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Wendy Mee : "Water Wise: Native Plants for Intermountain Landscapes"
Utah State University Press, June 2003 | ISBN: 0874215617 | PDF Format, 243 pages | English | 6.6 MB

Today, native plants and water conservation are subjects of vital interest to cities, offices, homeowners, and agriculture alike, as all are affected by the growing shortage of water in the Intermountain region.
This comprehensive volume provides specific information about shrubs, trees, grasses, forbs, and cacti that are native to most states in the Intermountain West, and that can be used in landscaping to conserve water, reflect and preserve the region’s landscape character, and help protect its ecological integrity. The book is an invaluable guide for the professional landscaper, horticulturist, and others in the Intermountain nursery industry, as well as for the student, general reader, gardener, and homeowner.
Water Wise is both convenient and comprehensive. The heart of the book presents hundreds of species, devoting a full page to each, with a description of appearance, habitat, landscape use, and other comments. Color photographs illustrate each plant described. A reader-friendly introduction provides important background on the ecology of the Intermountain West, along with full descriptions of native plant habitats and associations.
An accessible resource of accurate native plant information for all readers, Water Wise will be indispensable to professional landscapers and amateurs alike.

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Siu-Lai Chan, J.G. Teng “Advances in Steel Structures, vol.1"
Pergamon | 1999-12-01 | ISBN: 0080430155 | 593 pages | PDF | 37,1 MB


This volume of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers and 126 contributed papers to be presented at the Second International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures held on 15-17 December 1999 in Hong Kong. The conference is a sequel to the International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures held in Hong Kong in December 1996.
The conference will provide a forum for discussion and dissemination by researchers and designers of recent advances in the analysis, behaviour, design and construction of steel structures. The papers to be presented at the conference cover a wide spectrum of topics and were contributed from over 15 countries around the world. They report the current state-of-the art and point to future directions of structural steel research.


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Louise Pelletier "Architecture in Words: Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture"
Routledge, August 2006 | ISBN: 0415394708 | PDF Format, pages | 5.2 MB


What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? Generations of architects at the beginning of modernity assumed it could. From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, architects believed that the aim of architecture was to communicate the character and social status of the client or to express the destination and purpose of a building.
Architecture in Words explores the role of architecture as an expressive language through the transforming notion of character theory and looks at the theatre as a model for creating sensuous spaces in architecture.

Since the beginning of the eighteenth century, the theatre was more than simply a form of entertainment; it changed how individuals related to one another in society. Acting was no longer restricted to the performing stage in theatres; it became a way to conduct oneself insociety. Such transformations had obvious architectural repercussions in the design of theatres, but also in the configuration of the public and private domains. The succession of spaces, the careful crafting of lighting effects and the expressive role of architectural features were all influenced by parallel developments in the theatre.

Pelletier examines the role of theatre and fiction in defining the notion of character in eighteenth century architecture. It suggests that while usually ignored by instrumental applications, character constitutes an important precedent for restoring the communicative dimension of contemporary architecture.


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David Neuman “Stanford University"
Princeton Architectural Press | 2006 | ISBN: 156898538X | 200 pages | PDF | 12,1 MB

With the many additions to the campus of Stanford University since the publication of our book, including the Frances Arrillaga Alumni Center by Hoover Associates / The SWA Group, the James H. Clark Center for Bio Sciences & Bio Engineering by Foster and Partners / Peter Walker and Partners, and the Carnegie Institution by Esherik Homsey Dodge and Davis, it is time for a revised edition of our guide.
The original 1891 campus, conceived by Frederick Law Olmsted and executed by architects Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, balances architecture, landscapes, and the natural surroundings in a composition of classic formal beauty. Stanford is a model of university design, from the nineteenth- century Memorial Court and Main Quad to twentieth-century buildings and restorations that respect the historic campus while contributing to modern design. This revised edition features 16 new pages on the additions to the campus and many updated entries with new photography.


