Architektur

Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde

The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an ‘architectural Big Bang’, such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by archit...

BIM for Design Firms

François Lévy / Jeffrey W. Ouellette

Paves the path for the adoption and effective implementation of BIM by design firms, emphasizing the design opportunities that this workflow affords This book expands on BIM (Building Information ...

The Great Great Wall

Ian Volner

During his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall" on the border between the US and Mexico, and Mexico was go...

El cementerio chino de La Habana

Teresita Labarca Delgado

Llenas de interesante información, ritos e imágenes sorprendentes, estas líneas reclaman atención sobre el enigmático mundo del Cementerio Chino de La Habana, con más de un siglo de historia...

Enseñanza de la técnica en arquitectura

Jorge Hernán Salazar Trujillo

El Grupo EMAT explora alternativas didácticas que permiten reunir experiencias acerca del "enseñar haciendo", con situaciones de ocurrencia cotidiana para sacar los ejercicios del labora...

Handlung statt Verhandlung

Hilke Marit Berger

Eine neue Kunst des Handelns soll Stadtgesellschaften aktivieren und Beteiligung garantieren - und befindet sich damit in politischer Verantwortung. Dieses Buch untersucht die Bedingungen und Mög...

Leonardos Geheimnis

Klaus-Rüdiger Mai

Leonardo da Vinci gilt als das Urbild des Universalgenies der Renaissance, als der große Magier, der erste Naturwissenschaftler, der geniale Künstler. Er war eine Ausnahmeerscheinung in einer Ze...

The Business of Research

Architectural research is being redefined in practice. Whereas once the value of a piece of research was solely measured by the number of citations it received by fellow academics, shifting fundin...

For a minimum circular design

Xavier Vives

Three aspects of the design that are traditionally studied, have been taken: the concept of function associated with that of necessity, the concept of form associated also with the production and ...

The Central Park

Cynthia S. Brenwall

Drawing on the unparalleled collection of original designs for Central Park in the New York City Municipal Archives, Cynthia S. Brenwall tells the story of the creation of New York's great pub...

Historia de la arquitectura

Héctor Velarde

Sugestivo resumen a partir de los primitivos monumentos megalíticos hasta el funcionalismo contemporáneo, en el que se destacan las más luminosas líneas de influencia en la evolución de la ar...

Complete Book of Framing

Scot Simpson

The bestselling step-by-step framing guide—updated and expanded to meet 2018 codes and standards Complete Book of Framing, Second Edition—Updated and Expanded is a comprehensive guide to rough...

Complete Book of Framing

Scot Simpson

The bestselling step-by-step framing guide—updated and expanded to meet 2018 codes and standards Complete Book of Framing, Second Edition—Updated and Expanded is a comprehensive guide to rough...

Anatomiya arhitektury. Sem' knig o logike, forme i smysle

S. Kavtaradze

TSel' knigi iskusstvoveda Sergeya Kavtaradze — maksimal'no prostym i ponyatnym yazykom obyasnit' chitatelyu, chto takoe arhitektura kak vid iskusstva. Avtor pokazyvaet, kak rabotayut...

Kulturerbe, ein gemeinsames Gut. Für wen und warum ? Le patrimoine culturel, un bien commun. Pour qui et pourquoi ?

Im Rahmenübereinkommen des Europarats über den Wert des Kulturerbes für die Gesellschaft (Konvention von Faro) wird Kulturerbe als zentrale Ressource für Demokratie, gesellschaftlichen Zusamme...

Discrete

After two decades of experimentation with the digital, the prevalent paradigm of formal continuity is being revised and questioned by an emerging generation of architects and theorists. While the ...

Grundlagen, Bausteine und Aufgaben des Städtebaus

Christa Reicher

Christa Reicher gibt einen Überblick über die Grundbegriffe und die historischen Phasen des Städtebaus sowie unterschiedliche Theorien. Das städtische Gefüge setzt sich aus verschiedenen Baus...

Machine Landscapes

The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised a...

Drawing from the Model

Frank Melendez

Bridges traditional and contemporary methods of creating architectural design drawings and 3D models through digital tools and computational processes.   Drawing from the Model: Fundamentals of D...

Drawing from the Model

Frank Melendez

Bridges traditional and contemporary methods of creating architectural design drawings and 3D models through digital tools and computational processes.   Drawing from the Model: Fundamentals of D...