Urban Design Street and Square

This book offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It includes the arrangement, design and details of these elements and the roles they play in city planning. Superb examples of streets and squares are examined in their historical context.'

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Tall buildings and Sustainability

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Transport Terminals and Modal Interchanges

Description

The first book to review this exciting new trend in transportation systems design that has only recently come of age

LINK : http://www.easy-share.com/1907102547/Transport Terminals and Modal Interchanges.pdf

Architecture In Detail

Description

This book is a collection of detailed studies of recent construction projects that will help all architects learn and expand the possibilities of their own work. Projects have been selected for their use of innovative techniques, and these insights could help overcome problems, reduce a project's cost, speed up work on site or help with an idea that is hard to achieve.

Each project within the book consists of striking detailed drawings, supplemented by color photographs and explanatory text. These details are an excellent way to see how others are using new materials and techniques that may be relevant to an architect's own work.

It can seem daunting for a student, or even a qualified architect, to see high-quality, interesting buildings when the project or daily workload is a lot more humdrum. This book demystifies construction and spreads knowledge of good practice.

The author is well known as he has a biweekly feature in Building Design, the UK's most read magazine by architects. The projects have been carefully selected from those published and have been adapted and expanded to create a really useful reference.

* 3-dimensional detail drawings demystify innovative construction projects and help to spread knowledge

* Detailed information of 40 innovative projects help architects overcome a multitude of problems they may be facing

* Color photographs and drawings provide inspiration

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University Builders

Description

The building of a university campus is an extremely challenging you an extensive study of a variety of styles of universities from around the world. This excellent reference portrays expert architects and their work in designing outstanding educational establishments.

• Full of impressive colour and black and white images
• Features the most influential architects of this century
• The range of styles and philosophies covered in this book will prove an indispensable reference in assisting you with planning and designing architecture of the learning environment.

Expert architects showcase their work including:

• Foster Partners - Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
• Henri Gaudin - Amiens, France
• Antoine Predock - UCSC, California, USA
• Stirling Wilford - Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore
• John Outram, Rice University, Texas, USA
• Eduardo Souta de Moura - Aveiro University, Portugal
• Michael Hopkins - Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK

LINK : http://www.easy-share.com/1907230227/Architecture_Ebook_university_builders.pdf