Detail Annual (vol. 4)
Exhibit & Culture & Meeting, Education, Commerce, Public & Business facilities
2005 | English, Korean | 257 pages | PDF | 79,4 MB
E-Books on Architectural Design, Theory of Architecture, History of Architecture, Masters of Architecture, Site Planning, Urban Planning, Urban Design, Building Technology, Building Construction, Materials of Construction, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Green Architecture, Basic Architectural Reference, Manuals of Architecture, Professional Architectural Practice, Building Laws, Structural and Civil Engineering.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Detail Annual (vol. 3) Education, Business, Public & Commerce facilities
Detail Annual (vol. 3)
Education, Business, Public & Commerce facilities
2005 | English, Korean | 265 pages | PDF | 84 MB
Detail Annual (vol. 2) Medical & Welfare, Education, Hotel & Commerce, Physical facilities
Detail Annual (vol. 2)
Medical & Welfare, Education, Hotel & Commerce, Physical facilities
2005 | English, Korean | 271 pages | PDF | 105,7 MB
Detail Annual (vol. 1) Culture, business, residence, public facilities
Detail Annual (vol. 1)
Culture, business, residence, public facilities
2005 | English, Korean | 265 pages | PDF | 105,5 MB
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects
Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects
528 pages | PDF | 21,5 MB
Taking a fresh, holistic approach to the topic of architectural technology, this indispensable book looks at the 'why' as well as the 'how' of building science, providing a comprehensive, clear and concise introduction to the subject.
The demands faced by architects in their training and education are constantly changing. Written by two practicing architects who teach building technology and design, this text ensures that the reader is given the full picture of the discipline, as it integrates technical material with design sensibilities.
Incorporating structural design, environmental principles, material science and human factors, this book shows how these topics rely upon and influence one another in architectural design. It also relates the technical with the theoretical, illustrating how technology and design have influenced one another historically.
Offering highly practical guidance to the essentials of building design, this book is the first to provide the full spectrum of building science for architects in one volume.
Design-Tech includes hundreds of illustrations and numerous case studies that show how these theories work in practice.
* A single volume integrating structual, environmental and construction engineering basics for architects
* A holistic approach to technology, illustrating how it relates to the history and theory of architecture
* Presents sustainable design as a given, with environmental design principles included throughout the text
Designing High-Density Cities: For Social and Environmental Sustainability
Designing High-Density Cities:
For Social and Environmental Sustainability
2010 | PDF | 396 pages | 12 Mb
'A distinctive and comprehensive selection of conceptual ideas covering the 'art and science' of sustainable city design.' Khee-Poh Lam, Professor of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 'Designing High-Density Cities is a unique contribution. It is an excellent overview of the state of the art on design process for cities presenting high densities. The book is an outcome of long standing research in the area of urban sustainability and includes contributions from internationally acclaimed researchers and building scientists. This is a valuable reference not only for academics but also for architects and practitioners.' Matheos Santamouris, Professor of Energy Physics, University of Athens, Greece 'An outstanding collection of papers on a key issue in planning today. Starting with the essentials of high density building, this book then explores the complex relations of high-density metropolitan areas...It goes without saying that the combination of such important themes fills a gap in our knowledge and that no planner can ignore this book' Tejo Spit, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 'At first glance this may not seem to be a text book for urban designers but I wish that it had been available when I was working on large projects in Hong Kong... the twenty two contributors to this book comprehensively cover the gamut of issues of building at high densities, the growth of mega cities and their environmental consequences.' Urban Design, Issue 115, 2010
Designing Greenways: Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People
Designing Greenways:
Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People
288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
How are greenways designed? What situations lead to their genesis, and what examples best illustrate their potential for enhancing communities and the environment? Designing greenways is a key to protecting landscapes, allowing wildlife to move freely, and finding appropriate ways to bring people into nature. This book brings together examples from ecology, conservation biology, aquatic ecology, and recreation
Design and Equipment for Restaurants and Foodservice
Design and Equipment for Restaurants and Foodservice
PDF | 624 pages | 11 MB
From the decor that helps define the customer's experience, to the steps taken to comply with workplace safety and health regulations, to the capital investments in major equipment,a well-designed foodservice facility blends many different elements into a functional and pleasing whole. Decision-makers who understand these different elements and how they work together will reap the plentiful rewards that come from good design choices in a restaurant or foodservice endeavor.
