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What do we look for when we go out to eat? How has the experience of going to a restaurant changed in recent years? In which aspects is design influencing gastronomy? Gastronomy and design have been walking hand in hand for some time now, creating a common language that is transforming gastronomic spaces into stunning venues focused on enhancing the dining sensation. The designer is becoming a creator of experiences, not just a mere instrument for making pleasant surroundings. Designing a resta...

The architectures of capitalist development’s present phase manifest themselves through a very diverse range of episodes: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks. Generally considered as mediocre and banal examples that sit outside of pre-established disciplinary canons, these artifacts are extremely relevant. They are relevant not for their formal or historic qualities, but for what they represent – for the implicit system of values they embed. They express specific power...

A new volume in our Classic Reprint SeriesThe first issue of the legendary architecture journal Pencil Points appeared in 1920 as "a journal for the drafting room." Born out of The Architectural Review, and merged with Progressive Architecture in 1943, Pencil Points became the leading voice in architectural and graphic design when modernism flourished, introducing key players from America and Europe. It also established the agenda in architectural theory: multivolume pieces by John Harbeson, Tal...

Originally published in 1946, this book is based on a series of broadcast talks on design. Led by an engineer, an artist and critic of architecture and industrial design, the discussions focussed on the problems that were involved by a general application of design to the environment of contemporary life. It surveys the possibilities of design in modern life and the talks have been rewritten, amplified and revised for the purposes of the book.

In this second edition of Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication are new case studies, improved wayfinding, the inclusion of composites and plastics, and references to similar strategies between different projects. In 400 step-by-step diagrams dissecting 39 case studies in 10 countries on 3 continents, the book shows you how material performance drives the digital fabrication process and determines technique. The book identifies the important characteristics of each material, including conne...

For Bernard Tschumi, "drawing is thinking" and "being with a piece of paper and a pen does not feel like working. It can be sheer bliss", he writes, "seeing thought materialise itself in front of your eyes through the almost unconscious mediation of your hand. It is a form of notation of the mind." This collection of previously unpublished drawings, diagrams, and other remnants of the architectural process provides new insight into well-known projects like the Parc de la villette and the...

A number of metrics for assessing human thermal response to climatic conditions have been proposed in scientific literature over the last decades. They aim at describing human thermal perception of the thermal environment to which an individual or a group of people is exposed. More recently, a new type of “discomfort index” has been proposed for describing, in a synthetic way, long-term phenomena. Starting from a systematic review of a number of long-term global discomfort indices, they are then...

Das Buch behandelt umfassend Grundlagen der Konzeption und Gestaltung visueller Systeme sowie interaktiver Dienstleistungen. Es hilft dabei, die interaktiven Eigenschaften und das Interface analoger und digitaler Produkte zu analysieren und projekt- und adressatenspezifische Konzepte für Website-, Game-, und Produktdesign, aber auch allgemein für Softwareapplikationen zu entwickeln. Der Autor beschreibt geeignete Gestaltungskonzepte, Styleguides und Produktionsabläufe, wissenschaftliche Ergebnis...

This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenman’s work through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and arguing for their productive continuity and transformative role. The book explores Peter Eisenman’s approach to architectural form generation and thinking. It does this through a thematic and formal analysis of main projects and writings from the mid-1970s to mid-1990s. Following an introductory chapter addres...

Dieser Band der "Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung" behandelt die Schrifterkennung und Schriftklassifikation, die Lesbarkeit von Schrift und den gestalterischen und technischen Einsatz von Schriften. Ausserdem werden die Schrifttechnologie und die Verwaltung von Schriften thematisiert. Fur diese Bibliothek wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollstandig uberarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklu...

First published in 1991, this book is about applications and issues relating to the visual environment. The content pertains to the understanding of human behaviour in the environment by recording behaviour and actions or by direct interaction with people. The author examines research and planning methods that primarily stress the visual features of the physical environment. Traditionally, environmental research has relied on verbal descriptions and perceptions of the physical environment, virtu...

This book is designed for those who are familiar with AutoCAD's 2D commands and are ready to make the leap to 3D. It provides the reader with the fundamentals of 3D modeling and animation, as well as all the knowledge needed to start work on projects in 3D with 3D Studio.

There's an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and make "Visions of Heaven" one of the most spectacularly beautiful books we've ever produced. Traveling from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, Germany, an...