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This title presents a lavishly illustrated showcase of the latest design trends for small and rural contemporary hotels. It features dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to architecture related media & organisations. Featuring stunning full-colour photography, architectural drawings, and detailed plans, alongside expert commentary and analysis from some of the field's leading practitioners, "Small Hotels & Rural Hotels" presents readers with a selection of the very best in contemporary small ho...

This book offers a detailed insight into the desire for, and consequences of, precise communications in the daily life of contemporary architectural practice through close readings of constructed architectural details by Sigurd Lewerentz, Caruso St John Architects, Mies van der Rohe and OMA. In the professionalised context of the contemporary architectural profession, precise communications – drawings, specifications, letters, faxes and emails – are charged with the complex task of translating...

This is an essential, highly visual architectural design resource for affordable housing. "Homes Within Reach" provides the first systematic guide for planning, designing, and constructing modest, yet high-quality, homes. From sitting and foundations to systems, layouts, and interior and exterior finishes, it covers dozens of design and construction techniques that promote housing quality with sensitivity to lowering costs." Homes Within Reach" is packed with hundreds of photographs, and archite...

In the face of diminishing resources, the importance of photovoltaics for energy production is increasing. The integration of photovoltaic systems, with their haptic and visual qualities and materiality, into buildings, presents architecture with an inspiring challenge. Intended for planners and architects, but also for the interested layman, this book outlines the huge variety of design in photovoltaic modules, using realised buildings as examples. A system catalogue gives detailed descriptions...

In-depth investigation to define 'concept' in architecture. Concept - this is a key term in architectural discourse. However, all too often it is used imprecisely or merely for marketing purposes. What is a concept actually? This publication moves between design theory and design practice and follows the history of the definition of concept in architecture, leading to the formulation of a specifically instrumental and operative definition. It bases concept in architecture on its strategic poten...

Leading architectural firms are now using in-house design simulation to help make more sustainable design decisions. Taking advantage of these new tools requires understanding of what can be done with simulation, how to do it, and how to interpret the results. This software-agnostic book, which is intended for you to use as a professional architect, shows you how to reduce the energy use of all buildings using simulation for shading, daylighting, airflow, and energy modeling. Written by a prac...

In this fully updated and redesigned edition of the essential and long-established Stadia, the authors offer their unrivalled expertise to all professionals who commission, plan, design, and manage high-quality sports venues. Ideas about the design and use of stadiums continue to evolve and this fifth edition includes the latest developments in the field. Including updated chapters on sustainability, masterplanning and services, a new chapter on branding activation, and new global case studies,...

The Tectonics of Structural Systems provides an architectural approach to the theory of structural systems. The book combines: structural recommendations to follow during the architectural design of various structural systems and the tectonic treatment of structural recommendations in architecture.Written expressly for students, the book makes structures understandable and useful, providing: practical and useful knowledge about structures a design based approach to the subject of structures...

The New Autonomous House has a simple but revolutionary message - that it is possible to live in a home which is inexpensive, kind to the planet, and which liberates its owner from utility bills.

Architects have been intrigued by prefabricated construction since the early twentieth century. Recent advances in design, engineering and manufacturing processes have led to a significant expansion in the use of pre-assembled components, which are fitted to finished structures on site. Collectively, such processes are becoming known as "offsite construction." A ground-breaking text, Offsite Architecture establishes the current – and future – state of thinking in this field. A range of the mos...

'Excellent' - "The Economist". 'Useful insight into specific spatial and technological implications of recent changes in the organization of office work...lively and lucid text' - "Architects' Journal". 'Written by two of the country's experts ...it is a good read' - "Financial Times". 'Any facility manager, space planner, property manager, architect, or interior designer ought to know the contents of every section ...clearly the best book of its kind on this subject we have read' -Gerald Davis...

A photographic guide to the 'White City' of Tel Aviv, which contains over 4000 white Bauhaus buildings. Celebrates the city's current state while placing it within its historical context. Over 4,000 white Bauhaus buildings give Tel Aviv its most famous name: 'the White City'. The city centre, created in the 1930s and '40s under the influence of international modernism, was declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 2003. Many architects, most of them emigrating from Europe, found opportunities he...

The history of modern architecture is as diverse as it is beautiful, varying wildly from region to region and era to era. Here Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, explores 50 of the most significant and striking buildings in the world, from the modernist aesthetic of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye to the eye-catching flair of Beijing's CCTV Headquarters. Contents include:Villa Savoye, PoissyRockefeller Center, New YorkEames House, Los AngelesMontreal Biosphere, MontrealPompidou Centre, Par...

Through a number of theoretical contributions and a series of case studies, this book illustrates and analyzes the different approaches in the 1990s to building in an historic context. These will range from Krier's historicist theories, to the design methods of Foster who has rediscovered the Classical roots of the Modern Movement, in buildings such as the Carre d'Art in Nimes next to one of the finest surviving Roman Temples. The projects selected for the case studies come from throughout Europ...

The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one. This book, for anyone with a professional or personal interest in improving housing provision everywhere, aims to inspire by offering in-depth studies of London's housing past and seeks to provide sustainable solutions for the future by linking to wider contemporary historical and social contexts. This book will influence today's housing debates through showcasing lessons from the past and highlights...

Revisiting Postmodernism offers an engaging, wide-ranging and highly illustrated account of postmodernism in architecture from its roots in the 1940s to its ongoing relevance today. This book invites readers to see Postmodernism in a new light: not just a style but a cultural phenomenon that embraces all areas of life and thrives on complexity and pluralism, in contrast to the strait-laced, single-style, top-down inclination of its predecessor, Modernism. While focusing on architecture, this boo...

This introduction to architectural presentation graphics covers both manual and computer graphics presentation techniques -- showing the cooperative, and complementary relationships between the two. It provides an overview of the tools and equipment that are commonly used to prepare design presentations.

Tauchen Sie mit diesem Buch tief in die Designgeschichte ein Sie sind auf der Suche nach einem soliden Nachschlagewerk uber die Designgeschichte? Sie moechten Ihr Verstandnis fur die Entwicklungshintergrunde der Stile und Epochen sensibilisieren? Dann darf dieser Band aus der "Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung" in Ihrem Bucherregal nicht fehlen. Die Autoren nehmen Sie mit auf eine Zeitreise durch wichtige Kunstepochen - vom vorgeschichtlichen Design bis heute. Erfahren Sie mehr uber: - Gotik - Bar...