Architectural structure and design

How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze usHow do magicians make us see the impossible?

Existentialism; Urbanism; Aporia; Deontic; Tabula Rasa; Hyperspace; Heterotopia; Metareality; Structuralism.

Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users' needs.

This book examines the theoretical foundations of the processes of planning and design.

Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore the traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity.

Understand, Plan, and Prepare for Emergencies and DisastersDevelop and implement effective emergency management plans throughout your organization using the detailed information contained in this practical guide.

Construction Technology 1: House Construction offers a highly accessible introduction to the key stages of domestic house construction from planning to internal finishes.

This booklet is the first in a twelve part series that walks the owner/builder through the construction of a Global Model Earthship.

Earthships son un tipo de edificación autosuficiente que se mantiene al margen de las redes de suministros energéticos y que se considera como un edificio "viviente", ya que interactúa con los recursos naturales de la tierra para proporcionar un refugio confortable que regula de forma pasiva su temperatura interior (sin necesidad de utilizar ningún combustible fósil), capta su propio suministro de agua y al mismo tiempo reutiliza cada gota recolectada cuatro veces, hace un tratamiento de sus propias aguas residuales y permite el cultivo y crecimiento de comida en su interior.

A Coming of Wizards is about finding and moving toward our potential.

Tall Buildings provides information and research on tall buildings.

Energy Conservation in the Design of Multi-Storey Buildings documents the papers presented at an International Symposium held at The University of Sydney, 1-3 June 1983, sponsored by The University of Sydney, the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and the Institution of Engineers Australia.

This book highlights the sustainable innovation in environmental design, materials science, and engineering technologies.

What if urban planning and design were to prioritize rather than merely accommodate the unbuilt environment?

This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm.

This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm.

Build Beautiful, Durable, and Low-impact Homes with Cordwood Construction Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Cordwood Building is the complete guide to using log-ends set in insulating mortar for versatile, economical, and environmentally friendly construction.

Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "e;Green buildings"e; that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough.

Written for students and practitioners in the fields of architecture and interior design, our new Architecture Brief Sustainable Design provides a concise overview of all the techniques available for reducing the energy footprint of structures and spaces.

Environmental disasters and severe weather due to climate change, both triggered by human actions, have had an increasingly direct impact on our homes.

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.

Toronto is a concrete city.

Among the places worst hit by climate change are areas of high urban growth in the warm, humid tropics of Asia and Latin America.

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Build to Rent (BTR) is a form of residential tenure which first emerged in the United States, where it is known as Multifamily Housing.

Improving Convention Center Management Using Business Analytics and Key Performance Indicators presents sound practical advice from an author who successfully lived the experience.

Improving Convention Center Management Using Business Analytics and Key Performance Indicators presents sound practical advice from an author who successfully lived the experience.

The Residential Pathway - APC Essentials was written to facilitate and encourage candidates preparing for the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) to become Chartered Surveyors.

A Practical Research Process for Developing a Sustainable Built Environment in Emerging Economies aims to fill the dearth of practical research guidance and reference material with specific focus on the built environment in developing countries.

Physicians are increasingly moving into leadership roles and possess enormous potential to advance health care.

Lean Thinking for Emerging Healthcare Leaders: How to Develop Yourself and Implement Process Improvements aims to solve the issues in modern day healthcare by handing over the reins of the improvement process to healthcare professionals.

This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City.

In this timely book, Walter E.

This book presents readers with an integrated modeling approach for analyzing and understanding the interconnection of water, energy, and food resources and discusses the relationship between resilience and sustainability of the food- energy -water (FEW) system.

This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions.

This book adopts a multidimensional approach to explain current practices and trends in facility management.

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

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Technology is revolutionizing the way real estate is designed, operated, and valued.

This book covers solar energy and the use of solar radiation in connection with lighting.

This book reflects the current state of knowledge on sustainability in a wide range of fields, from engineering to agriculture, to education.

This book presents the state of the art of two areas: intelligent residential buildings and the behaviour of their occupants.

This book focuses on solar energy conversion systems that can be implemented in the built environment, at building or at community level.

These proceedings present fourteen peer-reviewed papers from the 10th International Conference on Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings and Smart Communities, which was held March 21-22, 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany.

This book explores various digital representation strategies that could change the future of wooden architectures by blending tradition and innovation.

This book introduces researchers and practitioners to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and its applications in the built environment.

This book gathers the proceedings of the Energy and Sustainability 2018 Symposium (EAS 2018) held in Windsor, Canada in June 2018.

The book connects the ICT and the architectural worlds, analyzing modeling, materialization and data-driven visions for design issues at different scales.

This book describes the risks, impacts, measures, actions and adaptation policies that have developed globally as a result of the severe impacts of global climate change.

This is the first book to describe the development of and state of the art in solar shading devices in buildings, detailing all methods of evaluating shading systems according to thermal and visual comfort.