Structural Steelwork: Design to Limit State Theory, Second Edition

Structural Steelwork: Design to Limit State Theory, Second Edition

 edition 1992 | PDF | 400 pages | 10.5 mb

For this second edition, the book has been updated to comply with the recently revised code of practice for hot-rolled sections. In addition, a new chapter on portal design has been included to cover this very important type of single-storey structure.

Both elastic and plastic methods are given.

This book will continue to provide an indispensable guide for students of structural and civil engineering and for engineers and designers in industry.

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Structural Foundation Manual for Low-Rise Buildings

Structural Foundation Manual for Low-Rise Buildings

November 1993 / 248 pages / English

This book is a practical guide to the design of foundations for housing and other low-rise buildings. Its emphasis is on practical, buildable solutions to foundation problems, especially on abnormal or poor ground. 

Builders, structural engineers and architects will find Structural Foundations Manual for Low-Rise Buildings an invaluable desk-side reference for foundation designs on these sites. 

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Street Furniture

Street Furniture

2010 | 242 pages | PDF | 64.01 Mb

Street furniture is the secret star of urban outdoor design. Though rarely noticed at first glance, it significantly contributes towards the urban experience. Benches, fountains, street lamps, rubbish bins, post boxes, tourist information signs, bus stops as well as public toilets are items that reoccur in various urban spaces. 

Just like outstanding monuments and landmarks, they determine the identity of a square, street or town. This volume introduces 100 exceptional examples of contemporary street furniture, presenting both items that are one-of-a-kind as well as objects that are part of a product series.

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Strategic Airport Planning

Strategic Airport Planning

pages: 468 | 1999 | PDF | 35,5 mb

The book will examine these pressures in order to identify changes that are required to the airport planning process. The major issues to be discussed are: forecasting in an uncertain world; airport market share; airline network choices; political settings and their consequences; economic justification and viability; environmental impacts and their mitigation; cooperative planning; and physical planning challenges. 

The issues will be illuminated by case studies of representative airport systems: intercontinental gateways, metropolitan multi airport system, provincial and regional airports and developing country systems. The final section will bring together suggestions for ways in which the industry can move forward to a green and profitable future with an appropriate provision of new capacity.

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Spectacular Outdoor Living of Texas

Spectacular Outdoor Living of Texas

A Collection of Fine Design

2011 | 49 Pages | 15MB | True PDF

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Specifying Buildings: A design management perspective

Specifying Buildings: A design management perspective

2001 | PDF | 224 pages | 1,3 mb

Providing an overview of specifying, from selecting materials and products to writing the specification documents, Specifying Buildings is a new guide to this important part of the construction process. Where it differs from most books is in covering the management of the specification process, making sure that the design intent is transferred to the building assembly as specified.

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Spatial Planning and Climate Change

Spatial Planning and Climate Change

2010 | PDF | 480 pages | 4.1 MB

must develop and implement new approaches.

Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in this comprehensive book on the relationship between our changing climate and spatial planning, and suggest ways of addressing the challenges by taking a longer-sighted approach to our preparation for the future.

This text includes:

an overview of what we know already about future climate change and its impacts, as we attempt both to adapt to these changes and to reduce the emissions which cause them

the role of spatial planning in relation to climate change, offering some theoretical and political explanations for the challenges that planning faces in the coming decades

a review of policy and legislation at international, EU and UK levels in regard to climate change, and the support this gives to the planning system

case studies detailing what responses the UK and the Netherlands have made so far in light of the evidence

ways to help new and existing urban developments to reduce energy use and to adapt to climate change, through strengthening the relationships between urban and rural areas to avoid water shortage, floods or loss of biodiversity.

The authors take an evidence-based look at this hugely important topic, providing a well-illustrated text for spatial planning professionals, politicians and the interested public, as well as a useful reference for postgraduate planning, geography, urban studies, urban design and environmental studies students.

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Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity

Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity

English | 2004 | 280 pages | PDF | 21,9 MB

This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. 

Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a critical account of the development of three key concepts: global culture, post colonialism, and modernity. 

Subsequent case studies examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide.

