Architect To English

Author : Chad Pryor
Publisher : Prypub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692702695

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Architect to English by Chad Pryor Pdf

As with any profession, architects have a specific way of communicating. When talking with potential clients, architects have a way of trying to dazzle with elegant phrases and informed jargon. That same "talent" can also be one of our biggest flaws. Through the heavy use of idioms, metaphors, and unintentionally hilarious comparisons, we sometimes struggle to communicate clearly. I began writing down some of the things I overheard in meetings, around the office, and with design colleagues. Throughout the book I've written the quote said by an architect, along with the non-architect (English) translation. The illustrations in this book are sometimes a satirical response to the quote. Most times the illustrations are based on my experiences of being a 20/30-something year old participating in and observing the latest urban trends. The Millennial version of "keeping up with the Joneses " has become about who can try the trendiest food spot, travel the most places, and have the most jealously inducing social media post. I, myself, am a hipster according to most standards. I am also an architect. So, all of the content is aimed at me as much as anyone else. Don't take this too seriously and don't get all butt-hurt over it.

Author : Marti Masvidal
Publisher : MM - ark english
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9788461693498

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English for architecture & construction in 300 images by Marti Masvidal Pdf

It is a fact that English is the main language used amongst people from different countries. This facilitates mobility of architects and building engineers and also communication by using other types of media such as the Internet. Therefore, the aim of these book is to aid communication in your professional environment, showing the most used and necessary technical and professional building vocabulary through the use of simple images. For architects, building engineers and students who wish to improve their communications skills. Contents: Inside your house The different areas of a house The house content The building exterior Outside the building Building levels Façade and roof Structure and construction The building structure Construction elements Finishes - The site Finishes The building site Health and safety Services and sustainability Building services Sustainable architecture Movement – Construction flaws Vertical transport Accessibility Construction flaws Who is who The team that designs The team that builds The work place Inside the office Project drawings and documents

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892368993

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Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier Pdf

Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

Author : Doug Patt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262516990

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How to Architect by Doug Patt Pdf

The basics of the profession and practice of architecture, presented in illustrated A-Z form. The word "architect" is a noun, but Doug Patt uses it as a verb—coining a term and making a point about using parts of speech and parts of buildings in new ways. Changing the function of a word, or a room, can produce surprise and meaning. In How to Architect, Patt—an architect and the creator of a series of wildly popular online videos about architecture—presents the basics of architecture in A-Z form, starting with "A is for Asymmetry" (as seen in Chartres Cathedral and Frank Gehry), detouring through "N is for Narrative," and ending with "Z is for Zeal" (a quality that successful architects tend to have, even in fiction—see The Fountainhead's architect-hero Howard Roark.) How to Architect is a book to guide you on the road to architecture. If you are just starting on that journey or thinking about becoming an architect, it is a place to begin. If you are already an architect and want to remind yourself of what drew you to the profession, it is a book of affirmation. And if you are just curious about what goes into the design and construction of buildings, this book tells you how architects think. Patt introduces each entry with a hand-drawn letter, and accompanies the text with illustrations that illuminate the concept discussed: a fallen Humpty Dumpty illustrates the perils of fragile egos; photographs of an X-Acto knife and other hand tools remind us of architecture's nondigital origins. How to Architect offers encouragement to aspiring architects but also mounts a defense of architecture as a profession—by calling out a defiant verb: architect!

Author : Nikolas Davies,Erkki Jokiniemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136444074

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Architect's Illustrated Pocket Dictionary by Nikolas Davies,Erkki Jokiniemi Pdf

• 10,000 definitions with over 2,000 illustrations in less than 500 pages • Comprehensive and innovative cross referencing system • Clear and concise presentation of information for the visual reader

Author : Kishō Kurokawa
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 186470019X

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Kisho Kurokawa, Architect and Associates by Kishō Kurokawa Pdf

"By combining the abstraction of the 20th century with the iconography of history and the cultural identity of topos in a cosmology of culture, I am trying to tackle the philosophical challenge of Abstract Symbolism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael Leapman
Publisher : Headline Book Pub Limited
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0755310039

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Inigo by Michael Leapman Pdf

Best known for the Banqueting House in Whitehall, architect Inigo Jones was also a theatre designer and traveller. A difficult, troubled man he revolutionised British architecture by introducing the classical forms he had discovered on his journeys to Italy. Originally published: 2003.

Author : Julia McMorrough
Publisher : Rockport
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781631593796

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The Architecture Reference & Specification Book Updated & Revised by Julia McMorrough Pdf

Most architectural standards references contain thousands of pages of details, overwhelmingly more than architects need to know to know on any given day. The updated and revised edition of Architecture Reference & Specification contains vital information that's essential to planning and executing architectural projects of all shapes and sizes, all in a format that is small enough to carry anywhere. It distills the data provided in standard architectural volumes and is an easy-to-use reference for the most indispensable--and most requested--types of architectural information.

Author : James Stevens Curl,Susan Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780191053856

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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture by James Stevens Curl,Susan Wilson Pdf

Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles. This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. The full bibliography to the first edition (previously only available online) has also been fully updated and expanded, and incorporated into this new edition. This is an essential work of reference for anyone with an interest in architectural and garden history. With clear descriptions providing in-depth analysis, it is invaluable for students, professional architects, art historians, and anyone interested in architecture and garden design, and provides a fascinating wealth of information for the general reader.

