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by Sharon B. Jaffe (Author), Rob Fleming (Author), Mark Karlen (Author)An accessible, climate-diverse guide that transforms readers from sustainable design novices to whole-solution problem solvers. Sustainable Design Basics is a student-friendly introduction to a holistic and integral view of sustainable design. Comprehensive in scope, this textbook presents basic technical information, sustainability strategies, and a practical, step-by-step approach for sustainable building projects. Clear...

The American Builder's Companion: Or a System of Architecture, Particularly Adapted to the Present Style of Building (1816) - Paperback

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by Asher Benjamin (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 226 Dimensions: 0.48 x 11 x 8.25 ...

The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992 - 2012 - Paperback

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by Mario Carpo (Editor)Architektur im digitalen Zeitalter, eine zwei Jahrzehnte alte und wechselvolle Geschichte. Dieses Buch aus der Reihe Architectural Design (AD) beschreibt sämtliche Stufen und Phasen: von Folding zu Cyberspace, Nichtlinearität und Hypersurface-Architektur, von Versionierung zu Skripting, Emergenz, Informationsmodellen und Parametricism. Es erfasst und interpretiert den Geist der jeweiligen Zeit mit dokumentarischer Präzision, fördert und antizipiert oftmals bedeutende En...

Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity - Paperback

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by Antoine Picon (Author)Front JacketOnce condemned by Modernism and compared to a 'crime' by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the works of well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no doubt that these new ornamental tendencies are inseparable from innovations in computer technology. The proliferation of developments in design software has enabled ...

Sketchup for Builders: A Comprehensive Guide for Creating 3D Building Models Using Sketchup - Paperback

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by John G. Brock (Author)The only comprehensive SketchUp guide written for builders and contractors SketchUp is a 3D modeling application used in areas ranging from civil and mechanical engineering to motion picture and video game design. Three-dimensional modeling is of obvious value to the building industry--yet resources for transforming architectural designs into reality is surprisingly limited. SketchUp for Builders is the first comprehensive guide designed specifically for builders and...

Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty - Paperback

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by David Kadavy (Author)Discover the techniques behind beautiful design by deconstructing designs to understand them The term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work--and how they can try to make them better. This book is aimed at hackers of all skill levels and explains the classical principles and techniques behind beautiful designs by deconstructing those designs in order to understand what makes them so remarkable. Author and ...

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by Mark Karlen (Author), Christina Spangler (Author), James R. Benya (Author)A visual, real-world guide to professional lighting design Lighting Design Basics is the essential guide to this basic, but difficult-to-master aspect of interior design. Offering fundamental concepts and prescriptive techniques in a highly visual format, this book provides clear, practical guidance on utilizing the latest in lighting techniques and technology to showcase a space without sacrificing utility. Covering...

Community Livability: Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities - Paperback

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by Fritz Wagner (Editor), Roger W. Caves (Editor)What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nurture the cause of livable communities? Using a blend of theory and practice, the second edition of Community Livability addresses evidence from international, state and local perspectives to explore what is meant by the term "livable communities." The second edition contains new chapters from leading academics and prac...

Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation of Architecture: Phenomenal Phenomenology - Paperback

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by M. Reza Shirazi (Author)This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position. Starting with a concise introduction to the philosophical grounds of phenomenology from the points of view of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, it presents a critical reading of the works of some leading figures of architectural phenomenology in both theory and practice, such as Christian Norberg-Sc...

Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures: Australia and Beyond - Paperback

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by Janet McGaw (Author), Anoma Pieris (Author)Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the interests of tourists but fail to nourish the cultu...

The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew: Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics. Iain Jackson and Jessica Holla - Paperback

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by Iain Jackson (Author), Jessica Holland (Author)Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its spread into the late-colonial arena and finally, to its re-evaluation that resulted in a more expressive, formalist approach in the post-war era. ...

Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas - Paperback

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by Max O. Stephenson Jr (Editor), Scott Tate (Editor)Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas addresses the growing number of communities adopting arts and culture-based development methods to influence social change. Providing community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy that enriches communities and their residents, this collection critically examines the central tensions and complexities in arts policy, paying atten...

Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary - Paperback

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by Dirk Schubert (Author)Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication, not only in North America but worldwide, as the articles in this volume demonstrate. Based on cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches, this book offers new insights into her complex and often contr...

Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals: Politicizing the Female Body - Paperback

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by Lori A. Brown (Author)In this book, Lori Brown examines the relationship between space, defined physically, legally and legislatively, and how these factors directly impact the spaces of abortion. It analyzes how various political entities shape the physical landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to reproductive healthcare access, and questions what architecture's responsibilities are in respect to this spatial conflict. Employing writing, drawing and mapping methodologies, this interdiscip...

Managing Quality in Architecture: Integrating Bim, Risk and Design Process - Paperback

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by Charles Nelson (Author), Eugene Hopkins (Foreword by), William Ronco (Author)Completely revised throughout for this second edition, Managing Quality in Architecture addresses the new ISO 9001 standards after the significant 2015 revision. ISO 9001 is the global standard for quality, and firms certified under the 2008 edition have three years to upgrade their quality systems to the new Standard. This book helps architects, engineers and other designers working in the built environment to de...

Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture - Paperback

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by Simon Unwin (Author)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 further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed explorat...

