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Architectural Management (Hardcover): M.P. Nicholson Architectural Management (Hardcover)
M.P. Nicholson
R6,141 Discovery Miles 61 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Architectural management is a new concept which draws together well-established existing disciplines. It extends between the management of the design process, construction and project management, through to facilities management of buildings in use. This book aims to act as a focus for international discussions relating to the current state of the art in architectural management and education. Areas covered include: organization of design and construction; computing and the architect; quality and value engineering; performance of buildings; the public estate; professional/construction law; and education and training.

Everyday Matters - Contemporary Approaches To Architecture (Paperback): Everyday Matters - Contemporary Approaches To Architecture (Paperback)
R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City (Paperback): Binti Singh, Tania Berger, Manoj Parmar Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City (Paperback)
Binti Singh, Tania Berger, Manoj Parmar
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city-urban assets, such as land, infrastructure and housing, and asserts that these challenges and escalating vulnerabilities are best negotiated using the soft city-social capital and community networks. In so doing, the authors criticise a singular knowledge system and argue for a granular, nuanced understanding of cities-of the interrelations between people in places, everyday urbanisms, social relationships, cultural practices and histories. The volume presents perspectives from the Global South and the Global North, and engages with city-specific cases from Africa, India and Europe for a deeper understanding of resilience. Part of the Urban Futures series, it will be of great interest to students and researchers of urban studies, urban planning, urban management, architecture, urban sociology, urban design, ecology, conservation, and urban sustainability. It will also be useful for urbanists, architects, urban sociologists, city and town planners and those interested in a deeper understanding of the contemporary and future city.

Finite Element Analysis for Building Assessment - Advanced Use and Practical Recommendations (Paperback): Paulo B. Lourenco,... Finite Element Analysis for Building Assessment - Advanced Use and Practical Recommendations (Paperback)
Paulo B. Lourenco, Angelo Gaetani
R2,040 Discovery Miles 20 400 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Existing structures represent a heterogeneous category in the global built environment as often characterized by the presence of archaic materials, damage and disconnections, uncommon construction techniques and subsequent interventions throughout the building history. In this scenario, the common linear elastic analysis approach adopted for new buildings is incapable of an accurate estimation of structural capacity, leading to overconservative results, invasive structural strengthening, added intervention costs, excessive interference to building users and possible losses in terms of aesthetics or heritage values. For a rational and sustainable use of the resources, this book deals with advanced numerical simulations, adopting a practical approach to introduce the fundamentals of Finite Element Method, nonlinear solution procedures and constitutive material models. Recommended material properties for masonry, timber, reinforced concrete, iron and steel are discussed according to experimental evidence, building standards and codes of practice. The examples examined throughout the book and in the conclusive chapter support the analyst's decision-making process toward a safe and efficient use of finite element analysis. Written primarily for practicing engineers, the book is of value to students in engineering and technical architecture with solid knowledge in the field of continuum mechanics and structural design.

The Green Building Evolution (Paperback): Godwell Nhamo, Vuyo Mjimba The Green Building Evolution (Paperback)
Godwell Nhamo, Vuyo Mjimba
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days
Virtual and Augmented Reality for Architecture and Design (Hardcover): Elisangela Vilar, Ernesto Filgueiras, Francisco Rebelo Virtual and Augmented Reality for Architecture and Design (Hardcover)
Elisangela Vilar, Ernesto Filgueiras, Francisco Rebelo
R2,799 Discovery Miles 27 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- Applies VR/AR based methodology for Architecture and Design field of research; - Presents case studies which used VR/AR for Architecture and Design; - Provides a multidisciplinary point-of-view of VR/AR and its application in Architecture and Design; - Clarifies concepts of VR/AR and their application in the field of Architecture and Design.

Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures (Hardcover): Lindsey Wikstrom Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures (Hardcover)
Lindsey Wikstrom
R3,765 Discovery Miles 37 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- Investigates the supply chain of mass timber - Proposes a species-based design methodology by exploring the relationships across landscapes and industrial frameworks - Identifies gaps that prevent the transition towards an all-engineered timber built environment

Urban Growth Patterns in India - Spatial Analysis for Sustainable Development (Paperback): Bharath Aithal, T.V. Ramachandra Urban Growth Patterns in India - Spatial Analysis for Sustainable Development (Paperback)
Bharath Aithal, T.V. Ramachandra
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand urbanisation in Indian cities and explain the concept and impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It creates a GHG footprint for Indian cities and engages in a discussion about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and smart city initiatives within an Indian context. Understanding the spatial patterns of land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics in the rapidly urbanising cities of India, the readers will be able to simulate future urbanisation patterns and use spatial temporal analysis as a tool for implementing appropriate mitigation measures. Features Analyses the complete urbanisation and urban sprawl of major cities in India using advanced geospatial modelling techniques Highlights the best practices and methods used in modelling urban growth Discusses greenhouse gas emissions from various sectors and their effects in local environments Addresses the increase of local temperature in cities due to unplanned land use change and its impact on environmental sustainability and resilience Fills the need for data-driven governance and policy decisions by introducing various analyses through spatial mapping Highlighting some of the best practices and tools being used for modelling urban growth through case studies, the book is useful to those interested in using new technologies and methods for data collection and problem solving. It focuses on the major environmental issues in India, which are prevalent in most developing countries.

Rio de Janeiro - Urban Expansion and the Environment (Paperback): Zhongjie Lin, Jose L S Gamez, Jeffrey Nesbit Rio de Janeiro - Urban Expansion and the Environment (Paperback)
Zhongjie Lin, Jose L S Gamez, Jeffrey Nesbit
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Using Rio de Janeiro as the case study city, this book highlights and examines issues surrounding the development of mega-cities in Latin America and beyond. Complex dynamics of urbanization such as mega-event-driven development, infrastructure investment, and informal urban expansion are intertwined with changing climatic conditions that demand new approaches to sustainable urbanism. The urban conditions facing 21st century cities such as Rio emphasize the need to revisit urban forms, reintegrate infrastructure, and re-evaluate practices. With contributions from 15 scholars from several countries exploring urbanism, urbanization, and climate change, this book provides insights into the contextual and environmental issues shaping Rio in the age of globalization. Each of the book's three sections addresses an interdisciplinary range of topics impacting urbanism in Latin America, which will be accessible to researchers and professionals interested in urbanization, urban design, sustainability, planning, and architecture.

Ignorance - A Laboratory on the Open Fields (Paperback): Maes Givan Ignorance - A Laboratory on the Open Fields (Paperback)
Maes Givan
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Applying the ADA - Designing for The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design in Multiple Building... Applying the ADA - Designing for The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design in Multiple Building Types (Paperback)
MA Rhoads
R1,627 Discovery Miles 16 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A guide to real-world applications of The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design

"Applying the ADA" helps architects and developers understand better how the rules for eliminating barriers in the built environment apply to everyday life and how to best implement them in the design and construction of a broad variety of buildings and facilities.

By showing how The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design have been applied in various contexts and building types, this extensively illustrated guide helps readers quickly understand the requirements of the standards and how to apply them to both new construction and renovation. Written by an architect who consults regularly on accessibility issues for design professionals, building owners, and facility managers, this user-friendly guide features 100 photos and 150 drawings that take the guesswork out of applying the standards to real-world projects. Building types covered include: Healthcare and senior living facilities and hospitalsCollege and university facilitiesElementary and high schoolsHotels and other transient lodging facilitiesAmusement parks and play areasHistoric preservation and remodelsRetail and office spaces

"Applying the ADA" is an indispensable resource for architects, interior designers, owners, developers, and facility managers. It is also important reading for students of architecture and interior design.

