Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions.
Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity's relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integration.
This textbook responds to the increasing demand for practical, industry aligned, ethical practices in quantity surveying, construction management and related AEC professions.
Designed for Habitat: New Directions for Habitat for Humanity presents 12 new projects designed and built via collaborations between architects and Habitat for Humanity(R).
Fur Studenten, professionelle Designer und interessiert Laien gleichermaen unverzichtbar: die umfassend uberarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage dieses Standardwerks zur Produktgestaltung.
The aim of this book is to provide a single source of information to support continuing professional development (CPD) in the built environment sector.
Dieser Band lässt den Leser den Planungsbetrieb des Architekten und den Lebenszyklus eines Gebäudes aus bauökonomischem Blickwinkel erfahren und ist in folgende Themenabschnitte gegliedert: A - Die Aufgaben des Architekten und sein Büro B - Der Betrieb von Gebäuden und baulichen Anlagen C - Der Erhalt von Gebäuden und baulichen Anlagen.
Este libro incluye una serie de textos escritos por reputados especialistas que hablan de arquitecturas y de ciudades de América Latina, poniendo el foco no tanto en los paradigmas al uso que aparecen en la bibliografía y hemerografía más difundidas, sino en esos otros edificios y entornos que constituyen la trama de la ciudad.
International Exhibitions and Urbanism provides an insightful and comprehensive historical review of international exhibitions in its first half, which is then illustrated with a thorough technical analysis of the Zaragoza 2008 project in its second half.
In this ground-breaking book, the first to provide an overview of the theory and practice of experimental architecture, Rachel Armstrong explores how interdisciplinary, design-led research practices are beginning to redefine the possibilities of architecture as a profession.
Das Dach ist die Urform menschlicher Behausungen, bei dem Holz als Baustoff für die Verwendung von Dachkonstruktionen - zumindest im Wohnhausbau - nach wie vor eine enorme Bedeutung zukommt.
The housing crisis confronts two of North America's contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densification of existing communities.
For every element that we design in the landscape, there is a corresponding grading concept, and how these concepts are drawn together is what creates a site grading plan.
Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture.
This new edition of Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering explores how to effectively develop creative collaborations among architects and engineers.
As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as "e;contemporism"e; through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements).
Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes.
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.
The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of communities for the 21st Century.
Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architecture education.
As 'visual animals' architects continue to live and work in a pictorial age in which image-making remains the central activity of environmental design.
Social Value in Practice offers the reader a simple, accessible guide for considering, creating, and delivering social value in projects and within their organisation.
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.
