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Image Of the City

2009-11-10T11:19:00.003+03:00

Author: Kevin Lynch
Publisher: Twentieth Printing 1990 by Massachusetts Institute Of Tecnology
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The Evolution of Designs : Biological analogy in architecture and the applied arts

2009-04-20T12:36:00.003+03:00

Author: Philip Steadman
Publisher: First published 1979 by the Syndics of Cambridge University Press, This revised edition published 2008 by Routledge
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Contents:

1 Introduction

2 The organic analogy

3 The classificatory analogy: Building types and natural species

4 The anatomical analogy: Engineering structure and the animal skeleton

5 The ecological analogy: The environments of artefacts and organisms

6 The Darwinian analogy: Trial and error in the evolution of organisms and artefacts

7 The evolution of decoration

8 Tools as organs or as extensions of the physical body

9 How to speed up craft evolution?

10 Design as a process of growth

11 ‘Biotechnics’: Plants and animals as inventors

12 Hierarchical structure and the adaptive process: Biological analogy in Alexander’s Notes on the Synthesis of Form13 The consequences of the biological fallacy: Functional determinism

14 The consequences of the biological fallacy: Historical determinism and the denial of tradition

15 What remains of the analogy? The history and science of the artificial

Integrated Strategies In Architecture-REUPLOADED

2009-04-19T08:03:00.000+03:00

Editors: Joan Zunde & Hocine Bougdah
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, First published 2006
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Contents:
PART 1 THE PURPOSE OF BUILDINGS
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Origins
CHAPTER 2: Moderation of the environment
CHAPTER 3: Use of available technology
CHAPTER 4: The demands of the community
Bibliography
PART 2 THE DESIGN TEAM
Introduction
CHAPTER 5: The specialists and how they work together
CHAPTER 6: The client’s role
CHAPTER 7: Communication
CHAPTER 8: Professional responsibility
Bibliography
PART 3 THE DESIGN PROCESS
Introduction
CHAPTER 9: Creative problem-solving
CHAPTER 10: The problem
CHAPTER 11: The process in action
CHAPTER 12: Aesthetics
CHAPTER 13: Evaluation
CHAPTER 14: Completion
Bibliography
PART 4 SPACE
Introduction
CHAPTER 15: Tailored versus loose-fit outcomes
CHAPTER 16: Functional requirements
CHAPTER 17: Anthropometrics and ergonomics
CHAPTER 18: Relationships between spaces
Bibliography
PART 5 ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Introduction
CHAPTER 19: Principles of environmental design
CHAPTER 20: Design strategies
CHAPTER 21: Case studies
Bibliography
PART 6 STRUCTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
Introduction
CHAPTER 22: Structural materials
CHAPTER 23: Structures for domestic buildings
CHAPTER 24: Design of structural elements
Bibliography

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

2009-04-13T10:22:00.002+03:00

Author: Robert Venturi
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Contents:

1. Nonstraightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto

2. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness

3. Ambiguity

4. Contradictory Levels: The Phenomenon of "Both-And" in Architecture

5. Contradictory Levels Continued: The Double-Functioning Element

6. Accommodation and the Limitations of Order: The Conventional Element

7. Contradiction Adapted

8. Contradiction Juxtaposed

9. The Inside and the Outside

10. Theobligation Toward the Difficult Whole

11. Works

Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and social Practice

2009-04-09T08:30:00.003+03:00

Editor: Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1996
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Contents:

Modernism, Postmodernism, and Architecture's Social Project

Thomas A. Button and Lian Hurst Mann

1 The Suppression of the Social in Design: Architecture as War

Anthony Ward

2 The F Word in Architecture: Feminist Analyses in/of/for Architecture

Sherry Ahrentzen

3 Second Nature: On the Social Bond of Ecology and Architecture

Richard Ingersoll

4 Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy: Cultural Pedagogy and Architecture

Thomas A. Button

5 Accommodation and Resistance: The Built Environment and the African American Experience

Bradford C. Grant

6 Deconstruction and Architecture

Margaret Soltan

7 Subverting the Avant-Garde: Critical Theory's Real Strategy

Lian Hurst Mann

Professional Practice for Interior Designers

2009-04-08T08:29:00.004+03:00

Editor: Christine M. Piotrowski
Publisher: John Wiley &Sons, Inc., 2002
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Contents:

