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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sensory Affect Learning Spaces and Design
Book SynopsisThrough the lens of sensory affect, this book offers a new way of thinking about day-to-day teaching and student engagement within learning spaces in design education.The book examines the definitions, concepts, ideas, and overlaps of a repertoire of learning spaces prevalent in higher education and addresses the pedagogical gap that exists between broader learning structures and spaces, and the requirements of specialist design education. Recognising that mainstream teaching environments impact upon design studio learning and student engagement, the book positions creative learning spaces at the heart of practice-based learning. It defines the underlying pedagogical philosophy of a creative learning space in design education and reports on how practical strategies incorporating sensory affect may be implemented by educators to foster better student engagement in these spaces within higher education.Bringing much-needed attention to specialist design teaching and learnTable of Contents1. Which way forward? Design education today 2. What is sensory affect? 3. Sensory affect in design and design education 4. All-surface use in design-based learning spaces 5. Environmental empowerment in design education 6. Flexibility and capacities to adjust experiential learning, learning spaces and design education
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber
Book SynopsisIf we want to continue existing on this earth, an era of renewable energy and materials is urgently needed. What role could mass timber, with its potential to replace concrete and steel, have in ensuring the planet's survival? This book retraces wood's passage from stewarded seed in the soil of forests, to harvested biomass, to laminated walls in a living room, through to its disassembly, pausing at each step in the supply chain of mass timber to consider the labor and economies involved, looking closely at the way wood is grown, sourced, and transported, and its impacts on the biodiversity of the forest and the health of our ecosystems. It explores why historically entrenched contexts of extractivism make such sensitive approaches difficult to cultivate across landscapes and industrial frameworks. Along the way, common assumptions about mass timber are debunked, including its fire performance, its strength, and its role in carbon sequestration. Having identified contemporaryTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Succession 3. Verticality 4. Underpinning
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Poetics of Underground Space
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, and critical reflection on, ideas pertaining to the creation and occupation of underground space. It overturns the classic dictates of construction on the surface and through numerous examples explores recoveries of existing voids, excavations, caves, quarries, grottos and burrows.The exploitation of land, especially in areas of particular value, has given rise to the need to reformulate the usual approach to building. If the development of urban sprawl, its infrastructure and its networks, generates increasingly compromised landscapes, what are the possible strategies to transform, expand and change the usual relationship between abuse of soil and unused subsoil?Psychological, philosophical, literary and cinematographic legacies of underground architecture are mixed with the compositional, typological and constructive expedieTrade Review"Antonello Boschi investigates the subject in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary, historical and theoretical survey. Inverting the classic dictates of surface construction, he explores possible strategies for transforming, expanding and changing the typical relationship between the mistreatment of land and unused subsoil." Francesca Tagliabue, Abitare, excerpt from The charm of underground, https://www.abitare.it/en/research/publications/2022/05/27/antonello-boschi-underground-architecture-strategies/"Quarries, subways, cellars, grottos and underpasses seem to overturn the rule that says buildings only exist above ground, facing the need to exploit urban space down to the last square centimetre. As Michael Jakob reminds us in his introduction, "architecture has always been lair, cavern, shelter, also and above all. So thinking about the underground means thinking about architecture."Elena Sommariva, excerpt from domus 1069 June 2022Table of Contents1. Huddling 2. Notes from the underground 3. The city other 4. Mimicry 5. Novelty is but oblivion 6. Stone skies 7. Sensations 8. Sous passages 9. Buried high-rises 10. Brightening the dark Bibliography Index
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CRC Press Finite Element Analysis for Building Assessment
Book SynopsisExisting structures represent a heterogeneous category in the global built environment as often characterized by the presence of archaic materials, damage and disconnections, uncommon construction techniques and subsequent interventions throughout the building history. In this scenario, the common linear elastic analysis approach adopted for new buildings is incapable of an accurate estimation of structural capacity, leading to overconservative results, invasive structural strengthening, added intervention costs, excessive interference to building users and possible losses in terms of aesthetics or heritage values. For a rational and sustainable use of the resources, this book deals with advanced numerical simulations, adopting a practical approach to introduce the fundamentals of Finite Element Method, nonlinear solution procedures and constitutive material models. Recommended material properties for masonry, timber, reinforced concrete, iron and steel are discussed according to exTable of Contents1. Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method. 2. Nonlinear Structural Analysis. 3. Constitutive Models. 4. Recommended Properties for Advanced Numerical Analysis. 5. Guidelines for Practical Use of Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tensegrity Structures Design Methods
Book SynopsisTensegrity structures are pre-stressed systems of cables and bars in which no bar is connected to the other and the structure has no continuous rigid skeleton. This general introduction presents an original general method for the design of tensegrity structures, the first configurations of which were found by trial and error.The book begins with two-dimensional tensegrity structures, particularly tensegrity nets, tensegrity chains, tensegrity rings and tensegrity arches. These are then developed to original configurations of spatial tensegrity structures such as tensegrity slabs, primitive spatial tensegrity arches, and primitive tensegrity domes, as well as more elaborate spatial tensegrity structures such as tensegrity cylindrical shells, slim tensegrity domes, tensegrity vaults, and tensegrity caps. Presents a robust new approach to the design of tensegrity structures Extends tensegrity structures to new three-dimensional configurations TTable of ContentsIntroduction. Tensegrity: Literature survey. Part 1. Two-dimensional plane tensegrity structures. 1. Kite structures. 2. Tensegrity nets. 3. Tensegrity chains. 4. Tensegrity plane arches. 5. Tensegrity rings. Part 2. Three-dimensional spatial tensegrity structures. 6. Tensegrity slabs. 7. Spatial tensegrity rings. 8. Tensegrity vaults. 9. Tensegrity cylindrical shells. 10. Spatial tensegrity arches. 11. Configuration of primitive tensegrity structures. 12. Slim tensegrity domes. 13. Tensegrity caps. 14. Tensegrity domes. Part 3. Stable tensegrity structures, tenssable structures. 15. Two-dimensional tensstable arches. 16. Three-dimensional tensstable structures.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Security by Design
Book SynopsisThis is a book about the intersection of architecture and security, about effective crime prevention and counterterror using the built form. While security professionals continue their strive towards alleviating our fear of crimes, and whilst methodologies like CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) have demonstrated the impact of design on prevention of crime over the last five decades, too many built environment professionals are not aware of these strategies. This book starts with the premise that there is a huge role for the design fraternity (namely architects and planners) in achieving realistic, efficient and permanent results, and ultimately in creating a safer world. It seeks to present such strategies in a palatable way and encourage professionals to incorporate security thinking into their design process as second nature. Combining international case studies including One World Trade Centre, New York; WHO Headquarters Extension Building, GenevTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1 Prologue2 Fundamentals of 'Security by Design'3 CPTED Explained4 Security Engineering5 Planning for Security6 Case Studies7 Epilogue
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CRC Press 3D Digital Design in Ergonomics and Human Factors
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intelligence Creativity and Fantasy
Book SynopsisThe texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) - INTELLIGENCE, CREATIVITY AND FANTASY were compiled with the intent to establish a multidisciplinary platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of research. The aim is also to foster the awareness and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design, Engineering, Social and Natural Sciences, and their importance and benefits for the sense of both individual and community identity. The idea of modernity has been a significant motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.Table of ContentsPart I – Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy. Part II – Architecture / Urbanism / Design. Part III – Arts. Part IV – Humanities. Part V – Social Sciences. Part VI – Sciences/Technologies. Part VII – Exhibtions.
