Design Drafting category: 533 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Architectural programming – the analysis of any given environment to satisfy users’ needs – has become a given prerequisite to the design process. The programming process is often a complicated one: users’ present and future needs must be identified; space allowances, often predetermined,...
Architecture and Interaction
Human Computer Interaction in Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Ubiquitous computing has a vision of information and interaction being embedded in the world around us; this forms the basis of this book. Built environments are subjects of design and architects have seen digital elements incorporated into the fabric of buildings as a way of creating environments...
Communicating Creativity
The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio. Challenging the established view of creativity as a personal attribute which can be objectively measured, the author demonstrates...
Live Architecture
Venues, Stages and Arenas for Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Live Architecture explores the physical form of popular music performance space from 1960 to the present day.
This book quantifies the factors that determine what makes a venue successful focusing on both famous and less well-known examples from the smallest barroom music space to the largest...
Interpretation in Architecture
Design as Way of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Drawing on cultural theory, phenomenology and concepts from Asian art and philosophy, this book reflects on the role of interpretation in the act of architectural creation, bringing an intellectual and scholarly dimension to real-world architectural design practice. For practising architects as well...
by Brent C. Brolin
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
This imaginative book offers architecture students over a hundred examples of visual problem solving in architectural design.
Photographs of actual buildings, paired with digitally manipulated images in 'before and after' comparisons, demonstrate the sorts of real-life situations that architectural...
by RSMeans
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
This concise student edition of the most widely used dictionary for construction and design professionals offers clear explanations of essential construction-related terms and concepts. Illustrated throughout with explanatory drawings and photographs, it is an indispensable reference for beginning...
Tall Buildings
The Proceedings of a Symposium on Tall Buildings with Particular Reference to Shear Wall Structures, Held in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southampton, April 1966
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Tall Buildings provides information and research on tall buildings. This book presents the advances in structural analysis, in methods of design, in methods of construction, and in the properties of materials.
Organized into three sections encompassing 27 chapters, this book begins with an...
Making Places for People
12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
** Honorable Mention at the 2019 ERDA Great Places Awards **
Making Places for People explores twelve social questions in environmental design. Authors Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young bring perspectives from practice and teaching to challenge assumptions about how places meet human...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This is the first extensive compilation documenting contemporary third wave HCI, covering key methodological developments at the leading edge of human-computer interactions. Now in its second decade as a major current of HCI research, the third wave integrates insights from the humanities and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
This book promotes a critical reflection about the research conducted so far in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with older people, whose predominant perspective focuses on decline, health, and help. It introduces a new (or different) perspective, which is grounded in interdisciplinary research on...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
The notion of data is increasingly encountered in spatial, creative and cultural studies. Big data and artificial intelligence are significantly influencing a number of disciplines. Processes, methods and vocabularies from sciences, architecture, arts are borrowed, discussed and tweaked, and new...
by 殷寶寧
Language: Chinese
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: Chinese
Release Date: March 2, 2015
女性有如現代建築的鬼魂，無所不在，影響深遠，但很奇怪地總是隱而不見。
──建築史家 科洛米納（Beatriz Colomina）
建築無關乎性別，
但以女性性別特質所發展出的設計美學與照顧倫理的想像，
卻可讓建築設計的初衷回歸到使用者身上……
先來聽聽幾個故事……
20世紀初，強調男女平權的德國包浩斯學校宣稱男女均可入學，但校內「建築工坊」卻完全禁止女性選課，而將女性分配到「陶藝工坊」或「紡織工坊」。
未曾接受過建築科班訓練、卻設計出被現代主義建築視為經典瑰寶的海濱別墅E-1027，連柯比意的薩伏伊別墅五項原則都可見與其相符之處；一些建築史家認為，愛琳．葛瑞（Eileen...
SketchUp
Applicazioni per architettura e design
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 13, 2016
SketchUp non ha bisogno di presentazioni: è uno dei più famosi e utilizzati software di modellazione tridimensionale, può vantare centinaia di migliaia di utenti in tutto il mondo. Grazie al suo sistema di lavoro molto intuitivo è facile da apprendere sia per i professionisti sia per gli studenti;...