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McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (January 3, 2003)
PDF | 524 pages | English | ISBN: 0071381910 | 11.46Mb(rar)


Space Planning for Commercial and Residential Interiors/by Sam Kubba (Author)
* A single-source, on-the-job resource to help interior designers and architects solve any space planning problem
* Simplifies code compliance (International Building Code, ADA, and more)
* Includes hundreds of plans and details for every building type
* Checklists and guidelines throughout
GET THE BEST FROM ANY INTERIOR SPACE:
An essential underpinning for every subsequent decision in interior design, effective space planning sets the stage for successful interiors--interiors that work functionally and please aesthetically. Within these pages, you'll discover how to:
* Allocate space effectively in venues from home offices to airport lounges, retail stores, and hospitals
* Apply tools such as square-foot analyses and bubble and block diagrams, as well as 350 illustrations, including prototype plans and clear details, for optimum design results
* Gather and employ information on human factors
* Handle building-code issues
* Approach technical issues regarding building systems, including building necessities such as utilities, communications, and technical and mechanical fixtures
* Organize a project easily through use of dozens of handy checklists and guidelines
* Score high on space-planning portions of the NCIDQ and NCARB exams
* Score high on space-planning portions of the NCIDQ or NCARB exams.

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Monsa; Bilingual edition (June 2006)
DJVU | 255 pages | English | ISBN: 8496429660 | 10.3mb(rar)

Architecture Overview/by Joseph Maria Minguet (Editor)


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Koji Yagi "Japanese Touch for Your Home"
Published by Kodansha International | December 1982 | ISBN: 477001015X | PDF Format, 80 pages | English | 31 MB

Filled with elegant designs and clever tips, A Japanese Touch for Your Home offers bold and exciting ideas for remodeling your home or redecorating your apartment. The author, architect Koji Yagi, explains the basic elements of Japanese interior design and shows you how to use them. Install tatami mats and shoji doors--cardinal elements of Japanese interior design--and see how beautifully they respond to the Western home. Change the size and shape of a room easily and tastefully with bamboo screens and movable partitions. Build a simple Japanese-style alcove, decorate it with something special, and then flaunt it. Try some Japanese lighting techniques--low, soft, and beautiful. Change the mood of a room, and change your way of looking at things. A Japanese Touch for Your Home includes much more. Practical, approachable, and authentic, it is written by a prominent Japanese architect concerned about the demands of contemporary lifestyles, and the answers that traditional Japanese design has to offer. Over 120 color plates taken by a leading Japanese photographer accompany the informed text. In addition, over 200 black and white sketches, floor plans, and a section on do-it-yourself projects make this a book that will pique your desire to be creative and then show you how to fulfill it. A practical guide for homeowners, interior designers, and people who like to work with their heads and their hands, this book will introduce you to a new way of living.

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S. Macmillan "Designing Better Buildings"
Routledge | 2003-12-16 | ISBN: 0415315263 | 176 pages | PDF | 15,7 MB

Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it. For design practitioners and their clients alike, the book provides evidence to justify greater focus on, and investment in, design. It summarises the benefits that arise from good design - such as, civic pride in the urban environment, the stimulation of urban regeneration, corporate identity, occupant productivity and health in offices, improved learning outcomes in schools, better patient recovery rates in hospitals, as well as reduced environmental impact. And it illustrates these benefits through case study examples.
Eight chapters focus on case studies of exemplary buildings in particular sectors - offices, schools, housing, and hospitals - and explain why and how they came to be designed, and the design qualities they exhibit. Jon Rouse
of CABE offers ten case studies where organisations have deliberately invested in their buildings to demonstrate their belief in good design, as well as to raise their profile and improve staff recruitment and retention. Richard Feilden of Feilden Clegg Bradley presents some exemplary schools and identifies the key factors they share. Terry Wyatt of Hoare Lea & Partners describes the design of three office buildings where concerns for staff comfort, productivity and well-being were used to decide where and what to build. Dickon Robinson of the Peabody Trust uses three affordable-housing projects to show how a bespoke design-led approach extracts the full potential of a site and contributes to a lasting legacy of attractive housing. Paul Wheeler of DEGW discusses the development of the Housing Quality Indicators. Matthew Carmona of University College London examines six urban design projects and identifies the principles that appear to correlate with good urban design. Bryan Lawson of Sheffield University and Susan Francis of the Medical Architecture Research Unit both address medical buildings - Lawson presents two case studies that show hospital patients favour new wards and recover quicker in them, while Francis identifies the qualities necessary to create therapeutic environments.
Four chapters address the processes necessary to achieve design quality. Tony Pollington of the Construction Clients' Confederation discusses the introduction of the Construction Clients Charter - which commits those clients who sign it to continuous improvement in the procurement of buildings. Peter Trebilcock of AMEC presents three case studies about the management of design that illustrate the need for close co-operation between all parties in the construction process, and an appreciation of each others roles and interests. Adrian Leaman & Bill Bordass of Building Use Studies
draw on the findings of post-occupancy evaluations of buildings to recommend design strategies for achieving flexible and adaptable buildings that accommodate changing requirements and are robust in use. Giles Oliver of Penoyre & Prasad identifies what support design needs to establish a common language for valuing design within the built environment.
Finally three chapters discuss the issue of whether and how design quality can be measured. Sunand Prasad of Penoyre & Prasad introduces the ethical and philosophical issues surrounding the measurement of quality. Michael
Dickson of Buro Happold describes the recently-launched Design Quality Indicators, setting out the attributes and their grouping under three headings of functionality, impact and build quality. And Jennifer Whyte, David Gann and James Barlow of the Science Policy Research Unit, responsible for the development of the Indicators, describe antecedents in other sectors and how the Indicators were constructed and then piloted on five building projects.
The book is intended for construction industry practitioners, particularly among architectural, engineering, planning, surveying and project management practices, as well as clients responsible for commissioning buildings and
civil engineering projects. It will be an essential text book for many university courses in the built environment, including architecture, engineering, construction, planning and urban design.


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R D Buchan, Eric Fleming, Fiona E K Grant " Estimating for Builders and Surveyors"
Butterworth-Heinemann | 2002-06-24 | ISBN: 0750642718 | 320 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB

Written for students taking courses in building and surveying, 'Estimating for Builders and Surveyors' describes and explains the method used by the estimator to build up prices or rates for items described in the SMM7 format. Each chapter is a self-contained unit related to a particular element in the building. Worked examples throughout reflect both traditional and up-to-date technology. Written by an author team of academics and professional surveyors, this book continues to be an invaluable introduction to the subject of estimating.
* Written in line with The Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works to provide professional relevance
* Worked examples throughout ensure the student can practice the techniques described
* Comprehensive coverage of the trades gives the reader a complete picture


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Lynn Beadle " Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat"
Taylor & Francis | 2001-12-14 | ISBN: 0415232414 | 1024 pages | PDF | 11,7 MB


In this new millennium, given the continued expansion of technology, materials science and telecommunication coupled with development of social and geo political systems, we can expect the design and shape of our urban environment to change enormously. This two-volume set, the result of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 6th World Congress: Cities in the Third Millennium, examines the issues which must be addressed if we are to have a common understanding of the forces of change.
Experts in architecture, engineering and planning contribute a commentary on the existing condition of urban design, sociology and tall buildings, and expand the boundaries of new construction and engineering technology. These in-depth proceedings, bringing together the world's leading decision makers in urban development, will be essential reading for engineers, architects, planners and others involved with shaping the urban environment of the future.


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Mastering Revit Architecture 2009 (Mastering)
Sybex | ISBN: 0470295287 | 2008-09-09 | PDF | 784 pages | 7 Mb


Move beyond the basics of Revit and BIM and redefine your designs with this new edition of Mastering Revit Architecture. With updated coverage of Revit Architecture 2009 features, this comprehensive guide will help you discover best practices and tips that will make your projects smoother and their implementation easier. You’ll learn how applying key Revit and BIM priniciples to your designs will increase your productivity and improve your workflow plus develop a more thorough understanding of topics like design options and features, advanced modeling, and presentation techniques with the clear explanations and practical examples found in this book.



