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Joinery, Joists and Gender - A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century (Hardcover): Deirdre Visser Joinery, Joists and Gender - A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Deirdre Visser
R4,110 Discovery Miles 41 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Contains beautifully illustrated profiles with fourteen important women and gender non-conforming makers, including Wendy Maruyama and Gail Fredell, Yuri Kobayashi and Sarah Marriage * It explores the history of the Arts and Craft movement, developing communities and mentorship, discrimination, social justice, and pedagogy * Includes 200 full colour images * Written for craft practitioners and students, this book is an accessible and insightful entry into the lives and practices of women in woodworking.

The Diagrams of Architecture (Paperback): Mark Garcia The Diagrams of Architecture (Paperback)
Mark Garcia
R998 Discovery Miles 9 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the 1980s, the diagram has become a preferred method for researching, communicating, theorising and making architectural designs, ideas and projects. Thus the rise of the diagram, as opposed to the model or the drawing, is the one of the most significant new developments in the process of design in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. "Diagrams of Architecture" is the first anthology to represent - through texts and diagrams - the histories, theories and futures of architecture through the diagram.

Spanning the Pre-historic to the Parametric, "Diagrams of Architecture" illustrates over 250 diagrams and brings together 26 previously published and newly commissioned essays from leading international academics, architects, theorists and professional experts. These combine to define the past and future of the diagram's discourse. Prefaced with a critical introduction by Mark Garcia, each text investigates a central concept or dimension of the diagram ranging from socio-cultural studies, science, philosophy, technology, CAD/CAM, computing and cyberspace and virtual/digital design to methodology, environment/sustainability and phenomenological, poetic and art architecture; as well as interior, urban, engineering, interactive and landscape design.

- The first critical, multidisciplinary book on the history, theory and futures of the architectural diagram.

- Includes seminal articles on the diagram from the history and theory of architecture such as those by Peter Eisenman, Sanford Kwinter, MVRDV, Neil Spiller, Lars Spuybroek, UN Studio and Anthony Vidler.

- Features 16 newly commissioned articles by leading architects and theorists, including Will Alsop, Charles Jencks, Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher, Bernard Tschumi, Leon van Schaik and Alejandro Zaera-Polo.

- Includes a full-colour critical collection of over 250 of the most significant and original diagrams, many of which are previously unpublished, in the history of architecture from around the world.

Thermal Comfort in Hot Dry Climates - Traditional Dwellings in Iran (Hardcover): Ahmadreza Foruzanmehr Thermal Comfort in Hot Dry Climates - Traditional Dwellings in Iran (Hardcover)
Ahmadreza Foruzanmehr
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world. This results in a much higher dependency upon energy-intensive cooling systems and air-conditioners to provide thermal comfort, but how sustainable is this in a world where problems with the production of electricity are predicted? Vernacular houses in hot and dry central Iran have been adapted to the climate through passive cooling techniques, and this book provides a valuable assessment of the thermal performance of such housing. Shedding new light on the ability of traditional housing forms to provide thermal comfort, Thermal Comfort in Hot Dry Climates identifies the main cooling systems and methods in traditional houses in central Iran, and examines how architectural elements such as central courtyards, distinct seasonal rooms, loggias, basements and wind-catchers can contribute to the provision of thermal comfort in vernacular houses.

The Architectural Drawing Course - The hand drawing techniques every architect should know (Paperback, Revised): Mo Zell The Architectural Drawing Course - The hand drawing techniques every architect should know (Paperback, Revised)
Mo Zell
R538 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R110 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

All students with a budding interest in architectural design will value this book for its solid foundational orientation and instruction. Mo Zell introduces readers to architecture's visual language, showing them how to think spatially and getting them started in architectural drawing with a series of instructional tutorials. Using three-dimensional design problems, she coaches students through the fundamentals of proportion and scale, space and volume, path and place and materials and textures. A series of study units cover virtually every aspect of architectural drawing. This book concludes with practical advice for anyone considering a career in architectural design, offering ideas on building a portfolio, getting advanced training and continuing on a path to a professional career.

Dutch Dwellings - The Architecture of Housing (Hardcover): Dick Gameren Dutch Dwellings - The Architecture of Housing (Hardcover)
Dick Gameren
R1,065 Discovery Miles 10 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dick van Gameren, a partner with the renowned Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, has been engaging in housing design for the past 25 years as part of his work as designing architect as well as his research and teaching at TU Delft's Global Housing Study Center. In this book, he presents some 40 of his own projects in this field through concise texts and photographs with explanatory captions as well as through plans and drawings. They're grouped to illustrate seven specific aspects of housing design: Streets and Squares, Courtyards and Patios, Gardens, Halls, the Fireplace, Walls, and Roofs. Together they constitute a multi-faceted catalogue of housing typologies. In four supplementing essays, van Gameren explores evolutions in residential architecture in the Netherlands. He places his own concepts in context of these developments and expands on what he considers the key factors of good housing design. A particular focus he puts on affordable housing, a pressing issue in so many countries and metropolitan areas around the world. Dutch Dwellings is an inspiring read for anyone involved in housing design today.

