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Architecture can seem complicated, mysterious or even ill-defined, especially to a student being introduced to architectural ideas for the first time. One way to approach architecture is simply as the design of human environments. When we consider...

A charming travelogue set in the British Raj, A Winter in India presents a fascinating journey across people, customs, languages, cities, monuments, and landscapes. Spens thrilling and amusing anecdotes and multifarious experiences of the rugged...

In this book, the editors focus on architecture and communication from various different perspectives - taking into account that the term "architecture" is used for buildings as well as in the context of computer software. Data and software...

The objective of this richly illustrated introduction is to explain and demystify the design processes in architecture, urban design, and design. Starting with the five parameters originally established by Peter von Seidlein's Stuttgart Chair for...

The ongoing introduction of digital design tools in the architectural professional practice does not only influence the architectural design product, but equally affects the underlying design process. A digital design process taking full advantage of the...

At the beginning of one's architecture studies, there are many unknowns: what is really important? how do I brainstorm a design idea? how can this idea be depicted and ultimately implemented? BASICS is a series that imparts fundamental knowledge in...

It has been argued that the history of landscape and of gardens has been marginalized from the mainstream of art history and visual studies because of a lack of engagement with the theories, methods and concepts of these disciplines. This book explores...

Organized for self-paced study, this user-friendly book can easily be understood by designers with no engineering training. Provides excellent guidance concerning how design can be used to control noise, privacy and room acoustics within buildings...

Learning to think and act creatively is a requisite fundamental aspect of design education for architectural and interior design as well as industrial and graphic design. Development of creative capacities must be encountered early in design education...

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective curriculum necessary to teach public interest designers. The second book in Routledge's Public Interest...

Dare experiments! The book documents the teaching philosophy developed at the chair of experimental design by Frank Stepper and his team at the University of Kassel. The approach places an emphasis on fostering and developing aesthetic and formal...

A book that brings awareness to preservation in architecture. This third TSAM volume presents content from teaching courses that have been developed at the EPFL for fifteen years. The aim is to promote preservation as a discipline, one of the main...

This book reveals the origin, definition, and evolution of New Brutalism in architecture. The New Brutalism movement in architecture addressed a new way of understanding the urban dimension in the post-war period, and in particular the role of the...

This collection introduces, illustrates, and advances fresh ideas about creative practice inquiry in architecture. It concerns architectural knowledge: how architects can use their distinctive skills, habits, and values to advance professional insight,...

Lars Lerup's conceptual explorations as a designer and thinker have been inspired by philosophers and artists from Foucault to Beckett. Lerup's furniture designs elude consumer culture. They conform neither to what is commonly understood as useful nor to...

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his alter ego Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy...

Peter Eisenman's architecture carries many layers and meanings; one question leads to the next and one conversation provokes another. Vladimir Belogolovsky's new book highlights three separate conversations he had with the architect at his New York City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999627737Author Maria Sheherazade GiudiciFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association...

For the past 50 years, the advancements of technology have equipped architects with unique tools that have enabled the development of new computer-mediated design methods, fabrication techniques, and architectural expressions. Simultaneously, in...

Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on the supposition that we find ourselves in a comparable situation today...

Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and cultural artifacts, full of human intellect and powerful technologies. Our thinking, however, is dominated by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989859288Author Dov FeinmesserFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Yale School of ArchitecturePublisher Yale School of ArchitectureWeight(grams) 816g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783990435700Author Ludger HovestadtFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Ambra Verlag MMag. Franz SchafferPublisher BirkhauserWeight(grams) 400g

Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on the supposition that we find ourselves in a comparable situation today...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951541484Author Steffen LehmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Oro EditionsPublisher Oro EditionsWeight(grams) 229g

In 2008, the Department of Art and Architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Artsdeveloped a new basis for the architecture curriculum. They created five research platforms: Analogue and Digital Production (ADP), Ecology Sustainability Conservation...

Louis I. Kahn is widely known as an architect of powerful buildings. But although much has been said about his buildings, almost nothing has been written about Kahn as an unconventional teacher and philosopher whose influence on his students was...

Masterclass: Interior Design provides an in-depth overview of 30 leading schools from all over the world that offer a master's degree in interior design and interior architecture. The featured schools are selected based on a list of criteria including...

During the first five years of a new architectural practice, typical problems arise that have to be managed. Based on the reports of young architectural practices, which were gathered in workshops throughout Europe, this manual analyzes commonly observed...

Without environmental justice, there can be no social justice. The critical symptoms of human suffering, climate collapse and animal maltreatment are now global and far-reaching. Despite their interdependence, the treatment of these afflictions...

Learning to construct is the objective of the architecture student, who seeks to bring sketches, sophisticated visualisations, material and component choices, and detailed plans and diagrams together in a single grand composition. Plans & Images...

The title of the book sets the two fields of activity pursued by the architect, architectural historian and theorist August Sarnitz - building and writing - in a reciprocal relation: the context to what has been built emerges in the process of writing,...

We know the specific strengths of various cities, are aware of their ranking, are able to discuss their density and growth. But what do all cities have in common, what do we know about the "lowest common denominator"? The "city as a...

Learning to think and act creatively is a requisite fundamental aspect of design education for architectural and interior design as well as industrial and graphic design. Development of creative capacities must be encountered early in design education...

In this anthology with contributions about architecture, media, and infrastructure technology, the authors investigate in what multifaceted way architecture and information is in tune with contemporary technology, and in what way we live with them. ...

In Natural Communication, the author criticizes the current paradigm of specific goal orientation in the complexity sciences and proposes an alternative that envisions a fundamental architectonics of communication. His model of "natural...

Each architectural design is a new history. To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future. We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in...

Aimed at current bachelor's degree students, recent graduates and professionals looking for a specialisation, Masterclass: Architecture provides an in-depth overview of 29 leading graduate schools from all over the world that offer a master's degree in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788895623924Author Pino ScaglioneFormat PaperbackImprint List LabPublisher List LabWeight(grams) 1633g

The design of a building is a complex process in which the architect develops spaces which are defined by a number of different parameters. The most important of these are space requirements, distances, furniture and fittings, and movement zones. From...