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Greening Public Budgets in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2011; US$ 49.00Over the last two decades, the countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) have undergone significant political and economic reforms. As part of this reform agenda, they have started modernising their public administrations and expenditure management practices, bringing them closer to international standards. However, the recent... more...
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...
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...
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...
Introduction to Architecture
Wiley 2012; US$ 55.00A survey of the built environment distills the work of legendary author and illustrator Francis D. K. Ching into a single volume Introduction to Architecture presents the essential texts and drawings of Francis D. K. Ching for those new to architecture and design. With his typical highly graphic approach, this is the first introductory text from... more...
Methoden der Standortanalyse
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 15.09Hauptbeschreibung Worauf muss man achten, wenn man eine Standortanalyse durchführen möchte? Wie kann man Standortfaktoren gewichten und bewerten? Das vorliegende Buch beantwortet Fragen wie diese und bietet eine branchenübergreifende Anleitung für das systematische Bearbeiten von Standortentscheidungen. Der Aufbau orientiert sich am Ablauf einer... more...
Crucial Words
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 38.00Zeitgenössische Architektur verstehen heißt, die Bedingungen verstehen, unter denen sie entsteht: «Crucial Words» bietet rund 50 originelle, witzig illustrierte Essays zu Begriffen wie Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament oder Wheelchair. more...
Architecture in a Climate of Change
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 28.95Focusing on the recently introduced compulsory course element on sustainability in architecture, the book outlines all of the arguments and provides a comprehensive source of information. The author's insider knowledge of the curriculum structure provides you with an invaluable companion to the new section of the course work. An outline seminar is... more...
Architecture and Identity
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 100.00'Instead of tuning the consumer to the machine we can now tune the machine to the consumer' This edited collection of essays, now in its second edition, brings together the author's key writings on the cultural, technological and theoretical developments reshaping Modern architecture into a responsive and diverse movement for the twenty-first century.... more...









