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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Flashes of lightning, resounding thunder, gloomy fog, brilliant sunshine…these are the life manifestations of the skies. The concrete visceral experiences that living under those skies stir within us are the ground for individual impulses, emotions, sentiments that in their interaction generate...
Architecture and the Mimetic Self
A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self provides a useful theoretical guide to our unconscious...
Part-Architecture
The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass. Aligning the two works materially, historically and conceptually, the book challenges the accepted architectural descriptions of...
The Shi’a of Samarra
The Heritage and Politics of a Community in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
On 22 February 2006, the main dome of the al-Askariyya shrine in Samarra was blown up. In the aftermath, sectarian strife between Shi'i and Sunni communities in Iraq and the wider region resonated around the world. The assault on Samarra, which was built in the period of the Abbasid caliphate in the...
Le logement contemporain
Entre confort, désir et normes (1995-2012)
Language: French
Release Date: June 10, 2014
De quelles façons la société a-t-elle influencé l'espace architectural ces dernières années en France ?Face aux changements remarquables de notre société comment la production du logement a-t-elle évolué ?Ce livre propose un bilan de l’habitation de ces dix-sept dernières années en France....
Inclusive scenarios for Hospitality
From integration to social inclusion between Interior Design and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
This book promotes an inclusive approach in designing spaces, products and services for Hospitality sector. Methods and tools proposed try to change the actual state of the art in attempt to delineate a cultural change, from integration to social inclusion, through a design drive approach.
by American Institute of Architects
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The essential guide to beginning your career in architecture
The Architecture Student's Handbook of Professional Practice opens the door to the vast body of knowledge required to effectively manage architectural projects and practice. A professional architect is responsible for much more than...
Architecture and Ritual
How Buildings Shape Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect...
by Munir Hamad
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Covering all of the major techniques, this book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion files to set up drawing exercises and projects and to see all of the book’s figures. Revit 2017 Architecture includes...
by Stuart Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Sustainability has emerged as a central issue for contemporary societies and for the world community as a whole. Furthermore, many of the social and environmental concerns that are embodied in the term 'sustainability' are directly or indirectly related to design. Designers help to define our human...
Architecture and Systems Ecology
Thermodynamic Principles of Environmental Building Design, in three parts
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Modern buildings are both wasteful machines that can be made more efficient and instruments of the massive, metropolitan system engendered by the power of high-quality fuels. A comprehensive method of environmental design must reconcile the techniques of efficient building design with the radical...
by Gyula Sebestyen, Christopher Pollington
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Many books have covered the topics of architecture, materials and technology. 'New Architecture and Technology' is the first to explore the interrelation between these three subjects. It illustrates the impact of modern technology and materials on architecture.
The book explores the technical...
Vintage Lighting
A Collector's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
This practical guide by interior design expert, Barty Phillips, will focus on lighting from Victorian times onwards with examples of what you can have in your own home, as well as a social history and the reasoning behind the shapes and colors used in each era. The book will be divided into eras (Edwardian,...
by Marc-André Carignan
Language: French
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 28, 2016
On ne compte plus les villes nord-américaines qui observent un sérieux déclin de leurs artères commerciales. Taxes élevées, concurrence de la banlieue, construction de mégacentres à ciel ouvert, vente en ligne... La compétition est féroce dans l’univers du commerce de détail, et les consommateurs...