English | ISBN: 1118829018 | 2015 | 144 Pages | PDF | 36 MB Around the world, a new architectural form is emerging. In public places a progressive architecture is being commissioned to promote open-ended, undetermined, lightly programmed or un-programmed interactions between people. This new phenomenon of architectural...

English | 2015 | ISBN: 1118778294 | 112 Pages | PDF | 3,5 MB Manufacturing and service industries have significantly improved their levels of productivity, quality, and profitability over the past 30 years, whereas in the construction industry similar levels of improvement have been impossible to achieve. Numerous...

English | 2011 | ISBN: 0470635053 | 384 Pages | PDF | 45 MB A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural design Landscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users’ varying lifestyles and needs, incorporate cultural heritage, promote sustainability, and integrate functional requirements for optimal enjoyment....

2014 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0816677204 , 0816677190 | PDF | 5 MB Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, the first publication of Henri Lefebvre’s only book devoted to architecture, redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. Lefebvre...

English | 2012 | ISBN: 1258428288, 1614276005 | 378 Pages | EPUB | 12,9 MB The famous American architect’s fascinating look at the early years of his pioneering work, which led to his being called the “father of the skyscraper.” Far from an ordinary document of records and...

1961 | ISBN: N/A | English | 286 Pages | PDF | 43.6 MB This monograph is the first in English in which all of Michelangelo’s architecture is collected and analyzed; it draws upon the accomplishment of a century of scholarship in five countries, which has brought to...

English | 2012 | ISBN: 0747810486 | 64 Pages | EPUB | 19 MB At the turn of the last century, the American middle class was expanding rapidly as homesteaders moved west and as trains took travellers across the country, where they established themselves in the depot towns...

2016 | ISBN-10: 140518759X | 392 Pages | PDF | 13 MB This book explores the concepts and practicalities that lead to sustainable construction. It breaks new ground by providing the reader with the underlying principles of how to build sustainably and then assesses many of the tools...

2016 | ISBN-10: 1118631285 | 536 Pages | PDF | 21 MB Structural Steel Design to Eurocode 3 and AISC Specifications deals with the theory and practical applications of structural steel design in Europe and the USA. The book covers appropriate theoretical and background information, followed by a...