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A comprehensive introduction to the ethics of sustainability for empowering professionals and practitioners in many different fields By building the framework for balancing technological developments with their social and environmental effects, sustainable practices...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-09-28
Collection :
Wiley Series in Sustainable Design
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Industrial Design: Materials and Manufacturing Guide, Second Edition provides the detailed coverage of materials and manufacturing processes that industrial designers need without the in-depth and overly technical discussions commonly directed toward engineers. Author...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-09-23
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-10%
81,95€
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Requiring little in the way of mathematic ability, but providing much information, this guide shows readers how they can understand and predict how a building and its materials will perform when exposed to a variety of external forces (mechanics). New information in...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-09-23
Collection :
Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides
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The best political biography of the year' Jonathan Sumption, Spectator'Wonderful . . . A Life so nearly complete it need never be written again' Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary SupplementBy the author of the Orwell Prize-winning Citizen ClemDamned in coruscating verse...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2011-09-22
ePub
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Updated edition of the comprehensive rulebook to the specifier's craft With this latest update, Construction Specifications Writing, Sixth Edition continues to claim distinction as the foremost text on construction specifications. This mainstay in the field offers...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-09-13
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Green Roof Systems goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure. It offers brief coverage of the entire process, including planning and collaboration, and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-09-02
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Offre spéciale
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86,95€
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The world and the people living in it are increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the design profession addresses these developments with a new way of thinking. This book points the way for the design of...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2011-08-22
ePub
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"Ready or not, it’s high time to make BIM a part of your practice, or at least your vocabulary, and this book has as much to offer beginners as it does seasoned users of building information modeling software."—Chicago Architect The first book devoted to the subject of...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-08-10
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81,95€
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Even as oversized McMansions continue to elbow their way into tiny lots nationwide, a much different trend has taken shape. This return to traditional architectural principles venerates qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense,...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2011-08-09
ePub
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Take a holistic approach to contemporary interior design. The interior design process is changing. In order to create truly engaging work, designers are developing a deeper and broader understanding of how design theory, research, and existing practice can help them...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-06-20
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A comprehensive reference of materials for interior designers and architects Choosing the right material for the right purpose is a critical—and often overlooked—aspect in the larger context of designing buildings and interior spaces. When specified and executed...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-06-17
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Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-06-09
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Offre spéciale
-69%
67,80€
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* Just the essential information for readers on the go who want to understand architecture.* Covers the highlights of architectural history, from the Great Pyramids to Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.* Explains how to look at a building and appreciate it....
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2011-05-09
ePub
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Architects and urban planners need to describe cities in the course of their work, be it through maps, diagrams, sketches, computer renderings or models. Drawing for Urban Design explores a wide range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2011-04-22
Collection :
Portfolio Skills
ePub
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Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society. Author...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-04-20
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50,95€
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Construction for Landscape Architecture covers all aspects of landscape construction, giving a good understanding of building materials and assembly. It is heavily illustrated with specially commissioned, detailed construction drawings and has a strong emphasis on...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2011-04-18
Collection :
Portfolio Skills
ePub
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The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs?...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-04-07
ePub
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The story of London, told through twelve of its most seminal buildings.'Excellent ...this is an imaginative book that finds a convincing new way to tell the story of one of the most written-about cities in the world' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'Hollis has a fine eye for...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-04-07
ePub
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From the cutting-edge of technology comes this book on Building Information Modeling (BIM), the newest technology in the AEC industry that allows the professional to create 3D models of a building that includes much more data than a traditional 2D CAD file. Developing...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-03-31
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The refinement of radiocarbon dating using the information form tree-ring counts has raised serious doubts about the accepted theoretical frameowkr of European prehistory. Monuments in Central and Western Europe have proved to be considerably older than their supposed...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-03-31
ePub
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