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Revolving Architecture

Author : Chad Randl
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568986814
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Revolving Architecture written by Chad Randl and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offeredever-changing vistas and made interior spaces more flexible and adaptable. They were used to impress visitors, treatpatients, and improve the green qualities of a structure by keeping particular rooms in or out of the sun. The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of fantastic revolving structures such as a jail that kept inmates under a wardens constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants, tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of each other. International examples from the late 1800s though the present demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures.

eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction

Author : Gudni Gudnason
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0415621283
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction written by Gudni Gudnason and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1994, the European Conferences of Product and Process Modelling (www.ecppm.org) have provided a review of research, development and industrial implementation of product and process model technology in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facilities Management (AEC/FM) industry. Product/Building Information Modelling has matured significantly in the last few years and has never been closer to having a permanent impact on the AEC/FM industry as a mainstream technology. In this context the 9th European Conference of Product and Process Modelling provided a forum for leading experts to discuss the latest achievements, emerging trends and future directions in product and process modelling technology in this dynamic and fragmented industry, focusing on integrated project working, value-based life cycle management and intelligent and sustainable buildings and construction. eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2012 provides a comprehensive overview of topics including BIM in all life-cycle stages, ICT for energy efficiency, smart buildings and environmental performance, energy and building simulation, knowledge and semantic modelling, visualization technologies as well as tools and methods to support innovations in design and construction processes. It further includes the proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on eeBuildings Data Models (Energy Efficiency Vocabularies), which aim to identify ICT Energy Efficiency Vocabularies and Ontologies to foster interoperability of Energy Efficiency Management Systems. eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2012 will be of interest to academics and professionals working in the interdisciplinary area of information technology in architecture, engineering and construction.

Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades

Author : Jules Moloney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136709037
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades written by Jules Moloney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural facades now have the potential to be literally kinetic, through automated sunscreens and a range of animated surfaces. This book explores the aesthetic potential of these new types of moving facades. Critique of theory and practice in architecture is combined here with ideas from kinetic art of the 1960’s. From this background the basic principles of kinetics are defined and are used to generate experimental computer animations. By classifying the animations, a theory of kinetic form called ‘state change’ is developed. This design research provides a unique and timely resource for those interested in the capacity of kinetics to enliven the public face of architecture. Extra material including animations can be seen at www.kineticarch.net/statechange

The Journal of the Senate During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California

Author : California. Legislature. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1982 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Senate During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Architect and Architecture

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Architect and Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architecture and Landscape of Health

Author : Julie Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429862342
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture and Landscape of Health written by Julie Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments. Written from an architectural perspective, it examines the historical relationship between health and place through the emergence of dedicated therapeutic building types from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, a time when the environment was viewed as integral to the health of both the individual and the population. This book provides an overview of ideas surrounding health and place and their impact on architecture and designed landscapes. Different therapeutic buildings and places are examined, including public parks, asylums, sanatoria, leprosaria, quarantine stations, public baths and healthy homes. Each chapter outlines the medical context, common therapies, a history of buildings designed in response to these, and an examination of how such places were perceived to have functioned. Illustrated using geographically and temporally diverse examples, the book includes designs drawn from locations across the world including Europe, the Americas, Africa, Australia and Asia. The Architecture and Landscape of Health identifies and examines moments in the conversation between health and design, and is a timely look back on the resultant buildings and places, offering insights which could inform the design of therapeutic places of the future. An ideal read for researchers, academics and upper-level postgraduate students interested in architecture, and architectural history, particularly relating to healthcare design and medical history.

Norman Bel Geddes

Author : Nicolas P. Maffei
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474284582
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Norman Bel Geddes written by Nicolas P. Maffei and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the 'founder' of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and product and packaging design. Nicolas P. Maffei's magisterial biography draws on original material from the archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and places Bel Geddes' work within the fast-changing cultural and intellectual contexts of his time. Maffei shows how Bel Geddes' futuristic but pragmatic style – his notion of 'practical vision' – was central to his work, and highly influential on the professional practice of American industrial design in general.

Architecture after Covid

Author : Albena Yaneva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350271098
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Architecture after Covid written by Albena Yaneva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the COVID-19 pandemic began to unfold in 2020, the lives of billions across the world were transformed. Marching across continents, the invisible killer caused unprecedented disruption worldwide, leading architects and designers to rethink how to design cities and adapt their practice so that we might continue to live together in the future. Architecture after COVID is the first book to explore the pandemic's transformative impacts upon the architectural profession. It raises new questions about the intertwined natures of architectural production, science, society, and spatial practice – questions which had lain latent in the profession for years, but which the COVID pandemic brought to the fore. The book explores how the pandemic modified the spatial conventions of everyday life in the city, and looks in detail at how it has transformed building typologies. It also shows how the continuing risk of pandemics leads us to rethink the social dimension of architecture and urban design; and ultimately proposes a radical re-evaluation of the conditions of architectural practice – making a compelling argument about the changing agency of architectural design and the importance of designers in re-ordering the post-pandemic world. Packed with interviews and case-studies from a wide range of contemporary design practices, Architecture after COVID will inspire debates among architectural practitioners and theorists alike. The broad view of the approach and the depth of the professional issues at stake mean that this book will offer key insights for the discipline long beyond the scope of the COVID pandemic – as it explores the long-lasting bond between city, science and society as the 'new normal' begins to emerge.

