Design & Drafting 11

Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment. Bracketed between texts on giraffe morphology, ecol……続きを見る

Interpreting Site explains the basic methods architects use to translate what you perceive to represent the complex conditions that physically and mentally "construe" a site, helping to shape the ul……続きを見る

Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues is the first book to demonstrate that public interest design has emerged as a distinct profession. It p……続きを見る

Altruism by Design: How to Effect Social Change as an Architect is meant to prepare the individual designer – whether a student or practicing professional – for a career dedicated to serving communi……続きを見る

Die Wiener Secession, gegründet von Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll und Josef Hoffmann, war ein Wegbereiter für die moderne Kunst. Zwanzig Künstler rebellierten gegen den erdrückenden Einfluss des konservat……続きを見る

Der Jugendstil (französisch : Art nouveau) bezeichnet einen in den 1880er und 1890er Jahren entwickelten Stil in der angewandten Kunst und der Architektur der westlichen Welt. Er stellte eine Reakti……続きを見る

This book examines the theoretical foundations of the processes of planning and design. When people – alone or in groups – want to solve problems or improve their situation, they make plans. Horst R……続きを見る

Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings Journeying through t……続きを見る

Stone House Construction is a comprehensive study of Australian stone building techniques in a residential context, for people with an interest in building or renovating, including property owners, ……続きを見る

This book draws on the author’s considerable expertise in land development processes and planning, and planning education. It takes a learning-by-doing studio approach and shows how to undertake a d……続きを見る

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provisi……続きを見る

It must be appreciated that no building surface is perfectly flat and that the best that can be expected is the appearance of flatness. Unfortunately, this appearance can easily be destroyed by the ……続きを見る

Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of ground and envelope as spatial elements that can inform the search for embedded locally specific architectures, this book collects essays and p……続きを見る

Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control since the years following World War II until today. Drawing fro……続きを見る

Extrait : "Sans remonter à la tour de Babel, on peut observer que l'idée même de la construction d'une Tour de très grande hauteur a depuis longtemps hanté l'imagination des hommes. Cette sorte de v……続きを見る

Extrait : "C'est en 1798 que la première Exposition de l'Industrie française a été décrétée par le gouvernement. Depuis cette époque, la France a eu quatorze grandes expositions, qui, d'abord nation……続きを見る

This compelling resource, which was first published in 1993, was the first book on facility programming to design parameters and specifications over a broad range of project types. The book’s practi……続きを見る

The laws of thermodynamicsーand their implications for architectureーhave not been fully integrated into architectural design. Architecture and building science too often remain constrained by linea……続きを見る

Architecture is conventionally seen as being synonymous with building. In contrast, this book introduces and defines a new category - the unbuildable. The unbuildable involves projects that are not ……続きを見る

Afraid of speaking with confidence? Do not know how to present a presentation? How to captivate your audience with dazzling slide presentation? If you are unable or not confident enough to answer th……続きを見る

Graphic Design for Architects is a handbook of techniques, explanations and examples of graphic design most relevant to architects. The book covers a variety of scales of graphic design, everything ……続きを見る

Born into poverty in the Scottish Border country in 1757, Thomas Telford rose to become a towering figure of the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the pre-eminent engineer of his day. Incorporati……続きを見る

Depuis la mythique tour de Babel, les hommes ont toujours tenté d’ériger des monuments à la hauteur de leur ego démesuré. Que ce soit les antiques ziggourats, le Taj Mahal ou encore l’Empire State B……続きを見る

Desde la mítica torre de babel, los humanos se han propuesto edificar monumentos que estuvieran a la altura de sus egos desproporcionados. A lo largo de los siglos, con construcciones como los antig……続きを見る

Since the mythical Tower of Babel, humans have continuously tried to erect monuments to match their oversized egos. With ancient ziggurats, the Taj Mahal or the Empire State Building, man has for ce……続きを見る

What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and ……続きを見る

Architectural programming – the analysis of any given environment to satisfy users’ needs – has become a given prerequisite to the design process. The programming process is often a complicated one:……続きを見る

Post-occupancy evaluation, focusing on building’s occupants and their needs, provides insight into the consequences of past design decisions and forms a sound basis for creating better buildings in ……続きを見る

American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residen……続きを見る

This unique tool provides a fresh approach to construction scheduling by focusing on ways in which the Critical Path Method (CPM) can be used to answer the important questions that arise on virtuall……続きを見る