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Rating systems verifying and quantifying sustainable design were once an unrecoverable, unnecessary cost. Now, rating systems are a marketing tool to lower operating costs. Guide to Rating Green Buildings is the only guide to compare and contrast complex rating systems of green buildings. With case studies from different climates and building types, this book provides photos, a project description, and lessons learned by the design team, constructor, and client. This book is essential for owner...

Together with the National Library of Ireland, Architectural Press presents seventy previously unpublished drawings by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The identification in the National Library of Ireland of three sketchbooks, from which these drawings have been selected, represents a significant addition to the body of early drawings by Mackintosh. The sketches date from a crucial period in the young man's development, spanning his highly successful student years and the beginnings of his profession...

Lighting is a basic, yet difficult-to-master, element of interior design, and Lighting Design Basics provides the information you need in a concise, highly visual format. Two leading designers, both with decades of experience, offer straightforward coverage of concepts and techniques, and present realistic goals you can use as guides to creating simple, typical lighting designs and when collaborating with professional designers on more complex projects. Design scenarios for more than twenty diff...

This major reference describes and analyzes the recent developments in the architectural application of the latest digital design and fabrication technologies.

Invite the rich colors, natural textures, and romantic beauty of Mexico into your home. With a vast architectural legacy spanning four centuries, Mexican haciendas express a rugged romantic beauty and compelling sense of history. Today, the hacienda's graceful arcaded silhouette, grand - scale proportions, carved - stone ornament, rich colors and natural textures have become an ever - increasing influence for architects and designers worldwide. Hacienda Style invites you into Mexico's artful, ha...

The house has always been at the forefront of architectural design. This book is intended to serve as a guidebook to the issues and debates surrounding the contemporary home. It investigates the ways in which architects meet the needs of modern living, but also reinterpret the form of the house, creating blueprints for the future. Each of the projects included here takes a different approach to solving the age-old problem of shelter, comfort and delight. The book is in two sections. The first co...

As Autodesk's fastest-growing software package, Revit Architecture offers a new version that will require Revit users of all areas of expertise--architects, project managers, designers, contractors, and building owners--to learn new skills. As the only complete tutorial and reference for the newest version of Revit software, this book provides you with a hands-on look at the Revit interface, explores key modeling principles, looks at design options and features, and shows how to best present des...

The industry-standard guide to designing well-performing buildings Architectural Detailing systematically describes the principles by which good architectural details are designed. Principles are explained in brief, and backed by extensive illustrations that show you how to design details that will not leak water or air, will control the flow of heat and water vapor, will adjust to all kinds of movement, and will be easy to construct. This new third edition has been updated to conform to Interna...

Was ist ein Schwellenraum? Auftakt, Dazwischen, Schranke? Innen oder aussen? Der Schwellenraum ist alles zusammen, meist sogar gleichzeitig. Er lebt von der raumlichen Ambivalenz zwischen OEffnung und Schliessung und erzeugt zugleich die Erwartung auf das Kommende. Till Boettger hat sich in Lehr- und Forschungsprojekten intensiv mit der architektonischen Inszenierung des Ankommens und Empfangens befasst. Sein Buch versammelt exemplarisch phanomenologische Analysen raumlicher UEbergange in histor...

Featuring illustrators from four continents, The Art of Architectural Illustration assembles the best artists in the field in one beautiful, four-color book. Four prominent artists are showcased in essays, sharing the tips, techniques, and approaches that have brought them success. Hand-rendered watercolor and ink drawings for projects both built and unbuilt appear on these pages, side by side with computer-assisted illustration from the cutting-edge of technology. The dramatic imagery of this 2...

Das Buch Verborgene Gestaltung erschliesst, basierend auf den von Franco Clivio gesammelten Gegenstanden, anschaulich und poetisch jene verborgenen Qualitaten, die den geubten Blick erfordern. Jedes Objekt steht fur die eigenstandige, zuweilen auch eigenartige Losung einer Problemstellung, die oft einfach, immer aber fundamental ist.

Undesign brings together leading artists, designers and theorists working at the intersection of art and design. The text focuses on design practices, and conceptual approaches, which challenge the traditional notion that design should emphasise its utility over aesthetic or other non-functional considerations. This publication brings to light emerging practices that consider the social, political and aesthetic potential of "undesigning" our complex designed world. In documenting these new devel...