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Urban Sprawl in EuropeLandscape, Land-Use Change and Policy
Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe. It increasingly creates major impacts on the environment (via surface sealing, emissions by transport and ecosystem fragmentation); on the social structure of an area (by segregation, lifestyle changes and neglecting urban centres); and on the economy (via distributed production, land prices, and iss…
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Community CharacterPrinciples for Design and Planning
Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complexity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, taking into account the diverse desires of municipalities and citizens…
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Una introducción a la historia de la arquitectura
Este libro se publicó originalmente en 1951 y durante muchos años ha sido una obra difícil de consultar porque no se podía encontrar más que en algunas bibliotecas latinoamericanas. Descatalogado durante muchos años, esta reedición pretende volver a poner en circulación en todo el ámbito cultural de habla hispana las ideas de Enrico Tedeschi acerca de la historia y la crítica de la ar…
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Urban FuturesDesigning the Digitalised City
Given the rapid evolution of concepts such as smart cities, who are the architects riding the wave of new possibilities for urban design? How do contemporary agencies find pathways to understand the challenges and opportunities presented by evolving urban technology, and how does architecture engage with the expanding pool of associated disciplines? How should schools of architecture and urban …
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Plásticos para arquitectos y constructores
El libro avanza de una manera clara y ordenada a fin de familiarizar al arquitecto con la gran variedad de plásticos, con sus propiedades y con los principios esenciales de su fabricación y manufactura, lo cual es importante para su utilización en proyectos. Se agradece ver tan claramente establecidas las limitaciones de los materiales, proporcionando de este modo al arquitecto datos que pue…
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WorkflowsExpanding Architecture's Territory in the Design and Delivery of Bui…
Workflows are being rethought and remodelled across the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) spectrum. The synthesis of building information modelling (BIM) platforms with digital simulation techniques and increasing access to data, charting building performance, is allowing architects to engage in the generation of new workflows across multidisciplinary teams. By merging digital de…
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The Architectural Models of Theodore ConradThe "miniature boom" of mid-centur…
Based on the recent discovery of his fully-preserved private archive-models, photos, letters, business files, and drawings-this book tells the story of Theodore Conrad (1910-1994), the most prominent and prolific architectural model-maker of the 20th century. Conrad's innovative models were instrumental in the design and realization of many icons of American Modernism-from the Rockefeller Cente…
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CITA Complex Modelling
CITA Complex Modelling investigates the infrastructures of architectural design models. By questioning the tools for integrating information across the expanded digital design chain, the book asks how to support feedback between different scales of design engagement moving from material design, across design, simulation and analysis to specification and fabrication. The book conveys the finding…
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ResiligenceGOA Resili(g)ent City
The Resili(g)ence publication is part of the outputs produced within the European project KAAU, Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism (www.ka-au.net), Erasmus + program, and consists of two volumes: the first Resili(g)ence Intelligent Cities / Resilient Landscapes offers reflections on the general framework and on the theme of resilience applied to intelligent cities and the landscape, while…
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Delphi Complete Works of Nicolas Poussin (Illustrated)
The seventeenth century painter Nicolas Poussin founded the French Classical tradition, working the majority of his career in Rome. He specialised in history paintings, depicting scenes from the Bible, ancient history, and mythology, which are notable for their narrative clarity and dramatic force. Poussin was a man of contrasts; sensual, yet austere and intellectual, prizing reason, order and …
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