by Baerbel Mueller English | 2017 | ISBN: 3035611009 | 452 Pages | PDF | 120 MB FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated....

English | ISBN: 1119226392 | 2017 | 912 Pages | PDF | 36 MB Provides the foundations and principles needed for addressing the various challenges of developing smart cities Smart cities are emerging as a priority for research and development across the world. They open up significant opportunities...

English | May 11th, 2007 | ISBN: 0813191777 | 452 Pages | True PDF | 3.68 MB Healing Appalachia is a practical guide for environmentally conscious residents of Appalachia and beyond. It is also the first book to apply “appropriate technology,” or the most basic technology that can...

by Akos Moravanszky and Karl R. Kegler English | 2017 | ISBN: 3035610169 | 318 Pages | PDF | 12 MB From 1960-1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of new dimensions. Cybernetics, the science of planning, and sociology, as well as the new possibilities...

English | 2016 | ISBN: 0190256516 | 480 Pages | PDF | 182 MB A vivid and engaging exploration of California’s debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as...

English | 2017 | ISBN: 0198797451 | 304 Pages | PDF | 8 MB This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To date this process of Christian appropriation has generally...

ISBN: 0300221762 | 2017 | EPUB/PDF | 260 Pages | 46 MB A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor’s profound influence on mid-century American taste From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine’s crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of “good...

2015 | ISBN-10: 1606508857 | 136 Pages | PDF | 15 MB This monograph documents the current of state-of-art in Thermo-Active Foundations (TAFs) suitable for efficiently and sustainably heat and cooling buildings. TAFs, also referred to as thermal or energy piles, offer innovative and sustainable alternatives to ground-source...

ISBN: 1438463960 | 2017 | PDF | 273 Pages | 218 MB Of all the world’s great cities, perhaps none is so defined by its Art Deco architecture as New York. Lively and informative, New York Art Deco leads readers step-by-step past the monuments of the 1920s and...