The Making Of The Modern Architect And Engineer

Author : Ulrich Pfammatter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764362170

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The Making of the Modern Architect and Engineer by Ulrich Pfammatter Pdf

The very first school for architecture came into being when the Ecole Polytechnique opened its gates in Paris in 1794 and with this, the profession of the architect as we understand it today was born. Using preiously unpublished texts and visual material, Ulrich Pfammatter traces in fascinating detail the origins and subsequent development of the scientific and industrial training of architects and engineers. He explores the growth of the architecture schools in Paris, Karlsruhe, Zürich, London and the USA, and by considering important exponents such as Durand, Reynaud, Mary, Weinbrenner, Semper, Dufour, Klenze, Eiffel and Jenney he provides a detailed exposition of this important chapter in civil engineering and architectural history.

Author : Roland May
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035623260

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Architects and Engineers by Roland May Pdf

In the first decades of the 20th century, civil engineers were widely seen as a role model for future architects. Their role within the contemporary architecture movements, however, was hardly discussed. To this day, even fundamental questions about collaborations, rivalries, or conflicts between the two sister disciplines still await answers. This volume brings together contributions by international scholars on the cooperation between architects and civil engineers in various countries in the interwar period. By offering both insights into national peculiarities and new reflections on the general nature, character, and significance of such joint efforts, it opens exciting new perspectives on the modern building culture of Europe and beyond.

Author : Garrido, Federico Andrés
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783731512615

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Innovative tools and design strategies. The case of Eclectic Architecture in Buenos Aires by Garrido, Federico Andrés Pdf

The research deals with a question about Architecture and its design strategies, combining historical information and digital tools. Design strategies are historically defined, they rely on geometry, context, building technologies and other factors. The study of Architecture´s own history, particularly in the verge of technological advancements, like the introduction of new materials or tools may shed some light on how to internalize digital tools like parametric design and digital fabrication.

Author : George Barnett Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350126848

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Assembling the Architect by George Barnett Johnston Pdf

Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice. It unravels the competing interests that historically have structured the field and cultivates a deeper understanding of the contemporary profession. Focusing on the period 1870 to 1920 when the foundations were being laid for the U.S. architectural profession that we recognize today, this study traces the formation and standardization of the fundamental relationships among architects, owners, and builders, as codified in the American Institute of Architects' very first Handbook of Architectural Practice. It reveals how these archetypal roles have always been fluid, each successfully redefining their own agency with respect to the others in the constantly-shifting political economy of building. Far from being a purely historical study, the book also sheds light on today's digitally-enabled profession. Contemporary architectural tools and disciplinary ideals continue to be shaped by the same fundamental tensions, and emergent modes of practice such as BIM (Building Information Modelling) and IPD (Integrated Project Delivery) represent the realization of programs and agendas that have been over a century in play. Essential reading for professional practice courses as a contextual and historical companion to the Handbook, Assembling the Architect provides a critical perspective of the profession that is fundamental to understanding current architectural practice.

Author : Patrik Schumacher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119940470

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The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume II by Patrik Schumacher Pdf

This is the second part of a major theoretical work by Patrik Schumacher, which outlines how the discipline of architecture should be understood as its own distinct system of communication. Autopoeisis comes from the Greek and means literally self-production; it was first adopted in biology in the 1970s to describe the essential characteristics of life as a circular self-organizing system and has since been transposed into a theory of social systems. This new approach offers architecture an arsenal of general comparative concepts. It allows architecture to be understood as a distinct discipline, which can be analyzed in elaborate detail while at the same time offering insightful comparisons with other subject areas, such as art, science and political discourse. On the basis of such comparisons the book insists on the necessity of disciplinary autonomy and argues for a sharp demarcation of design from both art and engineering. Schumacher accordingly argues controversially that design as a discipline has its own sui generis intelligence – with its own internal logic, reach and limitations. Whereas the first volume provides the theoretical groundwork for Schumacher’s ideas – focusing on architecture as an autopoeitic system, with its own theory, history, medium and its unique societal function – the second volume addresses the specific, contemporary challenges and tasks that architecture faces. It formulates these tasks, looking specifically at how architecture is seeking to organize and articulate the complexity of post-fordist network society. The volume explicitly addresses how current architecture can upgrade its design methodology in the face of an increasingly demanding task environment, characterized by both complexity and novelty. Architecture’s specific role within contemporary society is explained and its relationship to politics is clarified. Finally, the new, global style of Parametricism is introduced and theoretically grounded.

Author : Donald L. Johnson,Donald Langmead
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780313293535

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Makers of 20th Century Modern Architecture by Donald L. Johnson,Donald Langmead Pdf

Biographical profiles of "architects and engineers ... with proven influences on the course of a modern Western architecture."--Page xiii.