The Architect's Studio Companion

Author : Edward Allen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471221856
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Architect's Studio Companion written by Edward Allen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert technical guidance for the earliest stages of building design This laborsaving resource reduces complex engineering and building code information to simple approximations that can be easily incorporated into initial design explorations. It helps architects prepare buildable preliminary designs as a realistic basis for the more detailed design development stage that will follow. Completely revised to reference the new International Building Code, this fully updated Third Edition responds to the growing interest in sustainable design solutions with a new section on daylighting. Like its predecessors, this new edition offers quick access to reliable rules of thumb that offer vital help for: Selecting, configuring, and sizing the structural system Selecting heating and cooling systems Configuring and sizing mechanical and electrical systems Configuring and sizing egress systems Designing within building code height and area limitations The Architect’s Studio Companion, Third Edition is a recommended study reference for the Building Planning section of the Architect’s Registration Exam and an invaluable sourcebook that can save architects time and effort throughout their careers.

Worldmodelling

Author : Mark Morris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119747228
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Worldmodelling written by Mark Morris and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of current developments in modelling, and with the aim of reinvigorating debates around the potentiality of the architectural model – its philosophies, technologies and futures – this issue of AD examines how the model has developed to become an immersive worldbuilding machine. Worldbuilding is the creation of imaginary worlds through forms of cultural production. Although this discourse began with an analysis of imaginary places constructed in works of literature, it has evolved to encompass worlds from fields such as cinema, games, design, landscape, urbanism and architecture. Worldbuilding differs from the notion of worldmaking, which deals with how speculative thinking can influence the construction of the phenomenal world. As architects postulate ever-increasingly complex world models from which to draw inspiration and inform their practice, questions of scale, representation and collaboration emerge. Discussed through a range of articles from acclaimed international contributors in the fields of both architecture and media studies, this issue explores how the architectural model is situated between concepts of worldbuilding and worldmaking – in the creative space of worldmodelling. Contributors: Kathy Battista, Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen, Pascal Bronner and Thomas Hillier, Mark Cousins, James A Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn, Kate Davies, Ryan Dillon, Christian Hubert, Chad Randl, Theodore Spyropoulos, and Mark JP Wolf. Featured architects: Phil Ayres, FleaFolly Architects, Minimaforms, and Stasus.

Archi.Pop

Author : D. Medina Lasansky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472526694
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Archi.Pop written by D. Medina Lasansky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and everyday interiors, music and magazines. Bringing the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, Archi.Pop offers a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we live and the way we interact with the constructed world around us.

Playing Place

Author : Chad Randl
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262373432
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Playing Place written by Chad Randl and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essay collection exploring the board game’s relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space. Board games harness the creation of entirely new worlds. From the medieval warlord to the modern urban planner, players are permitted to inhabit a staggering variety of roles and are prompted to incorporate preexisting notions of placemaking into their decisions. To what extent do board games represent the social context of their production? How might they reinforce or subvert normative ideas of community and fulfillment? In Playing Place, Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky have curated a collection of thirty-seven fascinating essays, supplemented by a rich trove of photo illustrations, that unpack these questions with breadth and care. Although board games are often recreational objects, their mythologies and infrastructure do not exist in a vacuum—rather, they echo and reproduce prevalent cultural landscapes. This thesis forms the throughline of pieces reflecting on subjects as diverse as the rigidly gendered fantasies of classic mass-market games; the imperial convictions embedded in games that position player-protagonists as conquerors establishing dominion over their “discoveries”; and even the uncanny prescience of games that have players responding to a global pandemic. Representing a thrilling convergence of historiography, architectural history, and media studies scholarship, Playing Place suggests not only that tabletop games should be taken seriously but also that the medium itself is uniquely capable of facilitating our critical consideration of structures that are often taken for granted.

This Thing Called Theory

Author : Teresa Stoppani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315406241
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book This Thing Called Theory written by Teresa Stoppani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines, thus opening up architecture itself and showing how architecture is inextricably connected to other social and theoretical practices. The sections move gradually from the specifics of architectural thought – its history, theory, and criticism – and their ongoing relation with philosophy, to the critical positions formulated through architecture’s specific forms of expression, and onto more recent forms of architecture’s engagement and self-definition. The book’s thematic sessions are concluded by and interspersed with a series of shorter critical position texts, which, together, propose a new vision of the contemporary role of theory in architecture. What emerges, overall, is a critical and productive role for theory in architecture today: theory as a proposition, theory as task and as a ‘risk’ of architecture.

ICoRD'13

Author : Amaresh Chakrabarti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 8132210506
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book ICoRD'13 written by Amaresh Chakrabarti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-12 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases over 100 cutting-edge research papers from the 4th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD’13) – the largest in India in this area – written by eminent researchers from over 20 countries, on the design process, methods and tools, for supporting global product development (GPD). The special features of the book are the variety of insights into the GPD process, and the host of methods and tools at the cutting edge of all major areas of design research for its support. The main benefit of this book for researchers in engineering design and GPD are access to the latest quality research in this area; for practitioners and educators, it is exposure to an empirically validated suite of methods and tools that can be taught and practiced.

Assembly Bills, Original and Amended

Author : California. Legislature. Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Assembly Bills, Original and Amended written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Senate Bills, Original and Amended

Author : California. Legislature. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Senate Bills, Original and Amended written by California. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biotechnologies and Biomimetics for Civil Engineering

Author : Fernando Pacheco Torgal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319092871
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Biotechnologies and Biomimetics for Civil Engineering written by Fernando Pacheco Torgal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-16 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting forward an innovative approach to solving current technological problems faced by human society, this book encompasses a holistic way of perceiving the potential of natural systems. Nature has developed several materials and processes which both maintain an optimal performance and are also totally biodegradable, properties which can be used in civil engineering. Delivering the latest research findings to building industry professionals and other practitioners, as well as containing information useful to the public, ‘Biotechnologies and Biomimetics for Civil Engineering’ serves as an important tool to tackle the challenges of a more sustainable construction industry and the future of buildings.