Architecture category: 43274 books
The Changing Shape of Practice
Integrating Research and Design in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements. How do practices acquire the ability to do so?
The Changing Shape of Practice provides a handbook of examples for practices that wish to integrate more research into their work and a reference book...
Architect?
A Candid Guide to the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
The new edition of an essential text offers an informative, engaging view of the architectural profession from education through practice.
Since 1985, Architect? has been an essential text for aspiring architects, offering the best basic guide to the profession available. This third edition...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This collection of essays is concerned with the experiences children have within the supervised worlds they inhabit, as well as with architecture and landscape architecture.
International examples of innovative childcare practice are illustrated together with the design processes which informed...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
How can architects best increase their engagement with building users and wider society to provide better architecture?
Since the mid 1990s government policy has promoted the idea of greater social participation in the production and management of the built environment but there has been...
by Jean-Luc Voirin
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Arcadia is a system engineering method based on the use of models, with a focus on the collaborative definition, evaluation and exploitation of its architecture.
This book describes the fundamentals of the method and its contribution to engineering issues such as requirements management, product...
The Architecture of Information
Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between information and its representation.
Despite...
by Amir Sidharta
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
25 Tropical Houses in Indonesia offers a selection of the best contemporary architecture and interior design in the archipelago.
Architects working in Indonesia—and elsewhere in Southeast Asia—face the challenge not only of creating spaces to suit the lifestyles of their users but also...
Managing Interdisciplinary Projects
A Primer for Architecture, Engineering and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Construction, architecture and engineering projects are complex undertakings, involving a temporary grouping of people and companies, with different agendas and experience, coming together to achieve a project goal. This book investigates the dynamics of the relationships between individuals involved...
City of Layers
Reconfiguring the Built Environment for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Society seems to be tied irrevocably to long-term patterns of resource use, and to producing unassimilatable waste, emissions, and ongoing environmental degradation. There also are seemingly irresolvable dilemmas between humanity and nature, society and ecology, and utility and beauty, where each...
Merleau-Ponty
Space, Place, Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty’s thought to architectural theory and practice is well established. Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place,...
by Russell Sturgis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
In trying to train the mind to judge of works of architecture, one can never be too patient. It is very easy to hinder one's growth in knowledge by being too ready to decide. The student of art who is much under the influence of one teacher, one writer, or one body of fellow-students, is hampered...
The Active Image
Architecture and Engineering in the Age of Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The “active image” refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of “actions” that images perform. This volume features essays that present a new approach to image theory. It explores the many ways images become active in architecture and engineering design processes...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Unleash both the historian and architect in your kids with this Ancient Roman Roads and Architecture History Book. There is a whole different but beautifully thought-of world in the ancient Rome that your children will truly enjoy discovering. Show them what historical architecture is all about by getting them a copy of this book. Go ahead and buy a copy today!
How Buildings Work
The Natural Order of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Illustrated with hundreds of illuminating line drawings, this classic guide reveals virtually every secret of a building's function: how it stands up, keeps its occupants safe and comfortable, gets built, grows old, and dies--and why some buildings do this so much better than others. Drawing on things...