Streets and Patterns
ISBN: 9780415317504 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sets out a series of concepts of street structure and offers a framework for design of street networks. It addresses issues of sustainable transport and urbanism whilst introducing new methods assisting analysis and design. International streetgrid case studies are analysed and suggest preferred types of street, network and hierarchy. This authoritative new text informs the design debate on street pattern and is set to become the definitive text on the topic.
This book sets out a series of concepts of street structure and offers a framework for design of street networks. It addresses issues of sustainable t...
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433,21 zł |
Cafes and Bars: The Architecture of Public Display
ISBN: 9780415363273 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America. This volume presents and examines this significant urban architectural production, and discusses it against a background of the design of cafes and bars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Major themes and developments are discussed and... The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt... |
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892,02 zł |
Simplified Design for Building Sound Control
ISBN: 9780471569084 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guide provides architects and engineers with a basic understanding of how design can be used to control noise, privacy and room acoustics. Topics are introduced gradually for self-study purposes, and a summary of the basic types of sound problems that occur is included.
This practical guide provides architects and engineers with a basic understanding of how design can be used to control noise, privacy and room acousti...
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552,37 zł |
Design by Competition: Making Design Competition Work
ISBN: 9780521029704 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. How can sponsors and clients get more meaningful results? To answer this question, Dr. Nasar, supported by riveting studies of competitions and Peter Eisenman's competition-winning design for the Wexner Center at the Ohio State University, suggests the use of pre-jury evaluation (PJE). He shows the potential value of this approach as well as visual quality programming for many kinds of environmental design for which the client wants to convey certain desirable meaning. The studies, from those...
Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. How can sponsors and clients get more meaningful...
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183,45 zł |
Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture
ISBN: 9780750622677 / Angielski / Twarda / 1932 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years and continues to give a concise and factual account of world architecture from the earliest times. In this twentieth and centenary edition, edited by Dan Cruickshank with three consultant editors and fourteen new contributors, chapters have been recast and expanded and a third of the text is new. * There are new chapters...
The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural a...
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Principles of Element Design
ISBN: 9780750631136 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A series of reference sheets showing the principles to be applied when designing building elements. Each sheet presents a design checklist through diagrams and text, including statutory regulations, BS Codes of Practice, BRE papers, standard textbooks and good practice guides.
A series of reference sheets showing the principles to be applied when designing building elements. Each sheet presents a design checklist through dia...
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203,84 zł |
Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Environments : Politics, Landscape & Design
ISBN: 9783990434956 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Burckhardt pioneered the interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, a field forged in the ruins of post-war Europe. This is the first English translation of his core essays on the interplay between humans and their designed, often urban, landscapes. Burckhardt pioneered the interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, a field forged in the ruins of post-war Europe. This is the first Eng... |
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270,34 zł |
Self Sufficient Housing
ISBN: 9788496540439 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Práce studentů i profesionálů přináší publikace shrnující poznatky z posledního kongresu architektonického institutu Katalánska.
Created for students and professionals to inspire changes in how new buildings are designed and constructed, the Self-Sufficient competition challenged participants to design a self-sufficient and ecologically oriented dwelling. In the early 20th century, the concept of “dwelling” was defined as a “machine for living”, a reference to a new way of understanding the construction of inhabitable spaces that characterized the Machine Age. Today, a... Práce studentů i profesionálů přináší publikace shrnující poznatky z posledního kongresu architektonického institutu Katalánska.
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Cafes and Bars: The Architecture of Public Display
ISBN: 9780415363280 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America. This volume presents and examines this significant urban architectural production, and discusses it against a background of the design of cafes and bars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Major themes and developments are discussed and... The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt... |
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234,42 zł |
The Architecture of Light: Architectural Lighting Design Concepts and Techniques
ISBN: 9780980061703 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Architecture of Light makes lighting design approachable. This vivid, image packed text of lighting concepts and techniques serves as the perfect companion for lighting design students and professionals alike. Built around a successful teaching curriculum, this text provides a logical step by step progression through the phases of conceptualizing, refining, drafting and presenting lighting design. Written by a practicing professional lighting designer who is also an award winning design instructor, The Architecture of Light presents a perfect blend of visual design tools and fundamental...
