Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Housing: Design, Research and Education, demonstrated some of the diversity and richness of the research being undertaken in housing at time, which took as its starting point peoples' notion of home and the way in which a sense of home is captured distilled and expressed through various facets of design, and conversely the urgent need for architects and planners to take seriously the everyday scale and scope of peoples' home experience.
Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Environmental Psychology in Europe: From Architectural Psychology to Green Psychology sets out to explain the nature of environmental psychology, how it was born, how it developed, what were its dominant subjects, its principal actors and its present state in Europe at the time.
It is not without irony that in an age characterised by the dissolution of certainty a consequence of digital dematerialisation and the catastrophic destabilisation of our social institutions and natural world architecture, for so long the repository for our myths and the vessel for our intangible narratives and rituals, has been stripped bare.
"Das Sabino-Kaninchen und seine Abenteuer" ist ein Kinderbuch, das die spannenden und lustigen Abenteuer von Sabino, einem neugierigen und abenteuerlustigen Kaninchen, erzählt.
The battle in architecture between the internationalist voices of modernism and the localized resistance, which favored traditional technologies and regional precedents, reflected in microcosm the violent and complex histories of twentieth-century Germany.
This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives from architecture, ethnography, and human-computer interaction (HCI).
"Yo elegí Arquitectura" tiene un contenido temático que conduce a la reflexión, dirigido a todo público, especialmente a estudiantes y profesionales del ramo de la arquitectura.
Como continuación del libro que la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (UJTL) publicó en diciembre de 2008, titulado Tipologías arquitectónicas coloniales y republicanas, la presente investigación pretende ahondar en el conocimiento de las características formales, estructurales y materiales de las cubiertas coloniales y republicanas que se encuentran en la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias y en las poblaciones circunvecinas de Turbaco y Arjona.
Ce dossier appréhende des espaces de bain souvent dissociés, ceux liés à la propreté et à l’hygiène et ceux liés aux loisirs, au bien-être ou aux rituels religieux.
The ambition of the book is to give a contemporary insight in the state of the art when it comes to designing our cities and landscapes for dry conditions.
Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today.
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.
Originally published in 1988, reissued now with a new series introduction, Environmental Perspectives was the first in a trilogy of books to open the series Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences.
The gold-standard structural design reference, completely revised and updated with an all-new look Completely revised to reflect the latest standards and practices, Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders, 13th Edition, is the go-to reference on structural design, giving architects and contractors a concise introduction to the structures commonly used for typical buildings.
This book offers the basics of embodied and operational carbon while discussing the inclusion of carbon emission in the GBRS at global and national level.
Religious belief played a major role in all aspects of life and culture in every era and in every human civilization, whether this was a positive human religion or a divine religion from the Abrahamic religions, as the teachings of each religion were a decisive factor in directing the architect's compass towards special architectural lines that suit The teachings of religion that govern the movement of life in every civilization, and therefore the Islamic religion was not far from this matter, as the teachings of Islam were the main factor behind the development of methods Architecture in every country entered by Islamic conquests, even if every architectural culture employed its principles in construction and architecture that were prevalent in it before Islam, to be compatible with the architecture that arose under the new religion.
Der Speyerer Dom ist mehr als ein herausragendes Bauwerk der Romanik – er ist ein Zeugnis europäischer Geschichte, eine architektonische Meisterleistung und ein Symbol für Macht, Glaube und kulturelles Erbe.
This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.
The various creations of the French novelist Emile Zola, as well as his theoretical articles, contributed to the victory of the naturalistic school, which wrested supremacy from romanticism thanks to the efforts of great writers, including in France Emile Zola, who was a professor and literary mentor to the famous writer Guy de Maupassant.
Practical, comprehensive resource for commercial interior design, covering research, execution, safety, sustainability, and legal considerations Designing Commercial Interiors explores the entire design process of commercial projects from planning to execution to teach the vital considerations that will make each project a success.
The ambition of the book is to give a contemporary insight in the state of the art when it comes to designing our cities and landscapes for dry conditions.
In addition to being a fundamental concept for planning the water infrastructure which supports extensive agricultural economies across Southeast Asia, knowledge of the Mekong River's hydrological catchments has calibrated the control of land, resources and people.
Este libro presenta la construcción de la arquitectura moderna me- xicana mediante un enfoque basado en cinco estructuras de poder: la académica, la económica y política, la de estatus social, la de género y la poscolonial.
This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP), held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-27 July, 2024.
From the birth of Berlin's railway network to the time when the bombs of the Second World War and the concrete slabs of the Wall changed the city forever, the Prussian and later German capital counted eight major railway stations.
This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP), held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-27 July, 2024.