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Derek Phillips, "Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture"
Architectural Press | ISBN: 0750663235 | July 23, 2004 | 240 pages | PDF | 7.9MB

"An interesting introduction to the principles of sensitive lighting." - EASA Newsletter "It is highly readable, fascinating and educative." - Journal of Architectural Conservation "The book is a good introduction. Readers will be fascinated by construction details, fault systems and repair techniques that are not common in the UK." - The Architects' Journal "I recommend the book to all designers." - RIBA Conservation Newsletter

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Hardo Braun and Dieter Grömling "Research and Technology Buildings: A Design Manual"
Published by Birkhäuser Basel | April 2005 | ISBN : 3764321741 | PDF Format, 235 pages | English | 2 RAR Files 37.9 MB each

The significance of research and technology in today's economies is undisputed and continues to grow. Designing buildings to accommodate a range of functions, from laboratory experiments through prototype development to presentation and marketing is an architectural field of great potential. Commissioned by universities, public institutes and private companies, the challenge is to reconcile security and accessibility, laboratories equipped with sensitive, state-of-the-art instruments and facilities for theoretical research.
Zoning, circulation and functional requirements, as well as the historical development and contemporary context of research building, are covered in the opening systematic chapters of this Design Manual. Following this some 70 built projects, largely from Europe, the USA and Asia, are analysed according to a variety of aspects such as urban integration and communications infrastructure.
The authors, both from the internationally renowned Max Planck Society, and contributors draw on their own substantial practical expe rience of planning and building research facilities.

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Jan Wurm "Glass Structures: Design and Construction of Self-supporting Skins"
Published by Birkhäuser Basel | August 2007 | ISBN : 3764376082 | PDF Format, 242 pages | English | 28.5 MB

Flat glass opens up more possibilities for the planner than virtually any other material. Because of the technological complexity of using it, however, no specific structural forms have been developed for glass supporting frameworks as they have been for wood, concrete, and steel.

This book is thus the first to present a coherent guide to the planning and design of glass supporting frameworks. The focus is on the pressure-resistant, flat supporting element as a basic building block for broad supporting structures.
The spatial and constructive forms of multifunctional, self-supporting glass envelopes are vividly illustrated and systematically explained. The constructions presented exhibit new aesthetic qualities, based not on the dictum of "dematerialization” but on the poetry of gleaming and transparent planes. They ring in a new chapter in the history of glass architecture.

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Geoff Craighead "High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, 2nd Edition"
Published by Butterworth-Heinemann | Publication date : January 2003 | ISBN: 0750674555 | PDF Format, 577 pages | English | 8.7 MB


High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety serves as an essential took for building architects, building owners and property managers, security and fire safety directors, security consultants, and contract security firms.
Highlighted features of the books :
• Provides the reader with complete coverage of high-rise security and safety issues
• Includes comprehensive sample documentation, diagrams, photographs to aid in developing security and fire life safety programs
• Serves as an essential tool for building owners and managers, security and fire safety directors, security consultants and contract security firms

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Henry Shaftoe "Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Spaces"
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd. | Publication date : June 2008 | ISBN:1844073882 | PDF | 161 pages | English | 13.3 MB

Despite developments in urban design during the last few decades, architects, urban planners and designers often continue to produce areas of bland, commercially-led urban fabric that deliver the basic functional requirements of shelter, work and leisure but are socially unsustainable and likely generators of future problems. Convivial Urban Spaces argues that successful urban public spaces are an essential part of a sustainable built environment. Without them we are likely to drift into an increasingly private and polarized society, with all the problems that ensue.
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book draws on new primary research, and the literature and theory of environmental psychology and urban design, to advance our understanding of what makes effective public spaces. The result is a practical and clearly presented guide to urban public space for planners, architects and students of the urban environment.

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Brian Edwards and Biddy Fisher "Libraries & Learning Resources Centres"
Published by Architectural Press | Publication date : December 2001 | ISBN: 0750646055 | PDF | 250 pages | English | 17 MB

This comprehensive reference examines the changing role and design of library buildings, using a critical examination of recent examples from around the world. The authors, who represent the views of the architect and the client, outline the history and changing typology of the library. They examine the new national, public, academic and specialist libraries using numerous international examples including Sri Lanka, Vancouver, Johannesburg, Paris and London.
New design advice and technical data is presented to illustrate the many approaches that designers have taken in creating a building with many diverse functions. The book concludes with speculations about the future of the library as a place for storing, reflecting upon and exchanging knowledge.
Libraries are undergoing fundamental change as new technology liberates the library from its dependence upon the written word. Increasingly libraries are seen as learning resource centres with a smooth interface between computer-based access and traditional book and journal material.

