Architecture
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In [...]
Architecture Book : Planning and Design of Airports, Fifth Edition
Authoritative, Up-to-Date Coverage of Airport Planning and Design Fully updated to reflect the significant changes that have occurred in the aviation industry, the new edition of this classic text offers definitive guidance on every aspect of planning, design, engineering, and renovating airports and terminals. Planning and Design of Airports, Fifth Edition, includes complete coverage of [...]
Precedents in Architecture, Second Edition
Precedents in Architecture provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that will help you understand the works of others, and aid you in creating your own designs. Here, you will examine the work of internationally known architects with the help of a unique diagrammatic technique, which you can also use to analyze existing buildings. In addition [...]
Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health: Open Space: People Space 2
Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors. At the same time, our general health is deteriorating. The alarming rise in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and mental ill-health across the developed world has resulted in an urgent desire to understand how the environment, in particular the [...]
The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (Writing Architecture)
Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city. In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute not in the conventional sense of [...]
Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts (Writing Architecture)
In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making of public intimacy. As art melts into spatial construction and architecture mobilizes artistic vision, Bruno argues, a new moving space–a screen of vital cultural [...]
Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation
This book delivers what every data warehousing project participant needs most: a thorough overview of today’s best solutions, and a reliable step-by-step process for building warehouses that meet their objectives. It answers key questions asked by everyone involved in a data warehouse initiative. And, with over 75 figures, it doesn’t just tell you how to [...]
Sustainability in America’s Cities: Creating the Green Metropolis
“Sustainability” is more than the latest “green” buzzword. It represents a new way of viewing the interactions of human society and the natural world. Sustainability in America’s Cities highlights how America’s largest cities are acting to develop sustainable solutions to conflicts between development and environment. As sustainability rises to the top of public policy agendas [...]
Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture
The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe. Some previously unpublished [...]
The Other Architecture: Tasks of Practice Beyond Design
How does the architectural design become reality? After a successful presentation come the phase of tenders and that of their realization. Design must now be reformulated into working drawings. That s exactly what Liebing, a renowned expert for plan views and detailed views, calls the other architecture . Working drawings constitute the basis for the [...]