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* A must-have reference to more than 100 common residential conditions from accessibility issues to working with zinc * Practical information that the architect, engineer, contractor and homeowner can access quickly, with over 230 supporting tables photos and details * Identifies frequently used reference standards, acceptable practices, and other relevant resources Quick, reliable answers to your most common on-site questions When you're in the field, you never know what you'll come across. Gra...

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...

This text introduces students, professionals and the general public to the architectural achievements of diverse cultures outside the Euro-American tradition. Rather than concentrating on geographic or chronological categories, however, the authors have arranged their subject matter thematically in order to focus on the basic needs common to all human communities. The book is divided into five major sections, each of which deals with vernacular as well as momumental structures. These five topics...

This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders.In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the import...

Today, a new generation of architects and builders is emerging, intent on creating homes that meet human needs for shelter while causing only a fraction of the environmental impact of conventional housing. The New Ecological Home provides an overview of green building techniques, materials, products, and technologies that are either currently available or will be in the near future. Author Daniel Chiras provides a wealth of up-to-date, practical information for home buyers, owner-builders, and a...

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...

Policy makers at all levels are discovering the notion of creative industries-from economic and innovation strategies to education policy and urban development, the creative industries are being described as a model for success. This book provides a greatly needed overview of the concepts and specific characteristics of this sector.

Recent social, political and environmental upheavals have had a two-fold effect on the built environment in Third World countries. They have destroyed the traditional cultural structure in rural areas, which has led to homelessness and the marginalization of entire communities, and large-scale urbanization has become a powerful phenomenon of which the Islamic World is very much a part. Such global changes have had a dramatic impact on the jury for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, whose selec...

Design-Tech is an indispensable, holistic approach to architectural technology that shows you in hundreds of drawings and tables the why as well as the how of building science, providing you with a comprehensive overview. In this expanded edition, measurements and examples are listed in both metric and imperial units to reflect the global reality of architectural practice. The authors also address digital fabrication, construction documentation, ultra-high-rise structures, and zoning codes. And...

Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential Construction 1.0 CD-ROM Network Version provides the complete content of Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential Construction, Second Edition, in an easy-to navigate electronic format. This network version CD-ROM is compatible with Mac and Windows and includes downloadable architectural details and drawings, a visual search feature, a bookmark tool to save and annotate content, and a search engine. This must-have resource is essential for a...

The use of secondary data for research can offer benefits, particularly when limited resources are available for conducting research using primary methods. Researchers and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including their academic instructors, are increasingly recognising the immense opportunities in applying secondary research methods in built environment research. Advances in technology has also led to vast amounts of existing datasets that can be utilized for secondary r...

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...

Architecture in Context is a series of seven books describing and illustrating all the seminal traditions of architecture from the earliest settlements in the Euphrates and Jordan valleys to the stylistically and technologically sophisticated buildings of the second half of the twentieth century. It brings together the fruits of the author's lifetime of teaching and travelling the world, seeing and photographing buildings in an extraordinary synthesis. Each stand-alone volume sets the buildings...

A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas is the first comprehensive survey to narrate the urbanization of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, making it a vital resource to help you understand the built environment in this part of the world. The book combines the latest scholarship about the indigenous past with an environmental history approach covering issues of climate, geology, and biology, so that you'll see the relationship between urban and rural in...

This sourcebook of graphic standards contains thousands of examples of architectural style from buildings around the world. Combining plans, drawings, and high-contrast photography, it includes period and modern details of structure or aesthetic treatment that recur in different historical periods, architectural styles, buildings materials and types.

Der finnische Architekt Pekka Helin grundete bereits 1979 in Helsinki sein erstes Buro. In seiner Entwurfshaltung knupft das Buro in einer spezifisch skandinavischen Ausdrucksform sowohl an den Funktionalismus, als auch an die organische Architektur eines Aalvar Alto, Viljo Revell, Heikki Siren oder auch eines Arne Erve an. Das Material Holz spielt in dieser sehr klaren Architektur eine vordergrundige Rolle. Das Buro kreiert Bauten im Bereich Wohnen - haufig direkt am Wasser gelegen, wo die Einb...

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2002 is the most detailed, professionally relevant source of construction price information currently available anywhere. With competition growing fiercer throughout the industry and with increasing pressure to obtain a 'competitive advantage', the A& B's unique tender index will be more valuable than ever before. This is the only price book that publishes details of its cost base in such as way that it can be adjusted to allow for market conditions t...

While the final product of an architect's efforts typically receives the majority of media attention, the process by which it is achieved is rarely revealed. "Architecture in Process" presents the sketches, drawings and models produced by the offices of Eric Owen Moss, Morphosis, Steven Holl, Itsuko Hasegawa and Will Alsop who all place considerable emphasis on the evolution of a design idea and the careful documentation of its incremental growth. Each of these architects approaches that task di...

The great parks and gardens of Europe come alive by the skilful interplay of natural landscape and architectural elements. Throughout the ages, this relationship has been treated in different ways. The gardens of the Italian renaissance in the 15th or 16th century were based on rational plans, whereas the French parks of the Baroque period seem more geometric in design, and the English parklands of the 18th century present a scenic composition. In this publication historical gardens from all ove...

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