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Routledge Circular Economy for the Built Environment
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Taylor & Francis Authenticity and Urbanism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic
Book SynopsisDesign and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic, the future trajectories for living environments, city-making processes, and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners, positioning the Arctic as a dynamic, diverse, and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socioenvironmental transformations. The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; similarities and differences in the development of design and planning approaches responsive to specific climatic and cultural conditions; and historical and geographic case studies that provide unique perspectives for the management of the built environment, from the scales of a Trade Review'A well-grounded compendium on the Arctic Region, Mathew Jull’s and Leena Cho’s handbook does much to render this relatively unknown part of our world whole with regard to constructed and future habitable environments. Drawing on scholarship from different parts of the world, a portrait emerges of a place being shaped under unique multi-cultural, socio-political and environmental conditions. A must-read volume for those interested in contemporary urbanism.' - Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA'The Arctic’s extreme climate, remoteness, and mixture of Indigenous and settler cultures present extraordinary design challenges to urban architects, planners, and managers. Often the built environment in the far north resembles southern models that are only poorly adapted. In contrast, the chapters in this book bring together a multidisciplinary team to further design thinking that will truly serve the interests of northern communities. The ideas assembled here help fulfill collective Arctic aspirations.' - Robert W. Orttung, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA'Aptly described as “a region of spectacular negotiation between the natural and the built worlds,” Cho and Jull have assembled a multidisciplinary and multiscalar reading of the inherent complexities and contradictions of architecture, landscape and urbanism in the Arctic. The ten chapters dismantle common assumptions about the singularity of the Arctic and immerse the reader in the land and ice to bear witness to “the physical, material and living environments of the Arctic.” This comprehensive and global collection provides an urgent guide to contemporary design and planning scholarship in Arctic studies and will provide an essential resource to scholars and practitioners for years to come.' - Lola Sheppard, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada, and Mason White, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada; Partners, Lateral Office'A well-grounded compendium on the Arctic Region, Mathew Jull’s and Leena Cho’s handbook does much to render this relatively unknown part of our world whole with regard to constructed and future habitable environments. Drawing on scholarship from different parts of the world, a portrait emerges of a place being shaped under unique multi-cultural, socio-political and environmental conditions. A must-read volume for those interested in contemporary urbanism.' - Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA'The Arctic’s extreme climate, remoteness, and mixture of Indigenous and settler cultures present extraordinary design challenges to urban architects, planners, and managers. Often the built environment in the far north resembles southern models that are only poorly adapted. In contrast, the chapters in this book bring together a multidisciplinary team to further design thinking that will truly serve the interests of northern communities. The ideas assembled here help fulfill collective Arctic aspirations.' - Robert W. Orttung, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA'Aptly described as “a region of spectacular negotiation between the natural and the built worlds,” Cho and Jull have assembled a multidisciplinary and multiscalar reading of the inherent complexities and contradictions of architecture, landscape and urbanism in the Arctic. The ten chapters dismantle common assumptions about the singularity of the Arctic and immerse the reader in the land and ice to bear witness to “the physical, material and living environments of the Arctic.” This comprehensive and global collection provides an urgent guide to contemporary design and planning scholarship in Arctic studies and will provide an essential resource to scholars and practitioners for years to come.' - Lola Sheppard, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada, and Mason White, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada; Partners, Lateral OfficeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Grounding Design in the Arctic 1. The Heterogeneity of Arctic Cities 2. Infrastructural Urbanization of the Arctic 3. Comfort and Discomfort: Conflicting Concerns in Arctic Urban Planning and Design 4. Reframing Urban Relocation in Kiruna, Sweden: An Integrative Ownership Model for Resident-Led Transformations 5. Airport Landscapes: The Case of Qaqortoq Airport, South Greenland 6. Green Spaces in the Context of Changing Human-Environment Relations in Siberian Cities 7. Principles of Northern Housing Design with Examples from Alaska 8. Doing Things Differently: Design Research in Partnership with Innu and Inuit Communities in Northern Québec, Canada 9. Love and Care for Place in an Arctic Community: Place Development in Vardø, Norway 10. Land Inside
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Routledge Measuring the Impact of the Built Environment on Health Wellbeing and Performance
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Taylor & Francis Environmental Perspectives
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£29.99
CRC Press Artificial Intelligence in Architecture and the
Book SynopsisImagine if every architect had an apprentice who could consistently observe and understand their intentions, take over routine tasks and monitor technical, environmental, and economic constraints. This apprentice would continually improve, freeing the architect to concentrate on truly creative work.This book outlines a plan to turn this vision into reality. It evaluates the development of artificial intelligence from its inception to the present, focusing on the last two decades of applying AI in architectural design and planning; the current state of architectural practice is also examined. Integrating architecture, computer science, AI, robotics, economics, law, neurobiology, and philosophy, the vision is built on three key premises: (i) authentic, poetic creativity that transcends parameterization and algorithmizing, (ii) innovative learning strategies and training approaches not yet applied concerning architectural design, and (iii) the convergence of architectureâs inher
£49.99
Austin Macauley Publishers An Artists View
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Old Architecture
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Cambridge University Press Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain
Book SynopsisAn architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-century Britain. This illustrated two-volume work, reissued here in its 1914 version, takes the reader on a tour of Spain's most ancient and architecturally important towns and cities.Table of ContentsIntroductory note; Preface; 1. Irun, San Sebastian, Burgos; 2. Burgos; 3. Palencia, Valladolid; 4. Salamanca, Zamora, Benavente; 5. Leon; 6. Astorga, Lugo, La Coruna; 7. Santiago de Compostella; 8. Medina del Campo, Avila; 9. Segovia; 10. Madrid, Alcalá, Guadalajara, Sigüenza; 11. Toledo; Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Sustainable Healthcare Architecture Second
