Architecture

This book delves into the underexplored realm of daylight comfort in industrial structures, providing real measured data and insights supported by advanced simulations using the RADIANCE program.

The fascinating history of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, a building at the heart of British life for over 700 years.

In the face of the ongoing climate emergency, can humanity keep chipping at its food sheds via urbanization?

This book introduces the reader to contemporary issues in the management of facilities in the African context and includes case studies from across the continent and internationally.

In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this book's author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.

AutoCAD continues to dominate the two-dimensional drafting marketplace for architects and interior designers.

"Sciences and Arts among the Ancient Egyptians" is a book written to be read by those interested in the sciences of medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, and botany, and everyone interested in knowing the conditions of Egypt during the times of the ancient Pharaohs.

»Ein überragendes Talent und erzählerisches Universalgenie.

Permanence as an architectural concept is no longer restricted to the Vitruvian virtueof firmitas.

If architecture is a design-centred discipline which proceeds by suggesting propositional constructions then, Zambelli argues, archaeology also designs, but in the form of reconstructions.

A NEW MANIFOLD, the inaugural issue of SAC JOURNAL, addres- ses the increased specialisation and possible fragmentation of ex- pertise within architecture.

Despite this difference in the forms and degrees of mosques, the general Islamic character remains the common denominator.

This book defines, illustrates, applies, and explores current and future tools and methods for measuring landscape performance using the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center (HANC) as a case site, providing the most extensive, comprehensive description and application of existing landscape performance tools in the current literature to date.

Originally published in 1990, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Vernacular Architecture: Paradigms of Environmental Response was not meant to be collection to represent one view or approach.

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.

El patrimonio arquitectonico moderno esta escondido en cada barrio de Madrid.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, LONDON STANDARD, NEW STATESMAN AND IRISH TIMES'Covers so many topics that have been troubling me but I hadn't been able to resolve myself - as a parent and a clinician.

This unique book introduces students to the themes and aspects of studying the built environment.

Diagrams: Tropes, Tools and Abstract Machines examines the pervasive roles of diagrams as analytical, generative, narrative and critical devices manifest in design practices by architects and non-architects that draw on thick cultural milieus and that operate at personal, architectural and urban scales.

This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses.

Considering that the biggest machines that do the most work are made up of smaller machines and components, it becomes obvious that when a large machine breaks, it is normally due to small components acting antagonistically.

Das Kolosseum ist weit mehr als ein antikes Bauwerk – es ist ein Symbol für die Größe und den Ehrgeiz des Römischen Reiches, ein Meisterwerk der Ingenieurskunst und eine Bühne für die Geschichte der Menschheit.

A practical guide to the assessment, diagnosis, and management of dementia and mild cognitive impairment for healthcare professionals.

Esta investigación, anudada desde la comunicación social, pretende tornar visible lo invisible.

Diagrams: Tropes, Tools and Abstract Machines examines the pervasive roles of diagrams as analytical, generative, narrative and critical devices manifest in design practices by architects and non-architects that draw on thick cultural milieus and that operate at personal, architectural and urban scales.

This book discusses the cutting-edge intersection of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) and research on building occupants.

This book discusses the cutting-edge intersection of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) and research on building occupants.

This book examines the city and its rapid growth, as well as the sustainability issues it poses, in several ways.

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective.

This book systematically examines historical perspectives, meticulously unveiling the nuanced narratives embedded within cityscapes across epochs, providing a comprehensive chronicle of architectural evolution.

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective.

Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first-century Canadian cities.