Exemplary Buildings

Author : Robert Hastings
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1844073262
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Solar Housing: Exemplary buildings and technologies written by Robert Hastings and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : L.D. Danny Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113657302X
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook on Low-Energy Buildings and District-Energy Systems written by L.D. Danny Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Choice Magazine - Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 Buildings account for over one third of global energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Reducing energy use by buildings is therefore an essential part of any strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and thereby lessen the likelihood of potentially catastrophic climate change. Bringing together a wealth of hard-to-obtain information on energy use and energy efficiency in buildings at a level which can be easily digested and applied, Danny Harvey offers a comprehensive, objective and critical sourcebook on low-energy buildings. Topics covered include: thermal envelopes, heating, cooling, heat pumps, HVAC systems, hot water, lighting, solar energy, appliances and office equipment, embodied energy, buildings as systems and community-integrated energy systems (cogeneration, district heating, and district cooling). The book includes exemplary buildings and techniques from North America, Europe and Asia, and combines a broad, holistic perspective with technical detail in an accessible and insightful manner.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1494 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1996 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fred Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134370687
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Altering Architecture written by Fred Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together interior design and architectural theory, this exciting text looks at the common practices of building alteration, reconsidering established ideas and methods, to initiate the creation of a theory of the interior or interventional design. Fred Scott examines in-depth case studies of interventional design from architectural history across the world – examples discussed are taken from the States, Europe and Japan. Scott expands and builds on the ideas of Viollet-le-Duc, structuralism and other thoughts to layout criteria for an art of intervention and change. The book draws on the philosophy of conservation, preservation and restoration, as well as exploring related social and political issues. For those in professions of architecture and interiors, town planners, and students in architecture and art schools, On Altering Architecture forms a body of thought that can be aligned and compared with architectural theory.

Author : Carroll William Westfall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131717898X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order written by Carroll William Westfall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism. These include the role of imitation in earlier centuries and its potential role in present practice; the necessary relationship between architecture, urbanism and the rural districts; and their counterpart in the civil order that builds and uses what is built. The narrative traces two models for the practice of architecture. One follows the ancient model in which the architect renders his service to serve the interests of others; it survives and is dominant in modernism. The other, first formulated in the fifteenth century by Leon Battista Alberti, has the architect use his talent in coordination with others to contribute to the common good of a republican civil order that seeks to protect its own liberty and that of its citizens. Palladio practiced this way, and so did Thomas Jefferson when he founded a uniquely American architecture, the counterpart to the nation’s founding. This narrative gives particular emphasis to the contrasting developments in architecture on the opposite sides of the English Channel. The book presents the value for clients and architects today and in the future of drawing on history and tradition. It stresses the importance, indeed, the urgency, of restoring traditional practices so that we can build just, beautiful, and sustainable cities and rural districts that will once again assist citizens in living not only abundantly but also well as they pursue their happiness.

Author : Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452941726
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture since 1400 written by Kathleen James-Chakraborty and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first global history of architecture to give equal attention to Western and non-Western structures and built landscapes, Architecture since 1400 is unprecedented in its range, approach, and insight. From Tenochtitlan’s Great Pyramid in Mexico City and the Duomo in Florence to Levittown’s suburban tract housing and the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, its coverage includes the world’s most celebrated structures and spaces along with many examples of more humble vernacular buildings. Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 photographs, plans, and interiors, this book presents key moments and innovations in architectural modernity around the globe. Deftly integrating architectural and social history, Kathleen James-Chakraborty pays particular attention to the motivations of client and architect in the design and construction of environments both sacred and secular: palaces and places of worship as well as such characteristically modern structures as the skyscraper, the department store, and the cinema. She also focuses on the role of patrons and addresses to an unparalleled degree the impact of women in commissioning, creating, and inhabiting the built environment, with Gertrude Jekyll, Lina Bo Bardi, and Zaha Hadid taking their place beside Brunelleschi, Sinan, and Le Corbusier. Making clear that visionary architecture has never been the exclusive domain of the West and recognizing the diversity of those responsible for commissioning, designing, and constructing buildings, Architecture since 1400 provides a sweeping, cross-cultural history of the built environment over six centuries.

Author : Lu Donnelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813928234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buildings of Pennsylvania written by Lu Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended to complement the forthcoming companion volume--Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania--in the Buildings of the United States series, this book will pique the interest and curiosity of architectural historians and general readers alike. A volume in the Buildings of the United States series of the Society of Architectural Historians

Author : Andrew Charleson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0750665270
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structure as Architecture written by Andrew Charleson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the potential of structure, that is beams, columns, frames, struts and other structural members, to enrich architecture.

Author : Dr David Bertolini
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472407245
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture Post Mortem written by Dr David Bertolini and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations, but rather the irruption of the unconscious of ideology itself. Post mortem is that historical moment wherein architecture’s symbolic contract with capital is put on stage, naked to all. Architecture is not irrelevant to fiscal and political contagion as is commonly believed; it is the victim and penetrating analytical agent of the current crisis. As the very apparatus for modernity’s guilt and unfulfilled drives-modernity’s debt-architecture is that ideological element that functions as a master signifier of its own destruction, ordering all other signifiers and modes of signification beneath it. It is under these conditions that architecture theory has retreated to an 'Alamo' of history, a final desert outpost where history has been asked to transcend itself. For architecture’s hoped-for utopia always involves an apocalypse. This timely collection of essays reformulates architecture’s relation to modernity via the operational death-drive: architecture is but a passage between life and death. This collection includes essays by Kazi K. Ashraf, David Bertolini, Simone Brott, Peggy Deamer, Didem Ekici, Paul Emmons, Donald Kunze, Todd McGowan, Gevork Hartoonian, Nadir Lahiji, Erika Naginski, and Dennis Maher.

Author : Deborah Oakley
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615249116
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2006 Building Technology Educators' Symposium Proceedings written by Deborah Oakley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-03 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 2006 Building Technology Educators' Symposium, held at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation