Authored by two architects, Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation: Thoughts, Dreams and Places tells a story of buildings that were built in Poland between 1980 and 2020, as architecture developed in the Western world and Japan.
In The Gardens of Los Poblanos, landscape designer and garden writer Judith Phillips recounts the history of these world-renowned gardens and demonstrates the ways in which the farm's owners, designers, and gardeners have influenced the evolution of this unique landscape.
A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries covers the period from 1650 to 1800,a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.
Esta publicación muestra una amplia serie de proyectos arquitectónicos y urbanísticos que fueron en muchos casos propulsores del desarrollo urbano de sus zonas, pero también, referentes culturales o sociales para los ciudadanos o edificaciones destacadas de la historia de la arquitectura en la ciudad, lo que ha permitido que se les reconozca como parte del patrimonio cultural construido de nuestra capital.
Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2025An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons.
While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development.
Construction planning techniques, technology, and applications-fully updated for the latest advancesThis thoroughly revised guide covers the fundamentals of construction equipment, machinery utilization, and production estimating.
This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real estate sectors and how they align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Denise Scott Brown is best known as part of one of the most acclaimed architectural partnerships in modern architectural history, Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi.
Esta publicación constituye una puesta en valor del ornamento que forma parte esencial de la arquitectura de época republicana, y que constituye buena parte del patrimonio material este periodo.
Sustainable development is a highly integrated concept that encompasses many disciplines such as economics, social sciences, culture, technologies, natural resources, and environmental domains, while achieving sustainable development is a comprehensive multidisciplinary process involving coordination and function.
A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean, and from the Byzantine and Arabic Empires to the Persian World, India, and China.
Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2025An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons.
Construction planning techniques, technology, and applications-fully updated for the latest advancesThis thoroughly revised guide covers the fundamentals of construction equipment, machinery utilization, and production estimating.
This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of environment, energy, building, and infrastructure to achieve the best-balanced global environmental, energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technologies (EBITWs).
Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers.
With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and how it can be employed to create design solutions to address today's environmental crisis using the planetary boundaries as positive creative constraints.
This book seeks to explore the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity, and adaptive reuse in Latin America.
The book provides new perspectives from leading researchers accentuating and examining the central role of the built environment in conceiving and implementing multifaceted solutions for the complex challenges of creating resilient communities, revealing critical potentials for architecture and design to contribute in more informed and long-term ways to the urgent transition of our society.
Los textos en bastardilla que acompañan las obras han sido extraídos de entrevistas realizadas a Antonio Bonet por Hugo Schvartzman y Gustavo Natanson en Barcelona, el año 1978.
The Residential Pathway - APC Essentials was written to facilitate and encourage candidates preparing for the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) to become Chartered Surveyors.
München 1900: Laboratorium der ModerneFranziska zu Reventlow und Frank Wedekind, Hedwig Pringsheim und Thomas Mann, Lou Andreas Salomé und Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne von Werefkin und Wassily Kandinsky – mutig und tatkräftig brechen sie alle um 1900 in die damals modernsten deutschen Stadt auf, um ein freieres, emanzipiertes Leben zu führen und die Zukunft zu gewinnen.
En marco del Mes del Patrimonio 2016 y partiendo de asumir la capital colombiana como una ciudad-memoria en clave de futuro, el Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural (IDPC) organizó un seminario internacional, cuyo propósito esencial fue intercambiar buenas prácticas y casos exitosos de reciclaje y recuperación de edificaciones en contextos patrimoniales tanto en la ciudad de Bogotá como en otros lugares del mundo, con diversos agentes, experiencias y actores de los ámbitos público y privado.
Now hard to believe, Eilean Donan Castle was once one of the largest castles in the west Highlands, known to have featured seven towers, the remains of which lie buried on the island.
Now hard to believe, Eilean Donan Castle was once one of the largest castles in the west Highlands, known to have featured seven towers, the remains of which lie buried on the island.
This book aims to explore and showcase global case studies focused on creating buildings and communities that promote health while enhancing climate resilience.
Con el ánimo de aportar, desde la docencia y la investigación, al uso eficiente de la madera y dirigido a todos aquellos que desean diseñar estructuras de madera y de madera laminada Glulam, proponemos este texto que se basa en investigaciones y normas recientes.
This book deals with regional sustainability, which is one of the biggest issues in Japan today, and presents suggested methods and cases to show how regional management should be carried out.