Part I An Introduction to the Profession of Interior Design

1. The Profession

2. Ethics

3. Personal Goal Setting

Part II How to Establish an Interior Design Practice

4. Planning a New Interior Design Practice

5. Advice and Counsel

6. Business Formations

7. Legal Filings

8. On Your Own

9. Business Organization and Management

10. The Planning Function

11. Personnel Management

12. Legal Issues of Employment

13. Legal Responsibilities

14. Warranties and Product Liability

15. Financial Accounting

16. Financial Management

17. Determining Design Fees

18. Preparing Design Contracts

19. Product Pricing Considerations

20. The Sale of Goods and the Uniform

21. Marketing Interior Design Services

22. Promoting the Interior Design Practice

23. Advanced Promotional Tools

24. Selling Your Services

25. Design Presentations

26. Personal Power

27. Project Management Techniques

28. Working with Trade Sources

29. Contract Documents and Specifications

30. Contract Administration

31. Contract Administration: Delivery and Project Closeout

32. Career Options

33. Getting the Next—or First—Job 577

Planning Middle Eastern Cities : An urban kaleidoscope in a globalizing world

2009-04-08T08:20:00.003+03:00

Editor: Yasser Elsheshtawy
Publisher: Routledge, First published 2004
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Contents:

1 The Middle East City: Moving beyond the Narrative of Loss

2 The Merits of Cities’ Locations

Overview and Developments

3 The Spatial Development and Urban Transformation of Colonial and Postcolonial Algiers

4 Globalization and the Search for Modern Local Architecture: Learning from Baghdad

5 Sana’a: Transformation of the Old City and the Impacts of the Modern Era

Case Studies: Redrawing Boundaries

6 Lake Tunis, or the Concept of the Third Centre

7 Cairo’s Urban Déjà Vu: Globalization and Urban Fantasies

8 Redrawing Boundaries: Dubai, an Emerging Global City

Identity by Design

2009-02-10T09:57:00.004+03:00

Authors: Georgia Butina Watson and Ian Bentley
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd., 2007
Size: 26.84 MB
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Contents:
1 Prague:The pursuit and perils of national identity
2 Pleˇcnik’s Ljubljana: The social relevance of a personal vision
3 Mexico: Complexities of culture and landscape
4 The London Underground: A way for all
5 Red Bologna
6 Rossi in Perugia: Designing with layers of history
7 Malaysia: Layering ecology and culture
8 Reinforcing Boston’s Emerald Necklace
9 The beginnings of a synthesis:The responsive environments approach
Conclusions: Pulling the threads together

Intelligent Skins

2009-02-10T09:49:00.003+03:00

Authors: Michael Wigginton and Jude Harris

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002

Size: 9.1 MB

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Contents:
Preface The origins of this book
Picture acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The environmental context and the design imperative
Chapter 3 Buildings and intelligence: metaphors and models
Chapter 4 The intelligent skin: the deepening metaphor
Chapter 5 Method
Chapter 6 Features
Chapter 7 The future
Chapter 8 The case studies
Case study 1 GSWHeadquarters
Berlin
Case study 2 Debis Building
Berlin
Case study 3 Commerzbank Headquarters
Frankfurt-am-Main
Case study 4 Stadttor (City Gate)
Düsseldorf
Case study 5 GlaxoWellcome House West
Greenford
Case study 6 The Environmental Building
Garston
Case study 7 Helicon
London
Case study 8 Tax Office Extension
Enschede
Case study 9 Headquarters of Gِtz
Würzburg
Case study 10 Phoenix Central Library
Phoenix, Arizona
Case study 11 The Brundtland Centre
Toftlund Sّnerjylland
Case study 12 The Green Building
Dublin
Case study 13 Heliotrop®
Freiburg-im-Breisgau
Case study 14 Villa Vision
Taastrup
Case study 15 Business Promotion Centre
Duisburg
Case study 16 School of Engineering and Manufacture
Leicester
Case study 17 SUVA Insurance Company
Basel
Case study 18 Solar House Freiburg
Freiburg
Case study 19 Design Office for Gartner
Gundelfingen/Donau
Case study 20 TRON– Concept Intelligent House
Tokyo
Case study 21 Super Energy Conservation Building
Tokyo
Case study 22 Occidental Chemical Center
Niagara Falls, New York

