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Building Type Basics eBook Series

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  • Building Type Basics for Senior Living

    by Perkins Eastman ...
    Series Book 21 - Building Type Basics
    Essential information for the design of senior living facilitiesBuilding Type Basics for Senior Living, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for essential information you need to plan and successfully complete the design of residential care environments for seniors on time and within budget.Primary authors Bradford Perkins and J. David Hoglund and their Perkins Eastman colleagues-all experts ... Read more

    $82.00 USD

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  • Freehand Drawing and Discovery

    Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers

    by James Richards ...
    Features access to video tutorials!Designed to help architects, planners, and landscape architects use freehand sketching to quickly and creatively generate design concepts, Freehand Drawing and Discovery uses an array of cross-disciplinary examples to help readers develop their drawing skills. Taking a "both/and" approach, this book provides step-by-step guidance on drawing tools and techniques ... Read more

    $66.00 USD

  • Working Drawings Handbook

    by Keith Styles, Andrew Bichard ...
    Covering every aspect of drawing preparation, both manual and computer-aided, this comprehensive manual is an essential tool for students, architects and architectural technologists. Showing what information is required on each type of document, how drawings relate to specifications, and how to organize and document your work, this handbook presents a fully illustrated guide to all the key methods ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals

    by Traci Rose Rider ...
    Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement.Many professions are increasingly producing tools to assist clients in breaking down and understanding the different elements that reside under the umbrella of the sustainability movement. For the design and construction professions, this unpacking often takes the form of green building guidelines and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Becoming a Green Building Professional

    A Guide to Careers in Sustainable Architecture, Design, Engineering, Development, and Operations

    by Holley Henderson ...
    Series Book 33 - Wiley Series in Sustainable Design
    A career guide for professionals in sustainable architecture, design, planning, development, and related consultingFor those considering a new career or a career change focused on green and sustainable building and design, Becoming a Green Building Professional offers practical information on educational requirements, career options, guidance and tips, and first-hand interviews with green building ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • 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

    $67.99 USD

  • Welcome to Your World

    How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

    by Sarah Williams Goldhagen ...
    One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experienceTaking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Chicago School of Architecture

    Building the Modern City, 1880–1910

    by Rolf Achilles ...
    Series Book 741 - Shire Library USA
    The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how-and why- was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? Rolf Achilles here introduces the style of the First Chicago School from 1880 to 1910, explaining the innovative use of iron frames for strength, height and ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • How Designers Think

    by Bryan Lawson ...
    How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and that we can learn to design better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design

    by François Lévy ...
    "Any architect doing small or medium scaled projects who is also vested in sustainable design but is not yet doing BIM will enjoy this book's overall focus."-Architosh.comThis work is the leading guide to architectural design within a building information modeling (BIM) workflow, giving the practitioner a clear procedure when designing climate-load dominated buildings. The book incorporates new ... Read more

    $83.00 USD

  • Digital Vernacular

    Architectural Principles, Tools, and Processes

    by James Stevens, Ralph Nelson ...
    Digital Vernacular addresses the why and how of digital fabrication in hundreds of step-by-step color images, illuminating a set of working principles and techniques that join theory with practice. Authors James Stevens and Ralph Nelson reconcile local traditions and innovations with globally accessible methods and digital toolsets. By combining ethics with hardware, the book will root you in the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Cladding of Buildings

    by Alan J. Brookes, Alan J. Brookes, Maarten Meijs ...
    This key text addresses the topic of lightweight claddings in buildings and is a useful guide and reference resource.Written by well-known specialists in the field, this fourth edition of an established text has been revised throughout to incorporate the latest environmental issues, the use of wood and terracotta in cladding, and use of new materials, particularly the new moulded materials. Two ... Read more

    $102.99 USD