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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture
The book presents research from Rob|Arch 2018, the fourth
international conference on robotic fabrication in architecture,
art, and design. In capturing the myriad of scientific advances in
robotics fabrication that are currently underway - such as
collaborative design tools, computerised materials, adaptive
sensing and actuation, advanced construction, on-site and
cooperative robotics, machine-learning, human-machine interaction,
large-scale fabrication and networked workflows, to name but a few
- this compendium reveals how robotic fabrication is becoming a
driver of scientific innovation, cross-disciplinary fertilization
and creative capacity of an unprecedented kind.
Performance and Improvement of Green Construction Projects:
Management Strategies and Innovations expertly explains the
specific characteristics and management approaches of green
construction projects using in-depth examples that compare
presented tactics to conventional construction projects. The book
provides a holistic view on management strategies and innovations,
focusing on the assessment and improvement of green construction
projects and how to manage performance with respect to cost,
scheduling, quality, safety, risk, productivity and leadership
development.
This text entitled Salvation and Spiritual Growth is a text book
that can be used for: A New Converts Classroom or self teaching
Church Bible Class or Bible School courseWhat makes Salvation and
Spiritual Growth inique is: It allows you to create your own
thoughts, through thought questions. The author's answers for each
question, combines as a book within a book, in the back of the
bookTherefore, if you need a self taught book on the following
topics, purchase Salvation and Spiritual Growth: Salvation, defined
as past, present and the heavenly future, with its purpose. How to
resist temptation, presented through, sin, flesh and the Devil What
it means to possess and use the Fruit of the Spirit. The importance
and what it means to have on the Whole Armor of God
When it comes to architecture, there has been a focus on
sustainable buildings and human well-being in the built
environment. Buildings should not only be environmentally friendly
and sustainable, but dually focused on human health, wellness, and
experience. This includes considerations into the quality of
buildings, ranging from ventilation to thermal comfort, along with
environment considerations such as energy usage and material
selection. Specific architectural choices and design for buildings
can either contribute to or negatively impact both society and the
environment, leading research in the field of architecture to be
focused on environmental and societal well-being in accordance with
the built environment. The Research Anthology on Environmental and
Societal Well-Being Considerations in Buildings and Architecture
focuses on how the built environment is being constructed to
purposefully enhance societal well-being while also maintaining
green standards for environmental sustainability. On one side, this
book focuses on the specific building choices that can be made for
the purpose of human well-being and the occupants who will utilize
the building. On the other side, this book also focuses on
environmental sustainability from the standpoint of green buildings
and environmental concerns. Together, these topics allow this book
to have a holistic view of modern architectural choices and design.
This book is essential for architects, IT professionals, engineers,
contractors, environmentalists, interior designers, civil planners,
regional government officials, construction companies,
policymakers, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and
students interested in architecture and how it can promote
environmental and societal well-being.
This book contains selected papers presented during the bi-annual
World Renewable Energy Network's Med Green Forum aimed at the
international community as well as Mediterranean countries. This
forum highlights the importance of growing renewable energy
applications in two main sectors: Electricity Generation and the
Sustainable Building Sector. In-depth chapters highlight the most
current research and technological breakthroughs, covering a broad
range of renewable energy technologies and applications in all
sectors - for electricity production, heating and cooling,
agricultural applications, water desalination, industrial
applications and for the transport sectors.
