Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Methods & Materials

This first volume deals with the constituent materials of concrete. With worked examples, case studies and illustrations throughout, the book will be a key reference for the concrete specialist for years to come.

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Architects, landscape architects, interior designers, fabricators, and owner/developers seeking creative, green solutions for a wide array of structures-shelter, shade, and water protection; outdoor and indoor; permanent and temporary-will find a broad array of ideas in this visual catalog of the latest materials and methods for designing canopies, tents, umbrellas, facades, signage, walls, and ceilings.

Die Behaglichkeit von Innenraumen hangt von der Temperatur, der Feuchtigkeit und der ausreichenden Versorgung mit Frischluft ab. Je nach Nutzung und klimatischen Bedingungen sind unterschiedlich komplexe technische Systeme dafur notwendig.
Basics Raumkonditionierung vermittelt ein Grundverstandnis fur diese Zusammenhange und erlautert anhand von Schemata die moglichen Stufen der Raumkonditionierung - von einfachen Prinzipien im Wohnungsbau bis hin zu vollstandiger Klimatisierung unabhangig von der Auenluft.

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Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the magazine published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name of the group that created it. Archigram is among the most significant phenomena to emerge in post-war architectural culture. The wired environments first advertised on its pages formulated an architectural vocabulary of metamorphosis and obsolescence that cross-pollinated industrial and digital technology at the same time as complex systems were becoming commercially available.

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This is one of the classic books on craftsmanship and design. Init, David Pye explores the meaning of skill and its relationship todesign and manufacture. Cutting through a century of fuzzythinking, he proposes a new theory of making based on the concept ofgood workmanship and shows how it imparts all-important diversity toour visual environment.

Work in the construction industry is particularly tough. It demands excessively long hours and frequent weekend work. Other characteristics are particularly marked, such as re-location, job insecurity and distinctive behavioural patterns, which negatively affect employees' personal lives further. Work-life balance has emerged as one of the most pressing management issues in the 21^st century. For construction managers dealing with traditional models of work and rigid work schedules, the issue may be especially difficult to manage, and yet the work-life balance is now recognised...

Contrary to intuition, we find automatic relations in all matters important to Architecture. As they are not restricted to technology and lifeless matter only. Today, digitalization of the dominant technological, social and cultural areas is being archived. As an effect, an explicitly new kind of automation technology drives the forth industrial revolution. Now with its unprecedented means, scale and scope it is about to transform every aspect of everyday life.

Architecture faces the challenge of developing concepts for a built-up life world whose elements control themselves...

Pargeting is the decoration of plastered and rendered finishes on the outside of a building. It is an art and craft that dates back many centuries and varies considerably in technique. Today pargeting is mainly associated with East Anglia, but it once had a wider distribution; many good examples have been lost through neglect, redevelopment, changing taste and fire. There is now a revival of interest in pargeting, and craftsmen are again being commissioned to produce new work.
Tim Buxbaum is a chartered architect whose practice believes in good new building design and the sensitive...

Collaborative working and partnering between the public and private sectors has been fairly standard practice in some form or other for over 100 years, but it is only in recent years that it has become more prevalent. In the UK, it is little more than ten years since the most widely known Public Private Partnership (PPP), the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), was launched and yet it has already been described by some as 'the new economic paradigm.'

Public Private Partnerships in Construction is an authoritative and objective source of information on PPPs, including lessons...