This book examines how the geometric outcomes of spatialised algorithmic operations influence more complex human experiences of accessibility, belonging, and identity as well as shape the dynamics of equity, connectivity, privacy, and power in archi...Loe edasi...
Solar Powered Urbanization for a Sustainable Future presents a comprehensive and integrated approach to utilizing solar energy as a key solution for reducing grid dependency and pollution while fostering self-sufficient and cleaner urban centers....Loe edasi...
This book highlights innovative planning strategies for liveability and wellbeing of communities supported by lessons from notable international case studies, addressing varied issues including accommodating elderly populations, designing walkable c...Loe edasi...
This book employs narrative and imagery to tell stories of contestation, exploitation, and complication within the landscapes upon which the worlds green energy transition depends. Counternarratives propose alternatives to silver-bullet ecomodernism...Loe edasi...
This book explores the transition to the circular economy through a multi-dimensional lens, highlighting its necessity for a sustainable future. It analyses both public and network governance models essential for systemic transitions and contextuali...Loe edasi...
This survey of lightweight specialty structures provides in-depth case studies supplemented with technical guidance and an overview of fundamental theories. Written for structural architecture students and early career professionals, this book is an...Loe edasi...
Creating Sensory Spaces celebrates spaces enlivened with sensual richness and provides you with the knowledge and tools necessary to create them. Drawing on numerous built case studies in ten countries and illustrated with over 85 full color images,...Loe edasi...
This handbook examines the important relationship between interior environments and their users, presenting diverse analyses of human-centred design approaches....Loe edasi...
Good Houses brings together the design process, building science, and the environmental systems that can be used by both teachers and students in teaching and learning about designing good, responsible houses. It is essential reading for those desig...Loe edasi...
Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life. This volume explores how cartographic practices are being reimagined across disciplines to understand and re...Loe edasi...
In this book, Michael Cassidy argues that the built environment should be designed to last physically for a very long time, saving on valuable material resources. This is essential reading for practising architects, those entering the profession, an...Loe edasi...
Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK....Loe edasi...
Through the presentation of original research and diverse case studies, the book inspires students and designers alike to expand their knowledge and practice....Loe edasi...
Through its engagement with the ground-breaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a history of architecture seen from the building site, this book sets out a programme for a new field of Production Studies for architectu...Loe edasi...
This book describes one hundred memorable places that have been important in the architectural career of the author. The illustrated essays provide insights from a variety of buildings and places on five continents: from different eras, from the eve...Loe edasi...
This book explores how urban sustainability is negotiated and enacted through planning practices, narratives, and institutional change. It does so through the case of Aalborg, to illustrate transitions that are shaped by urgency, legitimation and im...Loe edasi...
This edited volume explores the agency of environmental media in architectural production. As design disciplines confront the changing landscapes and consequences of climate breakdown, media for communicating socio-environmental relations play an in...Loe edasi...
Architect and urban planner Frans van der Werf discloses in this book his own experiences as one of the pioneers of the worldwide Open Building approach. This book is essential reading for students, architects, urbanists, developers and city authori...Loe edasi...
This architectural design book re-examines the apartment block as a design model, for today and tomorrow, through a simple, flexible and explicit design approach. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this book is essential reading for any architect...Loe edasi...
Seamlessly combining architecture with cognitive science and neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology, and social theory and anthropology, in clear, direct and engaging prose, this book will be essential reading for all architecture s...Loe edasi...
