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  • Science and Politics

    by suzy winslet ...
    In this respect, the revolutionaries were descendants of René Descartes, with whom the rationalism so characteristic of modern philosophy began. Some one hundred and fifty years before the popular uprising around the Bastille, he had established a criterion for certain knowledge: it came only from ideas that were claire et distinct. Mathematics, among other things, was able to meet this strict ... Read more

    8,49 €

  • Septic Tank Options & Alternatives

    Your guide to conventional, natural andeco-friendly methods & technologies

    by Féidhlim Harty ...
    Septic Tank Options & Alternatives is a user-friendly guide through the maze of selecting an eco-friendly sewage treatment option for your home. With so many different treatment systems and technologies available, it can be a challenge to make the choice that really reflects your values and priorities. This book lists conventional and alternative sewage treatment systems and outlines the pros and ... Read more

    6,19 €

  • Abbe Boulah!

    by Thorbjoern Mann ...
    Abb Boulah! A collection of strange stories featuring pranks, adventures and cantankerous comments by and about the mysterious Abb Boulah and his weirdo friend Bog-Hubert. There are tales from the mythical Fog Island Tavern and Bog-Huberts schemes such as his Island Beach and Beauty Restoration enterprise, the rumors about his secret still in the swamps of North Florida, (producing the potent Eau ... Read more

    10,16 €

  • Haus und Auto

    by Andreas K. Vetter ...
    Haus und Auto ist ein absolutes Muss für Autoliebhaber und Fans spektakulärer Architektur! Rund 45 innovative Beispiele zeigen, wie man seinen vierrädrigen Freund – oder gar seine ganze Sammlung – präsentiert und ihm die gebührende Aufmerksamkeit einräumt. In diesem Buch wird nicht einfach geparkt, vielmehr wird für das Auto eine architektonisch herausragende Räumlichkeit geschaffen, in der es ... Read more

    39,99 €

  • RIBA Architect's Handbook of Practice Management

    9th Edition

    by Nigel Ostime ...
    The professional architect’s business management bible now encompasses the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 to reflect the very latest practice in today’s cutting-edge architectural environment.With an emphasis on the practical aspects of working as an architect, the 9th edition combines clear and comprehensive guidance with a focus on new directions in practice management which will give a modern practice ... Read more

    66,80 €

  • Architectural Styles You Can Identify - Architecture Reference & Specification Book | Children's Architecture Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Are you interested in architecture? Those archs and curves belong to an era. Identify different architectural styles with confidence. Use this wonderful reference book that includes pictures and features in every page. Extending your knowledge beyond your school curriculum is never a bad move. You’ll never know when stock knowledge will come in handy. Grab a copy now. ... Read more

    4,11 €

  • Ariadna, arquitecta

    Una introducción a la teoría de la arquitectura

    by Paz Castillo, Silvia Alvite, Carolina Kogan, Mariana Santángelo, Verónica Gilotaux, Mercedes Dello Russo ...
    Series series Cuadernos de Cátedra
    El territorio de la teoría de la arquitectura es extenso y de difícil delimitación. Este libro propone una incursión en este campo de conocimiento para enfocar algunos debates que tuvieron lugar, fundamentalmente, desde comienzos del siglo XX, a partir del impacto de las nuevas tecnologías del acero y del hormigón armado sobre la concepción del espacio arquitectónico. El principal aporte reside en ... Read more

    12,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 2012 International Building Code Handbook

    by Douglas W. Thornburg, John R. Henry ...
    A COMPLETE, FULL-COLOR GUIDE TO THE 2012 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODEUpdated to reflect the International Code Council 2012 International Building Code, this time-saving resource makes it easy to understand and apply complex IBC requirements and achieve compliance. More than 600 full-color illustrations help to clarify the application and intent of many code provisions, with an emphasis on the ... Read more

    170,97 €

  • Sonic Wilderness: Wild Vinyl Records

    by Mark Harris ...
    Series Book 11 - The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice
    Sonic Wilderness accesses the critical value of unusual vinyl records that concern our relationship with nature. These wild records reveal unconventional perspectives on the entanglements of human life with animals, gardens and plants. They form a lyrical unconscious exposing the conventions and ideologies of popular music, their warped perspectives and acoustic radioactivity comprising a ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • Bringing Architecture to the Next Level

    by Maria Lorena Lehman ...
    Do your architectural designs foster well-being or discomfort in occupants? Do your designs innovate architecture technology in new ways? And do you make design decisions that pull from the latest scientific findings, including biomimicry design or where design meets neuroscience?As an architect, your design process is vital to the quality and outcome of your built environments. Yet how do you ... Read more

    33,38 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die Baustile

    Baukunst Europas von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

    by Susanne Lücke-David ...
    Series series marixwissen
    Die Europäische Baustilfibel gibt einen Überblick über die stilistische Entwicklung der Architektur Europas von ihren Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. In der großen Entfernung, aus der ein solcher Abriss nur möglich ist, fällt naturgemäß das Herausragende ins Auge, sei es dass es für sich ein Meisterwerk darstellt, sei es dass es wegweisend für die weitere Entwicklung geworden ist. Aus der ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • Culinary Lesson: The Space of Food

