Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation

The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity--the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the center of this movement was a shift in the perceived relationship between seeing and knowing and in the perception of what...

"The members of 7group and Bill Reed are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into reality, by helping change minds, building practice, and design process."
--from the Foreword by S. Rick Fedrizzi President, CEO, and Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council

A whole-building approach to sustainability

The integrative design process offers a new path to making better green building decisions and addressing complex issues that threaten living systems. In The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building:...

Produktdesign wird von vielen Industrieunternehmen immer noch vernachlassigt. Dabei haben Unternehmen wie Bosch, Festo, Gildemeister, Heidelberg, MAN und viele andere mehr in den letzten Jahren bewiesen, dass dem Design gerade auch im Industrieguterbereich eine wichtige Bedeutung zukommt. Dies gilt nicht nur fur die Entwicklung neuer industrieller Produktlosungen, sondern auch fur die allgemeine Unternehmensentwicklung, weil das Design die Qualitatswahrnehmung, die Preisbereitschaft, den Innovationserfolg, die Markenstarke und damit auch den Umsatz und Gewinn von Industrieunternehmen...

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Outlining state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design, this book collates them into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and complex systems communities. The book is based on research which focuses on a variety of different themes and domains, including architecture, engineering, environmental design, art, fashion and management.

A ground-breaking publication marking a new era of appreciation of the import of complexity on design, this book is essential reading for those studying complexity or design.