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Author : Judy A. Juracek,Peter Pennoyer
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393730794
The latest addition to the acclaimed Surfaces series catalogs hundreds of different architectural elements and materials.
Author : David Leatherbarrow,Mohsen Mostafavi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262621940
A study of the building surface, architecture's primary instrument of identity and engagement with its surroundings. Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology. Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron. The properties of a building's surface—whether it is made of concrete, metal, glass, or other materials—are not merely superficial; they construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates. Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its participation in its surroundings.
Author : Kiel Moe
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 156898880X
Departing from the simple question Why do we heat and cool buildings with air?, this book focuses on the technique of thermally active surfaces. This technique uses water in building surfaces to heat and cool bodies - a method that is at once more efficient, comfortable, and healthy. This technique thus imbues the fabric of the building with a more poignant role: its structure is also its primary heating and cooling system. In doing so, this approach triggers a cascading set of possibilities for how well buildings are built, how well they perform, and how long they will last: pointing the way toward multiple forms of sustainability. The first section of the book contrasts the parallel histories of thermally active surfaces and air conditioning. These histories explain the material, social, marketing, and technical unfolding of building technology in the twentieth century as a means to explain why we build the way we do and why that will change in the new century. The next section of the book covers the physiological and thermodynamic basis of thermally active surfaces. This section is designed for engineers and architects to grasp the logic and advantages of this technique. This section also includes a chapter on the de-fragmentation of buildings and design practice that is inherent in building with thermally active surfaces. The final section covers a series of contemporary case studies that demonstrate the efficacy of this technique. The project list currently includes Kunsthaus in Bregenz by Peter Zumthor, Zollverein School of Management in Essen, Germany by SANAA, and Linked Hybrid in Beijing by Steven Holl, amongst others.
Author : Etats-Unis. National park service
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892368501
For millennia, people of all cultures have decorated the surfaces of their domestic, religious, and public buildings. Earthen architecture in particular has been, and continues to be, a common ground for surface decoration such as paintings, sculpted bas-relief, and ornamental plasterwork. This volume explores the complex issues associated with preserving these surfaces. Case studies from Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas are presented. The publication is the result of a colloquium held in 2004 at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, co-organized by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the National Park Service (NPS). The meeting brought together fifty-five conservators, cultural resource managers, materials scientists, engineers, architects, archaeologists, anthropologists, and artists from eleven countries. Divided into four themes--Archaeological Sites, Museum Practice, Historic Buildings, and Living Traditions--the papers examine the conservation of decorated surfaces on earthen architecture within these different contexts.
Author : Kathrin Dörfler, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Stefana Parascho, Helmut Pottmann, Thomas Wortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111163475
Author : David Gerber,Evangelos Pantazis,Biayna Bogosian,Alicia Nahmad,Constantinos Miltiadis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811912801
This book constitutes selected papers of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2021, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in July 2021. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on past futures and present futures: research and pedagogy; past futures and present futures: aesthetics and ethics of space; architectural automations and augmentations: design; architectural automations and augmentations: fabrication; architectural automations and augmentations: environment; architectural automations and augmentations: spatial computing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : PSU:000066194484
Author : Alberto Lastra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030813178
This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the differential geometry of parametrized curves and surfaces, along with a wealth of applications to specific architectural elements. Geometric elements in architecture respond to practical, physical and aesthetic needs. Proper understanding of the mathematics underlying the geometry provides control over the construction. This book relates the classical mathematical theory of parametrized curves and surfaces to multiple applications in architecture. The presentation is mathematically complete with numerous figures and animations illustrating the theory, and special attention is given to some of the recent trends in the field. Solved exercises are provided to see the theory in practice. Intended as a textbook for lecture courses, Parametric Geometry of Curves and Surfaces is suitable for mathematically-inclined students in engineering, architecture and related fields, and can also serve as a textbook for traditional differential geometry courses to mathematics students. Researchers interested in the mathematics of architecture or computer-aided design will also value its combination of precise mathematics and architectural examples.
Author : American Concrete Institute
Publisher : American Concrete Institute
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Concrete
ISBN : 9780870311949
Author : Mary C. Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471127361
This book examines the major considerations involved in color choice for interior spaces.
Author : Gerda Roelvink,Magdalena Zolkos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000333251
Non-cognitive expressions of the life of the subject – feeling, motion, tactility, instinct, automatism, and sentience – have transformed how scholars understand subjectivity, agency and identity. This collection investigates the critical purchase of the idiom of affect in this ‘post-humanist’ thinking of the subject. It also explores political and ethical questions raised by the deployment of affect as a theoretical and artistic category. Together the contributors to this collection map the theoretically heterogeneous field of post-humanist scholarship on affect, making inspiring, and at times surprising, connections between Spinoza’s and Tomkins’s theories of affect, the concept of affect and psychoanalysis, and affect and animal studies in art and literature. As a result, the concepts, vocabulary, compatibility, and attribution of affect are challenged and extended. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.
Author : Rafael Fort
Publisher : Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 8400084217
The conservation of cultural heritage is a major commitment for all countries around the world, since it is a complex task and a matter of great responsibility. Amongst other sectors of society, science has a contribution to make to heritage preservation. This book is the result of the international conference Heritage, Weathering and Conservation (HWC2006), held in Madrid, Spain, in 2006. It brought together prominent scientists and professionals from a variety of disciplines who have been active in the field and have raised the profile of heritage preservation. The main aspects addressed at this conference were those related to the causes of decay of cultural materials (stone, ceramics, metals, paintings, mortars, timber, adobes, etc); the characterization of their properties and the assessment of analytical techniques for their study, with a focus on non-destructive techniques. Many of the studies stress the importance of salt crystallization, atmospheric pollution and biodeterioration and relate these specific factors to decay. A variety of case studies are included, as well as an examination of policies and management. This book will be useful to professionals and scientists working in a variety of fields related to heritage: geologists, geographers, chemists, physicists, biologists, architects, engineers, restorers, historians, archaeologists, policy makers and the general public.
Author : Gary Steffy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471386383
This book goes right to the heart of what every professional and student needs to know above all - how to effectively meet real-world lighting design challenges.
Author : Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat,Ivo Hammer,Wolf Tegethoff
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035622492
Built and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1928–1930, the Tugendhat House in Brno / Czech Republic is one of the most significant buildings of European modernism. In 2001, UNESCO added the house to the List of World Cultural Heritage Sites. In this third, updated edition, the authors give personal and historic insights relating to the house; also documenting aspects pertaining to art history and conservation-science studies. The comprehensive description and in-depth discussion of the materials used is a special feature in this field of research. The appeal of this monograph lies in the publication of photographs from the family archive which, for the first time, show the house in its lived-in condition. The experimental artistic color photographs by Fritz Tugendhat are among the pioneering achievements of amateur photography.
Author : Samuel Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351377980
The theme of this book is that light is an inseparable part of architectural design, and is intended to provide students of architecture and interior design with a graphic guideline to the fundamental role lighting plays in this process. While simple light sources may be enough to satisfy practical needs, the design process must expand beyond basic illumination. The challenge for architects and designers is the creation of luminous environments offering visual interest and a sense of well-being, while also meeting basic seeing needs. Technological advances provide opportunities for the lighting designer's creative introduction of light, and the visual and psychological perceptions of the illuminated architectural environment. Fundamentals of Architectural Lighting offers a complete comprehensive guide to the basics of lighting design, equipping students and practitioners with the tools and ideas they need to master a variety of lighting techniques. The book is extensively illustrated with over 250 illustrations to demonstrate basic principles and procedures. It is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the fundamentals of integrated lighting for architectural interior spaces.