Browsing the "Architecture" category: 263 books
This book considers the gap that can exist between client expectation and realisation in building projects. It focuses specifically on the areas of function, finance, timescale and aesthetics. ...more »
ISBN: 0203581652 / Spon Press / Pub Date: Dec 2000 / File Size: 2912K
Waterfronts in Post-Industrial Cities is a second generation waterfront publication which reflects on recent and contemporary developments. Successful examples are Amsterdam, Boston, Genoa, Sydney and Vancouver. ...more »
ISBN: 0203166892 / Spon Press / Pub Date: May 2001 / File Size: 4229K
Originally appeared in "Advanced Imaging" magazine in November 1995. This article describes the use of photogrammetry techniques, combined with computer graphics, to document large complex commercial structures such as refineries and power plants. ...more »
ISBN: 1595951261 / Francis Hamit Electronic Publishing / Pub Date: Jun 2004 / File Size: 140K
These articles describe two projects executed by the UCLA Urban Simulation Laboratory in the School of Architecture. One is a dynamic model of the current and future Los Angeles. The other is the Virtual Reality recreation of Trajan's Forum for the ...more »
ISBN: 1595951296 / Francis Hamit Electronic Publishing / Pub Date: Jun 2004 / File Size: 144K
International in scope, this book examines both succesful examples of heritage management as well as some failures. It provides the principles which should underpin all heritage developments designed to attract tourism on a major scale. ...more »
ISBN: 020303368X / Routledge / Pub Date: Mar 1993 / File Size: 1562K
Economic and technological values have squeezed nature out of the modern city, seriously affecting our quality of life within and shaping a negative aesthetic. This offers ecological approaches to urban design which can work with nature too. ...more »
ISBN: 0203042751 / Routledge / Pub Date: Jul 1995 / File Size: 11470K
This clear, well-researched guide will be invaluable to students and practising construction professionals alike as they work with a range of building procurement systems to choose the system most suited to their needs. ...more »
ISBN: 0203474155 / Spon Press / Pub Date: May 1992 / File Size: 2382K
Heating and Water Service Design in Buildings has been written following thirteen years in the industry and twenty seven years teaching and consultancy work. The author has worked with college students, university undergraduates and open learn ...more »
ISBN: 0203475585 / Spon Press / Pub Date: May 1996 / File Size: 3162K
In introducing the many diverse aspects of housing within a single volume, this book provides the essential foundations for the study of this multi-disciplinary subject. ...more »
ISBN: 0203010426 / Routledge / Pub Date: Mar 1998 / File Size: 4050K
"The renowned architect introduces his iconoclastic approach to public space and shares his vision for the most important architectural project of our time, the 1776 Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site. Drawing on his uncommon background a ...more »
ISBN: 0786557516 / Riverhead / Pub Date: Jul 2005 / File Size: 662K
This authoritative and original work sets the results of recent archaeological research in the context of classical scholarship, as it explores three main aspects of Romano-British buildings. ...more »
ISBN: 0203566599 / Routledge / Pub Date: Dec 2001 / File Size: 4674K
Roman Villas provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination of the relationship between the living quarters of the Romans and their social and economic development. ...more »
ISBN: 0203112180 / Routledge / Pub Date: Jan 1998 / File Size: 4835K
This book is unique in its attempt to explore the many ways we have of thinking about buildings. In particular it raises questions about the kinds of knowledge we have and will need in designing, making and enjoying our buildings. ...more »
ISBN: 0203133781 / Spon Press / Pub Date: Jul 1992 / File Size: 3688K
This book provides practical guidance from the maintenance and improvements of highways to activities related to construction work on or near highways. ...more »
ISBN: 0203473981 / Spon Press / Pub Date: Aug 1991 / File Size: 270K
These in-depth proceedings, bringing together the world's leading decision makers in urban development, will be essential reading for engineers, architects, planners and those involved with shaping the urban environment of the future. ...more »
ISBN: 020346754X / Spon Press / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 19724K
In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a book that would examine the essence of Gothic architecture. By the following April, the book was finished. Titled The Seven Lam ...more »
ISBN: 0594085217 / Barnes & Noble Digital / Pub Date: Dec 2002 / File Size: 2315K
A work from leading planners and policy analysts, representing practical, theoretical and political advances in the field of planning, public administration and public policy. ...more »
ISBN: 0203499468 / Routledge / Pub Date: Sep 1993 / File Size: 876K
The growth of tenant participation is examined in the context of changes in the role of local authorities and their relationship with their electorates and questions raised about the nature of power in the tenant-landlord relationship. ...more »
ISBN: 0203415957 / Routledge / Pub Date: Nov 1996 / File Size: 440K
Focusing on two Chicago neighbourhoods as case studies, this text examines the regional and national factors that affect urban development as well as the specific local characteristics that impact revitalization. ...more »
ISBN: 0203904257 / Garland Science / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 1134K
This book sets out to find out how and why social space is subdivided in this way and to explore the nature of each realm as defined by spatial and symbolic boundaries. ...more »
ISBN: 0203402855 / Routledge / Pub Date: Mar 2003 / File Size: 4641K
Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. This book explores how such rhetorical landscapes have also been designed into the built environment of architecture. ...more »
ISBN: 0203402030 / Routledge / Pub Date: Feb 2003 / File Size: 9135K
A practical guide which enables small builders to tackle everyday alteration and improvement projects with confidence. ...more »
ISBN: 0203497651 / Spon Press / Pub Date: Sep 1985 / File Size: 3957K
The Distributed Workplace provides essential information on sustainable work environments. ...more »
ISBN: 020361657X / Spon Press / Pub Date: Nov 2003 / File Size: 1902K
ISBN: 0203214439 / Routledge / Pub Date: Mar 1994 / File Size: 1747K
This book is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place. ...more »
ISBN: 0203402022 / Routledge / Pub Date: Nov 2003 / File Size: 1608K
