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

The dilemma of building contemporary architecture in the context of one of America's World Heritage landmarks, Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village at the University of Virginia, is the central theme of Urgent Matters. Karen Van Lengen, former dean of the School of Architecture, writes about her vision of building the School of Architecture--a highly orchestrated collaborative design strategy to exemplify the potential of architecture, landscape architecture, preservation, and planning in the public realm.

Using their existing building, Campbell Hall, as a working laboratory,...

Die heutige Gesellschaft erbringt Hochstleistungen im Streben nach immer mehr und immer spezifischerem Know-how in den unterschiedlichen Fachbereichen, und die Strukturen in heutigen Unternehmen werden immer komplexer. Dabei ergeben sich an den Schnittstellen Probleme, die eines ganzheitlichen Losungsansatzes bedurfen.
Creating Desired Futures definiert Design als kreativ-analytische Methode zur Entwicklung und Erforschung alternativer Losungen fur komplexe Probleme und zeigt auf, dass Design dem aktuellen Bedarf der Wirtschaft an innovativen Strategien in besonderem Mae...

Fur dieses Buch haben renommierte Grafikdesigner wie Fons Hickmann und Mario Lombardo sowie junge internationale Talente auf der Basis von Songtexten mit aktuellen Fonts innovative Visuals gestaltet. Das Zusammenspiel von Typografie und Musik macht die Schriften lebendig und zeigt ihr groes Ausdruckspotenzial. Die elf Kapitel widmen sich jeweils einer Schriftfamilie und Songtexten einer Musikrichtung.

Architects, interior designers, engineers, facility managers, and related building professionals will find this to be a handy guide to the latest Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG), as published by the U.S. Access Board in the Federal Registry in 2004 and subsequently updated. As this book went to press in 2010, the U.S. Justice Department was expected to soon adopt the latest ADAAG, as covered in this book.

These guidelines have been...

Create high-quality photorealistic renders of architectural visualizations using 3ds Max and Vray with the project-based tutorials in this book. Learn how to combine lighting and rendering options to end-up with the most realistic final renders possible at a professional level. The tutorials in this book are filled with beautiful full-color images and they teach you how to light both interiors and exteriors and daytime and nighttime scenes. Learn how to save time without sacrificing the quality of your final renders with tips and tricks on rendering with Vray - the most accurate rendering...

Proven and tested guidelines for designing ideal labs for scientific investigations

Now in its Fourth Edition, Guidelines for Laboratory Design continues to enable readers to design labs that make it possible to conduct scientific investigations in a safe and healthy environment. The book brings together all the professionals who are critical to a successful lab design, discussing the roles of architects, engineers, health and safety professionals, and laboratory researchers. It provides the design team with the information needed to ask the right questions and then...

This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture.

Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing drawings and for drawing constructing thoughts.

This is an indispensable reference text and an effective textbook for students seeking to advance their appreciation of the nature and...

"Design for Flooding contains considerable useful information for practitioners and students. Watson and Adams fill the void for new thinking...and they advance our ability to create more sustainable, regenerative, and resilient places." --Landscape Architecture Magazine

Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings aims to provide a guide to members of design and masterplanning teams on how to deliver sustainable development and buildings cost effectively, meeting current and emerging UK and international statutory and planning requirements. Using a series of case histories and examples from the author's ten years of providing sustainability advisory services the book sets out a clear and understandable strategy that deals with all aspects of sustainable design and construction and the implications for delivery, costs, saleability and long term...

This new resource covers the material selection, structural design and connections detailing of truly sustainable timber buildings through:

• consideration of the nature of wood and the heritage of timber construction, including the importance of forestry and conservation

• a review of modern techniques to improve the durability, fire resistance and predictability of structural timber elements and their vital connections

• analysis of the many architectural and structural options, from roundwood shells through glulam...