Architecture: Professional Practice

This volume describes the various tasks that fall to architects in construction supervision in practical and understandable terms. It addresses con...

Cantilever Architecture shows you how to integrate cantilever designs into your building from conception, to help you create support-free structure...

Cantilever Architecture shows you how to integrate cantilever designs into your building from conception, to help you create support-free structure...

Timber is one of the most elementary and oldest building materials used by mankind, and has still not lost any of its attractiveness and topicalit...

Hannes Meyer hat als zweiter Bauhausdirektor die von Walter Gropius und den frühen Meistern begründete Bauhauspädagogikwesentlich verändert und neu...

The aesthetic and constructive quality of a building is also significantly determined by the careful design and implementation of details. Detaile...

The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers typeface and t...

Gebäudeöffnungen dienen der Belichtung, Belüftung und dem Klimaausgleich von Räumen. Gleichzeitig sind sie wesentliches Funktions- und Gestaltungse...

The idea of designing, planning and building as an inseparable process The idea of Total Architecture, as described by Ove Arup in his vision of d...

The integration of building services is an important aspect of architectural planning. The conceptual design of supply systems and cycles within th...

In a world of tight time frames and highly interdependent processes, scheduling is an indispensable prerequisite for successful project implementa...

The comfort of interior rooms depends on temperature, humidity, and an adequate supply of fresh air. Depending on use and climatic conditions, tech...

Thanks to high-performance composite structures made of wood and steel or concrete, wooden buildings are now being erected far beyond the high-rise...

iheartblob avails itself of a new visual vocabulary of architecture. Here designs are visualized not in the form of ground plans and sections. Inst...

This book contains more than 250 floor and elevation plans and construction details for twenty-six prefabricated and cargo-container homes. It incl...

Das Wort Architektur wird heute in unterschiedlichsten Bedeutungen und Kontexten gebraucht und hat so jede begriffliche Schärfe verloren. Unter die...

Die Arealentwicklung mehr als wohnen' im Zürcher Norden ist ein Leuchtturmprojekt für nachhaltiges genossenschaftliches Wohnen. Die dreizehn Neubau...

Die Akropolis ist in Le Corbusiers Werk allgegenwärtig. Sie war Inspirationsquelle, Prüfstein für die eigene Architektur und Maßstab für die eigene...

The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations the writer Thoreau lived in a self-built hut in the forest fro...

The dimensions of the core elements of office workplaces desk and chair together with the necessary circulation areas determine the design of off...

Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons mean...

Holzbauten werden heute dank leistungsfähiger Verbundkonstruktionen aus Holz und Stahl oder Beton weit jenseits der Hochhausgrenze errichtet. Ein E...

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WITH SKETCHUP The most complete reference for anyone using SketchUp, fully updated to cover the latest features, with a new ch...