Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Study & Teaching

Through a progressive series of exercises - accompanied by observational studies, examples and applied theory - Conversations with Form: A Workbook for Students of Architecture improves designers' understanding, dexterity and resilience in making form. It specifically focuses on the skills needed to succeed in the everyday context in which the vast majority of architects will ultimately design and build, wherein no one designs in isolation and existing conditions never represent a tabula rasa.

The text begins by familiarizing readers with utilizing step-by-step...

Daylighting and Integrated Lighting Design provides architects, building designers, and students clear direction for the successful inclusion of daylight and integrated electric light in buildings. It presents design teams with the performance analysis resources, energy saving estimates and user satisfaction results they need in order to make informed decisions regarding daylighting and lighting design.

Written by two well-known experts in the field, the book provides:

• critical geometric and material relationships along with proven design process activities, offered in a...

"Social Design: Public Action" diskutiert die Beitrage zum internationalen Social Design Symposium 2013 an der Universitat fur angewandte Kunst Wien. Das Buch hinterfragt die transformativen Krafte neuer Formen des Sozialen, Politischen und Kulturellen im urbanen Raum, verbindet kunstlerische und wissenschaftliche Forschung mit angewandter Raumproduktion und verwebt diesen Diskurs in das Netzwerk Gesellschaft.

The pressing economic, environmental and social crises emanate the need for a redefinition of the dominant views, perspectives and values in the field of architecture. The intellectual production of the last two decades has witnessed an impressive number of new design techniques and conceptual displacements reflecting the dynamic and fluid relation between man and his dwelling space. However, the contemporary market forces are favouring the growth of a star-system in architectural production based on technological innovation, spectacular imagery and formal acrobatics, and are neglecting...

Interviewed theorists: Kenneth Frampton, K. Michael Hays, Mark Wigley, Mary Mcleod, Beatriz Colomina, Stan Allen, Joan Ockman, Robert Somol, Sarah Whiting, Michael Speaks, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin.

Jungere Entwicklungen in der Informatik, insbesondere "data-driven procedures," haben ein neues Level fur Design und Engineering eroffnet. Davon ist auch die Architektur betroffen. Dieser Band versammelt die Beitrage von Informatikern, Mathematikern, Philosophen, Kulturtheoretikern und Architekten zum Thema Coding as Literacy.
Das ubergeordnete Interesse gilt dabei der Betrachtung von Computer basierenden Verfahren jenseits eines strikt fallbasierenden und problemlosungs-orientierten Paradigmas: das Thema ladt dazu ein, Computational Procedures als eingebettet in eine...

This book explores significant and timely topics for both the design and construction of contemporary architecture by challenging its very practice of theory. It proposes an alternative definition of architectural theory; one that is able and willing to confront the many contradictions now faced by designers, architects, engineers, and builders who negotiate often overwhelming technological imperatives. It valorises the, as yet, untapped potential of thinking through building, preparing the foundations for a critical return to the art of making that is architecture.

Built environment students are not always familiar with the range of different research approaches they could be using for their projects. Whether you are undertaking a postgraduate doctoral programme or facing an undergraduate or masters dissertation, this book provides general advice, as well as 13 detailed case studies from 16 universities in 7 countries, to help you get to grips with quantitative and qualitative methods, mixed methods of data collection, action research, and more.

Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts - globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has been extended out of the state and nation and re-positioned in the larger global world.

In this book Anthony King brings together key essays written over this period, much of it dominated by debates about the world or global city. Challenging assumptions and silences behind these debates, King provides largely ignored...

The Interior Architecture Theory Reader presents a global survey that collectively and specifically defines the emerging discipline of interior architecture. Diverse views and comparative resources for interior architecture students, educators, and practitioners are needed to develop a proper canon for this young discipline. As a theoretical survey of interior architecture, the book examines current production to embrace the full range of interior identities--architecture, interior design, digital fabrication, and spatial installation. With thirty-five essays authored by...