A Practical Guide to Realizing Architecture's Potential
If you were asked to close your eyes and envision where you are happiest, would you picture somewhere inside a building? North Americans are inside buildings for more than 90% of the day. Meanwhile, the indoors are stifling us, sometimes even killing us. Buildings, and the materials that make them up, expose us to materials linked to negative ......
The Moroccan city of Fez, founded in the ninth century CE, is one of the most precious urban jewels of Islamic civilization. For more than 40 years Titus Burckhardt worked to document and preserve the artistic and architectural heritage of Fez in particular and Morocco in general. These newly translated lectures, delivered while Burckhardt was ......
Much more than physical barriers, doors and gates are powerful statements. With the help of this book, build an entrance that reflects your own personal style. With designs for all levels, charts identify component parts and joints, whilst exercises help perfect skills.
Discusses the background and principles of greenhouses, provides the basics of greenhouse construction, and shows examples of freestanding and attached greenhouses.
The art of building a sanctuary for modern, healthy living
Thinking of building your dream home? Dream Home is the definitive guide to creating a truly extraordinary home, infused with profound value. It will help you plan, design and build a home that's not just high-quality-but a personal, joyful, beautiful, healthy, sustainable, low energy and unique living space meticulously crafted to ......
How building codes shaped material, social, and environmental landscapes in American cities. Almost every American city contains neighborhoods dominated by wood frame construction-light, cheap, combustible, and requiring the lowest upfront investment of labor and material in the building industry. Known as a Type V (five) construction in the ......
Practical Construction Accounting and Financial Management provides instructions, training, exercises, and examples of the fundamentals that successful construction contractors must master: the ability to capture, summarize, analyze, and forecast operation data to be better informed when making project and business decisions. Typically, a project ......
Building Systems for Architects and Architectural Engineers
Integrative Design: Building Systems for Architects and Architectural Engineers helps students envision the interconnections between different building systems. Rather than presenting systems one at a time as is traditionally done, the book approaches building systems by following the real-world sequence of the design process. This begins with ......
The Production Homebuilder is designed to introduce and promote the homebuilding industry to construction college students and to prepare those graduates who choose to become homebuilders for a fast career start and an exciting and rewarding career journey. In Part One, students explore a variety of topics related to production homebuilding ......
