Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday

This book is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. New work by celebrated contributors including Mark Auge, Kryzstof Wodiczko, Anthony Vidler, Lebbeus Woods and Zaha Hadid is juxtaposed with seminal essays by Bernard Tschumi and Doreen Massey. This book will appeal to urbanists, geographers, artists, architects, cultural historians and theorists.

Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday
By Alan Read

* Publisher: Routledge
* Number Of Pages: 304
* Publication Date: 2000-11-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 041523543X
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415235433

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Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools

Here’s the essential information you need to initiate designs for preschools and kindergartens as well as elementary, middle, and high schools.

* Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details.

* Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to school buildings with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.

Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools

By Bradford Perkins, Stephen Kliment

* Publisher: Wiley

* Number Of Pages: 368

* Publication Date: 2000-12-12

* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 047132700X

* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471327004

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Streets and Patterns: The Structure of Urban Geometry

This book sets out a series of concepts of street structure and offers a framework for design of street networks. It addresses issues of sustainable transport and urbanism whilst introducing new methods assisting ****ysis and design. International street grid case studies are ****yses and suggest preferred types of street, network and hierarchy. This authoritative new text informs the design debate on street pattern and is set to become the definitive text on the topic.

Streets and Patterns: The Structure of Urban Geometry By Stephen Marshall

* Publisher: Routledge * Number Of Pages: 224 * Publication Date: 2004-12-23 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415317509 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415317504

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Green BIM: Successful Sustainable Design with Building Information Modeling

Meet the challenge of integrating Building Information Modeling and sustainability with this in-depth guide, which pairs these two revolutionary movements to create environmentally friendly design through a streamlined process. Written by an award-winning team that has gone beyond theory to lead the implementation of Green BIM projects, this comprehensive reference features practical strategies, techniques, and real-world expertise so that you can create sustainable BIM projects, no matter what their scale.

Summary: Essential design strategies

Rating: 5

As BIM becomes common place in the architectural design community, the tools and thought processes for designers will be transformed. The expectations of those who hire and pay the designer will be heightened far beyond the current standard of care.

It’s about time! CADD has held potential to automate, systematize, and streamline the construction industry for decades but has failed miserably to deliver. Currently with the advancement of BIM that potential is becoming a reality. We are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in our industry. Eddy Krygiel and Brad Nies have given us a glimpse of what the future holds. I am thinking every day about the impacts of what I do in my design work and with this cogent book I am more motivated to develop my basis of design concepts in a globally responsible manner. This text informs that basis with processes and theories in a very readable fashion

Summary: A clear BIM tool!

Rating: 5

I’m still enjoying to read some of the good advice in this book. Especially helpful is chapter 4 - dealing with the higher organizational values of sustainability.

Summary: Excellent book on integrated design

Rating: 5

This was a very useful book. The text was clear, easily understood and comprehensive. A wealth of information. Highly recommended…

Summary: Best book integrating BIM and Sustainability

Rating: 5

The best book for anyone wants to integrate BIM and Sustainability in their work practice, mainly designers.

Good for both students and professionals. a step by step procedure to achieve Green Design using BIM technology, with real life examples, procedures, calculations, etc…

The main program discussed is Autodesks’s Revit, wish they used more than one application.

Summary: Excellent guide, with real life examples and experiences

Rating: 5

This is a groundbreaking exploration of what you can do TODAY with BIM to make your buildings sustainable. Its got a lot of pictures and graphics that neatly explain the concepts. You can tell from reading the first few chapters that these guys really know what they are talking about.

Green BIM: Successful Sustainable Design with Building Information Modeling

By Eddy Krygiel, Brad Nies

Publisher: Sybex

Number Of Pages: 241

Publication Date: 2008-04-28

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470239603

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470239605

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Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction

736 pages| Publisher: Architectural Press; 1 edition (10 Jun 2008)| Language English | PDF | 24Mb

Product Description
With more than 20,000 words and terms individually defined, the Dictionary offers huge coverage for anyone studying or working in architecture, construction or any of the built environment fields.

