Author: Shelton, Barrie Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This timely publication is the first exposition of the Japanese city. It covers the form, character and organization of the buildings and spaces in Japanese cities and particularly the relationships b...
Author: Yellamraju, Vijaya Publisher: McGraw-Hill Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A One-Stop Guide to Managing LEED-New Construction ProjectsThis GreenSource book explains, step by step, how to integrate LEED-New Construction (NC) rating system requirements into the building design...
Description: A One-Stop Guide to Managing LEED-New Construction ProjectsThis GreenSource book explains, step by step, how to integrate LEED-New Construction (NC) rating system requirements into the building design...
Author: Mulcahy, Linda Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Legal Architecture addresses how the environment in which the trial takes place can be seen as a physical expression of our relationship with ideals of justice; as it approaches the history of co...
Author: Payne, Michael Publisher: McGraw-Hill Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A compilation of difficult design problems and their solutions, culled from Payne's seminars, internet chats and e-mails, in vibrant four-color style.
Author: Davis, Howard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultura...
Author: Davis, Howard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultura...
Author: Taniguchi, Eiichi Publisher: Elsevier Science Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Urban freight transport has become an important issue in urban planning. There are many challenges and problems relating to increasing levels of traffic congestion, environmental impacts and energy co...
Author: Hornstein, Shelley Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It examines how architecture exists as a physical entity and how it registers as a...
Author: Cawthon, Richard J. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lost Churches of Mississippi is a collection of archival photographs, postcards, and drawings of more than one hundred notable churches and synagogues vanquished by fire, disaster, development, or neg...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowled...
Description: The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowled...
Author: Emmitt, Stephen Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Construction, architecture and engineering projects are complex undertakings, involving a temporary grouping of people and companies, with different agendas and experience, coming together to achieve ...
Author: Graham, Derek Publisher: McGraw-Hill Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Residential construction projects are notorious for being over budget and behind schedule, and the industry is in dire need of an effective solution. This highly visual resource provides just that-...
Author: Blyth, Alastair / Worthington, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Briefing is not just presenting a set of documents to the design team; it is a process of developing a deep understanding about client needs. This book provides both inspiration to clients and a frame...
Author: Lee, Linda Publisher: Heritage Trail Publications Ltd Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Little evidence of everyday life in Britain during the Middle Ages has survived, with the exception of the manor house. Today there are perhaps some 300 examples of this type of late medieval country ...
Author: Liang, Samuel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city's colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of...
Author: Yudelson, Jerry Publisher: Architectural Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success" presents all the information key decision-makers need to respond to the fast-growing market for green buildings, design and construction ser...
Author: Thomas, Katie Lloyd Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the use of materials in architecture, considering their meaning, implications, influences and practical use, going beyond a simple technical view to discover the forces that shape '...
Author: Parker, Dave Publisher: Architectural Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Spiralling fuel costs, frequent power cuts, 'energy wars' with fuel rich countries holding consumers to ransom - these are just some of the issues that are helping to ensure that microgeneration of po...
Author: Edwards, Brian Publisher: Spon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical...
Author: Mallgrave, Harry Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theorem, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synt...
Author: Raphael, Kate Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During much of the twelfth century the Crusaders dominated the military scene in the Levant. The unification of Egypt and Syria by Saladin gradually changed the balance of power, which slowly begun to...
Author: Thomas Sr., Larry D. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: My people perish for the lack of knowledge In this in-depth study guide Pastor Thomas would like for the readers, student, or laity alike to have a good working knowledge of the word of God in these...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of "The Journal of Architecture," published together for the first time in a single volume.Covering a wide ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approach. More often than not these books fail to introduce...
Author: Baek, Jin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based round an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando's Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance of ...
Author: Deitz, Paula Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Of Gardens records a great adventure of continual discovery not only of the artful beauty of individual gardens and landscapes but also of the intellectual and historical threads that weave them into ...
Description: This is the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. With specially commissioned and original essays written by a team of distinguished a...
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise Publisher: Walker Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Known for her well-reasoned and passionately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has captivated readers across the country for decades, in the process becoming one of the best known c...
Author: Smith, Walter J. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Starting your own architecture or engineering firm may seem a bit daunting. In Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice, author Walter J. Smith presents a handbook to help you navigate...
Author: March, Chris Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: User-friendly and rich in anecdotal evidence, Chris March's new book highlights the issues involved in managing a construction site, from the setting up of a site to the contractor's responsibility to...
Author: Fischer, Robert F. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Learn advanced optical design techniques from the field's most respected guide Honed for more than 20 years in an SPIE professional course taught by renowned optical systems designer Robert E. Fis...
Author: Irazábal, Clara Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America's cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there, revealing contemporary definitio...
Description: An interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on the world stage in the twenty-first century....
Author: Arata, Michael J. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Perimeter Security has taken on a new level of importance since 9/11. Whether insuring the safety of government buildings, hospitals, residences, or bio-research labs, the safety of workers and materi...
Author: Karlstrom, Paul J. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz's own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pi...
Author: Gaffikin, Frank / Morrissey, Mike Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more dec...
Author: Noobanjong, Koompong Publisher: Dissertation.Com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Modern architecture is a creation of the West. In a non-Western context, it normally reflects a direct intervention of Western powers through colonization. Thailand, formerly known as Siam, is an ex...
Author: Marjanovic, Igor / Ruedi Ray, Katerina / Tankard, Jane Publisher: Architectural Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The year out, or internship, in a professional practice can be the most rewarding experience in an architectural student's education. It can also be a shock to the system to find that architectural wo...
Author: Colley, Barbara C. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first choice among land development engineers, this edition is newly updated and expanded. It is required reading for young engineers and a convenient reference for experienced engineers. This is ...
Description: Scarrett's book provides a practical guide for those involved in the business of property management from basic accounting and day to day systems, to landlord and tenant relationships, maintenance and...
Author: Padovan, Richard Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This handbook provides the student, practising architect or interested layman with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture.
