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A comprehensive handbook of all the crucial information interior designers need to know on a daily basis. In the world of interior design, thousands of bits of crucial information are scattered across a wide array of sources. Color, Space, and Style collects the information essential to planning and executing interiors projects of all shapes and sizes, and distills it in a format that is as easy to use as it is to carry. Section 1, Fundamentals, provides...
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How do governments design their strategy for heritage property? What do they try to accomplish in their laws and their tax systems to favour the re-use of older buildings, districts, and cities? What institutional framework can assist the restoration of tourist designations and the conservation of neighbourhoods? In this international study, eighteen experts from ten countries describe the legal challenges and solutions relating to such property....
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Modern architectural construction techniques are revolutionizing the architecture industry. This is a perfect book to learn about the contemporary construction techniques that students and professionals must know.This ebook covers a vast range of modern construction methods.The book covers topics like: 1: Why Modern Construction Techniques Matter2: Overview of Evolving Building Methods3: Reinforced Concrete and Its Applications4: Advanced Construction...
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A visual look at the architectural details of smaller residential spaces: The Contemporary Design Details series takes a highly visual look at architectural design details that are more often dealt with in a technical textbook format. The books take readers on a tour of the best details designed by great architects around the world. The series provides a powerful presentation of the most challenging and evolving architectural and design categories....
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From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in design. In an era of declared crises-economic, ecological and climatic, among others-the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with...
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Este trabajo, fruto del proyecto "Reconocimiento de los valores culturales de los afrodescendientes del Pacífico Colombiano y fortalecimiento de su identidad" pretende como objetivos generales el rescate, valoración y difusión del patrimonio urbano y arquitectónico de la región del Pacífico colombiano, el cual incluye desde la vivienda y su arquitectura hasta los modelos urbanos y los componentes del ordenamiento territorial que son específicos...
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Earth-sheltered building has existed since the heyday of Skara Brae in Scotland 5,000 years ago, and is used today by people around the world. If you have ever looked at your power bill in stunned disbelief, if you are interested in green building techniques, or if you want your home to stand out (or hide out), then this book is for you. With The Complete Guide to Building Affordable Earth-Sheltered Homes, you will learn about the many different types...
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Humans have been building with stone for thousands of years, dating back to the ancient pyramids and the Sphinx. You can bring the aesthetics of stonework to your house and property with help from The Complete Guide to Building with Rocks & Stone. This book is designed to walk homeowners through the process of developing, planning, and implementing a stone building project. Starting with the basics, you will learn about the common types of stone and...
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Through essays, interviews, and narratives by Bruce Sterling, Fiona Raby, Sam Jacob and other significant voices in the field, this volume questions the initial discourses around "design fiction"-a broad category of critical design that includes overlapping interests in science fiction, world building, speculation, and futuring. Made Up: Design's Fictions advances contemporary analysis and enactment of narrative and speculation as an important part...
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La autoconstrucción de una casa, del autor del best seller Las medidas de una casa, Xavier Fonseca, es un manual que detalla el proceso para edificar una vivienda desde la preparación del terreno, pasando por la excavación, los cimientos, los drenajes, los muros, la instalación eléctrica hasta llegar a los terminados. Esta obra de la colección ¡… una casa! es una herramienta imprescindible para asesorar técnicamente a arquitectos, ingenieros,...
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Learning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language – the definitions, function, and usage. Language of Architecture provides students and professional architects with the basic elements of architectural design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters. This visual reference includes an introductory, historical...
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Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book that brings those perspectives together to show the state of current critical and projective theory, practice and new alternative actions of designing architecture.
Interviewed theorists: Kenneth Frampton, K. Michael Hays, Mark Wigley, Mary Mcleod, Beatriz...
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The Ecologies of the Envelope theorizes the building envelope as a literal embodiment of the social, political, technological, and economic contingencies, which have become embedded within it over the last century, analyzing the historical lineages, heroes and villains that helped define the complex material ecologies we see within the envelope today.
While the façade is one of the most thoroughly theorized elements of architecture, it is also one...
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Discover the timeless elegance and serenity of Japanese interior style with our comprehensive ebook, "Introduction to Japanese Interior Style." Immerse yourself in the art of creating a harmonious living space that seamlessly blends tradition and modernity, embracing Japanese aesthetics to the fullest.
In this guide, we explore the core elements of Japanese interior design, from the iconic Fusuma sliding doors and Tokonoma focal points to the use...
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Step into the future of design with our ebook, "Innovative Materials for Interior Design." Uncover a treasure trove of cutting-edge materials that are revolutionizing the way we think about interior spaces. From sustainable options to smart and interactive materials, this book takes you on a captivating journey through the latest trends and possibilities in the world of interior design.
Explore the fascinating realm of sustainable materials, where...
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Forced to interact with the natural elements that invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building's experiential reality during construction, one ought to keep in mind their brute powers — earth's crushing heaviness, the erratic character of water, air's thermo-dynamic cataclysms, or the dangerous benignity of fire. Affective in a direct way, they act as guiding principles in the process of realization: While the earth targets the foundations,...
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El libro está dirigido a estudiantes de arquitectura y arquitectos como una herramienta para entender los conceptos de sostenibilidad de los materiales para construcción de mayor utilización en Colombia. Para la selección y especificación de materiales para los proyectos, los arquitectos deben tener en cuenta, además de los aspectos estéticos, presupuestales y estructurales, espectros de impacto ambiental. Se presenta una guía para tener en...
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Eco-envolventes identifica el límite de una construcción con el entorno: fachadas y cubiertas son vistos como un sistema donde todas sus partes co-accionan. El sufi-jo "eco" está por subrayar la vocación de este sistema: el de reducir los consumos energéticos y los impactos ambientales, como las emisiones de gases efecto inver-nadero. El ámbito de referencia es el colombiano, con diferentes manifestaciones climáticas tropicales y su...
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A homage to the 1973 publication of Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri-echoed in the title-this book is devoted to the radical experiences of the 1960s and to their consequences for the most recent developments in contemporary architecture.
As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias. They...
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Regency building characteristics are evergreen style elements that are a great source of inspiration for present-day architects. The ebook "Regency Architecture Characteristics: Guide to Elements and Style of Regency Homes" explores Regency architectural features in detail. Understanding the continuing influence of a design era that profoundly impacted the early 19th-century British architectural landscape is necessary to fully appreciate the ageless...
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