Architecture category: 43274 books
Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes
Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Both professionals and students are increasingly committed to achieving high-performance metrics in the design, construction and operation of residential buildings. This book responds to this demand by offering a comprehensive guide which features:
architectural innovations in building skin...
Building Dynamics
Exploring Architecture of Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Buildings are increasingly ‘dynamic’: equipped with sensors, actuators and controllers, they ‘self-adjust’ in response to changes in the external and internal environments and patterns of use.
Building Dynamics asks how this change manifests itself and what it means for architecture...
Beyond BIM
Architecture Information Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Beyond BIM explores the vast and under-explored design potential undertaken by information modeling. Through a series of investigations grounded in the analysis of built work, interviews with leading practitioners, and speculative projects, the author catalogs the practical advantages and theoretical...
by Ritesh Modi
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Your one stop guide to making the most out of Azure Cloud
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Get familiar with the different design patterns available in Microsoft Azure
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by
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Challenged by the recent economic crisis, the building and construction industry is currently seeking new orientation and strategies. Here mass customisation is uncovered as a key strategy in helping to meet this challenge. The term mass customisation denotes an offering that meets the demands of...
by John Graf
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Chicago is known throughout the world for its architecture. Although many people are familiar with the city�s skyscrapers and public buildings, they often overlook or are unaware of Chicago�s mansions that are located throughout the city. These mansions represent Chicago�s past and its future,...
by Albert D. Wittman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Buildings, bridges, and much more�these are the treasures in or near Minneapolis parks that are rarely given attention. This book diverts the reader from the traditional park elements of lakes, woods, streams, and playfields and focuses instead on the rich architectural components they offer. Buildings...
London by Design
The Iconic Transport Designs that Shaped our City
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
*An excellent Christmas gift for Londoners and history enthusiasts.*
Curated and designed by the experts at The London Transport Museum, this collection showcases London's 100 greatest transport design icons from the past 150 years.
From TfL's exclusive Johnston font; Westminster Station's...
Conversations With Form
A Workbook for Students of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Through a progressive series of exercises - accompanied by observational studies, examples and applied theory - Conversations with Form: A Workbook for Students of Architecture improves designers’ understanding, dexterity and resilience in making form. It specifically focuses on the skills needed...
Place Advantage
Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Using psychology to develop spaces that enrich human experience
Place design matters. Everyone perceives the world around them in a slightly different way, but there are fundamental laws that describe how people experience their physical environments. Place science principles can be applied...
The Green Braid
Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
This volume presents the discipline’s best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
Providing a primer on sustainability,...
Site Analysis
Informing Context-Sensitive and Sustainable Site Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
The process-oriented guide to context-sensitive site selection, planning, and design
Sustainable design is responsive to context. And each site has a unique set of physical, biological, cultural, and legal attributes that presents different opportunities and constraints for alternative uses...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales – ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy – multiculturalism,...
by Émile Thérond, Auguste Dieudonné Lancelot, André Lefèvre
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2016
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