A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of architectural projects exhibiting intelligence since the Late First Century right up to the present day.
LIGHTING DESIGN BASICS AN AUTHORITATIVE INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL LIGHTING DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS, INTERIOR DESIGNERS, AND ENGINEERS Lighting is an essential component of any designed space, yet it is one of the most difficult right.
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.
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.
Der Band untersucht die starke Priorisierung des Studiengangs Soziale Arbeit durch Bildungsaufsteiger*innen als ein soziales Phänomen und leistet einen Beitrag zur zentralen Diskussion.
El patrimonio cultural edificado, más que un obstáculo para el desarrollo de la ciudad, se convierte en una inmensa oportunidad para reafirmar la identidad a partir de la memoria y en un promisorio campo de acción profesional.
A striking account of Vasari's career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian RenaissanceVasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in 1550, fixed for three hundred years general European views about the art of the Renaissance, and its influence still lingers today.
An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from the acclaimed architectural historianIn The Beginnings of Architecture, Sigfried Giedion examines the architecture of ancient Egypt and Sumer.
En el marco de la 10ª exposición Internacional de Arquitectura de la bienal de Venecia 2006, uno de los eventos más importantes del mundo en su género, Bogotá recibió el premio León de Oro en la categoría de mejor ciudad por su transformación de los últimos años.
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.