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Space is the machine

Space is the machine

A configurational theory of architecture

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Space For Freedom

Space For Freedom

1989 |  English | 305 Pages | 105MB | PDF

This book chronicles the first decade and the achievements of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA), with special reference to the activities of the third cycle (1984-1986), and presents the winning projects of the 1986 Award. The title Space for Freedom was chosen to underline the commitment of the Award, in all its activities, to create an intellectual space where imagination can soar and the pursuit of relevance and architectural excellence can proceed in myriad ways, transcending a single architectural style or school of thought.

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Space and Learning

Space and Learning

 2008 | PDF | 208 pages | 31.4 MB

Schools loom large in the comprehensive body of work designed by Hertzberger more than 30 have been built to date. School buildings, according to the architect, are one of the few areas in architecture today where designers are still able to define and influence human conditions. Space and Learning' brings together Hertzberger's knowledge and ideas in a theoretical study of the spatial conditions of learning, lavishly illustrated throughout with both his work and that of others.

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Site Matters

Site Matters

2005 | ISBN: 0415949769 | 376 pages | PDF | 5 MB

One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site, or larger context (both physical and social), surrounding a building or set of buildings.

Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs, Site Matters presents that first considered theory and vocabulary for the inevitable reaction against Modernism in planning, beginning in the 1960s and swelling through the 1980s as architects and planners alike developed a new appreciation of site, reincorporating the wider context into their plans.

Theoretical essays and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory of this re-emergence of site, looking at Le Corbusier's designs, contemporary suburbs, and the planning agendas involved at the World Trade Center site.

Groundbreaking and innovative, Site Matters provides valuable theory and vocabulary for planners and architects.

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School (Reaktion Books - Objekt)

School (Reaktion Books - Objekt)

2008-06-19 | PDF | 208 pages | 5,2 mb

As a specific form of architecture, the school is an amalgam of its function and its history. Though recognizable across cultures, the schoolhouse nevertheless retains the distinctive markings of different nations and eras. School is the first book to examine this institutional building’s modern growth on a global scale.

Ian Grosvenor and Catherine Burke demonstrate how school buildings help organize and manipulate time and space for teachers and students, using methods ranging from bells to lines to lesson plans. They reveal the ways in which schools, by their actual physical situation—surrounded by swathes of green or butting up against other urban structures, in neighborhoods stratified by class or segregated by race—make clear their place in society as fragmented sites of cultural memory and creation.

The authors further consider how new technologies and continuing globalization will inevitably force us to rethink our notions of school—and school buildings. In the twenty-first century, these shifts represent a radically new context for education. School will provide stimulating reading for anyone interested in this extraordinary evolution of architecture and education.

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Scenic Design and Lighting Techniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre

Scenic Design and Lighting Techniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre

2006 | 416 pages | PDF | 51,8 MB

Basic. This is the key word in Scenic Design and Lighting Tecniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre, written by two seasoned professionals with over twenty years of experience. 

This book is designed to show you how to turn a bare stage into a basic set design, without using heavy language that would bog you down. 

From materials and construction to basic props and lighting, this book explains all you will need to know to build your set and light it.

* Be inspired by the images of real productions and learn from the instructional images

* Learn from designer's concepts and drawings from actual professional and university productions

* Know that after reading this book, you'll be equiped with exactly what you NEED to know to design your stage scenery and lighting

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The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors

The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors

2001 | 443 pages | JPG | 323 MB

In collaboration with his brothers James and William, Robert Adam became the leading architect in Great Britain in the second half of the 18th century. He presented himself as an authority on ancient Roman architecture and published the first volume of the elaborate Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam in 1773. 

Robert Adam's influence crossed the Atlantic, and numerous important buildings demonstrate his innovative introduction of various geometric forms into the floor plan and employ his delicate and restrained ornament based on a classical vocabulary. 

In fact, his firm had its greatest influence on interior design, and this volume, by an architectural historian who has authored several earlier titles on Adam's work, beginning with The Furniture of Robert Adam (1963), provides detailed analyses of the work, much of which took place inside buildings designed by others. 

Extensive historical data are presented meticulously, and the graphic documentation is superb, including floor plans and interior elevations based on Adam's own drawings and often in color.

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Richard Meier (Electa's Modern Masters)

Richard Meier (Electa's Modern Masters)

504 pages / 2003 / English / 180 Mo

This new title in the Modern Masters series is dedicated to the distinguished American architect, and includes an introductory essay by Kenneth Frampton, one of the most prestigious names in the field of architecture history. 

