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Residential Architecture as Infrastructure

Author : Stephen H. Kendall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000456668
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Residential Architecture as Infrastructure written by Stephen H. Kendall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented projects, public policies and business activities in Open Building around the world. Countless residential Open Building projects have been built in a number of countries, some without knowledge of the original theory and methods. These projects differ in architectural style, building industry methods, economic system and social aims. National building standards and guidelines have been promulgated in several countries (Finland, China, Japan, Korea), providing incentives and guidance to Open Building implementation. Businesses in several countries have begun to deliver advanced FIT-OUT systems both for new construction and for retrofitting existing buildings, demonstrating the economic advantages of ‘the responsive, independent dwelling.’ This book also argues that the ‘open building’ approach is essential for the reactivation of the existing building stock for long-term value, because in the end it costs less. The book discusses these developments in residential architecture from the perspective of an infrastructure model of built environment. This model enables decision-makers to manage risk and uncertainty, while avoiding a number of problems often associated with large, fast-moving projects, such as separation and distribution of design tasks (and responsibility) and the ensuing boundary frictions. Residential Architecture as Infrastructure adds to the Routledge Open Building Series, and will appeal to architects, urban designers, researchers and policy-makers interested in this international review of current projects, policies and business activities focused on Open Building implementation.

Infrastructure as Architecture

Author : Scott Lloyd
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868590913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Infrastructure as Architecture written by Scott Lloyd and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our cities are constantly changing. The last 100 years in particular have seen radical conversions, extensions and the development of residual areas in inner cities which have significantly changed urban panoramas. Urban infrastructures play a pivotal role in conversion processes. These include transport routes, supply and disposal services, communication networks and the like, making a modern functioning city possible. In the publication Infrastructure as Architecture, acclaimed authors and planners show why architects' participation in the design of future urban infrastructures is vital. Theoretical contributions from the fields of economics, ecology, culture, politics, and land use planning investigate the issue from different perspectives. Practical examples and designs provide readers with an exciting glimpse of the future of our cities.

Designing a Place Called Home

Author : James Wentling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319479172
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Designing a Place Called Home written by James Wentling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volume shares design ideas to help builders, planners and architects create mass-produced affordable housing that pushes suburban development in more sustainable, liveable directions. The author argues that improving the quality of design in our new homes and communities for greater resiliency, sustainability, and equality, we can build neighborhoods and communities where residents feel more connected t their homes and to one another. Through text, photographs and illustrations, the book reviews prototypical American housing design, then suggest ways to both learn from the past as well as adapt for new environmental imperatives, demographic changes and lifestyle needs. Written by a practicing architect with 25+ years of experience optimizing residential design, this pioneering approach to suburban building will inspire readers to view mass produced housing through a new, modern lens.

Understanding Infrastructure

Author : George Rainer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471505464
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Infrastructure written by George Rainer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Water Infrastructure Planning, Management, and Operations Neil S. Grigg ". discusses the factors that lead to effective management of water systems in urban areas." --Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation Unique in its orientation for managers, Urban Water Infrastructure focuses on the productive management of urban water systems by laying out its discussion in terms of the system as a whole, how a system's component elements work together, how much they cost to build and operate, and the sociopolitical forces that guide the productive operation. This easily accessible reference is aimed at engineers, planners, and managers, teaching both the theoretical and practical aspects of urban water management. 1986 (0 471-82914-5) 328 pp. A Guide to Site and Environmental Planning Third Edition Harvey M. Rubenstein "Perhaps the strongest feature of the book is the inclusive, comprehensive, and logical analysis within each of the chapters . All in all, I can highly recommend this book to anyone engaged in site planning, or interested in site plans developed by others." --Landscape Planning This Third Edition incorporates pertinent research of the past decade and presents an approach to design based on factual information that enables creative talent to be used to its utmost advantage. Chapters follow phases used in the development of a site plan and include extensive information on: site selection, resource analysis, land use, storm drainage, alignment of horizontal and vertical curves, specifications, sports facilities and play-grounds, rooftop gardens, residential development concepts, and much more. 1987 (0 471-85033-0) 410 pp. Infrastructure Engineering and Management Neil Grigg Here is the first technical and management book to focus on solutions to complex, large-scale problems involving major infrastructure projects. The wide-ranging text covers such systems as roads and streets, water and wastewater, waste management, buildings and structures, and energy facilities. Infrastructure Engineering and Management gives an in-depth knowledge of several key subjects relating technology to management: planning, programming, and budgeting; finance, organization, and private sector involvement; operations and maintenance; project management; and research needs. 1988 (0 471-84974-X) 380 pp.

Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure

Author : Alicja Maciejko
Publisher : AHFE International
ISBN 13 : 1958651656
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure written by Alicja Maciejko and published by AHFE International. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023), July 20–24, 2023, San Francisco, USA

Advances in Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure

Author : Jerzy Charytonowicz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030201511
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure written by Jerzy Charytonowicz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture. It reports on advanced engineering methods for sustainable infrastructure design, architecture as well as on assessments of the efficient methods and the social, environmental, and economic impact of various designs and projects. The book covers a range of topics, including the use of recycled materials in architecture, ergonomics in buildings and public design, sustainable design for smart cities, design for the aging population, industrial design, human scale in architecture, and many more. Based on the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, held on July 24-28, 2019, in Washington D.C., USA, it offers various perspectives on sustainability and ergonomics. As such, it is a valuable reference resource for designers, urban engineers, architects, infrastructure professionals, public infrastructure owners, policy makers, government engineers and planners, as well as operations managers and academics active in urban and infrastructure research.

Twentieth Century Residential Architecture

Author : Richard Weston
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789207400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Residential Architecture written by Richard Weston and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the basic building block of the human environment, the house has served as an inexhaustible playground where architects experiment with theories, styles, forms, and materials. Arguably, the best and most innovative residential architecture has been conceived and realized over the past 100 years — from the cantileveral serenity of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to the spectacular Chemosphere, which resembles a UFO that has planted its landing gear in the Hollywood Hills. This book, the first to chronicle the development of the modern house, examines major shifts in international domestic design over the past century as it highlights a superb selection of extraordinary homes. Author Richard Weston engagingly tells the story of the twentieth-century house through eight semi-chronological design themes. From the Arts and Crafts period to the present, he covers a wide range of homes exemplifying each period and presents more than 100 benchmark dwellings with detailed architectural drawings. Weston also addresses the fascinating ways in which domestic design has both reflected and influenced the changing social climates and lifestyles of the past century, making this a book that will appeal to anthropologists, as well as architects, designers, and homeowners.

Civil Architecture

Author : Richard Dattner
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Civil Architecture written by Richard Dattner and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superbly illustrated, highly informative work, by an architect with outstanding credentials in public design, this book brings all of the challenges and opportunities of designing for the public sector into focus. It brims with examples of recent projects that respond to community needs and concerns, with a varied collection of case studies that illuminate the planning and design process.

Social Infrastructure

Author : Douglas Durst
Publisher : Actar
ISBN 13 : 9781940291253
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Social Infrastructure written by Douglas Durst and published by Actar. This book was released on 2015 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Social Infrastructure: New York, one of a series that documents the Bass Fellowship at the Yale School of Architecture studio led by real estate developer Douglas Durst of the Durst Organization, a leading New York firm known for spearheading sustainable high-rise developments, and architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of Copenhagen- and New York-based Bjarke Ingels Group. Their students explored potential synergies between public and private programs in the design of inhabited bridges crossing major waterways in metropolitan New York. The group traveled to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to research developments that successfully integrated the needs of numerous stake-holders. The featured projects from the studio demonstrate a diverse range of approaches for combining residential, cultural, and commercial activities on complex and dense infrastructural sites in imaginative and productive ways.

Buildings Without Architects

Author : John May
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847833610
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Buildings Without Architects written by John May and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully informative reference on vernacular styles, from adobe pueblos and Pennsylvania barns to Mongolian yurts and Indonesian stilt houses. This small but comprehensive book documents the rich cultural past of vernacular building styles, from Irish sod houses to sub-Saharan wattle-and-daub huts and redwoods treehouses. It offers inspiration for home woodworking enthusiasts as well as architects, conservationists, and anyone interested in energy-efficient building and sustainability. The variety and ingenuity of the world's vernacular building traditions are richly illustrated, and the materials and techniques are explored. With examples from every continent, the book documents the diverse methods people have used to create shelter from locally available natural materials, and shows the impressively handmade finished products through diagrams, cross-sections, and photographs. Unlike modern buildings that rely on industrially produced materials and specialized tools and techniques, the everyday architecture featured here represents a rapidly disappearing genre of handcrafted and beautifully composed structures that are irretrievably "of their place." These structures are the work of unsung and often anonymous builders that combine artistic beauty, practical form, and necessity.

