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Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival
ISBN: 9781138175167 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves. As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves - in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in the gap between the rich and poor, and in the demand for finite resources, Fisher lays down a theory of architecture based on ethics and explores how buildings can and do provide both social and moral...
Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we...
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Libraries and Learning Resource Centres
ISBN: 9781138145375 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Libraries and Learning Resource Centres is a comprehensive reference text examining the changing role and design of library buildings. Critical evaluations of international case studies demonstrate the principles of library design.Available for the first time in full colour, the second edition of the work focuses particularly on the important question of access and design in public libraries. Updated case studies and technical data allow the professional architect to use the book directly in planning library projects.Providing guidance on balancing the needs of the collection and the user,...
Libraries and Learning Resource Centres is a comprehensive reference text examining the changing role and design of library buildings. Critical evalua...
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Sustainable Housing: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9781138145221 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by experts, Sustainable Housing brings new perspectives on residential sustainability, using case studies of latest practice. This book is based upon the 'Housing and Sustainability' conference at the RIBA in 1998, which intended to guide action into the next century, setting down key principles, providing important new technical information and setting UK practices in a European context.
Written by experts, Sustainable Housing brings new perspectives on residential sustainability, using case studies of latest practice. This bo...
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Stairs
ISBN: 9781138147683 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stairs are a fundamental and universal feature of buildings. The late Alan Blanc had a lifetime's obsession with stairs and steps and provided a definitive reference source that bridges the aesthetic and practical aspects of staircase design. His wife Sylvia, who worked with him on the first edition, presents this updated, abridged version alongside a complimentary web site where the historical elements of the subjects are described and discussed in pictures and diagrams. The book is a practical guide to designing circulation spaces. It is extensively detailed with working drawings and...
Stairs are a fundamental and universal feature of buildings. The late Alan Blanc had a lifetime's obsession with stairs and steps and provided a defin...
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Inclusive Design: Designing and Developing Accessible Environments
ISBN: 9781138147812 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Barrier-Free Design
ISBN: 9781138155398 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book for architects, interior designers, building managers, students, conference organisers looks at first principles to provide the user with the 'tools' to make their own decisions rather than a 'cookbook' approach. It is intended that designs and product information can be taken straight from the manual and inserted into ongoing projects. For the first time the book considers the needs of people with visual, hearing and mental disabilities, who make up the majority of disabled people in the population, alongside those of people with physical mobility disabilities. Practical low cost...
This book for architects, interior designers, building managers, students, conference organisers looks at first principles to provide the user with th...
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Fabrication
ISBN: 9781138165304 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Packed with stunning images this is an indispensable visual guide illustrating and explaining current fabrication processes and material transformation. Providing a documentary of an eclectic range of fabrication techniques, this is the ideal reference for designers who wish to learn more about the materials and current technologies in material production available to them. Featuring the work of 12 fabricators based in the UK, the case studies displayed range from manufacture of complex wire rope, the processes of metal spinning, large-scale composite casting, to computer controlled sheet...
Packed with stunning images this is an indispensable visual guide illustrating and explaining current fabrication processes and material transformatio...
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The Break with the Past: Avant-Garde Architecture in Germany, 1910 - 1925
ISBN: 9781138101609 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism. These innovations continue to influence artistic practice, theory, and arts education today, thus making a comprehensive study of the relationship between individual war experience and the immediate response of avant-garde architects after the war all the more important. The Break with the Past pursues several important, interrelated questions. What were the disparate war experiences of German architects and did they have different effects on Weimar... Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism. These innovations con... |
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Profane Egyptologists: The Modern Revival of Ancient Egyptian Religion
ISBN: 9781138102996 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Producing Non-Simultaneity: Construction Sites as Places of Progressiveness and Continuity
ISBN: 9781138299061 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Boyce Papers: The Letters and Diaries of Joanna Boyce, Henry Wells and George Price Boyce: 2-Volume Set
ISBN: 9781783270507 / Angielski / Twarda / 1198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Building Governance and Climate Change: Regulation and Related Policies
ISBN: 9780815395201 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780815398394 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Transnational Buildings in Local Environments
ISBN: 9780815398578 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Architecture and Anthropology
ISBN: 9781138475953 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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People and Buildings
ISBN: 9781138529700 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is at the present time a continuing interest in relating the behavioral sciences to design disciplines. Sociologists and social psychologists have been added to faculties of architecture schools, where they off er seminars and participate as programming specialists and design critics in studio courses. Behavioral scientists in many European countries have collaborated with architects and planners in design work undertaken by governmental ministries, and more recently have been participating in the work of private design fi rms. Similar developments are now common in the United States. ...
There is at the present time a continuing interest in relating the behavioral sciences to design disciplines. Sociologists and social psychologists ha...
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Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar
ISBN: 9781138533417 / Angielski / Twarda / 441 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Urban Latin America: Images, Words, Flows and the Built Environment
ISBN: 9781138658196 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a timely emphasis on comparative studies. The book brings together scholars with various disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical affiliations who critically approach urban experiences through visual accounts, texts and architectural elements. The reader is introduced to major theories, secondary sources and empirical references that have not been written about in English. Film and photography, fictional and historical writings, particular...
Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a...
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Reconstructing Historic Landmarks: Fabrication, Negotiation, and the Past
ISBN: 9781138648319 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam Through Built Environment in Turkey
ISBN: 9781138953284 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today’s world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping – and in return being shaped by – the built environment. The book tackles this task through an analysis of the ongoing transformation of Turkey under the rule of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party. In this regard, it is a topical book: a rare description of a political regime's reshaping of urban and architectural forms whilst the process is... New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today’s world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space ... |
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