Sustainable Architecture and Building Environment
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811623287 | 214 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book presents articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, Management, and Sciences (ICSDEMS 2020), held in Bali, Indonesia. It highlights recent advances in civil engineering and sustainability, bringing together researchers and professionals to address the latest, most relevant issues in these areas.

English | April 09, 2020 | ASIN: B07YF5CW3J |MP3|M4B | 11h 59m | 927 MB
Author and Narrator: Dan Cruickshank
This book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings.

Christopher Green, "Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo"
English | ISBN: 030010412X | 2006 | 256 pages | PDF | 83 MB
The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are remarkable for the force with which they confront issues that remain vital and important for us today: race, cultural difference, modernity, sexuality and the discontents of civilization. The framework for Green's exploration is simple, yet enormously rich in its implications: the compulsion found in Picasso's work simultaneously to build architectures and to release himself from them. Architecture is used by Green to refer not merely to pictorial or sculptural structure, but to the architecture of knowledge and society: the structures of tradition, of racial, social and cultural distinction, of logic and of technology. He not only develops new ways of seeing the oscillation between order and disorder in Picasso's work, but moves outwards from it to reveal how it confronted and challenged the architectures of orthodoxy.

Faisal Hoque, "e-Enterprise: Business Models, Architecture, and Components"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 052177487X | PDF | pages: 304 | 7.2 mb
How does a company succeed in the volatile world of e-commerce? The real challenge is to fully leverage the potential of the Internet as a means to building an agile enterprise. In e-Enterprise Faisal Hoque provides a business vision and a technological method for building an agile, electronically-based enterprise using reusable components. Aimed at CIOs, CEOs, and technologists alike, e-Enterprise explores the strategic challenges faced by companies as they embrace business in the networked economy of the future. It takes a step beyond the simple transaction-based e-commerce model and shows how a business can truly take advantage of rapidly evolving technology.

East Asian Architecture in Globalization - Values, Inheritance and Dissemination ()
epub | 227.31 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B097JMJMDP | Author: Subin Xu, Nobuo Aoki, Bébio Vieira Amaro | Year: 2021

The Stones of Tiahuanaco: A Study of Architecture and Construction By Jean-Pierre Protzen, Stella Nair
2013 | 253 Pages | ISBN: 1931745676 | PDF | 150 MB
The world's most artful and skillful stone architecture is found at Tiahuanaco at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The precision of the stone masonry rivals that of the Incas to the point that writers from Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth century to twentieth-century authors have claimed that Tiahuanaco not only served as a model for Inca architecture and stone masonry, but that the Incas even imported stonemasons from the Titicaca Basin to construct their buildings. Experiments aimed at replicating the astounding feats of the Tiahuanaco stonecutters--perfectly planar surfaces, perfect exterior and interior right angles, and precision to within 1 mm--throw light on the stonemasons' skill and knowledge, especially of geometry and mathematics. Detailed analyses of building stones yield insights into the architecture of Tiahuanaco, including its appearance, rules of composition, canons, and production, filling a significant gap in the understanding of Tiahuanaco's material culture.

Brian M. McCall, "The Architecture of Law: Rebuilding Law in the Classical Tradition"
English | ISBN: 026810333X | 2018 | 560 pages | PDF | 6 MB
What is law? How should law be made? Using St. Thomas Aquinas's analogy of God as an architect, Brian McCall argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides an answer to these questions far superior to those provided by legal positivism or the "new" natural law theories.

Routledge Pentcheva Bissera V Aural architecture in Byzantium music acoustics and ritual
pdf | 8.18 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B073FN2BVW | Author: Pentcheva, Bissera; | Year: 2017

Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture by Ellen Braae and Henriette Steiner
English | Nov 6, 2018 | ISBN: 1472484681, 0367659735 | 342 pages | PDF | 12 MB
The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture's increasingly important cultural, aesthetic, and ecological role. The volume reflects topical concerns in theoretical, historical, philosophical, and practice-related research in landscape architecture - research that reflects our relationship with what has traditionally been called 'nature'. It does so at a time when questions about the use of global resources and understanding the links between human and non-human worlds are more crucial than ever.

José de Paiva, "The Living Tradition of Architecture"
English | ISBN: 1138640484 | 2017 | 382 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The Living Tradition of Architecture explores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwelling and thinking. This is a timely appraisal of the field by some of its foremost contributors. Beyond modern misconceptions about tradition only relating to things past and conducive to a historicist vision, the essays in this volume reveal tradition as a living continuity and common ground of reference for architecture. This collection of essays brings together world-leading scholars, practicing architects and educators, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Christian Frost, Dagmar Weston, Daniel Libeskind, David Leatherbarrow, Eric Parry, Gabriele Bryant, Joseph Rykwert, Karsten Harries, Kenneth Frampton, Mari Hvattum, Patrick Lynch, Robin Middleton, Stephen Witherford, and Werner Oechslin, in a single celebratory publication edited by José de Paiva and dedicated to Dalibor Vesely. This book provides a unique initiative reflecting the group's understanding of the contemporary situation, revealing an ongoing debate of central relevance to architecture.