    SAC Journal 4

    by Charlotte Birnbaum, Daniel Birnbaum, Mike Bouchet, Sanford Kwinter, Fabrice Mazliah, Tobias Rehberger, David Ruy, Kivi Sotamaa, Carolyn Steel, Jan Aman ...
    Series Book 4 - SAC Journal
    CULINARY LESSONS - The Space of Food is based on a series of events, Culinary Lessons, which were hosted by the Städelschule Architecture Class and which engaged with the relation between food, art and architecture. The series addressed the enormous so- cial, economic and cultural spaces that accompany the production and consumption of food, and attempted to unravel some of these spaces' structure ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • A New Manifold

    SAC Journal 1

    by Ben van Berkel, Johan Bettum, Beatriz Colomina, Mirco Becker, Christian Veddeler ...
    Series Book 1 - SAc Journal
    A NEW MANIFOLD, the inaugural issue of SAC JOURNAL, addres- ses the increased specialisation and possible fragmentation of ex- pertise within architecture. Whilst historically always an amalgam of numerous forms of input, architecture is currently facing the necessi- ty to assimilate and process hitherto unknown amounts and rates of information flow. How can architecture relate to the emerging ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • La ciudad del siglo XXI

    Conversando con Bernardo Secchi

    by Cristina Bianchetti, Francesco Indovina, Paolo Ceccarelli, Ada Becchi ...
    El urbanismo tiene importantes y precisas responsabilidades en el empeoramiento de la desigualdad, y el proyecto de la ciudad debe ser uno de los puntos de partida de cualquier política dirigida a su eliminación u oposición. Esta frase recoge una de las aportaciones que hacen de Bernardo Secchi uno de los grandes urbanistas del siglo XX. Sus ideas enriquecieron la forma de entender y pensar la ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Principios, herramientas e implementación de Lean Construction

    by Luis Fernando Botero Botero ...
    Principios, herramientas e implementación de Lean Construction aborda el desarrollo de los sistemas de producción desde la producción artesanal, su evolución hacia la producción en masa, hasta el cambio radical del paradigma de producción en el siglo con el modelo Toyota en Japón, cuyas bases fueron utilizadas para proponer la teoría "transformación-flujo-valor" en la construcción. Se describen ... Read more

    13,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Naturaleza Vibrazional Cósmica. Un sendero filtrado por la Visión Sónica de la Realidad.

    by Marko Guglielmi Reimmortal ...
    La Naturaleza Vibrazional Cósmica: un camino filtrado por la Visión Sónica de la Realidad. Este no es un libro para leer pasivamente, es una invitación a sintonizarte con las frecuencias de la existencia, a percibir la belleza de la vida como una sinfonía para escuchar y con la cual entrar en comunión. Un viaje de descubrimiento donde la ciencia, la tradición y la percepción convergen, guiándonos ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Plumbing Licensing Study Guide

    by Rex Miller, Mark R. Miller ...
    This book is designed for use as both a text and study guide for those students taking the licensing test in plumbing. Because of the large number of residential dwellings under construction and planned for the near future, this is a growing area. Well trained and knowledgeable plumbers are urgently needed in most of the individual United States and Canada. The field of plumbers, pipefitters, and ... Read more

    51,82 €

  • Architecture in the Baltic States

    Cities, Landscapes and Heritage of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

    Edited by Marco Falsetti ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book explores the architecture of the Baltic States, a region still relatively unexplored in architectural literature. Nevertheless, this collection of chapters provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the urban architectural environment of the three countries that make up the Baltic region: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.Organised in three parts, with each part focusing on one of the ... Read more

    58,30 €

  • Craft Theory and Contemporary Architecture

    by Grant Alford ...
    This book offers a comprehensive exploration of craft theory in relation to contemporary architecture. Craft is an old and familiar idea, but the line between craft and art or craft and mere manufacturing, for example, is notoriously hard to describe. In architecture, a similarly blurred line between the design process, on the one hand, and the physical making of buildings, on the other, lies at ... Read more

    53,44 €

  • Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design

    Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building

    by Alexander Tsigkas ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building examines the intersection of philosophy and practice in architecture, exploring life, viability, and interdisciplinary collaboration and offering practical design insights for all beings.This book highlights several key architectural features, including a philosophical exploration of ... Read more

    58,30 €

  • Encounters with Architecture

    Insights from a Hundred Places

    by Howard Davis ...
    The hundred places of this book were visited over several decades, and played an important role in Davis’s career. Insights come from everyday places and famous landmarks: some beautiful, some the product of fine craftsmanship, some active places of gathering or commerce, some quiet places of contemplation. All stayed in the author’s memory, helping build the framework of his understandings of ... Read more

    48,58 €

  • The University of Illinois Memorial Stadium

    The First 100 Years

    by Kevin Hinders, Benjamin Bross ...
    This book offers a rigorous but graphically compelling narrative historic analysis of one of the most important civic buildings not only of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, or the State of Illinois, but arguably of the United States, Memorial Stadium.Like all spatial products, the design and construction of the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium embodies the social, political, ... Read more

    68,01 €

  • Valences of Historiography

    Essays on Architectural History

    Edited by Gevork Hartoonian ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of architecture histories, working toward the theme of critically re-writing history. Essential to each author's contribution are specific traditions created by the mole of history burrowing through the past. This book concerns the historian's conjectures ... Read more

    58,30 €

  • Sverre Fehn and the City: Rethinking Architecture’s Urban Premises

    by Stephen M. Anderson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924–2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn’s approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better understanding the relationship between architecture and urban life, with unignorable implications for ... Read more

    52,22 €