Design and Equipment for Restaurants and Foodservice, Third Edition takes a comprehensive approach to planning and developing a restaurant or foodservice space. This "go-to guide"encompasses everything from creating a restaurant concept to maintaining a commercial-grade oven, and is unique in its attention to both the front and back of the house.
Revised and updated with the latest foodservice industry trends, this new Third Edition features:
• New and expanded coverage of green design, including energy and water use, recycling and waste streams, smarter use of space, and LEED "green building" principles
• New information on technology use in foodservice
• Coverage of design in the context of industry trends including mobile foodservice, multichain operators, branding concepts, design for smaller spaces, and integrating cook-chill methods for quality control
• Recent developments in equipment technology and equipment purchasing, financing, leasing, and insuring
• The latest updates on topics including sanitation practices, healthier cooking oils, and regulations such as the Americans with Disabilities Act
Clearly organized for learning, and full of such resources as callout boxes, interviews with industry experts, take-away points, and other helpful features, Design and Equipment for Restaurants and Foodservice, Third Edition gives hospitality industry students and working professionals a complete guide to this essential subject.
Creating the Productive Workplace
Creating the Productive Workplace
1999 | CHM | 384 pages | 2,3 mb
Productivity is a key factor for individual companies as well as for worldwide economies. Many studies have shown that productivity at work bears close relationship to the work environment. Creating the Productive Workplace takes evidence from both US and European companies to show the elements of an efficient work environment. This book is essential reading for facilities and estates managers, interior designers, architects and building environmental engineers.
Creating Outdoor Classrooms
Creating Outdoor Classrooms
Schoolyard Habitats and Gardens for the Southwest
211 pages | PDF | 29,3 MB
Schoolyards have come a long way from the barren playgrounds that many people remember. Today's school campuses often feature gardens in which students can learn about native plants and wildlife, grow vegetables and fruit, explore cultural traditions, practice reading and math skills, and use their imaginations to create fun play spaces. And for a growing number of urban students, these schoolyard gardens offer the best, if not the only, opportunity to experience the natural world firsthand and enjoy its many benefits.
This book is a practical, hands-on guide for creating a variety of learning environments in the arid Southwest. Filled with clear, easy-to-use information and illustrated with photographs, drawings, and plans, the book covers everything necessary to create schoolyard gardens:
• An introduction to schoolyards as outdoor classrooms and several types of habitats, including art gardens, cultural history gardens, ecological gardens, literacy gardens, and vegetable gardens
• Design theory, including a history of garden styles, and design principles and design elements
• Beginning the design process, including identifying participants and writing a design program that sets out goals and requirements
• Conducting site research and synthesizing design elements to arrive at a final design
• Design essentials, including project funding and design features, maintenance, accessibility, safety, and project evaluation and revision
• Wildlife ecology, including elements needed for survival such as food and shelter
• Creating gardens for pollinators and other wildlife, including hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, moths, bats, and flies, as well as pest control
• Lists of native plants for various kinds of habitats and nurseries that sell native plants, as well as books, web sites, and other resources for learning more about native plants and wildlife This guide will be essential for landscape architects, school personnel, parents, and students. Indeed, its principles can be used in designing schoolyard habitats across the country, while its information on gardening with native plants and wildlife will be useful to homeowners across the Southwest.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Cool Hotels America
Cool Hotels America
2004 | PDF | 400 pages | 35 MB
Cool Hotels: The Americas is an extensive compilation of the most contemporary hotels in North, Central, and South America, all of which have been chosen because they represent the best in innovative design. Copiously illustrated with hundreds of color photographs of hotels designed by renowned figures such as Todd Oldham, Ernesto Goranski, and David Rockwell and accompanied by illuminating sketches as well as explanatory texts and captions, this book is a colorful tour of lodging at the cutting edge.
Cool Hotels: Africa/Middle East
Cool Hotels: Africa/Middle East
2006 | PDF | 400 pages | 35 MB
Cool Hotels Africa/Middle East showcases a comprehensive selection of cutting-edge hotels in Africa and the Middle East, all of them showcased because they embody the best in contemporary hotel design. This useful flexicover guide is extensively illustrated with approximately 400 color photographs, highlighting the interiors and exteriors of these striking accommodations. This overview includes designs from Enrico Daffonchio, Peter Matkovitch and Ed Tuttle in locations as diverse as South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius and Morocco.
Contemporary Details
Contemporary Details
178 pages | PDF | 103,7 MB
This international guide to contemporary architectural fixtures and fittings is a sourcebook to the best products available for modern domestic interiors. More than 800 photographs are included to illustrate the fixtures, fittings and surface finishes for floors, doors, windows, stairs, walls, ceilings, heating, lighting, storage, kitchens and bathrooms.
