Búsqueda de Editorial : ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

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  • DESIGN FOR CRITICAL CARE
    It is now widely recognized that the physical environment has an impact on the physiology, psychology, and sociology of those who experience it. When designing a critical care unit, the demands on the architect or designer working together with the interdisciplinary team of clinicians are highly specialized. Good design can have a hugely positive impact in terms of the recovery...

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  • ADAPTING BUILDINGS AND CITIES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
    From the bestselling author of Ecohouse, this fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events.Three new chapters present evidence of escalating rates of envi...

    S/. 230,00S/. 195,50

  • URBAN DESIGN
    'Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment' demonstrates how urban design and planning impact on public health and sustainable development. Moughtin et al. explore the concept of what makes a physically and psychologically 'healthy' environment in the context of the paramount need for new homes where living standards are not compromised, in increasingly crowded citie...

    S/. 188,00S/. 159,80

  • ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND ETHICS
    THOMAS FISHER
    Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves. As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves - in global population, in heat-trapping atm...

    S/. 152,00S/. 129,20

  • ARCHITECTS SKETCHES
    KENDRA SCHANK SMITH
    Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects engage. It provides new insight into the relationship between architectural sketches and the process of creative manipulation. Sket...

    S/. 230,00S/. 195,50

  • STADIA, FOURTH EDITION: A DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT GUIDE
    In this completely updated and redesigned edition of the essential and long-established Stadia, the authors offer their unrivalled expertise to all professionals who commission, plan, design, and manage high-quality sports venues.This fourth edition features over twenty case studies of recent projects in Europe, America, Australia, China and Japan, and the technical sections co...

    S/. 192,00S/. 163,20

  • WORKING DRAWINGS HANDBOOK
    ANDREW BICHARD
    Covering every aspect of drawing preparation, both manual and computer-aided, this comprehensive manual is an essential tool for students, architects and architectural technologists. Showing what information is required on each type of document, how drawings relate to specifications, and how to organize and document your work, this handbook presents a fully illustrated guide to...

    S/. 245,00S/. 208,25

  • URBAN FORMS: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE URBAN BLOCK
    This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic...

    S/. 215,00S/. 182,75

  • BUILDINGS FOR INDUSTRIAL STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION
    The bible of the industrial storage and distribution industry and the manual of policy and practice. It provides information for those with empty buildings on their hands, those trying to find space for new and/or growing enterprises and those faced with the problem of how to manage multi-tenant, multi-use buildings. An outline of feasibility studies both from the standpoint of...

    S/. 670,00S/. 569,50

  • PUBLIC PLACES URBAN SPACES
    Public Places Urban Spaces 2e is a thorough introduction to the principles of urban design theory and practice. Authored by experts in the fields of urban design and planning, it is designed specifically for the 2500 postgraduate students on Urban Design courses in the UK, and 1500 students on undergraduate courses in the same subject.The second edition of this tried and truste...

    S/. 222,00S/. 188,70

  • SUSTAINABLE URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD: BUILDING THE 21ST CENTURY HOME
    DAVID RUDLIN,NICHOLAS FALK
    'Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood' explores the way that the UK's towns and cities are changing at the turn of the millennium. Previously known as 'Building the 21st Century Home', the second edition of this successful text describes the way that environmental and demographic change, economic pressures and the needs of community could change urban areas forever just as the garde...

    S/. 188,00S/. 159,80

  • PRIMARY CARE CENTRES
    GEOFFREY PURVES
    Primary Care Centres explores the process of planning and designing buildings for frontline medical practice. Taking as a starting point the concept that good design contributes directly to healthy living, the book shows beneficial effects that a good design brief can bring to the staff, patients and visitors of health care facilities. It outlines principles for designs that ar...

    S/. 279,00S/. 237,15

  • DESIGN EXPERTISE
    BRYAN LAWSON / KEES DORST
    WHAT IS THE REAL NATURE OF DESIGN EXPERTISE AND HOW IS THAT EXPERTISE ACQUIRED AND DEVELOPED?'Design Expertise' explores what it takes to become an expert designer.It examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, skills, attributes and experiences are necessary in order to design well. Lawson and Dorst develop a new model of design expertise and show h...

    S/. 192,00S/. 163,20

  • VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE AND REGIONAL DESIGN
    KINGSTON HEATH
    Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. 'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' defines a set of strategies for understanding the complexities of a regional setting. Through a series of international case studies, it examines how architects and designers have applied a variety of t...

    S/. 249,00S/. 211,65

  • ECO-RESORTS: PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR THE TROPICS
    ZBIGNIEW BROMBEREK
    Eco-Resorts is a design guide for low impact, environmentally friendly tourist resorts in the tropics. The book is the first to offer architects practical, detailed guidance in developing resort buildings that work with a tropical climate and meet the needs and expectations of the client and building inhabitants.The book includes both architectural design and material solutions...