The innovative and detailed cross-referencing system allows readers to track down elusive definitions from general subject headings. Starting from only the vaguest idea of the word required, a reader can quickly track down precisely the term they are looking for.

The book is illustrated with stunning drawings that provide a visual as well as a textual definition of both key concepts and subtle differences in meaning.

Davies and Jokiniemi's work sets a new standard for reference books for all those interested in the buildings that surround us.

* Comprehensive coverage of architecture and building terms
* Detailed and innovative cross-referencing system
* Beautifully illustrated with detailed technical drawings

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Practical Experience: An Architecture Student’s Guide to Internship and the Year Out (Architectural Students Handbooks)

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 working practices are very different to architectural study. This book provides a beginner’s guide to professional practice and a step-by-step guide on how to find the placement that best suits your goals. It is the fourth title in the successful ‘Seriously Useful Guides…’ series.

In order to give you a real insight into professional experience, this guide includes real

life case studies from students who have been through the experience and from practices that have taken them on. It guides you through the steps of finding a placement, outlines the norms and expectations for internship in different countries, and discusses codes of office behavior and professional ethics. Contemporary architectural

practices are becoming increasingly diverse and this guide outlines some Practical experience/Internship choices, providing cases studies of award wining firms that offer practical experience. These case studies range from conventional practices based on the art of building, to practices based on digital media or contemporary urbanism. Finally, the term ‘critical practice’ is becoming increasingly important, and the book provides some definitions and examples of critically based architectural practices.

Also in the Seriously Useful Guides Series:

* The Crit

* The The Portfolio

* The Dissertation

* Provides a valuable step-by-step guide on how to make the most of your time in practice

* Prepares you for what to expect from an office and lets you know what an office expects from you

* Includes interviews with students, professionals and tutors who have been through the experience, to give you the best, first hand, advice

Practical Experience: An Architecture Student’s Guide to Internship and the Year Out (Architectural Students Handbooks)

By Igor Marjanovic, Katerina Ruedi Ray, Jane Tankard

Publisher: Architectural Press

Number Of Pages: 232

Publication Date: 2004-12-20

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750662069

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750662062

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Architects Sketches - Dialogue and Design 2008

An in-depth study of the methods, meaning and intentions of architects' sketches through time Concepts from architects minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects engage. It provides new insight into the relationship between architectural sketches and the process of creative manipulation. Sketches comprise a thinking mechanism, and through the qualities of ambiguity, quickness and change, they initiate a dialogue for architects. As a medium to facilitate communication, recording, discovery and evaluation, their pertinence lies in their ability to exhibit both the precise and the imprecise. Exploring four related theoretical approaches, play, memory-imagination-fantasy, caricature and the grotesque, the book shows how imprecision stimulates imagination to conceive new forms in the dialogue of architectural sketches.

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Christopher Cuttle - Lighting by Design, Second Edition

Christopher Cuttle - Lighting by Design, Second Edition

Architectural Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0750687681 | Pages: 264 | PDF | 9.00 MB

Lighting by Design provides guidance on where to find inspiration for lighting ideas, how to plan the technical detail and how to execute the plan to create safe, effective and beautiful schemes.

Christopher Cuttle's unique three level approach uses Observation, Visualisation and Realisation as the means to achieve these aims. Cuttle is a well known figure in the UK, US and Australia and New Zealand, with a wealth of experience of both teaching and practice.

This new edition is fully updated and produced in full colour with many new diagrams and photographs. It will be immensely useful to professional and student architects, interior designers and specialist lighting designers.

* Benefit from Cuttle's extensive knowledge, experience and enthusiasm
* A technical guide that provides a thorough explanation of lighting theory
* Now with full colour images for clearer demonstration of key points

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Intelligent Skins

Looking to the future, “Intelligent Skins” sets out the principles for the design of the intelligent building envelope. It highlights an exciting new approach to the area, where the fabric of the building responds to external changes and internal demands.

