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Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference (Paperback): Ken Haggard, David A. Bainbridge, Rachel Aljilani Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference (Paperback)
Ken Haggard, David A. Bainbridge, Rachel Aljilani
R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Our pocket reference books provide a wealth of practical information at your fingertips, whenever you need it. Rich in background detail, at-a-glance tables and diagrams, equations, and more, the Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference is a handy resource for architects, engineers and students.

Coverage includes:

  • definitions
  • load determinants and Responses (including world wide biomes and climates, building metabolism and response, thermal sources and sinks, passive building responses to sources and sinks, tuning the building to the environment, optimizing insulation & thermal mass for comfort)
  • contextual aspects (including microclimate and siting, temperatures, humidity, wind, radiation and comfort parameters
  • passive components (including building envelope, passive solar terminology, orientation, apertures and glazing, thermal storage, thermal control and materials
  • design tools (including sun path diagrams, sun peg diagrams, air flow relationships, thermal modelling and life cycle design
  • specific functions (including passive heating, passive cooling and ventilation, natural lighting, passive water heating, resource collection and integrated design).
Basics Timber Construction (Paperback, 3. Auflage): Ludwig Steiger Basics Timber Construction (Paperback, 3. Auflage)
Ludwig Steiger
R662 R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Save R45 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Timber is one of the most elementary and oldest building materials used by mankind, and has still not lost any of its attractiveness and topicality. In many cultural spheres and climate zones, the primary construction methods of domestic architecture include both masonry construction and timber construction. However, this living, lightweight, and easy-to-work material has specific characteristics that impact on the way it is used in construction in different ways compared to other building materials. In order to develop high-quality designs that suit the material, architects need to be familiar with the specific characteristics of this building material and with the rules governing timber construction. The new edition of the successful Basics Timber Construction volume lists the most common solid timber construction systems, including that using solid timber wall elements, as well as the rules, applications, and the relevant details.

Architectural Styles - A Visual Guide (Paperback): Owen Hopkins Architectural Styles - A Visual Guide (Paperback)
Owen Hopkins
R779 R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Save R105 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present day.

Green Building Fundamentals (Paperback, 2nd edition): Mike Montoya Green Building Fundamentals (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Mike Montoya
R2,983 Discovery Miles 29 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book helps readers understand the fundamental concepts of sustainable design and green building practices, which will soon become common practice on every project. It is also intended as a practical study guide for the LEED Green Associate exam, with a step-by-step study guide and an assessment (a practice exam with 80 questions and a focused discussion for each example). This book includes a discussion on why this topic is important to understand, practice, and teach along with practical examples of methods that are being used to increase a project's environmental performance and additional study resources/references. Some features include:

  • Covers cost implications of green building practices, including initial investments, long-term cost benefits, and current market trends.
  • Provides a practical guide to understanding fundamental sustainable design and green building practices.
  • Includes a Focused Study Guide that helps readers prepare for the LEED-Green Associate exam.
  • Plus A companion student website, "MyGreenTradesKit," is now available Click here for a brief demonstration of this outstanding resource.
Building Reuse - Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design (Paperback): Kathryn Rogers Merlino Building Reuse - Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design (Paperback)
Kathryn Rogers Merlino
R1,191 R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Save R244 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The construction and operation of buildings is responsible for 41 percent of all primary energy use and 48 percent of all carbon emissions, and the impact of the demolition and removal of an older building can greatly diminish the advantages of adding green technologies to new construction. In Building Reuse, Kathryn Rogers Merlino makes an impassioned case that truly sustainable design requires reusing and reimagining existing buildings. Additionally, Merlino calls for a more expansive view of preservation that goes beyond keeping only the most distinctive structures based on their historical and cultural significance to embrace the creative reuse of even unremarkable buildings for their environmental value. Building Reuse includes a compelling range of case studies-from a private home to an eighteen-story office building-all located in the Pacific Northwest, a region with a long history of sustainable design and urban growth policies that have made reuse projects feasible. Reusing existing buildings can be challenging to accomplish, but changing the way we think about environmentally conscious architecture has the potential to significantly reduce energy consumption, carbon emissions, and waste.

