Structural Design: A Practical Guide for Architects
ISBN: 9780471789048 / Angielski / Twarda / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for the practicing architect, Structural Design addresses the process on both a conceptual and a mathematical level. Most importantly, it helps architects work with structural consultants and understand all the necessary considerations when designing structural systems. Using a minimum of simple math, this book shows you how to make correct design calculations for structures made from steel, wood, concrete, and masonry. What's more, this edition has been completely updated to reflect the latest design methods and codes, including LRFD for steel design. The book was also...
Written for the practicing architect, Structural Design addresses the process on both a conceptual and a mathematical level. Most importantly, ...
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589,48 zł |
Form and Design in Classic Architecture
ISBN: 9780486434056 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people recognize at a glance the extraordinarily graceful proportions of classical-style buildings such as London's Syon House and Athenaeum Club and the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall. Few, however, appreciate the underlying geometrical principles that lend these buildings their elegant unity of expression. "Form and Design in Classic Architecture" explains in simple, direct terms and with numerous photographic plates and line illustrations the ways in which the relationship of exterior and interior elements creates that unity and sense of completeness.
Dozens of edifices by Inigo... Most people recognize at a glance the extraordinarily graceful proportions of classical-style buildings such as London's Syon House and Athenaeum Club...
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106,63 zł |
The Gothic Revival
ISBN: 9780500203590 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lewis's survey of the Gothic revival treats individual buildings and broad movements in England, Europe and the USA with fresh authority. This is a comprehensive introduction to one of the most colourful periods in the history of architecture.
Lewis's survey of the Gothic revival treats individual buildings and broad movements in England, Europe and the USA with fresh authority. This is a co...
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63,89 zł |
The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru
ISBN: 9780500282779 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now this classic text has been fully updated for the revised edition. New discoveries over the last decade are integrated throughout. The occupation of Peru's desert coast can now be traced back to 12,000 BC and ensuing maritime adaptations are examined in early littoral societies that mummified their dead and others that were mound builders. The spread of Andean agriculture is related to fresh data on climate, and protracted drought is identified as a recurrent contributor to the rise and fall of civilizations in the Cordillera. The results of recent excavations enliven understanding of...
Now this classic text has been fully updated for the revised edition. New discoveries over the last decade are integrated throughout. The occupation o...
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149,36 zł |
Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World
ISBN: 9780521002301 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mosaics reached their fullest development under the Romans who used them to decorate the floors of their houses and public buildings. This book gives a comprehensive and fully illustrated history of mosaics in the Greek and Roman world, and studies their development over a thousand years throughout the Roman Empire. Chapters are devoted to technique, to the role of mosaics in architecture, and to their social implications and the role of patrons. This book is the only complete study in depth of this rich material.
Mosaics reached their fullest development under the Romans who used them to decorate the floors of their houses and public buildings. This book gives ...
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242,22 zł |
Applications of Environment-Behavior Research: Case Studies and Analysis
ISBN: 9780521331890 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architects, city planners and other design professionals have used theory and research from psychology and other behavioral sciences to make their work more responsive to the needs of the people who use the buildings, parks and city streets they help to shape. This book describes in detail thirteen cases in which that approach was followed. It analyzes the use of environmental design research in each case, demonstrating how it has made a positive contribution in these cases and how its use can improve design and planning processes in general and thus the quality of the built and natural...
Architects, city planners and other design professionals have used theory and research from psychology and other behavioral sciences to make their wor...
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459,31 zł |
Byzantine Art and Architecture: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780521357241 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a standard introduction to Byzantine art and architecture for the university student and for anyone seriously interested in the subject. It covers the whole Byzantine period from the fourth to the fourteenth century in a systematic manner, by period, dealing with material culture under main section headings (such as architecture, sculpture, monumental art, minor arts and manuscripts) for ease of reference. The text is illustrated by well over 300 maps, plans and halftones.
This book provides a standard introduction to Byzantine art and architecture for the university student and for anyone seriously interested in the sub...
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211,94 zł |
The Social Logic of Space
ISBN: 9780521367844 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a new way of describing and analyzing the kinds of spatial patterns produced by buildings and towns, this study presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work. The authors examine what it is about different types of societies that leads them to adopt different spatial forms and from this general theory they outline a "pathology of modern urbanism" in today's social context.
Based on a new way of describing and analyzing the kinds of spatial patterns produced by buildings and towns, this study presents a new theory of spac...
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186,70 zł |
The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500-1920
ISBN: 9780521407250 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oriental Obsession begins in the early sixteenth century with Cardinal Wolsey waiting two years for the delivery of sixty rare Turkey carpets from Venice, and ends in the age of the great exhibitions and emporia on both sides of the Atlantic, before and after 1900, when Islamic objects were seen, appreciated, and bought by millions of the public. The book is concerned with a subject which has not been treated before - the history over four centuries of Islamic artistic traditions and European ideas of Islam as they affected the visual arts of the west and particularly the English-speaking...
