Smart Buildings Systems for Architects, Owners and Builders

James M Sinopoli, "Smart Buildings Systems for Architects, Owners and Builders"
2009-11-18 | ISBN: 1856176533 | PDF | 248 pages | 3 MB

Smart Buildings Systems for Architects, Owners and Builders is a practical guide and resource for architects, builders, engineers, facility managers, developers, contractors, and design consultants. The book covers the costs and benefits of smart buildings, and the basic design foundations, technology systems, and management systems encompassed within a smart building. Unlike other resources, Smart Buildings is organized to provide an overview of each of the technology systems in a building, and to indicate where each of these systems is in their migration to and utilization of the standard underpinnings of a smart building.

Written for any professional interested in designing or building smart Buildings systems, this book provides you with the fundamentals needed to select and utilize the most up to date technologies to serve your purpose. In this book, you'll find simple to follow illustrations and diagrams, detailed explanations of systems and how they work and their draw backs. Case studies are used to provide examples of systems and the common problems encountered during instillation. Some simple Repair and Trouble shooting tips are also included. After reading this book, builders, architects and owners will have a solid understanding of how these systems work which of these system is right for their project. Concise and easy to understand, the book will also provide a common language for ensure understanding across the board. Thereby, eliminating confusion and creating a common understanding among professionals.

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Architectural Drawing

Thomas French "Architectural Drawing"
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Co. | ISBN: N/A | edition 1922

This handbook will be interesting to people interested in the history of architecture.
For professionals it will be interesting and useful to draw attention to meticulously detail.

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Immaterial Architecture

"Immaterial Architecture" By Jonathan Hill
Routledge | 2006-04-28 | ISBN: 0415363233 | 227 pages | PDF | 3.9 mb
Architecture is expected to be solid, stable and reassuring-physically, socially and psychologically. Bound to each other, the architectural and the material are considered inseparable.
Jonathan Hill, architect and architectural historian, argues that the immaterial is as important to architecture as the material and has as long a history and so Immaterial Architecture explores the often conflicting forces that draw architecture towards either the material or the immaterial. The book discusses the pressures on architecture and the architectural profession to respectively be solid matter and solid practice, and considers concepts that align architecture with the immaterial, such as the superiority of ideas over matter, command of drawing, and design of spaces and surfaces.
Focusing on immaterial architecture as the perceived absence of matter more than the actual absence of matter, Hill devises new means to explore the creativity of the user and the architect. Users decide whether architecture is immaterial, but architects, and any other architectural producers, create material conditions in which that decision can be made. Immaterial Architecture advocates an architecture that fuses the immaterial and the material, and considers its consequences, challenging preconceptions about architecture, its practice, purpose, matter and use.

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Perspective Drawing Handbook

Joseph D'Amelio, "Perspective Drawing Handbook"
Dover Publications | 2004 | ISBN: 0486432084 | 96 pages | PDF | 43,8 MB

Concise, thoughtfully written text on drawing and sketching, accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations, provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective. Illustrations depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level.

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Mediaeval Architecture in the Central Area (Corinth vol. 16)

Robert L. Scranton - Mediaeval Architecture in the Central Area (Corinth vol. 16)
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies | 1957-11-21 | ISBN: 0876611617 | PDF | 199 pages | 128.32 MB

In the first part of this book, the author follows a chronological scheme, discussing consecutively Corinthian architecture Early Christian Period (395-610), the Age of Barbarism (610-802), the Byzantine Recovery (802-1057), the Full Byzantine (1059-1210), the Frankish (1210-1458), and the Turkish (1458-1858) periods. The second part offers a scholarly discussion of structural techniques and carved ornament. A final chapter discusses plans and types of buildings. The appendix includes 36 plates and 5 plans.

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Traiter l'humidité (Treat moisture)

Hướng dẫn chống thấm cho các công trình cổ, cũ.
thích hợp cho những người làm công tác bào tồn.

Yves Baret, "Traiter l'humidité"
Eyrolles | 2007 | ISBN: 221212113X | 76 pages | PDF | 30,1 MB
Ennemi numéro un de toute construction, l'humidité est le problème le plus souvent évoqué par les propriétaires de maisons anciennes. Cette petite bible sur le sujet leur est destinée, ainsi qu'aux artisans et architectes auxquels ils font appel. Elle fournira à tous une aide au diagnostic précieuse, et constitue le guide d'entretien indispensable à une gestion adaptée de la maison et de son environnement. En tant que guide d'intervention, l'ouvrage privilégie les solutions naturelles, réellement curatives et compatibles avec la construction ancienne. Yves Baret, architecte DPLG, donne ici les clefs d'une lutte globale contre l'humidité, selon des méthodes durables, respectueuses du site, du bâtiment... et de ses habitants.