WHARVES AND PIERS THEIR DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT BT
CARLETON GREENE, A. B., C. E. MEMBEH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL
ENGINEERS FIRST EDITION SECOND IMPRESSION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY,
INC. 239 WEST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK LONDON HILT, PUBLISHING CO,
LTD. 6 8 BOUVERIE ST, E C 1917 PREFACE THIS book has been written
in response to an editorial in one of the engineering journals
calling attention to the lack of American books on the subject of
Wharves and Piers. In its preparation the author has therefore
endeavored to present a treatise on modern American practice in the
de sign and construction of wharves, piers, pier-sheds and their
equipment, including machinery for handling miscellaneous package
freight. The subject of pile driving has not been gone into deeply
as it has been treated at length in Jacoby and Davis recent work on
Foundations of Bridges and Buildings. It is the writers opinion
that there is a tendency at the present time to slight the
advantages of timber construction for wharves and to overestimate
those of reinforced con crete. As the principles and methods
requisite for dura bility in wooden wharf construction have, as far
as the writer knows, not been set forth in book form they have been
given particular attention in this volume. While most of the
descriptions and illustrations of ex isting structures have
necessarily been collected from the technical press, for which no
originality is claimed, an attempt has been made to emphasize, in
describing such structures, the particular conditions which had to
be pro vided for in the design, the methods used for fulfilling the
special requirements and, to some extent, the reasons why
particular types and details wereadopted. It is believed that such
descriptions will aid designers in solving prob lems which embrace
similar conditions. viii PREFACE For information in regard to
European practice in the construction of wharves and piers the
reader is referred to Seehafenbau by F. W. Schulze Berlin, Ernst
Sohn 1913, and for further information in regard to the New York
practice in freight handling to the Report on the Mechanical
Equipment of New York Harbor by B. F. Cresson, Jr., and Chas. W.
Stamford and to other reports published by the Department of Docks.
In Fowlers Subaqueous Foundations may be found examples of the
wooden piers of the Pacific Coast and in the latest edition of
Merrimans American Civil Engineers Pocket Book there is much
valuable information in condensed form. Acknowledgments arc due to
Mr. Charles W. Staniford, Chief Engineer of the Department of
Docks, New York, N. Y., and to the other officials of that
department for photographs, drawings and information to Mr. S. W.
Hoag, Jr, for permission to reprint portions of his paper on New
York docks, published in the proceedings of The Municipal Engineers
of New York, to Engineering News, Engineer ing Record, Engineering
Contracting and International Marine Engineering, also to the
General Electric Co.. Lidgerwood Mfg. Co., Brown Portable Elevator
Co., J. Edward Ogden Co., American Engineering Co. and others for
illustrations. C G NJW YORK, January, 1917 CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE .
... vn CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION DEFINITIONS i REQUIREMENTS 2 TYPES .
3 MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION 4 Timber 4 Wood Preservatives 9
Concrete 1 1 Concrete Pile 13 Stone Masonry 14 Steel 14 Cast Iron
IQ Riprap 17 Concrete vs Timber 17 CHAPTER II PRIMARY PRINCIPLES
OFDESIGN COMMERCIAL LU-E 19 GROWTH OF SHIPS 22 MARGINAL WHARVES vs
PIERS 23 DIMENSIONS OF WHARVES 24 LIVE LOADS 26 TIDAL PRISM 26
CHAPTER III - DETAILS OF TIMBER CONSTRUCTION PILES AND PILE DRIVING
28 Pile Formulae 28 Steam vs Drop Hammers 29 Lagged Pile 29
Floating Drivers 29 Inclined Drivers 30 Pile Follower 31 LATERAL
SUPPORT FOR PILES 31 TEST PILES AND BORINGS 32 DETAILS OF
CONSTRUCTION 33 IRON AND WOOD FASTENINGS 40 SEWERS IN PIERS 42 x
CONTENTS CHAPTER IV...
VITRUVIUS ON ARCHITECTURE EDITED FROM THE HARLEIAN MANUSCRIPT 2767
AI TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY FRANK GRANGER, D. Lrr., AJLLB. A.
PROFESSOR IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NOTTINGHAM IN TWO VOLUMES I
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON WILLIAM
HEINEMANN LTD MCMLV CONTENTS PAQK PREFACE vii INTRODUCTION
VITRUVIUS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST ...... ix HISTORY OF THE
MSS. OF VITRUVIUS . X i THE EARLIEST EDITIONS OF VITRUVIUS . XXi
THE SCHOLIA OF THE MSS. . . . XXV - THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MSS. .
