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By:Liz McQuiston
Published on 1988 by Rizzoli International Publications
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Looks at the work of modern women designers in the areas of architecture, furniture, animation, graphic design, textiles, and industrial design
Download Visual Notes for Architects and Designers PDF/eBook
By:Norman Crowe,Paul Laseau
Published on 2011-12-30 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9781118129340
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The completely updated step-by-step guide to¿capturing experiences in sketch format—regardless of artistic ability Recording your ideas and observations primarily in pictures instead of words can help you become more creative and constructive on the job, no matter what your level of artistic ability. Featuring completely new coverage of visual note-taking in a digital world, Visual Notes for Architects and Designers, Second Edition demonstrates how to make rapid, notational sketches that serve as visual records for future reference, as well as improve understanding and facilitate the development of ideas. It shows you how to expand your knowledge of a subject beyond what is gained through observation or verbal representation alone. You gain access to simple techniques for collecting, analyzing, and applying information. Crowe and Laseau examine the relationship between note-taking, visualization, and creativity. They give practical guidance on how to develop: Visual acuity—the ability to see more in what you experience Visual literacy—expressing yourself clearly and accurately with sketches Graphic analysis—using sketches to analyze observations Numerous examples demonstrate some of the many uses of visual notes. They help you develop a keener awareness of environments, solve design problems, and even get more out of lectures and presentations. The authors also discuss types of notebooks suitable for taking visual notes. If you want to develop your perceptual and creative skills to their utmost, you will want to follow the strategies outlined in Visual Notes for Architects and Designers, Second Edition. It is a valuable guide for architects, landscape architects, designers, and anyone interested in recording experience in sketch form.
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By:Joseph Boschetti
Published on 2006 by Images Publishing
ISBN 9781920744281
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Extensive research by IMAGES over several years reveals the need for a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to architectural details. Details in Design is the latest edition in IMAGES' Details series. It continues to feature drawings and concept sketches with useful summaries, as well as full-colour photographs of the finished details. Contained within these informative pages are designs from some of the world's leading architects, including Foster and Partners, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Rafael Vinoly Architects, FXFOWLE and many more.
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By:Tony Fry
Published on 2010-11-01 by Berg
ISBN 9781847887061
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Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current 'solutions' to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future. Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, of which climate change is only one part, demands original and radical thinking. Rather than reverting to failed political ideologies, the book proposes a post-democratic politics. In this, Design occupies a major role, not as it is but as it could be if transformed into a powerful agent of change, a force to create and extend freedom. The book does no less than position Design as a vital form of political action.
Download California Captured PDF/eBook
By:Pierluigi Serraino,Emily Bills,Sam Lubell
Published on 2018-04-27 by Phaidon Press
ISBN 9780714876115
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The style and mythology of Mid-Century Modern California architecture as seen through the expert lens of Marvin Rand Los Angeles photographer Marvin Rand created iconic images of some of the most celebrated architectural creations of his time, photographing buildings by the likes of Modernist masters Craig Ellwood, Louis Kahn, and Frank Lloyd Wright to capture the essence of their work - and, in doing so, played a critical role in shaping the Mid-Century California style now worshiped the world over. The discovery of Rand's archive has brought a treasure trove to life, and California Captured showcases it - and the period - as never before.
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By:Francis D. K. Ching,Corky Binggeli
Published on 2012-02-20 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9781118090718
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Offers a concise and accessible presentation of important concepts for beginning designers, and experienced practitioners will appreciate its insightful and practical coverage of the relationship between building structures and interior spaces. A broad range of rich illustrations communicates visual information and ploughs fertile ground for creative ideas and inspiration.
