Advances in Communication of Design (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, #609)
This book focuses on the emerging role of human factors in understanding, communicating with and engaging users. It reports on innovative approaches, with a special emphasis to visuals cues, such as new typographies, geometries and graphics for mobile and computer interfaces. The book also cover topics of image and video processing, user-focused data compression, generative visuals, computational photography, and interactive design. Further topics include creative and empathetic design, human to...
Digital Vernacular addresses the why and how of digital fabrication in hundreds of step-by-step color images, illuminating a set of working principles and techniques that join theory with practice. Authors James Stevens and Ralph Nelson reconcile local traditions and innovations with globally accessible methods and digital toolsets. By combining ethics with hardware, the book will root you in the origins of making, ensuring a lasting and relevant reference for your studio practice. The book ope...
This book offers an explanation of why scale models are important to the design process. Albert Smith takes the reader through the history and significance of models in architecture from the magic of the Egyptian scale model to the present day. Through this description of the relationship between architecture and the scale model, Smith demonstrates the most effective process between concept and 'machine', between the idea and the final building. The great value of this book is to reveal the na...
21st Century Technologies for Construction Industry
by Bassey Effanga Asuquo
Unboundaries of Space
Through the exploration and practice of the drawing elements, this text offers a series of vantage points from which to view the drawing process. Each element is viewed through a variety of exercises; and dry media, wet media, and colour are all treated.
While architects establish an overall design, it is the architectural drafter or CAD operator who prepares plans that reflect appropriate building practices. In addition to technical skills, the drafter must be familiar with design issues, building codes, and construction processes. This is the first introduction to the architectural graphic design processes and techniques drafters must know to develop a variety of architectural drawings. Covering current drafting practices, residential design,...
Transforming the Traditional: The Work of Cohen and Hacker
by Stuart Cohen and Julie Hacker
Stuart Cohen and Julie Hacker are a multi-awarding-winning architectural team whose talents are presented in this first monograph of their residential work Stuart Cohen and Julie Hacker are a multi-award-winning husband-and-wife architectural team whose vast complementary talents are presented in this first monograph of their residential work. Their elegant body of work is mostly concentrated in Chicago's leafy North Shore suburbs. Informed by both modern and classical principles, the traditio...
Architects, urban planners, urban designers, developers, city officials, and all those interested in revitalizing their post-industrial cities will find the tools they need here. Redeveloping Industrial Sites delivers solutions to complex issues concerning urban planning, design, and financing to reveal lessons on ways to successfully convert decaying land and buildings into vibrant parks, stimulating cultural destinations, and active commercial complexes. In addition, carefully chosen real-wor...
Since its initial publication in 1970, Design Methods has been considered the seminal work on design methodology. Written by one of the founders of the design methods movement, it has been highly praised in international journals and has been translated into Japanese, Romanian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. As Jones states in the preface: "Alongside the old idea of design as the drawing of objects that are then to be built or manufactured there are many new ideas of what it is, all very differen...
Thirty or so years ago, architecture changed. A strong desire to explore the artistic and humanistic side of the practice pushed it onto paper and into installations; 'paper architecture' became the locus for the avant garde. In recognition of this, the Canada Council for the Arts established the Prix de Rome in Architecture. During the years the Prix de Rome was in place, from 1987 to 2003, some of Canada's most important architects were given the opportunity to explore a more theoretical and...