Healthy Living Centres - A Guide to Primary Health Care Design

2009-02-05T08:31:00.003+03:00

Authors: Geoffrey Purves
Publisher: Architectural Press, First published 2002
Size: 35.99 MB
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Contents:
Chapter 1 An outline review of the issues
Chapter 2 Architecture and medicine: is it art and science or illusion and reality?
Chapter 3 Policy issues
Chapter 4 Design issues
Chapter 5 Financial issues
Chapter 6 Briefing issues
Chapter 7 Measurement of design quality
Chapter 8 Procurement routes
Chapter 9 International trends
Chapter 10 A strategy for the future
Chapter 11 Case studies (see over for details)
Chapter 12 The way forward

ETFE Technology and Design

2009-02-05T08:15:00.004+03:00

Authors: Annette LeCuyer

Publisher: Birkhauser, 2008

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Contents:
Ian Liddell // Sustaining new technologies
Introduction: Pleasure. Power and Payload

The Pneumatic Imagination: Architectural Ideas and Application

Material Matters: ETFE
Stefan Lehnert II Risk and RAliilhilitv
Soft Structure
The Performative Skin
Environmengery : The Variable Skin
Life Safety
The Communicative Skin
The Climatic Envelop

Ben Morris // ETFE Futures

Environmental Design : An introduction for architects and engineers

2009-02-02T08:49:00.005+03:00

Authors: Randall Thomas & Max Fordham & Partners

Publisher:E & FN Spon, Second edition 1999
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Contents:

Part One1

Strategies

MAX FORDHAM

2 Comfort, health and environmental physics

BILL WATTS

3 Buildings and energy balances

BILL WATTS and RANDALL THOMAS

4 Building planning and design

RANDALL THOMAS

5 Site planning

RANDALL THOMAS

6 Materials and construction

RANDALL THOMAS

7 Energy sources

RAMIRO GODOY

8 Lighting

RANDALL THOMAS

9 Engineering thermal comfort

RANDALL THOMAS

10 Water, waste disposal and appliances

MIKE ENTWISLE and RANDALL THOMAS

Summary

RANDALL THOMAS

Part Two

11 RMC International Headquarters

BART STEVENS

12 Grove Road Primary Schoo

lBILL WATTS

13 Queens Building, De Montfort University

EDITH BLENNERHASSETT

14 The Charles Cryer Studio Theatre

COLIN HAMILTON

15 Sutton House

RICHARD QUINCEY

16 The Environmental Building, Building Research Establishment

RANDALL THOMAS and BART STEVENS

17 The Millennium Centre, Dagenham

RANDALL THOMAS

18 The Bedales Theatre

RANDALL THOMAS

Appendices

A Environmental data and the psychrometric chart

RANDALL THOMAS

B Calculation procedures

RANDALL THOMASC

Acoustics

RANDALL THOMAS

D Photovoltaics

RANDALL THOMAS

Illustration

Essential CG Lighting Techniques with 3ds Max

2009-02-02T08:38:00.002+03:00

Authors: Darren Brooker
Publisher: Focal Press, Third edition 2008
Size: 14.34 MB
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Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Who this book is for

How to use this book

Tutorials

Software requirements

Part 1 > Theory

Chapter 2 A little light theory

Real world lighting explained

The visible spectrum

Color mixing

Our perception of light

Color temperature

Color balance

The behavior of light

Understanding the qualities of light

Chapter 3 CG lights examined

Lights in CG

Standard lights

Sunlight and Daylight systems

Photometric lights

The anatomy of a CG light

Chapter 4 Understanding shadows

The importance of shadows

The technical side of shadows

Faking it

When to fake

To use shadows or not?

