Arquitectura alternativa sostenible

Frente al diario quehacer arquitectónico, el libro Arquitectura alternativa sostenible surge desde una búsqueda para aprovechar al máximo los recursos naturales y energéticos, sobre todo cuando los profesionales del área experimentan y aplican criterios espaciales, estructurales y tecnológicos poco convencionales acordes con el contexto, desde tres pilares fundamentales: sinergia, adaptab…

British Railway Architecture and Heritage

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9781846748493

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1 online resource (128 pages)

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De los Andes al litoralEstudios sobre vivienda y suelo en Colombia

La producción de vivienda formal implica no solo temas de economía urbana, paisaje de la ciudad, calidad de la estructura, ordenamiento del suelo o dinámica de los mercados inmobiliarios, temas tratados en este libro, sino que condensa la preocupación de todo colombiano hoy en día de tener un techo sobre la cabeza. Los casos de Bogotá y Barranquilla sirven para entender la cuestión en Co…

Anthropology for ArchitectsSocial Relations and the Built Environment

What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects – a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the boo…

Bases para el diseño de la vivienda de interés socialSegún la necesidades …

El presente libro muestra la vivienda de interés social (VIS) como un producto cuyo campo de acción fundamental es el diseño de la vivienda como espacio habitable, pero a su vez en relación con su ntorno inmediato y con la ciudad, y precisamente en estas tres escalas se agrupan las variables objeto de estudio. Como cualquier investigación dentro del campo del diseño, combina métodos cien…

Ugliness and JudgmentOn Architecture in the Public Eye

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment—and its concern for ugliness—in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From ei…

Therapeutic LandscapesAn Evidence-Based Approach to Designing Healing Gardens…

This comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation. It provides general guidelines for designers and other stakeholders in a variety of projects, as well as patient-specific guidelines covering twelve categories ranging from burn patients, psychiatric patients, to hospice and Alzhe…

Small Houses of the FortiesWith Illustrations and Floor Plans

Designed for the 1940s family with a "limited budget but unlimited good taste," this fascinating volume presents 56 floor plans and elevations of lovely small homes that originally cost less than {dollar}15,000 to build. Each home, bearing the honorable designation of House-of-the-Month by the era's Monthly Small House Club, Inc., was designed to give prospective homeowners an exceptionally wel…

Morningside HeightsA History of Its Architecture and Development

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9780231534819

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1 online resource (544 pages)

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BIM for Facility Managers

A practical look at extending the value of Building Information Modeling (BIM) into facility management—from the world's largest international association for professional facility managers Building owners and facility managers are discovering that Building Information Modeling (BIM) models of buildings are deep reservoirs of information that can provide valuable spatial and mechanical deta…