Design Drafting category: 533 books

The analysis of 11 precedents of Milanese modern architecture by Terragni, Ponti, Moretti, and other masters, gives rise to 11 proposals of resistant urban architecture, developed by 11 teams (each comprised of 3 students and a mentor) in the workshop DEEPmilano conceived by Lorenzo Degli Esposti.

The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and ‘30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights,...

Ecco, il progetto di un albergo diffuso nella pianura padana rurale. Sono due progetti, uno grande quanto la pianura, che come a risiko, carta dopo carta si avvicina all'obiettivo; l'altro più piccolino, prova a ridar vita a un manufatto in via di estinzione.

Created to provide an experience closer to drawing and modeling with real objects, SketchUp has won over a host of loyal users year after year. SketchUp stands out for its speed and ease when creating volumetric objects and studies, being used to produce from simple to highly complex designs. The...

The thirteen projects take as their subject a site of contested transportation infrastructure--the Sheridan Expressway. By proposing new typologies for this site, these studies seek to mediate the spaces in the city where local and regional meet. Referencing the introduction of the modern parkway...

Participants in the Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition were asked to respond to the theme "Investigations in Infrastructure," and propose new directions for architecture, transportation, energy, cities, and agriculture at a continental scale. The winning entry, Coupling, imagined six daring...

Complex Housing introduces an architectural type called complex housing, common to the Netherlands and found in other Northern European countries. Eight fully illustrated case studies show successful approaches to designing for density, which reflect values such as long-term planning, a right to housing,...

La Protección Pasiva contra Incendios es la medida primaria integrada a los elementos de construcción de un inmueble para brindar una seguridad y protección contra el fuego inherente, respondiendo contra las llamas, el calor y el humo para mantener los requerimientos fundamentales de compartimentar...

This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest,...

Ambiguous Spaces, the newest installment in the Pamphlet Architecture series and a return to Pamphlet's own progressive roots, features the architectural fictions "The Pregnant Island" and "Nuclear Breeding." These two projects develop alternative urban concepts that address the...

We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than architecture. This...

With SketchUp Pro 2014 you can classify objects according to the standard IFC and export your model to other software in that format. This puts SketchUp definitely into the BIM world. Another important novelty of 2014 was the introduction of automatic texts in SketchUp LayOut, a resource that can...

Il était une fois un paysage - forêt, ville, lac fleuve. Dans chacun d'eux, une maison est née des rêves conjugués d'un architecte, d'une équipe et d'un client. Voici 16 lieux de vie conçus par Pierre Thibault et qui s'inscrivent naturellement dans le paysage, 16 lieux qui témoignent de l'approche globale de l'atelier Pierre Thibault.

Il Volume, dedicato al tema della Sicurezza nei Cantieri edili, ha un taglio essenzialmente pratico ed operativo per gli "addetti ai lavori", ma rigorosamente inquadrato nel sistema legislativo come interpretato dalla giurisprudenza. STRUTTURA PARTE PRIMA La Direttiva...