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By:John Lyle
Published on 1985 by Island Press
ISBN 9781559637206
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For more than 30 years, John Tillman Lyle (1934-1998) was one of the leading thinkers in the field of ecological design. Design for Human Ecosystems, originally published in 1985, is his classic text that explores methods of designing landscapes that function in the sustainable ways of natural ecosystems. The book provides a framework for thinking about and understanding ecological design, along with a wealth of real-world examples that bring to life Lyle's key ideas. Lyle traces the historical growth of design approaches involving natural processes, and presents an introduction to the principles, methods, and techniques that can be used to shape landscape, land use, and natural resources in an ecologically sensitive and sustainable manner. Lyle argues that careful design of human ecosystems recognizes three fundamental concerns: scale (the relative size of the landscape and its connections with larger and smaller systems), the design process itself, and the underlying order that binds ecosystems together and makes them work. He discusses the importance of each of these concerns, and presents a workable approach to designing systems that effectively accounts for all of them. The theory presented is supported throughout by numerous case studies that illustrate its practical applications. This new edition features a foreword by Joan Woodward, noted landscape architecture professor and colleague of Lyle, that places the book in the context of current ecological design thinking and discusses Lyle's contributions to the field. It will be a valuable resource for landscape architects, planners, students of ecological design, and anyone interested in creating landscapes that meet the needs of all an area's inhabitants -- human and nonhuman alike.
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By:Victoria Ballard Bell,Patrick Rand
Published on 2006 by Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 9781856694803
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|Material selection is one of the most significant decisions an architect must make, yet it is often not addressed at the beginning of the design process. Likewise, students are typically taught about material and design as if they were unrelated. With the advent of integrated design/build programs, however, the relationship between a project's aesthetics and its materiality has never been more important.| |Materials for Architectural Design provides the foundation for a strong design sensibility intertwined with material knowledge. Divided into five sections - glass, concrete, wood, metal and plastic - Materials for Architectural Design makes a thorough study of each material's properties, history, permutations and production techniques. Sixty case studies by today's most inventive architects from around the world - including Baumschlager + Eberle, Sean Godsell, Werner Sobek and ARO - show these materials put to imaginative use, illustrating how their application informed each building's ultimate form and structure.|--BOOK JACKET.
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By:Beth Tauke,Korydon Smith,Charles Davis
Published on 2015-08-27 by Routledge
ISBN 9781317688501
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Diversity and Design explores how design - whether of products, buildings, landscapes, cities, media, or systems - affects diverse members of society. Fifteen case studies in television, marketing, product design, architecture, film, video games, and more, illustrate the profound, though often hidden, consequences design decisions and processes have on the total human experience. The book not only investigates how gender, race, class, age, disability, and other factors influence the ways designers think, but also emphasizes the importance of understanding increasingly diverse cultures and, thus, averting design that leads to discrimination, isolation, and segregation. With over 140 full-color illustrations, chapter summaries, discussion questions and exercises, Diversity and Design is a valuable tool to help you understand the importance of designing for all.
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By:T. Hille
Published on 2011-04-04 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9780470916452
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Download Touchstones of Design PDF/eBook
By:C. W. Fentress,The Images Publishing Group
Published on 2010 by Images Publishing
ISBN 9781864703825
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Considered the world leader in designing iconic public architecture, Curtis Fentress is redefining the art of civic buildings. In Touchstones of Design: Redefining Public Architecture, Fentress features many of his most innovative and inspiring works. This includes a new vision for LAX that embodies a design philosophy learned through time and experience. Best known for flipping the design of Denver International Airport upside down, Fentress introduces drama and beauty to the spaces communities use everyday. North-Carolina born Fentress left his position with I.M. Pei and Kohn Pedersen Fox to found his own firm in 1980 in Denver and began designing major projects.
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By:Suzanne Macleod
Published on 2005 by Taylor & Francis
ISBN 9780415343459
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Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space, and provides reflections upon recent developments in museum architecture and exhibition design. Various chapters concentrate on the process of architectural and spatial reshaping, and the problems of navigating the often contradictory agendas and aspirations of the broad range of professionals and stakeholders involved in any new project. Contributors review recent new build, expansion and exhibition projects questioning the types of museum space required at the beginning of the twenty-first century and highlighting a range of possibilities for creative museum design. Essential reading for anyone involved in creating, designing and project managing the development of museum exhibits, and vital reading for students of the discipline.
