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_Architectural_Drafting and_Design_6th_Ed
ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING AND DESIGN, 6E is an ideal book for all architectural drafters and CAD operators, whether beginning, intermediate, or advanced. An important feature of this best-seller is its step-by-step instructions for the design and layout of each type of drawing associated with a complete set of architectural plans, with projects that can be completed…
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_Smart_Materials and_Technologies-_For the_Architecture and_Design_Professions
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6938″]Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new“smart” or “intelligent” materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problemsin building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diversebut largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access toinformation about the types or properties of these new…
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_Holford A_study in_architecture,_planning and_civic_design
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6933″]Through a biography of this major architect, planner and civic designer, the authors provide a fascinating analysis of the developments in British architecture and planning from the 1930’s to the 1970’s.
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_Precedents in_Architecture_3th Ed scan
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6929″]Precedents in Architecture provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that will help you understand the works of others, and aid you in creating your own designs. Here, you will examine the work of internationally known architects with the help of a unique diagrammatic technique, which you can also use to analyze existing buildings. In…
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_Precedents in_Architecture_2nd Ed
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6923″] Precedents in Architecture provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that will help you understand the works of others, and aid you in creating your own designs. Here, you will examine the work of internationally known architects with the help of a unique diagrammatic technique, which you can also use to analyze existing buildings.…
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_The_Classical_Orders of_Architecture 2nd Ed
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6917″] This is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation of the Classical Orders. The new edition of this successful title now includes the proportions in both metric and imperial measurements to make the orders more accessible and to provide a valuable reference for designers.The inclusion of both 100-part and 96-part systems of…
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_Integrated_Buildings_The_Systems_Basis of_Architecture
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6912″] An “anatomical” study of building systems integration with guidelines for practical applications Through a systems approach to buildings, Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture details the practice of integration to bridge the gap between the design intentions and technical demands of building projects. Analytic methods are introduced that illustrate the value, benefit,…
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Manuel d’Archéologie Française Depuis les Temps Mérovingiens Jusqu’a la Renaissance, Vol. 2 Première Partie, Architecture
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6904″] Excerpt from Manuel d’Archéologie Française Depuis les Temps Mérovingiens Jusqu’a la Renaissance, Vol. 2: Première Partie, Architecture Religieuse; Période Française, Dite Gothique, Style Flamboyant, Renaissance Le style français a porté à leur plus haut point la logique du raisonnement, le principe d’équilibre par opposition des foices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds…
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_Herman_Hertzberger_Space and Learning_Lessons in_ Architecture-3
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6900″] This ia a broad elaboration of the esteemed Dutch architect’s lectures, given since 1973 at Delt University, crafted by the architect himself. It is divided into three parts: Public Domain, Making Space Leaving Space, and Inviting Form. More than 750 illustrations give broad insight into Hertberger’s “library”- as well as to those sources…
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Herman_Hertzberger_Space and the_Architect_Lessons in_ Architecture 2
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6895″] The work of Herman Hertzberger is internationally esteemed. His Lessons for Students in Architecture was first published in 1991, and has gone through many reprints, with translations into Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Taiwanese, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Iranian, Korean and Chinese. Space and the Architect is his second book. It charts the backgrounds to his work of recent…
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_Herman_Hertzberger_Lessons for Students in_Architecture
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6891″] Herman Hertzberger’s Lessons for Students in Architecture was first published in 1991, as an elaborated version of lectures he had given since 1973 at Delft University of Technology. It presents a broad spectrum of subjects and designs, with practical experience and evaluation of the use of these buildings serving as a leitmotif. This immensely successful…
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_Managing_Quality in_Architecture A Handbook for Creators of the Built Environment
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6887″] This handbook addresses the question of how best to manage quality in architecture for the mutual benefit of design practices and their clients. Based on research from the last two decades, it explores the general principles, tools and techniques that can be adapted to the unique culture of any design practice.The book addresses…
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_101_Things I_Learned in_Architecture School
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6883″] 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the design studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language the things they…
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_Graphic_History of_Architecture
[ebook_store ebook_id=”5944″] What is a hammer-beam roof? Where does a voissoir fit in an arch? What churches did Nicholas Hawksmoor design? Now architecture students and others interested in the history of the built environment can consult a single reference book to find the answers to these and to hundreds of other questions, quickly and in…
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_Tracing_Architecture_The_Aesthetics of_Antiquarianism
[ebook_store ebook_id=”5713″] Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction. Discusses the discovery of the ancient world through the medium of print…
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_Histories of the_Immediate_Present_Inventing_Architectural_Modernism
[ebook_store ebook_id=”5709″] How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism — Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri — advanced specific versions of modernism. Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War,…
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_Criticism in_architecture_Exploring_architecture in_Islamic_cultures
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_Regionalism in_architecture_Exploring_architecture in_Islamic_cultures
[ebook_store ebook_id=”5701″] Proceedings of the Regional Seminar in the series Exploring Architecture in Islamic Cultures sponsored by the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. 1985. 204 pages.