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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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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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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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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Wind Loading: A Practical Guide to BS 6399-2A

Wind Loading: 

A Practical Guide to BS 6399-2A

1999 | PDF | 150 pages | 6.8 MB

All buildings in the UK must now adhere to the recently published wind code BS 6399-2. The introduction of a new code is often traumatic, especially so in this case,as the previous code has been in place for 25 years. The author's considerable practical knowledge of wind engineering, together with his involvement in drafting this standard and his experience in conducting workshops on this subject make him the ideal person to convey the strengths and weaknesses of BS 6399-2 in this guide. Following recent amendments to BS 6399-2 (2002) this popular guide has been revised.

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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.

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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.

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Perspective - A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers

Perspective - A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers

This classic study of perspective is an absolute must for any serious students of design, benefiting amateurs and professionals alike. Dozens of examples are illustrated, including parallel, angular, and oblique perspectives, as well as ascending and descending planes.

 Other images show how to create a “cone of rays,” and add depth and realism to curved objects. The techniques can be used for laying out a garden, predicting the shadow effects of a tall building, and accurately capturing the interplay of angles, light, and shadow.
 

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Interior Design Visual Presentation

Interior Design Visual Presentation

A Guide to Graphics, Models & Presentation Techniques, Second Edition

Interior Design Visual Presentation, Second Edition is fully revised to include the latest material on CAD, digital portfolios, resume preparation, and Web page design. It remains the only comprehensive guide to address the visual design and presentation needs of the interior designer, with coverage of design graphics, models, and presentation techniques in one complete volume.

Approaches to the planning, layout, and design of interior spaces are presented through highly visual, step-by-step instructions, supplemented with more than forty pages of full-color illustrations, exercises at the end of each chapter, and dozens of new projects. With the serious designer in mind, it includes a diverse range of sample work, from student designers as well as well-known design firms such as Ellerbee and Beckett Architects and MS Architects.
 

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Architects Guide to Feng Shui

Architects Guide to Feng Shui

 2003 / 224 pages / English

Cate Bramble has devoted her career to highlighting the differences between 'feng shui-lite' as a fashionable pursuit in contrast to the original intentions of the Chinese masters. Here she presents the authentic principles in a technical, no-nonsense pocket book specifically for architects.

As clients become more demanding and the competition for projects heats up, the architect is well advised to have many strings to their bow. This practical guide includes line illustrations that present the principles of feng shui, the Chinese art or practice in which a structure or site is chosen or configured so as to harmonize with the spiritual forces that inhabit it, and their application in architecture through planning principles, services, building elements and materials, in an accessible, easy reference format. 

The feng shui-savvy architect can also benefit from feng shui's ability to match structures and land, and the peculiar capacity of authentic feng shui to forecast development-related concerns including cost overruns, quality issues - even worker injuries and trade disputes!

The author explains feng shui from archaeological sources and evidence of practice in the east, contrasting it with what passes for feng shui in the west. She analyses the practice in terms of such concepts as western systems theory, viewshed, space syntax and the 'pattern landscape' theory of urban planning. For the first time, the Sustainable implications of feng shui design are explained with reference to the latest developments in behavioural and cognitve sciences, evolutionary biology and other western viewpoints.

* The first 'how to' guide on feng shui specifically written for architects
* Contains numerous technical illustrations to define and analyse the genuine design elements of feng shui, for quick and easy reference
* Supplies knowledge of the scientific, ethical and ecological principles of the original Chinese system, to impress your clients

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Watercolorist's Guide to Painting Buildings

Watercolorist's Guide to Painting Buildings

2000 | 128 pages | PDF | 19,3 MB

Buildings-old and new, ornate or simple-provide an endlessly intriguing subject for watercolorists. Author and artist Richard Taylor gives you all the techniques for capturing perspective, proportion, light and shade, detail and texture. 

After deciding on the right materials, try your hand at everything from sheds and shacks to classical architecture with formal designs, arches, and elegant frontage. Capture the weathered appeal of a crumbling, ruined boatyard; by using lots of water, and downward vertical strokes with the brush, all the dramatic effects of ageing emerge on the paper.

 Stone steps leading up to a quiet Mediterranean courtyard shine in dappled light and warm shadows-deep in the interior, leafy branches, potted plants, windows, and a statue catch the eye. 

Or, paint quadrangles, cloisters; terraced homes, town houses, and street life. Throughout, 120 paintings in various stages of completion, show the effects of color, shadowing, and balance. 

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Logo Design Workbook

Logo Design Workbook

 A Hands-On Guide to Creating Logos  

 Logo Design Workbook focuses on creating powerful logo designs and answers the question, "What makes a logo work?"

In the first half of this book, authors Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka walk readers step-by-step through the entire logo-development process. Topics include developing a concept that communicates the right message and is appropriate for both the client and the market; defining how the client's long-term goals might affect the look and needs of the mark; choosing colors and typefaces; avoiding common mistakes; and deciphering why some logos are successful whereas others are not.

The second half of the book comprises in-depth case studies on logos designed for various industries. Each case study explores the design brief, the relationship with the client, the time frame, and the results.

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Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings

Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings

A detailed guide to the technical aspects of refurbishing and upgrading buildings, providing solutions to a range of problems, challenges and issues with technical drawings and case-studies. Essential purchase for all construction professionals engaged in this kind of work and students of construction, surveying and architecture.
 

