New tent architecture
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Tents have been prized for centuries for their lightness, mobility, small footprint and structural elegance. New tents offer innovative and significant solutions to age-old problems. With the demand on architects to touch the earth lightly, together with a cross-disciplinary interest in technotextiles, membrane structures are assuming new prominence and pleasing forms.(...)
New tent architecture
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Tents have been prized for centuries for their lightness, mobility, small footprint and structural elegance. New tents offer innovative and significant solutions to age-old problems. With the demand on architects to touch the earth lightly, together with a cross-disciplinary interest in technotextiles, membrane structures are assuming new prominence and pleasing forms. This wide-ranging international survey looks at the exciting possibilities of contemporary tensile building and the most interesting membrane structures created in recent years.
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A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States. Dams are a monumental presence on the American landscape. This newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress series shows that the history of dam development is characterized by invention and innovation, and parallels that of the United States. It emphasizes the unique(...)
Dams
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A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States. Dams are a monumental presence on the American landscape. This newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress series shows that the history of dam development is characterized by invention and innovation, and parallels that of the United States. It emphasizes the unique design and engineering complexities of these impressive structures.
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September 2008
Engineering Structures
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Le génie parasismique traite de l'impact des séismes sur les structures et des moyens d'y remédier. Il s'appuie notamment sur une excellente connaissance des méthodes de dimensionnement parasismique, et en particulier du dimensionnement en capacité. Rédigé par deux des spécialistes francophones du domaine, cet ouvrage offre une vue exhaustive de l'ensemble des moyens mis(...)
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January 1900, Lausanne
Génie parasismique: conception et dimension des bâtiments
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Le génie parasismique traite de l'impact des séismes sur les structures et des moyens d'y remédier. Il s'appuie notamment sur une excellente connaissance des méthodes de dimensionnement parasismique, et en particulier du dimensionnement en capacité. Rédigé par deux des spécialistes francophones du domaine, cet ouvrage offre une vue exhaustive de l'ensemble des moyens mis à disposition de l'ingénieur pour limiter l'impact des manifestations sismiques sur les constructions. Il montre toute l'importance de la prise en compte des sollicitations sismiques lors de la phase de conception de bâtiments neufs. Il présente et explique en détail les spécificités du comportement sismique et la méthode de dimensionnement en capacité, développée expressément pour le cas sismique. L'application de cette méthode est traitée dans le cadre des normes de construction les plus récentes. Le nouvel ouvrage de référence en langue française pour les étudiants ingénieurs et les ingénieurs praticiens.
Engineering Structures
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Cet ouvrage expose de manière claire et synthétique la problématique de la prise en compte des séismes lors de la construction de bâtiments. Principalement destiné aux praticiens du secteur du bâtiment non spécialistes du sujet, il offre un aperçu complet de l'ensemble des éléments constructifs à considérer afin d'éviter tout désastre lors d'un séisme. L'ouvrage aborde(...)
Séismes et construction : éléments pour non-spécialistes
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Cet ouvrage expose de manière claire et synthétique la problématique de la prise en compte des séismes lors de la construction de bâtiments. Principalement destiné aux praticiens du secteur du bâtiment non spécialistes du sujet, il offre un aperçu complet de l'ensemble des éléments constructifs à considérer afin d'éviter tout désastre lors d'un séisme. L'ouvrage aborde les thèmes de la vulnérabilité des bâtiments, de la conception parasismique, du dimensionnement et des normes de construction à adopter, ainsi que de l'évaluation sismique des ouvrages existants. Chaque chapitre se clôt pari un résumé synthétique, et un lexique des définitions et des termes spécifiques utilisés dans le texte complète l'ouvrage. Rédigé dans un langage clair et accessible aux profanes du domaine, cet ouvrage sans précédent ni équivalent en langue française constitue une véritable référence pour les architectes, maîtres d'ouvrages et ingénieurs conseil, ainsi que pour un large public intéressé par cette problématique.
