Architectural structure and design Books
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited AMASS: Pressure Thickness Media
Book SynopsisAmass makes a case for architectural experiments with massing. By understanding architecture as a collection of interrelationships between multiple masses, plusClover uses pressure, thickness and media - the core subjects of this book - to facilitate differing degrees of coherence. The work of plusClover straddles the territory between mass and weight, complex and generic, high tech and no tech. This book provides a framework for the relationships between these polarities, situating them in the community of ideas among the visual arts, the profession of architecture, and academic spheres. By tabulating selected projects under these three catagories of massing, this book demonstrates new possibilities in massing that move beyond the singular object towards multiplicity of effects. Amass unfolds the process - from bounding box diagrams to construction photos - through which the projects were conceived, explored and detailed.
£61.75
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Studio 804: An Architectural Experience
Book SynopsisFounded in 1995 by Dan Rockhill, Studio 804 is a non-profit organization and a full-year design studio for graduates that finds its momentum at the intersection of contemporary architecture’s most topical concerns: sustainability, affordability and education. The studio has produced 23 projects to date, including 10 LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum level buildings and 3 Passive House certified projects. These projects support a rich mix of uses: spaces for both private and communal use and engagement; spaces for leisure and for learning.
£64.34
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Transformations in Classical Architecture: New
Book SynopsisA quiet revolution is unfolding in the realm of classical architecture today, as the environmental, technological, and economic demands of contemporary practice require levels of efficiency that were never previously expected. This new wave of modern classicism reflects a progressive approach, addressing the pressing needs of the present and future fabric of our cities, towns and landscapes. This book examines how classical - and traditional - architecture can evolve in relation to new paradigms of research and practice (digital media and fabrication, sustainability, ecology, and emerging economies). Based on recent work by leading figures associated with the University of Miami School of Architecture, and a series of design studios at the university (the William H. Harrison Visiting Critics in Classical Architecture), the book redefines the new classical discourse in terms of popular, professional, and academic appeal.
£55.00
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited The Burning Bush Synagogue: Armon Architects
Book SynopsisThe concept in the back of the monumental structure located at the IDF officers school is based on receipt of the Torah by Moses on Mount Sinai. Moses received his appointment at the location of the burning bush. At the ceremony revealing their officer rank on the parade ground, the cadets receive and agree to lead their soldiers with the burning bush in the background, connecting them with the Godly appointment. The biblical verse "and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed" symbolizes the appointment and constitutes the source of inspiration for the structure design which through flames of concrete encompass the officer in the fire of appointment during prayer. The prayer hall is built of 24 concrete flames installed on a concrete skeleton with steel screws and poles created in an industrial and controlled process, millimeter precise. Each flame is connected by two steel poles at the top and 2 anchor points at the bottom locked in place by screws. Each group of three flames was stabilized by a horizontal iron pole. The walls of the hall were stabilized in the same way. "And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end..." The Book of Exodus chapter 26 verse 28. The whole compound is interwoven with a forest of olive trees as the sword is interwoven in the officer pin, the olive branch now entwining the flame of appointment.
£50.26
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited The Sea Girt House: David Hu Architect
Book SynopsisDavid Hu's Sea Girt House ocillates gracefully between a sort of proto minimalism and a hyper orchestrated spatial awareness. It's a project that makes no bones about its purpose of providing a single-minded solitude for its inhabitant, even while demonstrating its unwavering solicitude towards its surrounding enviornment.
£50.07
ActarD Inc WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing From Pencil to
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£37.05
Actar Publishers Within or Without
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£26.60
Oro Editions Barns of St Croix Valley: An Architect’s
Book SynopsisIllustrated with 200 barn sketches, diagrams, and maps, this book takes you on a journey through the St Croix River Valley. It grounds you in the geography, geology and biology of the region and introduces you to its original inhabitants, the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples, European explorers, fur traders and loggers and the settlers that followed them. It is a celebration of regional diversity and architectural expression through a single type of building — the barn.
£19.95
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers LLC NATURES MUSE
£65.55
Brepols N.V. The Low Countries at the Crossroads:
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£177.64
Park Books Immediate Spaces 16-19
Book SynopsisThe Studio for Immediate Spaces (SIS) is a two-year MA programme at Amsterdam's renowned Sandberg Instituut. It aims to explore and shape spatial practices on the genesis and production of contemporary spatial configurations. Through extensive field investigations, SIS works as a laboratory, testing ideas relevant to how we live today and how we could live tomorrow. Rural flatlands, suburbia and gritty city settings; Mediterranean shorelines and Alpine mountainscapes; open-pit mines and industrial legacies; abandoned buildings and unfinished infrastructures; harbours, airports and refugee camps: Such places were the sites of SIS's research and production between 2016 and 2019. Directed by Swiss architect Leopold Banchini, it embraced a truly global approach that crossed, and deliberately ignored, borders. This book offers a glimpse into this unique journey around the world. Illustrated with some 790 colour and black-and-white photographs, it features work produced collectively by participants in simultaneous roles of geographer, researcher, architect, urban planner and designer. Brief texts on each project and essays by Leopold Banchini and other SIS faculty, studio participants as well as by curator and writer Lukas Feireiss round out this exceptional documentation of forward-thinking higher education in spatial design.
