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Building to Suit the Climate: A Handbook
In future, buildings that make sense from a bioclimatic perspective will not be the exception; planners will simply be expected to design them...
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Housing +: Threshold, Access and Transparency in Residential Buildings
High quality residential structures are much more than merely a series of different floor plans. First and foremost, the urban apartment house...
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Prefabricated Systems: Principles of Construction
For a number of years, modular construction the use of prefabricated elements in architecture has once again become a subject of lively discussion...
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SCALE Support Materialize: Wall, Column, Slab, Roof
Wall, support, ceiling, and roof make up the skeleton of nearly every building. This fourth volume in the series SCALE, Support | Materialize...
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Plastics and Membranes Construction Manual: Materials and Semi-finished Products, Form-Finding and Construction
Whether it be as translucent sheets, broadly stretched membranes and inflated foil cushions, or in graceful, organic curves, architecture today is...
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Wood and Wood Joints 2nd Edition: Building Traditions of Europe, Japan and China
Building with wood as an ecologically viable material is a tradition with a long history. The timber architecture, which has ensued over the past...
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Detail Practice; Digital Processes: Planning, Designing, Production
These days, a computer is as much a part of every household s standard equipment as a refrigerator, and yet the explosion of computer technology in...
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Constructing Landscape 2nd Edition: Materials, Techniques, Building Elements
Constructing Landscape is a systematic introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics, from the...
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Floor Plan Manual
This housing construction design manual documents and analyzes some 130 international residential structures from the last fifty years. From the...
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Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities
This book presents current developments in city planning and architecture in East Asia. It describes the many neighborhoods in which the region's...
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Out of the Real: Tham & Videgard Arkitekter
Bolle Tham (b. 1970) und Martin Videgard (b. 1968) founded their architecture firm in Stockholm in 1999. Their House K and Double House (both...
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Palladio, The Villa and the Landscape
Andrea Palladio is universally regarded as one of the most important architects of the Re-naissance. He was the first "professional architect" and...
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Constructing Shadows : Pavilions, Pergolas, Tents, Cables, Plants
Trees are ideal sources of shade; where they cannot be used, their function is taken over by tents, pergolas, and pavilions. In the context of...
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Material Revolution: Sustainable Multi-Purpose Materials for Design and Architecture
Since it is now clear that in the future many raw materials will only be available to us in limited quantities, scientists have for some time been...
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The Rauch House: A Model of Advanced Clay Architecture
The town of Schlins in Vorarlberg has long been a Mecca for all those with an interest in clay construction. On the steep southern slope, the clay...
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Topotek 1 Rosemarie Trockel. A Landscape Sculpture for Munich
Topotek 1 is one of Germany's internationally best-known landscape architecture firms. Rosemarie Trockel is currently one of Germany's most...
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Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA
Infrastructure is currently a much discussed notion in the field of landscape architecture. It regards the entire urban and rural space as a...
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Light and Emotions: Exploring Lighting Cultures. Conversations with Lighting Designers
In addition to its practical functions, such as helping to optimise safety and security, lighting also has another principal task creating emotions...
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Flat Roof Construction Manual
Often described as the fifth facade, the flat roof is extremely popular with architects. Its essential task is to shelter the space beneath it from...
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Interior Gardens: Designing and Constructing Green Spaces in Private and Public Buildings
Gardens inside buildings represent a sustainable vehicle for a host of ecological and economic advantages. Factors such as improving the indoor...
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