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The End of Tradition?
ISBN: 9780415290418 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Since the beginning of history, human beings have been fascinated with endings - the end of their lives, the end of seasons and the end of the world . . .', so says Nezar AlSayyad in his preface to The End of Tradition? But, he and his contributors argue, endings are also coupled with beginnings, and destruction is sometimes a precondition for construction or reconstruction, particularly where the built environment is concerned. Indeed, the end of tradition does not entail the death of tradition itself, only our conception of it - and the emergence of a need to re-evaluate its utility as a...
'Since the beginning of history, human beings have been fascinated with endings - the end of their lives, the end of seasons and the end of the world ...
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Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users
ISBN: 9780415290425 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architecture is made by use and by design. Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this volume considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader. The book's thesis is informed by the text The Death of the Author, in which Roland Barthes argues for a writer aware of the creativity of the reader. The Death of the Author is an important influence on artistic production, encouraging less didactic subject-object and artist-viewer relations than ones familiar in the...
Architecture is made by use and by design. Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this volume considers the relations...
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773,33 |
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American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader
ISBN: 9780415306959 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This major new text features 24 essays on North American architectural and urban history. The book concentrates on recent writings by historians of American architecture and urbanism. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings. The editor provides a comprehensive introductory essay and sets the book's themes in context.
This major new text features 24 essays on North American architectural and urban history. The book concentrates on recent writings by historians of Am...
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411,36 |
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Building Regulations Explained
ISBN: 9780415308625 / Angielski / Twarda / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully revised, essential reference takes into account all important aspects of building control including new legislation up to the end of 2003.
This fully revised, essential reference takes into account all important aspects of building control including new legislation up to the end of 2003.
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832,62 |
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The Saga of Sydney Opera House : The Dramatic Story of the Design and Construction of the Icon of Modern Australia
ISBN: 9780415325219 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Probably the most popular building of the last century, Sydney Opera House is the icon of modern Australia. It has repaid its Au$100 million cost many times over, both as a tourist attraction and as a cultural center; as a brand, it is priceless. The story of its creation is one of both triumph and tragedy: universally loved these days, it was attacked by press and public when under construction. It is a masterpiece of modern architecture, yet Jorn Utzon, its designer, walked out before completion. Opinions are still divided over who was at fault when he resigned after a row with the client...
Probably the most popular building of the last century, Sydney Opera House is the icon of modern Australia. It has repaid its Au$100 million cost many...
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The Saga of Sydney Opera House: The Dramatic Story of the Design and Construction of the Icon of Modern Australia
ISBN: 9780415325226 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Murray's biography of the building presents both sides of the story. Using previously unpublished files and papers, Murray unravels. one of the most intriguing architectural controversies of recent times - what really happened when they built Sydney Opera House.
Peter Murray's biography of the building presents both sides of the story. Using previously unpublished files and papers, Murray unravels. one of the ...
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259,53 |
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An Urban Approach to Climate Sensitive Design: Strategies for the Tropics
ISBN: 9780415334105 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book presents a general background to the environmental issues facing tropical building designers - energy consumption and comfort implications of buildings and an overview of microclimate changes brought about by urbanization.
The book presents a general background to the environmental issues facing tropical building designers - energy consumption and comfort implications of...
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514,26 |
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Performance-Based Optimization of Structures: Theory and Applications
ISBN: 9780415335942 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performance-Based Optimization of Structures introduces a method to bridge the gap between structural optimization theory and its practical application to structural engineering. The Performance-Based Optimization (PBO) method combines modern structural optimisation theory with performance based design concepts to produce a powerful technique for use in structural design. This book provides the latest PBO techniques for achieving optimal topologies and shapes of continuum structures with stress, displacement and mean compliance constraints. The emphasis is strongly placed on practical...
Performance-Based Optimization of Structures introduces a method to bridge the gap between structural optimization theory and its practical applicatio...
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1273,41 |
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Beyond Archigram: The Structure of Circulation
ISBN: 9780415394765 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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... Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the... |
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906,08 |
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Antiquity: Origins, Classicism and the New Rome
ISBN: 9780415407502 / Angielski / Twarda / 876 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today's environments began to flourish. More than a catalogue of buildings, in this work Tadgell provides their political, technological, social and cultural contexts and explores architecture, not only as the development of form and space but as an expression of the civilization within which it evolves. The buildings are analyzed and illustrated... The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces ar... |
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930,57 |
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The Multilingual Dictionary of Architecture & Building Terms
ISBN: 9780419199205 / Angielski / Twarda / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With an increasingly mobile workforce internationally, the need for good communication becomes greater. This dictionary lists over 2000 key terms used in building design and construction - in five languages. The emphasis is on terms used most regularly in the design office and day-to-day running of a building job on-site. The range is from basic to more technical building terminology used in both traditional and contemporary methods of construction.
