Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise, coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings. For this new ...
Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner-city migration have transformed the traditional city of spaces into the modern city of ...
Dams and Appurtenant Hydraulic Structures, now in its second edition, provides a comprehensive and complete overview of all kinds of dams and appurtenant hydraulic ...
As early as in the late nineties, Dominik Lejman (*1969 in Gdansk) began re-exploring the boundaries of painting by combining videos with paintings. Timothy ...
How is an architects knowledge generated, gathered, and passed on? Who are the people, institutions, and groups involved, and how do these participants go ...
Space, design, silence, nature, health; these are the demands of contemporary travellers, looking for a luxurious vacation during which to wind down and get ...
Social scientists and campaign strategists approach voting behavior from opposite poles. Reconciling these rival camps through a merger of precise statistics and hard-won election ...
In 1909, one of the world's great cities, London, finally sanctioned steel-frame architecture. For the previous quarter century, a new structural material - steel ...
Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and ...
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of property investment and development in the urban regeneration process. It relates the physical, economic, ...
'This authoritative survey of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture on the West Coast is a major contribution to the work of America's greatest architect. Mark ...
