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This text provides an accessible introduction for architecture
students to all aspects of architectural technology: structural
physics, structural elements and forms, heating, lighting,
environmental control, and computer modelling. It will also help
students to integrate their design thinking with appropriate
structural and environmental solutions. The book explains the
relationships between physical phenomena, materials, building
elements and structural types using simple classification systems
and real world examples.
Essential information for the design of elementary and secondary
schools
"Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools,
Second Edition" is your one-stop reference for the essential
information you need to confidently begin the design process and
successfully complete the design for elementary and secondary
schools, large or small, on time and within budget. Bradford
Perkins shares his firsthand knowledge in order to guide
architects, planners, engineers, and their clients through all
aspects of the design of school facilities. This new edition is
up-to-date with the latest developments in school design with a
fresh look at technology's influence in the classroom, along with
current research that shows how school buildings can impact
teaching and learning. Highly illustrated and filled with new
school case studies with project photographs, diagrams, floor
plans, sections, and details, this book combines in-depth coverage
of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues
unique to schools, with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that
will start any project off on the right track and keep it there
through completion. This new edition offers: Numerous photographs,
diagrams, plans, and sectionsAn expanded and detailed guide for
programming school facilitiesA new chapter on circulation and basic
planning optionsNew material on current trends in school planning
and designA new chapter on sustainable design ideasAn updated
chapter on technology in schoolsAn expanded discussion of
international school design opportunities and issuesThis
conveniently organized quick reference is an invaluable guide for
busy, dedicated professionals who want to get moving quickly as
they embark on a new project. Like every Building Type Basics book,
it provides authoritative, up-to-date information instantly and
saves professionals countless hours of research.
The completion of David Chipperfield's distinctive new building for
Kunsthaus Zurich in December 2020 has nearly doubled the museum's
overall space. In combination with the preceding refurbishments of
the earlier buildings, this has made it fit to meet the demands of
an art museum in the 21st century. A sequel to The Architectural
History of the Kunsthaus Zurich 1910-2020, this book
comprehensively introduces the new Kunsthaus Zurich, demonstrating
how the task of building an art museum in the 21st century can be
fulfilled. Concise texts, statements by protagonists and by future
users and visitors as well as numerous illustrations trace the
project's evolution and the construction process and look at the
completed building from various perspectives. The book also
highlights what features contemporary museum infrastructure has to
offer and the architectural and urban design qualities it requires,
and what financial and organisational challenges the entire
undertaking implied. A conversation between experts exploring the
expanded museum's impact on its immediate neighbourhood and
Zurich's urban fabric as a whole rounds out the volume.
Situated on the shore of the Lake Zurich, Le Corbusier's exhibition
pavilion is his last realised design. Based on his Modulor
proportional system and at the scale of a single-family home, it
demonstrates the potential of prefabricated elements to form a
perfect space for art and design. Commissioned in 1960 by Heidi
Weber, Zurich-based gallery owner and patron of Le Corbusier the
visual artist, this structure in steel and glass represents pivotal
aspects of his architectural philosophy and also points to the
future. Architects Silvio Schmed and Arthur Ruegg have carefully
restored the Pavillon Le Corbusier to its original state, including
the reconstruction of missing pieces of furniture and luminaires.
This book documents their research and the restored building,
featuring previously unpublished historic photographs and documents
alongside newly commissioned images by Georg Aerni.
As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about
London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its
streets and impulsively arresting its citizens for decades. Who
better to take you through its less savoury side? We'll be chatting
about odd buildings, odder characters, lost venues, forgotten
disasters, confusing routes, dubious gossip, illicit pleasures and
hidden pubs. We'll be making all sorts of odd connections and
showing you why it's almost impossible to separate fact from
fiction in London. With the help of some of our more disreputable
friends, each an argumentative and unreliable expert in his or her
own dodgy field, we'll explain why some streets have genders, why
only two Londoners got to meet Dracula, how a department store and
a prison played tricks on your mind, when a theatre got stranded in
the past, how a building vanished in plain sight, what excited
Charlotte Bronte about the city and where the devils hide in
London. We hope to capture something of the city's restless spirit
by shamelessly and wilfully wandering off course. It goes without
saying that we'll bluff and bamboozle you along the way but that's
all part of the fun. History is what you remember. London is what
you forget (and we've forgotten a lot). So please do join us on
this magical mystery tour of our city. Who knows where we'll end
up?
The Kirklin Clinic, in Birmingham, Alabama, is the first
freestanding medical building designed by one of America's most
significant modern architects, I.M. Pei. The text, written by
architectural critic and historian Aaron Betsky, is based on
interviews with the architect and the surgeon whose vision it was
to create this world-class clinic. The story of the evolution of
the clinic is illustrated by many striking photographs by
well-known Los Angeles architectural photographer Tom Bonner.
Co-published with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Since its completion in 1932, the Nebraska State Capitol has been
widely recognized as an architectural masterpiece, one that
justifiably inspires pride in the citizens of the state and
admiration in people everywhere. Rising four hundred feet from a
massive two-story base, domed with gold-glazed tile and topped with
a bronze statue of a pioneer sower of grain, it can be seen for
miles on the plains. This most striking of statehouses, designed by
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in 1920 and under construction for a
decade, successfully embodies the union of art, architecture, and
humanism.
