Building Ideas

Author : Jonathan A. Hale
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471851949

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Building Ideas by Jonathan A. Hale Pdf

Building Ideas An Introduction to Architectural Theory This book is an essential text for students of architecture and related disciplines, satisfying the demand for an accessible introduction to the major theoretical debates in contemporary architecture. Written in a lucid and user-friendly style, the book also acts as a guide and companion volume to the many primary theoretical texts recently made available in reprinted collections. Whilst architectural monographs, collections of building precedents and polemical manifestoes are growing more and more numerous, Building Ideas is the first book to provide an introduction to such a broad range of issues in architectural theory. This text therefore serves to fill a widening gap between the everyday practice of architecture and the often bewildering field of academic theoretical debate. Beginning with a general introduction to the field of architectural theory, covering the interface between philosophy and technology in the production and interpretation of buildings, the book presents the major theoretical positions in contemporary architecture through a series of thematically structured chapters. Each chapter deals with a specific approach to the theory and criticism of architecture by presenting a series of related buildings as illustrations of a key theoretical position, as well as setting this position in a cultural and historical context. Under the five broad headings of 'Architecture as Engineering - The Technological Revolution', 'Architecture as Art - Aesthetics in Philosophy', 'The Return of the Body - Phenomenology in Architecture', 'Systems of Communication - Structuralism and Semiotics' and 'Politics and Architecture - The Marxist Tradition', the book presents a wide but critical survey of the central questions in the current theoretical debate. Providing the theoretical tools necessary for an understanding of the history of philosophies and technologies in architecture, this book is essential reading for undergraduate architectural theory courses as well as a first point of reference for anyone wishing to understand the complex connections between architecture and related fields of cultural enquiry.

Author : Helen Murray
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780744054132

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LEGO Magical Ideas by Helen Murray Pdf

Add some sparkle to your LEGO® building with more than 50 magical model ideas! Use your LEGO collection to create enchanted forests, mythical creatures, fairies, superheroes, wands, and much more. Plus, the book comes with all the bricks you need to make an exclusive magical LEGO Neon Dragon model. Believing in magic is just the beginning! ©2020 The LEGO Group.

Author : Bruce King,Chris Magwood
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642832129

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Build Beyond Zero by Bruce King,Chris Magwood Pdf

“Net Zero” has been an effective rallying cry for the green building movement, signaling a goal of having every building generate at least as much energy as it uses. Enormous strides have been made in improving the performance of every type of new building, and even more importantly, renovating the vast and energy-inefficient collection of existing buildings in every country. If we can get every building to net-zero energy use in the next few decades, it will be a huge success, but it will not be enough. In Build Beyond Zero, carbon pioneers Bruce King and Chris Magwood re-envision buildings as one of our most practical and affordable climate solutions instead of leading drivers of climate change. They provide a snapshot of a beginning and map towards a carbon-smart built environment that acts as a CO2 filter. Professional engineers, designers, and developers are invited to imagine the very real potential for our built environment to be a site of net carbon storage, a massive drawdown pool that could help to heal our climate. The authors, with the help of other industry experts, show the importance of examining what components of an efficient building (from windows to solar photovoltaics) are made with, and how the supply chains deliver all those products and materials to a jobsite. Build Beyond Zero looks at the good and the bad of how we track carbon (Life Cycle Assessment), then takes a deep dive into materials (with a focus on steel and concrete) and biological architecture, and wraps up with education, policy and governance, circular economy, and where we go in the next three decades. In Build Beyond Zero, King and Magwood show how buildings are culprits but stand poised to act as climate healers. They offer an exciting vision of climate-friendly architecture, along with practical advice for professionals working to address the carbon footprint of our built environment.

Author : DK,Elizabeth Dowsett,Simon Hugo,Hannah Dolan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465495747

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LEGO Star Wars Ideas Book by DK,Elizabeth Dowsett,Simon Hugo,Hannah Dolan Pdf

Find a galaxy full of LEGO® Star Wars™ ideas to build – from activities and art, games and challenges, to practical makes and your very own inventions! LEGO® Star Wars™ Ideas Book features imaginative play and building ideas using your own LEGO brick collection. There are LEGO projects that take just a few minutes, it builds to keep you occupied for hours. Set up a game of LEGO Star Wars skittles, create a pencil pot shaped like your favorite Sith or Jedi, build a fleet of tiny TIEs, design Darth Vader's family tree, and customize a podracer. Challenge a friend to take on a rathtar, mix up your minifigures, stage your favorite movie battle scene with LEGO Star Wars bricks - and much, much more! LEGO® Star Wars™ Ideas Book is packed with a family-friendly range of activities to inspire every LEGO Star Wars fan. What will you build? © 2018 The LEGO Group.© & TM 2018 LUCASFILM LTD.

