Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Professional Practice

Architecture is now reliant on advanced visualizations. Indeed, visualization is the key to making planned projects and ideas palpable, and to winning the support of clients and other interested parties. Cut and Compose is a feature-rich tool that allows architects, interior decorators, landscape planners, and designers to optimize their visual presentations.

Aimed at students of architecture, this primer defines the critical subject area of professional studies which runs as a thread through the new RIBA validation criteria for Parts 1 and 2. Suitable across the whole 5-year Masters Architecture degree course, it gives students the conceptual resources and tools they need to investigate professional issues. Using short case studies that relate to the RIBA Plan of Work, it bridges the gap between the needs of the student and the overly technical information sources used by practicing professionals.

Written by Stephen Brookhouse, author...

Vom Wettbewerb uber den Entwurf bis zur Planung: Architekten und Ingenieure von Anfang an als Team

Farbe in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft

Farben wirken auf den Menschen, sie erzeugen Emotionen und wecken haufig Erinnerungen. Mit Farben beschaftigen sich daher nicht nur Kunstler, sondern auch Naturwissenschaftler, Psychologen, Planer, Schriftsteller etc. Fur den Architekten gehort die Farbwahl zu einer sehr anspruchsvollen Aufgabe, die - professionell umgesetzt - enorme Wirkung erzielen kann.

Dieser Band aus der Reihe DETAIL Praxis vermittelt die fur jeden Architekten relevanten Fachkenntnisse im Umgang mit Farben: von der Farbtheorie und den...

Passivhausplanung fur Architekten

Der Passivhausstandard entwickelt sich immer mehr zur Leitwahrung des energieeffizienten Bauens. Passivhauser werden inzwischen in fast allen Teilen der Welt und fur alle Arten von Nutzern errichtet. Gleichzeitig besteht vielfach noch Unsicherheit: Was leisten Passivhauser wirklich, und welche Fehlerquellen gilt es in der Planung zu vermeiden?

Dieses Buch vermittelt Architekten die notwendige Sicherheit im Umgang mit dem Passivhausstandard. Es zeigt die wesentlichen Gestaltungsspielraume und erlautert Entwurfsstrategien, die...

Contemporary construction practice presents a shift in emphasis from thinking about the design team in isolation, to considering the project team as a collaborative whole: client, design team, and contractor.

This approach requires greater consideration of how the project team is procured and assembled - and Assembling a Collaborative Project Team provides a range of in-depth and invaluable methods for ensuring that this essential task is carried out effectively. It will bring a range of benefits to any project - from facilitating BIM-ready teams, to better...

This book offers a thorough study of the relationship between the characteristics of construction density and the ensuing atmospheres, distribution of uses and their value. 36 case study examples in Zurich, Vienna, Munich and Berlin were documented and assessed, from the outskirts to the center of the city with photographs and detailed map material according to nine density categories that take public space into account.

Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world, with almost 50,000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types, the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards, Passivhaus provides a robust 'fabric first' approach from which to make the next step.

The Passivhaus Designers Manual is the most comprehensive technical guide available to those wishing to design and build Passivhaus and Zero...

Improve Your Green Design Skills with 24 Full-Color Case Studies of Sustainable Structures and Facilities

Turn to Emerald Architecture for a full-color collection of 24 in-depth case studies of sustainable structures and facilities.

Packed with more than 200 design-inspiring photos and illustrations, this beautiful architectural guide presents design data and specifications from a wide variety of projects, including schools, offices, labs, libraries, government buildings, and even a summer camp.

For each case study, the book gives a description of the building,...

I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on his doorstep all along. This had an air of hokeyness about it, but it had been a tough couple of days and I was feeling sentimental about the warm confines of the studio which had unceremoniously discharged me upon the world. -- from Down Detour Road

What does it say about the value of architecture that as the world faces economic and ecological crises, unprecedented numbers...

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...

Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history, community engagement and more, each representing an emergent role for designers to occupy. Whether the "civic entrepreneur," the "double agent," or the "strategic designer," this book offers a diverse spectrum of approaches to...

Although solar thermal systems are technologically mature and cost effective, they have not yet been sufficiently used in building design to play an adequate role in the reduction of fossil fuel consumption. One main hindrance to adoption is the generally low architectural design quality of the building integration of these thermal systems.

As confirmed by the example of photovoltaics, improvement of the architectural quality of building integrated systems can increase the use of a solar technology even more than price reductions or technical advances. Solar thermal collectors have...