Light Structures - Structures of Light: The Art and Engineering of Tensile Architecture Illustrated by the Work of Horst Berger
ISBN: 9781420852677 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In this book tensile structures are explained and illustrated by its most prolific designer. The chapters take on the form of stories, richly illustrated and presented in a language easily understandable by a general audience; at the same time the book is a valuable source for students and practitioners of architecture and engineering. Beginning with a history of domes, the book explains the origins and principles of tensile structures and then moves on to demonstrate their application in Horst Berger's own work. This includes such landmark structures as the spectacular Denver International...
"In this book tensile structures are explained and illustrated by its most prolific designer. The chapters take on the form of stories, richly illustr...
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103,20 zł |
Teaching and Learning Building Design and Construction
ISBN: 9781844073306 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written to strengthen the support offered to students and diminish the burden felt by academics, this book examines several strategies to effectively manage a growing number of students, and a changing student profile in the built environment sector. It includes a section, which is devoted to virtual learning.
Written to strengthen the support offered to students and diminish the burden felt by academics, this book examines several strategies to effectively ...
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432,96 zł |
Elements of Form and Design in Classic Architecture
ISBN: 9781905217830 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1925, Elements of Form and Design in Classic Architecture is a useful and informative read for students, historians or anyone with an interest in classic architecture. Setting out the geometrical principles which have guided architects since the times of ancient Greece and Rome, with the aid of numerous black and white photos and line drawings, chapters expand upon the construction of circular, semi-circular, elliptical, square and octagonal plans; vestibules, staircases, pavilions, facades, porticos, arches and more. The author, Arthur Stratton, was a leading...
Originally published in 1925, Elements of Form and Design in Classic Architecture is a useful and informative read for students, historians or anyone ...
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213,16 zł |
Aspects of Building Design Management
ISBN: 9781844075102 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effective building design management depends upon the collective efforts of all participants in the design and realization of buildings. This involves the establishment of appropriate managerial frames as well as the assembly and maintenance of effective teams if design value is to be realized. Building design management is a rapidly evolving field and this special issue of the journal Architectural Engineering and Design Management examines a variety of approaches to design management from different perspectives. The underlying argument is for the better management of design value in an...
Effective building design management depends upon the collective efforts of all participants in the design and realization of buildings. This involves...
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297,31 zł |
Post-Tensioned Concrete Floors
ISBN: 9780750616812 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide to the planning, design, construction and maintenance of buildings incorporating post-tensioned floors. It compares the merits of post-tensioned floors with reinforced concrete floors, and includes the latest developments in the field with numerous worked examples.
A guide to the planning, design, construction and maintenance of buildings incorporating post-tensioned floors. It compares the merits of post-tension...
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756,45 zł |
Architect's Studio Handbook
ISBN: 9780070494466 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first architectural studio/office reference designed for the professional, covering the full range of studio work produced in a typical architectural office.
The first architectural studio/office reference designed for the professional, covering the full range of studio work produced in a typical architectu...
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267,53 zł |
Simplified Building Energy Modeling Tool for Architects: Simplified Software Tool for Architects and Energy Efficient Building Design Professionals
ISBN: 9783639009774 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Simplified Building Energy Modeling Tool for Architects is an energy software program designed to study the relative change of energy uses in different architectural design schemes.It can be used in the design process, construction, and daily operation of most buildings. This energy-based interfacing program is intended to help architects, engineers, educators, students, building designers, major consumers of architectural services, and other professionals, whose work interfaces with that of architects, to quickly visualize, and compare energy performance and savings of different design...
Simplified Building Energy Modeling Tool for Architects is an energy software program designed to study the relative change of energy uses in differen...
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415,39 zł |
Curating Architecture and the City
ISBN: 9780415489829 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial 'subject' and an architectural 'object'. Striking a balance between theoretical investigations and case studies, the chapters cover a broad methodological as well as thematic range. Examining the influential role of architectural exhibitions, the contributors also look at curatorship as an emerging attitude towards the investigation and interpretation...
Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical p...
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912,96 zł |
The Building Environment : Active and Passive Control Systems
ISBN: 9780471689652 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Get the updated guide to active and passive control systems for buildings.
To capitalize on today's rapidly evolving, specialized technologies, architects, designers, builders, and contractors work together to plan the mechanical and electrical equipment that controls the indoor environment of a building. The Building Environment: Active and Passive Control Systems, Third Edition helps you take advantage of design innovations and construction strategies that maximize the comfort, safety, and energy efficiency of buildings. From active HVAC systems to passive methods,... Get the updated guide to active and passive control systems for buildings.
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609,28 zł |
Nature's Harmonic Unity: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form
ISBN: 9781578987917 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2009 Reprint of the original 1912 edition. Paperback 327pp. With 302 illustrations by the author. Baumring's Top Pick for an Understanding of Harmonic Order of Nature. Beautiful Analysis of the Harmonic Structure of All Types of Forms in Nature Clearly Showing the Order of their Form. A monumental work of great erudition showing the fundamental unity of all design in nature, from the microscopic to the galactic, but most especially the unity of design in architecture, and biology. The original 1912 edition is very rare. This is the only cloth reprint, other reprints lack illustrations. The...
