Architecture

A little book that is big on information, the Architect's Legal Pocket Book is the definitive reference guide on legal issues for architects and architectural students.

Metaphoric Architecture focuses on a fundamental but often challenging part of the beginning design phases-how to take an abstract idea and transform it into a three-dimensional object, space, or building.

This book explores the future of retail and service design, offering cutting-edge insights from leading researchers.

A little book that is big on information, the Architect's Legal Pocket Book is the definitive reference guide on legal issues for architects and architectural students.

Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies: An Architecture Perspective explores heat mitigation strategies integrated into the urban architecture of global cities, aiming to enhance citizens' quality of life through thoughtful design decisions blending architecture, science and engineering.

Surveying the extraordinary scope of contemporary theory, Jeffrey R.

Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture.

This book explores the complex relationship between urban commons - understood as a repertoire of collective action that fosters a politics of antagonism - and the local state.

This book presents a unique comparative case study that details the narrative around campus design at the first institutions of public higher education in the United States.

Probiotic Cities covers a body of work that is at the forefront of emerging knowledge within architecture, towards designing informed indoor and built environment microbiomes.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

This step-by-step guide takes the reader through each stage of the design process, from concept to completion, exploring practical methods of how to engage the community throughout interior architecture and design projects.

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking.

En 1987 se celebró en Manizales, Colombia, el tercer seminario de Arquitectura Latinoamericana, gracias a la iniciativa de un entusiasta grupo de arquitectos interesados en reflexionar sobre las características y particularidades de la arquitectura de nuestro continente, encabezado por Rogelio Salmona.

Los fragmentos de arte que vemos todos los días en Bogotá tienen como objeto traer a la mente el pasado, son la referencia de actos y personajes que han cumplido un papel importante en la historia de la ciudad y del país.

This book contains selected papers presented at Second International Symposium on Sustainable Energy and Technological Advancements (ISSETA 2023), organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, India, during February 24-25, 2023.

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.

Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo's personal account of his development as an artistA leading exponent of the modern art movement known as Constructivism, Russian-born Naum Gabo was one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century-an artist, designer, and theorist whose work changed the course of modern art.

A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historiansThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century.

Discover how to calculate structural loads in compliance with 2024 IBC and ASCE 7-22 requirementsThis practical guide shows, step by step, how to interpret and apply the provisions of the 2024 IBC and ASCE 7-22.

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 19th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Cape Town, South Africa on October 26-28, 2022.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 19th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Cape Town, South Africa on October 26-28, 2022.

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).

This book explores the connection between digital fabrication and the design build studio in both academic and professional studios.

This book presents interdisciplinary research on bamboo in Vietnam, drawing on the anthropology of gesture, ethnobotany and the history of technology.

Since the first edition published in 1989, Which Contract?

Probiotic Cities covers a body of work that is at the forefront of emerging knowledge within architecture, towards designing informed indoor and built environment microbiomes.

Der Band untersucht die starke Priorisierung des Studiengangs Soziale Arbeit durch Bildungsaufsteiger*innen als ein soziales Phänomen und leistet einen Beitrag zur zentralen Diskussion.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

The book presents themes related to contemporary architecture as the results of diverse cultural influences and architectural legacies, manifested in a rich variety of styles, materials, and spatial perceptions.

Originally published in 1974, this volume presents viable alternatives to traditional attitudes and practices in environmental design and education.

An essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the WestThis book provides vital insights into the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society.

In Children of the Soil, Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, before, during, and after colonization.

Die Kunst, ein Mensch zu sein.

Machen Sie einen Spaziergang durch den schönsten Frankfurter Park, den Hauptfriedhof, und lernen Sie dabei die Stadtgeschichte kennen!

Esta publicación reconoce la riqueza que Colombia posee en arte y arquitectura desde la mirada de Santiago Sebastián, español que llegó al Valle del Cauca en 1961 para emprender un recorrido por varias regiones del país con el fin de analizar las tendencias, los estilos y las formas locales frente a las propiedades arquitectónicas y artísticas predominantes en España y el resto de Europa.

This book contains selected papers presented at Second International Symposium on Sustainable Energy and Technological Advancements (ISSETA 2023), organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, India, during February 24-25, 2023.

Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo's personal account of his development as an artistA leading exponent of the modern art movement known as Constructivism, Russian-born Naum Gabo was one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century-an artist, designer, and theorist whose work changed the course of modern art.

A classic account of the villa-from ancient Rome to the twentieth century-by "e;the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture"e; (Architect's Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America.

This book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry.

Patrimoine et territoire sont intrinsèquement liés.

Bogotá en la mirada de diez fotógrafos.

This book presents select proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Civil and Ecological Engineering Research (ACEER 2023).

This book contains seven chapters that detail the future of smart cities.

This book explores the connection between digital fabrication and the design build studio in both academic and professional studios.

This book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry.

This book seeks to explore the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity, and adaptive reuse in Latin America.

This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people.