    S/. 248,00S/. 210,80

  • SEISMIC DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS
    ANDREW CHARLESON
    Seismic Design for Architects shows how structural requirements for seismic resistance can become an integral part of the design process. Structural integrity does not have to be at the expense of innovative, high standard design in seismically active zones.* By emphasizing design and discussing key concepts with accompanying visual material, architects are given the background...

    S/. 230,00S/. 195,50

  • DESIGN FOR DIVERSITY
    EMILY TALEN
    The city is more than just a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse - in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity - and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful. Just as poor urban design can lead to sterile ...

    S/. 199,00S/. 169,15

  • RECIPROCAL FRAME ARCHITECTURE
    OLGA POPOVIC LARSEN
    In structural terms reciprocal frame structures are 'three dimensional assemblies of mutually supporting beams'. But behind this definition lie some breathtakingly beautiful and complex structures at the heart of buildings both ancient and modern. This new book explores the principles of these apparently simple structures and demonstrates how they can be used in the context of ...

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  • DESIGN-TECH
    Taking a fresh, holistic approach to the topic of architectural technology, this indispensable book looks at the ‘why’ as well as the ‘how’ of building science, providing a comprehensive, clear and concise introduction to the subject. The demands faced by architects in their training and education are constantly changing. Written by two practicing architects who teach building ...

    S/. 189,00S/. 160,65

  • ENVIRONMENT AND CHILDREN
    CHRISTOPHER DAY
    How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility?Based on Christopher Day's experiences designing schools and early childhood centres in the United States and Britain, ...

    S/. 137,00S/. 116,45

  • IDENTITY BY DESIGN
    In a world of increasing globalisation, where one high street becomes interchangeable with the next, Identity by Design addresses the idea of place-making and the concept of identity, looking at how these things can be considered as an integral part of the design process.Structured around a series of case studies including Prague, Mexico, Malaysia and Boston, the authors discus...

    S/. 245,00S/. 208,25

  • TROPICAL SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
    JOO HWA BAY
    The tropical belt - where large areas of South East Asia, India, Africa and parts of both North and South America are located - forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally, architecture in these regions shares common problems, the most easily identifiable being the tropical conditions of climate and nat...

    S/. 267,00S/. 226,95

  • SHOPPING ENVIRONMENTS: EVOLUTION, PLANNING AND DESIGN
    PETER COLEMAN
    Shopping centers have become the most common of shopping environments and have influenced the make-up of cities around the world. However, in recent years, the enclosed "mall" has evolved and diversified with new types of retail environments that were developed to better suit their locale and meet public expectation. This design guide has over 600 illustrations that present the...

    S/. 367,00S/. 311,95

  • URBAN DESIGN
    JON LANG
    Urban Design the American Experience Jon Lang Urban Design: The American Experience places social and environmental concerns within the context of American history. It returns the focus of urban design to the creation of a better world. It evaluates the efforts of designers who apply knowledge about the environment and people to the creation of livable, enjoyable, and even insp...

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  • AN ARCHITECT'S GUIDE TO FAME
    This lively text provides a candid inquiry into the contemporary means by which architects get work and (for better or worse) become famous. In response to the reciprocal relationship between publicity and everyday architectural practice, this book examines the mechanisms by which architects seek publicity and manage to establish themselves and their work ahead of their colleag...

    S/. 192,00S/. 163,20

  • URBAN DESIGN: STREET AND SQUARE
    CLIFF MOUGHTIN
    This book, part of a series of four, offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It outlines the theory of the principal features of urban design from which method is developed and provides a better understanding of the main elements of urban design. This includes the arrangement, desi...

    S/. 226,00S/. 192,10

  • URBAN DESIGN: METHOD AND TECHNIQUES
    This book deals with a wide range of techniques used in the urban design process. It then goes on to relate these techniques to a unique, comprehensive account of method. A method of urban design is developed which has sustainability and environmental protection at the centre of its philosophy. Previously, literature regarding the urban design method has been almost totally neg...

    S/. 226,00S/. 192,10

  • ARCHITECTURE DESIGN NOTEBOOK
    A PETER FAWCETT
    Architecture Design Notebook focuses on the process of design as pragmatic and non-theoretical. Dealing systematically with the core design curriculum, it clearly demonstrates the skills required for designing at undergraduate level. Providing students with fundamental maxims of design, and a framework within which they can approach their work, this book supports undergraduates...

    S/. 152,00S/. 129,20

  • ARCHITECTURAL THOUGHT: THE DESIGN PROCESS AND THE EXPECTANT EYE
    MICHAEL BRAWNE

    S/. 189,00S/. 160,65

  • STRUCTURE AND ARCHITECTURE
    ANGUS J MACDONALD
    'Structure and Architecture' is an essential textbook for students and practitioners of architecture and structural engineering. MacDonald explains the basic principles of structure and describes the ranges of structure types in current use. Furthermore, the book links these topics directly with the activity of architectural design and criticism. An update of the first edition,...

    S/. 192,00S/. 163,20


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