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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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.
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April 2008, Lausanne
April 2008, Lausanne
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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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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
December 2007, London, New York
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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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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
December 2007, London, New York
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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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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
January 2008, New York
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and(...)
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and(...)
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Structured lineages: learning from Japanese structural design
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and accessible, these conversations and essays illustrate how intimately the innovations of this collaborative tradition passed from one generation to the next.
Structured lineages: learning from Japanese structural design
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and accessible, these conversations and essays illustrate how intimately the innovations of this collaborative tradition passed from one generation to the next.
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September 2019
September 2019
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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.
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June 2014
June 2014
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This book, which since its initial publication has become a standard work for designers of infrastructure, provides a fundamental approach to infrastructure based on four characteristics: as the cause of increased mobility, as a physical presence, as an initiator of movement, and as a collective shared experience of space. These characteristics form the guideline for four(...)
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This book, which since its initial publication has become a standard work for designers of infrastructure, provides a fundamental approach to infrastructure based on four characteristics: as the cause of increased mobility, as a physical presence, as an initiator of movement, and as a collective shared experience of space. These characteristics form the guideline for four(...)
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The landscape of contemporary infrastructure
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This book, which since its initial publication has become a standard work for designers of infrastructure, provides a fundamental approach to infrastructure based on four characteristics: as the cause of increased mobility, as a physical presence, as an initiator of movement, and as a collective shared experience of space. These characteristics form the guideline for four chapters that describe a typology of the design concepts that are used worldwide in current practice. Each chapter is illustrated with key projects from around the world, by designers such as Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and OMA.
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This book, which since its initial publication has become a standard work for designers of infrastructure, provides a fundamental approach to infrastructure based on four characteristics: as the cause of increased mobility, as a physical presence, as an initiator of movement, and as a collective shared experience of space. These characteristics form the guideline for four chapters that describe a typology of the design concepts that are used worldwide in current practice. Each chapter is illustrated with key projects from around the world, by designers such as Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and OMA.
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August 2016
August 2016
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"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey solidity and immensity in an age of deep(...)
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"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey solidity and immensity in an age of deep(...)
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November 2016
November 2016
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Palazzos of power : central station of the Phalidelphia Electric Company
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"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey solidity and immensity in an age of deep public skepticism. They now stand vacant and decaying, a blight in the eyes of city planners and a beacon to urban explorers.'the first book on the buildings and machines that made possible the electrification of the United States, "Palazzos of power" offers a visual and analytical exploration of architecture, technology, place, loss, and reuse. With a foreword by David Nye, this collection of Joseph Elliott's large-format photographs reveal the urban landscape, monumental spaces, giant machinery, and intricate controls that made up the central station. Aaron Wunsch's essay provides historical context on the social and political climate.
Palazzos of power : central station of the Phalidelphia Electric Company
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"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey solidity and immensity in an age of deep public skepticism. They now stand vacant and decaying, a blight in the eyes of city planners and a beacon to urban explorers.'the first book on the buildings and machines that made possible the electrification of the United States, "Palazzos of power" offers a visual and analytical exploration of architecture, technology, place, loss, and reuse. With a foreword by David Nye, this collection of Joseph Elliott's large-format photographs reveal the urban landscape, monumental spaces, giant machinery, and intricate controls that made up the central station. Aaron Wunsch's essay provides historical context on the social and political climate.
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November 2016
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Precast prestressed concrete (PC) and steel are the two structural materials that have been considered for the production of honeycomb tubes. While this book was created to introduce the concept of steel honeycomb tubes, in this introductory chapter we present honeycomb tube structures that feature precast prestressed concrete (PC honeycomb tubes) dubbed as 'HTA'(...)
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Precast prestressed concrete (PC) and steel are the two structural materials that have been considered for the production of honeycomb tubes. While this book was created to introduce the concept of steel honeycomb tubes, in this introductory chapter we present honeycomb tube structures that feature precast prestressed concrete (PC honeycomb tubes) dubbed as 'HTA'(...)
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February 2008
February 2008
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Honeycomb dynamics architecture
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Precast prestressed concrete (PC) and steel are the two structural materials that have been considered for the production of honeycomb tubes. While this book was created to introduce the concept of steel honeycomb tubes, in this introductory chapter we present honeycomb tube structures that feature precast prestressed concrete (PC honeycomb tubes) dubbed as 'HTA' (Honeycomb Tube Architecture), which served as precedent. In addition to a summary of Honeycomb Tube Architecture, a book published in December 2006 to exhibit concepts of PC honeycomb tubes, here, we present the results of tests on a 1/3 scale mock-up of the structural system that were conducted in April 2007 along with actual works of architecture being planned for execution.
Honeycomb dynamics architecture
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Precast prestressed concrete (PC) and steel are the two structural materials that have been considered for the production of honeycomb tubes. While this book was created to introduce the concept of steel honeycomb tubes, in this introductory chapter we present honeycomb tube structures that feature precast prestressed concrete (PC honeycomb tubes) dubbed as 'HTA' (Honeycomb Tube Architecture), which served as precedent. In addition to a summary of Honeycomb Tube Architecture, a book published in December 2006 to exhibit concepts of PC honeycomb tubes, here, we present the results of tests on a 1/3 scale mock-up of the structural system that were conducted in April 2007 along with actual works of architecture being planned for execution.
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Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offered(...)
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Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offered(...)
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Revolving Architecture: a history of buildings that rotate, swivel, and pivot
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Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offered ever-changing vistas and made interior spaces more flexible and adaptable. They were used to impress visitors, treat patients, and improve the green qualities of a structure by keeping particular rooms in or out of the sun. The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of fantastic revolving structures such as a jail that kept inmates under a warden's constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants, tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of each other. International examples from the late 1800s though the present demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures.
Revolving Architecture: a history of buildings that rotate, swivel, and pivot
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Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offered ever-changing vistas and made interior spaces more flexible and adaptable. They were used to impress visitors, treat patients, and improve the green qualities of a structure by keeping particular rooms in or out of the sun. The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of fantastic revolving structures such as a jail that kept inmates under a warden's constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants, tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of each other. International examples from the late 1800s though the present demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures.
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July 2008, New York
July 2008, New York
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Siteless 1001 building forms
Siteless 1001 building forms
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere.(...)
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere.(...)
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Siteless 1001 building forms
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he "didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction." What would happen, he asks, if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he "didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction." What would happen, he asks, if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.
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March 2008, Cambridge
March 2008, Cambridge
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Engineering Structures
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