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Metaphor
an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three...
Instabilities and Potentialities
Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, Instabilities and Potentialities explores our post-digital culture to better understand its impact on theoretical discourse and design processes in architecture. The role of digital technologies and its ever-increasing infusion...
The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building
Redefining the Practice of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
"The members of 7group and Bill Reed are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into reality, by helping change minds, building practice, and design process."
—from the Foreword by S. Rick Fedrizzi President, CEO, and Founding Chair,...
British Domestic Synchronous Clocks 1930-1980
The Rise and Fall of a Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
This book complements available one-make books on domestic synchronous clocks. It is also a history of science book that sets British domestic synchronous clocks, their manufacturers and technology in their social context.
Part I covers the historical background, British domestic synchronous...
by Adam Sharr
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval...
A Catalogue of Details on Pre-Contract Schedules
Surgical Eye Centre of Excellence - Kath
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
There was the need to expand the eye centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi. KATH requested for a design proposal for an eye centre of excellence to adequately cater for the growing needs of patients requiring ophthalmic care. It was to be sighted within KATHs premises, adjacent to...
Helical compression cylindrical springs
design, calculation and verification
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The purpose of this publication is to provide the designer with a practical guide for the design of cylindrical compression springs.
The examples, which reflect the most usual cases, can be used as a design and verification check list. In this way, the product definition is obtained according to the boundary conditions and objectives.
Large and Middle-scale Aperture Aspheric Surfaces
Lapping, Polishing and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
A complete all-in-one reference to aspheric fabrication and testing for optical applications
This book provides a detailed introduction to the manufacturing and measurement technologies in aspheric fabrication. For each technology, both basic theory and practical applications are introduced.
The...
by Michel Soustelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This book presents all the theoretical and practical basements of heterogeneous kinetics and reactivity of solids. It applies the new concepts of reactivity and spatial function, introduced by the author, for both nucleation and growth processes, with a unified presentation of the reactivity of bulk...
by Paul Coates
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Programming.Architecture is a simple and concise introduction to the history of computing and computational design, explaining the basics of algorithmic thinking and the use of the computer as a tool for design and architecture.
Paul Coates, a pioneer of CAAD, demonstrates algorithmic thinking...
Knowledge collaboration design
Theory techniques and applications for collaboration in architecture
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
“...The purpose of this book is to illustrate the result of a many-year-long research effort. We have sought to separate the description of the theoretical part from that of its application. The result is a work organized in five parts, corresponding to the content we indicated above: the first...
Context
Architecture and the Genius of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Demonstrates how a building's setting should inform and inspire rather than constrain architectural design
Context-Architecture and the Genius of Place is a highly engaging, informative discussion of context in architectural theory and practice. Eric Parry, one of the UK's most highly regarded...
by Karam Sab, Arthur Lebée
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
This book gives new insight on plate models in the linear elasticity framework tacking into account heterogeneities and thickness effects. It is targeted to graduate students how want to discover plate models but deals also with latest developments on higher order models. Plates models are both an...
by Alan Palazzolo
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Based on many years of research and teaching, this book brings together all the important topics in linear vibration theory, including failure models, kinematics and modeling, unstable vibrating systems, rotordynamics, model reduction methods, and finite element methods utilizing truss, beam, membrane...