The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design

The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design
Architectural Press; 1 edition | December 26, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0750680229 | 392 pages

With more and more clients and architecture schools demanding 'green' design, both student and professional architects need to get up to speed quickly with the vast range of techniques in this fast moving area.This extensive and user-friendly handbook presents practical guidelines for applying environmental strategies during the schematic design of green buildings. For each strategy, the book provides: brief descriptions of principles and concepts, step-by-step approaches for integrating technologies into the early stages of design, annotated tables and charts to assist with preliminary design sizing, key issues to be aware of when implementing a given strategy, and references to the most recent international standards and rating systems, guidelines, and internet resources.

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University builders
Academy Press | 2001-06-27 | ISBN: 0471988340 | 224 pages | PDF | 12 MB

The building of a university campus is an extremely challenging you an extensive study of a variety of styles of universities from around the world. This excellent reference portrays expert architects and their work in designing outstanding educational establishments.
Full of impressive colour and black and white images
Features the most influential architects of this century
The range of styles and philosophies covered in this book will prove an indispensable reference in assisting you with planning and designing architecture of the learning environment.
Expert architects showcase their work including:
Foster Partners - Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
Henri Gaudin - Amiens, France
Antoine Predock - UCSC, California, USA
Stirling Wilford - Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore
John Outram, Rice University, Texas, USA
Eduardo Souta de Moura - Aveiro University, Portugal
Michael Hopkins - Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK
Author: Martin Pearce

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Libraries and Learning Resource Centres (Second Edition)

Libraries and Learning Resource Centres (Second Edition)
Brian Edwards,
Architectural Press | ISBN: 1856176193 | 2009-04-29 | PDF | 288 pages | 14 Mb

Libraries and Learning Resource Centres is a comprehensive reference text examining the changing role and design of library buildings. Critical evaluations of international case studies demonstrate the principles of library design.
Available for the first time in full colour, the second edition of the work focuses particularly on the important question of access and design in public libraries. Updated case studies and technical data allow the professional architect to use the book directly in planning library projects.

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Libraries & Learning Resources Centres

Brian Edwards and Biddy Fisher "Libraries & Learning Resources Centres"
Published by Architectural Press | Publication date : December 2001 | ISBN: 0750646055 | PDF | 250 pages | English | 17 MB

This comprehensive reference examines the changing role and design of library buildings, using a critical examination of recent examples from around the world. The authors, who represent the views of the architect and the client, outline the history and changing typology of the library. They examine the new national, public, academic and specialist libraries using numerous international examples including Sri Lanka, Vancouver, Johannesburg, Paris and London.
New design advice and technical data is presented to illustrate the many approaches that designers have taken in creating a building with many diverse functions. The book concludes with speculations about the future of the library as a place for storing, reflecting upon and exchanging knowledge.
Libraries are undergoing fundamental change as new technology liberates the library from its dependence upon the written word. Increasingly libraries are seen as learning resource centres with a smooth interface between computer-based access and traditional book and journal material.

Some of the highlighted fetures of this book :
• Comprehensive technical coverage of library planning & design gives a complete overview
• Excellent author team representing both architects and library services to give unbiased and informed opinions
• International case studies show the theory in practice

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Schools and Kindergartens: A Design Manual

Schools and Kindergartens: A Design Manual By Mark Dudek
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel | ISBN: 376437053X | edition 2007 | PDF | 255 pages | 20 mb
In a global economy, the importance of education is now widely recognized. Furthermore, in the wake of international assessment studies, schools and kindergartens have become a focus of great public interest. As a new generation of educational environments are designed and built, this Design Manual illustrates the most up-to-date educational strategies and how they are realized in built form.
With 80 case studies from Europe, North America and the Pacific Region, this is an essential guide for architects involved in the design of schools and kindergartens. This specialized field encompassing ever-changing educational theories is explained in the context of varying national and regional approaches. Among the key themes analyzed are aspects such as the impact of modern communication technology, urban integration or internal circulation. The book will also be of interest to educationalists, parents and the wider community.

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The Architecture of the Jumping Universe

The Architecture of the Jumping Universe
- A Polemic - How Complexity Science Is Changing Architecture and Culture
By Charles Jencks
Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 1997-05-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471977489
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471977483

Book Description:
Charles Jencks has the uncanny capacity to announce a
new movement in architecture before it has begun. With
Post-Modernism, he was looking to the past. Now, for the
first time, with his new book on morphogenesis he is
taking a look at the future. There is no question that
his argument will have an important critical effect on
architecture at the beginning of the new millennium. Peter
Eisenman. Architect A new paradigm is sweeping through
science, changing both our view of the universe and of
mankind. Charles Jencks is one of a handful of thinkers
with the courage to embrace the emerging paradigm and
interpret it architecturally. This inspired synthesis of
art, design, science and philosophy charts a bold new
course not only for architecture, but for Post-Modern
thought. Paul Davies, Professor of Natural Philosophy,
University of Adelaide, author of The Cosmic Blueprint,
Superforce, The Mind of God and other books on contemporary
science. Who else could have written a book that opens up
such cosmic perspectives and still make such neat, sharply
focused comments on particular architects and particular
styles of architecture? Who else could range with such zest,
ease and elegance from Chaos to Bruce Goff, from Coleridge
to Frank Gehry, from Complexity Theory to Green Buildings?
The old question of in which style should we build can
never be addressed in the same way again. Charles Jencks
has brought purpose back into architecture. His teleology
may transcend what architects are used to, but Jencks
manages to make far more sense out of our contemporary
architectural dilemmas than practically all the other
books in the RIBA book shop. Francis Duffy, Chairman of
DEGW International Ltd.

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Children´s Spaces

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