Design category: 5388 books
Urban Design
The Composition of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation – yet losing sight of the importance of the design process is all too often exactly what has happened.
Ron Kasprisin has written a book for students of planning and...
by Kathryn Best
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The book explicitly places the principles and processes of design within the context of a business or enterprise, explaining how design management can relate to the cultural, environmental, political and social impact of an enterprise. It emphasises the inter-disciplinary nature of design management,...
The Interior Design Productivity Toolbox
Checklists and Best Practices to Manage Your Workflow
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Get organized and streamline your workflow with this A-Z accountability system.
Design is only part of an interior designer’s job—you’re also responsible for scheduling client meetings, conducting design surveys, creating drawings and specs, and overseeing installation. Multiply by the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Engineering design is a fundamental problem-solving model used by the discipline. Effective problem-solving requires the ability to find and incorporate quality information sources. To teach courses in this area effectively, educators need to understand the information needs of engineers and engineering...
FireSigns
A Semiotic Theory for Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Semiotics concepts from a design perspective, offering the foundation for a coherent theory of graphic design as well as conceptual tools for practicing designers.
Graphic design has been an academic discipline since the post-World War II era, but it has yet to develop a coherent theoretical...
Computational Morphologies
Design Rules Between Organic Models and Responsive Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book represents an invaluable and up-to-date international exchange of research, case studies and best practice to tackle the challenges of digital technology, computer-aided design, 3D modeling, prototyping machines and computational design. With contributions from leading experts in the field...
Architectural Detailing
Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The industry-standard guide to designing well-performing buildings
Architectural Detailing systematically describes the principles by which good architectural details are designed. Principles are explained in brief, and backed by extensive illustrations that show you how to design details that...
Architecture & Design versus Consumerism
How Design Activism Confronts Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford —...
Experimental Design Research
Approaches, Perspectives, Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This book presents a new, multidisciplinary perspective on and paradigm for integrative experimental design research. It addresses various perspectives on methods, analysis and overall research approach, and how they can be synthesized to advance understanding of design. It explores the foundations...
The Death of Drawing
Architecture in the Age of Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The Death of Drawing explores the causes and effects of the epochal shift from drawing to computation as the chief design and communication medium in architecture. Drawing both framed the thinking of architects and organized the design and construction process to place architects at its center. Its...
Designing with Models
A Studio Guide to Architectural Process Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
The newly updated guide to design process modeling techniques
Designing with Models, Third Edition is the revised, step-by-step guide to basic and advanced design process modeling. This comprehensive text explains the process from start to finish, and has been expanded to include up-to-date...
Language of Space and Form
Generative Terms for Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
A unique graphical guide for using architectural terminology to jump-start the design process
This design studio companion presents architectural terms with special emphasis on using these terms to generate design ideas. It highlights the architectural thinking behind the terminology and helps...
Net Zero Energy Design
A Guide for Commercial Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Conveniently organized and packed with robust technical content and clear explanations of key principles
Written by an architect who is the director of sustainability at a global architecture firm, Net Zero Energy Design is a practical guide for architects and related construction professionals...
by Akel Kahera, Latif Abdulmalik, Craig Anz
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith. 'Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers' provides an easy-to-use and practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300...