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Scilly's Building Heritage (Paperback): Peter Anthony Madden Scilly's Building Heritage (Paperback)
Peter Anthony Madden
R113 Discovery Miles 1 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lady Patriot (Hardcover): Ted Lange Lady Patriot (Hardcover)
Ted Lange
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The inner sanctum of Confederate president Jefferson Davis has been breached. Information is leaking to the enemy. Who is the spy? No one is privy to this information except Jefferson's advisors, and they are beyond repute. Based on a true story, Lady Patriot reveals an intimate look into the prejudices and patriotism of three ladies who lived during the Civil War: Varina Davis, Elizabeth Van Lew, and Mary Bowser. Lady Patriot combines Lange's signature comedy and drama as it peels away traditional stereotypes prevalent in the South during the Confederacy.

Bauhaus Dream-house - Modernity and Globalization (Hardcover): Katerina Ruedi Ray Bauhaus Dream-house - Modernity and Globalization (Hardcover)
Katerina Ruedi Ray
R5,531 Discovery Miles 55 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A highly original and innovative study that brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus ? tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide.

Developed in post WW1 Germany, the principles of Bauhaus architecture and design were transferred by some of its leading figures to architecture schools at Harvard, Chicago and the IIT. Yet in the postwar era, they also became increasingly influential in architecture schools in Western and Central Europe, Japan, South America, Africa and the Middle East. This book provides a critical examination of the profound social, cultural and spatial consequences of these developments and the erasure of class, race, gender and culture which the ?modernisation? of design embodied.

Written to appeal to an extensive readership, not only in the fields of architectural and design education, but in architectural history and in critical pedagogy more generally, it is also for teachers and students in German art and cultural history and the many architects worldwide who continue to be fascinated by the ideas of the Bauhaus.

Modern Naples - A Documentary History, 1799-1999 (Hardcover): John Santore Modern Naples - A Documentary History, 1799-1999 (Hardcover)
John Santore
R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Programming.Architecture (Hardcover): Paul Coates Programming.Architecture (Hardcover)
Paul Coates
R5,526 Discovery Miles 55 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Programming.Architecture is a simple and concise introduction to the history of computing and computational design, explaining the basics of algorithmic thinking and the use of the computer as a tool for design and architecture.

Paul Coates, a pioneer of CAAD, demonstrates algorithmic thinking through projects and student work collated through his years of teaching students of computing and design. The book takes a detailed and practical look at what the techniques and philosophy of coding entail, and gives the reader many "glimpses under the hood" in the form of code snippets and examples of algorithms.

This is essential reading for student and professional architects and designers interested in how the development of computers has influenced the way we think about, and design for, the built environment.

Work–Life Balance (Hardcover): Janice Arenofsky Work–Life Balance (Hardcover)
Janice Arenofsky
R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This powerful resource investigates how a positive work–life balance can help create engaged, productive employees, how imbalances in work–life balance create serious issues for workers, and identifies different ways to greatly improve one's work–life balance. Of the 35 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), all except the United States provide nationwide paid maternity leave. This is but one example of how the United States has not made adequate provisions to safeguard the work–life balance of its workforce—to the detriment of the overall economic prosperity of the nation. This insightful book shows how problematic an out-of-balance work-to-life ratio is, gives readers the raw data and information to prioritize their values, and describes tools available for selecting a position that matches an individual's talents and is congruent with her desired work–life balance. Work–Life Balance examines the controversies associated with work–life balance in the modern era and emphasizes how winning the struggle to achieve work–life balance requires buy-in from employees, management, and government. Readers will appreciate how optimizing their work–life balance may incorporate employee assistance programs, flextime, improved time management skills, technology-enabled tools, and community programs. The author explains how choosing an appropriate occupation is the first step toward having a positive work–life balance and avoiding the twin scourges of depression and job dissatisfaction. Comparisons between typical benefits in the United States with those in other countries provide data that can be used to advocate and negotiate for greater flexibility, fairness in gender equality, and better employer-employee relationships.

Engineers - A History of Engineering and Structural Design (Hardcover): Matthew Wells Engineers - A History of Engineering and Structural Design (Hardcover)
Matthew Wells
R5,534 Discovery Miles 55 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state.

Matthew Wells covers topics based on an examination of paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and influential disasters to show approaches to the modern concept of structure. By demonstrating the historical context of engineering, Wells has created a guide to design like no other, inspirational for both students and practitioners working in the fields of architecture and engineering.

Yearbook 02: Architetti Romani Nel Mondo (Paperback): Renata Bizzotto Yearbook 02: Architetti Romani Nel Mondo (Paperback)
Renata Bizzotto
R954 R877 Discovery Miles 8 770 Save R77 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean - Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (Hardcover): Jean-Francois Lejeune,... Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean - Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (Hardcover)
Jean-Francois Lejeune, Michelangelo Sabatino
R5,543 Discovery Miles 55 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.

