Photographs of actual buildings, paired with digitally manipulated images in 'before and after' comparisons, demonstrate the sorts of real-life situations that architectural design courses rarely teach students how to address, and show how designers can manipulate form and material to achieve desired effects: emphasizing or diminishing building elements, imposing visual order on a facade, or adding grace notes.
The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century
This volume tackles the subject of illustration, technically, metaphorically and historically in nineteenth-century periodicals, displaying the ubiquity of the visual in the press: the articles cover material illustration, graphics, and design and metaphorical use of images in the letterpress, offering specific examples and theoretical approaches.
Loose-Fit Architecture (Architectural Design)
Loose-Fit Architecture: Designing Buildings for Change September/October 2017Profile 249 Volume 87 No 5ISBN 978 1119 152644 Guest-Edited by Alex Lifschutz The idea that a building is 'finished' or 'complete' on the day it opens its doors is hardwired into existing thinking about design, planning and construction. But this ignores the unprecedented rate of social and technological change. A building only begins its life when the contractors leave. With resources at a premium and a greater need fo...
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY 3
It is increasingly important nowadays for senior personnel in the construction industry to be aware of the wider social, organizational and economic context within which they work. The impact of building in the community is such that it is no longer excusable (if it ever was) to design and build them in isolation from other buildings and from their immediate surroundings. Equally, to achieve a satisfactory end result, which is both profitable and adequately serves the needs of a building's users...
This book, the result of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 6th World Congress: Cities in the Third Millennium, examines the issues which must be addressed if we are to have a common understanding of the forces of change.Experts in architecture, engineering and planning contribute a commentary on the existing condition of urban design,
Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America
by Sally Ann McMurry
The antebellum era and the close of the 19th century frame a period of great agricultural expansion. During this time, farmhouse plans designed by rural men and women regularly appeared in the flourishing Northern farm journals. This book analyzes these vital indicators of the work patterns, social interactions, and cultural values of the farm families of the time. Examining several hundred owner-designed plans, McMurry shows the ingenious ways in which "progressive" rural Americans designed far...
The follow-up book to the best-selling Irish Stone Walls. How to build, conserve or renovate stone buildings in the authentic way, using age-old techniques including lime mortars, lime washes and other finishes.
Handbook of Structural Steelwork
A generation of architects is pushing digital technology to its limits and continuing a tradition of "organic" architecture, often labelled "blobitecture". This volume defines the generation and captures contemporary trends in architecture. A number of the architects "Greg Lynn, RUR Architecture, Foreign Office Architects and more) are among those selected to compete in the Ground Zero (New York) redevelopment effort.
Terms of Appropriation
This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of appropriation as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the chapters cove...
"Atmosphere" ladt ein, ermutigt und spornt an. Jeder kreative Prozess kann in seiner Mehrschichtigkeit analysiert und auf grundlegende Komponenten reduziert werden: Form, Farbe, Material. Dieses Buch erforscht sieben atmospharische Schichten, die aufgrund ihrer fluchtigen Natur zu immer neuen Kombinationen verschmelzen.