Featuring the world's most highly acclaimed architects and interior architects, this book aims to present many of the world's most completed and influential building designs for corporate, government, transport and infrastructure, public spaces, landscape architecture, hospitality, residential, sports and leisure, and more.
This CD-ROM for the network user ties in with the book format, which was designed specifically to aid architectural design. The interactive elements include tables, calculations, and spreadsheets; and examples such as bioclimatic data, cost estimating, and lighting.
Includes chapters on slate roof history, slate geology, roof safety, tools, installation, repairs, flashings, and regional slate quarries, as well as sections on ceramic tile roofs, asbestos roofs, and flat-lock copper roofs.
Includes over 300 homes that feature a main floor location for the master suite. Most designs also include basements as an option.
Memorial museums seek to research, represent, commemorate and teach on the subject of dreadful, violent histories. This book analyzes the tactics of these institutions and gauges their public significance.
What does a green home look like? What are its characteristics, and how can you ensure that you meet the highest green standards within a given budget? This book answers these questions. It explores the various construction techniques, materials, processes, and green practices that can reduce the environmental impact of the building itself.
* The first definitive book on the diagram in architecture - an umbrella work that brings together key images and essential reading.
Rotterdam-based NOX, run by Lars Spuybroek, is the most important digital architecture studio in Europe. This major publication serves as a manifesto of the next techniques in digital design; a manual of instruction, showing how complex spaces can actually be built; and a monograph of NOX's complete output.
Across a range of settings - from dry river valleys of Yemen to tropical high-rise fabric of Singapore - projects selected for 10th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture match the design with a deep commitment to place. This text explores issues raised by the projects, from ecological urbanism to cosmopolitanism in architecture.
Chronicles the evolution of tall buildings in London, from the first pre-war edifices to the towering structures of today. An invaluable source of information.
Taking into account the origins and history of RMJM, and their inspiring approach to a new way of practising architecture, this book presents an account of a body of work and an overall vision. It includes a diversity of material that provides a different way of looking at architecture, art, design, space, and visual culture.