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Bringing together experts from research and practice, 'Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization' presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural optimization techniques. It introduces architecture and engineering practitioners and students to structural shells and provides computational(...)
Shell structures for architecture: form finding and optimization
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Bringing together experts from research and practice, 'Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization' presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural optimization techniques. It introduces architecture and engineering practitioners and students to structural shells and provides computational techniques to develop complex curved structural surfaces, in the form of mathematics, computer algorithms, and design case studies.
Engineering Structures
Modern Landscape
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"Modern Landscape" features over thirty international projects, including schemes by both architects and landscape architects, often working in collaboration. Following an introductory essay, the book is arranged into four sections of extensively illustrated case studies, each of which deals with a different aspect of landscape design - Parkland, Architecture as(...)
Modern Landscape
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"Modern Landscape" features over thirty international projects, including schemes by both architects and landscape architects, often working in collaboration. Following an introductory essay, the book is arranged into four sections of extensively illustrated case studies, each of which deals with a different aspect of landscape design - Parkland, Architecture as Landscape, Garden Landscapes, and Urban Interventions - relating it directly to historical and contemporary precedents.
Gardens
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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a(...)
Urban rivers: remaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and North America
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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interact from the seventeenth century to the present.
Urban Landscapes
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This publication demonstrates the strategies and processes of redesigning logos and shows readers how to build on the equity the brand already retains to create a fresh look. The case studies feature before and afters of the logos and discuss why the redesign was necessary and demonstrate how to reuse, reformat and build on the ingredients, materials and essence that is(...)
Recycling and redesigning logos: a designer's guide to refreshing and rethinking design
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This publication demonstrates the strategies and processes of redesigning logos and shows readers how to build on the equity the brand already retains to create a fresh look. The case studies feature before and afters of the logos and discuss why the redesign was necessary and demonstrate how to reuse, reformat and build on the ingredients, materials and essence that is already there.
Logos
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In this publication, Thomas Fisher presents fifty case studies representing a broad range of ethical dilemmas facing today's architects, from questions regarding which clients to work for, to the moral imperatives of reclaiming building materials for construction instead of sending them to landfills. This book features newly interpretations adapted to the pervasive(...)
Ethics for architects : 50 dilemmas of professional practice
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In this publication, Thomas Fisher presents fifty case studies representing a broad range of ethical dilemmas facing today's architects, from questions regarding which clients to work for, to the moral imperatives of reclaiming building materials for construction instead of sending them to landfills. This book features newly interpretations adapted to the pervasive demands of globalization, sustainability, and developments in information technology.
Architectural Theory
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Graphic Design Thinking explores a variety of techniques — from quick, seat-of-the-pants approaches to more formal research methods — for stimulating fresh thinking and solving design problems. Brainstorming techniques are grouped around the three main phases of the design process: defining problems, getting ideas, and creating form. Visual demonstrations and case studies(...)
Graphic design thinking : beyond brainstorming
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Graphic Design Thinking explores a variety of techniques — from quick, seat-of-the-pants approaches to more formal research methods — for stimulating fresh thinking and solving design problems. Brainstorming techniques are grouped around the three main phases of the design process: defining problems, getting ideas, and creating form. Visual demonstrations and case studies show the design processes and solutions at work.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Building Envelopes, the newest volume in the Architecture Briefs series, gives instruction for designing building envelopes that are both visually appealing and high-functioning. It is divided into three sections: discussion of the general concepts involved in designing a building envelope, exploration of specific technologies and materials that the envelope encompasses,(...)
Building envelopes: an integral approach
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Building Envelopes, the newest volume in the Architecture Briefs series, gives instruction for designing building envelopes that are both visually appealing and high-functioning. It is divided into three sections: discussion of the general concepts involved in designing a building envelope, exploration of specific technologies and materials that the envelope encompasses, and analysis of cutting-edge case studies from around the world.
Materials and Lighting
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Data Flow 2 expands the definition of contemporary information graphics. The book features new possibilities for diagrams, maps, and charts and investigates the visual and intuitive presentation of processes and data. Eight comprehensive chapters illuminate how techniques such as simplification, abstraction, metaphor, and dramatization function. Data Flow 2 is a valuable(...)
Data flow 2 : visualizing information in graphic design
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Data Flow 2 expands the definition of contemporary information graphics. The book features new possibilities for diagrams, maps, and charts and investigates the visual and intuitive presentation of processes and data. Eight comprehensive chapters illuminate how techniques such as simplification, abstraction, metaphor, and dramatization function. Data Flow 2 is a valuable reference offering practical advice, background, case studies, and inspiration.
Printed Matter
Key interiors since 1900
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Following a brief introduction, the book is organized in six chapters on the following themes: home, work, retail, display, leisure, and culture. Each chapter comprises a selection of case studies in chronological order. 52 key examples dating from 1900 to the present are explored in terms of context, concept, organization, and detail and are illustrated with photographs,(...)
Key interiors since 1900
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Following a brief introduction, the book is organized in six chapters on the following themes: home, work, retail, display, leisure, and culture. Each chapter comprises a selection of case studies in chronological order. 52 key examples dating from 1900 to the present are explored in terms of context, concept, organization, and detail and are illustrated with photographs, plans, sections, concept drawings, and sketches.
Interior Design
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This volume examines various key topics of urban commons theoretically and empirically through a wide spectrum of international case studies providing perspectives from a variety of cities as diverse as Berlin, Hyderabad and Seoul. A wider discussion of commons in current scientific and activist literature from housing, public space, to urban infrastructure, is explored(...)
Urban commons: moving beyond state and market
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This volume examines various key topics of urban commons theoretically and empirically through a wide spectrum of international case studies providing perspectives from a variety of cities as diverse as Berlin, Hyderabad and Seoul. A wider discussion of commons in current scientific and activist literature from housing, public space, to urban infrastructure, is explored through the lens of the urban condition.
Urban Theory