2009 Reprint of the original 1912 edition. Paperback 327pp. With 302 illustrations by the author. Baumring's Top Pick for an Understanding of Harmonic...
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73,59 zł |
Dear Friend: The Power of Pen Pals and Journaling
ISBN: 9781440161469 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you looking for a way to meet new people from all over the world, make new friends, and help others? The solution is simple and affordable-become a pen pal. In Dear Friend, author Cheri DeGroot shares the joys and rewards of becoming a pen pal and provides tips on sharing friendships through handwritten letters.
Based on fifty-three years of personal experience as a pen pal, DeGroot details how her lifelong passion for pen palling began and how her friendships with people from all over the United States have helped her through life's good and bad times. This guide demonstrates the... Are you looking for a way to meet new people from all over the world, make new friends, and help others? The solution is simple and affordable-become ...
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43,25 zł |
Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular
ISBN: 9780415565325 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and cultural history, this book is of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history. Presented in an essentially chronological sequence, from the medieval to the post-war, diverse fresh viewpoints in the chapters of this book reinforce understanding of how building design emerges not just...
This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to emb...
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912,96 zł |
Decoding Theoryspeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory
ISBN: 9780415778299 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Existentialism; Urbanism; Aporia; Deontic; Tabula Rasa; Hyperspace; Heterotopia; Metareality; Structuralism... What does it all mean? The unique language used in architectural theory - both in speech and writing - can appear daunting and confusing, particularly to new architectural students. Decoding Theoryspeak provides an accessible guide to the specialized language of contemporary design for the next generation of thinkers, architects and design leaders. It includes:
Existentialism; Urbanism; Aporia; Deontic; Tabula Rasa; Hyperspace; Heterotopia; Metareality; Structuralism... What does it all mean? |
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782,54 zł |
New Directions in Sustainable Design
ISBN: 9780415780377 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approach. More often than not these books fail to introduce readers to the larger challenge of what thinking sustainably might entail. Combining a series of well know authors in contemporary philosophy with established practitioners of sustainable design, this book develops a coherent theoretical framework for how theories of sustainability might engage with the growing practice of design. This book:
Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approa... |
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281,66 zł |
New Directions in Sustainable Design
ISBN: 9780415780360 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together new & emerging perspectives on sustainability. Combining a series of well know authors in contemporary philosophy with established practitioners of sustainable design, it develops a coherent theoretical framework for how a philosophy of sustainability might engage with the growing practice of design.
This book brings together new & emerging perspectives on sustainability. Combining a series of well know authors in contemporary philosophy with estab...
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939,05 zł |
Four (+1) Studios
ISBN: 9781449996345 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given the fact that over the past two decades intellection and technology have conspired to subject the architectural design studio to so profound a sea change, one would imagine that the discipline's discourse would roil with debate on the transformations of the studio and their consequences. Yet where one expects a tumult, one instead finds a casual indifference . . . Few writings consider the effects of that sea change on the fundamental assumptions, means and methods of the studio itself, even though it is those machinations above all that endow architecture with its place in the world....
Given the fact that over the past two decades intellection and technology have conspired to subject the architectural design studio to so profound a s...
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209,73 zł |
Architecture and Field/Work
ISBN: 9780415595391 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars. It will be of interest to critical practitioners, researchers, scholars and students of architecture. A selection of critical historiographies, theoretical strategies and reflective design practices challenge us to think seriously about our knowledge, experience and application of fieldwork in architecture.
Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectura...
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912,96 zł |
Architecture and Field/Work
ISBN: 9780415595407 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays identifies and critically discusses the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice.
This collection of essays identifies and critically discusses the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of f...
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250,36 zł |
Cine-scapes : Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities
ISBN: 9780415600781 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Cine-scapes' explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the study of architecture portrayed in film, this book will offer a new perspective.
'Cine-scapes' explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done w...
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782,54 zł |
Entre Muros Y Palabras
ISBN: 9789689470007 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Libro de cuento corto y minificcion que aborda, entre otros, el tema de los lugares e imaginarios arquitectonicos. La primera parte es una coleccion de minificciones compuesta de varias series; la primera serie retrata, como una camara instantanea, esos momentos que parecieran no tomar importancia en la vida cotidiana; la segunda serie traiciona a la misma ficcion, retomando fragmentos de textos de reconocidos autores y reescribiendolos. Los finales son inesperados. La tercera serie reune temas de diversa indole, y finalmente una serie de minificciones, que abordan el imaginario...
Libro de cuento corto y minificcion que aborda, entre otros, el tema de los lugares e imaginarios arquitectonicos. La primera parte es una coleccion d...
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41,08 zł |