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Designing for the Third AgeArchitecture Redefined for a Generation of "Active…
Highlights how architecture needs to rise to the challenge of a demographic revolution As people sixty-five and older constitute an ever increasingly proportion of population in most industrialized nations, the design of housing and other built provisions needs to be rethought in order to accommodate this ever-expanding ageing population. How can far-reaching architectural solutions play a key…
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Gottesdienst-RäumeDokumentation zum evangelischen Kirchenbau des 19. und 20.…
Das Bestreben dieses Buches ist es, den Variationsreichtum des schlesischen evangelischen Kirchenbauens seit dem Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts in Bild und Text möglichst vollständig zu dokumentieren. Der Haupttitel zeigt zugleich an, dass nicht die Architektur im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit steht, sondern der Raum, in dem sich Gemeinde zur Feier ihrer Gottesdienste versammelt. Deshalb folgen Gro…
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Designing Sustainable Cities
This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urban design and development, and helps designers communicate these solutions effectively to planners, developers and policy makers. Addressing sustainability issues in relation to the design and planning of the urban environment is a complex, multi-disciplinary issue and solutions never arrive from a single perspective. The author…
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Banlieue, dites-vous ? La suburbanisation dans la région métropolitaine de …
Aujourd'hui plus que jamais, la banlieue est une énigme et un défi.La banlieue montréalaise plonge ses racines dans le dernier quart du xixe siècle, gagne en popularité dans l'entre-deux-guerres et connaît, dans le contexte effervescent des Trente Glorieuses, une croissance phénoménale. Comme dans les autres grandes agglomérations canado-étatsuniennes, elle accueille aujourd'hui une p…
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Design for HealthSustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture
Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture Guest-Edited by Terri Peters This issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as: * integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment; * specifying local materials and passive technologies; * and reinvigorating aging postwar facilities. …
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Restaurantes limeños del boom gastronómicoArquitectura e identidad
¿Puede la arquitectura manifestar la identidad de un país? Claro que sí. Es a través del manejo artístico de las formas y los espacios que se puede expresar rasgos de identidad cultural local. Y la arquitectura gastronómica, o arquitectura de restaurantes, no es la excepción.A pesar de que la gastronomía peruana es considerada un referente mundial, no se ha prestado suficiente atención…
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Digital PropertyOpen-source Architecture
Even more than authorship, ownership is challenged by the rise of digital and computational methods of design and production. These challenges are simultaneously legal, ethical and economic. How are new methods of fabrication and manufacture going to irreversibly change not only ways of working, but also designers' ethics and their stance on ownership? In his 2013 second-term State of the …
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Sacred BuildingsA Design Manual
The building of religious structures represents a rare opportunity for the architect to concentrate on the creation of volume, space, and form. Sacred architecture is far less determined than other building tasks by functional requirements, norms, and standards. As a rule, it is free to unfold as pure architecture. Thus in design terms this building task offers enormous freedoms to the archit…
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Designing with ModelsA Studio Guide to Making and Using Architectural Design …
Designing with Models, Second Edition is the revised, step-by-step guide to basic and advanced design process modeling. This comprehensive text explains the process from start to finish, and has been expanded to include up-to-date information on digital modeling programs and rapid prototyping processes. The impact of this new wave of 3D modeling technology is examined through interviews and num…
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Building with EarthDesign and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture
For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and temperate climate zones, earth offers numerous advantages over other materials. Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal. The second and revised ed…
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