. XXVli THE LANGUAGE OF VITRUVIUS . . . XXViii BIBLIOGRAPHY THE
MSS. . . . . . . XXXli EDITIONS ...... xxxiii TRANSLATIONS XXXiii
THE CHIEF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF VITRUVIUS ..... xxxiv BOOKS
OF GENERAL REFERENCE . . XXXVi TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION BOOK I.
ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES . 1 BOOK II. EVOLUTION OF BUILDING USE OF
MATERIALS . . . . 71 BOOK III. IONIC TEMPLES . . . 151 BOOK IV.
DORIC AND CORINTHIAN TEMPLES 199 BOOK V. PUBLIC BUILDINGS I
THEATRES AND MUSIC, BATHS, HARBOURS . 249 INDEX OF ARCHITECTURAL
TERMS 319 CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS THE CAPITOL DOUGGA . Frontispiece
PLATE A. WINDS AND DIRECTION OF STREETS at end PLATE B. PLANS OF
TEMPLES . . . PLATE C. IONIC ORDER . . . . PLATE 0. CORINTHIAN
ORDER see Frontispiece PLATE E. DORIC ORDER . . . at end PLATE F.
MUSICAL SCALES ., ., PLATE O. THEATRE . . . . . PLATE H. PLAN OF
STABIAN BATHS, POMPEII . vi PREFACE THIS edition has been based
upon the oldest MS. of Vitruvius, the Harleian 2767 of the British
Museum, probably of the eighth century, and from the Saxon
scriptorium of Northumbria in which the Codex Amiatinus was
written. The Latin closely resembles that of the workshop and the
street. In my translation I havesought to retain the vividness and
accuracy of the original, and have not sought a smoothness of
rendering which would become a more polished style. The reader, it
is possible, may discern the genial figure of Vitruvius through his
utterances. In a technical treatise the risks of the translator are
many. The help of Dr. House has rendered them less formidable, but
he is not responsible for the errors which have survived revision.
The introduction has been limited to such con siderations as may
enable the layman to enter into the mysteries of the craft, and the
general reader to follow the stages by which the successive
accretions to the text have been removed. The section upon language
indicates some of the relations of Vitruvius to Old Latin
generally. My examination of fourteen MSS. has been rendered
possible by the courtesy of the Directors of the MSS. Libraries at
the British Museum, the Vatican, the Escorial, the Bibliotheque
Nationale vii PREFACE at Paris, the Bodleian, St. Johns College,
Oxford, and Eton College. A word of special thanks is due to his
Excellency the Spanish Ambassador to London, his Eminence the
Cardinal Merry del Val and the Secretary of the British Embassy at
Paris, for their assistance. Mr. Paul Gray, M. A., of this College,
has given me valuable help in preparing the MS. for the press.
FRANK GRANGER. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NOTTINGHAM, September, 1929.
viii INTRODUCTION VlTRUVIUS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OP THE WEST THE
history of architectural literature is taken by Vitruvius to begin
with the theatre of Dionysus at Athens. 1 In earlier times the
spectators were accommodated upon wooden benches. According to one
account, 2 in the year 500 B. C. or thereabouts, thescaffolding
collapsed, and in consequence a beginning was made towards a
permanent stone structure. The elaborate stage settings of
Aeschylus reached their culmination at the performance of the
Agamemnon and its associated plays in 458. According to Suidas, 3
the collapse of the scaffolding, which occurred at a performance of
one of Aeschylus dramas, led to the exile of the poet in Sicily,
where he died in 456. In that case the permanent con struction of
the theatre would begin in the Periclean age some time between 458
and 456...
From the earliest centuries of Christianity, the cult of saintly relics has been an important feature of the worship of the Church. This book explores the way in which church architecture has been shaped by holy bones - the physical remains or `relics' of those whom the Church venerated as saints. This is the first complete modern study of this aspect of medieval church architecture in western Europe.
The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising
critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This
book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical
architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while
promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's
incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such
as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows
them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are
propounded in neoliberal thought. Analysing architectural projects
in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The
Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by
contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the
compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and
team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form
of existence devoted to market imperatives.