Precedents in Zero-energy Design (Hardcover, New): Michael Zaretsky Precedents in Zero-energy Design (Hardcover, New)
Michael Zaretsky
R5,381 Discovery Miles 53 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Michael Zaretsky 's Precedents in Zero-Energy Design is such an important book it will help readers recognize that design comes before technology and renewable energy systems alone can t solve the problems we face John D. Quale, Assistant Professor of Architecture and ecoMOD Project Director, University of Virginia

The world is currently facing an environmental crisis and as anyone interested in sustainable or zero-energy design knows the design and building industries have the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.

The Solar Decathlon is an international event in which universities from around the world compete in the design and construction of a one-bedroom, zero-energy house. This book provides an in-depth, yet accessible analysis of the architecture and passive design strategies of the houses in the 2007 Solar Decathlon. These houses are the result of thousands of hours of research and development from twenty universities around the world. Divided into three parts, the book provides:

  • an initial section investigating the architecture, passive design and systems layout of the twenty houses;
  • a diagrammatic comparison of the architecture and passive design characteristics of each of the twenty houses in order of ranking by the Architecture, Comfort Zone and overall scores received in the competition;
  • a deep analysis of the relationship between architecture, passive design and mechanical systems design as compared to the rankings received in the various contests. This analysis considers the decisions made by the competing teams and highlights the success of the design strategies employed.

Students, educators, practitioners and researchers of architecture, design and engineering will find this an informative and inspirational book. It examines the relationship between design and environmental principles and provides invaluable insight into some of the most innovative, off-the-grid and zero-energy houses in the world.

With a Foreword by John D. Quale, Assistant Professor of Architecture and ecoMOD Project Director, University of Virginia

Embracing Complexity in Design (Hardcover, New): Katerina Alexiou, Jeffrey Johnson, Theodore Zamenopoulos Embracing Complexity in Design (Hardcover, New)
Katerina Alexiou, Jeffrey Johnson, Theodore Zamenopoulos
R4,630 Discovery Miles 46 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Outlining state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design, this book collates them into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and complex systems communities. The book is based on research which focuses on a variety of different themes and domains, including architecture, engineering, environmental design, art, fashion and management.

A ground-breaking publication marking a new era of appreciation of the import of complexity on design, this book is essential reading for those studying complexity or design.

Moderns Abroad - Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism (Paperback): Mia Fuller Moderns Abroad - Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism (Paperback)
Mia Fuller
R1,630 Discovery Miles 16 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design theory, based on the assumptions made about the colonized, and also the application of modernist theory to both Italian architecture and that of its colonies.

Moderns Abroad is the first book to present an overview of Italian colonial architecture and city planning. In chronicling Italian architects' attempts to define a distinctly Italian colonial architecture that would set Italy apart from Britain and France, it provides a uniquely comparative study of Italian colonialism and architecture that will be of interest to specialists in modern architecture, colonial studies, and Italian studies alike.

Sustainable Solar Housing - Volume 2 - Exemplary Buildings and Technologies (Hardcover): Maria Wall, Robert S Hastings Sustainable Solar Housing - Volume 2 - Exemplary Buildings and Technologies (Hardcover)
Maria Wall, Robert S Hastings
R5,540 Discovery Miles 55 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

* * An auspicious and comprehensive two-volume treatment of current solar energy strategies and technologies employed in buildings* * Offers the reader a solid platform for assessing environmental and economic concerns for housing projects, and offers guidance on implementing the most appropriate course of action* * Includes case studies from Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and GermanyThis far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat storage, electricity and control). Each volume assesses the potential of these options in a variety of contexts, covering different housing types (apartment, row and detached) and different climate types (cold, temperate and mild). The impressive list of expert authors from 14 countries includes a mix of internationally respected academics and practitioners, working under the auspices of a five-year International Energy Agency (IEA) research project.Volume 2 offers a detailed analysis of exemplary buildings in different European countries and examines in depth the various technological options available. Aided by clear illustrations, this book offers invaluable insights into the application of those technologies. This will appeal to architects in particular, alongside architecture and engineering students, engineers, and other professionals who are interested in sustainable architecture.

Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change (Paperback, 2nd edition): David Crichton, Fergus Nicol, Sue Roaf Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change (Paperback, 2nd edition)
David Crichton, Fergus Nicol, Sue Roaf
R1,875 Discovery Miles 18 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the bestselling author of Ecohouse, this fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events. Three new chapters present evidence of escalating rates of environmental change. The authors explore the growing urgency for mitigation and adaptation responses that deal with the resulting challenges. Theoretical information sits alongside practical design guidelines, so architects, designers and planners can not only see clearly what problems they face, but also find the solutions they need, in order to respond to power and water supply needs. Considers use of materials, structures, site issues and planning in order to provide design solutions. Examines recent climate events in the US and UK and looks at how architecture was successful or not in preventing building damage. Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change is an essential source, not just for architects, engineers and planners facing the challenges of designing our building for a changing climate, but also for everyone involved in their production and use. Features: * Fully revised new edition gives practical design suggestions for combating climate change through architecture * No nonsense approach from the bestselling author of Ecohouse * Full colour throughout to best illustrate design in practice

Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers - Art, Architecture, and Worship (Paperback): Akel Kahera, Latif Abdul-Malik,... Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers - Art, Architecture, and Worship (Paperback)
Akel Kahera, Latif Abdul-Malik, Craig Anz
R2,503 Discovery Miles 25 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith. 'Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers' provides an easy-to-use and practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300 line drawings.

Case studies of urban mosques in New York, Washington, Boston, and London and Birmingham amongst others, demonstrate how mosques and Islamic centers have evolved to integrate into the urban scenario. The book also compares tenets from Western and Eastern religious and secular philosophies and discusses their relation to architectural creation, place-making, meaning, and identity. The book shows how mosques fulfill multiple faith-based and social roles through their design; it provides a wide-ranging, basic understanding of Islamic liturgical conventions and secular functions to enable architects, designers, and community advocates to work with confidence.

'Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers' is the first dedicated design guide for mosques and Islamic centers available.

? Features case studies from the USA, UK, and Europe
? Explains fundamental principles to make it easy to create viable design solutions for these exacting buildings that fulfi ll a range of social and religious roles.

Bridges and Spans (Hardcover): Cynthia Phillips, Shana Priwer Bridges and Spans (Hardcover)
Cynthia Phillips, Shana Priwer
R4,462 Discovery Miles 44 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work covers the history of the bridge, types of bridges, the construction site, calculating design loads, bridge construction, bridge safety, and much more.

Design Management for Sustainability (Paperback, New): Stephen Emmitt Design Management for Sustainability (Paperback, New)
Stephen Emmitt
R1,658 Discovery Miles 16 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Building on the special edition Aspects of Design Management (Volume 3:1, 2007), this publication brings together the rapidly developing field of design management with that of environmental sustainability. Eight articles drawn from around the world help to provide some critical insights into the relationship between ecological sustainability and the application of design management in a number of different contexts. Contributions range from early policy decisions and public procurement options; to corporate social responsibility of architects and the promotion of materials and products to specifiers; to encouraging change and a design process evaluation method; to investigations into the role and contribution of construction design managers and facilities managers to a sustainable built environment. Collectively the articles provide a unique, multi-disciplinary, contribution to the theoretical development of the design management field as well as guidance on the practical application of methods and tools.

