Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Professional Practice

• Who are the parties in architecture, engineering, and construction?
• How do you market architectural services (get the project)?
• What are the basic project delivery methods?
• What are the forms of owner/architect and owner/contractor agreements and what services do they cover?
• How should you charge for your services?
• How do you set up an office?
• What insurance, legal, and accounting issues must you consider?
• What is project management and who should do it?
• What are zoning and building codes about?

• Covers the basics of firm organisation, personnel requirements, legal considerations, fee setting, marketing issues and the essentials of strategic and business plans
• Addresses how to get started including how to create your first business plan, evaluate initial needs and costs, create a budget and a produce a list of action items to get started
• This volume is practical, applied, concise,...

This guide is divided into two parts: Part One, The AIA Standard Documents, examines the role of AIA Contract Documents, their history, and how the documents are written and updated. It also reviews the...

This is an essential guide for architects and their clients and consultants who need professional advice on negotiations, from design development to agreements and fees. Contractors will want to read...

Recueil de plans - Habitat analyse pres de 160 constructions a usage d'habitation realisees dans le monde entier sur plus de quatre decennies, l'accent etant cependant mis sur les realisations recentes. Des realisations d'architectes celebres ou moins connus venus des quatre coins du monde montrent un large eventail de reponses fonctionnelles, typologiques et experimentales a des programmes actuels et varies. Chaque projet est presente a l'echelle 1:200. Plan de situation, coupes et photos precisent l'implantation et l'agencement des batiments. L'indication systematique de donnees, comme...

This book systematically explains all relevant criteria and parameters as regards urban development, design and the subsequent construction of a sustainable building. The immense potential for cutting costs by modernising the energy systems in old buildings is also demonstrated. Completed projects are presented according to their usage and are analysed in the light of the above criteria.

A detailed guide to the technical aspects of refurbishing and upgrading buildings, this book provides solutions to a range of problems, challenges and issues and is essential reading for all students studying building refurbishment at all levels. Includes:

• existing floor and wall strengthening
• facade retention
• introduction of new floors
• timber decay problems
• fire-resistance
• prevention of moisture and damp
• upgrading thermal and acoustic performance.

This new edition has been fully updated to include new...

Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of the status of the architectural form is once again under consideration. Indeed, the computer liberated architecture from the tyranny of the right angle and enabled the design and production of non-standard buildings, based on irregular geometry.

Yet, the questions concerning the method of form expression in contemporary architecture, and its meaning, remain very much open. Performalism takes up this discussion, defines...