Author : Mikael Andersson
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3038602329

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Sigurd Lewerentz by Mikael Andersson Pdf

The definitive monograph on Swedish modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz. Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is one of the most highly revered--as well as one of the most heavily mythologized--protagonists of modern European architecture. Arguably Sweden's most distinguished modernist, he is more influential for architects around the world today than he was during his lifetime. Countless architecture lovers from around the world visit his buildings. Stockholm's woodland cemetery Skogskyrkogården, his most significant contribution to landscape design, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This authoritative new monograph on Sigurd Lewerentz is based on extensive research undertaken at ArkDes, Sweden's national center for architecture and design, where his archive and personal library are kept. It features a wealth of drawings and sketches, designs for furniture and interiors, model photographs, and more from his estate, most of which are published here for the first time, alongside new photographs of his realized buildings. Essays by leading experts explore Lewerentz's life and work, his legacy, and lasting significance from a contemporary perspective. This substantial, beautifully designed book offers the most comprehensive survey to date of Lewerentz's achievements in all fields of his multifaceted work.

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486315645

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Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier Pdf

Pioneering manifesto by founder of "International School." Technical and aesthetic theories, views of industry, economics, relation of form to function, "mass-production split," and much more. Profusely illustrated.

Author : Robert Michael Craig
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780820328980

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The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta's Scholar-architect by Robert Michael Craig Pdf

Francis Palmer Smith was the principal designer of Atlanta-based Pringle and Smith, one of the leading firms of the early twentieth-century South. Smith was an academic eclectic who created traditional, history-based architecture grounded in the teachings of the cole des Beaux-Arts. As The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith shows, Smith was central to the establishment of the Beaux-Arts perspective in the South through his academic and professional career. After studying with Paul Philippe Cret at the University of Pennsylvania, Smith moved to Atlanta in 1909 to head the new architecture program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He would go on to train some of the South's most significant architects, including Philip Trammell Shutze, Flippen Burge, Preston Stevens, Ed Ivey, and Lewis E. Crook Jr. In 1922 Smith formed a partnership with Robert S. Pringle. In Atlanta, Savannah, Chattanooga, Jacksonville, Sarasota, Miami, and elsewhere, Smith built office buildings, hotels, and Art Deco skyscrapers; buildings at Georgia Tech, the Baylor School in Chattanooga, and the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia; Gothic Revival churches; standardized bottling plants for Coca-Cola; and houses in a range of traditional "period" styles in the suburbs. Smith's love of medieval architecture culminated with his 1962 masterwork, the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. As his career drew to a close, Modernism was establishing itself in America. Smith's own modern aesthetic was evidenced in the more populist modern of Art Deco, but he never embraced the abstract machine aesthetic of high Modern. Robert M. Craig details the role of history in design for Smith and his generation, who believed that architecture is an art and that ornament, cultural reference, symbolism, and tradition communicate to clients and observers and enrich the lives of both. This book was supported, in part, by generous grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc.

Author : Anthony Speaight QC,Matthew Thorne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000317596

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Architect's Legal Handbook by Anthony Speaight QC,Matthew Thorne Pdf

The Architect's Legal Handbook is the most widely used reference on the law for practicing architects and the established textbook on law for architectural students. Since the last edition of this book in 2010, the legal landscape in which architecture is practised has changed significantly: the long-standing procurement model with an architect as contract administrator has been challenged by the growing popularity of design and build contracts, contract notices in place of certificates, and novation of architect’s duties. The tenth edition features all the latest developments in the law which affect an architect's work, as well as providing comprehensive coverage of relevant UK law topics. Key highlights of this edition include: an overview of the legal environment, including contract, tort, and land law; analysis of the statutory framework, including planning law, health and safety, construction legislation, and building regulations in the post-Grenfell legal landscape; procurement and the major industry construction contract forms; building dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, adjudication, and mediation; key fields for the architect in practice, including architects’ registration and professional conduct, contracts with clients and collateral warranties, liability in negligence, and insurance; entirely new chapters on various standard form contracts, architects’ responsibility for the work of others, disciplinary proceedings, and data protection; tables of cases, legislation, statutes, and statutory instruments give a full overview of references cited in the text. The Architect’s Legal Handbook is the essential legal reference work for all architects and students of architecture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2531620

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The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michel Carlana,Luca Mezzalira,Curzio Pentimalli
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3038601764

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Quirino De Giorgio by Michel Carlana,Luca Mezzalira,Curzio Pentimalli Pdf

Quirino De Giorgio (1907-1997) is among the few Italian architects whose careers represents the entirety of the twentieth century: from futurism through fascism to the experimentations linked to the invention of reinforced concrete. Too often remembered exclusively for his early futurist and fascist works, De Giorgio is an architect whose production continued, until his last years, to develop in the experimental and dynamic way which had characterized its beginnings. Quirino De Giorgio: An Architects Legacy, the first English-language book dedicated to the Italian architect, is a constellation of his surviving buildings shown through the eyes of photographer Enrico Rizzato. In Rizzato's pictures, each one of the ninety surviving works will showcase the universality of De Giorgio's projects and the transformations that time has stamped on his creations, taking the reader on a voyage across the different facets of Italian architecture. Accompanying site plans, floorplans and sections provide deeper insight into De Giorgio's spatial, structural, urban, and landscaping inventions. An opening essay will introduce the reader to the still relatively unknown method and life of this highly original yet still too little known architect. The book also includes a full list of De Giorgio's works that has been reconstructed here for the first time through extensive archival work.