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Pourquoi est-ce que les (bons) tabourets ont trois pieds ? Pourquoi est-ce que la canne de Charlot se plie lorsqu’il s’appuie dessus ? Pourquoi conserve-t-on mieux son équilibre dans un bus en écartant les pieds ? Des questions assez simples dont la réponse permet cependant de comprendre des procédés de construction en apparence très complexes, tels que les ponts(...)
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Pourquoi est-ce que les (bons) tabourets ont trois pieds ? Pourquoi est-ce que la canne de Charlot se plie lorsqu’il s’appuie dessus ? Pourquoi conserve-t-on mieux son équilibre dans un bus en écartant les pieds ? Des questions assez simples dont la réponse permet cependant de comprendre des procédés de construction en apparence très complexes, tels que les ponts(...)
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November 2011
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Comment tout ça tient? : voyage au pays des structures
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Pourquoi est-ce que les (bons) tabourets ont trois pieds ? Pourquoi est-ce que la canne de Charlot se plie lorsqu’il s’appuie dessus ? Pourquoi conserve-t-on mieux son équilibre dans un bus en écartant les pieds ? Des questions assez simples dont la réponse permet cependant de comprendre des procédés de construction en apparence très complexes, tels que les ponts suspendus ou la tour Eiffel. Discussions à bâtons rompus de l’élève et du professeur, croquis illustratifs, encadrés historiques et techniques dédiés aux chefs d’oeuvre en matière de conception, exemples humoristiques... Le lecteur est invité à voyager de façon très didactique « au pays des structures ».
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Pourquoi est-ce que les (bons) tabourets ont trois pieds ? Pourquoi est-ce que la canne de Charlot se plie lorsqu’il s’appuie dessus ? Pourquoi conserve-t-on mieux son équilibre dans un bus en écartant les pieds ? Des questions assez simples dont la réponse permet cependant de comprendre des procédés de construction en apparence très complexes, tels que les ponts suspendus ou la tour Eiffel. Discussions à bâtons rompus de l’élève et du professeur, croquis illustratifs, encadrés historiques et techniques dédiés aux chefs d’oeuvre en matière de conception, exemples humoristiques... Le lecteur est invité à voyager de façon très didactique « au pays des structures ».
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Richement illustré et résolument pratique, cet ouvrage apporte des conseils judicieux sur la manière de choisir et d’installer un chauffe-eau solaire thermique ou ses panneaux solaires photovoltaïques.
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Adopter le solaire : thermique et photovoltaïque
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Richement illustré et résolument pratique, cet ouvrage apporte des conseils judicieux sur la manière de choisir et d’installer un chauffe-eau solaire thermique ou ses panneaux solaires photovoltaïques.
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Richement illustré et résolument pratique, cet ouvrage apporte des conseils judicieux sur la manière de choisir et d’installer un chauffe-eau solaire thermique ou ses panneaux solaires photovoltaïques.
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The great builders
The great builders
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The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of scope and depth. From churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, it includes masterpieces from all over the world and covers 700 years of(...)
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The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of scope and depth. From churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, it includes masterpieces from all over the world and covers 700 years of(...)
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The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of scope and depth. From churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, it includes masterpieces from all over the world and covers 700 years of architectural history. This book, in the same series as The Great Naturalists and The Great Explorers, will appeal to anyone with an interest in architecture, buildings, engineering, urban planning or the history of the built environment.
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The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of scope and depth. From churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, it includes masterpieces from all over the world and covers 700 years of architectural history. This book, in the same series as The Great Naturalists and The Great Explorers, will appeal to anyone with an interest in architecture, buildings, engineering, urban planning or the history of the built environment.
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Cette publication rassemble, en un seul volume, une documentation sur les escaliers, fondée sur les différentes études menées par le Centre de Recherches sur les Monuments Historiques. À partir des traités d'architecture, sont abordées les notions et définitions de base, les dimensions, le mode de calcul nécessaire à leur réalisation, les différentes étapes de la(...)
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Cette publication rassemble, en un seul volume, une documentation sur les escaliers, fondée sur les différentes études menées par le Centre de Recherches sur les Monuments Historiques. À partir des traités d'architecture, sont abordées les notions et définitions de base, les dimensions, le mode de calcul nécessaire à leur réalisation, les différentes étapes de la(...)
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Escaliers étude de structures du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle
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Cette publication rassemble, en un seul volume, une documentation sur les escaliers, fondée sur les différentes études menées par le Centre de Recherches sur les Monuments Historiques. À partir des traités d'architecture, sont abordées les notions et définitions de base, les dimensions, le mode de calcul nécessaire à leur réalisation, les différentes étapes de la fabrication et sont étudiées les différentes pièces de structure de cet élément essentiel de l’architecture. Cet ouvrage retrace l’évolution des escaliers dans le temps, montre la place de choix qu'ils occupent dans la maison, leur importance dans la structure de l'édifice, leur rôle dans la circulation et la distribution des espaces, ainsi que le parti architectural que l'on peut en tirer. Une sélection de 37 lieux, parmi les 120 sites relevés par le CRMH de 1945 à 2009, illustre les perfectionnements apportés aux techniques de construction au cours des siècles afin d’améliorer le confort des usagers.