Energy Management and Energy Efficiency in Industry - Practical Examples (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Durmus KAYA, Fatma CANKA... Energy Management and Energy Efficiency in Industry - Practical Examples (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Durmus KAYA, Fatma CANKA KILIC, Hasan Huseyin OEzturk
R3,438 Discovery Miles 34 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is presented to demonstrate how energy efficiency can be achieved in existing systems or in the design of a new system, as well as a guide for energy savings opportunities. Accordingly, the content of the book has been enriched with many examples applied in the industry. Thus, it is aimed to provide energy savings by successfully managing the energy in the readers' own businesses. The authors primarily present the necessary measurement techniques and measurement tools to be used for energy saving, as well as how to evaluate the methods that can be used for improvements in systems. The book also provides information on how to calculate the investments to be made for these necessary improvements and the payback periods. The book covers topics such as: * Reducing unit production costs by ensuring the reduction of energy costs, * Efficient and quality energy use, * Meeting market needs while maintaining competitive conditions, * Ensuring the protection of the environment by reducing CO2 and CO emissions with energy saving and energy efficiency, * Ensuring the correct usage of systems by carrying out energy audits. In summary, this book explains how to effectively design energy systems and manage energy to increase energy savings. In addition, the study has been strengthened by giving some case studies and their results in the fields of intensive energy consumption in industry. This book is an ideal resource for practitioners, engineers, researchers, academics, employees and investors in the fields of energy, energy management, energy efficiency and energy saving.

What Do Design Reviewers Really Do? Understanding Roles Played by Design Reviewers in Daily Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019):... What Do Design Reviewers Really Do? Understanding Roles Played by Design Reviewers in Daily Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Joongsub Kim
R2,878 Discovery Miles 28 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an original contribution to the planning and design literature. Not only does it provide a fresh and finely grained examination of the daily challenges and opportunities of design review practice, but it does so in an ethnographically compelling way-through extensive references that convey and show what a distanced researcher could never adequately summarize and paraphrase. Architects, urban designers, and developers will learn about how they might work with design reviewers on the basis of the four significant roles that a design review staff plays frequently in the design review process. Faculty and students in architecture, urban design, and urban planning will learn about design governance, design regulations, design culture, participants, processes, and micropolitics in design and design reviews. There are possibly tens of thousands of design review boards in the United States that review proposals for building designs and site designs submitted by practitioners in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning, and urban development. Given this considerable professional context, the target audience of this book includes design reviewers, practitioners, scholars, educators, and students in the fields of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban development.

Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture (Hardcover, New Ed): Lauren S. Weingarden Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture (Hardcover, New Ed)
Lauren S. Weingarden
R4,661 Discovery Miles 46 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices - literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic - and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic analysis, and a pragmatic concept of sign-functions, she restores the integrity of Sullivan's artistic choices and his historical position as a culminating figure within nineteenth-century romanticism. By giving equal weight to Louis Sullivan's writings and designs, Weingarden shows how he translated both Ruskin's tenets of Gothic naturalism and Whitman's poetry of the American landscape into elemental structural forms and organic ornamentation. Viewed as a site where various romantic discourses converged, Sullivan's oeuvre demands a cross-disciplinary exploration of each discursive practice, and its "rules of accumulation, exclusion, reactivation." The overarching theme of this study is the interrogation and restitution of those Foucauldian rules that enabled Sullivan to articulate architecture as a pictorial mode of landscape art, which he considered co-equal with the spiritual and didactic functions of landscape poetry.

Reciprocal Landscapes - Stories of Material Movements (Paperback): Jane Hutton Reciprocal Landscapes - Stories of Material Movements (Paperback)
Jane Hutton
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials - fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood - from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes - the material's source and the urban site where the material ended up - together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material's movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.

Innovations in Ventilative Cooling (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Giacomo Chiesa, Maria Kolokotroni, Per Heiselberg Innovations in Ventilative Cooling (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Giacomo Chiesa, Maria Kolokotroni, Per Heiselberg
R5,599 Discovery Miles 55 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book includes the most recent outcomes from research and professional practice in the ventilative cooling field, gathered by the selected panel of authors. It provides essential contents to face and reduce the rise of space cooling and ventilation energy uses in buildings by alternative ventilation and cooling solutions. The book is organised into three parts which include a detailed description of ventilative cooling boundaries and implications (working principles, KPIs, standards, comfort models, control techniques) and of principal techniques (night ventilation, controlled natural ventilation, hybrid solutions, PCM and mass activation, evaporative cooling, earth-to-air heat exchangers) along with an updated analysis of the background to the topic. Furthermore, the last part of the book defines a unique practical and theoretical framework to include ventilative cooling solutions in different building typologies along with their principal implications.

