Filter by
ArchitekturEine Einführung
The model of a Greek temple or the high-rise building of the Daimler-Benz group in Berlin – Leonhard Helten provides a basic understanding of tectonic problems. How do construction forms and types come about? What are the functions of triforium, pillar, ribbed vault or arch crown? The volume is aimed at anyone interested in architecture and gives a compact introduction to the field. At the sa…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783496030331
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Building With FlintA Practical Guide to the Use of Flint in Design and Archit…
The use of flint is uniquely interlinked with the history of mankind. In the evolving relationship between humanity and the natural world, the provenance of flint as a resource is, arguably, unparalleled. Its continuing use today is simply another link in a long chain of association that can swiftly transport the craftsman back to his ancient ancestors. In historical terms, humans were relative…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780719843235
- Collation
- 1 online resource (160 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Territories of Disobedience
Architects build in and for a system that is not only pathological, but toxic. It is ruining the only planet we have, and we are clearly at the end of what is still possible within this ecology.The architecture presented in this book is a form of resistance – one which actively engages in the societies and territories it is inscribed in and which presents an antidote to the accelerating banal…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781638408451
- Collation
- 1 online resource (416 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Life and Death of Buffalo's Great Northern Grain Elevator1897-2023
A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history. Archer Daniels Midland got lucky the night of December 11, 2021: a fierce winter wind took out a third of the brick wall of Buffalo's Great Northern Grain Elevator. ADM had wanted to demolish the building since 1993, but each of its demolition requests to the city had been blocked. Six days after the storm, with no p…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781438497044
- Collation
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Paolo PortoghesiArchitecture between History, Politics and Media
Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge – history, politics and media – in the making of postmodern architectural discourse. It explores how Portoghesi's personal "postmodern project" was based on the triangulation of a renew…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781350117150
- Collation
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Architectural Graphics
Architectural Graphics is the classic bestselling reference by one of the leading global authorities on architectural design drawing, Francis D. K. Ching. This seventh edition offers a comprehensive introduction to graphic tools and drafting conventions to translate architectural ideas into effective visual presentations, using hundreds of the author's distinctive drawings to illustrate each to…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781394206254
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation
Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults – generally speaking, people 65 or older. Older adults often face mobility, cognitive, and resource challenges, which contribute to a disproportionate number of deaths in the face of major disasters. But some challenges are less visible. Consider the grandparent who no longer can stand and…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781642832983
- Collation
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Art and History in the Ohio Judicial CenterA Visual Tour
A photographic exploration of one of Ohio's most remarkable landmarks Nearly 100 years after its construction, the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus, Ohio, is finally receiving the artistic recognition it deserves in this richly illustrated book. In the early 1920s, when plans for the Ohio Judicial Center building were initially conceived, American culture and politics were in…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781631015250
- Collation
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Der "Geist von 1914" und die Erfindung der Volksgemeinschaft
1914 ging es erstmals darum, eine ganze Gesellschaft für den Krieg zu mobilisieren. Gegensätze und Widersprüche sollten sich um des Sieges willen in einer Idee der Volksgemeinschaft auflösen. Diese Idee, Ziel und Beschwörungsformel zugleich, wurde später vor allem von den Nationalsozialisten instrumentalisiert. "Wenn wir", so Hitler während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, "eine Gemeinschaft bild…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783868546224
- Collation
- 1 online resource (416 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Baukunst für SoftwarearchitektenWas Software mit Architektur zu tun hat
Technologiearchitektur hat nicht viel mit Realweltarchitektur gemein, auch wenn Softwarearchitektendas gerne so hätten. Aber die IT-Welt ist genauso wenig Sandkasten wie der Restder Bauwelt. Dies ist ein Lesebuch durch Geschichte und Konzepte der Gebäudearchitektur undStadtplanung, ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit oder Wunderlösungen. In einer IT-Welt vonagiler und evolutionärer Softwaree…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783868026405
- Collation
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography