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  • Design Thinking

    Creativity, Collaboration and Culture

    by Ju Hyun Lee, Michael J. Ostwald, Ning Gu ...
    Series series Mechanical Engineering (R0)
    This book presents new ways of facilitating design thinking, through the combination of cognitive design strategies and information technologies. It provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the traditional and digital design processes and activities that are employed in architecture, computational design, communication design and graphic design. In response to evolving design practices, ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • Multimodality in Architecture

    Collaboration, Technology and Education

    Edited by Ju Hyun Lee, Michael J. Ostwald, Mi Jeong Kim ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book examines multimodality in architecture and its impacts on collaborative, technical and educational processes or systems.Multimodality is becoming increasingly critical in contemporary architectural practice and education. Creative design teams face new challenges when they embrace new modes of communication, technology, and knowledge development processes. From diverse online modes of ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Computational Design

    Technology, Cognition and Environments

    by Rongrong Yu, Ning Gu, Michael J. Ostwald ...
    New computational design tools have evolved rapidly and been increasingly applied in the field of design in recent years, complimenting and even replacing the traditional design media and approaches. Design as both the process and product are changing due to the emergence and adoption of these new technologies. Understanding and assessing the impact of these new computational design environments ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Design Thinking: Creativity, Collaboration and Culture

    by Ju Hyun Lee, Michael J. Ostwald, Ning Gu ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents new ways of facilitating design thinking, through the combination of cognitive design strategies and information technologies. It provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the traditional and digital design processes and activities that are employed in architecture, computational design, communication design and graphic design.The book is divided into three parts: Part ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Fractal Dimension of Architecture

    by Michael J. Ostwald, Josephine Vaughan ...
    Series Book 1 - Mathematics and the Built Environment
    Fractal analysis is a method for measuring, analysing and comparing the formal or geometric properties of complex objects. In this book it is used to investigate eighty-five buildings that have been designed by some of the twentieth-century’s most respected and celebrated architects. Including designs by Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi, Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future

    Volume I: Antiquity to the 1500s

    Edited by Kim Williams, Michael J. Ostwald ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future

    Volume II: The 1500s to the Future

    Edited by Kim Williams, Michael J. Ostwald ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Mathematical Thinking and Properties in Architecture

    Palladio, Le Corbusier, and Eisenman

    by Ju Hyun Lee, Michael J. Dawes, Michael J. Ostwald ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This monograph explores the profound connections between architecture and mathematics through the works of Andrea Palladio, Le Corbusier, and Peter Eisenman. Combining historical insights with computational analyses, it examines the social, spatial, and aesthetic properties of twenty-six iconic designs. Advanced methods such as Space Syntax, isovists, fractal analysis, image segmentation and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Mathematics of the Modernist Villa

    Architectural Analysis Using Space Syntax and Isovists

    by Michael J. Ostwald, Michael J. Dawes ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book presents the first detailed mathematical analysis of the social, cognitive and experiential properties of Modernist domestic architecture.The Modern Movement in architecture, which came to prominence during the first half of the twentieth century, may have been famous for its functional forms and machine-made aesthetic, but it also sought to challenge the way people inhabit, understand ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Climate Disaster Preparedness

    Reimagining Extreme Events through Art and Technology

    Edited by Dennis Del Favero, Susanne Thurow, Michael J. Ostwald, Ursula Frohne ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    As a result of global warming, extreme events, such as firestorms and flash floods, pose increasingly unpredictable and uncertain existential threats, taking lives, destroying communities, and wreaking havoc on habitats. Current aesthetic, technological and scientific frameworks struggle to imagine, visualise and rehearse human interactions with these events, hampering the development of proactive ... Read more

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    Exploring Structures in Architecture

    by Bjorn N. Sandaker ...
    In this richly illustrated book with many practical examples, Bjorn Sandaker provides readers with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture.As an experienced teacher and writer, Sandaker offers a well-founded aesthetic theory to support the understanding and evaluation of a structure's form and design, examining concepts and viewpoints from both the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Designs

    Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

    by Philip Steadman ...
    This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th ... Read more

    $87.99 USD