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Universal Design
A Practical Guide to Creating and Re-Creating interiors of Academic Libraries for Teaching, Learning, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Universal Design provides practitioners, graduate students, and other professionals interested in obtaining practical advice on how to effectively create and re-create interiors of academic libraries for teaching, learning, and research. The academic library ‘as place’ continues to evolve around...
by Mic Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STRUCTURAL GLASS FACADES FOR ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, AND BUILDERS
Once an experimental building form, structural glass facades have matured into a fully robust technology. Structural Glass Facades and Enclosures documents, defines, and categorizes the current state of...
by Georgia Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The User Perspective on Twenty-First Century Art Museums explains contemporary museums from the whole gamut of user experiences, whether users are preserving art, creating an exhibit, visiting, or part of institutions that use the architecture for branding. Fourteen museums from the United States,...
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture
Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms. For architecture in China moving forward, author David Wang posits a theory, the New Virtualism,...
by Lorenzo Degli Esposti
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
The analysis of 11 precedents of Milanese modern architecture by Terragni, Ponti, Moretti, and other masters, gives rise to 11 proposals of resistant urban architecture, developed by 11 teams (each comprised of 3 students and a mentor) in the workshop DEEPmilano conceived by Lorenzo Degli Esposti.
Marco Frascari's Dream House
A Theory of Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to...
Computational Design Methods and Technologies
Applications in CAD, CAM and CAE Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The emergence and adoption of computational technologies has significantly changed design and design education beyond the replacement of drawing boards with computers or pens and paper with computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Digital Design Exercises for Architecture Students teaches you the basics of digital design and fabrication tools with creative design exercises, featuring over 200 illustrations, which emphasize process and evaluation as key to designing in digital mediums. The book is software neutral, letting you...
by Wolfgang Preiser, Korydon H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
The Latest Advances in Universal Design
Thoroughly updated and packed with examples of global standards and design solutions, Universal Design Handbook, Second Edition, covers the full scope of universal design, discussing how to develop media, products, buildings, and infrastructure for the widest...
Design Energy Simulation for Architects
Guide to 3D Graphics
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Leading architectural firms are now using in-house design simulation to help make more sustainable design decisions. Taking advantage of these new tools requires understanding of what can be done with simulation, how to do it, and how to interpret the results.
This software-agnostic book, which...
Impossible Heights
Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and ‘30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights,...
by Luca Trabattoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Ecco, il progetto di un albergo diffuso nella pianura padana rurale. Sono due progetti, uno grande quanto la pianura, che come a risiko, carta dopo carta si avvicina all'obiettivo; l'altro più piccolino, prova a ridar vita a un manufatto in via di estinzione.
The Green Studio Handbook
Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool presents practical guidelines for the application of green strategies during the schematic design of buildings. Students and professionals can quickly get up...
The Architecture of Ruins
Designs on the Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument and...