Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Reference

Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate. The articles are by scholars who have a particular interest in and experience of the city project at various operative scales. They include theoretical reflections on the landscape as an eminently project-like figure. The book describes new methods and approaches dealing with the contemporary environment, whether it is from the point of view of the city or the landscape.

Ein Handbuch, dasdie Grundlagen des architektonischen Entwerfens nach einem neuartigen didaktischen Konzept vermittelt: Klassische Entwurfsstrategien und Gestaltungskonventionen werden hinterfragt, unddie einzelnen Arbeitsschritte werden durch beispielhafte studentische Projekte veranschaulicht.

This book presents over 40 finished works by Chinese architects,...

What role does colour play in our built environment? How are our attitudes to colour changing? What potential do new technologies bring for the use of colour and light in architecture?

Combining real examples from practice with colour theory, this book will help you to fully understand the role and impact of colour in our urban spaces. Contributions from leading architects Will Alsop, Legorreta and Legorreta, John Outram, Sauerbruch Hutton and Neuterlings Riedijk accompany those from artists Alain Bony and Yann Kersale, and from colour researchers such as Kristina Enberg and Anders...

Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process. Essays and lectures from the last fifteen years discuss these changes in relation to dECOi Architects, created in 1991 as a forward-looking architectural practice.

This excellent collection is relevant to architectural professionals, academics and students and also to practitioners in many related creative fields who are similarly engaged in trying to...

Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulogne, Epping Forest, Grunewald, Zonienwoud; throughout history, cities in Europe and elsewhere have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas. In some cases, cities have even developed and in some cases are promoting a distinct forest identity . This book introduces the rich heritage of these city forests as cultural landscapes, and shows that cities and forests can be mutually beneficial.

Essential reading for students and researchers interested in urban sustainability and urban forestry, this book also has much wider appeal. For with...

Ein Handbuch, dasdie Grundlagen des architektonischen Entwerfens nach einem neuartigen didaktischen Konzept vermittelt: Klassische Entwurfsstrategien und Gestaltungskonventionen werden hinterfragt, unddie einzelnen Arbeitsschritte werden durch beispielhafte studentische Projekte veranschaulicht.

Following up on his successful "World Architecture Index "(Greenwood Press, 1991), Edward Teague applies his research and organizational skills to provide detailed coverage and easy access to the wealth of architectural landmarks in Italy as illustrated in eighty books widely available in libraries. Citations are provided for illustrations of approximately 1,800 works of architecture, engineering, and planning representing most historic periods and styles from prehistoric times to the present. Included are details on exterior and interior views and plans, sections, and elevations.

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Providing access to over 6,500 house designs published between 1850 and 1915, this work is indexed by architects' or designers' names as well as by the geographic location of each house when given in the periodical. It also includes a geographic index of architects, an annotated bibliography of the periodicals indexed, and an illustrated section with samples of the designs included in the index.

This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its source in the ubiquitous courtyard house, while the development of the mosque as both place of worship and the centre of the community, its form a response to the requirements of prayer set out in the Koran, was given a range of forms as the conquests of Islam came up against the traditions of Egypt, Persia, India and China. The tradition developed further in tombs, palaces and fortifications, all of which are described and...

Kleinstadte spielen eine entscheidende Rolle innerhalb regionaler Wirtschaftssysteme. Die Autoren veranschaulichen, wie diese die Herausforderung einer globalisierten Welt annehmen konnen, und stellen beispielhaft Bewegungen vor, die ortliche Kulturen, Traditionen, Identitaten und Nachhaltigkeit effektiv zu fordern wissen.

Zeitgeistiger Retrotrend, posthum produzierter Schein, naive Wiederherstellung, schlichte Sentimentalitat - oder eine ganz normale Architekturentwicklung? Renommierte Autoren und Akteure stellen die Positionen der Auseinandersetzung um Rekonstruktion in der Architektur vor, ausgehend vom Beispiel Potsdam.

The latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' prestigious Buildings of the United States series, Buildings of Delaware is the first book to document the state's architectural history from all periods. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps, and supplemented by a glossary and bibliography, the volume covers buildings of many styles, types, and materials, from grand mansions to vernacular structures, and from urban to rural settings. The noted architectural historian W. Barksdale Maynard spent much of 2002 through 2004 canvassing the rich cultural heritage of the...

Auf der Suche nach planerischen Strategien und neuen Leitlinien fur einen adaquaten Umgang mit der Nachkriegsmoderne erortert dieses Buch die zentralen Fakten, Aspekte und Positionen und vermittelt die Hintergrunde der Auseinandersetzung, unter anderem am Fallbeispiel Hannover.