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Precedents in Architecture
Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
A timely update of the architectural classic on design analysis
Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs.
Thirty-eight leading...
by Tony Hunt, Sir Norman Foster
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Tony Hunt's Sketchbook illustrates the connection between brain and hand in conceiving structural concepts and details as possible solutions to structures in architecture. This new edition features 100 previously unpublished sketches.
These sketches illustrate alternative structural concepts,...
The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture
Air, Comfort and Climate
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air,...
Design/Build with Jersey Devil
A Handbook for Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, and John Ringel believe an architect's job does not stop at designing a building, but that it extends to constructing it as well. Now working into their fifth decade, Jersey Devil, the loose-knit group they founded in 1972, bands together under this design/build ethos that...
Farm and Rural Building Conversions
A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Provides a detailed record of types of rural building and offers advice for conversion, including retention of period features where appropriate. Sympathetic conversion ensures that the record of rural life is not lost. Contents include; history and development of all types of farm and related buildings;...
by Henry Sanoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
First published in 1977, this volume was intended as a sourcebook for designers and attempts to specify the ingredients necessary to develop a design program rather than postulate a model program for which no consensus exists. As such it filled a void in the existing literature which seldom covered...
by Jan Vredeman de Vries
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
When the Renaissance reached Northern Europe, Jan Vredeman de Vries (1527–1604) ranked among its most influential advocates. His books of architectural engravings opened new avenues of invention, reflecting the era's artistic crosscurrents. Their combination of Northern and Southern elements forms...
The Dynamic Landscape
Design, Ecology and Management of Naturalistic Urban Planting
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed a burgeoning of interest in ecological or naturally-inspired use of vegetation in the designed landscape. More recently, a strong aesthetic element has been added to what was formerly a movement aimed at creating nature-like landscapes.
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This volume presents 25 essays on the philosophy of design. With contributions originating from philosophy and design research, and from product design to architecture, it gives a rich spectrum of state of the art research and brings together studies on philosophical topics in which design plays a...
Digital Vernacular
Architectural Principles, Tools, and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Digital Vernacular addresses the why and how of digital fabrication in hundreds of step-by-step color images, illuminating a set of working principles and techniques that join theory with practice. Authors James Stevens and Ralph Nelson reconcile local traditions and innovations with globally accessible...
Timber Gridshells
Architecture, Structure and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Throughout history, people have constructed simple timber lattice shelters such as the tepee or yurt, covered with animal skins, leaves, grasses and woven fabrics. Over the last fifty years, more sophisticated ‘webs of wood’ have emerged, with timber gridshells in particular becoming a structurally...
What Architecture Means
Connecting Ideas and Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and informed role in architecture either as a professional or as a consumer, client, and citizen. By analyzing...
by Christopher Cuttle
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Lighting by Design provides guidance on where to find inspiration for lighting ideas, how to plan the technical detail and how to execute the plan to create safe, effective and beautiful schemes.
Christopher Cuttle's unique three level approach uses Observation, Visualisation and Realisation...
by David Rockwood
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This highly illustrated text brings together two areas which have both grown in popularity in recent years: gridshells and bamboo.
Bamboo is a fast-growing, naturally available, renewable resource which is quite strong and lends itself to structural applications. In this unique text, David...