Author:
Publisher: Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), CATIE/GTZ Agroforestry Project
Keywords: tecnica, serie, belize, prototypes, agroforestry
Number of Pages: 55
Published: 1998
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9977573026
ISBN-13: 9789977573021

Author: Roger Sherwood
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: paperbacks, harvard, prototypes, housing, modern
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1981-04-15
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0674579429
ISBN-13: 9780674579422

The design of housing has commanded the attention of the greatest architects of the twentieth century. In this stunning volume, Roger Sherwood presents thirty-two notable examples of multi-family housing from many countries and four continents, selected for their importance as prototypes. Designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, they range from single-house clusters to row-houses, terrace houses, party-wall and large-courtyard housing, to urban high-rise towers and slabs. The thirty-two buildings or housing complexes are illustrated

Author: Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: categorization, linguistics, studies, prototypes, meanings
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1990-12
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0415036127
ISBN-13: 9780415036122

There are far fewer kinds of elements (such as words) in a natural language than there are kinds of things in the universe. If, therefore, the languages people speak are related to the universe their speakers live in, a primary function of the various kinds of elements constituting a language is to allow the much more varied kinds of things that populate the universe to be categorized in specific ways. A "prototype" approach to linguistic categories is a particular way of answering the question of how this categorization operates. It involves two claims. First, that linguistic categorization e

Author: Piet Vollaard
Publisher: 010 Publisher
Keywords: process, architecture, product, cepezed, work, prototypes
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9064505330
ISBN-13: 9789064505331

Over a period spanning more than three decades, Cepezed has gained increasing renown for its transparent, sustainable and technologically progressive architecture that is remarkably usable and humane. Unaffected design, sober, yet stylish materialization, and careful finishing are just as characteristic of the office’s oeuvre, as the integration of spatial and construction-technical aspects. This volume examines nine of their key projects through exhaustive documentation, while also exploring various aspects of the office’s involvement in product development, building processes and

Authors:Edward Denison, Richard Cawthray,
Publisher: RotoVision
Keywords: fundamentals, design, prototypes, packaging
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 2880463890
ISBN-13: 9782880463892

This reference tool for graphic designers includes a comprehensive collection of templates for packaging formats with step-by-step folding guides and illustrations of the finished model. The notes are followed by icons. It includes a free CD-ROM with copyright-free templates.

Author: Mark Anderso
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: offsite, construction, design, specific, prototypes, site, prefab
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1568985606
ISBN-13: 9781568985602

Prefabricated construction is a hot topic in architecture these days, and for good reason. Prospective homebuilders around the world are gravitating to prefab as an environ-mentally responsible and cost-effective way to achieve that holiest of grails: an affordable, well-designed house. If you’re hoping to jump onto this bandwagon or are just interested in what prefab building really entails, Prefab Prototypes is required reading. While other prefab books on the market show what can be done, dangling pretty pictures of affordable homes before your starry eyes, Prefab Prototypes takes you