Author : Selina Wood,Julia March,Alice Finch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744033168

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LEGO Halloween Ideas by Selina Wood,Julia March,Alice Finch Pdf

Celebrate Halloween with 50 spooky build ideas! Use your LEGO® collection to conjure up a giant bat, a ghost ship, a witch’s house, and many more creepy creations. Plus, challenge your friends to spooky LEGO games. These Halloween-themed models and activities will keep you busy throughout the spooky season. Let the ghoulish fun begin! ©2020 The LEGO Group.

Author : Jay Pridmore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226107370

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Building Ideas by Jay Pridmore Pdf

Many books have been written about the University of Chicago over its 120-year history, but most of them focus on the intellectual environment, favoring its great thinkers and their many breakthroughs. Yet for the students and scholars who live and work here, the physical university—its stately buildings and beautiful grounds—forms an important part of its character. Building Ideas: An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago explores the environment that has supported more than a century of exceptional thinkers. This photographic guide traces the evolution of campus architecture from the university’s founding in 1890 to its plans for the twenty-first century. When William Rainey Harper, the university’s first president, and the trustees decided to build a set of Gothic quadrangles, they created a visual link to European precursors and made a bold statement about the future of higher education in the United States. Since then the university has regularly commissioned forward-thinking architects to design buildings that expand—or explode—traditional ideals while redefining the contemporary campus. Full of panoramic photographs and exquisite details, Building Ideas features the work of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ives Cobb, Holabird & Roche, Eero Saarinen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Netsch, Ricardo Legorreta, Rafael Viñoly, César Pelli, Helmut Jahn, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The guide also includes guest commentaries by prominent architects and other notable public figures. It is the perfect collection for Chicago alumni and students, Hyde Park residents and visitors, and anyone inspired by the institutional ideas and aspirations of architecture.

Author : Peter Shaw
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789814751483

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100 Great Success Building Ideas by Peter Shaw Pdf

In this latest addition to the highly successful 100 Great Ideas series, readers will find a comprehensive guide to building success across all areas of their lives – covering work, family and community. Author Dr Peter Shaw, who has written two other titles in this series, distils 100 learning points from his vast experience in business and government, and conveys them in a highly personable, easy-to-read style. This book provides prompts for thought on balancing priorities well, understanding the drivers of your ambition, addressing what might hold you back, generating forward momentum, handling setbacks with care, building your reputation, balancing the short term and the long term, sustaining the success, growing team success and engaging with the future. Inspiring case-studies of people who faced myriad challenges are presented, showing the ways in which they eventually surmounted their difficulties. No matter how you define success, 100 Great Building Success Ideas is an invaluable companion on your personal and professional life journey.

Author : B. Kim Barnes
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523085590

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Building Better Ideas by B. Kim Barnes Pdf

Why do teams settle for bad ideas or kill good ones? Popular consultant B. Kim Barnes's unique process of constructive debate shows how teams can create better ideas and outcomes by eliminating obstacles to honest discussion, creativity, and collaboration. In too many organizations, great ideas and unusual solutions can be suppressed, ignored, or attacked. Departments defend their turf, and people choose what is safe over what is better. Bad ideas move forward and good ideas die, which can lead to disastrous results—financial or otherwise. Luckily, there is a workable path out of this dysfunction. Kim Barnes's process of constructive debate shows how to establish conditions that encourage the free exchange, discussion, and development of ideas and eliminate conditions that prevent potentially useful ideas from getting heard. By using this tested model, any company or team can improve outcomes and bring out everyone's best ideas. A constructive debate is one in which a diverse group of individuals can express their ideas, engage others in building on and improving them, explore ideas deeply, and challenge one another's positions in a fair and productive way. In this book, you'll learn a set of behaviors you can model and encourage and a process you can facilitate, lead, or support your client in leading. In this time, where opinions can be tribal and differences can lead to unconstructive conflict, it's important to find ways to build robust ideas through a thoughtful, fair, and inclusive approach.

