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Book SynopsisA book about modernist architect Mies van der Rohe''s only design for the UK, a bronze tower and grand plaza in the heart of London. After decades of struggle, Mies'' plans for Mansion House Square were scuppered. In Thatcher''s Britain, popular opinion turned against modernism, Prince Charles criticised the work, and the government feared new public spaces. Stopped dead by an Inquiry, and mired in controversy, Mies'' masterpiece was all but erased. Mies in London is the first book on this remarkable project, with 160 pages of unseen material. I want you to go all the way, Palumbo said. I want the lot, inside and out. I want door handles, ashtrays, lettershoots. Very well, Mies replied, I''ll do it.

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Book SynopsisStudies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity, gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in the AncienTrade Review'… Seals and Sealings in the Ancient World fulfills its promise of presenting well-written and well-informed research on the topic from various regions in the Old World. Together, the chapters demonstrate how a multiplicity of methods from a variety of disciplines can be used to analyze and interpret seals, sealings, and their glyptic, as well as recognize the varieties of methods and methodologies used by specialists studying other regions. This book should be in the libraries of experts, emerging researchers, and anyone aspiring to become a scholar of seals and sealings in the ancient world.' Siobhan Shinn, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Joan Aruz; 1. Introduction: small windows, wide views Marta Ameri, Sarah Kielt Costello, Gregg Jamison, Sarah Scott; Part I. The Ancient Near East and Cyprus: 2. Administrative role of seal imagery in the early Bronze Age: Mesopotamian and Iranian traders on the Plateau Holly Pittman; 3. Slave labor: Uruk cylinder seal imagery and early writing Sarah Jarmer Scott; 4. The first female bureaucrats: gender and glyptic in 4th-3rd Millennia Northern Mesopotamia Andrew McCarthy; 5. Rematerializing the early dynastic banquet seal Sarah Kielt Costello; 6. Sealing practices in the Akkadian period Yelena Z. Rakic; 7. Authenticity, seal recarving, and authority in the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean Joanna Smith; Part II. South Asia and Persian Gulf: 8. Indus seals and glyptic studies: an overview Asko Parpola; 9. Letting the pictures speak: an image-based approach to the mythological and narrative imagery of the Harappan world Marta Ameri; 10. Understanding Indus seal carving traditions: a stylistic and metric approach Gregg Jamison; 11. Operational sequences and stamp seals: a new approach to identifying groups of seal carvers in the Indus civilization Adam Green; 12. Seals and sealing technology in the Dilmun culture: the post Harappan life of the Indus Valley sealing tradition Steffen Laursen; Part III. Egypt: 13. The evolution of Ancient Egyptian seals and sealing systems Joe Wegner; 14. Early dynastic sealing practices as reflection of state formation in Egypt? Ilona Regulski; 15. Sealings and seals from pyramid Age Egypt John Nolan; 16. The administrative use of scarabs during the middle kingdom Daphna Ben Tor; 17. Middle and new kingdom sealing practice in Egypt and Nubia: a comparison Stuart Tyson Smith; Part IV. Aegean: 18. Introductory remarks, Aegean Judith Weingarten; 19. Aegean Bronze Age sealstones and fingerrings: chronology and functions John Younger; 20. An Aegean seal in Greek hands? Thoughts on the perception of Aegean seals in the Iron Age Maria Anastasiadou; 21. Cryptic glyptic: multivalency in Minoan glyptic imagery Erin Mcgowan; 22. The magic and the mundane: the function of 'talismanic class' stones in Minoan Crete Angela Murock Hussein.