"A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol" surveys in
words and pictures the architectural achievement and the artists
responsible for it. Frederick C. Luebke introduces the book with a
history of the capitals and capitols of Nebraska. H. Keith Sawyers
writes about Goodhue7;s architectural vision, which was carried out
by other artists after his death. David Murphy examines the
contribution of Hartley Burr Alexander, the philosopher and
anthropologist who developed the symbological details of Goodhue7;s
vision and invested the building7;s many inscriptions with poetic
elegance. Dale L. Gibbs considers Lee Lawrie7;s sculpture,
remarkably congruent with the general design. Joan Woodside and
Betsy Gabb discuss the decorative art of the mosaicist, Hildreth
Meiere. Norman Geske and Jon Nelson examine the capitol murals,
painted by eight artists over four decades. And Robert C. Ripley
allows the reader to see the building in its setting, as landscaped
by Ernst Herminghaus. Lavishly illustrated and handsomely produced,
"A Harmony of the Arts" presents the first survey in many years of
Nebraska7;smagnificent capitol and offers new ways of looking at
it.
Energieeffizienz und Einsatz regenerativer Energien sind Kernfragen
bei Neubau, Instandsetzung und Erneuerung von Gebauden. Das Buch
bietet einen Baukasten aus energetischen und nutzungsbezogenen
Modulen, die bei der lebenszyklusorientierten Optimierung beachtet
werden sollten. Aufbauend auf den Synergiepotenzialen werden
Leistungsbundel angegeben. Die daraus abgeleiteten
Leistungsangebote beinhalten alle wichtigen Aspekte zur praktischen
Umsetzung in der Bauwirtschaft. Mit Berechnungsmodell, Beispielen
zur Kostenanalyse und uber 100 Abbildungen."
This photographic portrait of the University of New Mexico shares
the lure and magic of the campus and its unique architecture.
Formally established in 1889, UNM has evolved into a major American
university, overcoming geographical isolation and the relative
poverty and rural circumstances of much of the state's small
population. Since its founding on the sand hills above downtown
Albuquerque in 1889, the University of New Mexico has graduated
countless thousands of students who have been the mainstays of New
Mexico's economic, political, and cultural life. The heart and soul
of Albuquerque, and beloved by its alumni across the country and
around the world, UNM is much more than an alma mater. It has
querencia, a place in our hearts, like a homeland.
Texas, home to more than 1.7 million living veterans (the second
largest number of any state), is also home to six nationally run
and four state-run veterans cemeteries. Each year, more than 12,000
veterans are laid to rest in these hallowed grounds. The Veterans
Cemeteries of Texas recounts the stories of these ten official
final resting places for Texas veterans, creating-for the first
time-a complete guide to these solemn bivouacs of the dead. Author
Michael Lee Lanning, a US Army veteran, has not only reconstructed
the history of these cemeteries as a tribute to the fallen but has
also compiled a useful resource for the living. Lanning details the
exact locations, eligibility requirements, and contact information
throughout the state for those veterans and their families who
might choose to make use of these important public services. Richly
illustrated, the book also provides moving descriptions of military
burial traditions, such as "Taps" and the 21-gun salute, as well as
information about the various types of military headstones
(including sixty authorized religious symbols). In the author's
words, "A walk through these burial grounds is a journey across the
history of Texas and of the United States." Lanning's use of more
than 100 captivating photographs, along with his compelling text,
allows readers to take that walk through veterans cemeteries in
Texas. For lovers of Texas history and military history, The
Veterans Cemeteries of Texas is a gripping tribute to past,
present, and future Texas veterans and the solemn places where they
rest in their last formation and final parade.
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Grain Elevators
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Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher
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These photographs of grain elevators in America, Germany, Belgium,
and France are a major addition to the Bechers' ongoing
documentation of the vanishing buildings that once defined the
industrial landscape of Europe and America. Bernd and Hilla
Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes the most
important project in objective and conceptual photography today.
With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types
documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water
towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame
houses, and cooling towers. Grain elevators are towering structures
in the flat, vast landscape of the world's granaries. Providing a
fast and efficient method of loading and unloading grain to keep
pace with the industrial production methods of the nineteenth
century, they made possible a tremendous increase in the
trafficking and processing of grain. Scooping, pouring, and
spitting, they both illustrated and inspired Le Corbusier's idea of
buildings as functioning machines. Monumental, essential, and
visually arresting, grain elevators belong as much to the American
imagination and landscape as to the European. The photographs of
grain elevators in this volume were taken in Germany, Belgium,
France, and America. But the specificity of time and place is
erased in these photographs; the monolithic structures evoke the
agricultural prosperity of a vanished era and the vacancy that
replaces it today.
Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970,
documents how architects made environmental technologies into
resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In
doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which
mechanical engineering has been assimilated into the culture of
architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project. Tracing
the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning
from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of
the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows
how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s
discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of
the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis
Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon
Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of
functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly
assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting.
Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture,
Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history
and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who
brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of
modernism. A monumental work by a renowned expert in American
modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical
modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented
lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of
architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American
history.
Today, universities serve as the economic engines and cultural
centers of many U.S. cities, but how did this come to be? In
Building the Ivory Tower, LaDale Winling traces the history of
universities' relationship to the American city, illuminating how
they embraced their role as urban developers throughout the
twentieth century and what this legacy means for contemporary
higher education and urban policy. In the twentieth century, the
federal government funded growth and redevelopment at American
universities—through PWA construction subsidies during the Great
Depression, urban renewal funds at mid-century, and loans for
student housing in the 1960s. This federal aid was complemented by
financial support for enrollment and research, including the GI
Bill at the end of World War II and the National Defense Education
Act, created to educate scientists and engineers after the launch
of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. Federal support allowed
universities to implement new visions for campus space and urban
life. However, this growth often put these institutions in tension
with surrounding communities, intensifying social and economic
inequality, and advancing knowledge at the expense of neighbors.
Winling uses a series of case studies from the Progressive Era to
the present day and covers institutions across the country, from
state schools to the Ivy League. He explores how university
builders and administrators worked in concert with a variety of
interests—including the business community, philanthropists, and
all levels of government—to achieve their development goals. Even
as concerned citizens and grassroots organizers attempted to
influence this process, university builders tapped into the full
range of policy and economic tools to push forward their vision.
Block by block, road by road, building by building, they
constructed carefully managed urban institutions whose economic and
political power endures to this day.
Chetham's School and Library is an exceptional example of
fifteenth-century collegiate architecture--the best preserved
building of its date and type in England. Located in the heart of
Manchester, Chetham's originally lodged the college of
fifteenth-century priests who officiated at the church that is now
Manchester Cathedral. After the Reformation it was acquired by the
Earls of Derby who later let it to John Dee. Miraculously surviving
war and dilapidation, the building was converted in the seventeenth
century for use as Humphrey Chetham's charity school and free
public library. This fully illustrated book is the first
comprehensive account of the Chetham's building and its turbulent
history. The book fills a gap in English architectural history,
offers new insights into a little-studied building type, and
provides fascinating details of the seventeenth-century conversion
drawn from original documents describing how the building was
adapted.
This stunning, fully illustrated history of the Georgia Capitol not
only pays tribute to a grand old edifice but also vividly recounts
the history that was made - and that continues to be made - within
and without its walls. The Georgia Capitol is a place where, for
more than a century, legislators have debated, governors have
proclaimed, and courts have ruled. It is also a place where
countless ordinary citizens have gathered in lively tour groups,
angry protest mobs, and at times solemn funeral processions. As
Timothy J. Crimmins and Anne H. Farrisee move through the major
periods in the Capitol's history, they tell three interwoven
stories. One is a tale of the building itself, its predecessors,
its design and construction, its occasionally ill-considered
renovations, and the magnificent, decade-long restoration begun in
1996. Also revealed is how the gradual accumulation of statues,
flags, portraits, and civic rituals and pageants has added new
layers of meaning to an already symbolic structure. The third story
the authors tell is of the legislative and judicial battles that
sought to limit or extend democratic freedoms. Some of these events
were high drama: fisticuffs during a prohibition debate, Eugene
Talmadge's strong-arm eviction of the state treasurer from the
statehouse, the Three Governors Controversy, and an African
American protest in the segregated cafeteria. From the laying of
the cornerstone in 1885 to the present, successive generations of
Georgians have created a distinctive history in and around the
Capitol as they have exercised, or sought to gain, their rights.
Today the Georgia Capitol remains a working center of state
government, and its history continues to unfold.
Planungsprozesse im Bauwesen sind arbeitsteilig: verschiedene
Fachplaner an verteilten Standorten, die unterschiedlichen
Organisationen angehoren. Die Praxis bietet Beispiele fur unzahlige
Mangel, die auf unzureichende Kooperation zuruckzufuhren sind. In
diesem Buch: aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse, Hinweise zur Umsetzung,
Trends. Zur besseren computergestutzten Uberwachung und Steuerung
der Planungsprozesse, und Vermeidung kostenintensiver Fehler. "
There are almost as many ways to design a good courthouse as one
that is less than satisfactory. Celebrating the Courthouse
illuminates, for the diverse professionals and laypeople who plan
and create courthouses, the issues that must be addressed to
achieve an effective and satisfying building. This book unites the
skills and experience of architects, judges, administrators, and
lawyer-users to guide the design of a complex building type. No
attempt is made to prescribe a particular program for any model
courthouse project. We live in too diverse a design world for that:
courthouse programs are specific and distinct from one another.
Rather, the distinguished contributors lay out a variety of
solutions that can help solve the problems confronted in particular
settings. Considering historical precedent, context, functional
requirements, and public and client needs, they focus on the best
practices in design and also upon some design failures, addressing
the pitfalls presented by courthouse programs, which are among the
most complex that architects face. Finally, they look at the
technological revolution and the future of courthouse design.
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