The Architecture of Light makes lighting design approachable. This vivid, image packed text of lighting concepts and techniques serves as the perfect ...
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415,14 zł |
Architectural Scale Models in the Digital Age : design, representation and manufacturing
ISBN: 9783990435267 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making physical models of complex geometric shapes and their multiple structural connections is a major challenge in the age of advanced digital technology and parametric design in architecture. This approach requires new modeling strategies, technology and methods which are covered in this book. Complex geometric forms generated using virtual media can be tested and validated only by means of physical models, which also make it possible to assess their practical application. The complexity of contemporary architectural design requires the mastery of new methods of producing scale models,...
Making physical models of complex geometric shapes and their multiple structural connections is a major challenge in the age of advanced digital techn...
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239,53 zł |
Architecture, Power and National Identity
ISBN: 9780415955157 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking through the lenses of culture and politics, this second edition reveals the intersecting relationship between the design of international capitals and the prominent roles they play in the assertion of national identity.
Looking through the lenses of culture and politics, this second edition reveals the intersecting relationship between the design of international capi...
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234,42 zł |
Future Proofing 02: Stuart Lipton, Richard Rogers, Chris Wise and Malcolm Smith
ISBN: 9780393732375 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stuart Lipton of Stanhope; architect and Davenport Visiting Professors Lord Richard Rogers; Chris Wise of Expedition Engineering; and Malcolm Smith of Arup. The studio offered the students the opportunity to build a contemporary urban environment in Stratford City in East London, the site of the 2012 Olympics, as a new community around a new transit hub.
Stuart Lipton of Stanhope; architect and Davenport Visiting Professors Lord Richard Rogers; Chris Wise of Expedition Engineering; and Malcolm Smith of...
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128,84 zł |
The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts
ISBN: 9780415447522 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design. Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th century. They have sought not just to imitate the forms of plants and animals, but to find methods in design analogous to the processes of growth and evolution in nature.... This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, esp... |
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892,02 zł |
Architecture, Power and National Identity
ISBN: 9780415955140 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking through the lenses of culture and politics, this book reveals the intersecting relationship between the design of international capitals and the prominent roles they play in the assertion of national identity.
Looking through the lenses of culture and politics, this book reveals the intersecting relationship between the design of international capitals and t...
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892,02 zł |
The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts
ISBN: 9780415447539 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. This book examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers h
Tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially build...
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300,69 zł |
Looking for Mies
ISBN: 9788496954373 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,09 zł |
Architecturally Speaking : Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday
ISBN: 9780415235433 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An international collection of essays by architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. New work by contributors including Mark Auge, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Anthony Vidler, Lebbeus Woods and Zaha Hadid is juxtaposed with seminal essays by Bernard Tschumi and Doreen Massey. Work on city space and architecture by radical young companies such as MUF and performance artist Graeme Millar is joined by challenging visions of orientation in the city by anthropologist Franco le Cecla and technologist William Mitchell. Together these essays build to reflect not only what it might mean to speak...
An international collection of essays by architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. New work by contributors including Mark Auge, Krzysz...
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713,61 zł |
Rethinking Landscape: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9780415424639 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our landscapes have never failed to entice and capture the imagination of writers, painters and philosophers and in turn their work has influenced our landscapes for centuries. This carefully selected collection of readings and commentary expertly guides you through the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental foundations of our thinking about landscape, and explores the key writings which shaped the field in its emergence and maturity. Provoking thought and discussion, this book does not provide answers, and will not conclude with an infallible theory of landscape. But with a... Our landscapes have never failed to entice and capture the imagination of writers, painters and philosophers and in turn their work has influenced ... |
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Rethinking Landscape: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9780415424646 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ian Thompson considers the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental foundations of our thinking about landscape, and explores the key writings which shaped the field in its emergence and maturity.
Ian Thompson considers the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental foundations of our thinking about landscape, and explores the key writings wh...
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203,84 zł |