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Book SynopsisThe gold-standard design and documentation reference for students Architectural Graphic Standards, Student Edition condenses key information from the definitive industry reference to provide students with a powerful learning resource.Table of ContentsA NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER XI A NOTE FROM THE AIA XII ARCHITECTS’ TRIBUTES TO ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHIC STANDARDS XIII INTRODUCTION XVI PREFACE XVIII SECTION 1: DESIGN PRINCIPLES & CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION 1 CHAPTER 1 FUNCTIONAL PLANNING 3 CHAPTER 2 ENVIRONMENT 31 CHAPTER 3 RESILIENCE IN BUILDINGS 53 CHAPTER 4 ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION 77 SECTION 2: MATERIALS 91 CHAPTER 5 CONCRETE 93 CHAPTER 6 MASONRY 107 CHAPTER 7 METALS 125 CHAPTER 8 WOOD 141 CHAPTER 9 GLASS 165 SECTION 3: BUILDING ELEMENTS 173 CHAPTER 10 ELEMENT A: SUBSTRUCTURE 175 CHAPTER 11 ELEMENT B: SHELL 203 CHAPTER 12 ELEMENT C: INTERIORS 363 CHAPTER 13 ELEMENT D: SERVICES 427 CHAPTER 14 ELEMENT E: EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS 517 CHAPTER 15 ELEMENT F: SPECIAL CONSTRUCTION 565 CHAPTER 16 ELEMENT G: SITEWORK 581 APPENDICES 627 A Classical Architectural Elements 629 B Mathematical Data 635 C Structural Calculations 641 INDEX 645

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Book SynopsisThe application of glass as a structural material may seem surprising initially, yet pioneering glass structures were first built two decades ago already. Ever since, Structural Glass has been developing at a very high pace thanks to very intensive scientific and industrial research and new technological developments.Right at the heart of these rapidly evolving developments, the European COST Action TU0905 'Structural Glass â Novel Design Methods and Next Generation Products' is active. With its main goals of unifying, harmonizing and boosting the ongoing developments in structural glass research, COST Action TU0905 frequently organizes international expert meetings and Training Schools, and supports scientific research missions.This proceedings volume of the COST Action TU0905 Mid-term Conference on Structural Glass offers a great insight into the latest developments in Structural Glass by means of more than 60 peer-reviewed papers by nearly 140 authors. Contributions cover all major topics in the field, ranging from in-depth material investigations to full glass structures and facades. As such, it represents an appealing work on this very young and dynamic field, and is intended for a global readership of researchers and practitioners, including structural and civil engineers, architects, material scientists, building consultants, contractors, material suppliers and product manufacturers, as well as other professionals involved in the design and realization of structural glass projects.The COST Action TU0905 Mid-Term Conference was held as a unique event, strongly embedded in COST Action TU0905 'Structural Glass â Novel Design Methods and Next Generation Products'. As such, it reflects the Actionâs strong position as probably the largest Structural Glass research network worldwide, and disseminates the ultimate COST philosophy: true cooperation in Science and Technology.Table of ContentsPreface, Conference organization, Acknowledgements, KEYNOTE LECTURE, ACTIONS ON GLASS STRUCTURES, ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRIES WITH GLASS, FACADES, GLASS FAILURE ANALYSIS, GLASS STRENGTH & AGEING OF GLASS, HYBRID GLASS COMPONENTS, INSULATING GLASS UNITS, LAMINATED GLASS & INTERLAYER PROPERTIES, NUMERICAL MODELING & EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION, STABILITY OF GLASS COMPONENTS, STRUCTURAL GLASS CONNECTIONS, STRUCTURAL GLASS DESIGN PHILOSOPHY, THERMAL FRACTURE OF GLASS, THERMAL TEMPERING OF GLASS, Index, Author Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface, Conference organization, Platinum sponsor, Gold sponsors, Silver sponsors, Supporting organisations, EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL GLASS RESEARCH NETWORK. KEYNOTE PAPERS, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, GEOMETRIES & LIGHTING, CURVED GLASS, GLASS IN FAÇADES, HYBRID AND COMPOSITE GLASS COMPONENTS, INSULATING GLASS UNITS, JOINTS, FIXINGS & ADHESIVES, LAMINATED GLASS & INTERLAYER PROPERTIES, NUMERICAL MODELLING & EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION, PROJECTS & CASE STUDIES, STRENGTH & STABILITY, STRUCTURAL GLASS DESIGN PHILOSOPHY & STRUCTURAL SAFETY

