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  • Geschichte des Lichts

    history of lighting technologies and lighting design (german)

    de Peter Petrol ...
    Series series Lighting books

    $5.81 USD

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  • The Chicago School of Architecture

    Building the Modern City, 1880–1910

    de Rolf Achilles ...
    Series Libro 741 - Shire Library USA
    The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how-and why- was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? Rolf Achilles here introduces the style of the First Chicago School from 1880 to 1910, explaining the innovative use of iron frames for strength, height and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    de Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture

    Air, Comfort and Climate

    de C. Alan Short ...
    Series series BRI Research Series
    The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air, miasmas, airborne pathogens, beneficial thermal conditions, ideal climates and climate determinism. ... Leer más

    $95.99 USD

  • The Humanities in Architectural Design

    A Contemporary and Historical Perspective

    Edición de Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Jane Lomholt, Nicholas Temple, Renée Tobe ...
    Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore the traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity.Written by leading academics in the fields of history, theory and philosophy of design, these essays draw profound meanings from cultural practices and ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • How Structures Work

    Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings

    de David Yeomans ...
    Structural engineering is central to the design of a building. How the building behaves when subjected to various forces – the weight of the materials used to build it, the weight of the occupants or the traffic it carries, the force of the wind etc – is fundamental to its stability. The alliance between architecture and structural engineering is therefore critical to the successful design and ... Leer más

    $54.00 USD

  • Style and Composition in Architecture - An Exposition of the Canon of Number Punctuation and Inflection

    de A. Trystan Edwards ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Impossible Heights

    Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder

    de Adnan Morshed ...
    The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and ‘30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Builders of the Vision

    Software and the Imagination of Design

    de Daniel Cardoso Llach ...
    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 from primary archival and ethnographic sources, it identifies and documents the crucial ideas shaping digital design technologies since the first numerical control and CAD systems were developed under US ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Cultural Quarters

    Principles and Practice

    Edición de Simon Roodhouse ...
    The much-praised Cultural Quarters returns in a revised edition, offering new case studies and new chapters on the economics of cultural quarters and the importance of historical buildings. This definitive text provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion of urban design and planning. Drawing on several case studies (from Bolton, Birmingham, Ireland and Vienna) ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire

    1st to 4th Centuries CE

    de Lynne C. Lancaster ...
    This book studies six vaulting techniques employed in architecture outside of Rome and asks why they were invented where they were and how they were disseminated. Most of the techniques involve terracotta elements in various forms, such as regular flat bricks, hollow voussoirs, vaulting tubes, and armchair voussoirs. Each one is traced geographically via GIS mapping, the results of which are ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Exporting American Architecture 1870-2000

    de Jeffrey W. Cody ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    The export of American architecture began in the nineteenth century as a disjointed set of personal adventures and commercial initiatives. It continues today alongside the transfer of other aspects of American life and culture to most regions of the world. Jeffrey Cody explains how, why and where American architects, planners, building contractors and other actors have marketed American ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD