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This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different c……続きを見る

This publication breaks new ground. It is the first document to provide extensive life-span assessments (for insurance purposes) for a wide range of building components which are classified within t……続きを見る

A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable a……続きを見る

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction outlines a philosophy of values in landscape construction, demonstrating how integral structures, such as pavements and walls, constitute a key element to how ……続きを見る

Titanium is a light, silvery-white, hard metal, often used as an alloying agent with other metals, such as aluminum, iron, molybdenum, and manganese. 続きを見る

The aim of this book is to take the reader by the hand and show them exactly how to carry out various inspection techniques to identify the causes of damp in buildings. This is achieved by taking th……続きを見る

The aim of this book is to explain the principles of the building performance simulation in a concise and comprehensible way using illustrated examples with detailed description. After having read t……続きを見る

CITA Complex Modelling investigates the infrastructures of architectural design models. By questioning the tools for integrating information across the expanded digital design chain, the book asks h……続きを見る

An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century. In Formulations, Andrew Witt examines the v……続きを見る

This book focuses on the exciting possibilities for representing the built environment with techniques ranging from pencil sketching to computers. It teaches students the following skills: how to dr……続きを見る

While fundamentally a design discipline, architectural education requires an element of history and theory, grouped under the term ‘research’. However, many students struggle with this part of their……続きを見る

Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architect……続きを見る

The physical model is an important communication tool for architects. Although the proliferation of CAD programs has enabled the creation of increasingly complex computer models and virtual environm……続きを見る

This book provides an understanding of the fundamental theories and practice behind the creation of architectural structures. It aids the development of an intuitive understanding of structural engi……続きを見る

With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advan……続きを見る

What is the role of hand drawing play for architecture in a digital age, as drawing moves off the page and onto the screen? How might computer-generated drawings emulate the ambiguities and nuances ……続きを見る

This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of build……続きを見る

XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low……続きを見る

Dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building. In doing so, it aims to describe how humans and nature inte……続きを見る

Through essays, interviews, and narratives by Bruce Sterling, Fiona Raby, Sam Jacob and other significant voices in the field, this volume questions the initial discourses around “design fiction”ーa……続きを見る

Floppy Logic is an exploration into the ‘architecture’ of fashion and textiles, and how the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and construction of this architecture might be understood and used to des……続きを見る

A compedium of essays and projects that creates a projective document capable of setting up new scenarios for the architecture of the next decade. This publication wants to transmit the constant va……続きを見る

Eco-Efficient Rendering Mortars: Use of Recycled Materials focuses on the use of waste materials into cement-based renders, discussing the origins, treatment processes and properties of relevant was……続きを見る

This handy book brings together a wealth of useful information that building surveyors need on-site or in the office. It provides clear guidance and fundamental principles in key practice areas such……続きを見る

Foreword by Barry Du Bois - Network Ten's The Living Room How many stories have you heard of kitchen disasters, disputes with builders and kitchen manufacturers, and people not getting what they tho……続きを見る

« Le succès rencontré par Construire en pierre sèche ー le premier livre dans lequel Louis Cagin présentait, à la manière d’un manuel pédagogique, la technique et les méthodes du murailleur ー révèl……続きを見る

Dans cet ouvrage novateur d'histoire des formes, l'architecture est expliquée par les impératifs de la construction, schémas, photos et dessins à l'appui. Les édifices dont le système constructif es……続きを見る

Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book ……続きを見る

The Ecologies of the Envelope theorizes the building envelope as a literal embodiment of the social, political, technological, and economic contingencies which have become embedded within it over th……続きを見る

ZINC SURFACES THE LEADING RESOURCE FOR ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, AND ARTISTS WORKING WITH ZINC Zinc Surfaces: A Guide to Alloys, Finishes, Fabrication and Maintenance in Architecture and Art combines t……続きを見る