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Book SynopsisWith the boundaries of place softened and extended by digital communications technologies, learning in a networked society necessitates new distributions of activity across time, space, media, and people; and this development is no longer exclusive to formally designated spaces such as school classrooms, lecture halls, or research laboratories. Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning explores how qualities of physical places make both formal and informal education in a networked society possible. Through a series of investigations and case studies, it illuminates the structural composition and functioning of complex learning environments.This book offers a wealth of key design elements and attributes for productive learning that educational designers can reuse in multiple contexts. The chapters examine how places are modified, expanded, or supplemented by networking technologies and practices in order to create spaces in which learners can collaboratively deveTrade Review"Networked learning research is clearly shifting its emphasis from ‘online’ towards the mixed-mode aspects of the digital and the physical, offline and online, and the meshed reality making the two inseparable. However, this has only now—with the publication of Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning—been captured and treated rigorously from a theoretical, analytical, and empirical perspective. This book will stand as a landmark and a turning point for research into networked learning, and I highly recommend it to researchers and practitioners."--Thomas Ryberg, Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Co-chair of the Networked Learning Conference"The initial rush to understand and implement virtual environments for teaching and learning left consideration of place by the wayside. This book marks a turning point in re-establishing the importance of place as a central constituent of learning activity, focusing much needed attention on the traditions and effects of natural spaces, material objects, and built environments in relation to learning and the design of learning experiences."--Caroline Haythornthwaite, Professor, SLAIS, The iSchool at the University of British Columbia, Canada"This is a timely and important book, given the impact of digital technologies and the ways in which they result in the boundaries of place being softened and extended. Learning in a networked society necessitates new distributions of activity across time, space, media, and people, and the well-known editors and authors of this volume are in an excellent position to critique this important issue."--Gráinne Conole, Professor of Education in the Institute for Education at Bath Spa University, UKTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Place, space and networked learningLucila Carvalho, Peter Goodyear and Maarten de Laat Chapter 2. Placing focus in the place-based spaces for networked learningDavid Ashe and Nina Bonderup DohnChapter 3. Educational design and birds on treesAna PintoChapter 4. A study of correspondence, dissonance and improvisation in the design and use of a school-based networked learning environment Pippa YeomanChapter 5. Finding the spaces in-between: learning as a social material practiceJos BoysChapter 6. Students physical and digital sites of study: making, marking and breaking boundariesLesley Gourlay and Martin OliverChapter 7. The sonic spaces of online, distance learnersMichael Sean Gallagher, James Lamb and Sian BayneChapter 8. Is there anybody out there? Place-based networks for learning: Netmap a tool for accessing hidden informal learning networks Maarten de Laat and Shane DawsonChapter 9. Networked places as communicative resources: a social-semiotic analysis of a re-designed university library Louise J. Ravelli and Robert J. McMurtrieChapter 10. Building bridges: design, emotion and museum learningMaree StenglinChapter 11. The O in MONA: reshaping museum spaces Lucila CarvalhoChapter 12. Practicalities of developing and deploying a handheld multimedia guide for museum visitors Nigel Linge, Kate Booth and David Parsons Chapter 13. Citizen CartographerJuliet Sprake and Peter RogersChapter 14. Designing hubs for connected learning: social, spatial and technological insights from Coworking, Hackerspaces and Meetup groups Mark Bilandzic and Marcus FothChapter 15. Spaces enabling change: x-lab and science education 2020 Tina Hinton, Pippa Yeoman, Leslie Ashor and Philip PoronnikChapter 16. Translating translational research on space design from the health sector to higher education – lessons learnt and challenges revealed Robert A. Ellis and Kenn FisherChapter 17. Conclusion – Place-Based Spaces for Networked Learning: Emerging Themes and IssuesPeter Goodyear, Lucila Carvalho, Vivien Hodgson and Maarten de LaatAuthor BiographiesIndex

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Book SynopsisDesign Computing will help you understand the rapidly evolving relationship between computing, designers, and the many different environments they create or work in. The book introduces the topic of design computing, and covers the basics of hardware and software, so you don't need to be an expert. Topics include the fundamentals of digital representation, programming and interfaces for design; the shifting landscape of opportunity and expectation in practice and pedagogy; placing sensors in buildings to measure performance; and the challenge of applying information effectively in design. The book also includes additional reading for those who wish to dig deeper into the subject. Design Computing will provide you with a greater awareness of the issues that permeate the field, opportunities for you to investigate, and perhaps motivation to push the boundaries.