Engineering Structures
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Using materials and structures to form the guiding principles for architectural knowledge, On span and space offers an understanding of architecture from the consideration of how architectural works are actually put together.
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December 2007, London, New York
On span and space: exploring structures in architecture
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Using materials and structures to form the guiding principles for architectural knowledge, On span and space offers an understanding of architecture from the consideration of how architectural works are actually put together.
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Recent innovations in computational techniques, material systems and fabrication processes have revolutionized the design and construction of surface structures. Innovative Surface Structures is an in-depth introduction to the fundamentals of surface structures, and provides the techniques and knowledge necessary to design folded plates, shells and tensile membranes in a(...)
Innovative surface structures: technologies and applications
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Recent innovations in computational techniques, material systems and fabrication processes have revolutionized the design and construction of surface structures. Innovative Surface Structures is an in-depth introduction to the fundamentals of surface structures, and provides the techniques and knowledge necessary to design folded plates, shells and tensile membranes in a broad variety of materials.
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January 2008, New York
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Findings on elasticity
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What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized(...)
Findings on elasticity
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What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized niches in order to publish their brilliant, crazy, important, or bewildering results and assembles them in this interdisciplinary volume. There are no guidelines for the form their contributions must take. It may be images, poems, essays, sketches, formulas or a piece of sculpture; the editors only ask that a contribution reect the respondent’s own field as well as his or her passion for the topic.
Prefabricated systems
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For a number of years, modular construction - the use of prefabricated elements in architecture - has once again become a subject of lively discussion and debate. Long written off as monotonous, today's building components are actually highly differenciated and capable of supporting and enhancing the architect's creativity. Numerous structures work with prefabricated(...)
Prefabricated systems
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For a number of years, modular construction - the use of prefabricated elements in architecture - has once again become a subject of lively discussion and debate. Long written off as monotonous, today's building components are actually highly differenciated and capable of supporting and enhancing the architect's creativity. Numerous structures work with prefabricated components and modular systems are available the meet high aesthetic standards. This book provide an overview of the various systems and their possible applications, particularly in the areas of housing, office, and industrial buildings. It explains the processes and components of modular construction and documents examples of best practice. The authors offer strategies for planning and designing with prefabricated systems so that the architect can use them productively. Numerous drawings explain the principles of modular construction, while built projects forge a link between those principles and the practical activity of building.
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London's bridges
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Oft-overshadowed by the imposing buildings that line the River Thames, the bridges of London are an intriguing part of the capital, past and present. This book traces the history of all 33 Thames bridges within Greater London, exploring the fascinating architecture and unique stories from Hampton Court Bridge in the west to the iconic Tower Bridge in the east. Accompanied(...)
London's bridges
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Oft-overshadowed by the imposing buildings that line the River Thames, the bridges of London are an intriguing part of the capital, past and present. This book traces the history of all 33 Thames bridges within Greater London, exploring the fascinating architecture and unique stories from Hampton Court Bridge in the west to the iconic Tower Bridge in the east. Accompanied throughout by colour photographs of the present bridges, as well as detailed paintings and engravings of the earlier structures that once stood in their place, this is a fully illustrated and absorbing narrative for anyone with an interest in the history of London.
Engineering Structures
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Que se passerait-il si les architectes libéraient leur esprit des contraintes de site, de programme et de budget? Premier manifeste du XXe siècle ou dernier-traité d'architecture, EX SITU est d'un nouveau genre. Mille et une formes de bâtiments et autant d'idées architecturales qui, défiant toute gravité, veulent croire en de nouvelles techniques de construction.
Ex-situ: mille et une formes d'architecture
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Que se passerait-il si les architectes libéraient leur esprit des contraintes de site, de programme et de budget? Premier manifeste du XXe siècle ou dernier-traité d'architecture, EX SITU est d'un nouveau genre. Mille et une formes de bâtiments et autant d'idées architecturales qui, défiant toute gravité, veulent croire en de nouvelles techniques de construction.
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