Construction for Landscape Architecture
Construction for Landscape Architecture

Author: Jamie Liversedge

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2011-04-18

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1780675003

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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 sustainability and good practice. At the end of the book there is an extensive glossary and an appendix of technical information.

Précis of the Lectures on Architecture
Précis of the Lectures on Architecture

Author: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0892365803

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Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.

Regenerative and Positive Impact Architecture
Regenerative and Positive Impact Architecture

Author: Shady Attia

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 3319667181

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This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects. It compares four state-of-the-art buildings to examine the steps needed for a transition from negative impact reduction architecture to positive impact regenerative architecture, utilizing life cycle analysis. The book provides a solid grounding in the areas of energy-efficient building and building materials life-cycle assessment, discussing carbon efficiency within a wider context that includes its technical, socio-cultural and environmental dimensions and covers the key areas for green buildings performance (operational and embodied energy). The analysis and comparison of four case studies of state-of-art modern building projects in Europe and North America serve as inspiring examples for architects and building professionals in the fields of high performance buildings, ecological materials and carbon efficiency.

Urbanité hybride / Hybrid Urbanity
Urbanité hybride / Hybrid Urbanity

Author: Bruno Marchand

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2024-07-22

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 3035625433

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Countering the phenomenon of sprawl in the often anonymous or chaotic urban periphery, the Oassis neighborhood in Lausanne takes a unique approach based on urbanity and hybridization. Located on a former industrial wasteland in the west of the city, Oassis reflects the compositional principles of the traditional city, while also engaging in the dynamics of ecological transition and climate resilience. This ‘urban fragment’ is both an urban fabric, compatible with future developments in the neighborhood, and an architectural object characterized by urbanity. The contemporary challenges of regenerating suburban areas are addressed here through diverse development programs and a profusion of gardens. Skilful combination of economic, ecological and social factors with high-quality architecture With unpublished documents and specially commissioned photographs

Ecological Transition in Education and Research
Ecological Transition in Education and Research

Author: Hassan Ait Haddou

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2022-01-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1786307162

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This book centers on climate change, a pressing issue in the ecological transition, particularly for landscape and architecture schools. The scientific realities and consequences of this phenomenon are becoming increasingly well-known and it is now evident that architecture, urban planning and landscaping all have the potential to mitigate these consequences. Ecological Transition in Education and Research is a multidisciplinary collective work, intended to raise awareness of adaptation and mitigation strategies such as action-research, educational innovations and concrete transition practices that embrace different schools of thought. The overall goal is to promote educational practices and research on climate change.

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Publisher: Editions Publibook

Published:

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 2753905576

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Terra 2008
Terra 2008

Author: Leslie Rainer

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1606060430

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Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.

Libraries as Places: Buildings for the 21st century
Libraries as Places: Buildings for the 21st century

Author: Marie-Françoise Bisbrouck

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 3110935627

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„Dieser Sammelband ist eines der wichtigsten Werke, das die neue Rolle der Bibliotheken darstellt, und bildet daher die theoretische Basis für alle neuen Bibliotheksbauten. Es zeigt innovative Entwicklungen und Visionen auf, wie zukünftig Bibliotheksplanung und Bibliotheksbau im Dialog zwischen Architekten und Bibliothekaren aussehen kann.“ Prof. Dr. Claudia Lux, Generaldirektorin der Stiftung Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Art in Architecture
Art in Architecture

Author: Éric Mézil

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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"This publication illustrates the specific links between several artists and an architect. Over almost 40 years of projects and works - private houses, public buildings - a complicity has been forged between architectural signs and art vocabulary. In addition to his interest in his Belgian colleagues, Charles Vandenhove here reveals his love of art and his loyalty to today's greatest artists, from Sol LeWitt to Daniel Buren, and Giulio Paolini to Robert Barry."--BOOK JACKET.