A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering : An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance / Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris
Equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The ...
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A Language of Contemporary Architecture : An Index of Topology and Typology / Rafael Luna, Dongwoo Yim
Provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary ...
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A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania
The history of lunatic asylums – what do we really know about them? Films and television programs have portrayed them as ...
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Active Rheology Control of Cementitious Materials / Geert De Schutter, Karel Lesage
The research presented here develops a new method of actively controlling the rheology of fresh concrete during casting operations ...
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Architect: The evolving story of a profession / Eleanor Jolliffe, Paul Crosby
From Ancient Egypt, where architects were members of the ruling class, tied into the running of the empire, to the 21st century ...
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Architectonics and Parametric Thinking : Computational Modeling for Beginning Design / Frank Jacobus, Angie Carpenter, Rachel Smith Loerts
Architectonics and Parametric Thinking begins by clearly positioning the potentials of parametric design through a series ...
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Architectural Colossi and the Human Body Buildings and Metaphors / Charalampos Politakis
Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such ...
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Architectural Tiles : Conservation and Restoration / Lesley Durbin
It not only contains new and up to date information on materials, practical methods, and historical research but also reflects ...
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Architecture and Collective Life / Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm, Sandra Costa Santos
Addresses the changing nature of public life alongside an analysis of changes in the architectural profession. Contains thought-provoking ...
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Automation in Construction toward Resilience : Robotics, Smart Materials and Intelligent Systems / Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi, Mohammad Noori, Tony T.Y. Yang
Presents all aspects of automation in construction pertaining to the use of information technologies in design, engineering, ...
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Behaviour and Design of Steel and Composite Connections in Fire / Mostafa Jafarian, Yong Wang
The only dedicated book on fire performance of connections in steel and composite structures. Recent experimental and numerical ...
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Big Little Hotel : Small Hotels Designed by Architects / Donna Kacmar
This book showcases small hotels, all located in the United States, designed by architects who use light and materials in ...
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Building Children's Worlds : The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks / Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, Emma Hayward
Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed ...
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The following issues are addressed: background issues on climate change, whole-life performance and design collaboration generic ...
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Building Surveys / Peter Glover
A trusted guide for both students and professionals for nearly 40 years, evolving to address the challenges and responsibilities ...
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Building Theories : Architecture as the Art of Building / Franca Trubiano
Discusses the content of treatises, essays, articles, and letters by those who have been, throughout history, committed to ...
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Building from Tradition: Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture / Elizabeth Golden
Examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...
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Chudley and Greeno's Building Construction Handbook / Roy Chudley, Roger Greeno, Karl Kovac
The principles and processes of construction are explained with the concepts of design included where appropriate. Extensive ...
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Civil Engineering for Disaster Risk Reduction / Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Indrajit Pal, Siau Chen Chian, Arpita Mondal
Brings together all diverse disciplines of civil engineering and related areas (for example, geotechnical engineering, water ...
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Coding, shaping, making : experiments in form and form-making / Haresh Lalvani
Combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computation to look towards the future ...
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