The prime objective is to control internal environments through a responsive building fabric rather than by energy consuming building services systems. The authors examine the potential for integral intelligence within the fabric of the building and explore the evolution of information technology and smart materials which have allowed a whole new category of design principles to be created. Some of the highlighted features : • Gain a comprehensive knowledge of the evolution of the “Intelligent Skin” • Explores a new approach to Intelligent Buildings, focusing on the fabric of the building responding to external changes and internal demands • Includes over twenty cutting-edge international case studies

Author : Michael Wigginton and Jude Harris | Published by Architectural Press | Publication date : March 2002 | ISBN : 0750648473 | PDF Format, 186 pages | English | Original File Size : 9527 KB | Compressed File Size : 9015 KB

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Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Natural Building Series)

Earthbag Building is the first comprehensive guide to all the tools, tricks, and techniques for building with bags filled with earth or earthbags. Having been introduced to sandbag construction by the renowned Nader Khalili in 1993, the authors developed this “Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique” over the last decade. A reliable method for constructing homes, outbuildings, garden walls and much more, this enduring, tree-free architecture can also be used to create arched and domed structures of great beauty-in any region, and at home, in developing countries, or in emergency relief work. This profusely illustrated guide first discusses the many merits of earthbag construction, and then leads the reader through the key elements of an earthbag building: • Special design considerations • Foundations, walls and floors • Electrical, plumbing and shelving • Lintels, windows and door installations • Roofs, arches and domes • Exterior and interior plasters. With dedicated sections on costs, making your own specialized tools, and building code considerations, as well as a complete resources guide, Earthbag Building is the long-awaited, definitive guide to this uniquely pleasing construction style. Kaki Hunter and Donald Kiffmeyer have been involved in the construction industry for the last 20 years, specializing in affordable, low-tech, low-impact building methods that are as natural as possible. They developed the “Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique” of building affordably with earthbags and have taught the subject and contributed their expertise to several books and journals on natural building.

Author : Kaki Hunter and Donald Kiffmeyer | Published by New Society Publishers | Publication date : June 2004 | ISBN : 0865715076 | PDF Format, 281 pages | English | Original File Size : 19662 KB | Compressed File Size : 18912 KB

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On Span and Space: Architectural Structures Explored Information

In this well-illustrated book, Bjorn Sandaker has set out to provide the reader with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture. The technology of load-bearing structures is a key contributor to architecture. A major aspect of the book is its coverage of structure and aesthetics. As an experienced teacher and writer, Sandaker offers a well-founded aesthetic theory to support the understanding and evaluation of a structure’s form and design.

Author : Bjorn Sandaker Published by Routledge Publication date December 2007

ISBN : 041535787X PDF Format, 222 pages Original File Size : 7721 KB Compressed File Size : 7427 KB

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Architecture in a Climate of Change

Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides the latest basic principals of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology.

Including new material on wind generation, domestic water conservation, solar thermal electricity as well as international case studies Architecture in a Climate of Change encourages readers to consider new approaches to building making minimum demand on fossil based energy.

1. Offers an insight into the relationship between the physical and cultural context of architecture

2. Discusses the principles of sustainability and the future of its technology

3. Case studies show the global relevance of the topic

Synopsis

Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published, the new edition of “Architecture in a Climate of Change” provides the latest basic principles of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology. Including new material on wind generation, domestic water conservation, solar thermal electricity as well as international case studies, “Architecture in a Climate of Change” encourages readers to consider new approaches to building making minimum demand on fossil based energy. It: offers an insight into the relationship between the physical and cultural context of architecture; discusses the principles of sustainability and the future of its technology; and case studies show the global relevance of the topic.

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New Forms Architecture in the 1990s

In the 1990s architecture has evolved considerably despite economic constraints. The new architecture has been guided by the rapid progress of computer assisted design and a newly rediscovered affinity for the arts. Indeed, many architects - from France’s Dominique Perrault, creator of the new Bibliothèque Nationale de France, to Japan’s Tadao Ando - explain their work in terms of references to minimalism or land art. At the same time art itself has veered towards installations and works which approach architecture. These influences have enriched and diversified contemporary architecture in the developed world.