WARO KISHI
WARO KISHI
Catalogos de Arquitectura Contemporanea
Spanish, English | September 1995 |PDF | 96 pages | 91 MB
Construction of Marine and Offshore Structures, 3rd Edition
Construction of Marine and Offshore Structures,
3rd Edition
PDF | 803 pages | 18,5 MB
For two decades, Ben Gerwick's ability to capture the current state of practice and present it in a straightforward, easily digestible manner has made “Construction of Marine and Offshore Structures” the reference of choice for modern civil and maritime construction engineers. The third edition of this perennial bestseller continues to be the most modern and authoritative guide in the field.
Based on the author's lifetime of experience, the book also incorporates relevant published information from many sources. Updated and expanded to reflect new technologies, methods, and materials, the book includes new information on topics such as liquefaction of loose sediments, scour and erosion, archaeological concerns, high-performance steel, ultra-high-performance concrete, steel H piles, and damage from sabotage and terrorism. It features coverage of LNG terminals and offshore wind and wave energy structures. Clearly, concisely, and accessibly, this book steers you away from the pitfalls and toward the successful implementation of principles that can bring your marine and offshore projects to life.
Bridge Engineering Handbook
Bridge Engineering Handbook
1999 | PDF | 2020 pages | 132 MB
An international team of experts has joined forces to produce the Bridge Engineering Handbook. They address all facets-the planning, design, inspection, construction, and maintenance of a variety of bridge structures-creating a must-have resource for every bridge engineer.
This unique, comprehensive reference provides the means to review standard practices and keep abreast of new developments and state-of-the-art practices. Comprising 67 chapters in seven sections, the authors present:
Fundamentals: Provides the basic concepts and theory of bridge engineeringSuperstructure Design: Discusses all types of bridges
Substructure Design: Addresses columns, piers, abutments, and foundations
Seismic Design: Presents the latest in seismic bridge design
Construction and Maintenance: Focuses on the practical issues of bridge structures
Special Topics: Offers new and important information and unique solutions
Worldwide Practice: Summarizes bridge engineering practices around the world.
Discover virtually all you need to know about any type of bridge:Reinforced, Segmental, and Prestressed ConcreteSteel beam and plate girderSteel box girderOrthotropic deckHorizontally curvedTrussArchSuspensionCable-stayedTimberMovableFloatingRailroadSpecial attention is given to rehabilitation, retrofit, and maintenance, and the Bridge Engineering Handbook offers over 1,600 tables, charts, and illustrations in ready-to-use format. An abundance of worked-out examples give readers step-by-step design procedures and the section on Worldwide Practice provides a broad and valuable perspective on the "big picture" of bridge engineering.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Cool Hotels
Cool Hotels
PDF | 400 pages | 36 MB
Cool Hotels, 2nd edition is an updated edition of teNeues’ highly successful Cool Hotels, giving an up-to-the-minute overview of the most stunning contemporary hotels across the globe. This invaluable flexi-cover guide showcases the finest examples of original and innovative hostelry design. Lavishly illustrated with approximately 400 color photographs, these views of hotel exteriors and interiors are a feast for the eyes and the imagination. This volume features designs from Matteo Thun, Antonio Citterio, and Stephen B. Jacobs, in locations as diverse as New York, Berlin, and Bangkok.
Engineering Manual of Automatic Control for Commercial Buildings
Engineering Manual of Automatic Control for Commercial Buildings
Heating Ventilating Air Conditioning
PDF | 512 pages | 3.9 MB
The purpose of this manual is to provide the reader with a fundamental understanding of controls and how they are applied to the many parts of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems in commercial buildings.
Many aspects of control are presented including air handling units, terminal units, chillers, boilers, building airflow, water and steam distribution systems, smoke management, and indoor air quality. Control fundamentals, theory, and types of controls provide background for application of controls to heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems. Discussions of pneumatic, electric, electronic, and digital controls illustrate that applications may use one or more of several different control methods. Engineering data such as equipment sizing, use of psychrometric charts, and conversion formulas supplement and support the control information. To enhance understanding, definitions of terms are provided within individual sections.
Building management systems have evolved into a major consideration for the control engineer when evaluating a total heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system design. In response to this consideration, the basics of building management systems configuration are presented.