This complete monograph presents 89 of Meier's buildings, documenting the principal stages of Meier's career in chronological order, from his early private homes and residential buildings - such as the two large complexes of Twin Parks, Bronx, New York, and the Bronx Development Center - to recent major projects in the United States and in several European countries, including Italy. 

Among the well-known works in this volume are the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and the church of Dives in Misericordia, Rome. 

In the early 1970s, Meier was one of the "New York Five," an informal group of East Coast architects who shared a preference for new and original contributions to the modern tradition and shaped an alternative to the "gray" architecture that dominated highrise East Coast buildings at the time.

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Retail Design

Retail Design

2000 | JPG | 239 pages | 154 MB

Retail Design offers an intriguing look at number of outstanding retail spaces that not only face these challenges with ingenuity and imagination, but provide customers with a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. 

Highlighted here are forty-five different solutions offered by some of today's most sought-after architects and designers from all over the world. Names well-known to the marketplace--Nike, Tower Records, Swatch, Jil Sander, Armani, Hermes, Comme de Garçons, Sony, Daimler/Chrysler, and Bloomingdales-are attached to wondrously conceived boutiques and stores in cities ranging from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles to London, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Bangkok. 

Each full-color spread illustrates how the use of space, interior design, color, lighting, and materials all serve to create environments that engage and attract the buyer. The accompanying text explains how the various types of retail environments-from corporate flagship stores and elite boutiques to mega-malls and department stores-have been reinvented to bring consumer and product together in a multi-faceted, supremely physical shopping experience that no computer could ever match.

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Representational Techniques (Basics Architecture)

Representational Techniques (Basics Architecture)

2008 |  English | 176 pages | PDF | 27.80 MB

The first book in an exciting new series that spotlights the basics of architecture and design, "Basics Architecture: Representational and Drawing Techniques" is an easy-to-understand overview of the techniques used to represent architecture. 

From conceptual sketches to the working drawings required for construction, this book covers all the basics. Two- and three-dimensional methods, freehand sketching, cutting-edge computer modeling, and more are presented in examples from top professionals as well as students. 

Readers will learn how to present and plan layouts, make conceptual sketches, work with scale, use collage and photomontage to create contemporary images, and prepare and plan portfolios.

* Core architectural ideas

* Clear text, helpful diagrams, full-color photos of sample work

* Ideal for students or professionals

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Repairing Flooded Buildings: An Insurance Industry Guide to Investigation and Repair

Repairing Flooded Buildings: 

An Insurance Industry Guide to Investigation and Repair

2010 | PDF | 108 pages | 1.2 MB

This publication aims to rationalise and simplify the issues involved, with the aim of improving service to the building owner from the insurance, loss adjusting, surveying and contracting sectors.

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Recording Studio Design, Second Edition

Recording Studio Design, Second Edition

2007 | 736 pages | PDF | 25 Mb

Recording Studio Design is essential reading for anyone involved in building, renovating and maintaining recording studios. Good acoustics in a recording studio is crucial to the success of a project, and the financial implications of failure means getting things right first time is essential.

 In straightforward language Newell covers the key basic principles of acoustics, electro-acoustics and psychoacoustics and their application to studio design. Fully updated to reflect current technology and practice additional sections include digital signal processing, design for soundtrack mixing and foley rooms, providing a complete reference offering real solutions to help improve the success rate of any studio.

*Provides great detail on the practical recording application in various acoustic environments

*Complex issues are explained and real solutions provided

*Benifit from Newell's years of experience, designing over 200 studios including Manor and Town House Studios 

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Public Architecture Now!

Public Architecture Now!

We tend to divide buildings into two basic categories—private structures such as houses, and public buildings like railway stations, concert halls or museums. Public buildings have limits of their own: whether a courthouse or an airport, a stadium or college campus, questions of style, function or cost are clearly posed. Resolving such tensions is just one of many serious questions that arise when the definition of public architecture is at stake. This book explores the most creative responses to these and related issues, and shows how in recent years, public architecture has undergone a tremendous upheaval, an aesthetic awakening of sorts.

Where solidly classical and staid designs were the norm, aesthetic daring and innovation are now increasingly rewarded, as celebrated architects from Herzog & de Meuron to Jean Nouvel have blazed a trail for a new generation of truly public buildings—structures that combine access for the many, with quality once reserved for the few. Public Architecture Now! highlights the groundbreaking and breathtaking new public architecture now appearing around the world, from Spain to Norway, via Chile, China and the USA.

