The stylish and sustainable homes in this book were built to reduce their impact on the environment and improve the quality of life of their occupants. These designs are proof that sustainability goes hand-in-hand with style and comfort.
The stylish and sustainable homes in this book were built to reduce their impact on the environment and improve the quality of life of their occupants. These designs are proof that sustainability goes hand-in-hand with style and comfort.
The stylish and sustainable homes in this book were built to reduce their impact on the environment and improve the quality of life of their occupants. These designs are proof that sustainability goes hand-in-hand with style and comfort.
Principles of architectural detailing: a book
by Emmitt, Stephen, Schmid, Peter, Olie, John
Principles of architectural detailing: a book
by Emmitt, Stephen, Schmid, Peter, Olie, John
"In Principles of Architectural Detailing the authors question the way in which buildings are detailed and, in particular, challenge familiar joint solutions. They offer practical guidance and a number of tools to help the student of architectural detailing in the decision-makin…
Why are buildings detailed the way they are?. Why do architects and engineers seem to come to the same kind of solutions to their detailing problems?. Are we satisfied with such a situation?. With environmental concerns so high on designers' agendas, the answer to this third que…
"In Principles of Architectural Detailing the authors question the way in which buildings are detailed and, in particular, challenge familiar joint solutions. They offer practical guidance and a number of tools to help the student of architectural detailing in the decision-makin…
This volume 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, it discusses how to use this concept to address ongoing problems in architectu…
This four-volume work allows the reader to form one picture of the world in which the perspectives from science, beauty and grace, and commonsense intuitions are interlaced.
"In Book One of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture.He identifies fifteen geom…
"Christopher Alexander's masterwork, the result of 27 years of research, considers three vital perspectives: a scientific perspective; a perspective based on beauty and grace; a commonsense perspective based on our intuitions and everyday life."--