This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning.
Buildings and spaces are like instruments: architectural volumes and their materials, surfaces and structures generate a resonance and therefore have a sensorial impact on people.
As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia.
A New Index for Public Space: After Distancing offers readers a re-evaluation of the notion of publicness as a lens to unpack the complexity of urban space.
Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southeast Asian cities.
Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career.
Challenging mainstream architecture's understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea's centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.
Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southeast Asian cities.
This second book in the BEST series explores the fundamental generators and contextual issues - philosophical, physical and political - that influence built environments.
Este libro es una reelaboración y ampliación de la biografía crítica de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe publicada por Franz Schulze en 1985, que fue el primer estudio completo de este maestro de la arquitectura moderna.
Design for Dementia is written by an interdisciplinary team of professionals and academics whose aim is to present lessons learnt from the Dementia Demonstration House at the Building Research Establishment's Innovation Park.
"El centenario de la Bauhaus vuelve a poner en el foco de nuestro interés la figura de su fundador, el arquitecto Walter Gropius (1883-1969), que en sus escritos y conferencias supo plantear muchos de los temas que, pese al profundo cambio de las condiciones y de nuestros juicios, nos siguen ocupando.
This book offers an efficient set of step-by-step tips and overarching lessons about how to gather useful, meaningful, and socially-informed data about clients' and other stakeholders' experiences in architecture and interior design professions.
This book provides 101 real-life construction management case studies from an author with over 40 years' experience in the construction industry and as a lecturer in construction management.
Este libro tiene como objetivo fundamental enseñar a realizar mediciones y presupuestos tanto a los alumnos de arquitectura y de ingeniería de edificación como a los profesionales con poca experiencia; pero no presenta los presupuestos como una colección de sumatorios, sino como un acuerdo entre todos los agentes que intervienen en la edificación en torno a un alcance, unas prestaciones y un coste: un acuerdo que tiene que mantenerse desde el inicio del proyecto hasta la entrega de la obra acabada.
Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective curriculum necessary to teach public interest designers.
Architecture can inspire young children; the very shape and form of a daycare center can not only stimulate their imagination but can help children form strong relationships and help promote development.
Sustainability has become a driver of innovation in the built environment, but the affordability of sustainable building remains a significant challenge.
Quick, concise and direct, this pocketbook outlines the essentials that every architect needs to know about construction disputes - from tips on avoiding them in the first place and informally negotiating issues as they arise, to how to go about settling full-blown disputes more formally.
This book provides a timely review of the contemporary interpretation of the 'comprehensive health centre', a building type that was originally advocated by health reformers in the UK in the first half of the twentieth century.
Guide to the JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2024 is a must-have resource for architects and construction professionals navigating the latest JCT Intermediate Building Contract (IC and ICD).
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.
This book presents 25 international housing schemes that draw on traditional vernacular principles whilst taking into account modern day materials, methods and financial or energy requirements.