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Auditorium Acoustics and Architectural Design
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 165.00Modern concert halls and opera houses are now very specialized buildings with special acoustical characteristics. With new contemporary case-studies, this updated book explores these characteristics as an important resource for architects, engineers and auditorium technicians. Supported by over 40 detailed case studies and architectural drawings... more...
Mastering Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010
Wiley 2009; US$ 69.99The only comprehensive tutorial/reference exclusively devoted to Autodesk's robust architectural visualization software 3ds Max Design is a powerful real-time 3D design, modeling, and animation tool for architectural visualizations. This book covers all the software's crucial features, including how to simulate and analyze sun, sky, and artificial... more...
Marble Past, Monumental Present
BRILL 2008; US$ 230.00A broad survey of the various structural and decorative uses of marble and antiquities throughout the Mediterranean during the Millennium following the Emperor Constantine. It argues that marble-rich sites and cities around this lake were linked at various times and in varying degrees by trade, pilgrimage, war and diplomacy. more...
Roman Villas in Central Italy
BRILL 2007; US$ 230.00This volume investigates the socio-economic role of elite villas in Roman Central Italy drawing on both documentary sources and material evidence. Through the composite picture emerging from the juxtaposition of literary texts and archaeological evidence, the book traces elite ideological attitudes and economic behavior, caught between what was morally... more...
Indian Islamic Architecture
BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00Offers an overview on Indian Islamic architecture. more...
Architectuur en geschiedenis
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 12.25De (re-)constructies van het verleden in historische disciplines zoals de kunst- en architectuurgeschiedenis veranderen regelmatig. Dit gebeurt onder invloed van uiteenlopende factoren binnen en buiten de eigen discipline. In het verleden werden echter ook constructies van een verder weg gelegen geschiedenis gemaakt om de positie van een opdrachtgever... more...
DK Eyewitness Books: Building
Dorling Kindersley 2000; US$ 15.99This guide offers everything you?ve ever wanted toknow about buildings?from how they are built and customized to the different materials that are used to keep them standing. With stunning full-color photographs as aids, see incredible stone gargoyles, where linenfold wood paneling is found, what a Japanese screen is made of, and how a hammer-beam roof... more...
Interaktive Ambiente mit Open-Source-Software
Springer 2009; US$ 69.95In ?Interaktive Ambiente" zeigt Wolfgang Höhl, Spezialist für Architektursoftware, die korrekte Anwendung freier Software in der Architekturvisualisierung. Nach einem Überblick über die Möglichkeiten der Echtzeitvisualisierung lernen Sie mit drei freien Softwarepaketen zu arbeiten. Sie erfahren, welche Hardware geeignet ist und welche Systemanforderungen... more...
Mobile Architektur
Springer 2008; US$ 44.95Alle frühen Behausungen waren tragbar oder jederzeit erneuerbar, denn die Menschen lebten als Nomaden und zogen mit den wechselnden Jahreszeiten dorthin, wo die Lebensbedingungen zuträglicher waren. Die Rastlosigkeit der modernen Zeit wiederum findet in mobilen Strukturen ihren Ausdruck: das Nomadic Museum von Shigeru Ban in New York aus Schiffscontainern... more...
Space in America
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 182.00America's sense of space has always been tied to what Hayden White called the "narrativization" of real events. If the awe-inspiring manifestations of nature in America (Niagara Falls, Virginia's Natural Bridge, the Grand Canyon, etc.) were often used as a foil for projecting utopian visions and idealizations of the nation's exceptional... more...









