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A reciprocal framework in architecture is a construction where a building’s weight is held not through a single post or beam, but through an interaction of mutually supportive, interwoven members. Reciprocal frameworks have been in use for hundreds of years—including in the work of such Renaissance masters as Leonardo—but, while they are still used today, they are not(...)
Reciprocal frameworks: tradition and innovation
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A reciprocal framework in architecture is a construction where a building’s weight is held not through a single post or beam, but through an interaction of mutually supportive, interwoven members. Reciprocal frameworks have been in use for hundreds of years—including in the work of such Renaissance masters as Leonardo—but, while they are still used today, they are not particularly well known. This book delves into the history and function of reciprocal frameworks, showing not only how they work but also how newly available digital tools can help architects fruitfully expand their use well beyond current applications.
Engineering Structures
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Architect Donald Macdonald designed the Golden Gate Bridge's current tollbooths and bike rail, set the guidelines for it's retrofit, and is at the centre of the discussion around the subject of the proposed suicide barrier design. Through his eyes the balance of aesthetics, geometry, and engineering that fashion the bridge is made clear
Golden Gate bridge: history and design of an icon
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Architect Donald Macdonald designed the Golden Gate Bridge's current tollbooths and bike rail, set the guidelines for it's retrofit, and is at the centre of the discussion around the subject of the proposed suicide barrier design. Through his eyes the balance of aesthetics, geometry, and engineering that fashion the bridge is made clear
Engineering Structures
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The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open in October 2013 and Chronicle author Donald MacDonald is its architect. McDonald and coauthor Ira Nadel now turn their signature approach onto this new Bay Area landmark.
Bay Bridge: history and design of a new icon
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The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open in October 2013 and Chronicle author Donald MacDonald is its architect. McDonald and coauthor Ira Nadel now turn their signature approach onto this new Bay Area landmark.
Engineering Structures
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume,(...)
Building: 3000 years of design, engineering and construction
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartres Cathedral and the dome of St. Peter's, from eighteenth-century silk mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and on to the first Chicago high-rises, the Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers.
Engineering Structures
L'angoisse de l'ingénieur
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Avec L'Angoisse de l'ingénieur, texte à valeur de manifeste, Ernst Bloch démontre le piège que l'homme se tend à lui-même. Sentiment en vérité archaïque, l'angoisse trouve une forme nouvelle dans la quête perpétuelle d'un accès à l'inconnu, dont on ne peut mesurer encore les conséquences. De cette tension naît l'angoisse, autrefois reliée à l’obscure et toute-puissante(...)
L'angoisse de l'ingénieur
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Avec L'Angoisse de l'ingénieur, texte à valeur de manifeste, Ernst Bloch démontre le piège que l'homme se tend à lui-même. Sentiment en vérité archaïque, l'angoisse trouve une forme nouvelle dans la quête perpétuelle d'un accès à l'inconnu, dont on ne peut mesurer encore les conséquences. De cette tension naît l'angoisse, autrefois reliée à l’obscure et toute-puissante magie, mais dont les effets de la technique perpétuent le sentiment de terreur. L'antique démonisme n'est jamais loin, lorsque l'ingénieur freine en dernier ressort son avancée.
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Building from Waste
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This is a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product(...)
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Building from Waste
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This is a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product directory presents all materials and projects according to their functional uses.
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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.
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The once distinct fields of infrastructure and architecture have recently become the joint subject of academic inquiry. Infrastructure as Architecture features essays and projects by a range of influential architects and writers including Stan Allen, Bureau E.A.S.T., Stefano Casciani, Dana Cuff, Alexander D'Hooghe, Jesse LeCavalier, Simon Sellars, Kelly Shannon, Cary(...)
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Infrastructure as architecture: Design composite networks
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The once distinct fields of infrastructure and architecture have recently become the joint subject of academic inquiry. Infrastructure as Architecture features essays and projects by a range of influential architects and writers including Stan Allen, Bureau E.A.S.T., Stefano Casciani, Dana Cuff, Alexander D'Hooghe, Jesse LeCavalier, Simon Sellars, Kelly Shannon, Cary Siress, Jonathan D Solomon, Georgeen Theodore and UrbanLab, among others.
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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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(...)
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.