Название: Firescaping: Protecting Your Home with a Fire-Resistant Landscape 2nd Edition
Автор: Douglas Kent
Издательство: Wilderness Press
Год: 2019
Формат: epub
Страниц: 208
Размер: 42.2 Mb
Язык: English

Learn the Essentials of Creating Beautiful, Fire-Resistant Properties
With wildfires getting more frequent and ferocious, approximately 120 million US citizens live with the threat of being overrun. Are you one of them? If so, Firescaping helps you create a safer environment. This unique form of landscaping design keeps your property healthy, clean, and clear. Land management expert Douglas Kent shares decades of experience working in many of the nation’s most flammable areas.

Название: Structures by Design: Thinking, Making, Breaking
Автор: Rob Whitehead
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2019
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 484
Размер: 54.5 Mb
Язык: English

Structures by Design: Thinking, Making, Breaking is a new type of structures textbook written for those who prefer to learn about buildings using hands-on, creative problem-solving techniques. Instead of focusing only on formulas and diagrams, this book teaches concepts before calculations and how principles of structural and material behavior can be applied to the design of effective, efficient, and expressive building designs.
The book's format makes it easy to adopt the content into a wide variety of courses that deal with building structures and architectural design. Each section of the book is focused on a particular manner by which structural resistance is provided: Form (Arches and Cables), Sections (Beams, Slabs, and Columns), Vectors (Trusses and Space Frames), Surfaces (Shells and Plates), and Frames (Connections and High-Rises).

Название: Maintaining and Repairing Old and Historic Buildings
Автор(ы): John J. Cullinane
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2012
Страниц: 274
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 103 MB

A practical guide to the maintenance and repair of old and historic buildings
Carrying out work in accordance with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior's standards and guidelines can be a challenge for professionals charged with the preservation, restoration, and care of historic properties. This book-with-CD package facilitates the process with more than 400 field guidelines for the treatment of historic building structures, systems, and materials. It includes:
- Background and rationale for treatment
- Annotated standards and guidelines
- Step-by-step treatment instructions
- Information on energy conservation and meeting LEED and ADA requirements

Название: SketchUp for Builders: A Comprehensive Guide for Creating 3D Building Models Using SketchUp
Автор: John G. Brock
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2018
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 352
Размер: 171.3 Mb
Язык: English

The only comprehensive SketchUp guide written for builders and contractors
SketchUp is a 3D modeling application used in areas ranging from civil and mechanical engineering to motion picture and video game design. Three-dimensional modeling is of obvious value to the building industry―yet resources for transforming architectural designs into reality is surprisingly limited. SketchUp for Builders is the first comprehensive guide designed specifically for builders and contractors, providing step-by-step instructions on incorporating 3D modeling into all phases of the construction process. Author John Brock draws from his 30 years of experience as a custom home designer and builder to provide practical advice on how to understand what you are building before it is built.

Название: Greek Architecture (Pelican History of Art)
Автор: A. W. Lawrence
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 1996
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 268
Размер: 65 Mb
Язык: english



This splendid book discusses the development of Greek architecture in the Aegean and other Greek lands from its earliest beginnings around 3000 until the first century B.C. The eminent scholar A.W. Lawrence considers the evolution of the magnificent temples of the Hellenic age, focusing in particular on their function, geometry, and proportions. He also discusses Greek domestic architecture, town planning, theaters, and fortifications, providing details on the materials and methods with which all these buildings were constructed.

Название: World Architecture: An Illustrated History
Автор: Seton Lloyd, Trewin Copplestone
Издательство: Hamlyn
Год: 1963
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 352
Размер: 65 Mb
Язык: english



Divided into nine chapters covering most areas on the globe,the book is well presented with B&W photographs plus plans on ancient temples or medieval cathedrals.The separate authors of the various chapters are leaders in their field from British and American universities. The number of examples is large and they are well annotated.

Название: Умный интерьер. Профессиональный подход к декорированию
Автор: Элейн Гриффин
Язык: русский
Издательство: Азбука-Аттикус
Год: 2019
Страниц: 230 стр. 80 иллюстраций
Формат: pdf
Размер: 17,8 Мб

Беспроигрышные приемы оформления интерьера от одного из ведущих американских дизайнеров и экспертов по стилю жизни. «Я излагаю здесь некоторые из практических стандартов и неподвластных времени правил декорирования помещений – с ними ежедневно сверяются в своей работе специалисты, но они неизвестны широкой публике.

Название: Living Architecture, Living Cities: Soul-Nourishing Sustainability
Автор: Christopher Day, Julie Gwilliam
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2019
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 466
Размер: 60 Mb
Язык: English

It’s widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities – the places where most of us live. As this powerful new book elucidates, global sustainability is therefore directly dependent on urban design.
In Living Architecture, Living Cities Christopher Day and Julie Gwilliam move beyond the current emphasis on technological change. They argue that eco-technology allows us to continue broadly as before and only defers the impending disaster. In reality, most negative environmental impacts are due to how we live and the things we buy. Such personal choices often result from dissatisfaction with our surroundings.

Название: Cathedrals of Britain: London and the South East
Автор: Bernadette Fallon
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 152670384X
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 142
Размер: 27,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Power, glory, bloodshed, prayer: cathedrals in the UK are as much about human drama as spiritual sanctuary, as much about political wrangling as religious fervor.

Название: Cathedrals of Britain: North of England and Scotland
Автор: Bernadette Fallon
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 152670384X
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 137
Размер: 24,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Power, glory, bloodshed, prayer: cathedrals in the UK are as much about human drama as spiritual sanctuary, as much about political wrangling as religious fervor.