The Oriental Obsession begins in the early sixteenth century with Cardinal Wolsey waiting two years for the delivery of sixty rare Turkey carpets from...
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116,04 zł |
Cambridge Architecture: A Concise Guide
ISBN: 9780521458559 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illustrated introduction to the architecture of Cambridge uses selected examples of buildings from the Middle Ages to the present day as the basis for an investigation into architecture itself. The author describes the way in which buildings are composed, how they may in turn be "read," and introduces a number of levels of interpretation for those who may be unfamiliar with looking at buildings. Each chapter contains a map locating the examples discussed, and notes for further reading. The book is aimed at anyone interested in the history of architecture, and assumes no previous...
This illustrated introduction to the architecture of Cambridge uses selected examples of buildings from the Middle Ages to the present day as the basi...
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186,70 zł |
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly: Volume 6, Part 3
ISBN: 9780521537636 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking quarterly acts as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavor. Generously illustrated throughout, ARQ is edited with busy professionals and academics in mind. Contents coverage includes building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Reviews of significant buildings are also published.
This ground-breaking quarterly acts as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of ...
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125,79 zł |
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly: Volume 7, Part 2
ISBN: 9780521537667 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking quarterly aims to act as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Generously illustrated throughout, Architectural Research Quarterly is edited with busy practitioners and academics in mind. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Reviews of significant buildings are published at a length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals.
This ground-breaking quarterly aims to act as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspe...
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121,09 zł |
The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories
ISBN: 9780521624213 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than any other phenomenon, the skyscraper has determined the character of the American city, altering its physicality and land use patterns; prompting design, technological, and infrastructure developments; creating internal work environments; and redefining boundaries and expectations of individuals and groups defined by gender, class, and ethnicity. This volume examines the various dimensions of the skyscraper in its American urban context. Focusing on the major skyscraper cities of New York and Chicago between 1870 and 1960, the studies in this volume address many of the major aspects...
More than any other phenomenon, the skyscraper has determined the character of the American city, altering its physicality and land use patterns; prom...
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350,53 zł |
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly: Volume 8, Part 2
ISBN: 9780521672535 / Angielski / Miękka / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking quarterly aims to act as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Generously illustrated throughout, Architectural Research Quarterly is edited with busy practitioners and academics in mind. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Reviews of significant buildings are published at a length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals. Articles in arq 8:2...
This ground-breaking quarterly aims to act as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspe...
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131,18 zł |
The Christian Civil Engineer Technician Handbook
ISBN: 9780595255887 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you are looking for a book to help you get ready for the fast paced and exciting field of technical engineering
If you are looking for a book to help you get ready for the fast paced and exciting field of technical engineering
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51,07 zł |
The Christian Civil Engineer Technician Handbook
ISBN: 9780595651931 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you are looking for a book to help you get ready for the fast paced and exciting field of technical engineering
If you are looking for a book to help you get ready for the fast paced and exciting field of technical engineering
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93,81 zł |
The Plain Style: Protestant Theology in the History of Design
ISBN: 9780718830328 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the effects upon design, principally architecture, of the Reformation and the associated rejection of imagery in worship. The Plain Style examines both the development of aesthetic theory and its practical applications in a number of different environments. The Author traces the way in which ideas about simplicity, clarity and lack of ornamentation expressed themselves in art and architecture, and uses an extensive range of examples, from the British Isles, and particularly Northern Ireland, and from North America. In doing so he shows how Protestant, and especially iconoclastic...
A study of the effects upon design, principally architecture, of the Reformation and the associated rejection of imagery in worship. The Plain Style e...
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144,21 zł |
Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Meanings of the Palais Stonborough
ISBN: 9780739115626 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Palais Stonborough is a multi-disciplinary study of the Viennese palais that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein helped design and build for his sister shortly after he abandoned philosophy for more practical activities and during the period that supposedly separates his 'early' from his 'late' philosophy. Weaving together discussions of a number of social, political, and cultural developments that helped to give fin-de-si_cle Vienna its character -- including the late modernization of Austrian society, industry, and economy; the construction...
Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Palais Stonborough is a multi-disciplinary study of the Viennese palais that the philosopher Ludwig W...
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223,15 zł |
Architecture in a Climate of Change: A Guide to Sustainable Design
ISBN: 9780750665445 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides the latest basic principals of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology. Including new material on wind generation, domestic water conservation, solar thermal electricity as well as international case studies Architecture in a Climate of Change encourages readers to consider new approaches to building making minimum demand on fossil based energy.
Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides t...
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201,84 zł |
Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design
ISBN: 9780750674973 / Angielski / Twarda / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A clear and concise reference guide on integrating fire protection design, Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design encompasses not only the basic information on the functions, design, and applications of fire protection systems; but also reveals how this information can and should be integrated with every other major engineering discipline. Protecting people, buildings and the environment from the impact of fire requires a comprehensive, systematic approach that includes the analysis of fire hazards as well as the design, installation and maintenance of fire detection, suppression...
A clear and concise reference guide on integrating fire protection design, Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design encompasses not only the bas...
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556,43 zł |