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Principles of Foundation Engineering (7th SI Edition)

Principles of Foundation Engineering (7th SI Edition)

2010 | 815 pages | PDF | 15MB

Originally published in the fall of 1983, Braja M. Das' Seventh Edition of Principles of Foundation Engineering continues to maintain the careful balance of current research and practical field applications that has made it the leading text in foundation engineering courses. 

Featuring a wealth of worked-out examples and figures that help students with theory and problem-solving skills, the book introduces civil engineering students to the fundamental concepts and application of foundation analysis design. 

Throughout, Das emphasizes the judgment needed to properly apply the theories and analysis to the evaluation of soils and foundation design as well as the need for field experience.

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Practical Ideas for Small Spaces

Practical Ideas for Small Spaces

2008 | PDF | 200 pages | 24 mb

The problems with housing today are common knowledge almost the world over. Small apartments, high prices, increasingly heterogeneous families, etc. 

These problems, which occur especially in urban environments, affect an increasingly high percentage of the population. 

The aim of Practical Ideas for Small Spaces is to provide readers with practical and manageable ideas to adapt their small homes to the different needs and paces of their lives. 

A host of images illustrate ideas and practical advice; from the use of color to the design of the furniture or lighting. All provide invaluable help when making the most of all corners of the house, giving diverse uses to a single room or better organizing storage space.

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Poser un carrelage mural

Poser un carrelage mural

French | PDF | 50 Pages | 7.62 Mb

De nombreuses photos vous aideront à choisir le type de céramique adapté à votre projet : pâtes de verre, émaux de Briare, carreaux de ciment, en pierres naturelles, en terre cuite émaillée, etc.

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Port Designer's Handbook : Recommendations and Guidelines

Port Designer's Handbook :

Recommendations and Guidelines

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Plant User Handbook: A Guide to Effective Specifying

Plant User Handbook: A Guide to Effective Specifying

2004 | 400 pages | PDF | 4,6 MB

Professional landscapers and all those involved in creating green spaces have long been in need of a book that is a guide to plant specification, but also makes sense of plants and their cultivation.

Plant User Handbook is for practitioners who are professionally engaged in the use of plants in public, commercial and institutional landscapes. Planting schemes are undertaken on the basis of a binding contract – generally between the client (who owns or leases the landscape) and the implementer (the landscape contractor), with the designer acting both as specifier and contract administrator. 

Within this contractual relationship, planting schemes must be implemented to an agreed timetable. To manage this procedure efficiently, landscape designers and managers need quick access to the factual and scientific background for practical planting design and its implementation through specification writing and contracts.

The book covers over 20 well defined topics, and is written by leading experts in the industry. It is arranged into five sections:

Preliminaries to plant use and the landscape Managing plant growth on landscape sites Establishment and management of trees Establishment and management of smaller woody plants Establishment and management of herbaceous plants Carefully illustrated with diagrams, black and white photographs and colour plates, this handbook provides a unique resource for professionals wanting to improve their specification skills, as well as to explore creative approaches to design and practical implementation.

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Planning Buildings for a High-Rise Environment in Hong Kong

Planning Buildings for a High-Rise Environment in Hong Kong

A Review of Building Appeal Decisions 

 391 Pages | PDF | 20 MB

This book is the first attempt to present the decisions of Hong Kong's Building Appeal Tribunal in a comprehensive and systematic style. Grouped under nine major themes, the cases exhibit the arguments considered by the Tribunal with emphasis on the general principles utilized in deciding them.

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Planning and Design of Ports and Marine Terminals

Planning and Design of Ports and Marine Terminals

 February 2004 | PDF (OCR) | 384 pages | 61.3 Mb

Following from the success of the first edition, written by a collection of eminent figures in the field, this new edition continues to look at the rational planning for port facilities requirements (berths, storage and cargo handling equipment), organizations, management and operations with relation to planning and design of ports and marine terminals.

Following from the success of the first edition, written by a collection of eminent figures in the field, this new edition continues to look at the rational planning for port facilities requirements (berths, storage and cargo handling equipment), organizations, management and operations with relation to planning and design of ports and marine terminals. 

