Non endless space links roughly 20 buildings and projects completed by the architecture firm DMAA to three themes: Biodiversity in Artificial Ecosystems, Limited Resources, ...
Collective Urban Planning in Research, Teaching and Practice This practice orientated handbook aims at all urban actors wishing to develop and realise complex urban ...
Urban gardening and agriculture have become important elements of sustainable urban planning in the context of persistent urbanization amid limited resources. However, a consideration ...
Materials and the myriad technologies that have been developed to manipulate them are of essential relevance to product designers, architects, artists and stylists, as ...
Building with earth is ecological, sustainable and 100% recyclable. This material has been used to build houses, villages or cities since ancient times. Impressive ...
New edition of the popular handbook The Modern Construction Handbook has become a classic of advanced construction literature, not least due to its regular ...
Materials and the myriad technologies that have been developed to manipulate them are of essential relevance to product designers, architects, artists and stylists, as ...
New edition of the popular handbook The Modern Construction Handbook has become a classic of advanced construction literature, not least due to its regular ...
Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Germany, and of modern, functional urbanism. ...
The mind's eye as a design principle Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) outlined his theory of the 'smallest possible intervention' back in the early 1980s. The ...
A fundamental reference work and textbook on construction Systematically organised for instructional purposes, this single volume communicates to students and to those setting out ...
Well-being in a building depends on a number of factors. Visuals, ventilation, heat, cooling and acoustics are all key. Its efficiency relates not only ...
Newer buildings often have complex geometries. They require ample structural implementation of the architectural design, which is often costlier than it should be. The ...
Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged-that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and ...
Peter Rowe and Yun Fu's second volume on the modernization of architecture in the Far East deals with Southeast Asia and Austronesia, including the ...
The first comprehensive tribute to Louis Kahn's and Moshe Safdie's structural engineer. The Estonian-American civil engineer August Komendant (1906-1992) worked with numerous famous architects ...