Architectural Lighting Design Book

Architectural Design Book. Light is the element that reveals architecture. It renders texture and materials, illuminates surfaces and spaces, it creates atmospheres. The Architecture of Light concentrates on visual data to provide a deeper understanding of the lighting decision-making process. Color diagrams, photographs, and renderings are used to educate readers about the controllable aspects of light. Light in Architecture is a suggestive and useful guide for those who are conscious of the main role natural light and artificial lighting play in architecture, landscape and interior design. Text, pictures, figures and drawings will guide

them through this essential aspect of contemporary design and architecture.

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Architecture Design of Richard Meier

Philip Jodidio has contributed to Richard Meier as an author.PHILIP JODIDIO has published more than fifty books on architecture, including Architecture: Art, Architecture: Sculpture, Architecture: Nature an d Under the Eaves of Architecture.This complete monograph presents 89 of Meier's buildings, documenting the principal stages of Meier's career in chronological order, from his early private homes and residential buildings - such as the two large complexes of Twin Parks, Bronx, New York, and the Bronx Development Center - to recent major projects in the United States and in several European countries, including Italy. Among the well-known works in this volume are the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and the church of Dives in Misericordia, Rome. In the early 1970s, Meier was one of the "New York Five," an informal group of East Coast architects who shared a preference for new and original contributions to the modern tradition and shaped an alternative to the "gray" architecture that dominated highrise East Coast buildings at the time.This new title in the Modern Masters series is dedicated to the distinguished American architect, and includes an introductory essay by Kenneth Frampton, one of the most prestigious names in the field of architecture history.

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Public Spaces: Convivial Urban Spaces

The result is a practical and clearly presented guide to urban public space for planners, architects and students of the urban environment. Convivial Urban Spaces argues that successful urban public spaces are an essential part of a sustainable built environment. Without them we are likely to drift into an increasingly private and polarized society, with all the problems that ensue. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book draws on new primary research, and the literature and theory of environmental psychology and urban design, to advance our understanding of what makes effective public spaces.

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Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd | pages: 154 | 2008 | ISBN: 1844073882 | PDF | 13,3 mb

Urban Design: Urban Forms

Ivor Samuels, Phillippe Panerai, Jean Castex, Jean Charles Depaule "Urban Forms". This book discusses how to analyze a space to live and dead space. describe the shape of space and the search for the missing space in a city. this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices

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Architectural Press | 2004-06-15 | ISBN: 0750656077 | 240 pages | PDF | 7,3 MB

Home Design Magazine: Home Idea

This book helps you weeks to build a beautiful home in a relatively "cheap" .. Containsten design houses, as well as some form of living room, dining room, family room,kitchen, fence yard, which can be selected and adapted to house building. Besides,calculations also described the materials used and the analysis of labor to save costsand avoid waste.

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Residential Layout: Introduction

Mike Biddulph, "Introduction to Residential Layout". Mike Biddulph provides a clear and coherent framework from which he offers comprehensive practical advice for designers of housing developments. Referring to a wealth of international examples, this is a richly illustrated, accessible resource covering the whole range of issues that should be considered by anyone engaging in the planning and design of a new residential scheme.

Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeking a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of designing and laying out residential areas.

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Architectural Press | ISBN: 0750662050 | January 3, 2007 | PDF | 224 pages | 37,3 mb

Detail Annual vol.1: Culture, business, residence, public facilities

J.Kwang, " Detail Annual (vol. 1) Culture, business, residence, public facilities"

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ARCHIWORLD | 2005 | English, Korean | ISBN: 895700862 | 265 pages | PDF | 105,5 MB

Detail Annual vol.4: Exhibit, Culture, Meeting,Education,Commerce,Public,Business facilities:

J.Kwang, "Detail Annual (vol. 4) Exhibit & Culture & Meeting, Education, Commerce, Public & Business facilities".

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ARCHIWORLD | 2005 | English, Korean | ISBN: 895700812 | 257 pages | PDF | 79,4 MB

The Guide to Green Engineering and Design

Sustainable Infrastructure: The Guide to Green Engineering and Design . Sustainable Infrastructure explores this trend with in-depth look at sustainable engineeringpractices in an urban design as it involves watershed master-planning, green building, optimizing water reuse, reclaiming urban spaces, green streets initiatives, and sustainable master-planning. This complete guide provides guidance on the role creative thinking and collaborative team-building play in meeting solutions needed to affect a sustainable transformation of the built environment

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Bry Sarte Wiley | English | 2010-09-07 | ISBN: 0470453613 | 384 pages | File type: PDF | 15 mb

Design Guidefor Laboratory

Laboratory Design guide book. Modern laboratories cannot be designed successfully by non-specialist architectural/engineering teams. Even those with experience require guidelines as well as reference to facilities which have proved their worth through successful operation. The guide is particularly rich in demonstrative examples not only of completed projects involving the Author and other architects, but also of some under construction or at the design stage. The 43 case studies represent a good spread of laboratory design principles and practices

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Publisher: Architectural Press | pages: 384 | 2004 | ISBN: 0750660899 | File type: PDF | 10,8 mb

Book of Space Grid Structures

A benefit of this type of structure is that very large spaces can be covered, uninterrupted by support from the ground.A space frame is a three-dimensional framework for enclosing spaces in which all members are interconnected and act as a single entity.The technical level is aimed at professional and student architects and engineers worldwide and it also serves as a useful construction manual.

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Architectural Press (1-2000) | File type: PDF | 180 pages | ISBN:0750632755 | 5.8mb