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Pencil Drawing Techniques

Pencil Drawing Techniques
Watson-Guptill| ISBN: 0823039919 | 1984-04-01

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Learn How to Draw

Learn How to Draw
INTRODUCTION
preamble for all lessons
1) cityscape
2) cityscape up
3) cityscape down
4) room interior two point
5) railway
6) room interior CVP
6b) room interior cont.
7) letters
8) shadows basic
9) shadows 2
10) archway
10b) completed arch
11) road
11b) road continuded
12) book 12b) book continued
PART TWO INTRODUCTION
1) 'quick sketch page'
2) methods of shading
3) tennis and shadows
4) reference sheet
5) in three dimensions
6) a 'fork' in the road
7) portraiture
8) portraiture cont.
9) drawing roses

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Architects Without Frontiers: War, Reconstruction and Design Responsibility

Architects Without Frontiers: War, Reconstruction and Design Responsibility
Publisher: Architectural Press | ISBN: 0750668407 | edition 2006 |
Through selected case studies, Charlesworth examines the role of architects, planners, urban designers and landscape architects in three cities following conflict - Beirut, Nicosia and Mostar - three cities where the mental and physical scars of violent conflict still remain. This book expands the traditional role of the architect from 'hero' to 'peacemaker' and discusses how design educators can stretch their wings to encompass the proliferating agendas and sites of civil unrest.

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Font in the work of architect

Bezukhova LN, Yumagulova LA, "Font in the work of architect"
Architecture-P │ ISBN: 5964701116 │ 160 pages │ 2007 │ DJVU | 67 MB

The work is designed for anyone interested in the arts, who learn, specializing in architecture, "" Sculpture ", who are engaged in architectural and construction practice, who works in the workshops to the ritual inscriptions.
The book does not answer the questions that arise when working with fonts, but to know it for future architects would certainly be useful.

Безухова Л.Н., Юмагулова Л.А., "Шрифт в работе архитектора"
Архитектура-С │ ISBN: 5964701116 │160 pages │ 2007 │ DJVU | 67 MB

Работа рассчитана на всех, кто интересуется вопросами искусства, кто учится по специальности "архитектура", "скульптура", кто занят архитектурно-строительной практикой, кто работает в мастерских по выполнению ритуальных надписей. Книга не отвечает на вопросы, возникающие при работе со шрифтом, но знакомство с ней для будущих архитекторов будет, безусловно, полезно.

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Dictionary of Architecture and Construction

Cyril M. Harris, "Dictionary of Architecture and Construction"
McGraw-Hill Professional | 2005-08-15 | ISBN: 0071452370 | 1040 pages |

This massive compendium by a renowned architectural editor and 50 expert contributors features over 2300 line drawings and clear, concise definitions of more than 27,000 important architecture and construction terms. The most definitive reference in the field, Cyril M. Harris's Dictionary of Architecture and Construction brings you the broadest possible coverage of the language of architecture and building construction. Special care has been taken to include the latest terms in legal areas, technologies, techniques, materials, organizations, historic architectural styles, and architectural trends.
This essential dictionary is one of the most trusted references in architecture and building technology -- cited in numerous other leading references and recommended by the faculties of many top schools. It covers drawings and specifications ... building products and materials, including their design, appearance, performance, installation, and testing ... finishes, coatings, and surfacings ... types of units, assemblies, systems, and modules ... tools, devices, machines, and construction equipment, and much more. It's the one definitive resource every architect and contractor needs to own.
Revised, updated, and expanded, this comprehensive new edition features:
* More than 27,000 definitions in clear, concise language
* Over 2300 illustrations
* Full coverage of new technologies and new building materials
* Expanded emphasis on legal, organizational, and historic architectural terms, reflecting their increased importance in the field
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Travel, Space, Architecture

Travel, Space, Architecture

by Jilly Traganou
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Ashgate (April 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0754648273
ISBN-13: 978-0754648277

Book Description
Cultural theorists have, over the past few decades, examined
the role of travel in spatial definition, and have noted its
significance in the constant exchange and interaction between
cultures. Whilst travelling has also been the subject of
architectural research, particularly concerning the work of
internationalist architects of the early 20th Century, deeper
issues of travel, such as mapping, displacement, foreigness
and otherness, have been largely neglected in architectural
theory. This book brings architectural thinking in line with
the cultural theory debates and argues that, rather than
architecture being 'rooted' to place as has traditionally been
asserted, border crossing and cross-cultural encounters have
always been a prevailing paradigm of the spatial conceptualisation,
representation and production of space. It brings together
case studies ranging from those between Japan and Europe in
the period of early modernity, to central Europe and the
Mediterranean within the framework of modern architecture,
and to the USA and the European East in the cold-war era,
unveiling (mis)readings and exchanges that are embedded in
subsequent cultural productions. It also addresses the influence
of globalization on contemporary urban design and architecture,
examining the impact of immigration on metropolitan environments
and the spread of signature architectural practices throughout
the world. In doing so, "Travel, Space, Architecture" promotes
an original understanding of architecture as a practice
concerned with a realm much broader than that of building, and
of the influence of travel on designing and producing spatial
conceptions and forms.

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