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 ...
Modernism is the most defining architectural expression of the 20th century - a movement that transformed built environments around the world in an unprecedented ...
Giuseppe Pizzigoni, architect of classical and postwar modernism in northern Italy, owes his reputation to his connections with the Novecento movement, his independence from ...
Esta antología resitua radicalmente la arquitectura como un sistema de soporte al servicio de la infraestructura. Una colección de 12 ensayos críticos y proyectos ...
