Provides information and guidelines for the building planning process whether you are planning a new public or academic library building. This work reflects on fundamental issues, on development trends and on the planning process. It explores the library building process from both the library manager's perspective as well as that of the architect.
KEYNOTE: This building monograph details the newest addition to one of Berlin's most important institutions, conceived and built by leading architect Norman Foster. Occupying a central role in the intellectual life of Berlin since the end of World War II, the Free University is one of the leading universities in Germany. Its long-awaited redevelopment includes the restoration of the campus' iconic Modernist buildings and the design of a new library for the Faculty of Philology. This volume documents the construction of that structure. Photographs, sketches, drawings, and plans, accompanied by brief essays, reveal how this sleek and handsome four-story structure employs the principles of radial geometry. Featuring many of the cutting-edge concepts of its acclaimed architect Norman Foster, this library's serpentine profile of floors generates a sequence of light-filled spaces that inspire learning as well as provide an optimal environment for reading and studying. AUTHOR: David Jenkins is an architect, editor, and writer based in the Foster Studio. He is the former buildings editor of the Architect's Journal and series editor of Norman Foster Works 1-5. Karl Kiem is a professor of architectural history and preservation at the University of Siegen in Germany. Norman Foster is Founder and Chairman of Foster + Partners. 90 illustrations
The author outlines the major ideas and issues that have emerged in the growing movement of green architecture and sustainable design over the last thirty years. The book asks individuals to understand how the philosophy of sustainable design can affect their own work.
The aim of this book is to bring together and try to interrelate some of the concepts and relevant knowledge from the various disciplines concerned with this area of research and application, including especially the human sciences and engineering. The focus throughout is upon the human rather than upon the computer issues in man-computer interaction (MCI). The book is based upon the papers presented at the Advanced Study Institute held at Mati, Attica, Greece 5-13 September 1976, which was sponsored by the NATO Advanced Study Institutes Programme. These papers were not intended to be encyclopaedic or to yield a 'state of the art' volume. But as revised here they do represent the scope and breadth of man-computer interaction. This book will serve its purpose if it helps to structure and stimulate research in the field, applications, and increase the interaction between readers and writers.
Instrumentation technology is vitally important today since it supports the automation of a wide range of manufacturing factories, the chemical industryand electrical power gene- ration facilities. Engineers who are active in these and ot- her fields need the technical information and support provi- ded by this comprehensive text. Modern instrumentation tech- nology is a constantly-changing kaleidoscope of technologi- cal progress that is keeping pace with the entire field of micro-electronics. This is necessary to keep up with the progress evident in the industries that it supports. As a result, the traditional technology of industrial instruments has evolved into one of comprehensive instrumentation sy- stems for an entire factory or plant. This state-of-the-art book is a handy, single-source reference for information re- quired by engineers in the instrumentation business.
