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“nishat awan”

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  • Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

    by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till ...
    This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice.At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

    by Nishat Awan ...
    Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions of difference, belonging and movement in the city. Through focusing on a series of examples, it reveals how ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Practical Recipes and Essential Techniques

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    As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with detailed color graphics to guide your way, and discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task. ... Read more

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  • Passive House Details

    Solutions for High-Performance Design

    by Donald Corner, Jan Fillinger, Alison Kwok ...
    Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, healthy, and satisfying buildings currently built in the region. Other topics included: heat transfer, moisture ... Read more

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  • Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China

    by Nicholas Jewell ...
    China’s rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable body of literature that has accompanied China’s modernization, the essence and trajectory of its contemporary cityscape remains difficult to grasp ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Urban Landscape Strategies

    by Giuseppe Marinoni ...
    Series Book 2 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    The projects illustrated here exemplify the way contemporary urban planning is moving in practice, and how it is precisely in the effective transformation of cities and landscapes that it is finding the theoretical and practical forms of its action. An urban planning that, as has recently been pointed out, having emancipated itself from the typo-morphological tradition focused on the built, is now ... Read more

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  • The Passivhaus Designer’s Manual

    A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

    Edited by Christina Hopfe, Robert McLeod ...
    Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world, with almost 50,000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types, the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards, Passivhaus provides a robust ‘fabric first’ approach ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Writing Architecture

    A Practical Guide to Clear Communication about the Built Environment

    by Carter Wiseman ...
    Writing Architecture considers the process, methods, and value of architecture writing based on Wiseman’s 30 years of experience in writing, editing, and teaching young architects how to write. This book creatively tackles a problematic issue that Wiseman considers crucial to successful architecture writing: clarity of thinking and expression. He argues that because we live our lives within the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Cities and Design

    by Paul L. Knox ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at every scale and design professions have grown in size and importance, reflecting distinctive geographies and locating disproportionately in cities most intimately connected with ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The World's Greenest Buildings

    Promise Versus Performance in Sustainable Design

    by Jerry Yudelson, Ulf Meyer ...
    The World’s Greenest Buildings tackles an audacious task. Among the thousands of green buildings out there, which are the best, and how do we know?Authors Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer examined hundreds of the highest-rated large green buildings from around the world and asked their owners to supply one simple thing: actual performance data, to demonstrate their claims to sustainable operations ... Read more

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  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    by Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Malgorzata Nowobilska ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Building Information Modeling

    by Karen Kensek ...
    Series series PocketArchitecture
    This is a design guide for architects, engineers, and contractors concerning the principles and specific applications of building information modeling (BIM). BIM has the potential to revolutionize the building industry, and yet not all architects and construction professionals fully understand what the benefits of BIM are or even the fundamental concepts behind it.As part of the PocketArchitecture ... Read more

    $48.99 USD