Children as Place-Makers: The Innate Architect in All of Us - Paperback

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The Concept of Monument in Achaemenid Empire - Paperback

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by Mehr Azar Soheil (Author)The aim of this book is to explore the significance of the concept of 'monument' in the context of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC), with particular reference to the Royal Ensemble of Persepolis, founded by Darius I and built together with his son Xerxes. While Persepolis was built as an 'intentional monument', it had already become an 'historic monument' during the Achaemenid period. It maintained its symbolic significance in the following centuries even after i...

The Client Role in Successful Construction Projects - Paperback

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by Jason Challender (Author), Russell Whitaker (Author)The Client Role in Successful Construction Projects is a practical guide for clients on how to initiate, procure and manage construction projects and developments. This book is written from the perspective of the client initiating a construction project as part of a business venture and differs from most available construction literature which can externalise the client as a risk to be managed by the design team. The book provides a pract...

The Design of Urban Manufacturing - Paperback

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by Robert N. Lane (Editor), Nina Rappaport (Editor)American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly understood in terms of urban design, architecture, and policy. The Design of Urban Manufacturing brings a multidisciplinary approach to a new complex reality that urban manufacturing now sits squarely at the intersection of research, education, and neighborhood revitalization. Using cases studies f...

Public Space Design and Social Cohesion: An International Comparison - Paperback

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by Patricia Aelbrecht (Editor), Quentin Stevens (Editor)Social cohesion is often perceived as being under threat from the increasing cultural and economic differences in contemporary cities and the increasing intensity of urban life. Public space, in its role as the main stage for social interactions between strangers, clearly plays a role in facilitating or limiting opportunities for social cohesion. But what exactly is social cohesion, how is it experienced in the public realm, and what rol...

Zoning: A Guide for 21st-Century Planning - Paperback

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by Elliott Sclar (Editor), Bernadette Baird-Zars (Editor), Lauren Ames Fischer (Editor)Zoning is at once a key technical competency of urban planning practice and a highly politicized regulatory tool. How this contradiction between the technical and political is resolved has wide-reaching implications for urban equity and sustainability, two key concerns of urban planning. Moving beyond critiques of zoning as a regulatory hindrance to local affordability or merely the rulebook that guides urb...

Shipping Container Homes: A Guide to Building Your Own Container Home - Hardcover

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by Tony Murdoch (Author)Introducing "Shipping Container Homes: A Guide to Building Your Own Container Home" - Your Ultimate Blueprint for Constructing the Sustainable Home of Your Dreams!Are you ready to break free from the traditional housing market and embrace an eco-friendly, budget-friendly, and incredibly versatile living space? Look no further! "Shipping Container Homes: A Guide to Building Your Own Container Home" has everything you need to transform a humble shipping container into th...

Shipping Container Homes: A Guide to Building Your Own Container Home - Paperback

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The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future - Paperback

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by Jonathan Hill (Author)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 a ruin as creative, interdependent and simultaneous themes within a single building dialectic, addressing temporal and environmental questions in poetic, psychological and...

'One Planet' Cities: Sustaining Humanity Within Planetary Limits - Paperback

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by David Thorpe (Author)This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system. With four out of five people predicted to be urban dwellers by 2080, 'One Planet' Cities proposes a pathway to genuine sustainability for cities and neighbourhoods, using an approach based on contraction and convergence. Utilising interviews with key players, including the Global Footprint Net...

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by Richard Coyne (Author)Ideas gain legitimacy as they are put to some practical use. A study of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) supports this pragmatism as a way of thinking about truth and meaning. Architecture has a strong pragmatic strand, not least as we think of building users, architecture as a practice, the practical demands of building, and utility. After all, Vitruvius placed firmness and delight in the company of utilitas amongst his demands on architecture. Peirce (pronounced '...

The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice - Paperback

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by Kenneth R. Olwig (Author)Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery, but this reading captures only a narrow representation of landscape meaning today. This book positions landscap...

Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East - Paperback

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by Mohammad Gharipour (Editor)The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums. The role of urban landscape projects in Middle Eastern cities has grown in prominence, with a gradual shift in emphasis from gardens for the private sphere to an increasingly public function. The contemporary landscape projects, either designed as public plazas or public parks, have played a significant role in transferring the modern Middle Eastern cities t...

Introduction to Construction Project Engineering - Paperback

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by Giovanni C. Migliaccio (Author), Len Holm (Author)This new textbook fills an important gap in the existing literature, in that it prepares construction engineering and built environment students for their first experience of the jobsite. This innovative book integrates conceptual and hands-on knowledge of project engineering to introduce students to the construction process and familiarize them with the procedures and activities they need to operate as project engineers during their summer...

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by Douglas Scarrett (Author), Jan Wilcox (Author)Property asset management requires both day-to-day oversight of rental properties and an ability to maximize the potential of the portfolio through forward thinking and practical planning. Successful property managers must be flexible and proactive whilst maintaining a robust knowledge of technical, financial and legal aspects of the leasing system. Property Asset Management is a practical guide to the key principles of successful property mana...

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by Reid Ewing (Author), Shima Hamidi (Author)Across the nation, the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its impact has become pivotal to urban planning. A decade and a half ago, Smart Growth America and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sought to raise the level of the debate by sponsoring groundbreaking research to quantitatively measure sprawl and its quality-of-life impacts. The resulting measures are widely used in urban research and public health. Costs of Sprawl provides a panora...