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Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe - Villa Tugendhat

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Architecture Now

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Norman Foster - Architecture & Design

Synopsis

A detailed survey of the work of British architect, Sir Norman Foster, this volume includes details of projects from 1964 to the year 2000.

by Philip Jodidio (Author)

# Paperback: 176 pages

# Publisher: Taschen GmbH (26 Sep 1997)

# Language English

# ISBN-10: 382288071X

# ISBN-13: 978-3822880715

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Stair Detail

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Design For Construction

by David Brown

Publisher: Steel Construction Institute,The

Number Of Pages: 144

Publication Date: 1997-12

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1859420486

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781859420485

Binding: Paperback

Book Description:

The Eureka project EU130 "CIMsteel" is a visionary,Europe-wide collaboration. It will place the European constructional steelwork sector in a leading position to compete with both overseas steel construction industries and alternative construction materials. Improved integration will be achieved by developing methods for "Computer Integrated Manufacturing for Constructional Steelwork". These will streamline the process of integrating the life-cycle of structural steelwork projects, encompassing design, analysis, detailing, fabrication and erection. The ClMsteel Vision is: Faster design, manufacture and construction Improved, cheaper steelwork structures Unlocking potential for growth in the steelwork market Improved competitiveness in the world market The ClMsteel project will turn an insular craft industry, made up of many small and medium sized companies into a state-of-the-art integrated manufacturing industry. More than forty two organisations from eight European countries are collaborating to research and develop advanced but easy to use standards, methods and software to improve the effectiveness and competitiveness of the steelwork sector of the construction industry.

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Explosion-Resistant Buildings

by M.Y.H. Bangash, T. Bangash

Hardcover: 450 pages

Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (February 10, 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 3540206183

ISBN-13: 978-3540206187

Book Description:

This excellent book highlights all aspects of the analysis and design of buildings subject to impact, explosion and fire. It is a definitive reference book and contains 10 chapters from a wide international prospective. Three-dimensional finite element and discrete element techniques are included. They are applied to buildings such as the World Trade Center (WTC Twin Towers) and the Federal Building in Oklahoma on the basis of the designers drawings, data and other information. Many small case studies are also included. The book has a comprehensive bibliography and a large appendix providing background analysis and computer subroutines of recently developed programs.

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Medicine By Design - The Architect And The Modern Hospital, 1893-1943

By Annmarie Adams

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press

Number Of Pages: 240

Publication Date: 2008-01-28

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0816651140

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780816651146

Binding: Paperback

Book Description:

In the history of medicine, hospitals are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture. At the center of this work is Montreal’s landmark Royal Victoria Hospital, built in 1893. Drawing on a wide range of visual and textual sources, Adams uses the “Royal Vic”—along with other hospitals built or modified over the next fifty years—to explore critical issues in architecture and medicine: the role of gender and class in both fields, the transformation of patients into consumers, the introduction of new medical concepts and technologies,and the use of domestic architecture and regionally inspired imagery to soften the jarring impact of high-tech medicine. Identifying the roles played by architects in medical history and those played by patients, doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals in the design of hospitals, Adams also links architectural spaces to everyday hospital activities, from meal preparation to the ways in which patients entered the hospital and awaited treatment. Methodologically and conceptually innovative, Medicine by Design makes a significant contribution to the histories of both architectural and medical practices in the twentieth century.

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Hamzah & Yeang - Ecology Of The Sky

by Ivor Richards

Hardcover: 248 pages

Publisher: Images Publishing Group (October 2001)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1864700955

ISBN-13: 978-1864700954

Book Description:

Ecology of the Sky, covers the most familiar ground of the two and deals exclusively with Yeang's generic concept of the 'bio-climatic skyscraper'. Ranging from the earliest, relatively conventional-looking towers in Kuala Lumpur to the more recent and exotic,free form creations in Singapore, Mecca, Frankfurt,London and elsewhere, each project is presented in lavish detail. The tasty visuals and project descriptions, which are all written by Richards, are also backed up by copious graphs, diagrams and factual information in the manner of an encyclopedia, charting Yeang's increasingly rigorous, research-based approach. The contents far exceed what is normally expected in architectural monographs and easily surpass previous books on Yeang's related work - a must buy for both old and new fans.

