What is Architecture?
ISBN: 9780415256278 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things. The essays collected here challenge, and help to define a view of architecture which ranges from the minimal domesticity of Diogenes' barrel, to the exuberant experiments of the contemporary avant-garde. Architecture is always more than building, but is a folding together of buildings and culture, so that the buildings come to have meaning as they are caught up in a way of life, and architecture is best appreciated as part of an art of living. Andrew...
Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things. The essays ...
|
|
cena:
266,93 zł |
Towards Universality : Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl
ISBN: 9780415259620 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. This one is different, however, in a number of ways. First, it does not treat them as separate subjects, but in relation to each other. While their response to De Stijl throws some light on Le Corbusier and Mies, it is above all De Stijl that can be more sharply defined in relation to them. Second, the purpose of the study is to excavate the philosophical foundations of the work, rather than merely to describe and discuss the work itself. Third, it looks for connections between the aims and ideals of the...
There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. This one is different, however, in a number of ways. First, it do...
|
|
cena:
705,23 zł |
Construction Ecology: Nature as a Basis for Green Buildings
ISBN: 9780415260923 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designers of the built environment can learn so much from the mature field of industrial ecology as they focus increasingly on green or sustainable construction. Natural systems are the ideal model not only for human systems but also for the built environment in which they live and function. The principles of design, energy, the flow of materials, and closed loop behaviour can all be understood in this context. Industrial ecology provides a sound means of systematizing the various ideas which come under the banner of sustainable construction and provides a model for the design, operation and...
Designers of the built environment can learn so much from the mature field of industrial ecology as they focus increasingly on green or sustainable co...
|
|
cena:
654,86 zł |
Intelligent Cities : Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces
ISBN: 9780415277181 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the US displayed an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge and innovations. The favourable environment for research, technology and innovation created in these areas was not immediately obvious, yet it was of great significance for a development based on knowledge, learning, and innovation. Intelligent Cities focuses on these environments of innovation, and the major models (technopoles, innovating regions, intelligent cities) for creating an environment-supporting technology, innovation, learning, and...
At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the US displayed an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge...
|
|
cena:
266,93 zł |
Free-Standing Tension Structures : From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems
ISBN: 9780415335959 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Free-standing Tension Structures provides the background engineering needed to produce these wonderful structures.
Free-standing Tension Structures provides the background engineering needed to produce these wonderful structures.
|
|
cena:
1057,85 zł |
Architecture in Words: Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture
ISBN: 9780415394703 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity. Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise Pelletier examines how architecture developed to express political and social intent. Applying this to the modern day, Pelletier considers how architects can learn from these eighteenth... What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch you... |
|
cena:
881,54 zł |
Innovative Surface Structures : Technologies and Applications
ISBN: 9780415419666 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martin Bechthold is an architect and practised for 8 years with Santiago Calatrava and von Gerkan, Marg & Ptnrs as well as other leading edge practices. He is now focussing on teaching and a small design and consulting practice in the USA. He is known to have undertaken some of the most innovative research in the area of surface structures. Martin Bechthold is an architect and practised for 8 years with Santiago Calatrava and von Gerkan, Marg & Ptnrs as well as other leading edge pract... |
|
cena:
906,73 zł |
Cinematic Urbanism : A History of the Modern from Reel to Real
ISBN: 9780415700481 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over the last century, with the identities of places becoming bound up in their cinematic portrayals. We have seen the landmarks of New York, London, Tokyo and a thousand others turn into iconic symbols of wealth, power, status, style and culture, and for the majority of people the images and sounds of movies form the only experience they will ever have of distant cities.
Alsayyad here argues that our understanding of the city cannot be viewed independently of cinematic experience. Films do not only capture the depiction of a... The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over the last century, with the identities of places becoming bound up in their cinematic...
|
|
cena:
881,54 zł |
Cinematic Urbanism : A History of the Modern from Reel to Real
ISBN: 9780415700498 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over the last century, with the identities of places becoming bound up in their cinematic portrayals. We have seen the landmarks of New York, London, Tokyo and a thousand others turn into iconic symbols of wealth, power, status, style and culture, and for the majority of people the images and sounds of movies form the only experience they will ever have of distant cities.
Alsayyad here argues that our understanding of the city cannot be viewed independently of cinematic experience. Films do not only capture the depiction of a... The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over the last century, with the identities of places becoming bound up in their cinematic...
|
|
cena:
312,27 zł |
Countryside Recreation, Access and Land Use Planning
ISBN: 9780419155508 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reform of the CAP and other significant changes in countryside policies have given rise to a fundamental reassessment of the ways in which we use our rural land. In this book, Nigel Curry gives a full critical appraisal of policies and plans for countryside recreation and access. He proposes, in the context of rural restructuring, a range of new directions for policy and planning that will better serve the needs of the public and the countryside alike. Countryside Recreation, Access and Land Use Planning is structured around five main propositions: that the fragmented way in which...
The reform of the CAP and other significant changes in countryside policies have given rise to a fundamental reassessment of the ways in which we use ...
|
|
cena:
261,89 zł |
The Way We Build Now : Form, Scale and Technique
ISBN: 9780419157809 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains copious ready-reference charts of design information, numerous photographs and meticulous axonometric drawings.
This book contains copious ready-reference charts of design information, numerous photographs and meticulous axonometric drawings.
|
|
cena:
554,12 zł |
The Experience of Modernism: Modern Architects and the Future City, 1928-53
ISBN: 9780419207405 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1930-1959, the author provides a sympathetic understanding of the modern movement's architectural role in reshaping the fabric and structure of British metropolitan cities in the post-war period and traces the links between the experience of British modernists and the wider international modern movement.
Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1930-1959, the author provides a symp...
|
|
cena:
352,57 zł |
The Selective Environment
ISBN: 9780419235309 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complex art of architecture embraces all of the concerns of the world's cultures. It meets the fundamental needs for shelter from the elements, but, almost from its origins, has acquired other purposes and meanings. The Selective Environment is an approach to environmentally responsive architectural design that seeks to make connections between the technical preoccupations of architectural science, and the necessity, never more urgent than today, to sustain cultural identity at a time of rapid global, technological change. The underlying proposition is that environmental design strategy...
The complex art of architecture embraces all of the concerns of the world's cultures. It meets the fundamental needs for shelter from the elements, bu...
|
|
cena:
402,94 zł |
Inclusive Design: Designing and Developing Accessible Environments
ISBN: 9780419256205 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reality of the built environment for disabled people is of social, physical and attitudinal barriers which prevent their ease of mobility and access. In a changing context - social, legal and practical - barriers which prevent their ease of mobility and access. In a changing context - social, legal and practical - barriers to disabled people's inclusion in buildings and the wider built environment are still considerable. In this new professional text, the authors document how emerging pressures for accessible building design is influencing the policies and practice of property companies...
The reality of the built environment for disabled people is of social, physical and attitudinal barriers which prevent their ease of mobility and acce...
|
|
cena:
604,49 zł |
The 1970s Is Here and Now
ISBN: 9780470011362 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1970's was marked by a seismic change that occurred in the representation of ideas in architecture as they appeared monthly on the pages of AD. The magazine bears out the energetic, experimental, environmentally-conscious and ultimately pluralist culture that prevailed throughout the 1960's, carrying it through to the emergence of Post-Modernism in the late 1970's. This issue of AD presents a 'Cosmorama for Now', looking at such subjects as housing, schools, health, urban design and planning.
Contributors will include amongst others: Jon Goodbun, FAT, Kester Ratternbury, David West of... The 1970's was marked by a seismic change that occurred in the representation of ideas in architecture as they appeared monthly on the pages of AD. Th...
|
|
cena:
190,63 zł |
The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook
ISBN: 9780471183082 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The only complete guide to passive solar design and construction
The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook is an unbeatable guide for architects and building contractors who want to satisfy the growing demand for passive solar residential design. A complete revision of the bible of passive solar design originally published by the U.S. Department of Energy, this is the only comprehensive guide to adapting standard building practices to current passive solar applications. It supplies detailed, step-by-step information on all practical aspects of passive solar design and... The only complete guide to passive solar design and construction
The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook is an unbeatable guid... |
|
cena:
609,79 zł |
Simplified Design of Building Lighting
ISBN: 9780471192107 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This design guide aims to offer a more accessible product for students and young professional architects with a limited budget. It looks at the technical aspects of building lighting and provides an overview for architects and others with limited technical/engineering backgrounds. It covers typical components and design of uncomplicated systems for building lighting, including both the illumination and the perception aspects of the design process. A broad spectrum of calculation methods and their appropriate application are discussed along with drawing conventions that bridge the gap among...
This design guide aims to offer a more accessible product for students and young professional architects with a limited budget. It looks at the techni...
|
|
cena:
429,24 zł |
Ethics and the Practice of Architecture
ISBN: 9780471298229 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From theory to practice a unique, well-rounded guide to ethics for today s architect How does an architect assist a community in evaluating alternative designs? Resolve a dispute with a contractor? Take into account a project s impact on the natural environment? When it comes to questions like these, making decisions about what ought to be done or what is the "best" or "right" solution requires more than sound technical knowledge and strong design talent. It demands a solid understanding of the ethical issues that lie at the heart of architectural practice. From theory to practice a unique, well-rounded guide to ethics for today s architect
How does an architect assist a community in evaluati... |
|
cena:
339,10 zł |
Total Quality Project Management for the Design Firm: How to Improve Quality, Increase Sales, and Reduce Costs
ISBN: 9780471307877 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Staying Small Successfully A Guide for Architects, Engineers, and Design Professionals Frank A. Stasiowski Today's design professional with entrepreneurial ambitions often has in mind a small firm. Written by a veteran architect and consultant, here is a clear, detailed road map to setting up a small business or guiding an existing one to success. Using miniprofiles of several small successful design firms, the author pinpoints exactly what's made them flourish. In a step-by-step format, he describes the six elements of the strategic planning process, tips on doubling average profit levels,...
Staying Small Successfully A Guide for Architects, Engineers, and Design Professionals Frank A. Stasiowski Today's design professional with entreprene...
|
|
cena:
524,69 zł |
Value Pricing for the Design Firm
ISBN: 9780471579335 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With most of your design clients cash-strapped, debt-burdened, and time-conscious, what should you charge for your services to stay competitive yet maintain your profit margins? In the '70s and '80s it was easy. Your quality and service kept you above the pack - and let you name your price. Now everybody's selling quality and service, and prices are falling... Respected inspirational seminar speaker Frank Stasiowski has formulated strategy for any design firm that wants to aggressively price, market, and structure its services to survive and prosper under these new economic realities. In this...
With most of your design clients cash-strapped, debt-burdened, and time-conscious, what should you charge for your services to stay competitive yet ma...
|
|
cena:
408,03 zł |