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The Seven Lamps of Architectureby John Ruskin
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a book that would examine the essence of Gothic architecture. By the following April, the book was finished. Titled The Seven Lamps of Architecture, it was far more than a treatise on the Gothic style; instead, it elaborated Ruskin?s deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. The book was published to immediate acclaim and has since become an acknowledged classic. more...
Gender Space Architectureby Jane Rendell; Barbara Penner; Iain Borden
Routledge 1999; US$ 69.95This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. more...
Design, Technology and the Development Process in the Builtby Tom Collier
Spon Press 1995; US$ 69.95This second book in the BEST (the Built Environment Series of Textbooks) series explores the fundamental generators and contextual issues - philosophical, physical and political - that influence built environments. more...
Inclusive Designby Rob Imrie; Peter Hall
Spon Press 2001; US$ 90.95Inclusive Design is a documentation of the attitudes, values, and practices of property professionals, including developers, surveyors and architects, in responding to the building needs of disabled people. more...
Architectureby Andrew Ballantyne
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 12.99This original and sophisticated look at architecture helps to understand the cultural significance of buildings. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. more...
Standard Letters in Architectural Practiceby David Chappell
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2003; US$ 115.00Architects and contract administrators spend a great deal of time writing letters of various types. Many of them are routine and repetitive in character, but they require proper consideration if potentially dangerous liability situations are to be avoided. This book provides some 285 standard letters for use at all stages of project administration. To assist the user, they are grouped into sections which correspond with the RIBA Plan of Work: the aim is to cover all the common situations encountered in practice. The book has been revised to take account of the latest contract revisions and many letters have been added. Unless otherwise stated, all letters are suitable for use with: JCT 98 WCD 98 IFC 98 MW 98 GC/Works/1 (1998)... more...
Green Buildings Payby Brian Edwards
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 100.95This successful guide examines, through case studies how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development. more...
Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architectureby Barbara Kenda
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 69.95One of the principle goals of Renaissance architects was to augment the powers of pneuma so as to foster the art of well-being. This book presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and the disciplines of art and science. more...
Solar Radiation and Daylight Modelsby Tariq Muneer
Taylor & Francis 2004; US$ 78.95The cost of operating a building far exceeds the cost of constructing it, and yet until recently little attention was paid to the impact of solar radiation on the costs of heating, cooling and ventilation. And now that there has been a surge in interest in energy efficiency and solar design, architects and designers need a practical guide to the modelling and application of solar energy data. There are many different models and techniques available for calculating the distribution of solar radiation on and in buildings, and these algorithms vary considerably in scope, accuracy and complexity. This book demonstrates which of these predictive tools gives the best results in different circumstances, including explaining which models can be best... more...
Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and mental rayby Roger Cusson; Jamie Cardoso
Elsevier 2007; US$ 51.95Bring new realism to your visualizations with a command of the 3ds Max toolset. Three step-by-step tutorials demonstrate exterior and interior, day and night lighting scenes. You learn the nuts and bolts of importing models from CAD programs, lighting, applying mr shaders and materials, and optimizing your renders. Mental ray is made simple with an accessible description of its tools. * Color reproductions illustrate a wide array of subtle techniques. * mental ray is made easy with accesible demonstations. * Companion CD contains all of the project files. more...









