Product Description: Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents and their historical context, socio-cultural aspects of adaptive architecture, the history and theory of artificial life, the theory of human-computer interaction, tangible computing, and the social studies of technology...read more

Product Description: This book provides an accessible introduction for architecture students to all aspects of architectural technology: structural physics, structural elements and forms, heating, lighting, environmental control, and computer modeling...read more

Product Description: … it gives me great pleasure to support the first ever publication to specifically address the area of research, and in particular its relationship with practice, in the discipline of architectural technology…not only ground breaking because it is the first book of its kind, but also because it provides at long last one of the accepted foundations needed to underpin the emerging academic discipline, namely a recognised research base...read more

Product Description: Since the publication of the first edition of Architectural Technology, in 2002, there have been significant developments in the number of courses, the profile of the discipline as well as significant changes in the Construction sector...read more

Product Description: Designers employ a variety of tools and techniques for speculating about buildings before they are built. In their simplest form, these are personal thought experiments. However, embracing advanced computer simulations means engaging a network of specialized people and powerful machines...read more

Product Description: Designers employ a variety of tools and techniques for speculating about buildings before they are built. In their simplest form, these are personal thought experiments. However, embracing advanced computer simulations means engaging a network of specialized people and powerful machines...read more

Product Description: Although solar thermal systems are technologically mature and cost effective, they have not yet been sufficiently used in building design to play an adequate role in the reduction of fossil fuel consumption. One main hindrance to adoption is the generally low architectural design quality of the building integration of these thermal systems...read more

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Product Description: This is a groundbreaking exploration of the new ways in which the built form can be envisioned through digital design. Pulsation in Architecture showcases the work of some of the world's leading designers at the forefront of the digital avant-garde...read more

Product Description: Every era creates its own style having a strong impact on architecture and space. Through the growing importance of electronic media and the services provided by the internet, the delimitation between physical and virtual spaces is becoming increasingly fuzzy...read more

Product Description: The book introduces a canon of media architectural terminology and shows the history of media facades through early examples of embedding media in architecture, like Times Square and Centre Pompidou. State-of-the-art developments are presented with approx...read more

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Product Description: This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology. The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004...read more

An "anatomical" study of building systems integration withguidelines for practical applications Through a systems approach to buildings, Integrated Buildings:The Systems Basis of Architecture details the practice ofintegration to bridge the gap between the design intentions andtechnical demands of building projects. Analytic methods areintroduced that illustrate the value, benefit, and application ofsystems integration, as well as guidelines for selecting technicalsystems in the conceptual, schematic, and design development stagesof projects.Landmark structures such as Eero Saarinen's John DeereHeadquarters, Renzo Piano's Kansai International Airport, GlennMurcutt's Magney House, and Richard Rogers's Lloyd's of Londonheadquarters are presented as part of an extensive collection ofcase studies organized into seven categories:LaboratoriesOfficesPavilionsGreen ArchitectureHigh Tech ArchitectureAirport TerminalsResidential ArchitectureAdvanced material is provided on methods of integration,including an overview of integration topics, the systems basis ofarchitecture, and the integration potential of various buildingsystems. An expanded case study of Ibsen Nelsen's design for thePacific Museum of Flight is used to demonstrate case study methodsfor tracing integration through any work of architecture.Visually enhanced with more than 300 illustrations, diagrams,and photographs, Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis ofArchitecture is a valuable reference guide for architecture andcivil engineering students, as well as architects, engineers, andother professionals in the construction industry.