ilość książek w kategorii: 2466
Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds
ISBN: 9780230001343 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating book is about creativity in business and management. The authors have interviewed well know creative people in a number of fields to identify how creative methods work, including the drivers and influences upon creativity, creative inspiration, creative problem solving and creative influences. Their analysis shows that while there are common themese and methods, creativity will also solve problems with uncommon results and deliver the unexpected. This book will be of interest to anybody trying to better understand creativity.
This fascinating book is about creativity in business and management. The authors have interviewed well know creative people in a number of fields to ...
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194,08 zł |
Made to Last: Historic Preservation in Seattle and King County
ISBN: 9780295978468 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the relative youth of the Pacific Northwest, its buildings and historic sites are reminders of a rich and colorful heritage. Made to Last describes exemplary preservation programs in Seattle and King County, how they developed, and the process and the extent of protection offered landmark properties. Descriptions and photographs provide a guide to individual buildings and landmark districts, demonstrating how each played a part in the remarkably swift development of county and city. Examples of rehabilitation and adaptive reuse projects accomplished through creative... Despite the relative youth of the Pacific Northwest, its buildings and historic sites are reminders of a rich and colorful heritage. Made to Las... |
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131,18 zł |
Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H. H. Richardson
ISBN: 9780295982380 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the afternoon of 6 June 1889, a fire in a cabinet shop in downtown Seattle spread to destroy more than thirty downtown blocks covering 116 acres. Disaster soon became opportunity as Seattle's citizens turned their full energies to rebuilding: widening and regrading streets, laying new water pipes and sewer lines, promulgating a new building ordinance requiring construction in the commercial core, and creating a new professional fire department. A remarkable number of buildings, most located in Seattle's present-day Pioneer Square Historic District, were permitted within a few months and... On the afternoon of 6 June 1889, a fire in a cabinet shop in downtown Seattle spread to destroy more than thirty downtown blocks covering 116 acres... |
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272,56 zł |
A Thriving Modernism: The Houses of Wendell Lovett and Arne Bystrom
ISBN: 9780295984339 / Angielski / Twarda / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Thriving Modernism celebrates the remarkable careers of architects Wendell Lovett and Arne Bystrom and their contributions to modernism and to the architectural legacy of the Pacific Northwest. Wendell Lovett joined the University of Washington faculty in 1948; Arne Bystrom was one of his first students. Their work, now encompassing half a century, has been published in Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, Denmark, England, Brazil, Switzerland, and France, and their reputations in these places are established. Yet in the United States, despite their being elected Fellows of the... A Thriving Modernism celebrates the remarkable careers of architects Wendell Lovett and Arne Bystrom and their contributions to modernism an... |
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201,89 zł |
The Problem of the House: French Domestic Life and the Rise of Modern Architecture
ISBN: 9780295986326 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Problem of the House will appeal to art and architectural historians, students and scholars of architecture, interior designers, and decorative artists. The Problem of the House will appeal to art and architectural historians, students and scholars of architecture, interior designers, and dec... |
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292,75 zł |
Kirtland Cutter: Architect in the Land of Promise
ISBN: 9780295987668 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early years of the twentieth century, Spokane was singled out for praise in the West for the quality of its architecture and the impressive way it had rebuilt after the devastating fire of 1889. Major credit for the city's distinctive character was extended to Kirtland Kelsey Cutter for his "rare architectural force and genius for design." His remarkable career, stretching from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression, allows a fascinating study of the evolution of an eclectic form of architecture that was an inevitable response to rich regional and historical influences during a time... In the early years of the twentieth century, Spokane was singled out for praise in the West for the quality of its architecture and the impressive ... |
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151,37 zł |
Designing Better Buildings: Quality and Value in the Built Environment
ISBN: 9780415315265 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises fifteen chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it. For design practitioners and their clients alike, the book provides evidence to justify greater focus on, and investment in, design. It summarizes the benefits that arise from good design - such as civic pride in the urban environment, the stimulation of urban regeneration, corporate identity,... Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises fifteen chapters wri... |
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247,26 zł |
Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory
ISBN: 9780415346535 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology. The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004. This mapping out of a century of architectural technology reveals the discipline's long and close attention to the experience and effects of new technologies, and provides a broad picture of the shift from the 'age of tools' to... This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key tex... |
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883,29 zł |
Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory
ISBN: 9780415346542 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment providing a convenient single source for all the key texts in the fast developing discipline of the philosophy of technology. The authors focus on the interplay between technology and society and consider the impact of technology on fields as diverse as: art and visual culture; politics, the environment, gender and the hottest topic of all in today's digitally mediated world the promise of a virtual future inside the fluid 'space' of the computer.
Each section is introduced with a brief... This book is an essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment providing a convenient single source for all th...