The control recommendations in this manual are general in nature and are not the basis for any specific job or installation. Control systems are furnished according to the plans and specifications prepared by the control engineer. In many instances there is more than one control solution. Professional expertise and judgment are required for the design of a control system. This manual is not a substitute for such expertise and judgment.
Always consult a licensed engineer for advice on designing control systems.
It is hoped that the scope of information in this manual will provide the readers with the tools to expand their knowledge base and help develop sound approaches to automatic control.
Class Architecture
Class Architecture
2006 | PDF | 144 pages | 315 mb
School buildings are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the next generation of teachers and students.
This book presents more than 40 projects from the USA, showcasing leading elementary and secondary school design.
Featred projects factor in important design elements including security and safety, new technology, resource centres and energy conservation.
They must also accomodate flexible learning environments for a range of student groups. Full-colour photos, plans, drawings and descriptive text accompany the projects.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Construction Technology
Construction Technology
634 pages | PDF | 51,3 MB
Construction Technology covers the basic elements of substructure (site works, setting out and foundations) and superstructure (flooring and roofs, simple finishes, fittings and fixtures), as well as basic services such as water, gas electricity and drainage, and considers low-rise framed industrial and commercial buildings.
* An ideal reference for students on construction crafts courses, this is an essential text for all students new to the subject, whether they are on GNVQ, BTEC HNC/D or degree programmes in construction or related sectors.
* Completely updated to take into account new Building Regulation requirements. Includes information on construction techniques updated in line with new regulations.
* New chapter - Access and Facilities for the Disabled - includes domestic and commercial areas.
* Additional information covering the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
* Ideal introduction: assumes no previous knowledge of the subject.Covers conventional methods of on-site construction.
* Presents a rational, logical progression of subjects following the construction sequence.
* Represents contemporary and established practice. Keeps key elements of historic practice for maintenance reference.
* Detailed illustrations capture core information.
* Contains up-to-date references to current legislation and regulations, including the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 and the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
"The Museum of Modern Art, New York" | July 2, 2002 | 136 pages | PDF | 29 MB
First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature. As Venturi's "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural
Compact Houses
Compact Houses
2005 | PDF | 209 pages | 47 Mb
This exhaustively documented sourcebook will be invaluable to professionals and students of architecture, interior design, interior de-corating, and furniture design. Information is provided on every aspect of the design process from the ground up—floor plans, materials, and specifications—on furniture and fixtures.
The 30-plus illustrated case studies are of homes that are streamlined on the inside and out, and include full-color photographs, floor plans, and sketches. Also revealed are dozens of never-before-seen solutions in storage and an array of ingenious design solutions for furniture and fixtures that serve a variety of purposes.
Colour Perception: Mind and the Physical World
Colour Perception: Mind and the Physical World
2004 | 544 pages | PDF | 5,6 Mb
The last few decades have brought fascinating changes in the way that we think about color and the role that color plays in our perceptual architecture.
In Colour: Connecting the Mind to the Physical World, leading scholars from cognitive psychology, philosophy, neurophysiology, and computational vision provide an overview of the contemporary developments in our understanding of colors and of the relationship between the 'mental' and the 'physical'.
With each chapter followed by critical commentaries, the volume presents a lively and accessible picture of the intellectual traditions which have shaped research into color perception.
Clients Driving Innovation
Clients Driving Innovation
296 pages | PDF | 5,2 MB
In recent years the construction industry has been criticised for lack of successful innovation compared to other major industries. The question of why the industry has not been seen to be innovative has created concern among many involved with construction and property. The driving concern is where the motivation for this innovation should come from. Although construction clients have made an impact in this area, the industry itself seems divided as to whether, when and where clients should drive the innovation process.
Clients Driving Innovation brings together an international group of researchers and practitioners to investigate the role of clients in construction innovation. Written in three parts, it covers the context for innovation driven by clients, the client impact on the innovation process and how new ideas can be pushed through into practice. Numerous case studies illustrate the role clients can play and the key issues that need to be addressed.
With increasing interest in the contribution clients can make to construction innovation, Clients Driving Innovation will be essential reading for construction management researchers, major construction contractors and clients and government policy makers.
Calcul pratique des ossatures de bâtiments en béton armé
Calcul pratique des ossatures de bâtiments en béton armé
Bâtiments courants, bâtiments de grande hauteur
French | PDF | 262 pages | 4.81 Mb
Nombreux sont les ouvrages qui traitent du calcul des structures, et la littérature techniques offre a l’ingénieur une foule de traites et manuels qui l'aident a dimensionner ou à vérifier la stabilité des ossatures de bâtiment.