Shadow saturation

Part 2 > Techniques

Chapter 5 Basic lighting techniques

Learning to light

Basic three-point lighting

Key light

Fill light

Backlight

Key-to-fill ratios

Contrast

Tutorial > three-point lighting

Chapter 6 Further lighting techniques

Making light work

Other light types

Area lights

Tutorial > area lights

Arrays

Tutorial > light arrays

Skylights

High Dynamic Range imaging

Tutorial > HDR skylight

Chapter 7 Radiosity techniques

Global illumination

Light distribution

Raytracing

Radiosity

Radiosity workflow

Tutorial > radiosity workflow

Chapter 8 Indoor lighting techniques

Indoor lighting

Outdoor light indoors

Tutorial > radiosity techniques

Tutorial > simulating global illumination

Tutorial > HDR lighting

Artificial lighting

Tutorial > three-point artificial lighting

Chapter 9 Outdoor lighting techniques

The great outdoors

Sunlight

Skylight

Sunlight and skylight together

Tutorial > sunlight and skylight together

Night time

Moonlight

Tutorial > moonlight

Street lighting

Tutorial > outdoor lighting fixtures

Tutorial > neon lighting

Chapter 10 Rendering with mental ray

Physically-based lighting

Tutorial > indirect illumination workflow

Tutorial > Global Illumination

Floating-point images

Tutorial > floating-point images

Tutorial > outdoor lighting

Ambient occlusion

Tutorial > ambient occlusion

Caustics

Tutorial > caustics with mental ray

Rendering options

Chapter 11 Match lighting

Background plates

Lighting reference data

HDR

Match lighting in practice

Match lighting without reference

Tutorial > match lighting

mental ray production shaders

Tutorial > match lighting with mental ray

Chapter 12 Lighting Analysis

Lighting analysis

The Lighting Analysis Assistant

Tutorial > lighting analysis

Chapter 13 Lighting and lens effects

Visual hooks

Inside the lens

Glows

Tutorial > glows

Lens flares

Tutorial > lens flares

Highlights

Tutorial > highlights

Chapter 14 Compositing

Post production

Compositing

Render Elements

Tutorial > Render Elements

Combustion

Tutorial > combustion

Taking compositing further

Part 3 > Tips & tricks

Chapter 15 In production

Working efficiently

The first step

The key

Fills and backlights

Rendering

Revision

Production pipelines

Modeling issues

Texturing issues

More revision

Preparation

Pitching for business

Experimentation

Part 4 > Taking it further

Chapter 16 Composition and drama

Visual storytelling

Composition

Unity

Grouping

Emphasis

Depth

Mood and drama

Positive and negative space

The rule of thirds

Chapter 17 Camerawork and technicalities

The camera in 3D

Technical aspects

Broadcast standards

PAL and NTSC

Aspect ratios

Film formats

Reframing

Overscan

Fields and motion blur

Chapter 18 Looking further

Looking beyond lighting

Brazil

finalRender

Maxwell Render

V-Ray

MAXScript

Plug-in away

Useful websites

Studio websites

Architecture in the United States Oxford History of Art

2009-01-29T10:53:00.002+03:00

Authors: Upton, Dell.

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Size: 12.65 MB
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Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1 An American Icon
Chapter 2 Community

Chapter 3 Nature

Chapter 4 Technology

Chapter 5 Money

Chapter 6 Art

Notes

List of Illustrations

Bibliographic Essay

Timeline

The Designer's Workspace : ultimate office design

2009-01-22T08:38:00.004+03:00

Authors: Douglas B. Caywood
Publisher: Architectural Press, First published 2004
Size: 17.97 MB
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Contents:
Part One: Small Firms (1^19 employees)
Part Two: Medium Sized Firms (20^49 employees)
Part Three: Large Firms (50 employees and larger)
Reality of Design Overview
Workspace Design Checklist
Design Approach
Where to Begin?
Restoration or Adaptive Reuse
Interior Design
Landscape Architecture
‘To Do Or Not To Do’
After the Move . . .
Graphics for Today’s Firm ^ Lasting Impressions
Conclusion