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252,32 zł |
Future Office: Design, Practice and Applied Research
ISBN: 9780415385909 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger architectural and urban design models. This book examines the implications of this revolution on current urban design and identifies potential new trends in office design from an international perspective. Six themes are addressed:
Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger a... |
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858,05 zł |
Future Office: Design, Practice and Applied Research
ISBN: 9780415385916 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger architectural and urban design models. This book examines the implications of this revolution on current urban design and identifies potential new trends in office design from an international perspective. Six themes are addressed:
Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger a... |
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317,93 zł |
Abstract Space: Beneath the Media Surface
ISBN: 9780415415095 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions of what the architectural image means today. Within the book's visually imaginative design framework, Abstract Space engages discourses from architecture, visual and cultural studies to computer science and communications technology to present an in-depth multi-media case study. Tracing a provisional history of the topic, the book also... This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Th... |
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287,65 zł |
Abstract Space: Beneath the Media Surface
ISBN: 9780415415101 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions of what the architectural image means today. Within the book's visually imaginative design framework, Abstract Space engages discourses from architecture, visual and cultural studies to computer science and communications technology to present an in-depth multi-media case study. Tracing a provisional history of the topic,... This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Th... |
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858,05 zł |
Climate Responsive Design: A Study of Buildings in Moderate and Hot Humid Climates
ISBN: 9780419209706 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the growing awareness of environmental issues, there is a renewed interest in climate and its relationship to architecture. This text focuses on tropical climate but much of the theory can be applied to other climates; the difference in application is clearly delineated. The broader topic of technology as a generator in design should be of interest to all those involved in design and building.
With the growing awareness of environmental issues, there is a renewed interest in climate and its relationship to architecture. This text focuses on ...
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363,36 zł |
Responding to Chaos: Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese Design
ISBN: 9780419251101 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A celebration of a unique culture and its experience, this text offers an examination of Japanese design at the start of the new millennium. The country's economic boom of the 1980s produced a surge of interest in land and building, and consequently in design in all its forms. From restaurant interiors to products, from private housing to recreational spaces, design received an unprecedented degree of attention. However the bursting in the early 1990s of this so-called bubble economy has prompted a reexamination of design and its role in urban society. The new environment for design in Japan...
A celebration of a unique culture and its experience, this text offers an examination of Japanese design at the start of the new millennium. The count...
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479,45 zł |
Geo-Space Urban Design
ISBN: 9780471162520 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Visit any large metropolitan area in the world, and you'll feel the urgent need for innovative solutions to the many problems that face the modern urban center.
Geo-Space Urban Design offers a revolutionary proposal that will lead future urban growth quite literally in a different direction--down. Gideon Golany and Toshio Ojima clearly demonstrate that subsurface urban expansion is not only practical and feasible, but also that it can reverse many of the negative effects normally associated with urban expansion. They present a comprehensive and systematic plan for developing... Visit any large metropolitan area in the world, and you'll feel the urgent need for innovative solutions to the many problems that face the modern urb...
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546,98 zł |
Architectural Graphic Standards for Architects, Engineers, Decorators, Builders and Draftsmen
ISBN: 9780471247623 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reissue of a design classic--the book that revolutionized the practice of architecture.
When it was published in 1932, this cornerstone edition of Ramsey and Sleeper's Architectural Graphic Standards was the very first book to present the accepted architectural practices of the time in a clear and accessible graphic form. Now finally available in paperback, this landmark reference still has much to offer us today, with beautifully illustrated practical information on traditional architectural standards, methods, and materials that cannot be found elsewhere. ... The reissue of a design classic--the book that revolutionized the practice of architecture.
When it was published in 1932, this cornersto... |
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350,40 zł |
Office Planning and Design Desk Reference
ISBN: 9780471508205 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reference covers all aspects of planning, design, and leasing new or retrofitted office space. While the bulk of the material was written for this volume, selected chapters have appeared before in other Wiley titles and are now updated to reflect specialized aspects of the subject. The book makes generous use of tables, charts, spreadsheets, checklists and design workgrids.
This reference covers all aspects of planning, design, and leasing new or retrofitted office space. While the bulk of the material was written for thi...
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732,93 zł |
Tall Building Structures: Analysis and Design
ISBN: 9780471512370 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines structural aspects of high rise buildings, particularly fundamental approaches to the analysis of the behaviour of different forms of building structures including frame, shear wall, tubular, core and outrigger-braced systems.
Examines structural aspects of high rise buildings, particularly fundamental approaches to the analysis of the behaviour of different forms of buildin...
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1221,73 zł |
The American Vignola: A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture
ISBN: 9780486283104 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Vignola codified the rules of classical architecture for the Italian Renaissance . . . Ware codified Vignola for the American Renaissance." -- John Barrington Bayley, from the Introductory Notes to The American Vignola
From 1890 to 1940, Americans designed and built classical architecture on an extraordinary scale. During this American Renaissance were built countless libraries, museums, universities, courthouses, capitol buildings and other structures, both public and private, rich with domes, pediments, colonnades, and other classical features. "We built with unparalleled... "Vignola codified the rules of classical architecture for the Italian Renaissance . . . Ware codified Vignola for the American Renaissance." -- John B...
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93,81 zł |