Electronic Books

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Building Services Design for Energy Efficient Buildings / Paul Tymkow, Savvas Tassou, Maria Kolokotroni, Hussam Jouhara

The following issues are addressed: background issues on climate change, whole-life performance and design collaboration generic ...

Building Surveys / Peter Glover

A trusted guide for both students and professionals for nearly 40 years, evolving to address the challenges and responsibilities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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