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Design Computing: An Uneasy Juxtaposition The Built Environment Design Computing Design Computing Summary Suggested Reading References Part 1: Starting Points 2. Models Symbolic Models Finite Element Models Statistical Models Analogue Models Sources of Error Summary References 3. The Built Environment Curators of the Environment The Missing Productivity Gains The Internet of Things AEC Data Summary Suggested Reading References 4. Thinking Inside the Box Virtuality is Real Computer Memory is Lumpy Computer Memory is Sequential Code: Representing Thought Standard Representations Files and Directories Summary Suggested Reading References 5. Doing What Designers Do Graphics 3D Graphics: data + algorithm Applications Across the Building Lifecycle Operation Summary Suggested Reading References Part 2: The Grand Challenges 6. Design Problems: What are they? Defining the Problem Design Spaces Puzzle Making The Importance of Problem Definition The Problem of Solutions Summary Suggested Reading References 7. Cognition: How Designers Think Designing as Process The Role of Memory The Roles of Certainty, Ambiguity, Emergence and Flow Design as Social Action Tools Interact with Cognition Summary Suggested Reading References 8. Representation: Capturing Design Representation and Cognition Common Representations and their Problems Alternative Representations Challenges to the Single-model Concept Conversion between Representations The Round-tripping Problem Summary Suggested Reading References 9. Interface: Where the action is The Interactive Paradigm Deciphering Intent: small screens, shaky hands & fat fingers Where the action is New technology, emergent opportunities Ubiquitous Computing Summary Suggested Reading References 10. Practice: Data, Documents and Power The challenge of doing ethical work The productivity challenge Construction process changes Information Value: sources and sinks Good Data: finding and keeping what you need Access to Data: managing focus Computable designs Facility management Process, Representation & Human organization The Decline of Typical Conditions Big Data: design v. form-finding Research, Development and Continuous Learning Summary Suggested Reading References 11. Expertise: Challenges and Opportunities Architects are generalists Asking the right questions at the right time Drawings are never complete Expertise and the Framing Problem Consultants and the Round-trip Problem Growth and change Harvesting and Feeding Leaf-node knowledge Summary Suggested Reading References 12. Solutions: Generation and Refinement The existence of solutions Incremental Improvement: sweat-stained design Objective Functions Solution by inspection State space neighborhoods Selecting Design Moves Evaluation (comparing apples and oranges) Stopping rules The creative machine The creative designer Summary Suggested Reading References 13. Buildings: Computation Sources and Sinks Efficient Production Beyond the thermostat and the water cooler Managing resource use Big cities, big data and the effort to get smart Virtuality and buildings Summary Suggested Reading References 14. Pedagogy: Teaching the New Designer Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants The collapsing options model What to teach? Summary References

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"1964: Eyes of the Storm...deserves to be received with the same gravity you'd pay any primary source for any great historical event... The adulation and protection and scrutiny coming from the subjects of these photos are being seen by the person who is the object of it... No matter how friendly he found the faces looking at him, this is the work of an idol in the making determined to stay a subject instead of becoming an object.... There’s an effortless familiarity to the shots of the boys reading the newspaper in their Plaza suite or looking up in the midst of a conversation halfway across the Atlantic, no guardedness when their eyes meet their mate’s camera.... For all of the generosity with which McCartney talks about America, for all the awe the group felt at being here and being accepted here, the photos show all the ways in which the Beatles, even before they arrived, had already outpaced the country.... [A] wonderful book, with its photos of a superpower as a sleepy giant, a country where most of the people couldn't see the future beyond a continuation of the sameness in which they already lived." -- Charles Taylor - Esquire"Who wouldn't want a peek at Paul McCartney's personal pics of The Beatles?...There are pictures of aching intimacy... And, inevitably, photos that will make you feel a pang for the band's fishbowl existence." -- Kim Willis - USA Today"Beguiling...Thoughtful recollections... There is something for every Beatles aficionado in the 275 glorious images in these images...Open this book, and for a few magic moments, you'll be right there, too." -- Charles Kaiser - The Washington Post

