Design Drafting category: 533 books
by Ali K. Kamrani, Sa'ed M. Salhieh
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Modular products are products that fulfill various overall functions through the combination of distinct building blocks or modules, in the sense that the overall function performed by the product can be divided into sub-functions that can be implemented by different modules or components. An important...
by John Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Composed of a series of essays, this book deals with the broad issues affecting the nature of architectural materials and provides a focused review of the state of the art materials. It also provides designers with the tools they need to evaluate and select from the thousands of different materials...
by François Lévy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
"Any architect doing small or medium scaled projects who is also vested in sustainable design but is not yet doing BIM will enjoy this book's overall focus."-Architosh.com
This work is the leading guide to architectural design within a building information modeling (BIM) workflow, giving the...
Solar Energy
Technologies and Project Delivery for Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Solar Energy is an authoritative reference on the design of solar energy systems in building projects, with applications, operating principles, and simple tools for the construction, engineering, and design professional. The book simplifies the solar design and engineering process, providing sample...
Plumbing, Electricity, Acoustics
Sustainable Design Methods for Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Discover sustainable methods for designing crucial building systems for architects.
This indispensable companion to Norbert Lechner's landmark volume Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects, Third Edition completes the author's mission to cover all topics in the...
What Architecture Means
Connecting Ideas and Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and informed role in architecture either as a professional or as a consumer, client, and citizen. By analyzing...
by Mark Lawson, Peter Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Steelwork offers the opportunity for architectural expression, as well as being structurally versatile and adaptable material. Good detailing is vital because it affects structural performance, costs, buildability and, perhaps most importantly, appearance. Whilst the choice of the structural form...
The Bureaucracy of Beauty
Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book," and in many ways this is the...
Urban Climate Challenges in the Tropics
Rethinking Planning and Design Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Among the places worst hit by climate change are areas of high urban growth in the warm, humid tropics of Asia and Latin America. In these places, the global trend of rapid urbanisation and conditions of local warming compound the effects of climate change.
This three-part book explores the...
Universal Design
A Practical Guide to Creating and Re-Creating interiors of Academic Libraries for Teaching, Learning, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Universal Design provides practitioners, graduate students, and other professionals interested in obtaining practical advice on how to effectively create and re-create interiors of academic libraries for teaching, learning, and research. The academic library ‘as place’ continues to evolve around...
The Architecture of Ruins
Designs on the Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language and literature, rhetoric and composition, art...
by Kostas Terzidis
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides and why is his philosophy still puzzling today? This unique volume challenges the reader to tackle all...
by Stephen A. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The Design and Construction industry is in a state of attempted change. Improvement is a key word for employer, consultant and contractor. Real steps forward are slow, and most damning is the continuous repetition of the same mistakes. Communication in the Design Process considers the gap that can...