Advanced Building Simulation

Edited by Godfried Augenbroe, Ali Malkawi

This book introduces recent advances in building simulation and outlines its historic development. Two important topics are described: uncertainty in simulation and coupled simulations, which...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32123-5 (Taylor & Francis)

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Free-Standing Tension Structures

From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems

By Binbing Wang

Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports. Tensile and cable-strut structures are one method...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33595-9 (Taylor & Francis)

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Spaces of Global Cultures

Architecture, Urbanism, Identity

By Anthony King

This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19620-8 (Routledge)

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Transforming Barcelona

The Renewal of a European Metropolis

Edited by Tim Marshall

This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28841-5 (Routledge)

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The Phenomenon of Life: The Nature of Order, Book 1

An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

By Christopher Alexander

In Book One of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-9726529-1-9 (Routledge)

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The Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order, Book 4

An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

By Christopher Alexander

Book Four presents a new cosmology that arises from the careful study of architecture and art, and above all from the practice of the arts....

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-9726529-4-0 (Routledge)

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The Process of Creating Life: The Nature of Order, Book 2

An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

By Christopher Alexander

Christopher Alexander's masterwork, the result of 27 years of research, considers three vital perspectives: a scientific perspective; a perspective based on beauty and grace; a...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-9726529-2-6 (Routledge)

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Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems

Proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG7.5 Working Conference, Banff, Canada, 2-5 November 2003

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2004 | Hardback: 978-9058095794 (Taylor & Francis)

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The Architecture of the British Library at St. Pancras

By Roger Stonehouse, Gerhard Stromberg

In a series of interrelated essays, this book describes the British Library and the issues surrounding its design, construction, purpose and place in the architectural...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-419-25120-0 (Taylor & Francis)

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Dictionary of Architectural and Building Technology

Edited by Henry Cowan, Peter Smith

A comprehensive summary of the vocabulary used across the building industry, from the preparation of an architectural brief, through creative and technical design, to construction...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31234-9 (Routledge)

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