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By:Maureen Mitton,Courtney Nystuen
Published on 2011-03-29 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9781118013038
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The completely revised room-by-room guide to home interior design Residential Interior Design, Second Edition teaches the fundamental skills that are needed to plan interior spaces for all types of homes, regardless of decorative styles, from remodeling to new construction. Taking a step-by-step approach, this valuable primer reviews all aspects of interior architecture as it relates to human factors and daily use. Authors Maureen Mitton and Courtney Nystuen explore the minimal amount of space that is necessary for rooms to function usefully, from the kitchen to the bathroom, the bedroom to the hallway, and every room in between. Packed with hundreds of drawings and photographs, this valuable tool is brimming with useful information regarding codes, mechanical and electrical systems, keys to creating wheelchair accessible spaces, and a variety of additional factors that impact each type of room and its corresponding space. Now featuring a companion website with instructor resources, this new edition is: Revised and updated with new building codes information and expanded information on sustainability, building construction, doors, windows, home offices, and outdoor spaces Illustrated throughout with line drawings and photographs to clearly explain the concepts covered The perfect study aid for the NCIDQ exam With a focus on quality of design over quantity of space, Residential Interior Design, Second Edition is the first stop to designing equally efficient and attractive rooms.
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By:Hans Agerschou
Published on 2004 by Thomas Telford
ISBN 9780727732248
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Following from the success of the first edition, written by a collection of eminent figures in the field, this new edition continues to look at the rational planning for port facilities requirements (berths, storage and cargo handling equipment), organisations, management and operations with relation to planning and design of ports and marine terminals. Taking into account the rapid decrease in 'throughput' due to containerisation and the subsequent conversion of cargo berths for other uses, such as multi-purpose and container terminals, this title looks at data regarding natural conditions for site selection, choice of location and orientation of major port components - such as access channels, basins quays and specialised berths. This new edition also looks in detail at breakwater design and the use of model tests, channel design and proposed methods for determining sedimentation rates in channels, and ways to optimise channel depth. This book will be an invaluable resource for practising engineers and planners, port administrators and operators, as well as graduate engineers specialising int he field.
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By:Edmund N. Bacon
Published on 1976 by Penguin Group USA
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Surveys the elements and evolution of design in cities from Athens to Brasilia, emphasizing the relationship between man and his environment
Download The Timeless Way of Building PDF/eBook
By:Christopher Alexander
Published on 1979 by New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780195024029
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This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture
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By:Bruce Hannah
Published on 2004-02-04 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9780471223535
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This is a complete guide to product design careers and a clear and concise survey of the many types of opportunities available in the field. It covers major design specialties, the business of product design, work types and settings, educational training, portfolio preparation, and much more.
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By:Roger Yee
Published on 2005 by Visual Reference Publications
ISBN 9781584710851
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Travelers and diners are happily discovering that good design is upgrading all levels of service. Upscale customers can enjoy new hotels with luxurious beds and bed linens, bathrooms that rival spas, and sleek public areas where the young and powerful want to meet. Additionally they feature new restaurants where the decor is as refined as the menu, fine wines and cheese are showcased, and private dining rooms resemble small jewels. Mid-priced and value-oriented customers can likewise expect new hotels with beautiful, coordinated guestroom furnishings, lively public areas providing more than rainy day refuge, and imaginative recreation and entertainment venues. New restaurants make open kitchens entertaining, use sophisticated lighting and color and incorporate local touches to personalize national chains. Hotel & Restaurant Design is arranged for easy and frequent use by hospitality industry leaders and their architects and interior designers. All projects are indexed for quick reference to aid professionals serving the dynamic hospitality industry. With color photography and concise text to describe each installation, it's the next best thing to being there.
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By:James Ambrose,Peter Brandow
Published on 1992-02-14 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9780471530299
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Examines the general problems of designing and constructing sites for buildings. Coverage includes: site construction and planning, placing buildings on sites, landscape planning, drainage, site traffic for vehicles and pedestrians, parking, lighting, handicap facilities and much more.
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By:Bryan Lawson
Published on 1994 by Architectural Press
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Based upon interviews with eleven distinguished, but quite different, architects. The resulting case studies illustrate their works and their design processes, which are interpreted, compared and commented upon by Bryan Lawson using the models in 'How Designers Think', his earlier successful text. Their processes are also illustrated by original design drawings.