Modern Wonders (Hardcover): Shana Priwer, Cynthia Phillips Modern Wonders (Hardcover)
Shana Priwer, Cynthia Phillips
R3,262 Discovery Miles 32 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Modern Wonders, a title in the five-title series Frameworks: Science, Technology, and the Built Environment, illuminates the science, technology, art and architecture, and history of the world's greatest architectural and engineering achievements, including the Eiffel Tower, St. Louis Gateway Arch, World Trade Center, Mt. Rushmore, and the Millennium Wheel. Modern Wonders provides an interdisciplinary, visual approach that combines informative text, fascinating background information, and basic scientific principles with dozens of full-color photographs, illustrations, and other visuals (e.g. diagrams and equations). Appropriate for a broad audience of students, teachers, librarians, and general interest readers, Modern Wonders is an excellent supplemental resource for subjects covered throughout the curricula: science, technology, and society; art and architecture; economics; and world history and culture.

Colour for Architecture Today (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Tom Porter, Byron Mikellides Colour for Architecture Today (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Tom Porter, Byron Mikellides; Foreword by Terry Farrell
R5,825 Discovery Miles 58 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What role does colour play in our built environment? How are our attitudes to colour changing? What potential do new technologies bring for the use of colour and light in architecture?

Combining real examples from practice with colour theory, this book will help you to fully understand the role and impact of colour in our urban spaces. Contributions from leading architects Will Alsop, Legorreta and Legorreta, John Outram, Sauerbruch Hutton and Neuterlings Riedijk accompany those from artists Alain Bony and Yann Kersale, and from colour researchers such as Kristina Enberg and Anders Hard, who developed the Natural Colour System. Topics include:

  • how and why we see colour
  • methodologies in the documentation of traditional colours
  • the development of new urban palettes
  • recent colour psychology research
  • the effect of light levels on human behaviour
  • dramatic colour effects achievable with light
  • guidelines for future deployment of colour in the built environment.

This is a sequel to the immensely influential Colour for Architecture, published in 1976. Much has changed in 30 years; new cutting edge technologies and materials have emerged allowing architects to experiment with colour and light in an energy efficient and sustainable way, paving the way for a more colourful and exciting built environment.

Passive Solar Primer: Sustainable Architecture (Paperback): David Wright Passive Solar Primer: Sustainable Architecture (Paperback)
David Wright
R904 R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Save R154 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Architect David Wright helped pioneer the concept of passive solar architecture, and his thoughts and experiments have helped shape the evolution of solar design throughout the world. His years of exploration are distilled in this comprehensive book, which provides simple graphics and language to illuminate concepts including greenhouse effect, heat storage, surface-to-volume ratio, ventilation, and cooling.. Tips, rules-of-thumb, regional characteristics, and many other considerations are presented to help readers, from initial site selection to visionary design. Written for architects, designers, and others who seek to tap the free resources offered by earth and sun, this invaluable tool will help reduce dependence on outside energy sources. You will be inspired.

Colour for Architecture Today (Paperback, 2nd edition): Tom Porter, Byron Mikellides Colour for Architecture Today (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Tom Porter, Byron Mikellides; Foreword by Terry Farrell
R1,820 Discovery Miles 18 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What role does colour play in our built environment? How are our attitudes to colour changing? What potential do new technologies bring for the use of colour and light in architecture?