Author : Paulo J. Cruz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1553 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317549963

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Structures and Architecture by Paulo J. Cruz Pdf

Although the disciplines of architecture and structural engineering have both experienced their own historical development, their interaction has resulted in many fascinating and delightful structures. To take this interaction to a higher level, there is a need to stimulate the inventive and creative design of architectural structures and to persuade architects and structural engineers to further collaborate in this process, exploiting together new concepts, applications and challenges. This set of book of abstracts and full paper searchable CD-ROM presents selected papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Structures and Architecture Conference (ICSA2016), organized by the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal (July 2016), to promote the synergy in the collaboration between the disciplines of architecture and structural engineering.

Author : Michael Bell,Craig Buckley
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1616890460

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Post-Ductility by Michael Bell,Craig Buckley Pdf

The third book in the series from Columbia University is focused on metals. Metals, as surface or structure as the generators of space play a role in nearly every strain of modernization in architecture. They define complete geographies of work, production, and political life. Non-architectural metals delivered in automobiles, and hard goods in the United States and worldwide have all been sourced as the engines of the sprawling late twentieth-century city in all of its forms. But in the received aspects of architectural history, metals, and in particular steel, remain less diluted; they are presented as intrinsic to the profession as material precedes concepts they are carriers of architectural meaning. Few concepts are as central in structural engineering as the ability of a material to sustain plastic deformation under tensile stress the standardization of historically known deformation limits or ductile properties in most materials allows architects and engineers to keep the analysis of structure within known parameters of finite element analysis rather then materials science. If the goal is avoid fracture, the boundaries are set and the limits of ductility are observed. Post-Ductility refers to the literal aspects of material behavior in this case of metals but also of aspects of architectural and urban space that are measured by less verifiable but nonetheless real quotients of stress and strain. It is the tension and compression of space that gives form or coherence to form. In either the case of engineering and architecture, formerly daunting degrees of risk seem to have been diminished; new levels of sophistication in calculation lower the risk tolerance for fracture, while more metaphoric readings of limits in architectural and urban space seem to have been long surpassed, at times with abandon. The counter-effort has been quite strong if not successful: there are those that want to recreate dense cities by means of compression and there are immense forces of spatial extension by way of economics, communication and transit. Space is pulled to elastic limits and made thin as highly malleable materials such as gold or lead as it is also often re-compressed as forms of urban density. If metals are a significant origin for architecture and indeed whole cities—from buildings to automobiles and labor, then what are the limits or equations that offer a new evaluation of both metals, but also of material in a wider sense, as a determining component of the built world? What does an engineer and architect bring to this arena in both local and global circumstances?

Author : Daniel A. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691248653

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Modern Architecture and Climate by Daniel A. Barber Pdf

How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fossil-fuel powered air-conditioning became widely available—Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and dynamic architectural discussion involving design, materials, and shading systems as means of interior climate control. He looks at projects by well-known architects such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and the work of climate-focused architects such as MMM Roberto, Olgyay and Olgyay, and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of James Marston Fitch, Elizabeth Gordon, and others, he demonstrates how images and diagrams produced by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge, alongside the work of meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel type of environmental media catalyzed new ways of thinking about climate and architectural design. Extensively illustrated with archival material, Modern Architecture and Climate provides global perspectives on modern architecture and its evolving relationship with a changing climate, showcasing designs from Latin America, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. This timely and important book reconciles the cultural dynamism of architecture with the material realities of ever-increasing carbon emissions from the mechanical cooling systems of buildings and offers a historical foundation for today’s zero-carbon design.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691129371

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Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

"Modern concepts concerning an organic architecture, from the work of Frank Lloyd Wright" on lining-papers.

Author : Christopher Curtis Mead
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 027105087X

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Making Modern Paris by Christopher Curtis Mead Pdf

Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.

Author : James FERGUSSON (Architect.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBR:KBR0000000122

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History of the Modern Styles of Architecture by James FERGUSSON (Architect.) Pdf

Author : Gregor Hohpe
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781492077497

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The Software Architect Elevator by Gregor Hohpe Pdf

As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of software and IT architects is also transforming. Rather than focus on technical decisions alone, architects and senior technologists need to combine organizational and technical knowledge to effect change in their company’s structure and processes. To accomplish that, they need to connect the IT engine room to the penthouse, where the business strategy is defined. In this guide, author Gregor Hohpe shares real-world advice and hard-learned lessons from actual IT transformations. His anecdotes help architects, senior developers, and other IT professionals prepare for a more complex but rewarding role in the enterprise. This book is ideal for: Software architects and senior developers looking to shape the company’s technology direction or assist in an organizational transformation Enterprise architects and senior technologists searching for practical advice on how to navigate technical and organizational topics CTOs and senior technical architects who are devising an IT strategy that impacts the way the organization works IT managers who want to learn what’s worked and what hasn’t in large-scale transformation

Author : James Fergusson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Architecture
ISBN : HARVARD:32044033529397

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History of the Modern Styles of Architecture : Being a Sequel to the Handbook of Architecture by James Fergusson Pdf

Author : James Fergusson
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Architecture
ISBN : ONB:+Z225010106

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History of the Modern Styles of Architecture by James Fergusson Pdf