Architecture category: 43274 books
by Robert F. Herrmann, Menaker & Herrmann LLP
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
An essential reference for practitioners, emphasizing how legal concepts affect the process of bringing architectural vision to reality.
Law for Architects: What You Need to Know guides design professionals through the daunting landscape where design and construction meet the legal system....
Sustainable Design
A Critical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Written for students and practitioners in the fields of architecture and interior design, our new Architecture Brief Sustainable Design provides a concise overview of all the techniques available for reducing the energy footprint of structures and spaces. With clear, simple language and a practical...
The Sustainable Sites Handbook
A Complete Guide to the Principles, Strategies, and Best Practices for Sustainable Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Get the definitive resource guide for sustainable site design, construction, and management.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) is transforming land design, development, and management practices across the United States with the first national rating system for sustainable landscapes....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
This unique book is about landscape, sustainability and the practices of the professions which plan, design and manage landscapes at many scales and in many locations; urban, suburban and rural. Despite the ubiquity of 'sustainability' as a concept, this is the first book to address the relationship...
Is Landscape... ?
Essays on the Identity of Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields. The...
Data-Driven Design and Construction
25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
“In this comprehensive book, Professor Randy Deutsch has unlocked and laid bare the twenty-first century codice nascosto of architecture. It is data. Big data. Data as driver. . .This book offers us the chance to become informed and knowledgeable pursuers of data and the opportunities it offers...
by Lonneke Dikmans , Ronald van Luttikhuizen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
SOA Made Simple is a concise and indispensable handbook for finally understanding exactly what Service Oriented Architecture is. Split into three clear sections, in this book youll learn from both theory as well as step-by-step implementation examples to aid in your understanding of this often poorly-...
Ethics for Architects
50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
In this new Architecture Brief, Ethics for Architects, Thomas Fisher presents fifty case studies representing a broad range of ethical dilemmas facing today's architects, from questions regarding which clients to work for, to the moral imperatives of reclaiming building materials for construction...
Urban Design Thinking
A Conceptual Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis.
Relating abstract...
by Steffen Wippel, Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores and deciphers the symbolic value and iconicity of the built environment in the Arab Gulf Region, its aesthetics, language and performative characteristics. Bringing together a range of studies by artists, curators and scholars, it demonstrates how...
Women Architects and Modernism in India
Narratives and contemporary practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the...
by Lucy Bullivant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!
In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist...
Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation
Clash of Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The management of industrial heritage sites requires rethinking in the context of urban change, and the issue of how to balance protection, preservation/conservation, and development becomes all the more crucial as industrial heritage sites grow in number. This brings into play new challenges—not...
The Changing Image of Affordable Housing
Design, Gentrification and Community in Canada and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Illustrated by a range of case studies of affordable housing options in Canada, this book examines the liveability and affordability of twenty-first-century residential architecture. Focussing on the architects’ and communities’ commitment to these housing programmes, as well as that of the private...