The Way We Build Now - Form, Scale and Technique (Paperback, New Ed): Andrew Orton The Way We Build Now - Form, Scale and Technique (Paperback, New Ed)
Andrew Orton
R3,364 Discovery Miles 33 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the structural and construction design of buildings. The first part presents an overview of materials and structural forms taking the point of view of the designer, architect and engineer. The second part is an extensive examination of over 70 case studies. They have been carefully selected and tightly structured to present a summary of established modern methods of building construction. It contains copious ready-reference charts of design information, numerous photographs and meticulous axonometric drawings. The book is international in scope. Dual units are used throughout (SI and Imperial) and nearly half the case studies are taken from the USA. Cases are also drawn from Canada, Europe, Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong as well as 25 from the UK.

The Art of Landscape Lighting - A Designer's Companion (Paperback): Janet Lennox Moyer The Art of Landscape Lighting - A Designer's Companion (Paperback)
Janet Lennox Moyer
R1,598 Discovery Miles 15 980 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Following on from the critically acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book, this is the lighting design companion every professional and student in landscape architecture needs. Written by an award-winning internationally renowned landscape lighting designer, with over 40 years' experience in professional practice, The Art of Landscape Lighting takes the reader step-by-step through Janet Lennox Moyer's design process. Personal and accessible in tone, the book covers tools, equipment, techniques, effects, installation, design composition and challenges using built case studies spanning the author's career. Each project takes you through the process of how to plan compositions; selecting what should be lit and what should remain unlit; how to prioritize the importance of multiple elements; balancing brightness relationships; providing visual transportation across scenes; lighting the same space in different ways and, importantly, guidance on when designs are complete. Lavishly designed and illustrated with 450 full colour photographs, showcasing projects from start to finish, it additionally includes new landscape lighting equipment and techniques developed by Moyer throughout her career. This includes shore scraping, rainwall lighting, approaches for lighting water features and sculptures, and the 3-prong stake. Aimed at practicing professionals and students in landscape architecture, this book is the must-have inspirational resource that provides you with everything you need to design and implement landscape lighting across multiple scales.

Comprehensive and Integrative Architectural Design (Paperback): Julius Chiavaroli Comprehensive and Integrative Architectural Design (Paperback)
Julius Chiavaroli
R1,101 Discovery Miles 11 010 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Comprehensive and Integrative Architectural Design addresses integrative design - design that bridges the gap between architectural design and architectural technology. With its roots in sustainability, and with the universal acceptance of data driven design, it is widely acknowledged that integrative design completed in a comprehensive way is the process that will lead to a more sustainable and responsible built environment. Organized in order of the design process itself-pre-design, schematic design, and design development-this title demonstrates and instructs how design and technology are integrated. Another important feature of the text is how it clarifies the different ways in which the collateral organizations in architecture approach the discipline. This textbook brings together all the variations of terminology and the perspective of each organization in support of creating a comprehensive and integrative architectural design. Comprehensive and Integrative Architectural Design provides architecture students and faculty a definitive resource to assist them in executing an integrative solution to an architectural project. There are literally thousands of decisions that must be made when designing a building, from pre-design to schematic design to design development. With over 150 color illustrations, this text provides a framework for both instructors and students.

Buildings and Society - Essays on the Social Development of the Built Environment (Paperback, Revised): Anthony D King Buildings and Society - Essays on the Social Development of the Built Environment (Paperback, Revised)
Anthony D King
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

..".A fascinating book...."--"The Sunday Times"
"This is a book I eagerly recommend to others, assign in courses, and use in myown research. It is a fine collection of illustrated essays on the social history of designed environments."--"Contemporary" "Sociology"
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Informality through Sustainability - Urban Informality Now (Hardcover): Steffen Lehmann, Alessandro Melis, Antonino Di Raimo Informality through Sustainability - Urban Informality Now (Hardcover)
Steffen Lehmann, Alessandro Melis, Antonino Di Raimo
R3,027 Discovery Miles 30 270 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their local inhabitants. The book opposes simplistic calls to legalise informal settlements or to view them as 'problems' to be solved. It comes at a time when common notions of 'informality' are being increasingly challenged. In 25 chapters, the book presents contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners whose theoretical or practical work addresses informality and sustainability at various levels, from city planning and urban design to public space and architectural education. Whilst previous studies on informal settlements have mainly focused on cases in developing countries, approaching the topic through social, cultural and material dimensions, the book explores the concept across a range of contexts, including former Communist countries and those in the so-called Global North. Contributions also explore understandings of informality at various scalar levels - region, precinct, neighbourhood and individual building. Thus, this work helps reposition informality as a relational concept at various scales of urbanisation. This book will be of great benefit to planners, architects, researchers and policymakers interested in the interplay between informality and sustainability.

Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort (Hardcover): Hom Bahadur Rijal, Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort (Hardcover)
Hom Bahadur Rijal, Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf
R6,060 Discovery Miles 60 600 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The first handbook on resilient thermal comfort, focusing on the resilience of the built environment to respond to the challenges caused by climate change. Includes over 200 illustrations. Contributors are from: UK, US, Europe, Canada, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Malaysia, India and Japan.

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition - Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and... Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition - Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape (Paperback)
Brad Lancaster
R982 R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Save R256 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

2020 Independent Press Award Winner--Home & Garden Category Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement life-enhancing water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs. Clearly written with more than 290 illustrations, this full-color edition helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow yourself and your community with skills of self-reliance and cooperation, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same.

Saving The Planet By Design - Reinventing Our World Through Ecomimesis (Paperback): Ken Yeang Saving The Planet By Design - Reinventing Our World Through Ecomimesis (Paperback)
Ken Yeang
R1,098 Discovery Miles 10 980 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Can we 'save the Planet'? For a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and recover our human-made world so that our built environment is benignly and seamlessly biointegrated with Nature to function synergistically with it. These are the multiple tasks that humanity must carry out imminently if there is to be a future for human society and all lifeforms and their environments on the Planet. Addressing this is the most compelling question for those whose daily work impacts on Nature, such as architects, engineers, landscape architects, town planners, environmental policy makers, builders and others, but it is a question that all of humanity needs to urgently address. Presented here are two key principles as the means to carry out these tasks - 'ecocentricity' being guided by the science of ecology, and 'ecomimesis' as designing and making the built environment including all artefacts based on the emulation and replication of the 'ecosystem' concept. Designing with ecology is contended here as the authentic approach to green design from which the next generation of green design will emerge, going beyond current use of accreditation systems. For those who subscribe to this principle, this is articulated here, showing how it can be implemented by design. Adopting these principles is fundamental in our endeavour to save our Planet Earth, and changes profoundly and in entirety the way we design, make, manage and operate our built environment.

The Embodied Image - Imagination and Imagery in Architecture (Paperback): J. Pallasmaa The Embodied Image - Imagination and Imagery in Architecture (Paperback)
J. Pallasmaa
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture"Juhani Pallasmaa"

All artistic and architectural effects are evoked, mediated and experienced through poeticised images. These images are embodied and lived experiences that take place in 'the flesh of the world', becoming part of us, at the same time that we unconsciously project aspects of ourselves on to a conceived space, object or event. Artistic images have a life and reality of their own and they develop through unexpected associations rather than rational and causal logic. Images are usually thought of as retinal pictures but profound poetic images are multi-sensory and they address us in an embodied and emotive manner.

Architecture is usually analysed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image quality that integrates the various aspects and dimensions of experience into a singular, internalised and remembered entity. The material reality is fused with our mental and imaginative realm.

The book is organised into five main parts that look at in turn: the image in contemporary culture; language, thought and the image; the many faces of the image; the poetic image; and finally the architectural image." The Embodied Image" is illustrated with over sixty images in pairs, which are diverse in subject. They range from scientific images to historic artistic and architectural masterpieces. Artworks span Michelangelo and Vermeer to Gordon Matta-Clark and architecture takes in Modern Masters such as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, as well as significant contemporary works by Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind.