Measure and Construction of the Japanese House - 250 Plans and Sketches Plus Illustrations of Joinery (Hardcover): Engel Measure and Construction of the Japanese House - 250 Plans and Sketches Plus Illustrations of Joinery (Hardcover)
Engel; Foreword by Locher
R586 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R219 (37%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture, and how the style and features can serve as a model for contemporary residential buildings. With incredible detail (as well as numerous architectural plans and drawings), author and architect Heino Engel describes everything from room functions and the flexibility of partitions to the influence of human anatomy on Japanese units of measure. Rather than exploring why the traditional Japanese house is built the way it is, Engel delves into the practical information: what the Japanese house is and how it is built. This book is not simply a description of the features of the Japanese house, but "an invitation to probe the possibilities of utilizing this architectural achievement of the Japanese...in modern living and building," according to the author, who further believes that the unique details of the Japanese house are better suited as a pattern for contemporary housing than any other form of residential structure. With a new foreword by architect and professor Mira Locher, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, this updated hardcover edition brings this popular work to modern readers--in hopes that they may find ideas to adopt into their own home.

Four Walls and a Roof - The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession (Paperback): Reinier De Graaf Four Walls and a Roof - The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession (Paperback)
Reinier De Graaf 1
R655 R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Save R64 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year "Sharp, revealing, funny." -The Guardian "An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again... [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it." -The Economist Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof turns this fiction on its head, offering a candid account of what it's really like to work as an architect. Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf reveals the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots: from the corridors of wealth in London, Moscow, and Dubai to the demolished hopes of postwar social housing in New York and St. Louis. We meet ambitious oligarchs, developers for whom architecture is nothing more than an investment, and layers of bureaucrats, consultants, and mysterious hangers-on who lie between any architect's idea and the chance of its execution. "This is a book about power, money and influence, and architecture's complete lack of any of them... Witty, insightful and funny, it is a (sometimes painful) dissection of a profession that thinks it is still in control." -Financial Times "This is the most stimulating book on architecture and its practice that I have read for years." -Architects' Journal

Reimagining the Library of the Future - Public Buildings and Civic Space for Tomorrow’s Knowledge Society (Paperback):... Reimagining the Library of the Future - Public Buildings and Civic Space for Tomorrow’s Knowledge Society (Paperback)
Steffen Lehmann
R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The study Reimagining the Library of the Future investigates the various models of public buildings and civic space through the lens of the library. It takes a critical look at the history, present, and future transformation of this significant building typology that has recently emerged as a redefined community place, social condenser, and urban incubator for knowledge generation, storage, and sharing. In particular, the library has evolved as a vibrant and vital member of community development and as a basis for outreach efforts. This book presents 40 recent public and academic libraries from around the world, with over 200 images. As the survey of precedents shows, the historical cases have informed the design of the recent libraries and the continuous development of the building type over time. Well-designed libraries are now in abundance, and the wider view of this study includes médiathèque and learning centres. The selection of contemporary projects focuses on urban libraries in Europe (Germany, Italy, Austria, Netherlands), the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and China.

Concrete-filled Tubular Members and Connections (Paperback): Xiao-Ling Zhao, Lin-Hai Han, Hui Lu Concrete-filled Tubular Members and Connections (Paperback)
Xiao-Ling Zhao, Lin-Hai Han, Hui Lu
R2,156 Discovery Miles 21 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Using steel and concrete together utilizes the beneficial material properties of both elements. Concrete filled steel tubes represent a good example of a concrete - steel composite structure, and are particularly useful as columns in high rise buildings and bridge piers. They can be used in a range of fields, from civil and industrial construction through to the mining industry. Several aspects of concrete filled tubes have received little coverage in existing design standards, design guides or relevant books, but are addressed here: construction methods or quality and their effect on performance, confinement, creep effects, pre-load effects, size effects, seismic behaviour and post-fire behaviour, worked examples under practical conditions, numerical simulations, mechanics models, concrete-filled double skin tubes, SCC(self-consolidating concrete)-filled tubes, HPHSC (high performance high strength concrete)-filled tubes, high strength steel and thin-walled tubes filled with concrete, and fiber reinforced polymer strengthening of concrete filled tubes. This book not only summarizes the research performed to date on concrete-filled tubular members and connections but also compares the design rules in various standards (Eurocode 4, AISI-LRFD, ACI, AIJ and Chinese Standard), and provides design examples. An invaluable guide for professionals and a detailed source of information for graduate students and beyond.