Architectural Model as Machine

2009-01-22T08:31:00.003+03:00

Authors: Albert C. Smith

Publisher: Architectural Press, First published 2004

Size: 5.31 MB
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Contents:
1 Define/Divine/Design
2 The changing mechanism of the scale model
3 Scale model as machine
4 Machine as scale model machine
5 Pandora and the modern scale model machine

Archeticture : Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body

2009-01-22T08:25:00.002+03:00

Authors: Krell, David Farrell
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997

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Contents:
1- IntroductionArchetictureSpell it New?
2- One.Tic-TalkSpace, Time, and Lovemaking in Plato's Timaeus
3- Two.Ecstatic SpatialityLiberations of Space in Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger
4- Three.Unhomelike PlacesArchetictural Sections of Heidegger and Freud

A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic

2009-01-22T08:16:00.002+03:00

Authors: Conrad Rudolph

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006
Size: 14.36 MB
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Contents:
1 Introduction: A Sense of Loss: An Overview of the Historiography of Romanesque and Gothic Art
Conrad Rudolph
2 Vision
Cynthia Hahn
3 Reception of Images by Medieval Viewers
Madeline Harrison Caviness
4 Narrative
Suzanne Lewis
5 Formalism
Linda Seidel
6 Gender and Medieval Art
Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz
7 Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Herbert L. Kessler
8 Art and Exegesis
Christopher G. Hughes
9 Whodunnit? Patronage, the Canon, and the Problematics of Agency in Romanesque and Gothic Art
Jill Caskey
10 Collecting (and Display)
Pierre Alain Mariaux
11 The Concept of Spolia
Dale Kinney
12 The Monstrous
Thomas E. A. Dale
13 Making Sense of Marginalized Images in Manuscripts and Religious Architecture
Laura Kendrick
14 Romanesque Architecture
Eric Fernie
15 Romanesque Sculpture in Northern Europe
Colum Hourihane
16 Modern Origins of Romanesque Sculpture
Robert A. Maxwell
17 The Historiography of Romanesque Manuscript Illumination
Adam S. Cohen
18 The Study of Gothic Architecture
Stephen Murray
19 Gothic Sculpture from 1150 to 1250
Martin Büchsel
20 Gothic Manuscript Illustration: The Case of France
Anne D. Hedeman
21 Glazing Medieval Buildings
Elizabeth Carson Pastan
22 Toward a Historiography of the Sumptuous Arts
Brigitte Buettner
23 East Meets West: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States
Jaroslav Folda
24 Gothic in the East: Western Architecture in Byzantine Lands
Tassos C. Papacostas
25 Architectural Layout: Design, Structure, and Construction in Northern Europe
Marie-Thérèse Zenner
26 Sculptural Programs
Bruno Boerner
27 Cistercian Architecture
Peter Fergusson
28 Art and Pilgrimage: Mapping the Way
Paula Gerson
29 “The Scattered Limbs of the Giant”: Recollecting Medieval Architectural Revivals
Tina Waldeier Bizzarro
30 The Modern Medieval Museum
Michelle P. Brown

Innovations in Hospice Architecture

2009-01-18T09:16:00.003+03:00

Authors: Stephen Verderber and Ben J. Refuerzo

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, First published 2006

Size: 40.64 MB

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Contents:
Part 1 A HISTORY OF HOSPICE
1 An architectural history of hospice
2 On dying, nature, and the machine
Part 2 DESIGNING HOSPICE
3 Recent trends
4 Designing for palliative care
Part 3 CASE STUDIES
5 Case studies
References and notes

Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture

2009-01-15T11:39:00.003+03:00

Author: Catherine Dee
Publisher: Spon Press, First published 2001

Size: 9.76 MB

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Contents:

