SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BERGER PRIZEA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A Country Life 'Architecture Book to Read in 2025'Elegant, erudite and entertaining .
Houses of God is the first broad survey of American religious architecture, a cultural cross-country expedition that will benefit travelers as much as scholars.
This publication offers guidance for investors, developers and architects on how to best design, build and operate housing with care, part of the later living sector in the UK.
Treehouses have always been a symbol of imagination and adventure, but despite the traditional stereotype, treehouses are not just for children and children's stories.
This publication offers guidance for investors, developers and architects on how to best design, build and operate housing with care, part of the later living sector in the UK.
In Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality: Volume 2 Tom Woolley uses new research to continue to advocate for limiting the use of hazardous materials in construction and raise awareness of the links between pollutants found in building materials, poor indoor air quality and health problems.
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions.
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions.
Vaastu Shaastra, the Vedic treatise on the principles of design and construction, is more intricate and elaborate than how the texts in circulation today understand it.
The third edition of Design-Tech provides an indispensable, holistic resource for integrating building technologies into critically designed, performance-based architectural projects.
"e;Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago's twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and builders.
El libro analiza críticamente el modo de habitar occidental que supone al ser humano como especie superior, con derechos de posesión, control y explotación del mundo natural.
El funcionamiento de las edificaciones: Administración y mantenimiento tiene como objetivo caracterizar, dentro del ciclo de vida de las edificaciones, la fase de funcionamiento; revisar los elementos conceptuales que permitan reconocer su importancia, destacar su papel en el proceso de producción de obras de edificación, expresado este en su puesta en operación y uso, con el fin último de prestar un servicio acorde con su tipología y la función para la cual fueron diseñadas y construidas, siendo necesaria la administración y el mantenimiento como acciones fundamentales e inherentes a la vida útil de las mismas.
The Design and Installation Guide for Roof Tiling is the definitive guide to obtaining successful results in pitched roofing construction using clay or concrete tiles.
With over one billion people worldwide living in informal settlements and enduring substandard housing conditions, these areas present one of the greatest urban challenges of our time.
Interior Technicity: Unplugged and/ or Switched On invites reflection on how interiors have always been augmenting entities and how they continue to be so-in other words, extending, facilitating and consolidating bodies within socio-cultural environments.
This book presents practical, applicable solutions that contribute to built heritage conservation, discussing challenges like resource constraints, ineffective legislation, lack of coordination between different relevant bodies, and absence of public awareness and involvement.
The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games.
The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games.
El patrimonio cultural, en sus múltiples manifestaciones, es un tema que se incorpora en los planes de estudio de distintas disciplinas, entre ellas la de la arquitectura.
«[…] esta publicación contribuye a entender cuál es el alcance del trabajo de los arquitectos hoy en día y a definir los límites de una profesión que parece que, cada vez más y como su autor indica, se expande más allá del "arte de diseñar y construir edificios".
Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.
El jardín es un lugar híbrido desde sus orígenes, nace del anhelo humano por domesticar la naturaleza y de nuestra eterna búsqueda de la belleza, y representa, por todo ello, el espacio de mayor tensión entre lo natural y lo artificial.
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.
Domine el análisis de estructuras isostáticas y consiga estructuras solventes con facilidad¿Qué pasaría si le dijéramos que analizar los complejos diagramas de normal, cortante y momento flector puede ser sorprendentemente sencillo?
Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnically defined groups are at the centre of current policies and societal debates.
Praxistipps vom Finanzprofi Staatliche Schuldenberge, aus den Fugen geratene öffentliche Haushalte, Inflation und geopolitische Krisen: Viele Sparer und Anleger entscheiden sich in diesen Zeiten für den Stabilitätsanker Gold.
In ihrem zweibändigen Werk inklusive eines digitalen Online-Anhangs erarbeitet Nataliya Demir-Karbouskaya eine bauliche Aufstellung und kunsthistorische Zusammenfassung der Bauten der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
In ihrem zweibändigen Werk inklusive eines digitalen Online-Anhangs erarbeitet Nataliya Demir-Karbouskaya eine bauliche Aufstellung und kunsthistorische Zusammenfassung der Bauten der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