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David Walters "Designing Community: Charrettes, Masterplans and Form-based Codes"
Published by Architectural Press | Publication date : May 2007 | ISBN: 075066925X | PDF | 283 pages | English | 19 MB

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities. In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied.
This book provides a detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool. The book combines charrette masterplanning with the creation of "design-based" codes (also known as "form-based" codes) to control the development's implementation in line with the design and planning principles established during the charrette process.

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• Provides detailed and specific guidance on the management and best use of the increasingly popular, yet complex, public design event
• Blends history, theory and practice to paint the full picture of the past, present and possible future of community planning
• Shows how to manage the conflict between development, design and planning professionals and community interests inherent in current design and planning practice

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Michael A. Caldarone "High-Strength Concrete: A Practical Guide"
Published by Taylor & Francis | Publication date : September 2008 | ISBN: 0415404320 | PDF | 273 pages | English | 5.5MB

High-strength concrete offers many benefits. Higher compressive strengths allow for a reduction in the cross-sectional dimensions of columns and walls in buildings. Its greater stiffness allows for increasing building heights while controlling sway and occupant comfort.
Civil structures such as bridges have benefited from greater span lengths, shallower beam sections, wider girder spacing, and extended service life. Illustrated with real life examples, through documented case histories, "High-Strength Concrete" will be a valuable resource for contractors, producers, inspection agencies, as well as engineers and researchers.
This practical book from a highly experienced author presents clearly the means and methods for designing, producing and using high-strength concrete.

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Peter Murray "The Saga of Sydney Opera House: The Dramatic Story of the Design and Construction of the Icon of Modern Australia"
Published by Routledge | Publication date : December 2003 | ISBN: 0415325226 | PDF | pages | English | 5.8 MB

Probably the most popular building of the last century, Sydney Opera House is the icon of modern Australia. It has repaid its Au$100 million cost many times over, both as a tourist attraction and as a cultural center; as a brand, it is priceless.
The story of its creation is one of both triumph and tragedy: universally loved these days, it was attacked by press and public during its construction. It is a masterpiece of modern architecture, yet Jorn Utzon, its designer, walked out before completion. Opinions are still divided over who was at fault when he resigned after a row with the client in 1966, and the story continues to rouse powerful passions to this day. Now, nearly 40 years later, Utzon has been invited back to oversee the building's refurbishment.

Peter Murray's compelling and highly readable biography of the building presents both sides of the story. Using previously unpublished files and papers; Murray has managed to unravel one of the most intriguing architectural controversies of recent times - what really happened when they built Sydney Opera House?

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Derek Thomas "Architecture and the Urban Environment: A Vision for the New Age"
Published by Architectural Press | Publication date : June 2002 | ISBN: 0750654627 | PDF | 223 pages | English | 24 MB

This well illustrated text forms a critical appraisal of the place and direction of architecture and urban design in a new world order at the start of the 21st century. The book defines architectural and environmental goals for the New Age by analysing recent contemporary work for its responsiveness to important social and environmental issues and comparing it to successful precedents in architecture. It argues that this new sustainable approach to architecture should be recognised as a new development of mainstream architectural history.
This practical guide illustrates current social and natural resource issues to aid architects in their approach to future design.
Environmental economics is presented as a potential bridge over the divide between the expectations of the business sector and the concerns of environmental lobbies. Through examples and case studies, an accessible analysis of carefully researched data, drawn from primary sources over four continents, allows the author to outline the current urgency for architects and urban designers to respond with real commitment to current and future changing contexts.
This book expresses a holistic vision and proposes a value system in response to the diagnosis. It includes: sound architectural and environmental ethics; end user involvement in the design process and technological advances aimed at sustainable resource use.
Includes international case studies from Europe, North America, the Developing world including South Africa, South America and Central Asia.

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• Contains 240 images of the world's most important buildings that have had an impact on architectural and urban design in the last decade.
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• Explore shifting social, environmental, technological, economic and political issues and their relation to the role of architects, designers and developers in the new millennium.

