Thursday, July 23, 2009
Airport Planning & Management
Authors: Alexander T. Wells & Seth B. Young
Publisher: McGraw Hill, 5th edition 2004
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The Architecture Of Poetry - The Iranian Embassy In Washington, DC
NAMEI, MERCEDEH
University of Cincinnati
School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: A thesis for Master Degree
142 pgs. ; Publ. 2007.
Book Description:
An embassy is a symbol of unique cultural, social and political aspects of a specific country. Historically it becomes a place for a country’s representative(s) to communicate in a civilized and acceptable manner. Communications among embassies have traditionally been a great resource for international diplomacy that promotes peace and friendship. An embassy is an office building that specializes in diplomatic relationships and a great representative for one culture. Presenting a culture requires multifaceted revelation of its aspects. In the project Architecture of Poetry was derived from Persian poetry. In order to understand Persian culture and its classical poetry, the methodology includes discussion of Ferdosi’s Shähnameh (The Epic of Kings). Persian poetry is deeply rooted in its history and culture. It was developed through centuries of repetition and practice. Understanding Persian poetry reveals layers of history, culture and traditions. It requires understanding structure, order and the metaphorical foundation of poetry as well as the reasons behind lyrics, meanings and characters. The Architecture of Poetry leads to a design that explores Shähnameh’s poetry in addition to known embassy structures where the elements learned from each interweave to create the design of the Iranian embassy. The structure of poetry corresponds with the structure of the building, where metaphorical words have translated into interior details and materials of the façade. Poetry reading is a slow and gradual process, where punctuation becomes important to convey the message of poetry. The translated architectural elements from poetry are not literal; but they are very abstract. Metaphors of culture and poetry are revealed in the structure and details of the new embassy.
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Reshaping Museums Space - Architecture, Design, Exhibitions
By S. Macleod
Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 241
Publication Date: 2005-07-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415343445
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415343442
Book Description:
At no other point in their modern history have museums undergone such radical reshaping as in recent years. Challenges to create inclusive and accessible spaces open to appropriation and responsive to contemporary agendas have resulted in new architectural forms for museums, inside and out. Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlighting the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space and provides reflections upon recent developments in museum architecture and exhibition design. The problems of navigating the often contradictory agendas and aspirations of the broad range of professionals and stakeholders involved in any new project are discussed in various chapters that concentrate on the process of architectural and spatial reshaping. Contributors
review recent new build, expansion and exhibition projects questioning the types of museum space required at the
beginning of the 21st century and highlighting a range of possibilities for creative museum design.
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RIBA Book Of British Housing - 1900 To The Present Day
By Ian Colquhoun
Publisher: Architectural Press
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2008-02-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 075068254X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750682541
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
RIBA Book of British Housing Design looks at the design solutions developed during the 20th and the 21st centuries, and illustrates over 200 of the most successful projects. It provides an overview of the evolution of housing development, and includes present day schemes and estate regeneration as well as special sections on housing in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The photographs and plans of historic and contemporary projects can be used to show design approaches to clients, committees and, in the case of regeneration, with local communities. Looking back into history will indicate which design approaches have been successful. This fully updated 2nd edition includes a new chapter on the development of design concepts and projects built since 1999. It illustrates current trends that have been developing since the turn of the new century, and emphasises the concept of creating sustainable communities. The use of colour photographs adds a new dimension to the first edition in making it possible to appreciate more readily the materials used in the design of the housing and its environment.
* A valuable sourcebook for this booming industry
* A comprehensive history of housing from 1900 to the present day
* A unique, reference, presented in full colour
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Festival Architecture
By C. Macy
Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 318
Publication Date: 2007-12-22
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415701287
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415701280
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This book focuses on the ephemeral architecture built for festivals and shows how these constructions played a role in the development of Western architectural and urban theory. Festival architecture has allowed architects to experiment with new ideas, new forms and new spatial arrangements.The book is arranged in historical periods from Antiquity to the modern era. The analyses of specific festivals are set in relation to contemporary ideas and theories in architecture and urban design and essays focus on either architecture or urban design. The wealth of illustrations depict many unusual and rarely seen images from European festival tradition. The contributors are well-known architectural historians and art historians.
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Recording Studio Design
by Philip Newell
Hardcover: 736 pages
Publisher: Focal Press; 2 edition (December 2, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240520866
ISBN-13: 978-0240520865
Book Description:
This book offers the most comprehensive information on all aspects of studio design. From biulding a room from the ground up or turning an exisiting space into the perfect acoustical environment for recording this book will provide everything needed.
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Landscape Architects Urban Projects
Product Description:
Ken Smith is unquestionably one of the most interesting voices in landscape architecture; his works reflect the intensity and energy of their surroundings and challenge the distinction between landscape and art form. Ken Smith Landscape Architects/Urban Projects focuses on three prominent works in New York City: his East River Project; his work for P.S. 19; and his MoMA rooftop garden. Through Smith's colorful, playful drawings and photographs, the book reveals how each project explores new expressions of landscape design in the city.
