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The Elements of Architecture is a clear and well structured introduction to sustainable architecture, which concentrates on general principles to make an accessible and comprehensive primer for undergraduate students. The author takes a fresh and logical approach, focusing on the way aspects of the built environment are experienced by the occupants and how that experience is interpreted in architectural design. He works through basic elements and senses (sun; heat; light; sound; air; water and fire) to explain and frame effective environmental architectural design - not only arguing that the...

This work examines how changing conceptions of the human body have been interpreted within architectural theory since the writings of Vitruvius in the first century AD. It will examine how measures of the body have affected ideas of architectural composition, and how they are used as an ethical imperative, such that a building which reflects the proportions of a 'well-composed' body (Francesco di Giorgio), is itself an injunction to 'composure', or appropriate behaviour. It will argue that modern architecture, while rejecting classical anthropomorphism, was nonetheless influenced by ideas and...

This title is a clear and well structured introduction to sustainable architecture. The author takes a fresh and logical approach, focusing on the way aspects of the built environment are experienced by the occupants and how that experience is interpreted in architectural design.

You are about to embark on a journey that will take you into a world of actions and words that will likely call into question the very manhood you thought was secure. Welcome to the world of Manfractions What is a Manfraction? It's an amalgamation of two words: Man and Infraction. We all know what a man is (or should be). He's strong, he's virile, he's confident, he's not afraid to take a stand. He works hard and plays hard. He watches sports on TV...real sports like boxin' and football (not that sissy European futbol either). He scratches when and where he wants to, he smokes cigars, drinks...