Architecture category: 43274 books
by Chris Abel
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
This new selection of essays follows Chris Abel's previous best selling collection, Architecture and Identity. Drawing upon a wide range of knowledge and disciplines, the author argues that, underlying technological changes in the process of architectural production are fundamental changes in the...
by DJM van der Voordt, HBR van Wegen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
This unique book discusses programming, design and building evaluation providing a ‘joined up’ approach to building design. By linking the functional and architectonic qualities of a building, the authors show the practical implications of the utility value of buildings.
Starting by looking at...
Adaptable Architecture
Theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Adaptable Architecture provides thought-provoking and inquisitive insights into how we can prolong the useful life of buildings by designing them to be more adaptable, and hence create a more sustainable built environment. The book provides a theoretical foundation counterpointed by the experiences...
by Massimo Paperini
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
“Yacht Design, Interior and Superstructures” confirms the interest of young architects, engineers and designers in boat design, a subject always in need of new ideas, new design solutions and a new approach. This new approach is meant to be applied to expertise in new technologies, new materials...
by Vitruvius Pollio
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
IT’s related by Historians, That Men, who in former times inhabited Woods and Caverns like wild Beasts, first assembled themselves to make Houses and Cities, which was occasioned by a Forest that was set on fire, which drew all the Inhabitants together by its novelty and surprizing effects; so that...
Transmaterial Next
A Catalog of Materials that Redefine Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Virtually every revolution in architecture has been preceded by a revolution in materials: think iron, glass, steel, concrete, plastics, or composites. What is the next revolutionary material that will reshape the very nature of architecture? A solid that's lighter than air, metal latticework so delicate...
This is Not Architecture
Media Constructions
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the characteristics, cultures, limitations and bias of the different kinds of media, and to build up an argument as to how this complex culture of representations is constructed.
Architecture's Historical Turn
Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as...
Language of Space and Form
Generative Terms for Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
A unique graphical guide for using architectural terminology to jump-start the design process
This design studio companion presents architectural terms with special emphasis on using these terms to generate design ideas. It highlights the architectural thinking behind the terminology and helps...
Net Zero Energy Design
A Guide for Commercial Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Conveniently organized and packed with robust technical content and clear explanations of key principles
Written by an architect who is the director of sustainability at a global architecture firm, Net Zero Energy Design is a practical guide for architects and related construction professionals...
Rendering in SketchUp
From Modeling to Presentation for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
The sure way for design professionals to learn SketchUp modeling and rendering techniques
Rendering In SketchUp provides instructions for creating 3D photoreal graphics for SketchUp models using integrated rendering programs. The book serves as a beginner rendering manual and reference guide...
Use Matters
An Alternative History of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled...
Sustainable Building Design
Learning from nineteenth-century innovations
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
A twenty-first century renaissance is emerging in architecture. After a century of building designs characterized by high energy demand, low quality lighting and poor thermal comfort, the fundamental questions must be asked again: is there a better path to designing the most energy efficient, comfortable,...
Low-Level Programming
C, Assembly, and Program Execution on Intel® 64 Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Learn Intel 64 assembly language and architecture, become proficient in C, and understand how the programs are compiled and executed down to machine instructions, enabling you to write robust, high-performance code.
Low-Level Programming explains Intel 64 architecture as the result of von...