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Book SynopsisThis book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectualized the profession, and ignored all contemporary Black theory within the discipline. You have made architecture a symbol of exclusion, oppression, and domination rather than expression, aspiration, and inspiration. This book is not for conformistsBlack, White, or other. As architecture grapples with its own racist legacy, Hip-Hop Architecture outlines a powerful new manifestothe voice of the underrepresented, marginalized, and voiceless within the discipline. Exploring the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop, it is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip-hop''s cultural expression, and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas.Examining the present and the future of Hip-Hop ArchiTrade ReviewThe book hip-hop architecture deserves—and the one our era of reckoning demands. * Metropolis *This compelling book simultaneously challenges an inherent elitism (and whiteness) in contemporary architectural theory and practice, and embraces and expands the scholarly vocabulary of the canon. * Library Journal *Hip-Hop Architecture is a call for building design to be instated as the fifth pillar of this cultural movement, joining dance, drama, fine arts and music… As idiosyncratic, challenging and genre-redefining as Hip-hop’s other cultural manifestations, Cooke’s book argues for a new approach to urban design that better expresses the Black and African American experience. * Wallpaper* *Cooke's book reminds us how what has been built to date is the result of the application of political, social and cultural ideas and principles that have intentionally excluded certain sections of the population. Architecture is the manifesto of this exclusion and, over time, becomes testimony of the errors of a society that should no longer belong to us. So the author starts from hip-hop to get to the maximum systems, because hip-hop is a culture that binds people, unites them in community, through music, sounds, dances. Its pages describe and reflect the values of a culture linked by sound and words. * Elle Décor Italia *Well-researched, engaging and fresh ... [Cooke] strips the paternalizing aspects off, which often pervade the treatises emanating from the ivory towers of academia. * Scene Point Blank *Hip-Hop Architecture is a meditation on architecture’s intersection with one of the most influential contemporary cultural movements—hip-hop. Cooke’s deft textual and visual riffs merge hip-hop’s sonic and performative modalities—remix, breakdance, graffiti—with traditions and practices that inform black spatiality and design. * Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University, USA *Cooke’s Hip-Hop Architecture is presented at exactly the time we need a new way to think about form, space, surface, construction, renovation, cities, activism, and the power of a cultural moment that has reshaped the planet. But don’t call this book timely—call it brave, urgent, phresh, and a book that reflects a perspective that the discipline of architecture has needed for a long time. * Ronald Rael, University of California-Berkeley, USA *Hip-Hop Architecture makes the most compelling argument to date for an emerging movement in architecture defined by modalities of practice—deejaying, emceeing, breakdancing, and graffiti writing—rather than by reference to the Western architecture canon. * Michael Speaks, Dean, Syracuse University School of Architecture *As the creative world begins to face its racist legacy, Cooke’s book reflects on the ways in which spaces are created to exclude or include, and the potential of Hip-Hop Architecture to create buildings, spaces, and urban environments that are more inclusive and empowering to the underrepresented and marginalized. * Design Miami *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD Building Blocks - Michael Eric Dyson ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Shout Outs, Big Ups, and Thank Yous VOLUME I: Ready or Not: An Introduction to Hip-Hop Architecture VOLUME II: Step into A World: Perspectives and Narratives from the History and Theory of Hip-Hop Architecture VOLUME III: As I Manifest: Contemporary Speculations on Hip-Hop Architectural Education and Practice VOLUME IV: Flipping to the B-Sides: Tangents to and Projections from Hip-Hop Architecture APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisArchitect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level. Through the work of his collaborative firm (Banfi Belgiojoso Peressutti Rogers, or BBPR), the editorship of publications such as Domus and Casabella, and his teaching at the Politecnico in Milan, Rogers ensured a lasting influence on the field as a practitioner, theorist and educator. However his contributions have been largely neglected by scholarship outside of Italy.Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book re-assesses Ernesto Nathan Rogers'' cultural legacy. It is the first comprehensive, critical work on Rogers in English, and emphasizes Rogers'' vision for the role of the architect as a public intellectual, as well as his commitment to pursue a renewed path of professional and culTrade ReviewHis design intelligence unconstrained by his mastery of modernist method, Ernesto N. Rogers, as this book amply demonstrates, created buildings equally appropriate to their time and to their place. * Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College Dublin, Ireland *The first account in English of the work of an important Italian modern architect and post-war CIAM leader. This book will be an excellent resource for teaching and scholarship worldwide on key ideas in modern architecture and urbanism. * Eric Paul Mumford, Washington University in St. Louis, USA *The architect as an artist, an intellectual, and a civic figure: by envisaging all the aspects of an essential figure of Italian post-war architecture, this study proposes a stimulating reflection on modernism as a global project. * Antoine Picon, Harvard University, USA *Maurizio Sabini offers a stimulating survey of Rogers’s architectural career. * Architectural Record *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Series Preface Foreword by Kenneth Frampton Acknowledgements Note on Translation Ernesto Nathan Rogers Biography Introduction 1. Criticality 2. Social Engagement 3. Teamwork 4. Cross-Disciplinarity 5. Internationalism 6. Masters 7. History 8. Civic Commitment and the Public Intellectual Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLorraine Farrelly co-ordinates architecture and interior design courses at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has lectured and taught at universities around the world, and presented her research on architecture and the European city at conferences internationally. She has written several books and articles about contemporary architecture and interior design.Trade ReviewThis book is awesome. Wonderfully designed, easy to understand, great images, great writing. What a wonderful overview of so many aspects of the design and practice of Architecture. * Eric Stark, University of Maine at Augusta, US (first edition) *A must for first year students of Architecture. * Jay Potts, Southampton University, UK (first edition) *An attractive introduction to the world of architecture and what is required of an architect... very good for those at school considering a career choice in architecture. It is also a good general overview of thinking across the whole field of architecture. The graphic design is attractive and the images well chosen. * John Napier, University of Lincoln, UK (first edition) *I think you have pitched these books just right: clear layout; accessible language; good photography; contemporary precedent that the student will relate to and the communication of the design process from inception to final communication. * Russell Gagg, Arts University College Bournemouth, UK (first edition) *Very good value. This book is exactly what is needed as a first year Architectural and Interior Design students' course book. We have already put it on the year book list. * Mary Weguelin, University of Portsmouth, UK (first edition) *An excellent book which clearly takes you through the fundamentals of architecture; pointing out elements of architectural interest, key precedent studies and names worth researching further. The book is laid out in a pleasing manner and shows interesting drawings, sketches and quotes. A great book to recommend for any student looking to learn the basics of architectural design as a supplement to their lectures. * Sonia Nicolson, The Arts University College at Bournemouth, UK (second edition) *The book is very useful as a guide to the discipline in introductory lectures and for general awareness. Good examples of graphics and clear text which are used very well within the book. * Fidel Meraz, University Campus Suffolk, UK *The book is great, really relevant for undergraduate students in Interiors as well as Architecture programmes, it is beautifully produced and the images and drawings are particularly good. * Lucy O'Reilly, Writtle College, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Placing Architecture: Site; Place and space; City context; Landscape context Case study: Redesigning a university campus Exercise: Site analysis History and Precedent: A timeline of architectural influences; The ancient world; The classical world; The medieval world; The Renaissance; Baroque; Modernism Case study: Reconstructing a museum Exercise: Skylines Construction: Materials; Elements; Prefabrication; Structure; Innovation; Innovative materials Case study: Designing a pavilion Exercise: Axonometric drawing Representation: CAD drawing; Sketching; Scale; Orthographic projection; Perspective; Three-dimensional images; Physical modelling; CAD modelling; Layout and presentation; Storyboarding; Portfolios Case study: Renovation Exercise: Photomontage Contemporary Ideas: Universal ideas and principles; Functionalism; Form-driven architecture; Monumentalism; Zeitgeist Case study: Integrating with an urban landscape Exercise: Analytical diagrams Realization: Project timeline; The project; Contributors and their roles; The brief; The concept; Site analysis; The design process; Detail development; The finished building Conclusion Bibliography and webography Glossary Picture credits Index Acknowledgements Working with ethics