Design for Behaviour Change - Theories and Practices of Designing for Change (Paperback): Kristina Niedderer, Stephen Clune,... Design for Behaviour Change - Theories and Practices of Designing for Change (Paperback)
Kristina Niedderer, Stephen Clune, Geke Ludden
R570 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R31 (5%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Design impacts every part of our lives. The design of products and services influences the way we go about our daily activities and it is hard to imagine any activity in our daily lives that is not dependent on design in some capacity. Clothing, mobile phones, computers, cars, tools and kitchenware all enable and hold in place everyday practices. Despite design's omnipresence, the understanding of how design may facilitate desirable behaviours is still fragmented, with limited frameworks and examples of how design can effect change in professional and public contexts. This text presents an overview of current approaches dedicated to understanding how design may be used intentionally to make changes to improve a range of problematic social and environmental issues. It offers a cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral overview of different academic theories adopted and applied to design for behaviour change. The aim of the volume is twofold: firstly, to provide an overview of existing design models that integrate theories of change from differing scientific backgrounds; secondly, to offer an overview of application of key design for behaviour change approaches as used across case studies in different sectors, such as design for health and wellbeing, sustainability, safety, design against crime and social design. Design for Behaviour Change will appeal to designers, design students and practitioners of behavioural change.

Sustainability of Concrete (Paperback): Pierre-Claude Aitcin, Sidney Mindess Sustainability of Concrete (Paperback)
Pierre-Claude Aitcin, Sidney Mindess
R2,884 Discovery Miles 28 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Production of Portland cement is responsible for about seven percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The pressure to make the production of concrete more sustainable, or "greener", is considerable and increasing. This requires a wholesale shift in processes, materials and methods in the concrete industry. Pure Portland cement will need to be replaced by more complex binary, tertiary or even quaternary binders, including other types of cementitious materials. We can expect an increasing use of high performance concrete, primarily because of its high sustainability and durability. Much more attention will have to be paid to the proper curing of the concrete if we want to improve its life expectancy. Presenting the latest advances in the science of concrete this book focuses particularly on sustainability, durability, and economy. It explores the potential for increased sustainability in concrete from the initial mixing right through to its behaviour in complex structures exposed to different types of loads and aggressive environments.

Narrative Architecture - A Designer's Story (Hardcover): Sylvain De Bleeckere, Sebastiaan Gerards Narrative Architecture - A Designer's Story (Hardcover)
Sylvain De Bleeckere, Sebastiaan Gerards
R5,086 Discovery Miles 50 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and designing, to give you an original view on our postmodern era and architectural culture. Authors Sylvain De Bleeckere and Sebastiaan Gerards outline the ideas of thinkers, such as Edmund Husserl, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, and Peter Sloterdijk, and explore important work of famous architects, such as Daniel Libeskind and Frank Gehry, as well as rather underestimated architects like Gunter Behnisch and Sep Ruf. With more than 100 black and white images this book will help you to adopt the design method in your own work.

Narrative Architecture - A Designer's Story (Paperback): Sylvain De Bleeckere, Sebastiaan Gerards Narrative Architecture - A Designer's Story (Paperback)
Sylvain De Bleeckere, Sebastiaan Gerards
R1,758 Discovery Miles 17 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and designing, to give you an original view on our postmodern era and architectural culture. Authors Sylvain De Bleeckere and Sebastiaan Gerards outline the ideas of thinkers, such as Edmund Husserl, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, and Peter Sloterdijk, and explore important work of famous architects, such as Daniel Libeskind and Frank Gehry, as well as rather underestimated architects like Gunter Behnisch and Sep Ruf. With more than 100 black and white images this book will help you to adopt the design method in your own work.

The Future City - Visionary Urban Design and Architecture (Hardcover): Alyn Griffiths The Future City - Visionary Urban Design and Architecture (Hardcover)
Alyn Griffiths
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What might the city of the future look like and how might it meet the needs of future generations while limiting damage to our planet's fragile ecosystem? This book introduces pioneering architects, designers and planners whose visions for an alternative urban future address issues such as climate change, population density, infrastructure, transportation and digital culture. It includes over 40 radical projects grouped into five key categories: master planning and megacities, transportation and infrastructure, new habitats, green cities/ urban farming, and smart cities. Each category summarises trends that will drive the development of future cities, with each project representing a unique approach to urban development in the 21st century and beyond.

Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Clare Olsen, Sinead Mac Namara Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Clare Olsen, Sinead Mac Namara
R4,077 Discovery Miles 40 770 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture - Air, Comfort and Climate (Paperback): C .Alan Short The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture - Air, Comfort and Climate (Paperback)
C .Alan Short
R1,790 Discovery Miles 17 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air, miasmas, airborne pathogens, beneficial thermal conditions, ideal climates and climate determinism. It uncovers inventive and entirely viable attempts to design large buildings, hospitals, theatres and academic buildings through the 19th and early 20th centuries, which use the configuration of the building itself and a shrewd understanding of the natural physics of airflow and fluid dynamics to make good, comfortable interior spaces. In exhuming these ideas and reinforcing them with contemporary scientific insight, the book proposes a recovery of the lost art and science of making naturally conditioned buildings.

EDRA 1 - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference (Hardcover): Henry Sanoff, Sidney... EDRA 1 - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference (Hardcover)
Henry Sanoff, Sidney Cohn
R3,207 Discovery Miles 32 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1970, EDRA 1 is a record of the conference proceedings of the 1st annual Environmental Design Research Association conference. The papers featured in this volume represent the proceedings of the conference and are concerned mainly with contributions of scientific disciplines towards the creation of improved methods of problem-solving environmental design, as well as understanding the nature of human responses to the environment. The papers included in this volume focus on developing models and methods towards a framework of coherence and definable structure of environmental design, with the ultimate objective of achieving an optimum environment for man. This volume will be of great interest to planners, architects and academics of urbanisation alike. Although published over 40 years ago, the book's content is still as relevant and interesting today as it was at the time of publication.

The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir (Early 14th -18th Century) (Hardcover): Hakim Sameer... The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir (Early 14th -18th Century) (Hardcover)
Hakim Sameer Hamdani
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book traces the historical identity of Kashmir within the context of Islamic religious architecture between early fourteenth and mid-eighteenth century. It presents a framework of syncretism within which the understanding of this architectural tradition acquires new dimensions and possibilities in the region. In a first, the volume provides a detailed overview of the origin and development of Islamic sacred architecture while contextualizing it within the history of Islam in Kashmir. Covering the entirety of Muslim rule in the region, the book throws light on Islamic religious architecture introduced with the establishment of the Muslim Sultanate in the early fourteenth century, and focuses on both monumental and vernacular architecture. It examines the establishment of new styles in architecture, including ideas, materials and crafts introduced by non-Kashmiri missionaries in the late-fourteenth to fifteenth century. Further, it discusses how the Mughals viewed Kashmir and embellished the land with their architectural undertakings, coupled with encounters between Kashmir's native culture, with its identity and influences introduced by Sufis arriving from the medieval Persianate world. The book also highlights the transition of the traditional architecture to a pan-Islamic image in the post-Independence period. With its rich illustrations, photographs and drawings, this book will interest students, researchers, and professionals in architecture studies, cultural and heritage studies, visual and art history, religion, Islamic studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful to professional architecture institutes, public libraries, museums, cultural and heritage bodies as well as the general reader interested in the architectural and cultural history of South Asia.

Spaces of Tolerance (Hardcover): Igea Troiani, Suzanne Ewing Spaces of Tolerance (Hardcover)
Igea Troiani, Suzanne Ewing
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spaces of Tolerance addresses the topic of tolerance in architectural production. Through examining the boundaries of where discourses, practices and designs are considered publishable (suitable to be made public) or not, the book exposes criteria and cultures which censor architecture so as to offer ways that architecture can be more inclusive and diverse for society at large. The contributors to the book discuss: disciplinary tolerances and constraints related to architecture and its interdisciplinary exchanges and modes of working; physical, spatial, temporal and digital tolerance in material assemblages and production between drawing and building; and social, cultural and political tolerance and threats contingent on geography and history. This timely book aims to look at extremities, margins and marginality to explore acceptable levels - and their fluctuations - in deviation and divergence. Chapters in the book involve ungendering, unacculturating (in disciplinary terms) and diversifying the architectural practitioner, writer, editor, reviewer, and reader, and retooling the instruments and tactics of architectural practice and theory. They argue that tolerance in interdisciplinary research in architecture can cultivate more diverse and productive conversations. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Architecture and Culture.