£999.99
Park Books Best of Austria: Architecture 2018_19
Book SynopsisThe seventh edition of Best of Austria, produced by Vienna-based Architekturzentrum Wien, once again brings together some 170 projects that have won national and international architecture awards in 2018 and 2019, from public buildings and spaces to offices, educational facilities, and single-family homes. Each entry includes full-colour images and a floor plan, section, or elevation, as well as a brief description of the project. Rounding out the volume is a critical essay on contemporary Austrian architecture. All of the country’s major architectural prizes are accounted for in this large and lavishly illustrated volume, making it a valuable up-to-date survey of contemporary architecture in Austria. Text in English and German.
£999.99
Bohlau Verlag Nürnbergs Glanz: Studien zu Architektur und
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£85.37
Harrassowitz Marmor - Masse - Monumente: Vorfertigung,
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£177.65
Dietrich Reimer Morphologie Von Stadtlandschaften: Geschichte,
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£49.50
Koenemann Living With Stone
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£17.23
Koenemann Wooden Homes
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£17.19
Gebruder Mann Verlag Internationale Architektur
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£64.60
Gebruder Mann Verlag Der Sockel: Architektur - Wirkung -
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£49.00
Gebruder Mann Verlag Bruno Taut. Kunstgewerbe Und Mobel Fur Japan:
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£103.68
Gebrüder Mann Verlag Wohnen weiterbauen
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£71.05
Schnell & Steiner Kloster Lorsch - Die Archaologischen
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Antike Bauornamentik: Grenzen Und Moglichkeiten
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Transforming Sacred Spaces: New Approaches to
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£139.65
Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Byzantinische Sakralarchitektur Der Dunklen
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£156.75
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Iaac Bits 9: Black Ecologies
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£999.99
El Croquis Architectures of Transition - emerging practices
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£42.00
El Croquis Sub Topo Graphia Espai Crater Museum Olot
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£39.56
El Croquis 5 Architecture Fables
£39.56
Fabrica Editorial, La Modelling for the Camera
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£53.57
Monsa Publications Wellness Homes: Transforma Tu Hogar Y Siente El
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£43.02
Editorial Tenov S.L. Formalismo Puro Un repaso a la arquitectura
Book SynopsisCo-opting the discredited format of the history textbook with its didactic tone, well-defined stages, and linear development, David Bestue subverts the cliches of historiography, creating an unorthodox path whilst recovering forgotten ideas and breathing new life into familiar tropes. It is a work that seeks to understand how the landscape is drawn around us. A fresh and very personal reading of our recent history, illuminated by photographs, collages, and gadgets created to explain the reasons of form. Formalismo Puro is an art project in its own right, created by a conceptual artist with a background in sculpture, enthralled by the notion of architecture as form.
£999.99
ActarD Inc Verb Crisis: Verb #06
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£32.75
Ediciones Trea, S.L. Los espacios de la mirada historia de la
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£45.53
Peeters Publishers L'insula V d'Herculanum: Transformations
Book SynopsisCette monographie propose une analyse détaillée de l’architecture et du décor des édifices de l’insula V d’Herculanum. Fouillé entre 1931 et 1938, ce quartier d’habitations occupe une surface au sol de 3800 m2 environ. L’étude est menée dans une perspective diachronique, afin de mettre en lumière toutes les transformations successives du bâti et de l’ornatus des habitations. Le choix d’une analyse à l’échelle de l’insula, permet d’envisager les phases successives de lotissement et de modifications du parcellaire. On constate ainsi que loin de rester figées, les limites des habitations fluctuaient par regroupement, fusion, fragmentation d’édifices, en fonction des besoins de leurs occupants. Cette étude de l’histoire structurale de l’insula V s’accompagne aussi d’observations sur les programmes ornementaux et les choix opérés à ce sujet par les propriétaires des édifices, entre conservation de décors anciens et rénovation totale ou partielle des habitations. Ces recherches croisées alimentent des réflexions à caractère plus sociales et anthropologiques, sur les modes d’habiter dans une petite cité d’Italie au début de notre ère. Un des enjeux les plus problématiques suscités par l’analyse de l’espace domestique concerne l’articulation entre le « contenant » - une structure architecturale dont les limites sont a priori assez fixes et en tout cas rigides – et le « contenu », à savoir la familia, une entité dynamique, aux limites mouvantes. L’espace domestique tend à s’adapter aux évolutions de la cellule familiale, qui présente alternativement des tendances à l’inflation, puis à la fragmentation. Pour les villes d’époque romaine, et Herculanum en particulier, un objectif est donc d’envisager quels ajustements du point de vue de l’architecture des habitations ces métamorphoses continuelles des cellules familiales pouvaient générer. Quels types de solutions pouvaient être mis en œuvre, et quelles en étaient les conséquences du point de vue de l’architecture et de l’ornatus des maisons ? Cet ouvrage envisage ainsi l'étude de l'architecture domestique non à l'échelle d'une seule unité d'habitation, mais à l'échelle d'une insula toute entière afin d'envisager une analyse globale aussi bien synchronique que diachronique.
£92.00
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Weather in the City Revised Edition
£35.50
Hong Kong University Press Metamorphosis or Confrontation
£999.99
