The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and ...
This indispensable companion to Norbert Lechner's landmark volume Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects, Third Edition completes the author's mission to cover ...
Illustrates concepts, relationships and basic processes of architectural design. Emphasizes concerns of professional designers who must cope with practical problems of how to make ...
Beginning with the bidding process, planners for London's 2012 Olympics envisioned nothing less than a transformation of East London with permanent structures that would ...
Water based heating systems are efficient, flexible, versatile and offer many advantages over other heating systems. These advantages (fast response, good controllability, efficient zonal ...
In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest ...
This book describes advances in synthesis, processing, and technology of environmentally friendly polymers generated from renewable resources. With contents based on a wide range ...
The design of mechanical structures with predictable and improved durability cannot be achieved without a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of fatigue damage and ...
This book provides an inventory of organic materials and products, the major components of all civil engineering projects, in terms of their scientific and ...
This book is concerned with the design of cold-formed steel structures in building based on the Eurocode 3 Package, particularly on EN 1993-1-3. It ...
This is the fourth book in a series on Historic Building Conservation. It combines conservation philosophy in the built environment with knowledge of traditional ...
Lavishly illustrated with more than 450 images, A Typographic Workbook, Second Edition explains the process successful designers use to select, space, and creatively integrate ...
Materiality and Interior Construction imparts essential knowledge on how materials contribute to the construction and fabrication of floors, partitions, ceilings, and millwork, with thorough ...
For well over a century, the modern skyscraper has provided an ingenious solution to high-density living and working - accommodating the greatest number of ...
In this latest issue of Architectural Design the guest editors are drawn, like the content, from contrasting tastes and generations. Charles Jencks, the definer ...
