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Digital Infrastructures - Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology (Hardcover): Thomas Horan,... Digital Infrastructures - Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology (Hardcover)
Thomas Horan, Rae Zimmerman
R5,390 Discovery Miles 53 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on network demand, performance, reliability, and security. Digital Infrastructures presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the technological systems that envelop these networks. The book balances analyses of specific civil and environmental infrastructures with broader policy and management issues, including the challenges of using IT to manage these critical systems under crises conditions.

Articulating British Classicism - New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Architecture (Hardcover, New edition): Elizabeth McKellar Articulating British Classicism - New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Architecture (Hardcover, New edition)
Elizabeth McKellar
R3,927 Discovery Miles 39 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Whereas the past decades have seen a profound reconsideration of eighteenth-century visual culture, the architecture of that century has undergone little evaluation. Its study, unlike that of the early modern period or the twentieth century, has continued to use essentially the same methods and ideas over the last fifty years. Articulating British Classicism reconsiders the traditional historiography of British eighteenth-century architecture as it was shaped after World War II, and brings together for the first time a variety of new perspectives on British classicism in the period. Drawing on current thinking about the eighteenth century from a range of disciplines, the book examines such topics as social and gender identities, colonialization and commercialization, notions of the rural, urban and suburban, as well as issues of theory and historiography. Canonical constructions of Georgian architecture are explored, including current evaluations of the continental intellectual background, the relationship with mid seventeenth-century Stuart court classicism and the development of the subject in the twentieth century.

Digital Infrastructures - Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology (Paperback): Thomas Horan,... Digital Infrastructures - Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology (Paperback)
Thomas Horan, Rae Zimmerman
R1,771 Discovery Miles 17 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on network demand, performance, reliability, and security. Digital Infrastructures presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the technological systems that envelop these networks. The book balances analyses of specific civil and environmental infrastructures with broader policy and management issues, including the challenges of using IT to manage these critical systems under crises conditions.

Chinoiserie (Paperback): Richard Hayman Chinoiserie (Paperback)
Richard Hayman
R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Chinoiserie, a decorative style inspired by the art of the Far East, gripped Britain from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Despite taking its name from the French word for 'Chinese', the style also incorporated influences from other Asian countries, helping to shape the period's popular fantasy of the 'exotic Orient'. Wealthy consumers jostled to obtain imported wallpaper, lacquered cabinets and hand-painted porcelain, while domestic manufacturers such as Royal Worcester and Chippendale met demand with mass-produced items of their own. Though interest in the style waned as the Gothic Revival took hold, many examples of Chinoiserie have been preserved. In this beautifully illustrated book, Richard Hayman tells the story of this fascinating phenomenon, and explores the profound impact of Chinoiserie on the material culture of the West.

Architecture, Technology and Process (Paperback, Reissue): Chris Abel Architecture, Technology and Process (Paperback, Reissue)
Chris Abel
R1,274 Discovery Miles 12 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new selection of essays follows Chris Abel's previous best selling collection, Architecture and Identity. Drawing upon a wide range of knowledge and disciplines, the author argues that, underlying technological changes in the process of architectural production are fundamental changes in the way we think about machines and the world we live in.Key topics include: new patterns of urbanism in the fast growing cities of asia pacific; metaphorical extensions of mind and body in cyberspace; the divergent European and North American values shaping Sir Norman Foster's and Frank Gehry's work, and the collaborative work methods and technologies creating the adaptable design pratices of today.

Beginnings of Interior Environments 12th Edition (Paperback): L.M. Jones Beginnings of Interior Environments 12th Edition (Paperback)
L.M. Jones
R2,780 Discovery Miles 27 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The new edition of the leading textbook remains the gold standard for interior design education. In this twelfth edition of Beginnings of Interior Environments, established interior designer and professor Lynn M. Jones, ASID, IDEC collaborates with innovator Heidi Plumb, IIDA, IDEC, to deliver a practical and balanced overview of commercial and residential interior design. Written to offer coverage of the creative and technical characteristics of the profession, the text also addresses Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) content. Part I opens with a discussion on the scope and value of the profession and includes a pictorial overview of the history of design. Subsequent parts cover design fundamentals, the spatial envelope--including space planning and systems--, products and materiality, and designing for a living. A new chapter addresses the art and science of visual communications. Hundreds of images from actual design projects, supplied by national and international design firms, illustrate quality examples. "Precedent Studies" include in-house production work from these practicing designers. Content, updated throughout, includes additional information on design thinking, inclusivity, WELL building standards, casework, and architectural millwork. New end-of-chapter self-directed projects provide students the opportunity to apply their knowledge. Written by two successful educators and practitioners, both NCIDQ certified with terminal degrees, the text applies a balance between education and practice. It is the ideal textbook for introductory interior design or interior architecture courses, and an invaluable resource for anyone looking to apply a holistic interior design perspective to their own home or business. As in previous editions, the text Introduces interior design with a foundation in its health, safety, and welfare benefits Explores design fundamentals, including visual literacy, and the elements and principles of design, with a special emphasis on color and now visual communications Discusses construction, including building components, codes, regulations, as well as lighting, electrical, and communication systems Offers an in-depth examination of the profession, including career pathways and professional organizations Reviews critical global issues such as sustainability, universal design, and culturally sensitive design Includes a dedicated section on interior materials and finishes--floorings, ceilings, wallcoverings, upholstery--and furnishings such as furniture, art, and accessories Leads students to analyze the needs of clients to design safe and sustainable environments that enhance the quality of life Includes a companion site for instructors featuring PowerPoint slides and an Instructor's manual with discussion points, objectives, lecture outlines, learning activities, and example quizzes with answers

