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Nachhaltiges Gebäudemanagement: Auswirkungen intelligenter Gebäude auf das Facility Management
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 37.73Hauptbeschreibung Die Erde, auf der wir leben, ist in ständiger Bewegung und im Laufe der Zeit verändert sich alles auf ihr. Das betrifft sogar unsere Gebäude, in denen wir einen großen Teil unseres Lebens verbringen. Sie sind für uns mehr als nur vier Wände und ein Dach. Sie sind Arbeitsstätten, Forschungszentren, Rückzugsorte für das private Leben,... more...
The Australian Ugliness
The Text Publishing Company 2012; US$ 12.95Brilliant, witty, scathing, The Australian Ugliness is the classic postwar account of Australian society, how we live in the environments we create, and the consequences of our failure to think about how we live. more...
Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture
Springer 2012; US$ 149.00Over the last few decades, there have been dramatic improvements in the understanding and research of environmental design. Numerous methods have been developed to enhance architectural design in order for it to be more energy efficient, sustainable and health enhancing. This book presents several theories and techniques that can be used to improve... more...
Traditional Japanese Architecture
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 39.95hick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. Intricate carved wood transoms and precisely woven tatami mats?each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story. In Traditional Japanese Architecture , author Mira Locher explores how each of these stories encompasses the particular development, construction, function and symbolism... more...
The Eyes of the Skin
Wiley 2013; US$ 45.00First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically,... more...
The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume II
Wiley 2012; US$ 145.00This is the second part of a major theoretical work by Patrik Schumacher, which outlines how the discipline of architecture should be understood as its own distinct system of communication . Autopoeisis comes from the Greek and means literally self-production; it was first adopted in biology in the 1970s to describe the essential characteristics... more...
Antoni Gaudí
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95The book undertakes a critical survey of the architecture of Antoni Gaudí, drawing on the latest academic research and accompanied by documentary illustrations and a photographic essay of his work. The opening two chapters provide an introduction to Gaudí?s biography and the social and cultural context of Barcelona amidst which he developed his remarkable... more...
Antoni Gaudí
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95« La couleur dans l?architecture doit être intense, logique et fertile. » (Antoni Gaudí) Architecte et designer barcelonais, Antoni Gaudí (1852- 1926) occupe une large place dans l?histoire de l?art contemporain espagnol. L?usage de la couleur, l?emploi de différents matériaux et l?introduction du movement dans ses constructions sont une innovation... more...
Antoni Gaudí
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), Architekt und Designer aus Barcelona, nimmt einen bedeutenden Platz in der Geschichte der spanischen Gegenwartskunst ein. Sein Umgang mit Farbe, die Verwendung verschiedener Materialien und die Einführung von Bewegung in seine Konstruktionen sind Innovationen auf dem Gebiet der Architektur. Antoni Gaudi hat in seinen Notizbüchern... more...
Antoni Gaudí
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95El libro lleva a cabo un análisis crítico de la arquitectura de Antoni Gaudí, de acuerdo con las últimas investigaciones académicas, e incluye ilustraciones documentales y un ensayo fotográfico de su trabajo. Los dos primeros capítulos ofrecen una introducción a la vida de Gaudí y al contexto sociocultural de la Barcelona en la que desarrolló su extraordinario... more...









