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Drawing - The Motive Force Of Architecture

by Sir Peter (University College London) Cook

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 Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents, Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook's delight and catholic appetite for the architectural. Readers are provided with perceptive insights at every turn.
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Smart Cities - A Spatialised Intelligence

by Antoine Picon

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 <p>As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart Cities are employing information and communication technologies in the quest for sustainable economic development and the fostering of new forms of collective life. This has made the Smart City an essential focus for engineers, architects, urban designers, urban planners, and politicians, as well as businesses such as CISCO, IBM and Siemens. Despite its broad appeal, few comprehensive books have been devoted to the subject so far, and even fewer have tried to relate it to cultural issues and to assume a truly critical stance by trying to decipher its consequences on urban space and experience. This cultural and critical lens is all the more important as the Smart City is as much an ideal permeated by Utopian beliefs as a concrete process of urban transformation. This ideal possesses a strong self-fulfilling character: our cities will become ''Smart'' because we want them to.</p> <p>This book opens with an examination of the technological reality on which Smart Cities are built, from the chips and sensors that enable us to monitor what happens within the infrastructure to the smartphones that connect individuals. Through these technologies, the urban space appears as activated, almost sentient. This activation generates two contrasting visions: on the one hand, a neo-cybernetic ambition to steer the city in the most efficient way; and on the other, a more bottom-up, participative approach in which empowered individuals invent new modes of cooperation. A thorough analysis of these two trends reveals them to be complementary. The Smart City of the near future will result from their mutual adjustment. In this process, urban space plays a decisive role. Smart Cities are contemporary with a ''spatial turn'' of the digital. Based on key technological developments like geo-localisation and augmented reality, the rising importance of space explains the strategic role of mapping in the evolution of the urban experience. Throughout this exploration of some of the key dimensions of the Smart City, this book constantly moves from the technological to the spatial as well as from a critical assessment of existing experiments to speculations on the rise of a new form of collective intelligence. In the future, cities will become smarter in a much more literal way than what is often currently assumed.</p>
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Context - Architecture And The Genius Of Place

by Eric Parry

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 Demonstrates how a building's setting should inform and inspire rather than constrain architectural design Context-Architecture and the Genius of Place is a highly engaging, informative discussion of context in architectural theory and practice.
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Practical Poetics In Architecture

by Leon Van Schaik

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 Integrate poetics into real-world spaces by bringing theory down to earth Practical Poetics in Architecture takes poetics out of the theory class and into the design studio, showing architects how the atmospheric and experiential qualities of built structures can be intentionally considered and planned.
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Drawing And Reinventing Landscape

by Diana Balmori

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 How to tackle representation in landscape design Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. While computerization has been a catalyst for change across many fields in design, no other design field has experienced such drastic reinvention as has landscape architecture.
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Touching The City - Thoughts On Urban Scale

by Timothy Makower

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 Scale in cities is relative and absolute. It has the ability to make us feel at home in the world or alien from it; connected or disconnected. This book explores how scale is manifested in cities, exploring scale in buildings, in the space between them and in their details. It asks how scale makes a difference.
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Drawing - The Motive Force Of Architecture

by Sir Peter Cook

39,68€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents, Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook's delight and catholic appetite for the architectural. Readers are provided with perceptive insights at every turn.
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Ornament - The Politics Of Architecture And Subjectivity

by Antoine Picon

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 Over the last decade or so, the widespread adoption of digital techniques have greatly expanded the possibilities of applying ornament in design. As well as looking at the c topic of ornament, the book reflects on what is currently happening in the light of current theoretical and historical research.
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City As A Tangled Bank - Urban Design Versus Urban Evolution

by Sir Terry Farrell

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 How can we in an urban context reconcile design with evolution? Searching for patterns within the apparent turbulence and complexity, this title analyses the notions of urban design and urban evolution and examines whether or not they need necessarily be seen as opposing one another.
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Drawing And Reinventing Landscape

by Diana (Yale School Of Architecture) Balmori

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 How to tackle representation in landscape design Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. While computerization has been a catalyst for change across many fields in design, no other design field has experienced such drastic reinvention as has landscape architecture.
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Ornament - The Politics Of Architecture And Subjectivity

by Antoine Picon

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 Over the last decade or so, the widespread adoption of digital techniques have greatly expanded the possibilities of applying ornament in design. As well as looking at the c topic of ornament, the book reflects on what is currently happening in the light of current theoretical and historical research.
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Performance-Oriented Architecture - Rethinking Architectural Design And The Built Environment

by Michael (Architectural Association, Uk) Hensel

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 This book offers an innovative and highly practical approach to architectural design. Focusing on the concept of performance that brought about a paradigm shift in the humanities in earlier decades, the book discusses how to use this concept to address ongoing problems in architecture.
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The Embodied Image - Imagination And Imagery In Architecture

by Juhani (Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa Ky, Helsinki) Pallasmaa

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 Architecture is usually analyzed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image.
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Narrative Architecture

by Nigel (Branson Coates Architecture, London, Uk) Coates

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 To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. In practice it is just as easy to be minimalist as maximalist in its execution.
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The Thinking Hand - Existential And Embodied Wisdom In Architecture

by Juhani (Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa Ky, Helsinki) Pallasmaa

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 In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin , by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking.
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Smart Cities - A Spatialised Intelligence

by Antoine Picon

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Enterprise Automation For Dummies

by Dummies

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Cardiovascular Disease - Diet, Nutrition And Emerging Risk Factors

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 A comprehensive, accessible summary of the latest research in heart disease risk factors Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is a major cause of early death and disability across the world.
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The Prevention Of Crime

by Abigail Fagan e Delbert Elliott

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 This textbook provides a unique and comprehensive overview of effective crime prevention programs, strategies and policies, demonstrating how criminological theories, research, and practice are interrelated.
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The Common Fisheries Policy - The Quest For Sustainability

by Ernesto Penas Lado

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Practical Poetics In Architecture

by Leon (Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia) Van Schaik

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 Integrate poetics into real-world spaces by bringing theory down to earth Practical Poetics in Architecture takes poetics out of the theory class and into the design studio, showing architects how the atmospheric and experiential qualities of built structures can be intentionally considered and planned.
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Forensic Odontology - An Essential Guide

by Catherine (University Of Manchester) Adams, Romina Carabott e Sam Evans

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 * An accessible, essential introduction to forensic odontology * Written by a team of well-established, active practitioners in the field * Self-contained chapters for ease of use * Objective presentation of different methodologies .
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Electric Power And Energy In China

by Zhenya (Shandong University, China) Liu

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 The acute energy problems facing China today are characterized by their own histories and realities. Some have come about because of China's energy endowment and stage of development, while others have been created by a combination of domestic and global factors.
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The Embodied Image - Imagination And Imagery In Architecture

by Juhani (Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa Ky, Helsinki) Pallasmaa

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 Architecture is usually analyzed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image.
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