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São Paulo HeterotopiaUrban Spaces in Suspense / Urbane Räume in der Schwebe
Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous – our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks from São Paolo present surprisingly idiosyncratic city scenes: People dancing along the motorway, strolling through the stone archipelago, spl…
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Generative Design
Generating form is one of the most fundamental aspects of architectural education and practice. While new computational tools are enabling ever more unpredictable forms, critics argue that this leads to a disconnection between architectural output and its context.This attractive, pocket-sized book uses 11 different architectural projects to explore how generative design processes can integrate …
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Ambiguous TerritoryArchitecture, Landscape and the Postnatural
The writers and designers in this collection are among the most thoughtful architects, artists, landscape architects, and theorists working today. The editors organized these essays and works of art and design around three territories: the atmospheric, the biologic, and the geologic. Each cluster of essays is further framed by forewords and afterwords, which draw individual points of view into …
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MismatchCómo la inclusión da forma al diseño, la tecnología y la sociedad
En ocasiones, los objetos diseñados rechazan a sus usuarios: un mouse de computadora que no funciona para zurdos, por ejemplo; o un sistema de pago con pantalla táctil que solo funciona para personas que leen frases en inglés, que tienen visión 20/20 y usan una tarjeta de crédito. Algo tan simple como las opciones de color puede hacer que un producto sea inutilizable para millones.Estos de…
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The Codes Guidebook for Interiors
THE INTERIOR CODES AND STANDARDS REFERENCE OF CHOICE FOR DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS—UPDATED FOR THE 2018 AND 2021 CODES If you are involved with the design or management of buildings and spaces, it is important to remain up-to-date on the ever-evolving codes and standards that keep communities safe. With over 80, 000 copies sold, The Codes Guidebook for Interiors continues to provide comprehe…
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Study Guide for The Codes Guidebook for Interiors
STUDY GUIDE FOR THE CODES GUIDEBOOK FOR INTERIORS The comprehensive study guide for understanding interior codes This revised and updated eighth edition of the Study Guide for the Codes Guidebook for Interiors is an essential companion to The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, the industry's reference of choice. It offers complete coverage of the major codes and standards that apply to interior p…
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Achse und MonumentZur Semantik von Sicht- und Blickbeziehungen in fürstliche…
Die Platzkonzeptionen der Frühen Neuzeit sind aufgrund ihrer komplexen axialen Bezüglichkeiten beispielhaft dazu geeignet, den sinnlich erfahrbaren, symbolischen Gehalt ihrer räumlichen Anordnungen erkennen und verstehen zu können.Ihre kommunikative, auf Verbindung ausgerichtete Funktion äusserten diese Plätze durch ihre zentral angeordneten Monumente, die durch ihre Körperhaltung und ih…
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Modern Architecture in Mexico CityHistory, Representation, and the Shaping of…
Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern building…
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Greening Our Built WorldCosts, Benefits, and Strategies
"Green" buildings—buildings that use fewer resources to build and to sustain—are commonly thought to be too expensive to attract builders and buyers. But are they? The answer to this question has enormous consequences, since residential and commercial buildings together account for nearly 50% of American energy consumption—including at least 75% of electricity usage—according to recent …
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Building MaterialsMaterial Theory and the Architectural Specification
At a time of unprecedented levels of change in the production of building materials and their deployment in construction, better theoretical and historical tools are needed to understand these new developments and how they are altering the practices and concepts of architecture. Building Materials offers a radical rethink of how materials, as they are constituted in architectural practice, are …
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