Architecture: professional practice

The emphasis here is to explore the key issues influencing the culture, strategies and management operations of professional practices.

Principles for Evaluating Building Materials in Sustainable Construction: Healthy and Sustainable Materials for the Built Environment provides a comprehensive overview of the issues associated with the selection of materials for sustainable construction, proposing a holistic and integrated approach.

Fur Studenten, professionelle Designer und interessiert Laien gleichermaen unverzichtbar: die umfassend uberarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage dieses Standardwerks zur Produktgestaltung.

Expanding Disciplinarity in Architectural Practice presents an argument for the role of an architect as a generalist with a particular ability to bring spatial intelligence to bear on the significant issues of planning, settlement, and identity.

Fee bidding still generates emotive reactions from within many sections of the architectural profession.

Dirigido primordialmente a los estudiantes de arquitectura, ingeniería y construcción, el principal objetivo de este libro es estudiar y conocer cómo evolucionan las innovaciones en el campo de la construcción y en qué medida influyen en el proceso arquitectónico.

This comprehensive and practical guide takes you step-by-step through the core concepts and applications of architectural lighting.

Through a collection of 13 chapters, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers.

This book is a rigorous account of architecture's theoretical and technological concerns over the last decade.

The Architecture of England: From Norman Times to the Present Day provides information pertinent to the evolution of English architecture.

This collection introduces, illustrates, and advances fresh ideas about creative practice inquiry in architecture.

This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban.

Basics Stadtanalyse erweitert den Themenblock Stadtebau.

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of PR and communication in the construction industry, with a strong emphasis on communications theory, strategy and technique.

For many, the idea of prefab housing may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of home life.

This unique and established guide to the management of design and designers has been comprehensively reimagined and updated.

We live in an era in which designers will make an essential and critical contribution to the health and success of humanity.

The Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis.

Fur Studenten ist die Architekturfotografie ein wichtiges Mittel, sich mit gebauter Architektur auseinanderzusetzen, oder auch eigene Projekte zu dokumentieren.

As a first year student the challenges of learning how to do architecture can be daunting.

Retrofit for Purpose examines a range of state-of-the-art non-domestic retrofit projects.

This book allows the construction professional to gain an insight into the fast moving subject of architectural management.

This practical, hands on introduction guides you through the basics of undertaking research in day-to-day architectural practice helping you to exploit the growing opportunities on offer.

Studies confirm that the physical environment influences health outcomes, emotional state, preference, satisfaction and orientation, but very little research has focused on mental and behavioural health settings.

Often misunderstood, the New Towns story is a fascinating one of anarchists, artists, visionaries, and the promise of a new beginning for millions of people.

Sustainability has become a driver of innovation in the built environment, but the affordability of sustainable building remains a significant challenge.

Architects and healthcare clients are increasingly coming to recognize that, once built, healthcare facilities are almost immediately subject to physical alterations which both respond to and affect healthcare practices.

The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Guide: Design Management is part of a brand new series providing must-read practical guidance to running efficient and successful projects using the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013.

Filling a gap in existing literature on sustainable design, this new guide introduces and illustrates sustainable design principles through detailed case studies of sustainable buildings in Europe, North America and Australia.

As a first year student the challenges of learning how to do architecture can be daunting.

This step-by-step guide takes the reader through each stage of the design process, from concept to completion, exploring practical methods of how to engage the community throughout interior architecture and design projects.

Parametric design and digital fabrication are enabling non-designers to mass produce non-standard, highly differentiated products - from shoes and tableware to furniture and even houses.

Today s design professionals are faced with challenges on all fronts.

Unternehmerisch zu denken und zu handeln heit unter den heutigen Rahmenbedingungen permanenter Veranderungen im Umfeld und auf dem Markt, sich mit strategischen Grundfragen der eigenen Weiterentwicklung auseinander zu setzen.

In an urbanizing world, the city is considered the ultimate model and the measure of all things.

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This book offers a detailed insight into the desire for, and consequences of, precise communications in the daily life of contemporary architectural practice through close readings of constructed architectural details by Sigurd Lewerentz, Caruso St John Architects, Mies van der Rohe and OMA.

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments-unique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreographers.

Ford architects, contractors, engineers and specialists in the field, this book uses real-world evidence from a Technology Strategy Board-funded research project to develop a set of tools for architects and other building designers to meet a growing need to anticipate future climate change.

This is a straight forward jargon-free practical guide about all aspects of extensions of time for all construction industry professionals.

This is a benchmark book which encourages interior designers to raise their professional status and offers their clients an insight into the complex profession of modern interior design.

This book seeks to improve the work lives of architects of diverse demographics who do not fit, or want to replicate, the traditional '24/7' white-male architect lifestyle.

Open Building is an internationally recognized approach to the design of buildings and building complexes with roots in the way the ordinary built environment grows and regenerates.

The 2016 International Conference on Mechanics and Architectural Design (MAD2016) were held in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, 14 - 15 May 2016.

This book explores an emerging design culture that rigorously applies systems thinking to the practice of design as a form of facilitating change on an increasingly crowded planet.

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.