British Politics and the Environment (Hardcover): John McCormick British Politics and the Environment (Hardcover)
John McCormick
R4,476 Discovery Miles 44 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Britain has an immense range of environmental law and the reputation for largely ignoring it. John McCormick describes the fascinating story of the political growth of that law, and the pressures, the compromises, the parliamentary and civil service opportunism that allowed the edifice to grow over the greater part of a century. He tells the story of the absolute change in political climate over the last ten years and deciphers the nature of Thatcher's ''conversion'' to greenery. He explains why everyone who cared about the environment became embattled and, above all, how the old methods of sensible compromise were banished, probably for ever, not least because of the government's obsession with secrecy. What, then, are the new political means of compelling change on a reluctant parliament? Everything is at stake from welfare to water, from forests to fishing. Where are we now? What are the likely pressures, both internal and from Europe and the rest of the world, to make Britain pass more environmentally sound laws and, perhaps more importantly, to observe them? McCormick provides a gripping picture of the central issues, of the system and of the battleground. Originally published in 1991

Fundamentals of Land Development - A Real-World Guide to Profitable Large-Scale Development (Hardcover): D.E. Johnson Fundamentals of Land Development - A Real-World Guide to Profitable Large-Scale Development (Hardcover)
D.E. Johnson
R3,188 Discovery Miles 31 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Properly planned and visualized, large-scale developments can be successfully constructed, whether as master planned communities, planned unit developments, or new towns. "Fundamentals of Land Development" provides an in-depth approach to the design, planning, and development of large land areas into comprehensively designed communities.

This book provides in-depth discussions of the full range of development tasks involved in any large development project, from site and land use selection, market analysis, preparing the land use plan and impact statements, to getting approval from the municipality and community, permitting and approval, scheduling and cost management, and the basics of engineering systems and design.

Developers and other stake-holders will find guidance on such issues as:

- How real-world development is driven by profits, and how team members can maximize profits while developing creatively and responsibly

- Site selection and acquisition

- Entering the growing business of retirement (active adult) community development

Illustrated with real-world case studies drawn from the authors own experience, "Fundamentals of Land Development" is a practical manual for developers looking to improve the profitability of their projects and gain a better understanding of what all team members undertake in a project of this size and complexity.

Far Side of the Sea - A Photographic Memory (Hardcover): Eric Peters Far Side of the Sea - A Photographic Memory (Hardcover)
Eric Peters
R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3 - The Toolkit for Assessment (Hardcover): Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3 - The Toolkit for Assessment (Hardcover)
Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell
R5,541 Discovery Miles 55 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evaluations.
This book provides case studies drawn from locations across Europe, and also provides best practice examples demonstrating those protocols that planners, property developers and design and construction professionals have followed, and how they have selected the assessment methods they need to best evaluate the sustainability of cities, districts, neighbourhoods and buildings.

The Pictorial Directory of Scotland's Castles (Hardcover): Stephen Hay The Pictorial Directory of Scotland's Castles (Hardcover)
Stephen Hay
R1,646 Discovery Miles 16 460 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Understanding Architecture Through Drawing (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Brian Edwards Understanding Architecture Through Drawing (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Brian Edwards
R5,836 Discovery Miles 58 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings and places through drawing. For many, the camera has replaced the sketchbook, but here the author argues that freehand drawing as a means of analyzing and understanding buildings develops visual sensitivity and awareness of design.

By combining design theory with practical lessons in drawing, Understanding Architecture Through Drawing encourages the use of the sketchbook as a creative and critical tool. The book is highly illustrated and is an essential manual on freehand drawing techniques for students of architecture, landscape architecture, town and country planning and urban design.

Architecture of Modern China - A Historical Critique (Hardcover): Jianfei Zhu Architecture of Modern China - A Historical Critique (Hardcover)
Jianfei Zhu
R5,545 Discovery Miles 55 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A collection of essays on architecture of modern China, arranged chronologically covering a period from 1729 to 2008, focusing mainly on the twentieth century. The distinctive feature of this book is a blending of ?critical? and ?historical? research, taking a long-range perspective transcending the current scene and the Maoist period. This is a short, elegant book that condenses the wide subject matter into key topics.

Conservation in the Age of Consensus (Hardcover): John Pendlebury Conservation in the Age of Consensus (Hardcover)
John Pendlebury
R5,528 Discovery Miles 55 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This new text on the subject of conservation in the built environment provides a unique holistic view on the understanding of the practice of conservation connecting it with wider societal and political forces. UK practice is used as a means, along with international examples, for bringing together a real understanding of practice with a social science analysis of the issues. The author introduces ideas about the meanings and values attached to historic environments and how that translates into public policies of conservation.