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Tom Woolley "Green Building Handbook: A Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment"
Published by Spon Press | Publication date : April 1998 | ISBN : 0419226907 | PDF Format, 383 pages | English | 5 MB

Updated from the Green Building Digest Journal, this handbook provides a detailed reference for environmentally concerned puchasers of building products. Containing at-a-glance tables for buyers and specifiers, the handbook also includes an overview of the concepts and resulting literature covering this highly contentious subject, policy thinking, covering methodology for specifiers, case studies, a guide to books an dorganizations and what the future may hold, all in an accessible and user friendly format. Practical examples of using green materials have also been included.

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David Banister "Transport and Urban Development"
Published by Routledge | October 1995 | ISBN : 0419203907 | PDF Format, 307 pages | English | 5.2 MB

The editor and his contributors take an international perspective on the links between land use, development and transport and present the latest thinking, the theory and practice of these links. Authors from six countries - all experts in this area - have been commissioned to write chapters on the theoretical debates and more practical issues, via the use of detailed case studies.

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Michael D. Dell'Isola "Architect's Essentials of Cost Management"
Published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. | April 2002 | ISBN : 047144359X | PDF Format, 323 pages | English | 5.5MB

Written by a cost-control expert with more than thirty years of design and building expertise, this volume in the Professional Practice Essentials Series gives you practical, user-friendly guidance on how to better manager costs through all phases of a project. Dell'Isola first explains the basics of cost management-from estimating costs during the design phase to managing costs during construction and even after occupancy. He then covers all of the tools and techniques available to architects/designers and explains how best to use them. A number of useful case studies clearly show how the author's principles work in real-life situations.

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Lord David Nicholson "The Greening of the Cities"
Published by Routledge | January 1988 | ISBN : 0710203284 | PDF Format, 241 pages | English | 6.1 MB

A very good book which looks at the role of ordinary people, eager to help remaking our cities by "greening" initiatives from tiny street corner parks and city fams to national garden festivals.

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Nick Baker "Energy and Environment in Architecture"
Published by Taylor & Francis | February 2000 | ISBN : 0419227709 | PDF Format, 178 pages | English | 7.4 MB

This technical guides deals with environmental issues facing every architect at the concept stage of designing a building. Used during the initial design stage, the unique manual design tool, LT Method (2.1), helps the architect determine the energy efficiency of alternative design schemes. It predicts the energy use for lighting, heating, cooling and ventilating.
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Harry Francis Mallgrave "Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870"
Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated | 2005-08-01 | ISBN: 1405102578 | 616 pages | PDF | 3,2 MB


This landmark anthology surveys the major developments and trends in architecture from Vitruvius to Gottfried Semper. It is the first volume to make available in one place the major statements in English, German, French, and Italian that constructed architecture as a field.

In charting the progress of architecture from its earliest days until the second half of the nineteenth century, Mallgrave brings together over 200 classic essays in the field. These cover Classicism, the Gothic period, Neoclassicism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and major themes including industry, ornament, style, and tectonics.

Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 – along with the forthcoming second volume, covering 1870 to 2000 – is an indispensable reference for any student or scholar of architecture. Organized thematically, it features general and section introductions and headnotes to each essay written by a renowned expert on architectural theory.

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Martin Pearce "University Builders"
Academy Press | 2001-06-27 | ISBN: 0471988340 | 224 pages | PDF | 12 MB

The building of a university campus is an extremely challenging you an extensive study of a variety of styles of universities from around the world. This excellent reference portrays expert architects and their work in designing outstanding educational establishments.