Escaliers étude de structures du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle
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Cette publication rassemble, en un seul volume, une documentation sur les escaliers, fondée sur les différentes études menées par le Centre de Recherches sur les Monuments Historiques. À partir des traités d'architecture, sont abordées les notions et définitions de base, les dimensions, le mode de calcul nécessaire à leur réalisation, les différentes étapes de la fabrication et sont étudiées les différentes pièces de structure de cet élément essentiel de l’architecture. Cet ouvrage retrace l’évolution des escaliers dans le temps, montre la place de choix qu'ils occupent dans la maison, leur importance dans la structure de l'édifice, leur rôle dans la circulation et la distribution des espaces, ainsi que le parti architectural que l'on peut en tirer. Une sélection de 37 lieux, parmi les 120 sites relevés par le CRMH de 1945 à 2009, illustre les perfectionnements apportés aux techniques de construction au cours des siècles afin d’améliorer le confort des usagers.
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December 2011
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The Brooklyn Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate--bridges can be breathtakingly monumental structures, magnificent works of art, and vital arteries that make life vastly easier. In Bridges , eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on a fascinating guided tour of bridge construction, ranging from the primitive rope bridges (now(...)
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The Brooklyn Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate--bridges can be breathtakingly monumental structures, magnificent works of art, and vital arteries that make life vastly easier. In Bridges , eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on a fascinating guided tour of bridge construction, ranging from the primitive rope bridges (now(...)
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Bridges: the science and art of the world's most inspiring structures
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The Brooklyn Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate--bridges can be breathtakingly monumental structures, magnificent works of art, and vital arteries that make life vastly easier. In Bridges , eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on a fascinating guided tour of bridge construction, ranging from the primitive rope bridges (now mainly found in adventure movies), to Roman aqueducts and the timber trestle railway bridges of the American West, to today's modern marvels, such as the Akashi-Kaiky.
Bridges: the science and art of the world's most inspiring structures
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The Brooklyn Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate--bridges can be breathtakingly monumental structures, magnificent works of art, and vital arteries that make life vastly easier. In Bridges , eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on a fascinating guided tour of bridge construction, ranging from the primitive rope bridges (now mainly found in adventure movies), to Roman aqueducts and the timber trestle railway bridges of the American West, to today's modern marvels, such as the Akashi-Kaiky.
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June 2012
June 2012
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Concrete planet : the strange and fascinating story of the world's most common man-made material
Concrete planet : the strange and fascinating story of the world's most common man-made material
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Cocrete : we use it for our buildings, bridges, dams and roads. We walk on it, drive on it and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is.
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Cocrete : we use it for our buildings, bridges, dams and roads. We walk on it, drive on it and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is.
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February 2012
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Concrete planet : the strange and fascinating story of the world's most common man-made material
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Cocrete : we use it for our buildings, bridges, dams and roads. We walk on it, drive on it and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is.
Concrete planet : the strange and fascinating story of the world's most common man-made material
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Cocrete : we use it for our buildings, bridges, dams and roads. We walk on it, drive on it and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is.
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This volume provides an overview of the entire spectrum and presents the great creativity and technical gamut of current façade types. The projects from around the world show in each instance how the relationship of interior and exterior must be defined, designed and implemented. Special emphasis is placed in the presentation on revealing photographs, technical(...)
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This volume provides an overview of the entire spectrum and presents the great creativity and technical gamut of current façade types. The projects from around the world show in each instance how the relationship of interior and exterior must be defined, designed and implemented. Special emphasis is placed in the presentation on revealing photographs, technical(...)
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Facades: design, construction, technology
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This volume provides an overview of the entire spectrum and presents the great creativity and technical gamut of current façade types. The projects from around the world show in each instance how the relationship of interior and exterior must be defined, designed and implemented. Special emphasis is placed in the presentation on revealing photographs, technical specifications and detail drawings.
Facades: design, construction, technology
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This volume provides an overview of the entire spectrum and presents the great creativity and technical gamut of current façade types. The projects from around the world show in each instance how the relationship of interior and exterior must be defined, designed and implemented. Special emphasis is placed in the presentation on revealing photographs, technical specifications and detail drawings.
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In the era of digital design and manufacturing, architects can experiment with and apply mathematical concepts to built structures as never before This survey of forty-six international projects, compiled and written by leading architects of digital design, offers an overview of exciting manifestations of these new processes through accessible illustrations, lucid(...)
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In the era of digital design and manufacturing, architects can experiment with and apply mathematical concepts to built structures as never before This survey of forty-six international projects, compiled and written by leading architects of digital design, offers an overview of exciting manifestations of these new processes through accessible illustrations, lucid(...)