Dictionary of Architectural and Building Technology (Hardcover, 4th edition): Peter Smith, Henry Cowan Dictionary of Architectural and Building Technology (Hardcover, 4th edition)
Peter Smith, Henry Cowan
R4,228 Discovery Miles 42 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A comprehensive summary of the vocabulary used across the building industry, from the preparation of an architectural brief, through creative and technical design, to construction technology and facilities management. The latest edition has several substantially revised entries as well as many new additions, including new illustrations and terms. Covering a range of disciplines across architecture and building and including both SI metric and Imperial units, this dictionary and reference work will enable students and professionals to use and understand vocabulary from other areas of expertise, and contribute to better communication.

Transforming Barcelona - The Renewal of a European Metropolis (Hardcover): Tim Marshall Transforming Barcelona - The Renewal of a European Metropolis (Hardcover)
Tim Marshall
R5,100 Discovery Miles 51 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980s first attracted attention and praise and then the 1992 Olympics hosted in the city raised international awareness. The city received many awards and accolades including a Gold Medal from the RIBA. The selection of writings is well illustrated throughout with maps, drawings and photographs and will be of interest to architects, planners and urban designers as well as those interested in the social and economic impacts of regeneration.

Transforming Barcelona - The Renewal of a European Metropolis (Paperback, New): Tim Marshall Transforming Barcelona - The Renewal of a European Metropolis (Paperback, New)
Tim Marshall
R1,656 Discovery Miles 16 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980s first attracted attention and praise and then the 1992 Olympics hosted in the city raised international awareness. The city received many awards and accolades including a Gold Medal from the RIBA. The selection of writings is well illustrated throughout with maps, drawings and photographs and will be of interest to architects, planners and urban designers as well as those interested in the social and economic impacts of regeneration.

Constructing a Sense of Place - Architecture and the Zionist Discourse (Hardcover, New Ed): Haim Yacobi Constructing a Sense of Place - Architecture and the Zionist Discourse (Hardcover, New Ed)
Haim Yacobi
R3,938 Discovery Miles 39 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

While it is widely recognized that architects and their architecture play a key role in constructing a sense of place, the inherent nexus between an architectural ideology and the production of national space and place has so far been neglected. Focusing on the Zionist ideology, this book brings together practising architects and academics to critically examine the role of architects, architecture and spatial practices as mediators between national ideology and the politicization of space. The book first of all sets out the wider context of theoretical debates concerning the role of architecture in the process of constructing a sense of place then divides into six main sections. The book not only provides an innovative new perspective on how the Israeli state had developed, but also sheds light on how architecture shapes national identity in any post-colonial and settler state.

Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy - Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard (Paperback): Allison Sherman Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy - Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard (Paperback)
Allison Sherman
R1,370 Discovery Miles 13 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For too long, the 'centre' of the Renaissance has been considered to be Rome and the art produced in, or inspired by it. This collection of essays dedicated to Deborah Howard brings together an impressive group of internationally recognised scholars of art and architecture to showcase both the diversity within and the porosity between the 'centre' and 'periphery' in Renaissance art. Without abandoning Rome, but together with other centres of art production, the essays both shift their focus away from conventional categories and bring together recent trends in Renaissance studies, notably a focus on cultural contact, material culture and historiography. They explore the material mechanisms for the transmission and evolution of ideas, artistic training and networks, as well as the dynamics of collaboration and exchange between artists, theorists and patrons. The chapters, each with a wealth of groundbreaking research and previously unpublished documentary evidence, as well as innovative methodologies, reinterpret Italian art relating to canonical sites and artists such as Michelangelo, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Sebastiano del Piombo, in addition to showcasing the work of several hitherto neglected architects, painters, and an inimitable engineer-inventor.

Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior (Paperback): Erin J Campbell Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior (Paperback)
Erin J Campbell
R1,353 Discovery Miles 13 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older women belies their significance within early modern Italy. This study examines the remarkable flowering, largely overlooked in portraiture scholarship to date, of portraits of old women in Northern Italy and especially Bologna during the second half of the sixteenth century, when, as a result of religious reform, the lives of women and the family came under increasing scrutiny. Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior draws on a wide range of primary visual sources, including portraits, religious images, architectural views, prints and drawings, as well as extant palazzi and case, furnishings, and domestic objects created by the leading artists in Bologna, including Lavinia Fontana, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Denys Calvaert, and the Carracci. The study also draws on an array of historical sources - including sixteenth-century theories of portraiture, prescriptive writings on women and the family, philosophical and practical treatises on the home economy, sumptuary legislation, books of secrets, prescriptive writings on old age, and household inventories - to provide new historical perspectives on the domestic life of the propertied classes in Bologna during the period. Author Erin Campbell contends that these images of unidentified women are not only crucial to our understanding of the cultural operations of art within the early modern world, but also, by working from the margins to revise the center, provide an opportunity to present new conceptual frameworks and question our assumptions about old age, portraiture, and the domestic interior.

Berlin: On the Road Architecture Guides (Paperback): Claudia Saglimbeni Berlin: On the Road Architecture Guides (Paperback)
Claudia Saglimbeni
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Berlin has proved to be an active stage for all the most important social transformations since the 20th century, marking a blurred boundary between Baroque and contemporary, within which fervent cultural and intellectual seasons, plans for massive industrialisation, World Wars, the establishment of schools of architecture and modern thought destined to make history have taken hold. A veritable laboratory of urban planning and architecture in continuous evolution, which still today constitutes a composite landscape of experiments in social urban planning, of mending the urban fabric between east and west, of places of representation of ministries, embassies and parliament between the Tiergarten and the Spree, of redesigning public space according to the model of critical reconstruction as can be seen at Bundeshauptsadt, Postdamer Platz and Friedrichstadt to which the major exponents of international modern architecture have contributed, and of building a cultural planning whose highest expression is the Museum Island, the most famous museum complex in the world.

Archispeak - An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms (Hardcover): Tom Porter Archispeak - An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms (Hardcover)
Tom Porter
R4,495 Discovery Miles 44 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and especially in student project reviews, "Archispeak" can seem insular and perplexing to others and -- particularly to the new architectural student -- often incomprehensible.
There is a need to translate architectural design concepts into spoken and written commentary -- each word in use embodying a precise and universally accepted architectural meaning. If we explore the vocabulary of this language we gain insight to design good practice and to collective understanding of what constitutes a refined architecture. This unique illustrated guide will help students understand the nuances of this specialized language and help them in communicating their own design ideas.

Architecture as Experience - Radical Change in Spatial Practice (Paperback, New Ed): Dana Arnold, Andrew Ballantyne Architecture as Experience - Radical Change in Spatial Practice (Paperback, New Ed)
Dana Arnold, Andrew Ballantyne
R1,777 Discovery Miles 17 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This book investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it by contact with theoretical sophistication, without letting that overwhelm the material. The chapters establish the continuity of a particular physical object under discussion and show it in at least two different historical perspectives, in which recognisable features are shown in different lights.

Architecture as Experience - Radical Change in Spatial Practice (Hardcover, New): Dana Arnold, Andrew Ballantyne Architecture as Experience - Radical Change in Spatial Practice (Hardcover, New)
Dana Arnold, Andrew Ballantyne
R4,223 Discovery Miles 42 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Preface 1. Misprisions of Stonehenge, Andrew Ballantyne 2. 'The Mutability of All Things': The Rise, Fall and Rise of the Meta Sudans, Elizabeth Mae Marlowe 3. Piranesi's Pantheon, Susan M. Dixon 4. From Medieval Sacred Place to Modern Secular Space: Changing Perspectives on the Cathedral and Town of Chartres, Laura H. Hollengreen 5. Paths of Empowerment: Ritual Reinscription of Meaning on the Plan of Amsterdam, 1886-1914, Nancy Stieber 6. Caput Mundi?: St Peter's and the Deterritorialized Church, Donald McNeill 7. Places and Memory: Multiple Readings of a Plaza in Paris During the Commemoration of the French Revolution, Sarah Bonnemaison 8. Three Views of 'Frontier' at the World's Columbian Exposition, Christine Macy 9. From Victorian Asylum to 'Princess Park Manor', Deborah Weiner 10. If Walls Could Talk: Exploring the Dimensions of Heterotopia at the Istanbul Four Seasons Hotel, Zeynep Kezer 11. Ritual as Radical Change: The Burial of the Unknown Soldier and 'Ways of Using' the Space of Washington, DC, November 11 1921, Hélène Lipstadt 12. London Bridge Revisited, Dana Arnold

The Emergence of Modern Architecture - A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810 (Paperback): Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis The Emergence of Modern Architecture - A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810 (Paperback)
Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis
R1,811 Discovery Miles 18 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The book, a documentary history, records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, it reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the 10th century in Europe to the end of the 18th century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.

Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935 - The Gender of Ornament (Hardcover): Bridget Elliott Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935 - The Gender of Ornament (Hardcover)
Bridget Elliott; Janice Helland
R3,627 Discovery Miles 36 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the most part, studies have focused on the denigration of decorative work by leading male artists, frequently dismissed as fashionably feminine. With few exceptions, women have been cast as consumers rather than producers. The first book to examine the decorative strategies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women artists, Women Artists and the Decorative Arts concentrates in particular on women artists who turned to fashion, interior design and artisanal production as ways of critically engaging various aspects of modernity. Women artists and designers played a vital role in developing a broad spectrum of modernist forms. In these essays new light is shed on the practice of such well-known women artists as May Morris, Clarice Cliff, Natacha Rambova, Eileen Gray and Florine Stettheimer, whose decorative practices are linked with a number of fascinating but lesser known figures such as Phoebe Traquair, Mary Watts, Gluck and Laura Nagy.

Expressive Form - A Conceptual Approach to Computational Design (Paperback): Kostas Terzidis Expressive Form - A Conceptual Approach to Computational Design (Paperback)
Kostas Terzidis; Foreword by William J. Mitchell
R1,453 Discovery Miles 14 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Conservation and Planning - Changing Values in Policy and Practice (Paperback): Edward Hobson Conservation and Planning - Changing Values in Policy and Practice (Paperback)
Edward Hobson
R1,658 Discovery Miles 16 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Conserving historic buildings continues to excite and inflame opinion. The means of protecting such buildings and areas are well established but frequently suffer a lack of wider understanding. Conservation and Planning takes a detailed look at the way these processes have evolved and their use today by policy makers and local decision makers.

The rise of the urban renaissance agenda, the crystalisation of sustainable development and the ascendancy of regional governance are all significant factors which have influenced the policy and practice of conserving historic buildings. The interpretation of value in the built environment is also significant, with a consideration of buildings as independent artefacts often overshadowing the value in the environmental and cultural context. This book presents original research into how national and local decision-makers construct and implement conservation of the built environment. The findings in this book challenge many of the assumptions supporting conservation.

Modernism and the Spirit of the City (Paperback): Iain Boyd Whyte Modernism and the Spirit of the City (Paperback)
Iain Boyd Whyte
R1,653 Discovery Miles 16 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished scholars focus on the city as the dominant generator of social, political and cultural institutions and structures in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.

Modernism and the Spirit of the City (Hardcover, New): Iain Boyd Whyte Modernism and the Spirit of the City (Hardcover, New)
Iain Boyd Whyte
R4,180 Discovery Miles 41 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotonous, this collection of essays by eminent scholars investigates the complex cultural, social, and religious imperatives that lay below the smooth, white surfaces of new architecture.

An Analysis of Yasser Tabbaa's The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival - The Transformation of Islamic... An Analysis of Yasser Tabbaa's The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival - The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival (Hardcover)
Bilal Badat
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tabbaa's Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the often neglected Medieval Islamic period. Examining devices such as calligraphy, arabesque, muqarnas, and stonework, Tabbaa argues we propagated in a moment of confrontation and facilitated the re-emergence of the Sunni Abbasid caliphate in a more orthodox image. Tabbaa offers a timely and thought-provoking alternative to conventional essentialist, positivist and ethno-narrative interpretations of Islamic art.

Room 606 - The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen (Hardcover): Michael Sheridan Room 606 - The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen (Hardcover)
Michael Sheridan
R1,325 Discovery Miles 13 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ideological Equals - Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 (Paperback): Mary Pepchinski, Mariann Simon Ideological Equals - Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 (Paperback)
Mary Pepchinski, Mariann Simon
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an alternative narrative of women in architecture. A topic often considered from the perspective of difference, this edited collection conversely focuses on the woman architect in a position of equality with their male counterparts. The book looks at nations in Eastern Europe under Socialism where, between 1945 and 1989, a contrasting vision of gender relations was propagated in response to the need for engineers and architects. It includes contributions from established and emerging academics in the fields of 20th century history, art history, and architectural history in Central and Eastern Europe exploring the political, economic and social mechanisms which either encouraged or limited the rise of the woman architect. Investigating the inherent contradictions of Socialist gender ideology and practice, this illustrated volume examines the individuals in different contexts; the building types the women produced; the books and theory they were able to write; their contacts to international organizations; and their representation on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

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