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This book focuses on emerging issues in usability, interface design, human computer interaction and user experience, with a special emphasis on the research aimed at understanding human-interaction and usability issues with products, services and systems for improved experience. It covers modeling as well as innovative design concepts, with a special emphasis to user-centered design, and design for special populations, particularly the elderly. Virtual reality, digital environments, heuristic ev...

Seit den 80er Jahren entstehen in Niederosterreich kunstlerische Projekte im offentlichen Raum. Die Arbeiten reichen von autonomen Skulpturen uber Stadtmoblierung bis hin zu temporarer Kontextualisierung und kommunikativer Intervention, Gestaltung von Platzen, Konzepten von Mahnmalen und Kunstprojekten in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bevolkerung. Die Publikation dokumentiert das europaweit vorbildliche Modell fur Kunst im offentlichen Raum in Niederosterreich. Der theoretische Teil setzt sich mit dem...

This book explores the latest trends and innovations in ephemeral architecture. This gloriously illustrated volume provides a showcase for the latest design trends in ephemeral architecture, across a broad range of disciplines and from a number of respected firms around the world - including abgc Design and Sean & Yvette in Dublin, Serie Architects in London, Nendo in Tokyo, nArchitects from New York, J. Meyer H in Berlin, and many more. The featured projects are accompanied full-colour photogra...

Tempera offers a number of advantages over other media used to render architectural designs. It enables renderers to create illustrations of photo-realist quality that also reproduce well in black-and-white. Tempera is quick to execute and also allows the renderer to repaint corrections or major revisions right on the same board without having to create an entirely new rendering. Here is the first complete guide on rendering in tempera for architects. Architectural Rendering in Tempera demonstra...

Whole System Design is increasingly being seen as one of the most cost-effective ways to both increase the productivity and reduce the negative environmental impacts of an engineered system. A focus on design is critical, as the output from this stage of the project locks in most of the economic and environmental performance of the designed system throughout its life, which can span from a few years to many decades. Indeed, it is now widely acknowledged that all designers - particularly engineer...

An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern life leaves a wake of social and ecological destruction--sneakers worn only once, bicycles barely even ridden, and forgotten smartphones languishing in drawers. By what perverse alchemy do our newest, coolest things so readily transform into meaningless junk? In Meaningful Stuff, Jonathan Chapman investigates why we throw away things that still work...

More than 1,000 representations of the human figure in architectural drawings by architects ranging from Aalto to Zumthor, removed from their architectural context.  Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and MOS present their rich findings on the human presence in architectural drawings not in any chronological or other linear order, but based on the convention of the encyclopedia, thus presenting (and perhaps deliberately condoning) surprise encounters made possible by the contingency created by al...

The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Guide: Design Management is part of a brand new series providing must-read practical guidance to running efficient and successful projects using the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013. Each guide takes a core project task - in this case the role of the Design Lead - and explains the essential activities and considerations required at each stage of the new Plan of Work. Easy to use and navigate and in a small and handy format these guides will provide the ultimate quick refere...

The Detail in Building series is an essential source of contemporary data covering the key elements of building design that form the vocabulary of current architecture. Each is clearly analysed, both historically and in terms of recent examples by key practices around the world. The combination of building context, design aesthetics and technical solution, as revealed in the case studies, is highly informative as well as unique in a field where specific technical quality of design detailing is o...

While most books on architecture focus on the architectural outcome itself, Architects on Dwelling takes a close look at how that outcome is created. To design any kind of dwelling, architects draw on both their reservoir of ideas as well as their own experiences as fellow inhabitants of such structures. This book explores how architects design the places we inhabit and how those places in turn inform the manner in which we live, in ways beyond lifestyle and personal taste. Through contribution...