The first world atlas ever compiled on vernacular architecture, this comprehensive work illustrates the variety and ingenuity of the world's vernacular building traditions from a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative approach, using over sixty world and regional maps.
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.
A visually stunning guide to architectural drawing from the RIBA Collections for students and those wanting to understand how to develop their graphic and representation skills.
The book presents the selected and peer reviewed papers of 2023 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2023), held in Bali Island, Indonesia on December 16-18, 2023.
Entdecken Sie die Vielfalt und Tiefe der deutschen Kultur und IdentitätKulturelle Wurzeln und nationale Identitäten erlangen eine immer größere Bedeutung.
Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.
Enhancing Interoperability and Automation of Construction Waste Quantification outlines the construction waste quantification (CWQ) modelling that supports data-driven decision-making in the built environment.
This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
London's North Bank in 50 Buildings highlights the remarkable buildings bordering the north side of the River Thames between Vauxhall Bridge and Tower Bridge.
Kochen und Essen sind medial omnipräsent und es gibt kaum noch einen Ort, an dem nichts gegessen oder getrunken wird - dabei bleibt die Küche im Zuhause zunehmend kalt.
Mit der Vision 2030 will Saudi-Arabien das Unmögliche möglich machen: eine vollständige Transformation von einer ölabhängigen Monarchie zu einem globalen Zentrum für Technologie, Tourismus und Kultur.
Originally published in 1997, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Tradition, Location and Community: Place-making and Development brings together the selected papers of seventeen architects, social scientists and planners.
The intersection of architecture and the machine has a history that stretches back to the Industrial Revolution, however the machine has recently begun to appear in new ways in speculative architectural drawing and modelling.
A Practical Research Process for Developing a Sustainable Built Environment in Emerging Economies aims to fill the dearth of practical research guidance and reference material with specific focus on the built environment in developing countries.
Human Factors in the Built Environment, Third Edition explains the relationship of the human body and space planning to the design process so that you can plan and detail interiors.
This edited collection investigates gender-sensitive spaces, design practices, and provocations that challenge the complex social and material structures that shape inequities of access and inclusion in the urban environment.
Im vorliegenden Band werden über hundert Bauten und Fassadendekorationen analysiert, die im Zeitraum zwischen 1938 und 1945 vollendet, errichtet, ausgeführt und geplant wurden.
The history of architecture is a record of the development of the art of building in various parts of the world, and the tremendous efforts made by the human mind to bestow on various buildings all the beauty of art and the durability of construction.