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Urban Design - Green Dimensions

by: J C Moughtin, Peter Shirley

Publisher: Architectural Press

Number Of Pages: 272

Publication Date: 2005-02-11

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750662077

Book Description:

In Green Dimensions, Cliff Moughtin relates sustainable development and green design to the realm of urban design and development. Examining regional and local frameworks for design and planning, this book shows how sustainable urban design can be implemented on every scale. Working from a strong theoretical base, the author uses case studies and discusses policy developments, in order to challenge the conventional wisdom on sustainable design. The book provides a rounded discussion of the application and suitability of current practice, and predicts future design needs. Updating the reader on topics such as energy efficiency, sustainable city forms and the culture of new urbanism,this completely revised and restructured second edition also includes brand new chapters on the Urban Park and Bio-diversity. Sets sustainable urban design in a regional and political context, providing real life attainable guidance · Provides inspiration for planners worldwide through international examples and case studies ·Includes latest hot topics in sustainability to give your designs the cutting edge.

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The Dessau Bauhaus Building 1926-1999

By margret Kentgens

* Publisher: Birkhauser

* Number Of Pages: 208

* Publication Date: 1998-11-01

* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3764352906

* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783764352905

Book Description:

With the Bauhaus in Dessau, Walter Gropius created a building in 1925/26 that represented a "demonstration of architectural Modernism".Wolfgang Pehnt. During the few years of its original use as a school with studios, until it was closed down by the Nazis in 1932, it had also become a center of crystalization for the creative forces of its times. Today, the Dessau Bauhaus Foundation again makes the famous building, which has been undergoing extensive restoration since 1997, a center for cultural activities: numerous projects and events at the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Bauhaus' foundation in Weimar (1999) and the EXPO 2000 will provide the building with even more public attention. The book documents all phases of the Bauhaus Building's history, use and constructive changes. The authors look at its meaning for contemporary architecture, culture and politics, and describe its history during the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the GDR and up to the present. The themes range from the first architectural design to the future of the Bauhaus as a monument. With contributions by members of the Dessau Bauhaus as well as by independent specialists, and with picture documentation that also goes back to unpublished materials from the Bauhaus Foundation archives, the multifaceted book represents the new standard volume on the Bauhaus Building.

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Selling Architectural Ideas

By Tom Porter

Publisher: Spon Press

Number Of Pages: 160

Publication Date: 2000-02-23

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0419232605

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780419232605

Book Description:

As "visual animals" architects continue to live and work in a pictorial age in which image-making remains as the central activity of environmental design. Selling Architectural Ideas explores the promotional role of architectural graphics and drawing at the point of communication, i.e., at their point of sale. By substituting the words "communication" and "presentation" with the word "selling" we confront the reality of a highly competative world in which the process of creating images for selling architectural ideas is approached as a more persuasive and, therefore, more successful design tool.

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ARCHITECTURE IN JAPAN -Philip Jodidio

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Seismic Design For Architects

By Andrew Charleson

Publisher: Architectural Press

Number Of Pages: 296

Publication Date: 2008-09-12

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750685506

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750685504

Book Description:

Architects across the world have to design buildings that need to comply with strict seismic codes. All too often the need to comply with the code is put ahead of the design of the building, resulting in dull and functional architecture. Andrew Charleson's book shows how to make structural requirements an integral part of the architectural design process, not an add-on. Using non-technical language and detailed illustrations Charleson shows how achieving structural standards need not limit the scope for architectural innovation and high design standards in seismically active zones.With enough theory to satisfy architects without swamping them in technical data, Seismic Design for Architects is a state-of-the-art summary of designing buildings where being prepared for the worst is an everyday fact of life.* Written for architects, emphasising design over analysis * Key concepts conveyed with visual material to allow architects to appreciate the design solutions available to them * Draws experience from a wide variety of national and international design codes.

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