Ken Smith Landscape Architects/Urban Projects is part of the Source Books in Landscape Architecture series sponsored by Ohio State University. These books present sketches, drawings, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs. Each book focuses on a recent, important work or works at a level of detail that allows thorough study of the project from its conception to the completion of design and construction.
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Problem Seeking: An Architectural Programming Primer
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2001-07-26
ISBN: 0471126209
Number or pages: 224
Format: PDF
Size: 3.9 Mb
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Book Description:
The classic programming guide for architects and clients–fully updated and revised Architectural programming is a team effort that requires close cooperation between architects and their clients. Problem Seeking, Fourth Edition lays out a five-step procedure that teams can follow when programming any building or series of buildings, from a small house to a hospital complex. This simple yet comprehensive process encompasses the entire range of factors that influence the design of buildings. This new edition of the only programming guide appropriate for both architect and client features new ways of thinking about programming, new strategies for effective group action, and new settings in which to explore programming concepts.
Supplemented with more than 120 helpful illustrations and diagrams, this indispensable resource provides updated technical information and faster, easier access to explanations, examples, and tools, including:
*Updated building costs and their relationship to interior fit-up costs
*A primer on discounted cash flow analysis and net present value analysis
*Project statement examples organized by project phase and building type
*Useful techniques for data management, functional relationship analysis, and more
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Autocad projects for two great Architects (Renzo Piano & Rafael Moneo)
Design-Autocad Architectural projects
Size: 12 Mb 56 Dwg files & Explantory pics
Two Autocad Projects for two great Architects (Renzo Piano & Rafael moneo): this original autocad drawings produced by the firms of both -well known- architects can be used as a reference for autocad techniques in a production and presentaion of architectural drawings system.
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Architects Biography:
Rafael Moneo
Murcia Town Hall on the Cardenal Belluga PlazaJosé Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9, 1937) is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) from which he received his architectural degree in 1961. From 1958 to 1961 he worked in the office in Madrid of the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza. He has taught architecture at various locations around the world and from 1985 to 1990 was the chairman of Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he is the first Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture.[1] In 1997, he became Academic Numerary in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid in May 1997.
Renzo Piano
Piano was born in Genoa, where he still maintains a home and office (Building Workshop). He was educated and subsequently taught at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1965 to 1970 he worked with Louis Kahn and with Makowsky. He worked together with Richard Rogers from 1971 to 1977; their most famous joint project is the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1977). He also had a long collaboration with the extraordinary engineer Peter Rice.He has a long interest in elegantly expressed structure. This is evident in early works such as the Centre Pompidou, IBM travelling pavilion, through to the Kansai International Airport, Osaka (1988). Renzo Piano was responsible for the masterplan for the reconstruction of the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, and also designed a portion of the new construction on the site.
Adapting Buildings for Changing Uses
Taylor & Francis | 2002-12-31 | ISBN: 0419235701 | 120 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
This book provides guidance for professionals on the potential for and management of building refurbishment for change of use. Change of use refurbishment activity is becoming increasingly important as changing work patterns and IT reduce the space demands for offices and industrial buildings in cities where social and environmental concerns give significant demand for urban housing. The key issues and opportunities of adaptive reuse must be better understood by investors, marketers, potential users, regulators and the construction industry generally, as the era dominated by the development of new commercial buildings comes to an end in the West.
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Jean Nouvel
Ed. H Kliczkowski, "Jean Nouvel"Publisher: Onlybook, S.L
ISBN: 9788496048003
Publication Date: 2002
Language: Spanish
Format: PDF
Size: 34 Mb
Number of pages: 82
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Book Description:
12 projects presented with photographs, plans, sections, descriptive reports, all works with location map, and technical data and referential. Includes a chronology of works from 1989 to 2002.
Indicates
Institute of Arab World
Nemausus
Opera de Lyon
Hotel Saint-James
CLM BBDO
Culture and Congress Center in Lucerne
Fondation Cartier
Galeries Lafayette
Church of St. Mary of Sarlat
A Gasometer
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
Quai Branly Museum
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Designing Indoor Climate: A Thesis on the Integration of Indoor Climate Analysis in Architectural Design
Publisher: Delft Univ Pr
ISBN: 9040724652
Publication Date: December 2003
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 229
Size: 5 MB
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Book Description:
This is a Ph.D. dissertation. In contemporary architecture education, indoor climate and building installations suffer from a lack of popularity. Students of architecture, filled with great expectations and awe for the famous designers of the 20th century, find inspiration in examples such as Le Corbusier's Villa Savoy, Lloyd Wright's falling water or the Rietveld's Schroder house. Recognizable as this may be, great aesthetics constitute only a small part of creating architecture.
The process of designing and constructing buildings comprises the involvement of a multitude of skills such as creating clear functional layouts, designing solid structures and taking care healthy indoor climates. Most textbooks and magazines contemporary architecture do not cover the less attractive aspects of the indoor climate such as heating, ventilation and cooling unless these services form an important part of the buildings aesthetic identity.
