Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and contested 'informal' enclaves and communities in the cities of India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges current ways of thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility and placemaking.
Environmental disasters and severe weather due to climate change, both triggered by human actions, have had an increasingly direct impact on our homes.
In The Pandemic Effect, 90 leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and citiesand propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics, viruses, and contagious diseases on every scale, from surfaces to society.
This textbook serves as a guide to real estate students and educators on the various property innovations and digital technologies that continue to shape the property industry.
¿Qué supone decir Arquitectura del Pensamiento Global, qué tipo de declaración sobre una manera de mirar el mundo, entendido éste como producido humano y en particular, referenciado a su vida comunitaria y social, en el contexto de los espacios urbanos crecientes?
La propuesta nace sobre la base de constituirse en una "primera aproximación a las casas bioclimáticas" y, tiene como propósitos, en relación con el tema planteado expresar algunas consideraciones e ilustrar sobre proyectos y obras internacionales y nacionales.
Este libro nace como consecuencia de haberse agotado la edición de la Revista de la Sociedad Central de Arquitectos número 217 "Modos de habitar", publicada en julio de 2005.
Hemos consumido los 10 primeros anos del S XXI sin avances sustanciales en los problemas fundamentales que plantea la globalizacion y un medio ambiente necesariamente compartido.
Esta publicacion trata sobre una compilacion del programa, de las ideas generales y de las monografias realizadas por los alumnos, acerca de la didactica del taller de diseno.
Es una evidencia incuestionable que las transformaciones sufridas en todos los territorios de la humanidad desde el pasado siglo y en los ultimos tiempos han sido de tal importancia y trascendencia que han cambiado de una manera decisiva la forma de entender este mundo, y por tanto, y obviamente, la arquitectura tampoco se ha librado de estas convulsiones.
La rápida e intensiva evolución que han experimentado las tecnologías biológicas y digitales a finales del siglo XX, han producido importantes transformaciones en nuestros hábitos cotidianos y laborales.
The Organizer's Guide to Architecture Education serves as a timely call-to-action for transforming architecture education to meet the monumental environmental and social challenges of our time.
The book provides a complete vision about Spanish sustainable renovation of buildings situation at this moment, analysing legal and technological context and opportunities that economic stimulus -by means of direct aids- and the use of BIM methodologies offers a standardization of high scale interventions.
In this collection of essays, Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport - a felicitation volume to celebrate the significance of Professor Amos Rapoport's lifelong scholarship - scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced understanding of mutual relationships between people and built environments across cultures.
Building information modeling (BIM) is the new AutoCAD(R) for architects and interior designers-and Revit(R) Architecture is the leading software package in the BIM marketplace.
Sustainable Design for Interior Environments, 2nd Edition, builds on the first edition's premise that the interior design profession has a social and moral responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of people and the environment.
Sustainable Design for Interior Environments, 2nd Edition, builds on the first edition's premise that the interior design profession has a social and moral responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of people and the environment.
First published in 1881, this classic volume presents dozens of practical examples of barns and outbuildingsincluding floor plans and building instructionsand contains two hundred and fifty-seven engravings, woodcuts, and line drawings illustrating historical and practical designs.
This book explores the relationship between pedestrians/cyclists' mode and route choice to/from metro/railway stations and the micro-level (street-scale) built environment in a second-tier city in China.
Natural Approaches to Optimal Wellness: Integrating EcoWellness into Counseling offers a groundbreaking perspective on holistic human wellness by introducing the EcoWellness framework to counselors and psychotherapists.
The rise of living standards and the deterioration of thermal conditions in the urban environment are mainly responsible for the increase in the energy consumption in buildings.
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.
In einer Welt, die zunehmend von Urbanisierung und Dichte geprägt ist, stehen Städteplaner und Architekten vor der Herausforderung, Lebensräume zu schaffen, die nicht nur funktional, sondern auch lebenswert sind.
Ecological and technological (eco-tech) planning provides a possible response to the essential issues of sustainability and rehabilitation in rapidly growing urban spaces.
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.
