Architecture

Ernst L.

A reduction in the energy demand of buildings can make a major contribution to achieving national and international carbon reduction goals, in addition to addressing the interlinked issues of sustainable development, fuel poverty and fuel security.

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "e;engineering pope"e; Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds.

This classic portfolio uses elevations, floor plans, and other line drawings by Scotland's first great classical architect to document the high Scottish style of the eighteenth century.

La fascinación de las sociedades contemporáneas por las cosas antiguas, por los objetos que vienen del pasado y nos hablan de él, parece originarse y sostenerse en el contraste que estos producen con el presente, dimensión temporal esta última caracterizada por una permanente inestabilidad.

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts.

Demolition and redevelopment over the past seventy-five years have done great damage to Worthing, and relatively few of the town's historic buildings survive.

This book is about the therapeutic environment of the Maggie's centre and explores the many ways this is achieved.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City is the first multifaceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation and how translation studies can be enriched by an understanding of the complex dynamics of the city.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLVIN PRIZE 2021!

How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development?

This book examines multimodality in architecture and its impacts on collaborative, technical and educational processes or systems.

Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2025An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons.

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement—and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement.

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one.

Anyone with an interest in buildings and the built environment would do well to purchase a copy of Owen Hopkins' book.

The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses and geometric analyses attempting to explain its form and meaning.

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology.

Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr.

Your one-stop, comprehensive guide to commercial doors and door hardware from the brand you trust Illustrated Guide to Door Hardware: Design, Specification, Selection is the only book of its kind to compile all the relevant information regarding design, specifications, crafting, and reviewing shop drawings for door openings in one easy-to-access place.

Public Gardens Management: A Global Perspective provides essential information about public gardens and what is involved in designing, managing, and maintaining one.

This book is the first of its type on NEOM Region, NW of Saudi Arabia.

Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures.

This book gives readers an overview about technologies that are useful for developments related to Smart Cities.

This book details how Building Information Modelling is being successfully deployed in the planning, design, construction and future operation of the Istanbul New Airport, a mega-scale construction project incorporating a varying mix of infrastructures including terminals, runways, passenger gates, car parks, railways and roads.

This is a second edition of a textbook that provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic worlds.

A practical guide which enables small builders to tackle everyday alteration and improvement projects with confidence.

What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space?

Learning from Failure in the Design Process shows you that design work builds on lessons learned from failures to help you relax your fear of making mistakes, so that you're not paralyzed when faced with a task outside of your comfort zone.

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque - when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor - in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture.

This book uses the concept of the region to introduce traditional Chinese villages in ten typical areas.

Envisioning a positive future through design 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes the ways in which architecture and design can engage with the key drivers of change and provide affirmative aspirations for a not-so distant future.

A bold reassessment of "e;smart cities"e; that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration-promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences.

Today s design professionals are faced with challenges on all fronts.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to urban design, from a historical overview and basic principles to practical design concepts and strategies.

This handbook, representing the collaboration of 40 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present.

This textbook provides graduate and advanced undergraduate students with a comprehensive introduction to the application of basic principles and concepts for physical and engineering acoustics.

After years of neurohype and a neuroskeptic backlash, this book provides a systematic analysis of the contributions to self-understanding cognitive neuroscience (CNS) and philosophy can make.

This fascinating book traces the relationship of European-Australian culture to this ancient river system.

Aleje cualquier posibilidad de colapso en sus estructuras con análisis y medios fiablesNada despierta más inquietud en un ingeniero civil que presenciar el desmoronamiento prematuro de un edificio.