1 Landscape fabri
2 Spaces
3 Paths
4 Edges
5 Foci
7 Detail

Environment and Children - Passive Lessons from the Everyday Environment

2009-01-12T12:59:00.003+03:00

Author: Christopher Day

Publisher: Architectural Press, First edition 2007
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Contents:
PARTI ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN
1. Design by adults: experience by children
Environment and child development
Places as exploratoria
Experience and learning
Experience of place
Different thinking: different learning: different needs
Gender differences
Design for children
2. Childhood: a journey
Childhood
Children and environment: developing consciousness
The in-between world
Play: preparation for life
Environment and development
3. Developmental needs: challenge and certainty
Conflicting needs
Reassurance by design
Security to venture out from
Semi-protected play
Stretching boundaries
Adventure
Creativity: known meeting unknown
The known and the unknown
PART II HEALTH: PHYSICAL, DEVELOPMENTAL AND SOCIAL
4. Social relationships and place
School society
Bullying
Young and old
Learning sociability
Linking places
Social identity and place
5. Issues of health
Dirt and hygiene: surfaces and textures
Invisible factors
Materials and air quality
Indoor climate
Outdoor air
Electro-climate
Geopathology
Remedial action
PART III ENVIRONMENT AS AN EDUCATIONAL AID
6. Our senses: meeting the world
From sensory experience to integrated thinking
Sensory stimulus and attention
Our many senses
The physical senses
Scent
Touch
Warmth
Sound
Sight
Balance
Movement
The finer senses
The senses and thinking
7. Light and darkness: age and situation
Light and health
Thinking and dreaming: openness and security
Daylight
Windows
Artificial light
Light and mood
8. Colour and children
Colour: what is it?
Physiological and mood effects
Colour experience
Outdoor colour
Light, substance and colour
Colour for children
9. Space: shape and quality
Response to space
Space-language: from life-energy to thought
Function and space-mood
Usability and space
Classrooms
Things and spaces
PART IV PLACES FOR CHILDREN
10. What places teach: silent lessons
Silent lessons
Materials and mood
Appearance messages
Permeability and opacity
Place messages
Imprinted values
Invisible education
11. Welcoming arrival
The journey experience
Arrival: meeting a place
Being there
Indoor journeys
Inner and outer journeys
The arrival journey: pedagogical function
Journeys of welcome
PARTV ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN
12. Outdoor places
Outdoor need
Gardens for the soul
Vegetable gardens
Kindergarten gardens
Outdoor learning
Educational benefits
School grounds
Greening playgrounds
13. Environment for the developing child
Children and environment
Small children
Mid-childhood
Teenagers
Nourishing children’s developmental journey
PART VI SUSTAINABILITY LESSONS FROM SURROUNDINGS
14. Learning to care for the environment
From reverence to conscious care
Absorbing values
15. Making nature’s cycles visible
Cycles and nature
Solar cycles
Seasonal cycles
The nutrient cycle
Sewage
The water cycle
Cycles and life
16. Living with the elements
The elements and us
The elements, one by one
Earth
Water
Air
Fire
The elements and everyday life
17. Levels of life
Children and animals
Animals and school
Farm animals, food and the foundations of life
Songbirds
Insects
Aquatic life
Lessons from the living world
18. Learning sustainability through daily experience
Towards a sustainable lifestyle
Facing the future: developing sustainability consciousness
Energy use
Recognizing the sun’s energy
Thinking green
Environmental audit
School audit
Sustainability in daily view
Neighbourhood environmental audit
19. Sustainable schools
Hidden benefits
Sustainability implications for schools
Design for sustainability
Heating, cooling and energy issues
Energy conservative design
Solar heating
Cooling
Ventilation
Water issues
How much water can we get from rain?
Travel
Eco-schools
PART VII ENVIRONMENT TO SERVE AND INSPIRE
20. From ends to means

Designing the City : Towards a more sustainable urban form

2009-01-12T12:54:00.002+03:00

Author: Hildebrand Frey
Publisher: E & FN Spon, First published 1999

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Contents:
Part One The Current Debate about the Sustainable City
1. What Urban Design Is and Why it is so Important Today
2. Compact, Decentralised or What? The Sustainable City Debate
3. Micro- and Macro-structures of a More Sustainable City
Part Two Application of the Model Urban Structure to Glasgow
4. Glasgow—A Typical Post-industrial City
5. Application of Micro- and Macro-structure: the Case of Glasgow
6. Strategic Design of Districts of the City of Glasgow
Epilogue

