Throughout the world, Passive House is now recognised as the best method to create comfortable, healthy, low energy buildings and it is a key component of the 21st century's green economic revolution.
There are over half a million listed buildings in Britain, conservation areas can be found in every borough, and a large proportion of our housing stock pre-dates 1914.
Die Anforderungen an unsere Arbeitsraume haben sich in jungster Zeit grundlegend verandert: Wechselnde Belegungsdichte und Raumnutzung fordern in gleicher Weise Flexibilitat der Raumstrukturen wie neue Berufe und innovative Arbeitsmethoden.
This book for architects, interior designers, building managers, students, conference organisers looks at first principles to provide the user with the 'tools' to make their own decisions rather than a 'cookbook' approach.
As with the best-selling 'Architects Pocket Book' this title includes everyday information which the architect/designer normally has to find from a wide variety of sources and which is not always easily to hand.
Throughout history, people have constructed simple timber lattice shelters such as the tepee or yurt, covered with animal skins, leaves, grasses and woven fabrics.
Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers explains methods in evidence-based design, also called practice-based research, to show you the value of research to your designs.
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 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.
Das unverzichtbare Standardwerk Für Studenten, professionelle Designer und interessierte Laien gleichermaßen unverzichtbar: die umfassend überarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage dieses Standardwerks zur Produktgestaltung.
Architecture in Formation is the first digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution.
Im Zuge der Reform des Bauvertragsrechts 2018 wurde neben einer Kündigung aus wichtigem Grund des gesamten Vertrages die Möglichkeit zur Teilkündigung gesetzlich in § 648a Abs.
Im Zuge des demografischen Wandels ist die Architektur heute und in der Zukunft mehr denn je gefordert, die Gestaltung von Wohnsituationen fur alternde Menschen und vor allem solche mit Demenz neu zu denken.
This new edition of Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering explores how to effectively develop creative collaborations among architects and engineers.
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.
Writing Architecture considers the process, methods, and value of architecture writing based on Wisemans 30 years of experience in writing, editing, and teaching young architects how to write.
Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control since the years following World War II until today.
Presenting diverse case studies of contemporary sustainable urban practice from Europe, Africa, India, South America, the USA and Australia, this book offers the reader a fantastic wealth of practical material from a range of internationally renowned authors.
First published in 2009, Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism is a detailed round of pedagogical dialogue on architecture and urbanism that reset the stage for debating future visions of transformative pedagogy and its impact on design education.
The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the 'right to the city' into today's context of ecological, economic and social crises.
Pandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in which people increasingly work, shop, and learn online, transforming how we use space in-person and remotely.
In this important book, the authors unpack the theoretical and practical issues around the development of heritage sites, critically dissecting key conservation benchmarks such as the ICOMOS guidelines, BS 7913 and the RIBA Conservation Plan of Work to reveal the mechanics of heritage guidance, its advantages and conceptual limitations.
Architecture for the Commons dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organizations that allow them to exist.