Taking into account the rapid decrease in throughput due to containerization and the subsequent conversion of cargo berths for other uses, such as multi-purpose and container terminals, this book looks at data regarding natural conditions for site selection, choice of location and orientation of major port components - such as access channels, basins quays and specialized berths. 

This new edition also looks in detail at breakwater design and the use of model tests, channel design and proposed methods for determining sedimentation rates in channels, and ways to optimize channel depth. This book will be an invaluable resource for practicing engineers and planners, port administrators and operators, as well as graduate engineers specializing in the field. 

Contents include: A hybrid approach - including a simulation program on determining container terminal facilities; A detailed analysis of the important shipping categories of world fleets, which have been specifically acquired from Lloyds Register; High-speed ferry terminals; Dredging and disposal of contaminated sediment; Marpol; and Environmental consideration.

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Planning and Design of Airports, Fifth Edition

Planning and Design of Airports, Fifth Edition

688 pages | PDF | 10,1 MB

Authoritative, Up-to-Date Coverage of Airport Planning and Design

Fully updated to reflect the significant changes that have occurred in the aviation industry, the new edition of this classic text offers definitive guidance on every aspect of planning, design, engineering, and renovating airports and terminals. Planning and Design of Airports, Fifth Edition, includes complete coverage of the latest aircraft and air traffic management technologies, passenger processing technologies, computer-based analytical and design models, new guidelines for estimating required runway lengths and pavement thicknesses, current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards, and more.

Widely recognized as the field's standard text, this time-tested, expertly written reference is the best and most trusted source of information on current practice, techniques, and innovations in airport planning and design.

COVERAGE INCLUDES:

Designing facilities to accommodate a wide variety of aircraft

Air traffic management

Airport planning studies

Forecasting for future demands on airport system components

Geometric design of the airfield

Structural design of airport pavements

Airport lighting, marking, and signage

Planning and design of the terminal area

Airport security planning

Airport airside capacity and delay

Finance strategies, including grants, bonds, and private investment

Environmental planning

Heliports

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Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art

Places of the Soul:

 Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art

309 pages | 2003 | PDF | 23,4 mb

This new edition of the seminal text reminds us that true sustainable design does not simply mean energy efficient building. Sustainable buildings must provide for the 'soul'. For Christopher Day architecture is not just about a building's appearance, but how the building is experienced. 

'Places of the Soul' presents buildings as environment, intrinsic to their surroundings, and offers design principles that will open the eyes of the architecture student and professional alike, presenting ideas quite different to the orthodoxy of modern architectural education.

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Peter Zumthor Works Buildings and Projects (1979-1997)

Peter Zumthor : Works Buildings and Projects (1979-1997)

Peter Zumthor is possibly the most innovative European architect working today. His projects inspire enthusiasm with their exactitude, their poetry, and their radically independent aesthetics and vocabulary of form.

This publication, exquisitely designed to the architect's exacting standards, is the first complete survey of Zumthor's oeuvre. As exceptional as the architect's work itself, the book investigates eight realized buildings in detail, including the Home for the Elderly in Chur, the Gugalun House in Safiental, the Art Museum in Bregenz, Austria, and his best-known work, the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland.

 Each of these projects is extensively illustrated with duotone photographs by British architectural photographer Helene Binet and is accompanied by plans as well as commentary written by Zumthor himself. This title also includes a list of projects, a biography of the architect, and an introduction by Zumthor.

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Performance Architecture: The Art and Science of Improving Organizations

Performance Architecture: 

The Art and Science of Improving Organizations

2009 |  200 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB

Performance Architecture-The Art and Science of Improving Organizations is a hands-on guide to real world techniques for improving performance within the workplace. This important book explores the Human Performance Technology Landscape model that was presented in the bestselling book, the third edition of Handbook of Performance Technology. 

Framed by the Landscape model and supported by other proven models and tools, the book provides effective structures for anyone who needs to develop their performance improvement skills and knowledge and achieve results. 

A cutting-edge resource, this book draws on the experiences of the authors in combination with the work of notables in human performance technology, including Geary Rummler, Don Tosti, Judith Hale, Dale Brethower, Roger Kaufman, and many others. The authors identify and demonstrate how performance at three levels (worker: individual/team, work: process/practice, workplace: organization) impacts results in organizations. 