Book Synopsis"With this book, Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori show us how critical our green building mission is to the future of human health and secures a lasting legacy that will continue to challenge and focus the green building movement, the healthcare industry, and the world for years to come.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Acknowledgments xv Key Sustainability Indicators and Infographic xvii PART 1 CONTEXT 1 CHAPTER 1 DESIGN AND STEWARDSHIP 3 INTRODUCTION 3 THE CASE FOR STEWARDSHIP 4 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 7 THE PROFESSION OF ARCHITECTURE 7 THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE FOR DESIGNERS 10 ECOLOGICAL DESIGN 10 CLEANER PRODUCTION 11 THE PATRICK H. DOLLARD DISCOVERY HEALTH CENTER 12 LIFE CYCLE THINKING 14 CRADLE-TO-CRADLE DESIGN 16 LIVING BUILDINGS 17 ESSAY LIVING BUILDINGS AND A RESTORATIVE FUTURE by Jason F. McLennan 18 CONCLUSION—THE NEXT GENERATION 21 CHAPTER 2 THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH 23 INTRODUCTION 23 THE GLOBAL IMPACTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 24 CLIMATE CHANGE AND PUBLIC HEALTH 25 ESSAY WHERE WE HEAL: THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTHCARE BUILDINGS TO OUR HEALTH AND THE PLANET’S by Aaron Bernstein, MD 27 URBAN PLANNING AND PUBLIC HEALTH 28 SPRAWL AND AIR QUALITY 31 SMART GROWTH AND HEALTHY CITIES 32 ACTIVE DESIGN 33 ESSAY ACTIVE DESIGN: CONVERGING DESIGN EFFORTS TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND ADDRESS TODAY’S LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH by Karen K. Lee, MD and Joyce S. Lee 34 AIR POLLUTION 36 WATER POLLUTION AND SCARCITY 38 GAVIOTAS HOSPITAL 40 INDOOR AIR QUALITY 41 CONCLUSION—THE FUTURE 41 CHAPTER 3 ENVIRONMENT AND MEDICINE 45 INTRODUCTION 45 THE STATE OF HEALTH IN THE WORLD 46 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 47 ECOLOGICAL MEDICINE 49 PROTEA HEALTH 52 HEALTHCARE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 54 ESSAY TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE by Gary Cohen 55 THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE 59 MEDICINE’S ROLE IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT 59 CONCLUSION 60 CHAPTER 4 NATURE AND HEALING 65 INTRODUCTION 65 THE TRADITION OF NATURE AND HEALING 66 THE THERAPEUTIC SPA MOVEMENT 66 NATURE RECONSIDERED 67 BIOPHILIA 68 BIOPHILIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES 69 URBANIZATION AND NATURE 70 LANDSCAPE PERCEPTION 70 HEALING LANDSCAPE 70 SIDNEY AND LOIS ESKENAZI HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CAMPUS 72 SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE 78 CONCLUSION 79 PART 2 ACTUALIZING THE VISION 81 CHAPTER 5 IMPROVING PERFORMANCE 83 INTRODUCTION 83 TOOLS AND METRICS 84 LESSONS LEARNED FROM PIONEERS 95 POST OCCUPANCY EVALUATION—PROVIDENCE NEWBERG MEDICAL CENTER 96 POST OCCUPANCY EVALUATION—DELL CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER OF CENTRAL TEXAS 97 RESOURCE EFFICIENCY 98 ESSAY ENERGY STAR®: IT’S NOT JUST A SCORE; IT’S A GOAL AND A STRATEGY by Clark Reed 101 LEGACY SALMON CREEK 104 ENERGY END USE MONITORING 105 ESSAY TARGETING 100! by Heather Burpee and Joel Loveland 105 THE TOXIC-FREE HOSPITAL 119 ESSAY THE PBT-FREE CHALLENGE by Tom Lent 121 TOOLS FOR DESIGNERS AND SPECIFIERS TO DE-SELECT TOXICANTS 124 VISUALIZING THE PATH AHEAD 125 CONCLUSION 126 CASE STUDIES 01 Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, TX 127 02 OHSU Center for Health and Healing, Portland, OR 131 03 Peace Island Medical Center, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA 134 04 Sherman Hospital, Elgin, IL 137 05 Kiowa County Memorial Hospital, Greensburg, KS 139 06 Kohinoor Hospital, Mumbai, India 141 07 The Dyson Centre for Neonatal Care, Royal United Hospital, Bath, England 144 08 St. Mary’s Hospital Sechelt Addition, Sechelt, BC, Canada 146 09 New Karolinska Solna University Hospital, Stockholm County, Sweden 148 10 UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA 151 11 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA 154 CHAPTER 6 MEASURING VALUE 161 INTRODUCTION 161 HEALTHCARE AND THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE 162 THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE 163 ESSAY LEED CERTIFIED HOSPITALS: PERSPECTIVES ON CAPITAL COST PREMIUMS AND OPERATIONAL BENEFITS by Breeze Glazer, Robin Guenther, and Gail Vittori 166 TRADING CAPITAL COST FOR OPERATIONAL SAVINGS 174 CROSSING THE CAPITAL-OPERATIONS CHASM: PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES 175 CAN SUSTAINABLE HOSPITALS BEND THE HEALTH CARE COST CURVE? 176 THE SOCIAL VALUE OF SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE 177 DELL CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER OF CENTRAL TEXAS POST-OCCUPANCY EVALUATION 178 THE LIVING BUILDING FINANCIAL STUDY 180 CONCLUSION 183 CHAPTER 7 LESSONS FROM HEALTH SYSTEMS 185 UNITED KINGDOM’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE 185 GUY’S HOSPITAL TOWER, LONDON 191 CASE STUDIES 12 Mittal Children’s Medical Centre, London, United Kingdom 193 13 The Bluestone Unit, Craigavon Area Hospital, Craigavon, Northern Ireland 196 14 New South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland 199 SYSTEM PROFILE: Partners Healthcare 202 15 The Lunder Building, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 209 16 Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA 212 SYSTEM PROFILE: Providence Health & Services 215 PROVIDENCE NEWBERG: Five Lessons Learned 217 17 Providence Newberg Medical Center, Newberg, OR 219 18 Providence St. Peter Hospital, Olympia, WA 221 SYSTEM PROFILE: Gundersen Health System 224 19 Gundersen LaCrosse Hospital Addition 228 SYSTEM PROFILE: Kaiser Permanente 231 KAISER PERMANENTE’S JOURNEY TO SUSTAINABILITY 234 20 Small Hospital, Big Idea Competition 236 PART 3 SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE TODAY 243 CHAPTER 8 GLOBAL SURVEY 245 CASE STUDIES 21 Akershus University Hospital, Loreskøg, Norway 245 22 Butaro Hospital, Burera District, Rwanda 252 23 Deventer Ziekenhuis, Deventer, The Netherlands 257 Trias Energetica 260 24 First People’s Hospital, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China 263 25 Hospital Universitario San Vincente de Paul, Rionegro, Colombia 268 26 Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, The Republic of Singapore 272 27 Portadown Health and Care Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland 278 28 REHAB Centre for Spinal Cord and Brain Injuries, Basel, Switzerland 284 29 Reina Sofi a Foundation Alzheimer Centre, Ensanche de Vallecas, Madrid, Spain 291 30 The New Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 297 31 Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 304 32 Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Soba (Khartoum), Sudan 314 33 Santa Lucia University General Hospital, Cartagena, Spain 315 34 St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals, London, England 322 35 Swedish Medical Center, Issaquah, WA 329 Ten Lessons Learned 333 36 Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan (Aneurin Bevan Hospital), Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales 335 PART 4 VISIONING THE FUTURE 341 CHAPTER 9 TOWARD A NEW LANGUAGE OF FORM 343 INTRODUCTION 343 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN HOSPITAL 344 RIKSHOSPITALET-RADIUMHOSPITALET MEDICAL CENTRE 348 DOUBLING DAYLIGHT 351 CASE STUDIES 37 Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherland 361 38 Arras Hospital Centre, Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France 365 39 Pediatric and Cardiac Center of the Innsbruck University Clinic, Innsbruck, Austria 368 40 Helsingør Psychiatric Clinic, Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark 371 41 Rhine Ordinance Barracks Medical Center Replacement, Kaiserslautern, Germany 375 42 Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and Jurong Community Hospital, The Republic of Singapore 378 43 Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Emergency Department Addition, Nanaimo, BC, Canada 381 44 Seattle Children’s Bellevue Clinic, Bellevue, WA 384 45 Pictou Landing Mi’Kmaq Community Health Centre, Trenton, Nova Scotia, Canada 386 46 Kenya Women’s and Children’s Wellness Centre, Nairobi, Kenya 390 47 Tata Medical Centre Cancer Hospital, Kolkata, India 392 48 CBF [Centre pour le Bien-être des Femmes] Women’s Health Centre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 395 CHAPTER 10 CREATING THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY HOSPITAL 399 INTRODUCTION 399 TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY HEALTHCARE 401 CONCLUSION 412 CASE STUDIES 49 The Ubuntu Centre, Zwide Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa 414 50 Jubilee Gardens Health Centre and Library, London, England 417 51 Old Town Recovery Center, Portland, OR 419 52 Waldron Health Centre, Lewisham, South London, England 422 53 Mirebalais National Teaching Hospital, Mirebalais, Haiti 426 54 Embassy Medical Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka 429 55 All Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children, Kiev, Ukraine 432 INDEX 435
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Interior Design Business Handbook
Book SynopsisNewly updated and revised, this essential guide to the interior design business helps designers in firms small and large streamline their work, learn business basics, and achieve profitability.Trade Review"Newly updated and revised, this essential guide to the interior design business helps designers streamline their work, learn business basics and achieve profitability. This revised edition also describes how the changing economy affects design practices and explores a range of current topics, including social networking, building a brand and implementing technology." (ASID Icon, Fall 2012)Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1 Finding Your Place in Interior Design 1 Chapter 2 Starting or Changing Your Business Type or Structure 31 Chapter 3 Planning for Profit and Growth 56 Chapter 4 Setting Up a Design Studio 70 Chapter 5 The Design Team 87 Chapter 6 Business Development 135 Chapter 7 Charging for Your Services 174 Chapter 8 Succeeding in Project Management 252 Chapter 9 Working with Sources and Contractors 281 Chapter 10 Managing Your Office 312 Chapter 11 Managing and Securing Your Financial Position 355 Chapter 12 Growing Your Firm and Your Professional Skills 435 Epilogue 445 Appendices: AIA Document B171 ID 447 Professional Associations 465 CIDA 469 Glossary 498 Recommended Reading 533 Designer’s Business Forum 538 Index 539
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Therapeutic Landscapes An EvidenceBased Approach
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation.Trade Review"This is an exceptionally well-written, well-researched and well-illustrated book on designing and creating therapeutic landscapes. Rarely before has this topic been so thoroughly documented in one easy-to-read book that provides essential information to landscape architects, garden designers, healthcare workers, therapists and patients." (Linda A. Irvine, Landscapes/Paysages Magazine, OALA, FCSLA, ASLA; Manager, Parks and Open Space Development, City of Markham, Ontario, Canada) "Taking time to get in tune with your surroundings and learn to love nature has proven a therapeutic process for many, including Naomi Sachs. Sachs is Founding Director of the Therapeutic Landscapes Network, and has been able to translate a personal passion for nature into a new book, co-written by Clare Cooper Marcus, which just came out this week called Therapeutic Landscapes: An Evidence-Based Approach to Designing Healing Gardens and Restorative Outdoor Spaces. The new publication has been long-anticipated and referenced as the "single most comprehensive and authoritative guide to designing healing gardens and restorative outdoor spaces." (naturesacred.org, October 2013)Table of ContentsForeword vii Acknowledgments ix One Introduction 1 Two History of Hospital Outdoor Space 6 Three Theory, Research, and Design Implications 14 Four Types and Locations of Therapeutic Landscapes in Healthcare 36 Five The Participatory Design Process 47Teresia Hazen Six General Design Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities 56 Seven Children’s Hospital Gardens 91 Eight Gardens for Cancer Patients 115 Nine Gardens for the Frail Elderly 129 Ten Gardens for People with Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias 148 Eleven Hospice Gardens 165 Twelve Gardens for Mental and Behavioral Health Facilities 179 Thirteen Gardens for Veterans and Active Service Personnel 206 Fourteen Rehabilitation Gardens 222 Fifteen Restorative Gardens in Public Spaces 235 Sixteen Horticultural Therapy and Healthcare Garden Design 250Teresia Hazen Seventeen Planting and Maintaining Therapeutic Gardens 261Marni Barnes Eighteen Therapeutic Landscapes and Sustainability 288 Nineteen The Business Case and Funding for Therapeutic Gardens 298 Twenty Evaluation of Therapeutic Gardens 308 Index 317
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Architecture Workbook
Book SynopsisOrganised into 9 parts that highlight a wide range of architectural motives, such as ''Architecture as Theatre'', ''Stretching the Vocabulary'' and The City of Large and Small', the workbook provides inspiring key themes for readers to take their cue from when initiating a design. Motives cover a wide-range of work that epitomise the theme. These include historical and Modernist examples, things observed in the street, work by current innovative architects and from Cook's own rich archive, weaving together a rich and vibrant visual scrapbook of the everyday and the architectural, and past and present.Trade Reviewa stimulating primer for architecture students and practitioners alike. (Building Engineer, April 2016) Cook remains an outspoken provocateur and his book is a visual feast of classics and forgotten delights (RIBA Journal, July 2016)Table of Contents008 Motive 1: Architecture as Theatre 018 Motive 2: Stretching the Vocabulary 054 Motive 3: University Life and its Ironies 100 Motive 4: From Ordinary to Agreeable 128 Motive 5: The English Path and the English Narrative 154 Motive 6: New Places and Strange Bedfellows 186 Motive 7: Can We Learn From Silliness? 210 Motive 8: The City – Then The Town 240 Motive 9: On Drawing, Designing, Talking and Building 248 Select Bibliography 249 Index 255 PICTURE Credits