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Concrete Building Pathology
Concrete Building PathologyPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 0632052511
Publication Date: 2002-07-15
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 328
Size: 3.6 Mb
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Book Description:
This book deals with the diagnosis, prognosis and repair issues associated with concrete buildings. Since the patenting and subsequent large-scale manufacture of modern cement, in the nineteenth century, concrete has become one of the most widely used construction materials in the world. Those concerned with building pathology now need to understand problems specifically related to concrete and to identify appropriate methods of repair and remediation.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/178494179/Conc.Bldg.Pathology.rarTall Buildings & Sustainability report
Publisher: Corporation Of London
Publication Date: March 2002
Language: English
Format: PDF
Size: 2 Mb
Number of pages; 68 Pages
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http://rapidshare.com/files/178461851/Tallbuildingsus.rarNew Working Spaces
New Working Spaces features architecture created for the tertiary sector which has become a hot topic at present. The application of new computer technologies has caused a revolution in the way that we work, which in turn has caused a revolution in the way are accommodated at work. As this book demonstrates a more pleasant working environment is being created through the application of criteria such as intelligent construction, ergonomics, improved air conditioning systems, new cladding methods, ecological efficiency, health concerns, and control of light intensity.
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Shape as Memory: A Geometric Theory of Architecture
Michael Leyton “Shape as Memory: A Geometric Theory of Architecture"
Publisher; Birkhäuser Basel
Publication Date: 2006-05-19
ISBN: 3764376902
Number of pages: 93
Format: PDF
Size: 2.9 Mb
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Book Description:
How do buildings store information and experience in their shape and form? Michael Leyton has attracted considerable attention with his interpretation of geometrical form as a medium for the storage of information and memory. In this publication he draws specific conclusions for the field of architecture and construction, attaching fundamental importance to the complex relationship between symmetry and asymmetry.
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Design-Tech - Building Science For Architects
By Jason Alread, Thomas Leslie
Publisher: Architectural Press
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 2007-12-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750665572
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750665575
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Taking a fresh, holistic approach to the topic of architectural technology, this indispensable book looks at the 'why' as well as the 'how' of building science, providing a comprehensive, clear and concise introduction to the subject.
The demands faced by architects in their training and education are constantly changing. Written by two practicing architects who teach building technology and design, this text ensures that the reader is given the full picture of the discipline, as it integrates technical material with design sensibilities. Incorporating structural design, environmental principles, material science and human factors, this book shows how these topics rely upon and influence one another in architectural design. It also relates the technical with the theoretical, illustrating how technology and design have influenced one another historically. Offering highly practical guidance to the essentials of building design, this book is the first to provide the full spectrum of building science for architects in one volume.
Design-Tech includes hundreds of illustrations and numerous case studies that show how these theories work in practice.
* A single volume integrating structual, environmental and construction engineering basics for architects
* A holistic approach to technology, illustrating how it relates to the history and theory of architecture
* Presents sustainable design as a given, with environmental design principles included throughout the text
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Interior Color by Design: A Design Tool for Architects, Interior Designers, and Homeowners
Interior Color by Design:
A Design Tool for Architects, Interior Designers, and Homeowners
Author: Jonathan Poore
Language: English
Rockport Publishers | ISBN: 1564960374 | September 1994
PDF | 155 pages | 65 Mb
Aims to help designers and homeowners use colour effectively in architectural and interior design. A key concept is the interactive effects of adjacent colours and materials, both of which have a strong influence on the overall design.
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Structure as Architecture: A Source Book for Architects and Structural Engineers
Architectural Press (
Structure As Architecture provides readers with an accessible insight into the relationship between structure and architecture, focusing on the design principles that relate to both fields. Over one hundred case studies of contemporary buildings from countries across the globe including the
* Presents a comprehensive analysis of how building structure contributes to architecture
* Connects architectural design ideas and structure in the context of contemporary architecture, materials and structure
* Highly illustrated, providing a sourcebook of architectural and engineering design ideas
Architectural Thought and the Design Process: Continuity, Innovation, and the Expectant Eye
Publisher: Architectural Press
Publication DAte: 2003-05
Number of pages: 190
ISBN : 0750658517
Format: PDF
Size: 9.2MB
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Book Description:
An introduction to architectural thought, this text is a thorough and accessible discussion in search of the principles of the design process. Documenting the non-verbal processes and decisions that architects and designers make is a difficult task, but one that is important when trying to understand the development of architectural design through the ages. Michael Brawne uses his experience as a practicing architect, academic and educator to provide an overview of the subject. By looking at the practices and buildings of architects past and present he incorporates history and philosophy in the search for a theory of design.
* Provides a well-rounded look at the development of architectural thought.
* Written at a level that is accessible for professionals and students.
* Illustrates how the design process has developed from antiquity to the present day.
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