Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Study & Teaching

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...

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 historical and...

Bei der Planung, Konzeption und Ausfuhrung mussen Gebaude ganzheitlich betrachtet werden. Die Abstimmung der einzelnen Gewerke untereinander ist eine Kernaufgabe des Architekten. Da elektrotechnische Installationen in Gebauden zunehmend komplexer werden, muss der Architekt uber ein fundiertes Basiswissen auch in diesem Bereich verfugen, um die Fachplanung sinnvoll vorbereiten zu konnen. Als Mittler zwischen allen am Bau Beteiligten muss er im Bereich der Elektrotechnik von Gebauden die Zusammenhange verstehen und die Kunden kompetent beraten konnen. Basics Elektroinstallation...

Modern Construction Handbook has become a modern classic of building construction literature. In the USA, it is used as a reference work for many architectural courses. With the chapters "Material," "Wall," "Roof," "Structure," "Environment" and "Applications" it systematically explores the subject and provides a clear and efficient structure to the reader.
For the fourth edition, many of the 3D illustrations have been updated and, likewise, the technical information has been brought up to date. "Applications" showcases current developments, such as those relating tomass...

Urban Change untersucht die massiven Veranderungsprozesse des urbanen Raumes in einer Welt rapide fortschreitender Urbanisierung. Vor dem Hintergrund der Komplexitat dieser Veranderung analysieren international renommierte Experten diesen Wandel aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Wissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse der Change Theory werden mit Praktiken inklusiver Raumproduktion ebenso vernetzt wie kunstlerische Praktiken im offentlichen Raum mit neuen stadtebaulichen Uberlegungen. Das Buch beschreibt Transformationsprozesse, die von kunstlerischen Interventionen und Bestrebungen nach...

This collection of critical essays focuses on how material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized or in any other way appropriated in order to address pressing and timely questions regarding architectural influence. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of influence as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the essays cover a range of...

This collection of critical essays focuses on how material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized or in any other way appropriated in order to address pressing and timely questions regarding architectural influence. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of influence as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the essays cover a range of...

Revolt and Reform in Architecture's Academy uniquely addresses the complicated relationship between architectural education and urban renewal in the 1960s, which paved the way for what is today known as public interest design. Through an examination of curricular reforms at Columbia University's and Yale University's schools of architecture in the 1960s, this book translates the "urban crisis" through the experiences of two influential groups of architecture students, as well as their contributions to design's lexicon.

The book argues that urban renewal and campus...

Design Expertise explores what it takes to become an expert designer.It examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, skills, attributes and experiences are necessary in order to design well. Bryan Lawson and Kees Dorst develop a new model of design expertise and show how design expertise can be developed.

This book is designed for all students, teachers, practitioners and researchers in architecture and design. To enable all readers to explore the book in a flexible way, the authors' words are always found on the left hand page. On the right are...

Widely analysed by design professionals, controversially discussed in the media, misunderstood by the public and regulated by public procurement; in recent years, architecture competitions have become projection screens for various and often incommensurable desires and hopes.

Almost all texts on architectural competition engage it for particular reasons, whether these be for celebration of the procedure, or dismissal. From this view point Architecture Competition is a revelatory study on what really happens when competitions take place. But the story is not just about...

Taking the artistic still life as its departure point, the ninth edition of Platform chronicles the 2015-2016 academic year at the GSD. Models and student projects, including dissertations and drawings, are skillfully arranged and presented to reference the still life as expressed in 18th- and 19th- century European painting, popular advertising, contemporary art, and other contexts.

These images not only present the broad range of work produced...