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Machine Learning and the City Applications in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgements xv Introduction xvi Section I Urban Complexity 1 1 Urban Complexity 3Sean Hanna 2 Emergence and Universal Computation 15Cassey Lee 3 Fractals and Geography 31Pierre Frankhauser and Denise Pumain Project 1 Emergence and Urban Analysis 57Ljubomir Jankovic Project 2 The Evolution and Complexity of Urban Street Networks 63Nahid Mohajeri and Agust Gudmundsson Section II Machines that Think 69 4 Artificial Intelligence, Logic, and Formalising Common Sense 71John McCarthy 5 Defining Artificial Intelligence 91David B. Fogel 6 AI: From Copy of Human Brain to Independent Learner 121Shelly Fan 7 The History of Machine Learning and Its Convergent Trajectory Towards AI 129Keith D. Foote 8 Machine Behaviour 143Iyad Rahwan, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, Nicholas A. Christakis, Iain D. Couzin, Matthew O. Jackson, Nicholas R. Jennings, Ece Kamar, Isabel M. Kloumann, Hugo Larochelle, David Lazer, Richard McElreath, Alan Mislove, David C. Parkes, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Margaret E. Roberts, Azim Shariff, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Michael Wellman Project 3 Plan Generation from Program Graph 167Ao Li, Runjia Tian, Xiaoshi Wang, and Yueheng Lu Project 4 Self-organising Floor Plans in Care Homes 171Silvio Carta, Stephanie St. Loe, Tommaso Turchi, and Joel Simon Project 5 N2P2 – Neural Networks and Public Places 177Roberto Bottazzi, Tasos Varoudis, Piyush Prajapati, and Xi Wang Project 6 Urban Fictions 183Matias del Campo, Sandra Manninger, and Alexandra Carlson Project 7 Latent Typologies: Architecture in Latent Space 189Stanislas Chaillou Project 8 Enabling Alternative Architectures 193Nate Peters Project 9 Distant Readings of Architecture: A Machine View of the City 201Andrew Witt Section III How Machines Learn 207 9 What Is Machine Learning? 209Jason Bell 10 Machine Learning: An Applied Mathematics Introduction 217Paul Wilmott 11 Machine Learning for Urban Computing 249Bilgeçağ Aydoğdu and Albert Ali Salah 12 Autonomous Artificial Intelligent Agents 263Iaroslav Omelianenko Project 10 Machine Learning for Spatial and Visual Connectivity 287Sherif Tarabishy, Stamatios Psarras, Marcin Kosicki, and Martha Tsigkari Project 11 Navigating Indoor Spaces Using Machine Learning: Train Stations in Paris 293Zhoutong Wang, Qianhui Liang, Fabio Duarte, Fan Zhang, Louis Charron, Lenna Johnsen, Bill Cai, and Carlo Ratti Project 12 Evolutionary Design Optimisation of Traffic Signals Applied to Quito City 297Rolando Armas, Hernán Aguirre, Fabio Daolio, and Kiyoshi Tanaka Project 13 Constructing Agency: Self-directed Robotic Environments 303Patrik Schumacher Section IV Application to the City 309 13 Code and the Transduction of Space 311Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin 14 Augmented Reality in Urban Places: Contested Content and the Duplicity of Code 341Mark Graham, Matthew Zook, and Andrew Boulton 15 Spatial Data in Urban Informatics: Contentions of the Software-sorted City 367Marcus Foth, Fahame Emamjome, Peta Mitchell, and Markus Rittenbruch 16 Urban Morphology Meets Deep Learning: Exploring Urban Forms in One Million Cities, Towns, and Villages Across the Planet 379Vahid Moosavi 17 Computational Urban Design: Methods and Case Studies 393Snoweria Zhang and Luc Wilson 18 Indexical Cities: Personal City Models with Data as Infrastructure 409Diana Alvarez-Marin 19 Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Urban Assemblages 445Serjoscha Düring, Reinhard Koenig, Nariddh Khean, Diellza Elshani, Theodoros Galanos, and Angelos Chronis 20 Making a Smart City Legible 453Franziska Pilling, Haider Ali Akmal, Joseph Lindley, and Paul Coulton Project 14 A Tale of Many Cities: Universal Patterns in Human Urban Mobility 467Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato, Renaud Lambiotte, Massimiliano Pontil, and Cecilia Mascolo Project 15 Using Cellular Automata for Parking Recommendations in Smart Environments 473Gwo-Jiun Horng Project 16 Gan Hadid 477Sean Wallish Project 17 Collective Design for Collective Living 483Elizabeth Christoforetti and Romy El Sayah Project 18 Architectural Machine Translation 489Erik Swahn Project 19 Large-scale Evaluation of the Urban Street View with Deep Learning Method 495Hui Wang, Elisabete A. Silva, and Lun Liu Project 20 Urban Portraits 501Jose Luis García del Castillo y López Project 21 ML-City 507Benjamin Ennemoser Project 22 Imaging Place Using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN Loci) 513Kyle Steinfeld Project 23 Urban Forestry Science 517Iacopo Testi Section V Machine Learning and Humans 521 21 Ten Simple Rules for Responsible Big Data Research 523Matthew Zook, Solon Barocas, Danah Boyd, Kate Crawford, Emily Keller, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, and Frank Pasquale 22 A Unified Framework of Five Principles for AI in Society 535Luciano Floridi and Josh Cowls 23 The Big Data Divide and Its Consequences 547Matthew T. McCarthy 24 Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact, and Fiction 561Julian Bleecker 25 Superintelligence and Singularity 579Ray Kurzweil 26 The Social Life of Robots: The Politics of Algorithms, Governance, and Sovereignty 603Vincent J. Del Casino Jr, Lily House-Peters, Jeremy W. Crampton, and Hannes Gerhardt Project 24 Experiments in Synthetic Data 615Forensic Architecture Project 25 Emotional AI in Cities: Cross-cultural Lessons from the UK and Japan on Designing for an Ethical Life 621Vian Bakir, Nader Ghotbi, Tung Manh Ho, Alexander Laffer, Peter Mantello, Andrew McStay, Diana Miranda, Hiroshi Miyashita, Lena Podoletz, Hiromi Tanaka, and Lachlan Urquhart Project 26 Decoding Urban Inequality: The Applications of Machine Learning for Mapping Inequality in Cities of the Global South 625Kadeem Khan Project 27 Amsterdam 2040 631Maria Luce Lupetti Project 28 Committee of Infrastructure 635Jason Shun Wong Index 639
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Taylor & Francis Curve
Book SynopsisEach of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy.Curve is a divisive issue in architecture. Some see curves as expensive and decadent; others as an expression of transcendence â a way that the human mind can express its freedom from quotidian constraints. Yet others use curves to emulate some of the most beautiful forms in nature. This Notebook considers the various authorities to which architects look for the generation of their curves. It also considers the aspirations curves manifest in architectural form.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction – Instruments of Curvature. Architecture’s Innate Orthogonality. The Ever-Present Melody. Movement Curves. Structural Curves. Curves from Straight Lines. Curves from Nature. Orchestrating Curves. Endword. Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Understanding JCT Standard Building Contracts
Book SynopsisThis tenth edition of David Chappellâs bestselling guide has been revised to take into account changes made in 2016 to payment provisions, loss and/or expense, insurance and many other smaller but significant changes, and includes a section on performance bonds and guarantees. This remains the most concise guide available to the most commonly used JCT building contracts: Standard Building Contract with quantities, 2016 (SBC16), Intermediate Building Contract 2016 (IC16), Intermediate Building Contract with contractorâs design 2016 (ICD16), Minor Works Building Contract 2016 (MW16), Minor Works Building Contract with contractorâs design 2016 (MWD16) and Design and Build Contract 2016 (DB16).Chappell avoids legal jargon and writes with authority and precision. Architects, quantity surveyors, contractors and students of these professions will find this a practical and affordable reference tool arranged by topic.Table of Contents Preface to the tenth editionv Introductionx 1 Contractor’s obligations 1 1.1The forms 1 1.2Implied and express terms 81.3 Design 1.4Materials and workmanship 1 2 Insurance 2 2.1General 2 2.2Injury to persons and property 2 2.3Liability of employer 2 2.4Insurance of the Works 2 2.5Professional Indemnity Insurance 2 2.6Sub-contractors 2 2.7MW 98 insurance 2 3 Third parties 3 3.1Assignment and sub-letting 3 3.2Nominated sub-contractors and suppliers 3 3.3Employer’s licensees 4 3.4Statutory provisions 4 4 Work in progress 5 4.1Setting-out 5 4.2Release of information and architect’s instructions 5 4.3Clerk of works 6 5 Money 7 5.1Payment 7 5.2Variations 7 6 Claims 8 6.1Extension of time 7 6.2Money claims 9 7 The end 1 7.1Practical completion and rectification 1 7.2Suspension and determination 1 8 Dispute resolution 1 8.1Adjudication 1 8.2Arbitration 1 8.3Litigation 1 8.4Points to note 1 Table of cases1 Clause index1 Subject index0
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Taylor & Francis Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden
