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John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential – not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human...
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Penguin
Parution :
2008-08-07
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The Architects' Handbook provides a comprehensive range of visual and technical information covering the great majority of building types likely to be encountered by architects, designers, building surveyors and others involved in the construction industry. It is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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The Architects' Handbook provides a comprehensive range of visual and technical information covering the great majority of building types likely to be encountered by architects, designers, building surveyors and others involved in the construction industry. It is...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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This book reveals the inside track on the making of Terminal 5: the courage, the ground-breaking management thinking and the many lessons learnt from the leaders, the client and integrated supply chain teams, - involving over 50,000 people from 20,000 companies - which...
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Wiley
Parution :
2008-04-30
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Today’s trend towards the renewal of cities, sociable places, higher standards of architecture and sustainable city centre living is the business of urban design. In Britain, effective urban design is now at the forefront of government policy. However, even when the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe. It increasingly creates major impacts on the environment (via surface sealing, emissions by transport and ecosystem fragmentation); on the social structure of an area (by...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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This book provides over 160 model letters, with commentary for use with all the main JCT 2005 building contracts. It concentrates on problems which can arise during a project, and draws on the author's extensive experience as a contracts consultant. It is a companion to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Everyone involved in a building project wants to achieve a better building but design quality means different things to clients, users, architects, cost consultants and contractors. Negotiating design priorities is an important part of the development process. The...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Please make the most of what you find in this volume, but please don’t use it merely to achieve compliance. Use it to spark creativity, humanity and urbanity in the buildings and public spaces we all use every day, so nobody need feel “this place isn’t for me” and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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This book is the second in a series of volumes that combine conservation philosophy in the built environment with knowledge of traditional materials, and structural and constructional conservation techniques and technology: Understanding Historic Building Conservation...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Historic Building Conservation
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This valuable resource for developers and designers will help to develop design solutions sympathetic to the environment and improve the sustainability of residential landscapes. The landscapes around housing have a crucial role in creating a more sustainable future...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Professional landscapers and all those involved in creating green spaces have long been in need of a book that is a guide to plant specification, but also makes sense of plants and their cultivation. Plant User Handbook is for practitioners who are professionally...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Architects and contract administrators spend a great deal of time writing letters of various types. Many of them are routine and repetitive in character, but they require proper consideration if potentially dangerous liability situations are to be avoided. This book...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability. This timely text introduces the principles and practice behind urban and regional planning in the context of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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The Department of Building Technology at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft is studying and developing cardboard as a potential building material on a broad, systematic and, where possible, comprehensive basis.The guiding research question is: “How can cardboard be...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-01-15
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The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire. It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods. This...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-11-16
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The construction industry is a vibrant and active industry.The building sector is responsible for creating, modifying and improving the living environment of humanity. On the other hand, construction and buildings have considerable environmental impacts, consuming a...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-08-15
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'A magnificent biography, as sumptuous and intricate as anything Pugin built' John CareyPugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-08-02
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Provides a "real-world" perspective on the preparation of construction documents. * Highly visual book with extensive drawings and details. * Essential reference for NCIDQ examination.
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2007-04-27
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From ARCOM and The American Institute of Architects A complete visual guide to choosing and using finishmaterials In this unique guide, the authors of MASTERSPEC and ArchitecturalGraphic Standards join forces to offer architects vitalsingle-source access to the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2007-04-27
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