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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Interior Design: Conceptual Basis

    by Anthony Sully ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated. The major themes of this book are the seven concepts of planning, circulation, 3D, construction, materials, colour and lighting, which covers the entire spectrum of a designer’s activity. Analysing design concepts from the view of the range of possibilities that the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Estate House Re-designed

    by Anthony Sully ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book demonstrates how new houses can be designed to be more sustainable and ergonomic. Specifically, it describes a prototype building that could be constructed in the near future. Responding to some of the poor standards of mass estate housing in the UK and its out-of-date space standards, it contributes towards improving the current status quo by describing a house design, including drawings ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Oriental Interiors

    Design, Identity, Space

    Edited by John Potvin ...
    Since the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing their critical attention on the literary and pictorial arts, these studies have, to date, largely neglected the world of interior design. Oriental Interiors is the first book to fully explore the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Historical Earthquake-Resistant Timber Frames in the Mediterranean Area

    Edited by Nicola Ruggieri, Gennaro Tampone, Raffaele Zinno ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents a selection of the best papers from the HEaRT 2013 conference, held in Cosenza, Italy, which provided a valuable forum for engineers and architects, researchers and educators to exchange views and findings concerning the technological history, construction features and seismic behavior of historical timber-framed walls in the Mediterranean countries. The topics covered are wide ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Designs

    Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

    by Philip Steadman ...
    This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Architecture of Brazil

    1900-1990

    by Hugo Segawa ...
    Architecture of Brazil: 1900-1990 examines the processes that underpin modern Brazilian architecture under various influences and characterizes different understandings of modernity, evident in the chapter topics of this book. Accordingly, the author does not give overall preference to particular architects nor works, with the exception of a few specific works and architects, including Warchavchik ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Roman Building Techniques

    by Tony Rook ...
    Building and architecture flourished throughout the Roman Empire. The Romans discovered new techniques to solve problems but also to impress the world. They built aqueducts to bring water into their cities and towns, grand baths for cleansing and socialising, and elaborate villas for the cream of their society. In this book, scientist and archaeologist Tony Rook takes the reader through Roman ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • School Buildings Rehabilitation

    Indoor Environmental Quality and Enclosure Optimization

    by Ricardo M.S.F. Almeida, Vasco Peixoto de Freitas, João M.P.Q. Delgado ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book discusses the effect of different school building rehabilitation strategies on the classrooms’ indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and presents a multi-objective methodology for school building enclosure optimization combining artificial neural networks and lifecycle costs. The special features of this book are that it (a) presents the state-of-the-art in school building rehabilitation, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture

    Analytical Therapy for the Next Generation of Passive Sustainable Architecture

    by Amjad Almusaed ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture is a guide to innovative architectural design for architects, engineers and other specialists who are working with biophilic and bioclimatic architectural concepts.Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture has three parts:• Part I focuses on the relationship between architecture and human needs and the creation process, demonstrating the meaning of architectural ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980

    by Andrew Leach, John Macarthur ...
    In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International and Borromini’s dome for Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it, writing of Sant’Ivo, Borromini accomplished 'the movement of the whole ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1

    Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

    Edited by Leslie Lamberson, Jamie Kimberley, Steven Mates ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Experimental Mechanics, including ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Fire Science and Technology 2015

    The Proceedings of 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology

    Edited by Kazunori Harada, Ken Matsuyama, Keisuke Himoto, Yuji Nakamura, Kaoru Wakatsuki ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book focuses on topics in the entire spectrum of fire safety science, targeting research in fires, explosions, combustion science, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, risk analysis, structural engineering, and other subjects. The book contributes to a gain in advanced scientific knowledge and presents or advances new ideas in all topics in fire safety science.Two decades ago, the 1st Asia-Oceania ... Read more

    $287.99 USD