Book SynopsisFollowing on from the authorâs previous book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Surfaces, Steps and Margins, this book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Urban Water Features, provides clear instruction for the construction of small to medium scale water features. With over 130 black and white CAD designs, Hensey provides guidance on a range of different water features such as drainage, water bowls and containers, walls and edges, structures and crossings, and rills, channels and cascades. This book offers technical references and a general knowledge of the basic principles, materials and techniques needed when engineering with water. This practical guide would be beneficial for garden designers and landscape architects seeking accessible and relatable materials for designing water features. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Drainage 2. Water bowls and containers 3. Walls and edges 4. Structure and crossings 5.Rills, channels and cascades Appendices Glossary References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Aesthetics beyond the Arts
Book SynopsisTaking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as music and architecture; they range across the natural landscape to the urban one; they reassess the place of beauty in the modern environment and reassess the significance of the contributions to aesthetic theory of Kant and Dewey; and they broach the kinds of meanings and larger understanding that aesthetic engagement with the human environment can offer. Written over the past decade, these original and innovative essays lead to a fresh encounter with the possibilities of aesthetic experience, one which has constantly evolved, moving in recent years in the direction of what Berleant terms ''social aesthetics'', which enhances human-environmental integration and sociality.Trade Review'The informal style of Aesthetics beyond the Arts makes it enjoyable to read and its essays contain many rich descriptions on different types of environment ... The book should interest a wide range of readers. Not only those wanting a well-informed look at the main issues of environmental aesthetics, but readers who wish to get a glimpse on some of its emerging trends will find interesting reading in this book.' Kalle Puolakka, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study/University of Helsinki 'Berleant’s text does exactly as his title suggests: the cornucopian selection of essays traces his aesthetic thought from its origins in the arts, through the rise of environmental aesthetics, and to his current preoccupation with the ethical obligations of aesthetic theory. While the text does not break new ground for Berleant, a better introduction to his work would be difficult to find'. The British Journal of AestheticsTable of ContentsContents: Preface: towards an aesthetics beyond art; Part I The Arts as Experience: Judging architecture; What titles don't tell; What music isn't and how to teach it. Part II Environmental Aesthetics: Art, nature, environment; The re-shaping of experience; Two ways in the landscape; Scenic beauty in a global context; Forestry aesthetics: forest management as landscape architecture; Distant cities: thoughts on an aesthetics of urbanism; Ideas for an ecological aesthetics; Nature and habitation in a Chinese garden. Part III Implications: Aesthetics without purpose; The legacy of Dewey's aesthetics; Evolutionary naturalism and the abandonment of dualism; The aesthetic politics of environment; The changing meaning of landscape; Beauty and the way of modern life; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Freud for Architects
Book SynopsisFreud for Architects explains what Freud offers to the understanding of architectural creativity and architectural experience, with case examples from early modern architecture to the present. Freud's observations on the human psyche and its influence on culture and social behavior have generated a great deal of discussion since the 19th century. Yet, what Freud's key ideas offer to the understanding of architectural creativity and experience has received little direct attention. That is partly because Freud opened the door to a place where conventional research in architecture has little traction, the unconscious. Adding to the difficulties, Freud's collection of work is vast and daunting. Freud for Architects navigates Freud's key ideas and bridges a chasm between architecture and psychoanalytic theory. The book highlights Freud's ideas on the foundational developments of childhood, developments on which the adult psyche is based. It explaiTable of Contents1. Introduction. The psyche, aesthetic experience, and architecture Reading Freud, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice. Social influence, psychotherapeutic design, wild analysis, and architectural "aeffects". Outline of the book. 2. Freud and modernity: selfhood and emancipatory self-determination. Freud and Vienna: modernity and culture. Contrasting architectural preferences in fin-de-siècle Vienna. The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900. Psychical selfhood and self-determination. Trauma, repression, architecture of screen memories, remembering, repeating, and working through. Cultural screens, disconnection, negation, and affirmation. Conclusion. 3. Aesthetic experience: the object, empathy, the unconscious, and architectural design. Unconsciously projecting oneself and intuiting the shape or form of an art object: Semper, Vischer, Schmarsow, Wölfflin, Giedion, and Moholy-Nagy. Stone and phantasy, smooth and rough. Inside-outside corners, birth trauma, and character armor. The turbulent section and the Paranoid Critical Method. Asymmetric blur zones and the uncanny. Conclusion. 4. Open form, the formless, and "that oceanic feeling". Architectural formlessness, not literal formlessness. Freud and the spatialities of the psychical apparatus. Phases of psychical development in childhood. The oral phase. Repression. Blurred zones and architectural empathy for formlessness. Conclusion. 5. Closed-form, rule-based composition and control of the architectural gift. The second phase of development, the anal phase, and struggles over control of a gift. Threshold practices: isolation, repetition, procedures for handling objects, and diverting impulses. A brief history of closed-form, rule-based composition and control of the architectural gift. House II. Conclusion. 6. Architectural simulation: wishful phantasy and the real. The third phase of development, the phallic phase: a wish and overcoming prohibitions against the wish. Simulation, wishes, and world views. "Vertical Horizon" and the plot of phallic phantasy. Conclusion. 7. Spaces of social encounter: freedoms and constraints. The last phase of development in childhood, the genital phase, and the search for obtainable objects. Open slab versus regime room: empathy for freedom versus constraint in spaces of social encounter. Conclusion. Conclusion. Further Reading. References. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Roman Architecture
