Electronic Books

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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 ...

An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History / Joclyn M. Oats

Provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture ...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices : Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century / Marianna Charitonidou

Explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees ...

Architectural Structures : Visualizing Load Flow Geometrically / Edmond Saliklis

Presents an alternative approach to understanding structural engineering load flow using a visually engaging and three-dimensional ...

Architecture and Agriculture : A Rural Design Guide / Dewey Thorbeck

Presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections ...

Architecture and the Housing Question / Can Bilsel, Juliana Maxim

Examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects ...

Building Meaning : An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History / Tamara Metz

Introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. This book ...

Design Build with The Scarcity and Creativity Studio / Christian Hermansen Cordua, Solveig Sandness

Scarcity and Creativity Studio has developed a teaching method which reaffirms a commitment to architecture as a service ...

Digital Fabrication in Interior Design : Body, Object, Enclosure / Jonathon Anderson, Lois Weinthal

Draws together emerging topics of making that span primary forms of craftsmanship to digital fabrication in order to theoretically ...

Exercises in Architecture : Learning to Think as an Architect / Simon Unwin

It involves awakening abilities that remain dormant in most people. It is like learning language for the first time; a task ...

Foresight and Design : Composing Future Places / Mark C. Childs

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve ...

Introducing Architectural Tectonics Exploring the Intersection of Design and Construction / Chad Schwartz

Focuses on the tectonic analysis of twenty contemporary works of architecture located in eleven countries including Germany, ...

Landscape Architecture as Storytelling : Learning Design Through Analogy / Bob Scarfo

Introduces a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their ...

Materials encyclopedia for creatives / Elodie Ternaux, Daniel Kula, Fiona Donaghey

Materials and the myriad technologies that have been developed to manipulate them are of essential relevance to product designers, ...

Microalgae Building Enclosures : Design and Engineering Principles / Kyoung Hee Kim

Aims to provide design, engineering, and biotechnical guidelines for microalgae building enclosures that need to be considered ...

Parametric Methods for Beginners : Architecture Applications / Umut Toker

Introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the ...

Photovoltaic Thermal Passive House System: Basic Principle, Modeling, Energy and Exergy Analysis / Gopal Nath Tiwari, Neha Gupta

Sustainable Advanced Solar Passive House　provides a platform to disseminate knowledge regarding the basics of solar energy, ...

Planning Abu Dhabi : An Urban History / Alamira Reem Bani Hashim

Alamira Reem, a native Abu Dhabian and urban planner and researcher who has studied the emirate’s development for more ...

Representing Landscapes : One Hundred Years of Visual Communication / Nadia Amoroso, Martin Holland

Provides an in-depth historical overview of graphic and visual communication styles, techniques and outputs from key landscape ...

Street-Level Architecture : The Past, Present and Future of Interactive Frontages / Conrad Kickert, Hans Karssenberg

Provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions ...

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