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Features the most influential architects of this century
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Foster Partners - Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
Henri Gaudin - Amiens, France
Antoine Predock - UCSC, California, USA
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The Solar Home: How to Design and Build a House You Heat With the Sun (How-To Guides) By Mark Freeman
Publisher: Stackpole Books 1994 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0811724468 | PDF | 1.75 MB

As a compliment to other books on the subject this one would suffice to add some detail, but I certainly am glad it's not the only book on solar home building I own. The material seems to be presented from a limited, but technical, scope of understanding. Although some technical and accurate information has found it's way into the pages of this book, I have found it on all levels to be missing what ever mysterious combination of qualities makes a good user friendly how to book. From my reading of other books on the subject what fresh material and/or thought this book brings to the subject seems to be either contrary or obsolete. The methodology in this book seems particularly biased to a very limited way of covering the concerns of anyone interested in passive solar homes. Again this book could potentially supplement a reasonible collection, but I'm glad it's not my only book on the subject, and I'm certainly glad that it wasn't my first book on the subject! I'm not saying that this book is all wrong, but I find it to be far from alright! If you haven't bought a book on this subject yet, keep looking... --- Michael P. Frank (Tallahassee, FL USA)

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Karen E. Till:The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, Place
Pages:296 | PDF | Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (April 19, 2005) | ISBN: 0816640106 | 8,8 MB

The New Berlin reveals a city haunted by ghosts from difficult pasts and "remembered futures," a place where past, present, and future collide in unexpected ways as individuals and groups search for what it means to be German. Karen Till skillfully moves through the spaces and times of a city marked by voids, ruins, and construction cranes to search through material and affective landscapes of intentional forgetting and painful remembering. In doing so, she deepens our understanding of the practice and politics of place making - and of how particular places embody and narrate distinct national pasts and futures, stories of belonging, and the absences and presences of social memory-work. Four locations frame The New Berlin: the Topography of Terror, the much-debated Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Jewish Museum, and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum. Through these and other sites, we encounter people unexpectedly colliding with and evoking ghosts from multiple Berlins as they dig through social and material landscapes, claim public spaces, market the city, go on tours, or debate what national past should be remembered, for whom, where, and in what form. Through a complex interweaving of field notes, interviews, archival texts, personal narratives, public art, maps, images, and other sources, Till deftly describes how these places and spaces uniquely exemplify the contradictions and tensions of social memory and national identity in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Highlighting an interdisciplinary "geo-ethnographic" and nonlinear temporal approach to place making and memory in postunification Germany, The New Berlin introduces readers to people confronting loss and past injustices amid the construction sites and ghosts of the contemporary city.


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Arts and Culture in the Metropolis Strategies for Sustainability By: Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, Jennifer L. Novak
2007 RAND Corporation | 122 Pages | ISBN: 9780833038906 | PDF | 1.3 MB

The nonprofit arts currently face an environment that challenges the way the arts have grown and raises the prospect of future consolidation. Cognizant of these problems, William Penn Foundation and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance asked RAND to examine the condition of Philadelphia’s arts and culture sector and recommend actions to ensure its sustainability. The authors identify the sources and characteristics of this new environment and describe the ways local arts communities are responding to the challenges confronting them. In the course of their analysis of eleven metropolitan regions, including Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Pittsburgh, they introduce two novel ways of examining the local arts sector. First, they focus on the relationship among the three components of communities’ “arts ecology”: their arts infrastructures; the support systems upon which the arts depend; and the sociodemographic, economic, and the political environment in which they operate. Second, they create a new framework for describing and evaluating the range of support services that communities provide to their arts sectors. They then use this framework to analyze the components of Philadelphia’s arts ecology and assess its specific strengths and weaknesses.

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Karl Hans Stark, “Baubetriebslehre. Grundlagen”
Vieweg Friedr. + Sohn Ver | 2006-11-30 | ISBN: 3528077077 | 191 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

Grundlagen der Baubetriebslehre: unverzichtbar, kompakt, leicht verständlich und praxisorientiert.
Für alle Bereiche des Bauwesens ist es wichtig, über die grundlegenden Kenntnisse zur Baubetriebslehre zu verfügen. Hier werden die baubetrieblich relevanten Grundlagen verständlich und für jeden anwendbar vermittelt. Die Aufbereitung der Themen bietet sich zum Selbststudium aber auch als begleitende Studienliteratur für den Einstieg in den Baubetrieb an.

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Baubetriebslehre - Projektablauf von der Projektidee zur Übergabe - Betriebswirtschaftliche Grundlagen - Grundlagen der Ablaufplanung/Netzplantechnik - Qualität - Grundlagen der Bauinformatik - Heutige Anforderungen an die Ausbildung von Bauingenieuren

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