and adaptability to multiple different potential futures * Written for architects,...

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: ...

The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be examples of architectural presentation tools. This book asks...

This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between...

With appropriate planning and design, Olympic urban development has the potential to leave positive environmental legacies to the host city and contribute to environmental sustainability. This book explains how a modern Olympic games can successfully...

Graphic communication in architecture has made a dramatic shift from traditional drafting practices to dynamic and hyper-medial representations. This book provides a concise and practical introduction to new ways of architectural representation. It...

More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises 'urban fringe': the countryside around towns that has been called 'planning's last frontier'. One of the key challenges facing spatial planners is the land-use management of this area, regarded by...

Project management is widely used in the construction industry and is central to planning and controlling time, costs and resources. This book enables readers to perform more effectively, to understand project planning and control procedures and to gain...

This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside,...

Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be...

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long maintained that their actions, drawings, and buildings are "post-critical," this book seeks to expand the...

Originally published in 1986 Holford is not just a biography of a major architect, planner and civic designer. In describing the life and times of the man, the authors provide a fascinating analysis of the developments in British architecture and...

This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book summarizing key historical and recent developments with respect to this rapidly evolving building type. This...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to pre-existing buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts. In this comparative analysis, Rumiko Handa establishes the critical role...

Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique but often overlooked facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan.Highly regarded in architecture for inspiring the Chicago School and the Prairie School, Sullivan was an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788861303027Author Claudio GrecoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 850g

Verdichteter Wohnbau gilt als ein Indikator fur die soziale Verfasstheit einer Gesellschaft. Lasst sich dieser Wohnbau mit dem weitverbreiteten Wunsch nach einem Eigenheim in Einklang bringen? Uber 400 Studenten der Technischen Universitat Wien sind im...

The completion of David Chipperfield's distinctive new building for Kunsthaus Zurich in December 2020 has nearly doubled the museum's overall space. In combination with the preceding refurbishments of the earlier buildings, this has made it fit to meet...

Englischsprachiger Kunstfuhrer. St. Peter in Bacharach ist ein Hauptbeispiel der uberaus dekorationsfreudigen Spatphase spatromanischer Architektur am sudlichen Niederrhein.Book InformationISBN 9783422023642Author Eduard SebaldFormat PaperbackPage Count...

studio bau:ton, the practice founded by Swiss architect Peter Gruneisen, designs buildings rooted in the sphere of imagination and creativity. The practice's main clients are in the music and film production industry in Los Angeles, for whom it designs...

After three years of education, architecture students have to start out on their first year of practical training as the initial step in a career in the professional world - all too often without enough clear advice to make sure that their first step is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604271201Author Howard BirnbergFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint J Ross PublishingPublisher J Ross PublishingWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects - a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. ...

Josep Lluis Mateo is one of Spain's leading architects and one of Europe's most influential intellectuals. He runs a firm called mateoarquitectura in Barcelona, which has designed buildings in many countries such as Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the...

Passive solar design techniques are becoming increasingly important in building design. This design reference book takes the building engineer or physicist step-by-step through the thermal analysis and design of passive solar buildings. In particular it...