Tous les problèmes qui se posent à propos d'une ossature de bâtiment sont abordés sous un angle essentiellement pragmatique, avec de nombreux exemples numériques, grâce auxquels sont précisées les hypothèses simplificatrices, ou les approximations permises.
Ce sont tout d'abord les fondations, traités uniquement sous l'angle du béton armé, et non sous celui de la Mécanique.
Cable Supported Bridges: Concept and Design
Cable Supported Bridges: Concept and Design
1984 | 410 pages | PDF | 25 MB
Cable supported bridges in the form of suspension bridges and cable-stayed bridges are distinguished by their ability to overcome large spans.
This book concentrates on the synthesis of cable supported bridges covering both design and construction aspects. The analytical part covers simple methods to quantify the different structural forms and allows a preliminary optimization of the main structure.
Completely revised and updated, this second edition is justified by an accelerated pace of innovation within this field of bridge technology. It includes the latest advancements in wind tunnel testing and results of computer analyses. Numerous halftones and figures supplement the text.
Monday, July 9, 2018
Building Your Straw Bale Home : From Foundations to the Roof
Building Your Straw Bale Home :
From Foundations to the Roof
PDF | 281 pages | English | 6,4 MB
This practical guide is written especially for the owner-builder and provides step-by-step instructions supported by diagrams and photographs.
It covers the construction process from site preparation through to foundations, concrete slabs, strip footings and stumps. Special techniques for straw bale construction and the integration of these techniques with those of conventional house building are also covered, including floors, timber wall-frames, ceilings and roof framing. Advice is offered on plumbing and electrical work in a straw bale house.
Straw bale is a renewable resource. Compared with timber, which is regenerated typically every 20 to 30 years, straw is generated once or twice per year. As long as people need grain as a food source, straw will be generated as a by-product.
Straw in many parts of the world is still regarded as a waste. Even its disposal has become an environmental issue, like burning in the field. On the other hand, straw has certain excellent properties as a building material, such as its thermal capacity. In baled form, it keeps its integrity reasonably well. Once rendered, straw is durable and strong.
Construction Building Envelope and Interior Finishes Databook
Construction Building Envelope and Interior Finishes Databook
2000 | Pages: 752 | PDF | Size: 32,5 MB
A one-stop resource for residential or commercial construction projects, Construction Building Envelope and Interior Finishes Databook gives you instant access to hundreds of tables, specifications, charts, diagrams, and illustrations covering materials and components most frequently used on a typical job.
Building a Revolution: Chinese Architecture Since 1980
Building a Revolution:
Chinese Architecture Since 1980
2006 | PDF | 204 pages | 35,5 mb
Since China's modernization began in 1980, the country has witnessed exponential growth in construction activities.
In a deliberate attempt to break away from the past, China has shown remarkable drive and determination to refashion itself in terms of architectural and town planning practices.
While there are many books about traditional Chinese architecture and gardens, this is perhaps the first book in English to introduce the dramatic new look of China.
Bridges: The science and art of the world's most inspiring structures
Bridges:
The science and art of the world's most inspiring structures
288 pages | PDF | 2,6 mb
Bridges vault valleys and leap rivers, but how?
British civil-engineering professor Blockley answers in this “attempt to help nontechnical readers understand the technical issues bridge builders have to face.”
Emanating from the engineer’s abiding anxiety to ensure against structural failure, such issues are successfully clarified in the author’s engaging presentation.
Essentially, the bridge engineer calculates the physical forces acting on the materials and shapes used to construct a bridge, but, as Blockley iterates throughout, engineering knowledge about how a bridge will perform has finite or indeterminable dimensions.
The bridge collapses he describes were typically caused by some previously unrecognized behavior, and the collection of behaviors learned through bridge-building experience infuses Blockley’s arrangement of bridges into four classifications—beams, arches, trusses, and suspensions.
If we cross bridges unmindful of the forces they tame, Blockley’s text, sketches, simple equations, and photographs instill appreciation for a physical dynamism that the engineer aspires to control.
Also discussing the architectural beauty of bridges, this is a model explanation of technological design for a general audience. --Gilbert Taylor
Brickwork
Brickwork
208 pages | PDF | 4,6 MB
Brickwork allows the reader to develop their understanding of key subjects by completing the numerous exercises and tests, including multiple choice questions.