Combining real examples from practice with colour theory, this book will help you to fully understand the role and impact of colour in our urban spaces. Contributions from leading architects Will Alsop, Legorreta and Legorreta, John Outram, Sauerbruch Hutton and Neuterlings Riedijk accompany those from artists Alain Bony and Yann Kersale, and from colour researchers such as Kristina Enberg and Anders Hard, who developed the Natural Colour System. Topics include:

  • how and why we see colour
  • methodologies in the documentation of traditional colours
  • the development of new urban palettes
  • recent colour psychology research
  • the effect of light levels on human behaviour
  • dramatic colour effects achievable with light
  • guidelines for future deployment of colour in the built environment.

This is a sequel to the immensely influential Colour for Architecture, published in 1976. Much has changed in 30 years; new cutting edge technologies and materials have emerged allowing architects to experiment with colour and light in an energy efficient and sustainable way, paving the way for a more colourful and exciting built environment.

Lighting by Design (Paperback, 2nd edition): Christopher Cuttle Lighting by Design (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Christopher Cuttle
R2,160 Discovery Miles 21 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lighting by Design provides guidance on where to find inspiration for lighting ideas, how to plan the technical detail and how to execute the plan to create safe, effective and beautiful schemes. Christopher Cuttle's unique three level approach uses Observation, Visualisation and Realisation as the means to achieve these aims. Cuttle is a well known figure in the UK, US and Australia and New Zealand, with a wealth of experience of both teaching and practice. This new edition is fully updated and produced in full colour with many new diagrams and photographs. It will be immensely useful to professional and student architects, interior designers and specialist lighting designers.

Informal Settlements of the Global South (Hardcover): Gihan Karunaratne Informal Settlements of the Global South (Hardcover)
Gihan Karunaratne
R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and contested 'informal' enclaves and communities in the cities of India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges current ways of thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility, and placemaking. Together, the 15 essays question the validity of the conventional hegemonic divisions of Global North vs. Global South and 'formal' vs. 'informal', in terms of geographic presence, transborder performances, and the ideological inter-dependence of Northern and Southern spaces, spatial practices and the uniformity of authoritative enforcements. The book, whose authors themselves come from all over the world, uses 'Global South' as a methodological apparatus to ask the 'Southern' question of settling and unsettling across the globe. Crucially, the studies reveal the sentiments, resourcefulness and the agency of those positioned by the powerful within the dichotomies of formal/informal, legitimate/ illegal, privileged/marginalized; etc., who are traditionally identified within the dominant development discourse as mere numbers or designated by intervening institutions as helpless recipients. By focusing on hitherto invisible events and untold stories of adaptation, negotiation and contestation by people and their communities, this volume of essays takes the ongoing North-South debate in new directions and opens up to the reader's fresh areas of inquiry. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, planning, politics and sociology, as well as built environment professionals.

African Modernism and Its Afterlives (Paperback, New edition): Nina Berre, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Johan Lagae African Modernism and Its Afterlives (Paperback, New edition)
Nina Berre, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Johan Lagae
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This new book is an edited volume of essays that examine the legacy of architecture in a number of African countries soon after independence. It has its origins in an exhibition and symposium that focused on architecture as an element in Nordic countries' aid packages to newly independent states, but the expanded breadth of the essays includes work on other countries and architects. Drawing on ethnography, archival research and careful observations of buildings, remains and people, the case studies seek to connect the colonial and postcolonial origins of modernist architecture, the historical processes they underwent, and present use and habitation. It results from the 2015 seminar and exhibition Forms of Freedom at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition showed how modern Scandinavian architecture became an essential component of foreign aid to East Africa in the period 1960-80, and how the ideals of the Nordic welfare system found expression in a number of construction projects. The seminar, which built upon the exhibition as well as on a previous collaboration on the legacies of modernism in Africa between the Department of Anthropology of the University of Oslo and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning from Ghent University, broadened the geographic scope of the discussion beyond the Scandinavian context, and set the ground for bringing together the disciplines of architectural history and social anthropology. Primary readership will be among architects and architectural historians, and graduate level architecture and urban studies students, for whom it will be valuable course material, as well as those in fields such as African studies and anthropology. It may also be of interest to those working or researching in public policy and political history.

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