A visual look at the architectural details of sustainable residential spaces The Contemporary Design Details series takes a highly visual look at architectural design details that are more often dealt with in a technical textbook format. The books take readers on a tour of the best details designed by great architects around the world. The series provides a powerful presentation of the most ch…
This work deals with every aspect of the traditional Japanese home, from its general plan and major structural features to such ceremonial and traditional appointments as the tatami mats (which actually determine the size of the house), lamps, hibachi (braziers), fusuma and shoji screens, candlesticks, pillows, and tokonoma (places where art objects or flowers are displayed). It covers details …
The updated and revised edition ofThe Architecture Reference & Specification Bookcontains vital information thats essential to planning and executing architectural projects of all shapes and sizes, all in a format that is easy to use. Most architectural standards references contain thousands of pages of details, overwhelmingly more than architects need to know on any given day. In contrast…
This guide takes you on an illustrated tour ofthe very best of the gardens of the University of Cambridge,some of the most beautiful, unique and historical horticultural spaces of any University around the world. For students and alumni, their families, Cambridge locals and for lovers of private gardens, Tim Richardsons book on the most exquisite gardens in and around the university of Cambrid…
Originally, the area of responsibility for landscape architecture was based on the premise that the planning and creating of open spaces such as parks and gardens was the business of garden artists. Today, the training of landscape architects and future challenges of the profession include the protection of natural resources and the environment, urban planning or tourism - to name but a few. Th…
Thomas Miller Rickman... He also, from Chester, visited Eaton Hall and Eccleston Church during their erection, and as to them he entered... Iith, 1811, he commenced a series of lectures to this Society on Architecture; on Oct. 14th, he gave a second lecture, which... 28th he resigned his membership of the old society.
Immediate and constructive, the physicality of hand drawing, upon which representation formats are based, is a necessary skill needed to communicate ideas in the field of architectural design. Drawing for Architects provides what practicing architects and architectural students need - a technique-based, progression of drawing types and instructions teaching core drawing principles needed to con…