Technology, Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment (Paperback): Peter Newton, Keith Hampson, Robin Drogemuller Technology, Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment (Paperback)
Peter Newton, Keith Hampson, Robin Drogemuller
R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid urbanisation of the 21st century has turned this into a global challenge. This book embodies the results of a major research programme by members of the Australia Co-operative Research Centre for Construction Innovation and its global partners, presented for an international audience of construction researchers, senior professionals and advanced students. It covers four themes, applied to regeneration as well as to new build, and within the overall theme of Innovation: Sustainable Materials and Manufactures, focusing on building material products, their manufacture and assembly - and the reduction of their ecological 'fingerprints', the extension of their service lives, and their re-use and recyclability. It also explores the prospects for applying the principles of the assembly line. Virtual Design, Construction and Management, viewed as increasing sustainable development through automation, enhanced collaboration (such as virtual design teams), real time BL performance assessment during design, simulation of the construction process, life-cycle management of project information (zero information loss) risk minimisation, and increased potential for innovation and value adding. Integrating Design, Construction and Facility Management over the Project Life Cycle, by converging ICT, design science engineering and sustainability science. Integration across spatial scales, enabling building-infrastructure synergies (such as water and energy efficiency). Convergences between IT and design and operational processes are also viewed as a key platform increased sustainability.

Modern Apartment Design (Hardcover): Guy Marriage Modern Apartment Design (Hardcover)
Guy Marriage
R4,107 Discovery Miles 41 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in engineered timber construction Features guidance and information from industry-leading practitioners in the area, enabling best practice in the architecture and engineering of these new building types Fully illustrated, full colour, case studies in New Zealand, the UK, Norway, the USA, Canada, South Korea and China

How Spaces Become Places - Place Makers Tell Their Stories (Paperback): John F. Forester How Spaces Become Places - Place Makers Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
John F. Forester; Foreword by Randolph T. Hester
R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies. How Spaces Become Places tells stories of place makers who respond to daunting challenges of affordable housing, racial violence, and immigration, as well as community building, arts development, safe streets, and coalition-building. The book's thirteen contributors share their personal experiences tackling complex and contentious situations in cities ranging from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and from Paris to Detroit. These activists and architects, artists and planners, mediators and gardeners transform ordinary spaces into extraordinary places. These place makers recount working alongside initially suspicious residents to reclaim and enrich the communities in which they live. Readers will learn how place makers listen and learn, diagnose local problems, convene stakeholders, build trust, and invent solutions together. They will find instructive examples of work they can do within their own communities. In the aftermath of the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd, the editor argues, these accessible practice stories are more important than ever.

Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism (Hardcover): Ashraf M Salama Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism (Hardcover)
Ashraf M Salama
R3,035 Discovery Miles 30 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2009, Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism is a detailed round of pedagogical dialogue on architecture and urbanism that reset the stage for debating future visions of transformative pedagogy and its impact on design education. Structured in five chapters the book presents a wide range of innovative concepts and practical methodologies for teaching architectural and urban design. It traces the roots of architectural education and offers several contrasting ideas and strategies of design teaching practices. Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism will appeal to those with an interest in architectural and urban design, and architectural and design education.

Micro Green (Hardcover, New): Mimi Zieger Micro Green (Hardcover, New)
Mimi Zieger
R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From treehouses to pre-fabs, this book presents sustainable, micro-green living at its best. "Micro Green" delves into the concept of compact living and demonstrates the possibilities of living with less while maintaining a rich life. As sustainable architecture becomes mainstream, many architects and designers are using technology and wit to experiment with what it means to be green, and the results are both effective and enthralling. The rustic treehouses, airy domes, and recycled-scrap structures of "Micro Green" are presented through vivid photography and detailed building plans, and display a range of environmental influences. Here living spaces are carved out of hillsides, trees rise through decks and floors, and walls melt seamlessly back into the surrounding woods. Though many of the homes chronicled in "Micro Green" are unique in design, their economical size and ingenious interior spaces are the epitome of practicality and illustrate an acute understanding of compact living and its potential for rural, suburban, and even urban ecosystems. Small in both carbon and architectural footprint, the dwellings in "Micro Green" have large implications for the global movements of eco-consciousness and sustainability.

Metric Handbook - Planning and Design Data (Hardcover, 7th edition): Pamela Buxton Metric Handbook - Planning and Design Data (Hardcover, 7th edition)
Pamela Buxton
R4,161 Discovery Miles 41 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Significantly updated in reference to the latest construction standards and new building types Sustainable design integrated into chapters throughout Consistently updated since 2015 by expert authors in the field Over 100,000 copies sold to successive generations of architects and designers, this book belongs on every design office desk and drawing board.

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