Author : Jacob Deva Racusin
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781550926293

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Essential Building Science by Jacob Deva Racusin Pdf

Down and dirty – a complete step-by-step guide to making, installing and living with beautiful, all-natural earthen floors Poor heat and moisture management are the enemies of durable, comfortable, and efficient housing, and good building design and construction starts with a solid understanding of good building science. Essential Building Science provides a highly visual and accessible introduction to the fundamentals of building science for residential construction. Part one covers the rationale behind high-performance design and the fundamentals of building physics, including thermal dynamics, moisture transfer, and hygro-thermal dynamics such as vapor drive and condensation. Part two teaches the vital critical thinking skills needed to consider buildings as whole systems and to develop thermal and moisture control strategies regardless of the specifics of the design. Case studies and examples from across North American climatic zones illuminate real-life problems and offer builders, designers, and DIYers the insights and tools required for creating better new buildings and dramatically improving old ones. Good science plus critical thinking equals high performance buildings.

Author : Jeroen Bouwmeester
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031519635

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Building Networks: Exchange of Knowledge, Ideas and Materials in Medieval and Post-Medieval Europe by Jeroen Bouwmeester Pdf

Author : Carolyn A. Maher,Dina Yankelewitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463510080

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Children’s Reasoning While Building Fraction Ideas by Carolyn A. Maher,Dina Yankelewitz Pdf

This book may be used for research, graduate and undergraduate teacher education, and teacher development. It presents an integrated set of studies of a heterogeneously grouped class of twenty-one nine-year olds, engaged in exploring fraction ideas prior to classroom instruction under conditions that supported investigation, collaboration and argumentation. It demonstrates with text and video narrative how young children can reason about mathematics in surprisingly sophisticated ways when provided the opportunity to do so in the proper classroom environment. In this volume, fourth grade students’ reasoning about fraction concepts is described through careful analysis and accompanying video excerpts showcasing the variety and originality of their thinking. These children will serve as an inspiration for educators to encourage the development of reasoning and argumentation in their students as part of a mathematics curriculum designed to produce critical thinkers.

Author : Ken Langdon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781841125985

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The 100 Greatest Ideas for Building Your Career by Ken Langdon Pdf

The 100 Greatest Ideas for Building Your Career will help you buck the odds. Just think for a moment about how much of your career is left to chance. It can depend on who happens to be your boss when you get promoted, for example, and how popular and influential he or she is. The 100 Greatest Ideas for Building Your Career includes advice and tips from fifteen chairmen and directors of some of the UK's largest companies. It will help you build a strategy for managing the elements of your career that you can control (and some you thought you couldn't). Ken Langdon shows how you can. Just some of the ideas Ken Langdon reveals are: The 8 greatest ideas for winning at company politics The 6 greatest ideas for spending cleverly The 8 greatest ideas for standing out in the crowd The 4 greatest ideas for standing out in the more senior crowd ?and 74 other fantastic ideas, tips and tricks that will take you to the very top! 100 Greatest books will enable you to take control of your life and your career. Packed with 100 simple but wonderfully effective ideas, these books are fun to use and easy to put into practice, giving you instant results.

Author : Mary Ann Froehlich
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457438852

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101 Ideas for Piano Group Class: Building an Inclusive Music Community for Students of All Ages and Abilities by Mary Ann Froehlich Pdf

This interactive, practical book for teachers not only contains creative ideas for group classes, but also includes mental energizers, room for notes, and brainstorming concepts for planning personalized group classes. It is divided into three sections: Part I lays the foundation for the educational philosophy behind group learning, Part II focuses on ideas for piano group classes, and Part III discusses teaching piano students with special needs.

Author : Tiago Forte
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982167387

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Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte Pdf

"Building a second brain is getting things done for the digital age. It's a ... productivity method for consuming, synthesizing, and remembering the vast amount of information we take in, allowing us to become more effective and creative and harness the unprecedented amount of technology we have at our disposal"--

Author : Daniel Lipkowitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465498571

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The LEGO Ideas Book by Daniel Lipkowitz Pdf

Over 2 million copies sold worldwide! Be inspired to create and build amazing models with your LEGO® bricks! The LEGO Ideas Book is packed full of tips from expert LEGO builders on how to make jet planes reach new heights, create fantastic fortresses, swing through lush jungles, have fun on the farm and send space shuttles out of this world! This awesome ideas book is divided into six themed chapters - transport, buildings, space, kingdoms, adventure, and useful makes - to inspire every member of the family to get building. With over 500 models and ideas, this book is perfect for any LEGO fan - young or young at heart - who want to make their models cool, fun and imaginative. ©2020 The LEGO Group.