Buildings for the Performing Arts

Buildings for the Performing Arts, Second Edition: A Design and Development Guide
Publisher: Architectural Press | ISBN: 0750668350 | edition 2008 | PDF | 296 pages | 15 mb

This superb design and development guide must be essential reading for all design teams involved in the initiation, planning, design and building of facilities for the various performing arts. A detailed analysis of all design and development issues and the relationships with clients and consultants are explored adopting a very discerning approach. The specific studies that follow analyse in a masterly way the critical requirements of the auditorium and platform/stage, support facilities and their relationship, and examine the effects of site conditions, their time scale and financial appraisal.

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Singapore (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

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Green Cities: Urban Growth And the Environment

Green Cities: Urban Growth And the Environment
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press | ISBN: 0815748167 | edition 2006 | PDF | 160 pages | 12,7 mb

Rapid urban growth and suburban sprawl have heightened concern in many quarters about sustainable development. Are economic growth and environmental health always mutually exclusive goals? Nearly everyone would choose to pursue both given the chance, but many believe that it would be overly optimistic—perhaps naïve—to expect both.

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Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press | ISBN: 0816647569 | edition 2006 | PDF | 160 pages | 11 mb

American cities' penchants for single-use zoning and free-market development in pursuit of economic growth have produced problems that have long been recognized: grueling commutes and dependency on automobiles, social isolation, expensive public infrastructure, needless destruction of countryside. Eminent domain disputes rage on, despite recent Supreme Court decisions. Outdated public housing and failed single-function projects litter the landscape. Addressing these urgent problems and debating the public's role in urban planning, the contributors to Urban Planning Today report on real projects in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Omaha, Portland, and Vancouver. They bring varying, and sometimes divergent, perspectives from backgrounds in urban design and development, city and regional planning, criticism, and law to bear on the mixed bag of results observed in these cities.

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Digital Cities AD

Prof. Neil Leach, "Digital Cities AD (Architectural Design)"
Wiley | ISBN: 0470773006 | 2009-09-22 | PDF | 136 pages | 46 Mb

What is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years, the profound impact of computer-aided techniques on architecture has been well charted. From the use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of generative design tools and parametric modelling, digital technologies have come to play a major role in architectural production. But how are they helping architects and designers to operate at the urban scale? And how might they be changing the way in which we perceive and understand our cities?

* Features some of the world’s leading experimental practices, such as Zaha Hadid Architects, R&Sie(n), Biothing and Xefirotarch.
* Takes in exciting emerging practices, such as moh architects, kokkugia and THEVERYMANY, and work by students at some of the most progressive schools, such as the AA, Dessau Institute of Architecture and RMIT.
* Contributors include: Michael Batty, Benjamin Bratton, Alain Chiaradia, Manuel DeLanda, Vicente Guallart and Peter Trummer.

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Closing the Gap

Richard Garber, "Closing the Gap: Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice (Architectural Design)"
Wiley | ISBN: 0470998202 | 2009-04-27 | PDF | 144 pages | 19 Mb

By closing the gap between conceptual design and the documentation required for construction, building information modelling (BIM) promises to revolutionise contemporary design practice. This issue of AD brings together a group of pioneering academics, architects, engineers and construction managers all of whom are engaged in the use of building information models in the actualisation of complex building projects, from design stage to construction. Key texts trace the development of building information modelling technologies and address issues of collaboration, design and management, while featured projects systematise the use of BIM in contemporary design practice for students and professionals alike faced with considering these tools within the changing marketplace.

•Covers a core area of technological development: BIM systems that span the gap between the design, manufacturing and construction processes.

•Key contributions from: Chuck Eastman, Cynthia Ottchen and Dennis Shelden of Gehry Technologies.

•Features work by: Asymptote, Greg Lynn FORM, KieranTimberlake, Morphosis and SHoP Architects.

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turkey : at the threshold

Michael Hensel, Defne Sungurogl Hensel, Hulya Ertas, "Turkey: At the Threshold (Architectural Design)"
John Wiley & Sons Ltd | ISBN: 0470743190 | 2010-01-22 | PDF | 144 pages | 22 Mb

Since the early 2000s, Turkey has undergone a remarkable economic recovery, accompanied by urban development and a cultural flowering. Positioned between an expanding EU and an unstable Middle East, Turkey provides a fascinating interface between the East and West.

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Green Building: Guidebook for Sustainable Architecture

Michael Bauer, Peter Mösle, Michael Schwarz, "Green Building: Guidebook for Sustainable Architecture"

Springer 2009 | ISBN-10: 3642006345 | 210 Pages | PDF | 23,2 MB

An important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle. How to determine this? What integrative factors influence the performance of a healthy and sustainable building? This, while it may be important for clients and architects to know, is frequently not very transparent.
This book has been written to assist with clarifying target criteria and expanding horizons when it comes to ecological buildings. It is meant as a handbook and source of reference for clients, architects, planners and building operators, to provide them with pertinent information about their design, construction and operation: how to do this in the most energy-efficient and economical manner?
Also, there is feedback and documentation about prominent buildings like the Hamburg Dockland or the Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart. They provide excellent architectural examples for detailed construction and design solutions. Further, there are insightful interviews with architects and clients about many important buildings, which help turn this book into an integrated source of reference for sustainable architecture.

- A Guideline for Planning, Construction and Operation of sustainable Buildings
- A source of reference for clients, architects, planners and building operators
- Innovative architectural examples with sustainable concepts and design

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the portfolio

the portfolio
an architecture student's handbook

By Igor Marjanovi , Katerina Redi Ray
and Lesley Lokko
Paperback: 148 pages
Publisher: Architectural Press; 1 edition (June 12, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0750657642
ISBN-13: 978-0750657648
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches

Book Description:
The portfolio is the single most important part of every architectural student's education. This book proides a complete
guide to preparing, compiling and presenting this crucial element of the architecture course.
The experienced author team gives practical advice for the creation of the portfolio covering issues of size, storage,
layout and order. They go on to guide the student through the various forms a portfolio can take: the Electronic Portfolio,
the Academic Portfolio and the Professional Portfolio suggesting different approaches and different media to use in order
to create the strongest portfolio possible. The team also presents the best examples from international student portfolios
to show the reader their recommendations in practice.
{mosgoogle}The book has a companion website where full colour representations of the best examples of portfolio work
can be accessed.
Also in the Seriously Useful Guides series:
* The Dissertation
* The Crit
* Practical Experience
* Offers step-by-step advice for students on how to prepare and present their portfolios
* Advice from the experts on how to make portfolios the best they can be
* Fully illustrated with examples of the best students' work from around the world

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green buildiing handbook vol1

green buildiing handbook vol1

Tom Woolley, Green Building Handbook vol. 1

Spon Press 2000 Publishing | ISBN: 0419253807 | 1998 | PDF | 224 pages | 5.4 Mb

Green Building Handbook Vol.1: A Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment + Green Building Handbook Vol.2: A Companion Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment.

Vol.1 Product Description:
Updated from the Green Building Digest Journal, this handbook provides a detailed reference for environmentally concerned puchasers of building products. Containing at-a-glance tables for buyers and specifiers, the handbook also includes an overview of the concepts and resulting literature covering this highly contentious subject, policy thinking, covering methodology for specifiers, case studies, a guide to books an dorganizations and what the future may hold, all in an accessible and user friendly format. Practical examples of using green materials have also been included

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