Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture Architecture is bound up with our daily lives but, for most of us, it is experienced as a blur of habit.
This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.
This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health.
The 13th edition of Chudley and Greeno's Building Construction Handbook remains THE authoritative reference for all construction students and professionals.
Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans critically examines gated luxury condominiums in contemporary India, exploring their role in shaping elite power and identity within the framework of neoliberalism.
In this significantly revised third edition, Designing Zero Carbon Buildings combines embodied and operational emissions into a structured approach for achieving zero emissions by a specific year with certainty.
The 13th edition of Chudley and Greeno's Building Construction Handbook remains THE authoritative reference for all construction students and professionals.
This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations.
This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD 2023) hosted under the aegis of the Group of Twenty (G20) and Civil 20 (C20) at Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India.
Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britain's built environment was imagined, and in drawing from the evidence provided by those models today, this book considers how architects, planners, and civil engineers thought about that future by presenting a history of yesterday's dreams of tomorrow, told through architectural models.
Denkmälerhandbuch und praktisches Nachschlagewerk für die Reise und den Schreibtisch - übersichtlich gegliedert und mit umfangreichem Karten- und Planmaterial ausgestattet.
Nietzsche and Architecture explores Nietzsche's relationship to the architects, buildings, and modern architectural movements he went on to inspire, and situates his philosophy more appropriately and comprehensively within the field of architectural studies, architectural history, and theory.
La formación de profesionales de cara a los nuevos retos del siglo xxi representa un gran desafío, debido a la necesidad de desarrollar en los estudiantes competencias para un mundo cambiante.
This book takes a theoretical and empirical distance from urban slums/low-income settlements as a threat to environmental sustainability and recast them as places where environmentally rehabilitative and circular practices occur-drawing on the theoretical lens of the circular economy (CE).
Este libro analiza las diversas concepciones de la 'composición arquitectónica' que se formularon en los libros de teoría y se aplicaron en los proyectos y los edificios construidos durante los siglos XIX y XX.
This practical guide covers the best practices for planning, organizing, and financing BIDs; the services they provide; and how they are operated and managed.
Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible.
A beautifully illustrated celebration of Stourhead, featuring the legendary Georgian landscape garden in glorious autumn colour with essays by head gardener Alan Power.
Como integrante de una Misión Cooperación del Gobierno francés, Jacques Aprile-Gniset (París, 1933-Cali, 2014) arribó a Colombia en 1966 para apoyar la formación de los campos del urbanismo y la planeación en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá, y la elaboración de planes para las ciudades que estaban en plena ebullición.
Denkmälerhandbuch und praktisches Nachschlagewerk für die Reise und den Schreibtisch - übersichtlich gegliedert und mit umfangreichem Karten- und Planmaterial ausgestattet.
Denkmälerhandbuch und praktisches Nachschlagewerk für die Reise und den Schreibtisch - übersichtlich gegliedert und mit umfangreichem Karten- und Planmaterial ausgestattet.
BUILDING SYSTEMS FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS Make design decisions informed by technical and structural knowledge with this essential guide Professional interior design demands more than simply an understanding of aesthetic and artistic considerations; it also requires a detailed understanding of building systems and their interactions.
Dieses Buch vermittelt Fach- und Führungskräften aus der Immobilienbranche praxisnah die Potenziale moderner digitaler Tools und Applikationen für ihr tägliches Geschäft.
Nietzsche and Architecture explores Nietzsche's relationship to the architects, buildings, and modern architectural movements he went on to inspire, and situates his philosophy more appropriately and comprehensively within the field of architectural studies, architectural history, and theory.
