Layers Volumes Light: Abramson Teiger Architects

Layers Volumes Light: Abramson Teiger Architects
Architecture Interiors Press | Carolyn Horwitz | 2011 | HQ PDF | ISBN: 0983513228, 0982319045 | 164 pages | 102 Mb

Abramson Teiger Architects designs sculptural and light-filled modern homes, institutional and cultural buildings, and commercial spaces. The firm specializes in contemporary designs that bring the legacy of Southern California mid-century architecture into the present day.


Components and Systems: Modular Construction Design, Structure, New Technologies

Gerald Staib, Andreas Dorrhofer, Markus Rosenthal, "Components and Systems: Modular Construction Design, Structure, New Technologies"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 3764386568 | 239 pages | PDF | 34,5 MB


Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible.


The Architect, the Cook and Good Taste

The Architect, the Cook and Good Taste by Petra Hagen Hodgson and Rolf Toyka
English | ISBN: 376437621X | edition 2007 | PDF | 160 pages | 12,4 mb


Since time immemorial, cooking and building have been among humanity s most basic occupations. Both of them are rooted in necessity, but both of them also possess a cultural as well as a sensory, aesthetic dimension.

And while it is true that cooking is a transitory art form, it gives expression to the periods of human cultural history just as architecture does. Moreover, both arts accord a central role to the materials employed. Both involve measuring and proportioning, shaping and designing, assembling and composing.


Sustainable Buildings in Practice: What the Users Think

Sustainable Buildings in Practice: What the Users Think By George Baird
2010 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0415399327 | PDF | 32 MB


Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users' needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupants' needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored.


Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development

Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development By James O. Coplien, Gertrud Bjornvig
2010 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0470684208 | PDF | 2 MB


More and more Agile projects are seeking architectural roots as they struggle with complexity and scale - and they're seeking lightweight ways to do it

Still seeking? In this book the authors help you to find your own path
Taking cues from Lean development, they can help steer your project toward practices with longstanding track records
Up-front architecture? Sure. You can deliver an architecture as code that compiles and that concretely guides development without bogging it down in a mass of documents and guesses about the implementation
Documentation? Even a whiteboard diagram, or a CRC card, is documentation: the goal isn't to avoid documentation, but to document just the right things in just the right amount
Process? This all works within the frameworks of Scrum, XP, and other Agile approaches


The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism

Dana Cuff, "The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0262032767 | 390 pages | PDF | 22,6 MB


The provisional city is one of constant erasure and eruption. Through what Dana Cuff calls a "convulsive urban act," developers both public and private demolish an urban site and disband its inhabitants, replacing it with some vision of a better life that leaves no trace of the former structure. Architects bring their own utopian dreams to the process.


Architectural Management: International Research and Practice

Architectural Management: International Research and Practice
English | ISBN: 1405177861 | 2009 | PDF | 344 pages | 3 MB


Architectural Management represents the state of the art of research and practice in the field and includes contributions from leading international figures. The book looks back at over a decade of research into architectural management, considers the present challenges and opportunities, and looks to the future. You'll find a review of earlier work and developments as well as a focus on new research areas.


Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide

Ass....on of British Th***re Technicians, "Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide"
Publisher: Ro****ge | ISBN: 0415548942 | 2012 | PDF | 210 pages | 32.4 MB


The Association of British Theatre Technicians produced its first guide to the design and planning of theatres in 1972. Revised in 1986, it became the standard reference work for anyone involved in building, refurbishing, or creating a performance space. Theatre Buildings - a design guide is its successor.


Sustainable Buildings in Practice: What the Users Think

Sustainable Buildings in Practice: What the Users Think By George Baird
2010 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0415399327 | PDF | 32 MB

Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users’ needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupants’ needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored.


Contemporary Design in Detail: Sustainable Environments

Contemporary Design in Detail: Sustainable Environments
Rockport | Yenna Chan | 2008 | HQ PDF | ISBN: 1592535046 | 195 pages | 115 Mb

A visual look at the architectural details of sustainable residential spaces
The Contemporary Design in Detail 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.


Primary Care Centres, Second Edition: A Guide to Health Care Design

Primary Care Centres, Second Edition: A Guide to Health Care Design by Geoffrey Purves
2009-08-12 | ISBN: 075066696X | 216 pages | PDF | 14 MB


Primary Care Centres explores the process of planning and designing buildings for frontline medical practice. Taking as a starting point the concept that good design contributes directly to healthy living, the book shows beneficial effects that a good design brief can bring to the staff, patients and visitors of health care facilities. It outlines principles for designs that are both practical and useful.


Engaging Spaces

Engaging Spaces
Frame Publishers | 2010 | ISBN: 9077174400 | 418 Pages | PDF | 242MB

Highlighted in this book are 30 narrative spaces orchestrated by renowned Dutch exhibition architecture office Kossmann.dejong. Featured environments range from permanent presentations in museums and visitor centres to temporary exhibitions, among them the Urbanian Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Full-page photos accompanied by written explanations offer insight into how these narrative spaces are composed. Sketches, plans and sections make the designs fully comprehensible. A separate chapter explains a dozen key concepts - interaction, abstraction, media mix, routing and more - that inform most narrative environments.


Enduring Pastoral: Recycling the Middle Landscape Ideal in the Tennessee Valley. (Architecture - Technology - Culture)

Torben Huus Larsen, "Enduring Pastoral: Recycling the Middle Landscape Ideal in the Tennessee Valley. (Architecture - Technology - Culture)"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 9042030577 | PDF | 220 pages | 3,3 MB


Has the pastoral vision, so central to American history and culture, survived the twentieth century? Enduring Pastoral traces and analyzes the development of the middle landscape by examining the historical construction of a variety of private and public places in the Tennessee Valley. Moving from the aesthetically sculpted grounds of the Biltmore Estate and the environmental transformation undertaken by the Tennessee Valley Authority, to the adoption of the pastoral trope in Appalachian museums, the displays at the Chattanooga Choo Choo, and Dolly Parton's theme park Dollywood, Enduring Pastoral shows how the pastoral design has been simulated and commercialized for economic and political purposes.


Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival

Thomas Fisher "Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival"
English | 2008-04-23 | ISBN: 0750669853 | 264 pages | PDF | 7,3 MB


Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves.


Architectural Design with SketchUp: Component-Based Modeling, Plugins, Rendering, and Scripting

Alexander Schreyer - Architectural Design with SketchUp: Component-Based Modeling, Plugins, Rendering, and Scripting
Published: 2012-12-04 | ISBN: 1118123093 | PDF | 320 pages | 42 MB


How to get spectacular results with the 3D-modeling app SketchUp
While it is easy to pick up the basic techniques of SketchUp, going beyond these essentials requires step-by-step instruction and practice. Architectural Design with SketchUp provides the knowledge needed to move past the basics and take full advantage of SketchUp as a powerful 3D modeling tool. After a SketchUp refresher, this user-friendly handbook covers component-based modeling for assembly, scheduling, collaborative design, and modeling with a BIM approach. It demonstrates the use of plugins for 3D modeling, fabrication, data integration, and analysis (energy efficiency, etc.), as well as rendering in SketchUp, enhancing with Photoshop, and combining with hand-drawn content. It also offers easy tutorials for creating complex geometry using Ruby coding.