Building With A Purpose Beyond Design And Function
DOWNLOAD
Download Building With A Purpose Beyond Design And Function PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Building With A Purpose Beyond Design And Function book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Building With A Purpose Beyond Design And Function
DOWNLOAD
Author : Pasquale De Marco
language : en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date : 2025-03-07
Building With A Purpose Beyond Design And Function written by Pasquale De Marco and has been published by Pasquale De Marco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-07 with Design categories.
In a world where buildings are often reduced to mere aesthetic objects or functional necessities, "Building with a Purpose" challenges the status quo and presents a compelling argument for architecture that transcends form and function. This thought-provoking book delves into the realm of purposeful design, exploring how architects can create structures that not only fulfill their intended purpose but also contribute positively to society. With engaging prose and insightful analysis, the book unpacks the essence of purposeful design, revealing how architects can create buildings that inspire, uplift, and transform lives. It emphasizes the importance of harmoniously blending aesthetics and functionality, creating spaces that are both visually appealing and practical in use. The book also highlights the crucial role of context and contextuality in architecture, demonstrating how buildings can be designed to seamlessly integrate with their surroundings, reflecting the unique cultural, historical, and environmental characteristics of their location. Furthermore, "Building with a Purpose" explores the significance of considering user needs and desires in architectural design. It examines how architects can design spaces that cater to the physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of occupants, creating environments that promote productivity, creativity, and overall happiness. The book also delves into the power of storytelling in architecture, investigating how buildings can communicate narratives, evoke emotions, and connect people to their surroundings. Additionally, the book addresses the urgent need for sustainable and resilient architecture in an era of climate change and environmental degradation. It explores how architects can incorporate green technologies and materials to minimize the environmental impact of buildings, while also ensuring their resilience in the face of extreme weather events and natural disasters. Throughout the book, readers will find inspiring examples of architecture from around the world, showcasing projects that exemplify the principles of purposeful design. The book also draws upon insights from leading architects, designers, and thought leaders to provide a comprehensive understanding of the art and science of creating meaningful and enduring structures. "Building with a Purpose" is an essential read for architects, designers, students, and anyone passionate about the power of architecture to shape our world. It offers a fresh perspective on the role of buildings in society and challenges readers to think critically about the impact of the built environment on our lives. If you like this book, write a review!
Building The Cycling City
DOWNLOAD
Author : Melissa Bruntlett
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2018-08-28
Building The Cycling City written by Melissa Bruntlett and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with Architecture categories.
The world is rediscovering the bicycle as a multi-pronged solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. The Netherlands has built an accessible cycling culture that cities around the world can learn from. Chris and Melissa Bruntlett share the incredible success of the Netherlands through engaging interviews with local experts and stories of their own delightful experiences riding in five Dutch cities. Building the Cycling City examines the triumphs and challenges of the Dutch while also presenting stories of North American cities already implementing lessons from across the Atlantic. Discover how Dutch cities inspired Atlanta to look at its transit-bike connection in a new way and showed Seattle how to teach its residents to realize the freedom of biking, along with other encouraging examples.
The New Pastoralism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mark Titman
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-05-06
The New Pastoralism written by Mark Titman and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-06 with Architecture categories.
The New Pastoralism demonstrates how small-scale additions or conversions using planting and wildlife can bring about engaging, delightful and efficient structures and spaces. The book’s numerous contributors each showcase a particular Nature device that they used to enhance their built proposals. Images are provided with text as annotation. The prominent featured architects will include: Michael Sorkin, Nicholas Grimshaw, Ken Yeang, Kathryn Findlay and Mos Architecture. The other contributors will show small or medium sized built projects they have worked on. All contributors will showcase a building, structure or surface as either drawn proposal or built construction.
Architecture Beyond Criticism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Wolfgang F. E. Preiser
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-27
Architecture Beyond Criticism written by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-27 with Architecture categories.
For the first time, this book demonstrates that the two paradigms of architectural criticism and performance evaluation can not only co-exist but complement each other in the assessment of built works. As architecture takes more principled stances worldwide, from environmental sustainability to social, cultural, and economic activism, this book examines the roles of perceived and measured quality in architecture. By exploring in tandem both subjective traditional architectural criticism and environmental design and performance evaluation and its objective evaluation criteria, the book argues that both methodologies and outcomes can achieve a comprehensive assessment of quality in architecture. Curated by a global editorial team, the book includes: Contributions from international architects and critics based in the UK, USA, Brazil, France, Qatar, Egypt, New Zealand, China, Japan and Germany Global case studies which illustrate both perspectives addressed by the book and comparative analyses of the findings A six part organization which includes introductions and conclusions from the editors, to help guide the reader and further illuminate the contributions. By presenting a systematic approach to assessing building performance, design professionals will learn how to improve building design and performance with major stakeholders in mind, especially end users/occupants.
Beyond Live Work
DOWNLOAD
Author : Frances Holliss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-11
Beyond Live Work written by Frances Holliss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-11 with Architecture categories.
Beyond Live/Work: the architecture of home-based work explores the old but neglected building type that combines dwelling and workplace, the ‘workhome’. It traces a previously untold architectural history illustrated by images of largely forgotten buildings. Despite having existed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years in every country across the globe this dual-use building type has long gone unnoticed. This book analyses the lives and premises of 90 contemporary UK and US home-based workers from across the social spectrum and in diverse occupations. It generates a series of typologies and design considerations for the workhome that will be useful for design professionals, students, policy-makers and home-based workers themselves. In the context of a globalising economy, more women in work than ever before and enabling new technologies, the home-based workforce is growing rapidly. Demonstrating how this can be a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable working practice, this book presents the workhome as the house of the future.
