Название: Nature by Design: The Practice of Biophilic Design
Автор: Stephen R. Kellert
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2018
Формат: epub
Страниц: 224
Размер: 81 Mb
Язык: English

Biophilia is the theory that people possess an inherent affinity for nature, which developed during the long course of human evolution. In recent years, studies have revealed that this inclination continues to be a vital component to human health and wellbeing. Given the pace and scale of construction today with its adversarial, dominative relationship with nature, the integration of nature with the built environment is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Название: Creating the French Look: Inspirational Ideas and 25 Step-By-Step Projects
Автор: Annie Sloan
Издательство: CICO Books
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The French interior evokes a way of life to aspire to, with its good food, unhurried pace and, above all, its past for which many people feel nostalgia. Developed over hundreds of years, the French look reflects all tastes, from the cultivated grandeur of the chateau to the simplicity of rural living, and can be adapted to every home. Creating the French Look is divided into four styles: ‘Chateau’, ‘Country’, ‘Proven?al’ and ‘Parisian’, and each “look” is applied to living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms plus outdoor living spaces.

Название: Fabricate: Rethinking Design and Construction
Автор: Achim Menges, Bob Sheil
Издательство: Riverside Architectural Press
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Размер: 46 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This entirely new essay collection brings together pioneers in design within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation to explore the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century. Discussion on key themes include: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities from component to building scales, the difficult gap that exists between digital modelling and its realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts.

Название: Памятники архитектуры и истории Санкт-Петербурга. Адмиралтейский район
Автор: Кириков Б.М., Кормильцева О.М.
Издательство: Санкт-Петербург : Коло
Год: 2012
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 384
Для сайта: mirlib.ru
Размер: 55 mb
Язык: Русский

Издание представляет собой третий том иллюстрированного аннотированного свода памятников архитектуры и истории Санкт-Петербурга. Этот том посвящен памятникам архитектуры Адмиралтейского района XVIII — начала XIX века. В него включены объекты культурного наследия, состоящие под государственной охраной со статусом памятников федерального и регионального значения.

Название: Limbert Arts and Crafts Furniture: The Complete 1903 Catalog
Автор: Charles P.
Издательство: Dover Publications
Год: 1992
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 78
Для сайта: mirlib.ru
Размер: 14.4 Мб
Язык: английский

Excellent reproduction of extremely rare catalog, originally distributed by important Grand Rapids, Michigan manufacturer of fine Mission-style furniture. Unusual pen-and-ink drawings depict 188 pieces, among them a large-arm rocker of bolted construction, fold-down tables and desks, bookcases with leaded glass doors, library and octagonal tables, chairs, settees, more. Captions detail woods, construction, measurements, finishes and prices.

Название: The Architecture of Late Assyrian Royal Palaces
Автор: David Kertai
Издательство: Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Год: May 26, 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 368 pages
Размер: 69 MB
Язык: English

The Late Assyrian Empire (c. 900 - 612 BCE) was the first state to rule over the major centres of the Middle East, and the Late Assyrian court inhabited some of the most monumental palaces of its time. The Architecture of Late Assyrian Royal Palaces is the first volume to provide an in-depth analysis of Late Assyrian palatial architecture, offering a general introduction to all key royal palaces in the major centres of the empire: Assur, Kal?u, Dur-Sharruken, and Nineveh.

Название: Architektenmobel. Furniture by Architects
Автор: von Petra Hesse, Gabriele Lueg
Издательство: Konig, Walther; Auflage
Год: 2012
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 159
Для сайта: mirlib.ru
Размер: 135.4 Мб
Язык: немецкий

Furniture by Architects surveys the twentieth-century tradition of innovative furniture design by architects, which stems into the present as architects continue to design movable furnishings for their buildings, creating aesthetically unified environments. The book poses such questions as: do architects design differently to product designers? Do they exhibit any consistent aesthetic preferences? Is there something typically architectural in their designs?

Название: St. Paul's Outside the Walls: A Roman Basilica, from Antiquity to the Modern Era
Автор: Nicola Camerlenghi
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108429513
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 396
Для сайта: mirlib.ru
Размер: 65,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This volume examines one of Rome's most influential churches: the principal basilica dedicated to St Paul. Nicola Camerlenghi traces nearly two thousand years of physical transformations to the church, from before its construction in the fourth century to its reconstruction following a fire in 1823.

Название: Architecture in Detail
Автор: Graham Bizley
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 188
Для сайта: mirlib.ru
Размер: 29,87 Мб
Язык: английский

This book is a collection of detailed studies of recent construction projects that will help all architects learn and expand the possibilities of their own work. Projects have been selected for their use of innovative techniques, and these insights could help overcome problems, reduce a project's cost, speed up work on site or help with an idea that is hard to achieve.Each project within the book consists of striking detailed drawings, supplemented by color photographs and explanatory text.

Название: Responsive Landscapes
Автор: Bradley E Cantrell, Justine Holzman
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2016
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 320
Для сайта: mirlib.ru
Размер: 40,63 Мб
Язык: английский

The sensing, processing, and visualizing that are currently in development within the environment boldly change the ways design and maintenance of landscapes are perceived and conceptualised. This is the first book to rationalize interactive architecture and responsive technologies through the lens of contemporary landscape architectural theory.