Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Professional Practice

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...

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...

In today s increasingly competitive marketplace, the creation of a successful resume is a vital skill needed by architectural students and professionals alike. This book demystifies the architecture resume, its working strategy and its purposes.

The book guides readers through the process of thinking through, prioritizing, characterizing and expressing career profiles in written and visual form. Readers will learn about presentation and the evolving vehicles for showcasing that presentation. In addition, the timely and important issue of how to transform one type of presentation from a...

This monograph does not focus so much on the projects as it does on showing - based on the example of Geninasca Delefortrie's particular approach - the opportunities that architecture and architects have to influence in a positive way project development, the awarding of contracts, and urban planning in general.

Exploring the design of innovative building enclosure systems (or skins) in contemporary architecture and their precedents in earlier twentieth century modern architecture, this book examines the tectonics, the history and the influence of translucency as a defining characteristic in architecture. Highly illustrated throughout with drawings and full colour photographs, the book shows that translucency has been and continues to be a fertile ground for architectural experimentation.

Each chapter presents a comparative analysis of two primary buildings: a recent project, paired with a...

Text and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

The book is structured into sections around 3 main themes: managing the organisation; and managing specific issues that affect operations, and a third section reflects upon management from...

Throughout history, nature has served as an inspiration for architecture and designers have tried to incorporate the harmonies and patterns of nature into architectural form. Alberti, Charles Renee Macintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Courbusier are just a few of the well- known figures who have taken this approach and written on this theme. With the development of fractal geometry--the study of intricate and interesting self- similar mathematical patterns--in the last part of the twentieth century, the quest to replicate nature's creative code took a stunning new turn. Using computers,...

The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape.

This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme 'dwelling and the land'. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the making of houses.

That the domestic realm and the landscape can be vehicles...

Ein umfassender Uberblick zu dem Werk des renommierten Londoner Architekten Tony Fretton (1945 geboren). Nach seinem Abschluss 1982 an der angesehenen Architectural Association hat Fretton sein eigenes Buro eroffnet. Erste Beachtung fand er mit der Lisson Gallery und dem Red House in London. Seine raumliche Gestaltung und die Einbindung in den stadtischen Kontext sind von subtiler Meisterschaft. Mit seinem Entwurf fur das Camden Arts Centre, dem Fugelsang Museum Danemark, dem Londoner Stadthaus fur den Kunstler Ansih Kapoor und der britischen Botschaft in Warschau zahlt Fretton zu den...

9/10 Stock Orchard Street, colloquially known as the Straw House, is a house and an office designed by two architects for their own use. Completed in 2000, the buildings were experimental in design, execution and inhabitation, and have resisted categorization, challenged received wisdom and provoked debate, especially among architectural critics.

With access to all the material records of the project, this book responds to that debate by presenting multi-faceted narratives from a wide range of writers that have been invited to reflect both positively and negatively on what the...