Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Study & Teaching

This collection of previously unpublished essays from a diverse range of well-known scholars and architects builds on the architectural tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics as developed by Dalibor Veseley and Joseph Rykwert and carried on by David Leatherbarrow, Peter Carl and Alberto Perez-Gomez.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on ideas from beyond the architectural canon, contributors including Kenneth Frampton, David Leatherbarrow, Juhani Pallasmaa, Karsten Harries, Steven Holl, Indra Kagis McEwen, Paul Emmons, and Louise Pelletier offer new insights and...

This book reveals the recent urban history of nine major Latin American cities Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogota, Sao Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires through studies of their public spaces and the events that have taken place there. The case studies provide an unprecedented opportunity to look at cities with comparable cultural and political histories, and to investigate the use and meaning of urban space by ordinary people in extraordinary, history-making events.

While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and...

How much do you know about Greek architecture? Roman? Gothic? The Renaissance? Modernism? Perhaps more importantly, do you know how these are connected or how one style evolved to become another? Or what happened historically during each of these periods?

Architectural History Retold is your roadmap for your journey through architectural history. Offering a fresh take on what the author calls the Great Enlightenment project, it traces the grand narrative of western architecture in one concise, accessible volume. Starting in Ancient Greece and leading up to the...

How much do you know about Greek architecture? Roman? Gothic? The Renaissance? Modernism? Perhaps more importantly, do you know how these are connected or how one style evolved to become another? Or what happened historically during each of these periods?

Architectural History Retold is your roadmap for your journey through architectural history. Offering a fresh take on what the author calls the 'Great Enlightenment project', it traces the grand narrative of western architecture in one concise, accessible volume. Starting in Ancient Greece and leading up to the...

The Tectonics of Structural Systems provides an architectural approach to the theory of structural systems. The book combines:

• structural recommendations to follow during the architectural design of various structural systems and
• the tectonic treatment of structural recommendations in architecture.

Written expressly for students, the book makes structures understandable and useful, providing:

• practical and useful knowledge about structures
• a design based approach to the subject of structures and
• a bridge in...

The Tectonics of Structural Systems provides an architectural approach to the theory of structural systems. The book combines:

• structural recommendations to follow during the architectural design of various structural systems and
• the tectonic treatment of structural recommendations in architecture.

Written expressly for students, the book makes structures understandable and useful, providing:

• practical and useful knowledge about structures
• a design based approach to the subject of...

The Companion contains thirty-five chapters, divided into seven parts: Theoretical Stances, Technology, Sustainability, Behavorism,...

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles, and have been assiduously represented in scripture, literature, art, and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture, houses for their gods, and house tombs for...

Seit jeher orientiert sichGestaltung ander Natur. Sowohl die energetisch und konstruktiv optimierten Formen der Natur sind Vorbild, als auch ihre Anpassungsfahigkeit und Vielseitigkeit. Naturwissenschaftler, Ingenieure, Architekten und Kunstler schopfen ausihrem reichen Fundus und lassen sich inspirieren. Das Buch zeigt, wie sich der Mensch mit der Natur auseinandergesetzt hat und bietet einen Ausblick auf weitere Lektionen.

The global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identifying the essential ideas, professional ethics, and development of their architectural practice, established in 1978.
The biographies of both architects and the activities of their practice are intimately bound up with the town of Basel. With this embeddedness in Basel as a point of departure, the authors elucidate central themes of their architectural oeuvre: from habitat to monument. With reference to exemplary buildings, they analyze the...

Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face the question of the past and the extent to which it should be included in the design for the future. This is the point of departure of Int - AR, a yearly publication on current issues in international adaptive reuse.
When and how is material from an existing building the catalyst for art? When does art create function and program within adaptive reuse projects? How can art transform the economics of a built context? When and where does art become building and building become art?
This Int - AR volume presents...

Built to Grow investigates patterns of growth and dynamics in nature with the aim of creating a new living architecture that can be applied to architectonic designs. It examines biological processes to identify basic principles of growth and translate them into exemplary architectonic ideas and visions. The project brings together experts from the fields of architecture, biology, art, mechatronics, and robotics.

Das Gebiet der Gebaudetechnik wird bei der zunehmenden Komplexitat des Bauens immer wichtiger. Als Mittler zwischen allen am Bau Beteiligten muss der Architekt die Zusammenhange verstehen und seine Bauherren kompetent beraten konnen.
Basics Gebaudetechnik befasst sich mit den Gebieten der Wasserver- und Entsorgung, der Elektroinstallation und mit den energierelevanten Themen Heizung, Luftung und Beleuchtung. Das Kompendium vereint die erfolgreichen Einzelbande Raumkonditionierung und Wasserkreislauf im Gebaude und erganzt diese um die zwei neuen, bislang...

Daylight is the most important element determining the mood and appearance of architecture, more so than all construction materials. In office buildings in particular, the good provision of daylight and matching artificial lighting installations make an important contribution to energy conservation - the better the use made of daylight, the less energy has to be consumed for artificial lighting. For this reason, typical architectural concepts have changed in recent years; enclosed buildings with full air-conditioning have increasingly made way to buildings that respond to the climate...

There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to 'placemaking' and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of guidance for main road networks and for local streetgrids. What is needed is a framework that addresses both of these, plus main streets - that don't easily fit either set of guidance - in an integrative manner.

Streets and Patterns takes up this...