Beyond The Bauhaus
DOWNLOAD
Author : Deborah Ascher Barnstone
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2016-06-28
Beyond The Bauhaus written by Deborah Ascher Barnstone and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with Architecture categories.
Reclaims the essential role that the city of Breslau played in the origins of aesthetic modernism in the Weimar era
Fragments Of The Veil
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rae Stonehouse
language : en
Publisher: Live For Excellence Productions
Release Date : 2025-07-26
Fragments Of The Veil written by Rae Stonehouse and has been published by Live For Excellence Productions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-26 with Fiction categories.
Where reality tears, darkness enters... Delve into the paranormal thriller trilogy that has readers sleeping with the lights on. When paranormal investigator Ryan Matthews accepts a routine case at the abandoned Daybridge Poor House, he unknowingly steps into a decades-old conspiracy that will challenge everything he believes about our universe. In Echoes of the Forgotten, Ryan and his team discover that the ghostly phenomena at Mercy Hall mask something far more sinister—a dimensional breach created by classified government experiments, allowing an ancient entity to use human trauma as a gateway to our world. Beyond the Threshold follows Ryan Matthews' desperate journey as dimensional boundaries collapse and fractured realities emerge, caused by the Daybridge Institute's "Project Convergence" which aims to overwrite our reality with an extra-dimensional entity's mathematical framework. Ryan and his evolved team members must work together to liberate imprisoned consciousnesses from the entity's network. Utilizing Ryan's recovered memories and classified PDU protocols to gain a crucial technical advantage, the team launches a coordinated countermeasure against this existential threat, racing against time as the parasitic intelligence seeks to achieve full manifestation and dimensional control. In the heart-stopping conclusion, Reality Unravelled, Ryan discovers that the Daybridge incident was merely one tear in a much larger veil. With the help of unlikely allies from multiple realities, he races against time to repair the dimensional fabric before the complete dissolution of our reality.
Beyond Health Capacity
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ulysses Sean Vance III
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-08-18
Beyond Health Capacity written by Ulysses Sean Vance III and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-18 with Architecture categories.
Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practices in Inclusive Design sheds light on the systemic challenges communities with limited access to medical support and health maintenance have endured. It emphasizes how approaching medical interventions through non-traditional health facilities can positively impact health's social and environmental impact. Health capacity is an emerging consideration for optimizing a building design to meet health criteria based on physical, virtual, historical, or social space. These emerging practices can be focused on by interrogating the role of planning, construction, and urban design in addressing public health needs, alongside considering access and social justice as an agency in design. This book reflects on past and present efforts interrogating the practical application of inclusive design practices in resolving the spatial challenges of health reform. By focusing on examples experienced during the pandemic and after, each chapter offers an overview documenting these experiences as approaches to these new competencies, reimagining urbanism around health, and proposing new criteria for the future of healthcare. This book is essential for students and practitioners working in architecture, community planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and public health.
Barry S Construction Technology
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stephen Emmitt
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2025-10-27
Barry S Construction Technology written by Stephen Emmitt and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-10-27 with Architecture categories.
Updated resource guiding readers through the analysis and choices required to ensure a building will perform as expected Robin Barry's Construction of Buildings was first published in 1958 as a five-volume set and rapidly became a standard work on the subject. Following Barry's death in 2002, a two-volume format was adopted with new authors. Developed from an earlier book by Tony Bryan, this new third volume, Barry's Construction Technology, extends the coverage to show how decisions about the design, production, maintenance and disposal of buildings may be thought through given the materials and technology available. The book challenges the reader to think about the consequences of making choices and decisions rather than relying on using what has been used before. Barry's Construction Technology Analysis and Choice includes information on: The climate emergency and the low carbon agenda as a fundamental part of construction technology analysis and choice Regenerative design, net zero buildings, and the circular economy for the built environment Constraints that location, legislation, codes and standards, sustainability, insurance, and commercial pressures apply to the performance of buildings Specific construction technology examples, with emphasis on questioning what we do and why, with the aim of informing and stimulating the reader to ask questions when confronted with all design and construction projects Barry's Construction Technology Analysis and Choice is an essential, practical, and up-to-date reference on the subject for undergraduate students of all building construction programmes including surveying, construction management, architectural technology, and architecture.
Learning From Our Buildings
DOWNLOAD
Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2002-03-01
Learning From Our Buildings written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
In 1986, the FFC requested that the NRC appoint a committee to examine the field and propose ways by which the POE process could be improved to better serve public and private sector organizations. The resulting report, Post-Occupancy Evaluation Practices in the Building Process: Opportunities for Improvement, proposed a broader view of POEs-from being simply the end phase of a building project to being an integral part of the entire building process. The authoring committee recommended a series of actions related to policy, procedures, and innovative technologies and techniques to achieve that broader view. In 2000, the FFC funded a second study to look at the state of the practice of POEs and lessons-learned programs among federal agencies and in private, public, and academic organizations both here and abroad. The sponsor agencies specifically wanted to determine whether and how information gathered during POE processes could be used to help inform decisions made in the programming, budgeting, design, construction, and operation phases of facility acquisition in a useful and timely way. To complete this study, the FFC commissioned a set of papers by recognized experts in this field, conducted a survey of selected federal agencies with POE programs, and held a forum at the National Academy of Sciences on March 13, 2001, to address these issues. This report is the result of those efforts.