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Book SynopsisRoss Anderson is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia.Maximilian Sternberg is a University Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Fellow of Pembroke College at Cambridge University, UK.Trade ReviewAs religiosity declined in the West, architecture became the bearer of a powerful secular spirituality, widely ignored in the standard histories. In its broad and inclusive approach, this volume argues persuasively that the pursuit of the sacred was a key constituent of 20th-century architectural design and theory: a revision long overdue. * Iain Boyd Whyte, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsList of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Ross Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia) and Maximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK) Part One Beginnings and transformations of the modern sacred 1. Architecture and the question of ‘the’ sacred, Peter Carl (University of Cambridge, UK) 2 Romantic Kunstreligion and the search for the sacred in modern architecture: From Schinkel’s Altes Museum as ‘aesthetic church’ to Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel as Gesamtkunstwerk and ‘heavenly cave’, Gabriele Bryant (Independent Scholar) 3. The Ordinary as the extraordinary: Modern sacred architecture in Germany, the United States and Japan, Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin, Ireland) 4. Città dei Morti: Alvar Aalto’s funerary architecture, Sofia Singler (University of Cambridge, UK) Part Two Buildings for modern worship 5. Light, form and formación: Daylighting, church building and the work of the Valparaíso School, Mary Ann Steane (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. Reading, storing and parading the book: Between tradition and modernity in the synagogue, Gerald Adler (University of Kent, UK) 7. Compacting civic and sacred: Goodhue’s University of Chicago Chapeland the modern metropolis, Stephen Gage (University of Reading, UK) 8. A diaspora of modern sacred form: Auguste Perret, Le Corbusier and Paul Valéry, Karla Cavarra Britton (Diné College, Navajo Nation) 9. Structure for spirit in The Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal, 1945–70, Sam Samarghandi (Independent Scholar, Australia) Part Three Semi-sacred settings in the cultural topography of modernity 10. Revelatory earth: Adolphe Appia and the prospect of a modern sacred, Ross Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia) 11. Anagogical themes in Schwitters’ Kathedrale des erotischen Elends, Matthew Mindrup (University of Sydney, Australia) 12. Modern medievalisms: Curating the sacred at the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne (1932–9), Maximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK) 13. Architecture, politics and the sacred in military monuments of Fascist Italy, Hannah Malone (Max Planck Institute, Germany) 14. Atmosphere of the sacred: The awry in music, cinema, architecture, Michael Tawa (University of Sydney, Australia) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPositioning design at the center of the debate, The Urbanism Reader brings together classic and contemporary readings to help designers understand the complexities of cities and urban design in the 21st century. The selection of readings presented here is uniquely tailored to a design perspective for architects and urban designers balancing social issues in urbanism with a clear focus on foregrounding design as an instrument for change in cities, and examining the outcomes and challenges of recent design theories, design methods, and technologies in the built urban environment. Covering today's most urgent issues, 45 texts explore key topics in urbanism from digital design technologies to smart cities, from the ongoing ecological crisis to public health and the impact of Covid-19, and from emergence and informality to economic inequity in global cities. Chapters cover cultural issues including diversity, indigenous knowledge, decolonization, social justice,

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Book SynopsisChristian Frost is Professor of Architecture and Head of Research in the School of Art, Architecture & Design at London Metropolitan University, UK.

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Book SynopsisThe Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency. In the current times of war, pandemic, climate change, and global anxiety, the value of the garden as a sanctuary, a space where we can find refuge in a natural environment, has taken on new and poignant meanings and has attracted increasing academic interest. Multidisciplinary and multicultural in scope, this book examines perspectives from scholars including art historians, architects, philosophers, landscape architects and garden practitioners, reassess the importance of the garden as a foil to abiding and contemporary concerns and predicaments, whether understood from an individual, cultural or environmental point of view.Ranging widely across Asia and Europe, its chapters examine ideas, narratives and practices from the 4th-century Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, to the 12th century Iranian polymat

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Book SynopsisThis key reference text covers both the common law and the statutory controls over noise. It presents a clear and practical overview for academics, practitioners and agencies working in acoustics, noise law and environmental law.

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