Автор: Nicholas Fyfe
Издательство: Routledge
Год издания: 1998
Количество страниц: 307
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Streets are the terrain of social encounters and political protest, sites of domination and resistance, places of pleasure and anxiety. The essays in Images of the Street explore how we imagine, create, experience, interact with and naturally transform the street. Using case studies of cities including New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Toronto and Vancouver, the contributors subject the street to sustained critical scrutiny. The essays examine the interplay between politics and planning, how social identities are shaped by the use of the street, and how these identities are represented in fiction and in films such as Independence Day, Twelve Monkeys, and The Fisherking, and how social life is increasingly regulated both directly by agencies such as the police, and indirectly through architecture and urban design. This book enriches and extends our understanding of the making and meaning of a key urban space.
Автор: Arthur Lyons
Издательство: Butterworth-Heinemann
Год издания: 2006
Количество страниц: 528
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Materials for Architects and Builders provides an introduction to a wide range of building materials. It explains in detail the manufacture, key physical properties, specification and uses of the standard building products, everything a student would need to know. The book also describes many recent technological innovations and rediscovered materials, reflecting an increased concern for environmental issues within the Industry.
This new edition has been completely updated to reflect the amended Building Regulations, the latest British and European Standards as well as incorporating current advice and information from the Building Research Establishment. Dr Arthur Lyons is a teacher fellow and principal lecturer in building materials at the Leicester School of Architecture within the Faculty of Art and Design at De Montfort University, UK. He has taught the subject of building materials for thirty five years to a wide range of students within the built environment disciplines.
Автор: Robert Twombly
Издательство: Wiley-Interscience
Год издания: 1978
Количество страниц: 464
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
A complete biography based on a wide range of previously untapped primary sources, covering Wright's private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. Views Wright's buildings as biographical as well as social statements, analyzing his work by type, category, and individual structure. Examines Wright's struggle to develop a new artistic statement, his dramatic personal life, and his political and economic ideas, including those on cities, energy conservation, cooperative home building, and environmental preservation. Includes over 150 illustrations
Автор: John F. Bold, Edward Chaney,
Издательство: Hambledon London
Год издания: 2003
Количество страниц: 336
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book brings together twenty-four original essays by colleagues, pupils and friends of Kerry Downes. The essays range from the late middle ages to the twentieth century but are concentrated on the period to the study of which Kerry Downes has contributed so much: that of Wren, Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor. Taken together these essays display the different approaches taken by architectural historians and the rich variety of English architecture.
Автор: Ian Appleton
Издательство: Architectural Press
Год издания: 2008
Количество страниц: 296
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
This superb design and development guide must be essential reading for all design teams involved in the initiation, planning, design and building of facilities for the various performing arts. A detailed analysis of all design and development issues and the relationships with clients and consultants are explored adopting a very discerning approach. The specific studies that follow analyse in a masterly way the critical requirements of the auditorium and platform/stage, support facilities and their relationship, and examine the effects of site conditions, their time scale and financial appraisal.
Автор: Е.Д.Шекунов
Издательство: Авиахим
Год издания: 1926
Количество страниц: 148
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
В раритетном издании описывается постройка монгольфьера, змеев, моделей планеров и самолётов, рассматриваются основы аэродинамики. Книга являлась руководством для модельных кружков "Авиахима".
Автор: Hoekman B., Mattoo A., English P.
Издательство: The World Bank
Год издания: 2002
Количество страниц: 641
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This handbook summarizes the economics of sound trade policy, explains behind-the-door regulatory issues, and serves as a comprehensive reference on trade-related issues. Part I places trade policy reform in a development context and discusses key dimensions of reform. Part II deals with the main aspects of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Parts III, IV, and V cover the areas that are the subject of WTO rules: trade in goods; trade in services; and the protection of intellectual property. Part VI contains discussions of a number of regulatory issues. Specific process-related concerns of developing countries are the subject of part VII; these include participation in the WTO, capacity building, and implementation of WTO agreements. Finally, part VIII summarizes a number of rules of thumb for good trade policy and reviews approaches to using the WTO (and regional agreements) as instruments for promoting development. Also included are two CD-ROMs with relevant data and training material. The book has 55 chapters and a subject index.
Автор: Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Ban Ki-moo,
Издательство: Earthscan Publications Ltd
Год издания: 2009
Количество страниц: 288
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The worlds urban population is growing by 100,000 households a day, presenting an enormous challenge, above all in developing countries. It is also an opportunity, as investment in housing and the provision of shelter is potentially one of the most effective drivers of economic growth and sustainable national development. In recent debates, however, its economic significance and role as an instrument of social policy have been overlooked. This book is a much-needed account, with numerous detailed examples, of the role of housing in economic growth and development by an author in a unique position to understand its importance and the practical measures for delivering that growth.
Автор: Alex Dill, Rüdiger Kramm
Издательство: University of Tennessee Press
Год издания: 1997
Количество страниц: 80
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Mies van der Rohe's renowned Tugendhat House was designed and built in Brno, Czech Republic in 1928-30 at precisely the same time as van der Rohe's visionary (but sadly temporary) Barcelona Pavilion. Here, this masterpiece of domestic Modernism is brought to life in three exquisite photo essays.
Мис ван дер Роэ известный Тугендхат дом был спроектирован и построен в г. Брно, Чешская Республика в 1928-30 именно в то время как великие (но, к сожалению временного) ван дер Роэ Барселона павильон. Здесь, этот шедевр внутренних Модернизм претворяются в жизнь в трех эссе изысканные фотографии.
Автор: Robert Winter
Издательство: University of California Press
Год издания: 1997
isbn: 0520209168
Количество страниц: 302
Язык: english
Формат: CHM
This book celebrates one of the richest and most enduring themes in American architectureCalifornia's Arts and Crafts Movement. Echoing the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis, and Charles Keeler, this movement represented a retreat into a quieter place from the materialism of American society. Anti-commercial, anti-modern, Arts and Crafts practitioners drew on the decorative schemes of English Tudor, Swiss chalet, Japanese temple, and Spanish mission, evoking an earlier time before modern industry and technology intruded. And if only one word is used to describe virtually every Arts and Crafts house in California, that word is woodsy: wood shingles outside, wood paneling inside, a wood fire burning in the homey, welcoming fireplace. Most chapters in this impressive and very readable book focus on one building by a particular architect or designer and illustrate that person's development and influences. Familiar architects such as Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, John Galen Howard, and Julia Morgan are here, but so too are less well- known names who were a vibrant part of the Arts and Crafts Movement.