Color Drawing Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers

2009-01-12T12:47:00.004+03:00

Author: Doyle, Michael E
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (US), 1999
Size: 25.65 MB
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Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Part I Color Drawing for Communication
1 Initial Considerations
Phenomena of Color and Light
The Dimensions of Color
2 Media and Paper
Media
Paper
3 Technique
Ways to Apply Color Media
Impressions of Materials
Creating the Effects of Light
The Retrocolor Technique
Toned Backgrounds
4 Elements, Materials, and Finishes
Interior Materials
Space-Defining Planes
Furnishing and Fixtures
Lighting
Accessories
Exterior Materials
Ground Plane Materials
Wall Plane Materials and Windows
The Overhead Plane: Roofs and Skies
5 Scale Elements: Figures and Automobiles
Drawing Figures in Color
Automobiles
Part IIColor Drawing for Presentation
6 Color and Composition in Illustration
How Colors Relate to One Another: The Contrast of Colors
Color Contrast and Image Composition
7 Approaches to Creating Color Design Drawings
The First Consideration: Make the Line Drawing
The Second Consideration: Create a Value Strategy
The Third Consideration: The Transfer
The Fourth Consideration: Paper and Color
Additional Layers of Information
Revisions and Repairs
8 Presentation and Distribution of Color Design Drawings
Presentation
Distribution of Color Design Drawings: The Sketchpack
Glossary

Building Services Design Methodology : A practical guide

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Author: David Bownass

Publisher: Spon Press, 2001

Size: 1.1 MB

Format: SFXed pdf

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Contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Chapter contents
1.2 The aim of the book
1.3 How to use the book
2 The building services designer's role and responsibilities
2.1 Chapter contents
2.2 Mechanical building services systems
2.3 Building services design tools
2.4 Legal responsibilities
2.5 Contractual responsibilities
2.6 Professional responsibilities
2.7 Chapter review
References
Further reading
3 Design in engineering construction
3.1 Chapter contents
3.2 The design process
3.3 Design responsibility
3.4 Chapter review
References
Further reading
4 Feasibility studies
4.1 Chapter contents
4.2 Determining where you are in the development process
4.3 The initial brief
4.4 Feasibility studies
4.5 Project evaluation and value management
4.6 Feasibility reports
4.7 The project brief
4.8 Actual spend and cost committed
4.9 Chapter review
References
Further readin
5 Concept design stage
5.1 Chapter contents
5.2 Introduction
5.3 De®ning the requirements
5.4 Sources of design information
5.5 Hierarchy of legislation
5.6 Develop the design options
5.7 Evaluate the options and determine the best ®t solution
5.8 Concept design report
5.9 CDM requirements
5.10 Chapter review
References
Further reading
6 The design brief
6.1 Chapter contents
6.2 The function of a design brief
6.3 The contents of a typical design brief document
6.4 Introduction
6.5 Scope of engineering
6.6 Interfaces
6.7 Design standards and criteria
6.8 Design deliverables
6.9 Health and safety
6.10 Environment
6.11 Key acceptance criteria
6.12 Design programme
6.13 Procurement
6.14 Design brief development
6.15 Chapter review
7 Scheme design stage
7.1 Chapter contents
7.2 The design process 86
7.3 Developing the design information
7.4 Design work
7.5 Value engineering
7.6 CDM requirements
7.7 Risk assessments
7.8 Scheme design deliverables
7.9 Scheme design responsibility
7.10 Chapter review
References
Further reading
8 Detail design stage
8.1 Chapter contents
8.2 General
8.3 Design activities
8.4 Design margins
8.5 Detail design good practice feedback
8.6 Value engineering
8.7 CDM requirements
8.8 Improving construction productivity
8.9 Detail design deliverables
8.10 Chapter review
References
Further reading
9 Construction design information
9.1 Chapter contents
9.2 Construction design information
9.3 The content of construction design information
9.4 Managing the construction design information
9.5 Chapter review
10 Construction
10.1 Chapter contents
10.2 Construction
10.3 Health and safety
10.4 Quality plan 135
10.5 Inspection and testing
10.6 Commissioning
10.7 Handover
10.8 Chapter review
References
Further reading
11 Design feedback
11.1 Chapter contents
11.2 Reasons for feedback
11.3 The feedback process
11.4 The design process summary
11.5 Chapter review
11.6 Feedback on the book
References

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