The importance of the leading British architect A. W. N. Pugin (1812-52) in the history of the Gothic Revival, the development of ecclesiology, the origins of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and in architectural theory is incontestable. His letters are vigorous, direct, often witty, and invaluable for architectural and religio-historical research. The second of five volumes.
Social and ecological guidelines for designing and maintaining
small parks
Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and
Ecological Concerns draws on a wide range of knowledge to provide a
one-stop reference to building better parks.
Integrating design criteria with current social and natural
science research, Designing Small Parks presents landscape
architects, park designers, park departments, planners, scientists,
and civic groups with a broad palette of design options. Beginning
with an overview of key issues and terms, this accessible manual is
arranged around twelve topics that represent key questions,
contradictions, and tensions in the design of small parks.
Designing Small Parks features: Concise guidelines providing
immediate access to critical information Fundamental material on
size, edges, appearance, and naturalness Ecological and human
environment coverage of water, plants, wildlife, and air and
climate Succinct summaries of issues surrounding clients and other
involved parties Over 100 drawings and photographs illustrating
design details Up-to-date scientific research Five conceptual
design examples that offer hands-on applications of covered
material
The sequel to the acclaimed Made in Niugini, which explored in
unparalleled depth the material world of the Wola comprising
moveable artefacts, Built in Niugini continues Paul Sillitoe's
project in exemplary fashion, documenting the built environment,
architecture and construction techniques in a tour de force of
ethnography. But this is more than a book about building houses.
Sillitoe also shows how material constructions can serve to further
our understandings of intellectual constructions. Allowing his
ethnography to take the lead, and paying close attention to the
role of tacit understandings and know-how in both skilled work and
everyday dwelling, his close experiential analyses inform a
phenomenologically inflected discussion of profound philosophical
questions - such as what can we know of being-in-the-world - from
startlingly different cultural directions. The book also forms part
of a long-term project to understand a radically different
'economy', which is set in an acephalous order that extends
individual freedom and equality in a manner difficult to imagine
from the perspective of a nation-state - an intriguing way of
being-in-the-world that is entwined with tacit aspects of knowing
via personal and emotional experience. This brings us back to the
explanatory power of a focus on technology, which Sillitoe argues
for in the context of 'materiality' approaches that feature
prominently in current debates about the sociology of knowledge.
Archaeology has long been to the fore in considering technology and
buildings, along with vernacular architecture, and Sillitoe
contributes to a much-needed dialogue between anthropology and
these disciplines, assessing the potential and obstacles for a
fruitful rapprochement. Built in Niugini represents the culmination
of Sillitoe's luminous scholarship as an anthropologist who
dialogues fluidly with the literature and ideas of numerous
disciplines. The arguments throughout engage with key concepts and
theories from anthropology, archaeology, architecture, material
culture studies, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy.
The result is a significant work that contributes to not only our
regional knowledge of the New Guinea Highlands but also to studies
of tacit knowledge and the anthropology of architecture and
building practices. Trevor Marchand, Emeritus Professor of Social
Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies
We typically take public space for granted, as if it has
continuously been there, yet public space has always been the
expression of the will of some agency (person or institution) who
names the space, gives it purpose, and monitors its existence. And
often its use has been contested. These new essays, written for
this volume, approach public space through several key questions:
Who has the right to define public space? How do such places
generate and sustain symbolic meaning? Is public space unchanging,
or is it subject to our subjective perception? Do we, given the
public nature of public space, have the right to subvert it? These
eighteen essays, including several case studies, offer convincing
evidence of a spatial turn in American studies. They argue for a
re-visioning of American culture as a history of place-making and
the instantiation of meaning in structures, boundaries, and spatial
configurations. Chronologically the subjects range from Pierre
L'Enfant's initial majestic conceptualization of Washington, D.C.
to the post-modern realization that public space in the U.S. is
increasingly a matter of waste. Topics range from parks to cities
to small towns, from open-air museums to airports, encompassing the
commercial marketing of place as well as the subversion and
re-possession of public space by the disenfranchised. Ultimately,
public space is variously imagined as the site of social and
political contestation and of aesthetic change.
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