In addition, each topic begins with a summary of key facts and figures, making this an ideal course text based round core information and assessments rather than reading an extended text.
The coverage includes health and safety and basic calculations as well as the technical and practical aspects of brickwork. All students of bricklaying will find this a stimulating and useful revision aid.
Learn through key fact summaries and exercises, not extended textIdeal for independent study and revision
Béton armé : Guide de calcul
Béton armé : Guide de calcul
Ce guide, conçu pour permettre le travail de l'étudiant en autonomie, présente les connaissances de base indispensables à la détermination des sections d'armatures des ouvrages élémentaires d'une structure porteuse tels que semelles, poteaux, poutres, planchers.
Il traite également des méthodes de vérification des contraintes du béton et de l'acier dans une section fléchie. Il utilise des méthodes simples faisant appel au calcul classique et à l'utilisation des tableaux avec leur mode d'exploitation.
Il suit les dernières réglementations en vigueur (BAEL 91) et précise les dispositions constructives.
Design of Pile Foundations in Liquefiable Soils
Design of Pile Foundations in Liquefiable Soils
PDF | 232 pages | 6.8 MB
Pile foundations are the most common form of deep foundations that used both onshore and offshore to transfer large superstructure loads into competent soil strata.
This book provides many case histories of failure of pile foundations due to earthquake loading and soil liquefaction. Based on the observed case histories, the possible mechanisms of failure of the pile foundations are postulated.
The book also deals with the additional loading attracted by piles in liquefiable soils due to lateral spreading of sloping ground. Recent research at Cambridge forms the backbone of this book with the design methodologies being developed directly based on quantified centrifuge test results and numerical analysis.
The book provides designers and practicing civil engineers with a sound knowledge of pile behaviour in liquefiable soils and easy-to-use methods to design pile foundations in seismic regions.
For graduate students and researchers, it brings together the latest research findings on pile foundations in a way that is relevant to geotechnical practice.
Blast Effects on Buildings
Blast Effects on Buildings
2nd edition"
2009 | PDF | 356 pages | 5.8 MB
Blast effects on buildings, second edition provides the latest practical guidance on designing buildings to optimise their resilience to blast loading.
Focused specifically on the design of commercial buildings, it is an indispensable guide to help engineers reduce the risks posed to building occupants and businesses from terrorist and other explosions.
Beyond City Limits: Urban Policy and Economic Reconstructuring in Comparative Perspective
Beyond City Limits:
Urban Policy and Economic Reconstructuring in Comparative Perspective
1991 | 275 pages | PDF | 10,7 MB
This book challenges the notion that there is a single, global process of economic restructuring to which cities must submit.
The studies in this volume compare urban development in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, demonstrating that there is significant variety in urban economic restructuring.
The contributors emphasize that the economic forces transforming cities from industrial concentrations to post industrial service centers do not exist apart from politics: all nation-states are heavily involved in the restructuring process.
John R. Logan is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany.
Todd Swanstrom is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany and the author of "The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism (Temple)".
Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture
Beauty and Islam:
Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture
2001 | 160 Pages | PDF | 31 MB
Five essays explore aspects of aesthetics in classical Islamic thought in light of contemporary theories, offering new perspectives on Islamic with examples ranging from the Qur'an and the Alhambra to the works of present day artists and philosophers.
Tracing the roots of Islamic aesthetics back to the works of the philosophers of the Middle Ages such as Avicenna and Averroes, Valerie Gonzalez finds that aesthetic theory in Islam must be seen within the much wider context of parallel thinking on theology, ethics, physics, and metaphysics.
She balances her analysis of this philosophy (moral, logical, and scientific) of beauty with the equally important analysis of the perceptual experience of beauty.
Basics : Architecture and Dynamics
Basics : Architecture and Dynamics
208 pages | PDF | 23,9 MB
What elements constitute space?
What s a solitaire and what makes a solitaire a monument?
Why is a building profane and what makes a space a sacred space?
Why seem Zaha Hadid s buildings to be dynamic buildings?
These and many other issues are addressed in "Basics".
In a direct confrontation of text and pictures of international buildings, meaning and effect of basic architectural elements are studied both discretely and within compounds starting from Wassily Kandinsky s visual arts related analysis "Point and Line to Plane".
Transferred on natural and artificial objects, the effect of these elements is not primarily based on the external appearance but rather on the tension inherent to forms.
Thus, the 2nd edition of this standard book is now available in English. It has been revised and a foreword by architecture theorist Otto Kapfinger added.
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