Architecture in Digital Culture - Machines, Networks and Computation (Hardcover): Socrates Yiannoudes Architecture in Digital Culture - Machines, Networks and Computation (Hardcover)
Socrates Yiannoudes
R3,761 Discovery Miles 37 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities, and design processes within digital culture. Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and practice. Along three central themes - machines, networks, and computation - the book begins by discussing transformations of the analogy between architecture and the machine since the early twentieth century, foregrounding questions about the relations between architecture, humans, machines, and the environment. It moves on to the city, to observe how big data and smart city sustainable management systems have transformed historical visions of global networked cities. Lastly, it explores computational design thinking historically and in the context of complex systems, as well as the latest technical, social, and economic developments. Exposing possible drawbacks while still focusing on what is radically innovative, this book proposes a way toward more liberating, digital, and sustainable futures for architecture. An important read for architecture students, academics, and professionals, this book connects instances of digital architecture practice and discourse throughout the history of the digital culture paradigm and their ties with sociopolitical developments. It shares the possibility that these connecting lines may be the canvas for a novel architectural history of the recent past.

Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering (Paperback, 2nd edition): Clare Olsen, Sinead Mac Namara Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Clare Olsen, Sinead Mac Namara
R1,032 Discovery Miles 10 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This new edition of Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering explores how to effectively develop creative collaborations among architects and engineers. The authors, an architect and an engineer, share insights gained from their experiences and research on fostering productive communication, engaging in interdisciplinary discussions, and establishing common design goals. Together, they share the tools, methods, and best practices deployed by prominent innovative architects and engineers to provide readers with the key elements for success in interdisciplinary design collaborations. The book offers engaging stories about prominent architect and engineer collaborations--such as those between SANAA and Sasaki and Partners, Adjaye Associates and Silman, Grafton Architects and AKT II, Studio Gang and Arup, Foster + Partners and Buro Happold, Steven Holl Architects and Guy Nordenson and Associates, and among the engineers and architects at SOM. In the second edition, the newly added case studies showcase extraordinary buildings across the globe at a range of scales and typologies, tracing the facets of high-quality collaborations. Through the examples of these remarkable synergies, readers gain insights into innovative design processes that address complex challenges in the built environment. The second edition of Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering is a terrific sourcebook for students, educators, and professionals interested in integrative design practice among the disciplines.

Living in Wonderland - Urban Development and Placemaking (Paperback): David Twohig Living in Wonderland - Urban Development and Placemaking (Paperback)
David Twohig
R954 R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Save R237 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ever lived in or visited a great city and wondered what makes it tick? Over the next 15 years China is set to urbanise 300 million people and build the equivalent urban area of North America. London is set to grow by two million people by 2030 and in the same period Sao Paulo will increase by three million. This is the greatest period of urbanisation in human history and yet the buildings and places we are designing and developing leave a great deal to be desired. The world's cities are increasingly becoming a one-stop solution of homogenous shopping centres and apartment towers. With hundreds of millions of people set to move to our cities in the coming decades there is huge social responsibility to ensure that people aren't subjected to identikit lives that compromise health, wellbeing and general happiness. Living in Wonderland seeks to explore the challenges currently facing urban development and masterplanning and to look at how the places people live, work and shop in can define a neighbourhood or city.Exploring real-life projects across the globe - all studied first-hand by the author - the book aims to encourage debate and promote innovative solutions in development and urbanism. The book is designed to fill the gap between the glossy and superficial coffee table books and theoretical academic papers. Its aim is to inspire practitioners and students of property development, architecture, town planning and anyone with an interest in the urban environment and to demonstrate the vital need to design places for people.

Construction for a Regenerative Future (Hardcover): Urban Persson Construction for a Regenerative Future (Hardcover)
Urban Persson
R4,067 Discovery Miles 40 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Uniquely cover sustainable construction and regenerative construction from the construction project manager's perspective, not the building designer * Links construction to the UN SDGs * Easy to follow structure makes it ideal for use in undergraduate programmes in construction, architecture and engineering

A Coffee a Day - Contemporary Cafe Design (Hardcover): Chris van Uffelen A Coffee a Day - Contemporary Cafe Design (Hardcover)
Chris van Uffelen; Designed by Eva Finkbeiner
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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