Architecture category: 43274 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Space is experienced not only visually, but with all the senses. Despite this, the design and reception of architecture often barely take haptic, acoustic, and osmic perceptions into account. Consequently, in the architecture discipline there is no continuous discourse on the topic of spatial perception....
by Bruce Duyshart
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Documents, such as drawings, memos and specifications, form an essential function in the design and construction industry. Throughout the lifecycle of a built asset, starting from an initial design idea, right through to a final built form and its ongoing management, thousands, even millions of documents...
Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health
Impacts on Occupant Space Use and Physical Activity
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace environment—where so many people spend so much of their day—to improve workers’ capacity for health and wellness. It pinpoints the link between sedentary lifestyles and poor health, and explores the role of office spatial design in...
Architecture and Design
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Technological evolutions have changed the field of architecture exponentially, leading to more stable and energy-efficient building structures. Architects and engineers must be prepared to further enhance their knowledge in the field in order to effectively meet new and advancing standards. Architecture...
Regenerative and Positive Impact Architecture
Learning from Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects. It compares four state-of-the-art buildings to examine the steps needed for a transition from negative impact reduction architecture to positive impact regenerative architecture, utilizing...
Co-Designers
Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Designers employ a variety of tools and techniques for speculating about buildings before they are built. In their simplest form, these are personal thought experiments. However, embracing advanced computer simulations means engaging a network of specialized people and powerful machines. In this book,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Over the past 20 years, software architectures have significantly contributed to the development of complex and distributed systems. Nowadays, it is recognized that one of the critical problems in the design and development of any complex software system is its architecture, i.e. the organization...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Over the past 20 years, software architectures have significantly contributed to the development of complex and distributed systems. Nowadays, it is recognized that one of the critical problems in the design and development of any complex software system is its architecture, i.e. the organization...
The Modern Station
New Approaches to Railway Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
An exciting new generation of railway architecture has emerged in Europe and elsewhere over the past decade. This book explains the reasons for the renaissance of the station as a building type and the current changes it is undergoing. The functional, social and technical factors which shape railway...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well anticipated or understood. Environmental variety is a design characteristic closely related to our experience of architecture - an architecture of the senses. Each...
Codify
Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary design environment. Landscape architecture has a long history of innovation in the areas of computation and...
by James Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics highlights the dramatic changes in the relationship of ancient Maya peoples to the landscape and to each other in the Preclassical period (ca. 2000 BC–250 AD). Offering a comprehensive history of Preclassic Maya society, James Doyle focuses...
Mechanics and Architectural Design
Proceedings of 2016 International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
The 2016 International Conference on Mechanics and Architectural Design (MAD2016) were held in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, 14 – 15 May 2016. The main objective of this conference is to provide a platform for researchers, academics and industrial professionals to present their research findings in the...
Landscape Architecture Documentation Standards
Principles, Guidelines, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
SUPERB EXECUTION RELIES UPON RIGOROUS PROJECT DOCUMENTATION
A project will only be built as well as it is documented. This publication focuses on the key documentation needs of the landscape architectural design and construction documentation process. That includes both "design documentation"...