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Water-Resistant Design and Construction

Water-Resistant : Design and Construction

286 pages | PDF | 7.03 MB

The Illustrated Guide to Water Resistant Design and Construction provides state-of-the-art solutions to prevent the most common water-related problems in buildings.

Designed to save you time and money, this expert resource discusses the causes and effects of water-related problems…time tested solutions for keeping water damage from occurring…methods for enhancing construction quality to reduce claims…tips on selecting the right firm to perform waterproof design and construction…guidance on achieving effective maintenance and repair…and more. 

The Illustrated Guide to Waterproof Construction features:

• * More than 150 illustrations showing how to improve details and create higher-quality buildings
•  * Waterproofing methods that comply with the International Building Code
• * Numerous examples and case studies from the United States, China, and Canada . 

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Energy Conservation in Buildings

Energy Conservation in Buildings :

 A Guide to Part L of the Building Regulations

The conservation of fuel and power in buildings is an important part of the UK government's strategy to reduce national energy conservation. The revision to Part L of the Building Regulations, which came into force on 1 April 2002, lays down detailed and extensive requirements for conserving energy in almost all buildings and it covers most potential causes of building energy consumption.

This guide explains these detailed requirements and shows how they apply to particular cases, with the use of numerous worked examples. It includes a chapter on air tightness and leakage testing, a topic with which many building professionals are unfamiliar.

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Building: A Field Guide to the Building Codes (Code Check Building)

Building: A Field Guide to the Building Codes 

(Code Check Building)

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London's Contemporary Architecture

London's Contemporary Architecture

An Explorer's Guide
a map-based guide
Fourth edition

London's Contemporary Architecture is a practical, visual and analytical guide to the best modern buildings in the British capital. Now in its fifth edition, the guide has been fully updated to cover the latest additions to the London skyline and buildings of architectural significance.

Spanning the very best of London architecture, from London's world famous public buildings, theatres, shops to schools, hospitals and offices, the guide locates buildings by geographical area for ease of use and provides a physical and intellectual tour of London's most celebrated buildings.

• . New to this edition: more than 50 new buildings added, from the Saatchi Gallery and Zara on Oxford Street to Kew Herbarium and developments to the Young Vic
• . Clear map-based format allows navigation of the sites in London most worth visiting
• . Features more than 150 buildings with full commentary
• . A superb full colour visual and analytical guide to the buildings of the capital

• . Tried and trusted guide to London's contemporary architecture from this successful and established author
• . Highly visual, full colour, portable format
• . Analysis of the importance and significance of buildings makes the book more than just a pictorial guide

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Dictionnaire d'architecture

Dictionnaire d'architecture

Conçu comme un guide pratique à l'usage des amateurs comme des professionnels, ce lexique s'attache à définir les principaux termes de l'architecture, depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours. A l'aide d'environ 600 entrées et de plus d'une centaine de figures, les auteurs se proposent de vous donner des clefs de lecture pour identifier et repérer les éléments de l'architecture.

Grâce à ses nombreuses illustrations qui concernent l'architecture fortifiée, religieuse, civile, mais aussi la charpente, la maçonnerie, le vitrail, etc., le dictionnaire d'architecture vous permettra de mieux connaître l'architecture et d'apprécier la richesse de ses compositions. Dans vos visites d'édifices ou dans vos lectures, cet ouvrage facile d'utilisation vous sera d'une aide précieuse.
 

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ARCHISPEAK : An illustrated guide to architectural terms

ARCHISPEAK : 

An illustrated guide to architectural terms

 Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and especially in student project reviews, Archispeak can seem insular and perplexing to others and -- particularly to the new architectural student -- often incomprehensible.

There is a need to translate architectural design concepts into spoken and written commentary -- each word in use embodying a precise and universally accepted architectural meaning. If we explore the vocabulary of this language we gain insight into good design practice and into collective understanding of what constitutes a refined architecture. This unique illustrated guide will help students understand the nuances of this specialized language and help them in communicating their own design ideas.

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Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide

Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide

The Association of British Theatre Technicians produced its first guide to the design and planning of theatres in 1972. Revised in 1986, it became the standard reference work for anyone involved in building, refurbishing, or creating a performance space. Theatre Buildings – a design guide is its successor.

Written and illustrated by a highly experienced team of international theatre designers and practitioners, it retains the practical approach of the original while extending the scope to take account of the development of new technologies, new forms of presentation, changing expectations, and the economic and social pressures which require every part of the theatre to be as productive as possible.

The book takes the reader through the whole process of planning and designing a theatre. It looks in detail at each area of the building: front of house, auditorium, backstage, and administrative offices. It gives specific guidance on sightlines, acoustics, stage engineering, lighting, sound and video, auditorium and stage formats. Aspects such as catering, conference and education use are also covered.

The information is supplemented by twenty-eight case studies, selected to provide examples which range in size, style and format and to cover new buildings, renovations, conversions, temporary and found space. The studies include Den Norsk, Oslo; The Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis; The Liceu, Barcelona; Les Bouffes du Nord, Paris; The RSC’s Courtyard Theatre in Stratford on Avon; and the MTC Theatre in Melbourne. All have plans and sections drawn to 1:500 scale.
 

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