Architects of the Pacific Northwest

Author : Francesc Zamora Mola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788499366906
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Architects of the Pacific Northwest written by Francesc Zamora Mola and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Loaded with hundreds of photographs of high-end homes and interiors, this gorgeous book is a treat for lovers of residential architecture and a resource for people planning to build their own house. Featuring some of the world's most aesthetically creative and environmentally conscious residential design and construction, this Pacific collection reflects homes with a deep reverence for their natural and cultural contexts, from coastal dwellings to contemporary urban dwellings and mountain cottages. Edited by local architectural practitioner, Francesc Zamora, this informed overview spotlights 30 leading pioneers of the green movement, including architects from such firms as Christopher Wright, Coates Design Architects, Nathan Good and Robert Hutchison."--

Dwelling with Architecture

Author : Roderick Kemsley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136260919
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Dwelling with Architecture written by Roderick Kemsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme ‘dwelling and the land’. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the making of houses. That the domestic realm and the landscape can be vehicles for significant architectural insights is hardly an original observation. However this book seeks to bring the two topics together in a unique way. In exploring a building type that lies on the cusp of what is commonly understood as ‘building’ and ‘architecture’, it asks fundamental questions about what the very nature of architecture is. Who indeed is the architect and what is their role in the process of creating meaningful buildings?

Under Pressure

Author : Hina Jamelle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000435466
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Under Pressure written by Hina Jamelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Pressure is about instigation and design in urban housing. Urban housing is a bellwether for economic, social, and political change. It varies widely in quality, typology, and audience and lies between the formal systems of urban infrastructure and the informal systems of daily life. Housing’s complexity offers unique and exciting opportunities to architects. Its entwinement with private equity and public agencies presents important challenges amplified by urbanization. This book gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History, Changing Domesticities, Housing Finance and Policy, and Design and Material Innovation. The result is a multi-disciplinary amalgam of research and design intelligence from thought leaders in the fields of architecture, real estate, economics, policy, material design, and finance.

A Pattern Language

Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190050357
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Pattern Language written by Christopher Alexander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

IT Architect: Foundation in the Art of Infrastructure Design: A Practical Guide for IT Architects

Author : John Yani Arrasjid, VCDX-001
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0996647708
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book IT Architect: Foundation in the Art of Infrastructure Design: A Practical Guide for IT Architects written by John Yani Arrasjid, VCDX-001 and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the IT Architect series helps aspiring & experienced IT infrastructure architects/administrators, and those pursuing infrastructure design certifications, establish a solid foundation in the art of infrastructure design. The three autho

Urban Infrastructure

Author : Joseph Heathcott
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987791
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Urban Infrastructure written by Joseph Heathcott and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to the history of urban infrastructure. It draws on recent work across history, anthropology, science and technology studies, geography, resilience/sustainability, and other disciplines to explore the social effects of infrastructure. The volume rejects narrow conceptions of infrastructure history as only the history of public works, and instead expands the definition to all business enterprises and public bodies that provide the goods and services essential for the day-to-day lives of most people. Essays examine traditional artifacts such as roads, highways, and waterworks, as well as nontraditional topics like regimes of heating and cooling, the processing and distribution of food, and even the metaphysics of electromagnetic infrastructure. Contributors reveal both the material grounding of urban social relations and the social life of material infrastructure. In the end, they show that infrastructure profoundly reshapes urban life even as residents fight to reshape infrastructure to their own ends.

The Architecture of Home in Cairo

Author : Dr Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409445372
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Home in Cairo written by Dr Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book firstly describes the historical development of the domestic spaces (indoor and outdoor), and provides an inclusive analysis of spaces of everyday activities in the hawari of old Cairo. It then broadens its analysis to other parts of the city, highlighting different customs and representations of home in the city at large. Cairo, in the context of this book, is represented as the most sophisticated urban centre in the Middle East with different and sometimes contrasting approaches to the architecture of home, as a practice and spatial system.