They also show how to scale performance improvement activities and apply them successfully to projects or initiatives of various sizes.

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Nuovissimo Manuale dell'Architetto (2003)

Nuovissimo Manuale dell'Architetto (2003)

Italian | 2003 | PDF | 1343 pages | 92 Mb

Opera indispensabile per Architetti, Ingegneri, Geometri e per tutti quei professionisti che operano nel settore dell’edilizia.

Due volumi articolati in sette sezioni (Nozioni Generali di Progettazione, Prestazione degli organismi edilizi, Esercizio Professionale, Progettazione Strutturale, Controllo Ambientale, Materiali Componenti e Tecniche, Urbanistica) e aggiornati alle vigenti normative in materia di appalti, sicurezza sul lavoro, direzione lavori, urbanistica, normative UNI ecc.

Sono stati chiamati a realizzare l’opera i più illustri esperti e professionisti dei diversi ambiti presi in esame, come l’ing. Antonio Maria Michetti per la Progettazione Strutturale, l’ing. Carlo Manna per il Controllo Ambientale, l’arch. Enrico Milone per l’Esercizio della Professione, l’arch. Manfredi Nicoletti per la Progettazione Architettonica e tanti altri.

L’opera oltre ad essere una fonte inesauribile di spunti progettuali, ricca di esempi tipologici e particolari costruttivi, costituisce una vera e propria libreria di disegni vettoriali rielaborabili con qualunque programma CAD.

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Nexus Network Journal 10,2 (Architecture and Mathematics)

Nexus Network Journal 10,2 (Architecture and Mathematics)

2008-11-21 | PDF | 169 pages | 14 Mb

This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to "Canons of Form-Making", in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). 

Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio's architecture was based on well-defined canons that he had gleaned from studying the treatises as well as the remains of architecture from antiquity. Palladio himself left to posterity not only his large corpus of built works, but his Quattro libri d'architettura. 

Three of the papers in this issue are specifically about Palladio and his work. The other papers deal with canons of form-making, ancient and contemporary.

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Nexus Network Journal 10,1 (Architecture and Mathematics)

Nexus Network Journal 10,1 (Architecture and Mathematics)

2008-05-23| PDF | 206 pages | 24 Mb

The quintessential Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture. This issue of the Nexus Network Journal examines Leonardo’s knowledge of theoretical mathematics, explores how he used concepts of geometry in his designs for architectural projects, and reports on a real-life construction project using Leonardo’s principles. 

Authors include Sylvie Duvernoy, Kim Williams, Rinus Roelofs, Biagio Di Carlo, Mark Reynolds, João Pedro Xavier, Vesna Petresin, Christopher Glass, and Jane Burry. To complete the issue Rachel Fletcher writes her Geometer’s Angle column on "Dynamic Symmetry", Michael Ostwald reviews A Theory of General Ethics by Warwick Fox, Sarah Clough Edwards reviews Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition by Christy Anderson, and Sylvie Duvernoy reviews Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt by Corinna Rossi.

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New Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water

New Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water

176 pgs | 56 mb

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les éléments des projets de construction (8e édition)

les éléments des projets de construction

" l'homme, mesure de toutes choses"

8e édition

Ernst NEUFERT

Paris, 2002, la 8e édition française

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Murphy/Jahn (Selected and Current Works)

Murphy/Jahn (Selected and Current Works)

1995 | PDF | 264 pages | 130 MB

The German architecture firm Murphy/Jahn has grown and evolved steadily under the leadership of Helmut Jahn. Forward-looking, but with a strong grounding in tradition they incorporate several building technologies, such as photosynthetic, photovoltaic or photochromatic processes. This title considers the firm's work.

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Modernity and Continuity: Architecture in the Islamic World

Modernity and Continuity: Architecture in the Islamic World

2001 | English | 166 Pages | 110MB | PDF

Of all the major architectural prizes, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture is perhaps the only one that, in addition to celebrating the finest fruit that embellishes the tree of Architecture» encourages the roots that nurture the plant. 

These dual concerns place the Award in a truly unique position; for in order to make its selections, the Award must of necessity be concerned not only with product but also with process and the issues that generate that process. 