With an increasingly mobile workforce internationally, the need for good communication becomes greater. This dictionary lists over 2000 key terms used...
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636,71 |
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Architectural Design in Steel
ISBN: 9780419244905 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steelwork offers the opportunity for architectural expression, as well as being structurally versatile and adaptable material. Good detailing is vital because it affects structural performance, costs, buildability and, perhaps most importantly, appearance. Whilst the choice of the structural form is often the province of the structural engineer, architects should have a broad appreciation of the factors leading to the selection of the structure and its details. Traditionally, most detailing of connections is the responsibility of the steelwork fabricator, but for exposed steelwork, detailing...
Steelwork offers the opportunity for architectural expression, as well as being structurally versatile and adaptable material. Good detailing is vital...
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Defects and Deterioration in Buildings: A Practical Guide to the Science and Technology of Material Failure
ISBN: 9780419252108 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sequel to Remedial Treatment of Buildings, which covered wood treatment, damp-proofing, masonry treatment and thermal insulation, this book includes a wider range of building problems concentrating particularly on diagnosis.
A sequel to Remedial Treatment of Buildings, which covered wood treatment, damp-proofing, masonry treatment and thermal insulation, this book includes...
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783,64 |
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Housing Design Quality: Through Policy, Guidance and Review
ISBN: 9780419256502 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders.
In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing Design... This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing ...
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391,77 |
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Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings: Restoration, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse Applications for Architects and Engineers
ISBN: 9780471315452 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings offers the most' complete, detailed, and authentic data available on the materials, calculation methods, and design techniques used by architects and engineers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It provides today's building professionals with information needed to analyze, modify, and certify historic buildings for modern use. Among the many important features of this book not available in any other single volume are:
* More than 350 line drawings and diagrams taken directly from original sources such as the Carnegie Steele... Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings offers the most' complete, detailed, and authentic data available on the materials, calculation methods, and...
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755,07 |
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Design of Building Trusses
ISBN: 9780471558422 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trusses are classic, simple structural forms that have been used for centuries. Historically, heavy timber trusses have been used for structures such as churches, barns and factories. Vaulting steel trusses have been used for train sheds, halls and bridges. This work provides architects and builders with a fundamental understanding of trusses including: history, basic structural behaviour, practical investigation and design, construction detail development, and architectural applications and accommodations. The book is unique in presenting a juxtaposition of old and new truss designs and...
Trusses are classic, simple structural forms that have been used for centuries. Historically, heavy timber trusses have been used for structures such ...
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On Architecture: Bks. I-X
ISBN: 9780486206455 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of years, the specific instructions he gave in his "Ten Books on Architecture" were followed faithfully, and major buildings in all parts of the world reveal the widespread influence of his precepts. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, he was "the chief authority studied by architects, and in every point his precepts were accepted as final. Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, Vignola, and earlier...
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work ...
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96,15 |
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Material Architecture
ISBN: 9780750664974 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Composed of a series of essays, this book deals with the broad issues affecting the nature of architectural materials and provides a focused review of the state of the art materials. It also provides designers with the tools they need to evaluate and select from the thousands of different materials that are available to them. The book is organized into three sections; 'Time' looks at how the materials used in architectural design have changed over the years showing how we have come to use the materials we do in contemporary design. 'Materials' covers all five material families; metals,...
Composed of a series of essays, this book deals with the broad issues affecting the nature of architectural materials and provides a focused review of...
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303,61 |
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Historic Preservation: Project Planning and Estimating
ISBN: 9780876295731 / Angielski / Twarda / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With over a million commercial/institutional buildings and countless residences erected in the U.S. prior to World War II, more and more AECs and facility professionals are having to manage and estimate preservation of these projects. This book provides crucial information on:
With over a million commercial/institutional buildings and countless residences erected in the U.S. prior to World War II, more and more AECs and faci...
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556,54 |
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Housing Contemporary Ireland: Policy, Society and Shelter
ISBN: 9781402056734 / Angielski / Twarda / 437 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The period since the mid-1990s is distinguished by radical change in the housing sector in Ireland. During this time, house prices rose at an unprecedented rate. Between 1993 and 2003 the average price of a new house in the State increased by 220 percent. Private rents also grew and waiting lists for social housing lengthened. At the same time, new house building increased rapidly to one of the highest rates in the European Union. This development transformed city centres and suburbs, and also provincial towns and the countryside, which saw unprecedented construction of holiday homes and... The period since the mid-1990s is distinguished by radical change in the housing sector in Ireland. During this time, house prices rose at an unpre... |
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