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Author : Pedro Guedes
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006313434
Author : Jacqueline Glass
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055198595
Constant technological advancements are opening up dramatic new possibilities for the built form; at the same time architects are developing innovative designs which require new techniques to make these ideas reality. The Encyclopedia of Architectural Technology is the first book to specifically address these two issues by providing a comprehensive reference to modern architectural technologies, encompassing all key aspects of construction, structures, environmental design and servicing. The Encyclopaedia features over 180 entries ranging from materials and techniques to notable innovators in architecture and engineering. Each entry includes a brief quick-reference summary followed by a more detailed text and suggestions for further reading. Besides technological terms, entries are included on related topics such as sick building syndrome and sustainability. Key engineers Ove Arup and Ted Happold have dedicated entries, as do a range of ground-breaking architects such as Le Corbusier, Norman Foster, Walter Gropius, Herzog & de Meuron, Oscar Niemeyer, Richard Rogers, Carlo Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ken Yeang and many others.
Author : Christine Garnaut
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781576075692
Encyclopedia of Architectural and Engineering Feats presents more than 200 achievements in architecture and structural engineering in all the inhabited continents, from prehistory to the present. An architect once described the built environment as "the manifestation of the human spirit in stone, wood, and steel." In this new volume, readers can explore the most innovative and magnificent architectural expressions of the human spirit, from pre-history to the present, from all parts of the world. Readers can visit the Acropolis and Chartres cathedral, along with less familiar places like the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, once the greatest city in sub-Saharan Africa, and China's 71 meter high, 1,200 year old Grand Buddha, carved from stone. They'll learn the secrets behind audacious engineering feats like the Panama Canal, the U.S. interstate highway system, and the Deltaworks in the Netherlands. They will discover that many of these awe-inspiring projects were not the work of trained architects and engineers, but of "underdeveloped" communities, where unified will, tight social organization, and shared commitment to a spiritual ideal were more important than the inventions of the Industrial Age.
Author : Stephen Emmitt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118291832
... it gives me great pleasure to support the first ever publication to specifically address the area of research, and in particular its relationship with practice, in the discipline of architectural technology...not only ground breaking because it is the first book of its kind, but also because it provides at long last one of the accepted foundations needed to underpin the emerging academic discipline, namely a recognised research base. CIAT, in supporting this publication, is aware of the need for books such as this to sustain the process of research informed practice, as an aid for both students and those practising within the discipline of architectural technology. Norman Wienand MCIAT, Vice President Education, Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists Architectural technology is the realisation of architecture through the application of building science, forming the constructive link between the abstract and the physical. Architectural Technology: research and practice demonstrates the importance of research in architectural technology and aims to stimulate further research and debate by enlightening, informing and challenging readers. Chapter authors address the interplay between research and practice in the field of architectural technology, examining the influence of political, economic, social, environmental and technological issues. The focus throughout is on creating sustainable buildings that are constructed economically and function effectively and efficiently within their service life cycle. The book’s mix of chapters and case studies bring together a number of different themes and provides invaluable insights into the world of research from the perspective of those working within the architectural technology field - practitioners, academics and students. The underlying message is that architectural technology is not just a profession; it is a way of thinking and a way of acting. This is highlighted by contributions from architects and architectural technologists passionate about architectural technology as a field of knowledge. Contributions range from the theoretical and polemic to the pragmatic and applied, further helping to demonstrate the richness of the field. About the Editor Stephen Emmitt is Professor of Architectural Technology at Loughborough University UK and Visiting Professor of Innovation Sciences at Halmstad University, Sweden and a member of CIAT’s Research Group.
Author : Henry Cowan,Peter Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134383009
A comprehensive summary of the vocabulary used across the building industry, from the preparation of an architectural brief, through creative and technical design, to construction technology and facilities management. The latest edition has several substantially revised entries as well as many new additions, including new illustrations and terms. Covering a range of disciplines across architecture and building and including both SI metric and Imperial units, this dictionary and reference work will enable students and professionals to use and understand vocabulary from other areas of expertise, and contribute to better communication.
Author : R. Stephen Sennott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1579584330
"A balance of sophistication and clarity in the writing, authoritative entries, and strong cross-referencing that links archtects and structures to entries on the history and theory of the profession make this an especially useful source on a century of the world's most notable architecture. The contents feature major architects, firms, and professional issues; buildings, styles, and sites; the architecture of cities and countries; critics and historians; construction, materials, and planning topics; schools, movements, and stylistic and theoretical terms. Entries include well-selected bibliographies and illustrations."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.