Historic Heart of Oxford University, The (Hardcover): Geoffrey Tyack Historic Heart of Oxford University, The (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Tyack
R1,251 R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Save R315 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Oxford's university buildings are world-famous. Over eight centuries, starting in the twelfth century, the University - the third oldest in Europe - gradually occupied a substantial portion of the city, creating in the process a unique townscape containing the Bodleian Library, the Sheldonian Theatre and the Radcliffe Camera. This book tells the story of the growth of the forum universitatis - as the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor called it - and relates it to the broader history of the University and the city. Based on up-to-date scholarship, and drawing upon the author's own research into Oxford's architectural history and the work of Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, James Gibbs and Giles Gilbert Scott, each of the eight chapters focuses on the gestation, creation and subsequent history of a single building, or pair of buildings, relating them to developments in the University's intellectual and institutional life, and to broader themes in architectural and urban history. Accessible and well-illustrated with plans, archival prints and specially commissioned photography, this book will appeal to anyone who wishes to understand and enjoy Oxford's matchless architectural heritage.

An Inclusive Environment (Hardcover): Maritz Vandenberg An Inclusive Environment (Hardcover)
Maritz Vandenberg
R4,992 Discovery Miles 49 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

People can be excluded from freedom and the good things in life by age, disability, poverty, unfair discrimination, crime or the fear of crime, and arrogant and unresponsive governments. This practical reference deals with all of these factors, and shows the links between them. In addition to several hundred shorter notes it includes over a thousand major entries, each of which comprises: a summary of relevant facts, incisive commentary to help readers cut through the fog of jargon and propaganda that confuses many of these issues and websites where the latest information may be found. It concludes with a detailed bibliography of around 500 useful references. The work will be found useful by professionals and managers in all walks of life; by central and local government officials and representatives, and by students in the social sciences. It devotes particular attention to the all-important Disability Discrimination Act, and numerous detailed entries, accompanied in many cases by elegant diagrams, suggest to architects and other designers, facilities managers, and personnel managers how the requirements of the Act may be met.

New York in Pictures - an illustrated tour of NYC & facts about its famous sites - Learn about the Big Apple while looking at... New York in Pictures - an illustrated tour of NYC & facts about its famous sites - Learn about the Big Apple while looking at colorful engaging artwork of people, buildings, and places to visit. (Hardcover)
Anna Nadler
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Built - History and Architecture in the Black Community (Hardcover): Paul A Wellington Black Built - History and Architecture in the Black Community (Hardcover)
Paul A Wellington
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The American Glossary of Architectural Terms, Being a Concise and Comprehensive Compilation of All Terms Used in the Practice... The American Glossary of Architectural Terms, Being a Concise and Comprehensive Compilation of All Terms Used in the Practice of Architecture and the Building Arts (Hardcover)
Geo O (George O ) Garnsey
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Contemporary Architecture - Made in Germany (Paperback): Cornelia Dorries Contemporary Architecture - Made in Germany (Paperback)
Cornelia Dorries
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contemporary Architecture Made in Germany: From the first sketch to turnkey solutions. The success of a building project depends on many factors that vary from good design to efficiently organised construction phases. Anyone employing a German architecture practice can be assured that responsibility for the complex tasks and processes remains in one pair of hands only: that of the architect's. This publication showcases more than 120 buildings, designed by German architects in over 30 countries worldwide. The 476 pages also work as an investors' guarantee to good architecture. This volume, Contemporary Architecture Made in Germany, accompanies the eponymous exhibition - promoted by the German Federal Chamber of Architects (NAX) - that has already shown in hotspots such as Paris and Beijing. NAX was established in 2002, as an active ambassador for the German building culture; to connect international clients with German architecture firms.

The Model Village and Its Cottages - Bournville; (Hardcover): William Alexander Harvey The Model Village and Its Cottages - Bournville; (Hardcover)
William Alexander Harvey
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Home - A Bachelardian Concrete Metaphysics (Paperback, New edition): Miles Kennedy Home - A Bachelardian Concrete Metaphysics (Paperback, New edition)
Miles Kennedy
R1,299 Discovery Miles 12 990 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book examines the notion of 'the homely' which rests at the foundation of Gaston Bachelard's concrete metaphysics. In order to trace the development of this effaced notion through the history of contemporary Continental philosophy and literature, this study progresses along two distinct arcs. One is presented in a traditional chronological fashion whereby the reader is invited to dig down into the enormous chasm set forth in Martin Heidegger's writing and its reception; become lost in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves; climb out from this labyrinth into the maternal home; and, finally, come slowly to rest in Gaston Bachelard's concrete metaphysics. Then a Bachelardian topoanalysis is applied to these images drawn from philosophy and literature, metaphysical and concrete expression, in order to follow a second, more significant arc along which progressively more primal spaces are uncovered. This second arc leads back, ultimately, to the foundation of concrete metaphysics: home. Through this topoanalysis the author articulates a fundamental insight about the human desire to have 'a place of one's own', a warm and comfortable, fixed and fixing space in which to set ourselves apart from the strife and turmoil of 'The World'.

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