Book SynopsisIn this fully updated new edition, Frank Sear offers a thorough overview of the history of architecture in the Roman Empire.Arranged logically in six historical sections interspersed with material on Roman architects and their techniques, the building types found in Roman cities and the different buildings found in the Roman provinces, this volume now contains the latest insights into Roman architecture and takes account of the past 20 years of scholarship. This seminal work covers the architecture of the Republic, the Age of Augustus, the imperial period, Pompeii and Ostia, the eastern and western empire, and the Late Antique period, exploring subjects such as patronage, building techniques and materials, Roman engineering, town planning and imperial propaganda in a concise and readable way.Illustrated with nearly 300 photographs, maps and drawings, Roman Architecture continues to be the clearest introductory account of the development of architecture in the RoTrade Review"Sear’s unrivalled knowledge of Roman architecture allows him to present a vast array of buildings and urban landscapes in enviably clear and concise prose. He sets developments in buildings’ techniques, styles and functions illuminatingly in their wider historical context. Time and again he picks out telling detail to which his sharp eye gives meaning." - Ewen Bowie, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK."In this extensively rewritten and updated edition of his classic history of Roman architecture, Frank Sear proves both an authoritative and reliable guide and one propelled by his hallmark enthusiasm for all aspects of architecture." - Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, University of Cambridge, UK.'Sear’s unrivalled knowledge of Roman architecture allows him to present a vast array of buildings and urban landscapes in enviably clear and concise prose. He sets developments in buildings’ techniques, styles and functions illuminatingly in their wider historical context. Time and again he picks out telling detail to which his sharp eye gives meaning.' Ewen Bowie, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK'In this extensively rewritten and updated edition of his classic history of Roman architecture, Frank Sear proves both an authoritative and reliable guide and one propelled by his hallmark enthusiasm for all aspects of architecture.'Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, University of Cambridge, UKTable of Contents1. Republican Rome 2. Roman Building Types 3. The Age of Augustus 4. Roman Architects, Building Techniques and Materials 5. The Julio-Claudians 6. Two Roman Towns: Pompeii and Ostia 7. The Flavians 8. Trajan and Hadrian 9. North Africa 10. The European Provinces 11. The Eastern Provinces 12. The Late Empire
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Healing Spaces Modern Architecture and the Body
Book SynopsisHealing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book's contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationship between physical movement, bodily health, technological innovation, medical concepts, natural environments, and architectural settings from the nineteenth century through the heyday of modernist architectural experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s and onward into the 1970s. Not only does the book focus on how professionals have engaged with the architecture of healing and the body, it also explores how urban dwellers have strategized and modified their living environments themselves to create a kind of vernacular modernist architecture of health in their homes, gardens, and backyards. TTable of ContentsIntroduction by Sarah Schrank and Didem Ekici Part 1: Interior Spaces and Everyday Therapeutic Architecture 1: Naked Houses: The Architecture of Nudism and the Rethinking of the American Suburbs Sarah Schrank 2: Inputs, Outputs, Flows: The Bio-Architecture of Whole Systems Design, the Energy Pavilion, and the Integral Urban House Sabrina Gabrielle Richard 3: The Physiology of the House: Modern Architecture and the Science of Hygiene Didem Ekici 4: Material Heliotechnics: A Tale of Two Bodies John Stanislav Sadar 5:Isolation, Privacy, Control and Privilege: Psychiatric Architecture and the Single Room Leslie Topp Part 2: Healing Landscapes and the Body Out-of-Doors 6: Freeing Bodies and Prescribing Play in the Humanization of New York City: Richard Dattner’s 1960s Playgrounds Camille Shamble 7: Garden Walks: Physical Mobility and Social Identity and Dumbarton Oaks Robin Veder 8: Shaping Fascist Bodies: Children’s Summer Camps in Fascist Italy Stephanie Pilat 9: Bodies at Work and Leisure: Therapeutic Landscapes of Early Nineteenth-Century New York State Insane Asylums Jennifer L. Thomas Part 3: Public Health and Modern Medical Institutions 10: Designing the Medical Museum Annmarie Adams 11: The Decline of the Hospital as a Healing Machine David Theodore 12: Passive and Active: Public Space at the McMaster Health Sciences Center, 1972 Thomas Strickland Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reciprocal Landscapes
Book SynopsisHow are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes the material's source and the urban site where the material ended up together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material's movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers thatTrade Review"Reciprocal Landscapes shows us what matters about landscape by revealing what matter is doing in it – where it came from, why it was taken, and how it was extracted, worked, fought over, and transported. Original in conception, rigorous in execution, Hutton’s book is nothing less than a brilliant synthesis of materialisms ‘historical’ and ‘new’; an incisive model for the critical analysis of landscape." – Douglas Spencer, Director of Graduate Education and Associate Professor, Iowa State University, USA"Reciprocal Landscapes shows us what matters about landscape by revealing what matter is doing in it — where it came from, why it was taken and how it was extracted, worked, fought over and transported. Original in conception, rigorous in execution, Hutton’s book is nothing less than a brilliant synthesis of materialisms ‘historical’ and ‘new’; an incisive model for the critical analysis of landscape." - Douglas Spencer, Director of Graduate Education and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Iowa State UniversityTable of Contents1. Inexhaustible Terrain: Guano from the Chincha Islands, Peru to Central Park, 1862 2. Range of Motions: Granite from Vinalhaven, Maine to Broadway, 1892 3. Rivers of Steel: Steel from Pittsburgh to Riverside Park, 1937 4. Breathing with Trees: London Plane Trees from Rikers Island to 7th Avenue, 1959 5. Arresting Decay: Tropical Hardwood from Para, Brazil to the High Line, 2009
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Materiality and Architecture
Book SynopsisOnce regarded a secondary consideration, in recent years, materiality has emerged as a powerful concept in architectural discourse and practice. Prompted in part by developments in digital fabrication and digital science, the impact of materiality on design and practice is being widely reassessed and reimagined.Materiality and Architecture extends architectural thinking beyond the confines of current design literatures to explore conceptions of materiality across the field of architecture. Fourteen international contributors use elucidate the problems and possibilities of materiality-based approaches in architecture from interdisciplinary perspectives. The book includes contributions from the professions of architecture, art, architectural history, theory and philosophy, including essays from Gernot Böhme, Jonathan Hill and Philip Ursprung.Important ''immaterial'' aspects such as presentation, agency, ecology and concept are examined, deepening our undersTrade Review‘In this timely collection, a distinction emerges between "materials" and "materiality" as that which the substance of building produces in intersection with its environment, users and representations. Exploring diverse conceptual possibilities - from Plato’s matter, to Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics and Böhme’s atmospheres - and through beautifully-considered studies of architectures and artworks, from 18th century country houses in Norfolk to contemporary installations in Mexico - these contributions are a rich and important resource for designers and scholars asking what material can bring to the experience of architecture today.’ – Katie Lloyd Thomas, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Architecture Research Collaboration, Newcastle University, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors. Materiality and Architecture: introductory remarks Sandra Karina Löschke Part 1: Presentation 1. Exposures Philip Ursprung 2. "Materials-in-fact" Sandra Karina Löschke 3. Material Splendour Gernot Böhme, translated by Anna-Christina Engels-Schwarzpaul 4. Materiality Matters Gevork Hartoonian Part 2: Agency 5. Material Antagonism André Bélanger and Anne Bordeleau 6. Historical Materialism Dijana Alić 7. Material Economy and Aesthetic Resistance Matthias Ludwig Part 3: Ecology 8. The Immaterial and the Material Jonathan Hill 9. Playing with Fragments of Modernity Sandra Karina Löschke: An interview with artist Melanie Smith 10. Self-organisation and Theoretical Reflection Sophia Psarra 11. Baubotanik Ferdinand Ludwig Part 4: Concepts 12. Bauspiel as Immaterial Investigation Matthew Mindrup 13. Recuperative Architectonics Michael Tawa 14. MVRDV Sandra Karina Löschke: An Interview with Jacob van Rijs of MVRDV and Moritz Mungenast Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Construction Contract Management
Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to construction contract administration and management, covering the delivery and execution stage of a construction project and the various issues which the contract administrator needs to proactively manage. It can therefore be used as a contract administrator's resource book covering what needs to be done (and why) to keep a construction project on track from a commercial and contractual perspective. It is particularly appropriate for students and new practitioners from varied construction professions and whilst it covers domestic (UK) projects, it will be particularly useful for those studying and working on international projects where terminology, procedures and legal systems may differ from the UK. The content is split into four parts and is subdivided into easy-to-read chapters replicating the timeline of a project during the construction stage: Part A covers initiating the construction stage, project delivery mechanismTable of ContentsForeword Introduction Part A: Initiating the Construction Stage – Contractor Mobilisation 1. Setting up for project delivery 2. Project communications, document control and BIM 3. Risk identification and management Part B: Managing the Construction Stage Performance and Relationships 4. Supervising the contractor’s performance 5. Payments to the contractor 6. Variations and changes 7. Subcontracting 8. Achieving best value and cost reductions Part C: Finalising the Construction Stage – Completion and Close-Out 9. Early termination of contracts; suspension of the works 10. Practical or substantial completion, delays and damages 11 Defects correction, final completion and close-out Part D: Claims and Disputes 12. Legal basis of claims and claim management 13. Claims for extension of time, delay and disruption 14. Adjudication, Dispute Boards and ADR 15. Arbitration and Litigation Part E: Ethics, Fair Dealings and Anti-Trust 16. Ethics, fair dealings and anti-trust
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Architecture of the Facade
Book SynopsisThe Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and arguing for the restoration of the art of the facade as both a subject of study within academia and an aspiration within the profession at large.As the principal surface of mediation, contextualization, and representation, the facade carries the lion's share of responsibility for containing the internal environment and confronting the outer world. And yet, in recent decades, the very question of what exactly a facade is has been raised by the dramatic changes in building technology, advances of parametric design, and the ubiquity of autonomous buildings. The Architecture of the Facade addresses these and other related issues. The book is organized into 12 chapters, with each chapter focusing on a particular aspect of the phenomenon of the facade such as those Table of Contents1. A History of the Facade in Twelve Buildings 2. Notes Towards a Difficult Definition 3. Phenomenology and the Facade 4. The Phenomenon of the Wall 5. The Phenomenon of the Frame 6. The Outside, the Inside and the In-between 7. The Repetitive Bay 8. Representation, Abstraction, and Meaning 9. Transparency, Translucency and Opacity 10. Proportion and the Search for a Cosmic Connection 11. Precedent and Invention 12. The City and the Facade
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Design and the Vernacular
Book SynopsisHow have Indigenous building traditions shaped modern building practices? What can the study of vernacular architecture contribute to debates about sustainable development? How has vernacular architecture been used to argue for postcolonial modernisation and what has been the effect on heritage and conservation?Design and the Vernacular explores how the vernacular architecture of Australasia and Oceania intersects with modernity and globalization challenging assumptions about vernacular architecture being anachronistic and static, and instead demonstrating how it can shape contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.Sixteen chapters by architects, designers, and theorists, including Indigenous writers, explore different facets of vernacular architecture amid the context of rapid political, economic, technological, social and environmental changes. The result offers valuable lessons and case studies
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Art and Architecture
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction In Constant Renewal: Interstitial Creativity Chapter 2 Transforming the World: The Architectural Art of Brian Clarke Chapter 3 Dance of Light and Line: When an Architect Turns to Art Chapter 4 Presenting a Truth: Ben Johnson – Painting Illusions Chapter 5 Exposed Agency: Poetic Architectural Projection Across and Between Disciplines Chapter 6 Recollected in Tranquillity: Brendan Neiland – Changing Sensibilities Chapter 7 Connections: Time, Landscape, and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy Chapter 8 An Alchemist of Super-Cooled Liquid: The Art and Craft of Danny Lane Chapter 9 Dynamic Reciprocities: Exploring the Site of Production Chapter 10 Tectonics of the Familiar: The Transposed Landscapes of Zoe Zenghelis Chapter 11 The Artist as Contemporary Philanthropist Chapter 12 Canaletto: Synthetic Compositions of Maritime Greenwich Chapter 13 Utopian Geometries: Turning Forms and the (Science) Fictions of Utopian Architecture Chapter 14 Neo-Fluxus: Multimedia Performance Art and Architecture Chapter 15 From Another Perspective – Surreal Urbanity: Sectors of the Exquisite City
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Ghost Stories
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Diffusions in Architecture Artificial
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Designing Interiors
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John Wiley & Sons Sustainable Design for Uncertain Futures Dialogue
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John Wiley & Sons The Codes Guidebook for Interiors Ninth Edition
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Not Stated How Does Spatial Justice Manifest in the Built Env ironment
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John Wiley & Sons Tectonics as a Process in Architecture
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Amberley Publishing Londons South Bank in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history Londonâs South Bank in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
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Amberley Publishing Lost Coventry
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Amberley Publishing Guernsey in 50 Buildings
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