Author : Bonnie A. Osif
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780203966167
The field of engineering is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, and there is an ever-growing need for engineers to investigate engineering and scientific resources outside their own area of expertise. However, studies have shown that quality information-finding skills often tend to be lacking in the engineering profession. Using the Engineerin
Author : Joseph A. Wilkes,Robert T. Packard
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:49015002907039
Author : Virginia McLeod
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1856696928
This is a comprehensive sourcebook, containing newly commissioned scale drawings of every type of architectural detailtaken from 100 of the best contemporary houses. Over 700 detailed drawings of walls, floors, ceilings, doors, windows, and staircases feature keys explaining construction techniques and materials used. Each drawing is cross referenced to other details from the same building. This is an invaluable reference for all architects, showing the best examples of residential detailing from around the world. A bonus DVD includes all of the drawings featured in the book.
Author : Pete Silver,Peter Silver,Will McLean
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781780676784
Understanding the relationship between design and technology is critical to the understanding of architecture. This book clearly explains the core aspects of architectural technology: structural physics, structural elements and forms, heating, lighting, environmental control, and computer modelling. Hundreds of photographs, diagrams, and screengrabs demonstrate common architectural forms and construction techniques. Historical and contemporary examples chart significant moments in architectural engineering and the development of materials science Includes an examination of computer-aided design (CAD) and the use of building information management (BIM) technology for predicting and analyzing the behavior of buildings. Written by three experienced teachers, this essential introduction to architecture will help students to integrate their design thinking with the appropriate structural and environmental solutions.
Author : Michael Meredith,Hilary Sample,MOS
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262038676
More than 1,000 representations of the human figure in architectural drawings by architects ranging from Aalto to Zumthor, removed from their architectural context. Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and MOS present their rich findings on the human presence in architectural drawings not in any chronological or other linear order, but based on the convention of the encyclopedia, thus presenting (and perhaps deliberately condoning) surprise encounters made possible by the contingency created by alphabetical order.…. From the contemporary perspective of a pluralistic world, the form of the encyclopedia may be particularly apt to represent such a vast body of material as is presented here: defying any linear historical account or master narrative, it invites the reader to construct his or her own readings of the material by establishing relationships between individual drawings. —From the foreword by Martino Stierli Throughout history, across radically different movements in Western culture, the human figure appears and reappears, in multiple guises, to remind us, the observers, of architectural purpose and of our mutual position in the world.…This encyclopedia has enlarged or reduced all figures to the same approximate scale. Meredith, Sample, and MOS have gathered them here in an unprecedented, intoxicating way, like being at a fabulous party. —From the afterword by Raymund Ryan Architects draw buildings, and the buildings they draw are usually populated by representations of the human figure—drawn, copied, collaged, or inserted—most often to suggest scale. It is impossible to represent architecture without representing the human form. This book collects more than 1,000 scale figures by 250 architects but presents them in a completely unexpected way: it removes them from their architectural context, displaying them on the page, buildingless, giving them lives of their own. They are presented not thematically or chronologically but encyclopedically, alphabetically by architect (Aalto to Zumthor). In serendipitous juxtapositions, the autonomous human figures appear and reappear, displaying endless variations of architecturally rendered human forms. Some architects' figures are casually scrawled; others are drawn carefully by hand or manipulated by Photoshop; some are collaged and pasted, others rendered in charcoal or watercolors. Leon Battista Alberti presents a trident-bearing god; the Ant Farm architecture group provides a naked John and Yoko; Archigram supplies its Air Hab Village with a photograph of a happy family. Without their architectural surroundings, the scale figures present themselves as architecture's refugees. They are the necessary but often overlooked reference points that give character to spaces imagined for but not yet occupied by humans. Here, they constitute a unique sourcebook and an architectural citizenry of their own.
Author : Henry J. Cowan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0132755203
Author : Joseph A. Wilkes
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:49015002907013
This is the third of a 5-volume set comprising a comprehensive architecture reference, with emphasis on architectural processes and building technology. The encyclopedia is being produced by John Wiley & Sons in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects. It will contain approximately 500 articles, representing the efforts of 600 contributors, and total 4000 pages. In addition to approximately 3000 illustrations, the encyclopaedia will contain 500 tables and 100 biographies of leading architectural professionals. The set offers practical coverage of design, engineering, construction, building types, materials, biographies of prominent architectural professionals and firms, and literature articles. The work will be of use to architects, libraries, and construction and engineering professionals.
Author : Henry J. Cowan
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015019856361
Author : Joseph A. Wilkes,Robert T. Packard
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : WISC:89017462979
This is the fourth of a 5-volume set comprising a comprehensive architecture reference, with emphasis on architectural processes and building technology. The encyclopedia is produced by John Wiley & Sons in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects. It contains approximately 500 articles, representing the efforts of 600 contributors, and total 4,000 pages. In addition to approximately 3,000 illustrations, the encyclopedia contains 500 tables and 100 biographies of leading architectural professionals.
