Methods Materials category: 423 books
The Hierarchy of Energy in Architecture
Emergy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The laws of thermodynamics—and their implications for architecture—have not been fully integrated into architectural design. Architecture and building science too often remain constrained by linear concepts and methodologies regarding energy that occlude significant quantities and qualities of...
Legal & Financial Aspects of Architectural Conservation
The Smolenice Castle Conference Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
How do governments design their strategy for heritage property? What do they try to accomplish in their laws and their tax systems to favour the re-use of older buildings, districts, and cities? What institutional framework can assist the restoration of tourist designations and the conservation of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Durability of Building Sealants, held under the joint auspices of the British Building Research Establishment Ltd (BRE) and the International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Buildings and Structures (RILEM)...
Design Games for Architecture
Creating Digital Design Tools with Unity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Design Games for Architecture teaches you how to create playful software tools based on your architectural design processes, whether or not you are familiar with game design technology. The book combines the fun and engaging aspects of video games to ease the sometimes complex process of learning...
Wood
Craft, Culture, History
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
A rich, authoritative look at a material that plays an essential role in human culture
Wood has been a central part of human life throughout the world for thousands of years. In an intoxicating mix of science, history, and practical information, historian and woodworker Harvey Green considers...
by F R Roulston **Decd**, M.O'C. Horgan, F.R. Roulston
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This highly readable guide explains the main features of contracts applicable to the design, construction and servicing of civil, building, electrical or mechanical works. The emphasis throughout is on practical guidance, with clear explanations of the essential elements including legality, uncertainty,...
Translucent Building Skins
Material Innovations in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Exploring the design of innovative building enclosure systems (or skins) in contemporary architecture and their precedents in earlier twentieth century modern architecture, this book examines the tectonics, the history and the influence of translucency as a defining characteristic in architecture....
by Ivor Samuels, Phillippe Panerai, Jean Castex
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue,...
Beyond Archigram
The Structure of Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram,the magazine published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name of the group that created it. Archigram is among the most significant phenomena to emerge in post-war architectural...
Builders of the Vision
Software and the Imagination of Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control since the years following World War II until today. Drawing from primary archival and ethnographic sources, it identifies and documents the crucial ideas shaping...
by Christine Wall
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book is unique in describing the history of post war reconstruction from an entirely new perspective by focusing on the changing relationship between architects and building workers. It considers individual, as well as collective, interactions with technical change and in doing so brings together,...
Design-Tech
Building Science for Architects
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Design-Tech is an indispensable, holistic approach to architectural technology that shows you in hundreds of drawings and tables the why as well as the how of building science, providing you with a comprehensive overview. In this expanded edition, measurements and examples are listed in both metric...
American Architects and the Single-Family Home
Lessons Learned from the Architects' Small House Service Bureau
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they developed related to public spaces, private...
by James J. O'Brien, Fredric L. Plotnick
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The definitive guide for using CPM in construction planning and scheduling—now thoroughly updated to reflect new technologies and procedures
Critical path method (CPM) is the most widely taught and used framework for construction project design, scheduling, and management. This new edition has been...