Thus, since its inception almost twenty-five years ago, the Aga Khan Award has been an extraordinarily inventive and courageous enterprise, seeking always to understand the fundamental issues of the societies it addresses and to identify those subtle but pivotal watersheds that shift our perspective and open up a world of new possibilities.

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Modern Protective Structures

Modern Protective Structures

2008 | PDF | 530 pages | English | 15,7 MB

In today's world, reasonably predictable military operations have been replaced by low intensity conflicts-less predictable terrorist activities carried out by determined individuals or small groups that possess a wide range of backgrounds and capabilities. Because of the threats posed by this evolving type of warfare, civil engineers and emergency personnel face new challenges in designing facilities to protect lives and property and in conducting effective rescue operations and forensic investigations.

Addressing these needs, Modern Protective Structures develops realistic guidelines for the analysis, design, assessment, retrofit, and research of protected facilities.

After introducing a comprehensive risk management approach, the author provides a general background on explosive devices and their capabilities as well as explosive effects and the processes that generate them. He then discusses the effects of conventional and nuclear explosions. 

The book subsequently considers the significant design differences between conventional and nuclear loads and between existing design procedures and state-of-the-art information from recent research. It also summarizes existing blast-resistant design approaches and describes the dynamic responses of structural systems to blasts, shocks, and impacts. Additional coverage includes the behavior of specific structural connections, the traditional concept of P-I diagrams, and progressive collapse. 

The book concludes with a systematic and balanced protective design approach. Tackling the analytical, design, assessment, and hazard mitigation issues associated with short-duration dynamic loads, this book examines how impulsive loads affect various types of buildings and facilities. It provides the necessary material to help ensure the safety of persons, assets, and projects.

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Mies van der Rohe's Krefeld Villas

Mies van der Rohe's Krefeld Villas

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Matériaux métalliques - 2ème édition

Matériaux métalliques - 2ème édition

Véritable encyclopédie technique des matériaux métalliques, cet ouvrage traite de tous les types de métaux :• alliages ferreux (aciers et fontes),

• métaux et alliages non ferreux (aluminium, titane, nickel...),

• métaux et alliages nouveaux (métaux amorphes, mémoire de forme).

Après une partie générale rappelant les notions de base de la métallurgie physique, il fournit pour chaque matériau toutes les informations utiles à la connaissance, au choix et à l’utilisation :•

 compositions et désignations,

• propriétés d’usage,

• méthodes et caractéristiques de mise en oeuvre,

• domaines d’application et perspectives,

• données commerciales. 

Cette deuxième édition propose une mise à jour des données et informations relatives aux différents aciers et alliages présentés dans l’ouvrage ainsi que sur les nombreuses normes françaises et européennes.

Cet ouvrage est un outil de travail indispensable pour tous les ingénieurs et techniciens (recherche, études, production, achats, etc.) qui sont amenés à travailler avec les matériaux métalliques, quel que soit leur domaine d’activité.

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Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics

Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics

English | 2001 |240 pages | PDF | 32,8 MB

Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics is the newest book in the Universe architecture series. This volume presents the work of the Swiss-born architect who worked as an assistant to such architecture giants as Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn before starting his own firm in 1970 and achieving international fame. Botta' characteristic respect for topographical conditions and regional sensibilities, his deft craftsmanship and the importance of geometric order in his work are evidenced in thirty projects that range from smaller residential buildings to such grandiose projects as the Church of San Giovanni Battista, the Jean Tinguely Museum and, most famously, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This detailed study also includes the designs he created for furniture and the stage. Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics is a thorough survey of the architectural and design work that launched Botta into the pantheon of modern architecture.

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Manual for the seismic design of steel and concrete buildings to Eurocode 8

Manual for the seismic design of steel and concrete buildings to Eurocode 8

May 2010

Guide pour la conception parasismique des bâtiments en acier ou en béton

selon l’Eurocode 8

mai 2010

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Making the Most of Small Spaces

Making the Most of Small Spaces

1994 | PDF | 80 pages | 154 mb

Here is much-needed information on how to use space efficiently in studio apartments and in every room of the full-size home. State-of-the-art kitchen equipmaent and storage solutions, ingenious space-saving ideas, and tips on using color, pattern, texture, and concealed and mirrored elements help make small spaces biggeron a sensible budget.

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MAISONS D'ARTISTES

MAISONS D'ARTISTES

French | 2009 | PDF | 380 pages | 84 mb

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