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The new mathematics of architecture
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In the era of digital design and manufacturing, architects can experiment with and apply mathematical concepts to built structures as never before This survey of forty-six international projects, compiled and written by leading architects of digital design, offers an overview of exciting manifestations of these new processes through accessible illustrations, lucid texts, hands-on experience and constructed projects. The result is a compendium of the thinking and building behind today’s most exciting architecture. MINIFIE NIXON / FOSTER + PARTNERS / JOHN PICKERING / ANTONI GAUDÍ /INGENHOVEN ARCHITECTS / GEHRY PARTNERS / KOHN PEDERSEN FOX / LAB ARCHITECTURE STUDIO / ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL / OCEAN NORTH / BIOTHING / ARUP AGU / PTW ARCHITECTS / HENEGHAN PENG / DANIEL LIBESKIND / ASHTON RAGGATT MCDOUGALL / FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS / ARATA ISOZAKI / COX ARCHITECTS / TOYO ITO / UN STUDIO / DECOI ARCHITECTS / PAUL MORGAN ARCHITECTS / GREG LYNN / MCBRIDE CHARLES RYAN / HAKES ASSOCIATES / CLOUD 9 ARCHITECTURE / KARRES EN BRANDS / NOX ARCHITECTS / SERVO / ASYMPTOTE / HYPERBODY RESEARCH GROUP / CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATI
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In the era of digital design and manufacturing, architects can experiment with and apply mathematical concepts to built structures as never before This survey of forty-six international projects, compiled and written by leading architects of digital design, offers an overview of exciting manifestations of these new processes through accessible illustrations, lucid texts, hands-on experience and constructed projects. The result is a compendium of the thinking and building behind today’s most exciting architecture. MINIFIE NIXON / FOSTER + PARTNERS / JOHN PICKERING / ANTONI GAUDÍ /INGENHOVEN ARCHITECTS / GEHRY PARTNERS / KOHN PEDERSEN FOX / LAB ARCHITECTURE STUDIO / ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL / OCEAN NORTH / BIOTHING / ARUP AGU / PTW ARCHITECTS / HENEGHAN PENG / DANIEL LIBESKIND / ASHTON RAGGATT MCDOUGALL / FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS / ARATA ISOZAKI / COX ARCHITECTS / TOYO ITO / UN STUDIO / DECOI ARCHITECTS / PAUL MORGAN ARCHITECTS / GREG LYNN / MCBRIDE CHARLES RYAN / HAKES ASSOCIATES / CLOUD 9 ARCHITECTURE / KARRES EN BRANDS / NOX ARCHITECTS / SERVO / ASYMPTOTE / HYPERBODY RESEARCH GROUP / CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATI
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This book provides a thorough description of just how varied and complex, how stressful and yet inspiring the cooperation between architect and engineer can be. It offers an insight into the complex relationship between the two professions: from the historical analysis and theoretical examination via an exploration of partial aspects such as the relationship between(...)
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This book provides a thorough description of just how varied and complex, how stressful and yet inspiring the cooperation between architect and engineer can be. It offers an insight into the complex relationship between the two professions: from the historical analysis and theoretical examination via an exploration of partial aspects such as the relationship between(...)
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Cooperation: the Engineer and the Architect
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This book provides a thorough description of just how varied and complex, how stressful and yet inspiring the cooperation between architect and engineer can be. It offers an insight into the complex relationship between the two professions: from the historical analysis and theoretical examination via an exploration of partial aspects such as the relationship between support structure and space or the graphic reflections by individual actors on the process of designing and building.
Cooperation: the Engineer and the Architect
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This book provides a thorough description of just how varied and complex, how stressful and yet inspiring the cooperation between architect and engineer can be. It offers an insight into the complex relationship between the two professions: from the historical analysis and theoretical examination via an exploration of partial aspects such as the relationship between support structure and space or the graphic reflections by individual actors on the process of designing and building.
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In Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch, author Tracy Metz and art historian Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands negotiates its evolving relationship with water--and what the rest of the world can learn from them as our sea levels rise, our rivers swell and storms and droughts multiply. From New Orleans and Hamburg to Vietnam and(...)
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In Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch, author Tracy Metz and art historian Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands negotiates its evolving relationship with water--and what the rest of the world can learn from them as our sea levels rise, our rivers swell and storms and droughts multiply. From New Orleans and Hamburg to Vietnam and(...)
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Sweet & salt: water and the Dutch
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In Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch, author Tracy Metz and art historian Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands negotiates its evolving relationship with water--and what the rest of the world can learn from them as our sea levels rise, our rivers swell and storms and droughts multiply. From New Orleans and Hamburg to Vietnam and China, the world is facing landscapes in drastic metamorphosis.
Sweet & salt: water and the Dutch
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In Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch, author Tracy Metz and art historian Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands negotiates its evolving relationship with water--and what the rest of the world can learn from them as our sea levels rise, our rivers swell and storms and droughts multiply. From New Orleans and Hamburg to Vietnam and China, the world is facing landscapes in drastic metamorphosis.
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May 2012
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