Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Professional Practice

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...

Diese Monografie bietet erstmals einen fundierten Uberblick uber das Wirken der Lausanner Architekten, das sich durch sein kleines, aber feines OEuvre innerhalb der Westschweizer Architekturszene deutlich auszeichnet.

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...

SCALE ist als praxisorientierte Fachbuchreihe konzipiert. Die einzelnen Bande widmen sich jeweils einem konstruktiven Thema, Bauteil oder Ausbauelement.
Im ersten Band Offnen und Schliessen wirdam einfachen aber gestaltwirksamen Bauteil der Offnung der Weg vom Konzept bis zur Umsetzung im Detail beleuchtet.

Owning and operating a small architectural design firm can be challenging, with tight project deadlines, on-the-fly meetings, rush proposals, and fluctuating workloads as part of the firm's day-to-day activities. To help small firm owners cope with the chaos and prepare for the unexpected, here is The Architect's Guide to Small Firm Management, a no-nonsense guide to repurposing daily demands into workable, goal-directed solutions.

Crucial topics such as self-aware...

Die rasanten Entwicklungen in den digitalen Technologien lassen auch die Architektur und den stadtischen Raum nicht unberuhrt. Der Band stellt eine profunde Einfuhrung in die Bedeutung der digitalen Simulation in Entwurf und Ausfuhrung dar. Der Autor untersucht systematisch den Einfluss der digitalen Kultur auf die Architektur, aber auch auf den stadtischen Raum und im Hinblick auf das Produktdesign.

This book provides a timely review of the contemporary interpretation of the comprehensive health centre, a building type that was originally advocated by health reformers in the UK in the first half of the twentieth century. The book discusses the development of this idea, the failure under the NHS to apply the idea in practice in the second half of the century and the recent emergence, in all four regions of the UK, of comprehensive health centres providing a wide range of health and social services, often linked to other community facilities.

A review of the latest developments...

This book provides a timely review of the contemporary interpretation of the comprehensive health centre, a building type that was originally advocated by health reformers in the UK in the first half of the twentieth century. The book discusses the development of this idea, the failure under the NHS to apply the idea in practice in the second half of the century and the recent emergence, in all four regions of the UK, of comprehensive health centres providing a wide range of health and social services, often linked to other community facilities.

A review of the latest developments in...

Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, this book encourages philosophers and architects, scholars and designers alike, to reconsider what they do as well as what they can do in the face of challenging times. It does so by exploring the notion that architecture and design can (and possibly should), in their own right, make for a distinctive form of ethical investigation.

The book is less concerned with absolutist understandings of the two components of ethics, a theory of 'the good' and a theory of 'the right', than with remaining open to...

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...

Ob als transluzente Platten, weit gespannte Membranen, luftgefulltes Folienkissen oder in organisch geschwungener Gestalt: In den unterschiedlichsten Formen und Anwendungsbereichen finden Kunststoffe Verwendung in der Architektur. Innovative technische Entwicklungen verbessern stetig seine Materialeigenschaften, gleichzeitig wachst ein neues Bewusstsein fur dieses Material als Baustoff. Wurden Kunststoffe fruher hauptsachlich als preisgunstige Variante zu traditionellen Baustoffen eingesetzt, erfreuen sie sich heute im Bauwesen zunehmend einer ernstzunehmenden Alternative, sei es als...

Ob als transluzente Platten, weit gespannte Membranen, luftgefulltes Folienkissen oder in organisch geschwungener Gestalt: In den unterschiedlichsten Formen und Anwendungsbereichen finden Kunststoffe Verwendung in der Architektur. Innovative technische Entwicklungen verbessern stetig seine Materialeigenschaften, gleichzeitig wachst ein neues Bewusstsein fur dieses Material als Baustoff. Wurden Kunststoffe fruher hauptsachlich als preisgunstige Variante zu traditionellen Baustoffen eingesetzt, erfreuen sie sich heute im Bauwesen zunehmend einer ernstzunehmenden Alternative, sei es als...