MEDIATED ARCHITECTURE: Vivid, Effervescent and Nervous, the second issue of the SAC JOURNAL, presents three projects de- signed at SAC during the last eight years.
Though much attention has been given to the prefabrication of architecture, there has been little discussion on the influence and importance of prefabrication within the interior environment.
Architecture is one of the colors of human culture, because it is an expression of subjectivity, and not an expression of a person's need for the requirements of his daily life.
This book includes research on the history of Arabic calligraphy before and after Islam, its spread among nations, the languages in which writing is done, the introduction of calligraphy into the Two Holy Mosques, its phases and progression of improvement, the names of ancient and modern scripts, the creator of each type of them, the reason for naming pens and their sizes, and What is found of ancient calligraphy and antiquities, and the names of those who know how to write on grain, and the names of calligraphers and their classes from the distinguished people of Hijaz and others from the beginning of Islam to the present day, and it deals with the series of calligraphers And their chain of transmission and the history of the appearance of the formation of letters and their falling, to other valuable investigations and benefits.
This book systematically examines historical perspectives, meticulously unveiling the nuanced narratives embedded within cityscapes across epochs, providing a comprehensive chronicle of architectural evolution.
Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling: Geographic Information Technologies and Pedometrics presents the latest methodological developments in soil-landscape modeling.
Originally published in 1952, this book, profusely illustrated, describes the various styles of wall decoration that have been used in England from the time of Henry VII up to the reign of Queen Victoria.
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.
When Abbot Laurence, of Westminster, looked out to the northward or north-eastward, he could see no land-as far as the wall of London-which did not belong to him and his house.
This book offers a rigorous but graphically compelling narrative historic analysis of one of the most important civic buildings not only of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, or the State of Illinois, but arguably of the United States, Memorial Stadium.
Esta publicación sintetiza una extensa investigación y experimentación sobre el espacio en la escultura a partir de un análisis interdisciplinar desde la arquitectura y otras artes que abordan el tema de la espacialidad.
Museum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by focusing on the role and rights of children in museums from a new angle: design.
The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within various settings, including Europe and the United States.
This book is aimed at covering all aspects of the evaluation, certification, and reduction of the energy and carbon footprint of the built environment from the scale of the city and its neighbourhoods, to the building level and finally to the level of single building materials and components.
Our world is full of lands, cities, buildings and artefacts, many of which are deposits and residues of colonial times and, more pervasively, colonial processes.
MEDIATED ARCHITECTURE: Vivid, Effervescent and Nervous, the second issue of the SAC JOURNAL, presents three projects de- signed at SAC during the last eight years.
The focal main objective of the book is to constitute a meaningful linkage among research problems, geoinformation methods and corresponding applications.
Towards Energy-Efficient Buildings: Envelope Technologies and Sustainable Energy Systems examines the intersection of building design and energy systems analysis, paving the way to sustainable, efficient buildings and our communal energy future.
Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Placemaking: Production of Built Environment in Two Cultures is a book about the context of placemaking - the production of vernacular architecture and settlement.
This book gathers a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Scientific Conference "e;Environmental Challenges in Civil Engineering"e;, ECCE 2024, held on April 22-24, 2024, in Opole, Poland.
This book gathers a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Scientific Conference "e;Environmental Challenges in Civil Engineering"e;, ECCE 2024, held on April 22-24, 2024, in Opole, Poland.
