Author: Gerhard Hauslade
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: climatedesign
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2001-10-13
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 3764372443
ISBN-13: 9783764372446

How does the facade design of a building influence climate design? How can planners guarantee flexibility of usage, determine the technical strategy and select from available systems accordingly? How is the maximum comfort for both users and residents to be attained? This volume offers a comprehensive approach to energy efficient building design in addition to providing practical planning aids for a wide selection of building types. In order to realize an integrated planning process, the book examines the interaction between design, climatic requirements (room temperature), and the necessary b

Authors:Christian Schittich,  Christian Schittich,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: detail, englisch, houses, family, single
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-10-27
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 376437277X
ISBN-13: 9783764372774

The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. In this completely revised and expanded second edition these topical developments have been taken into consideration. The organization and layout of the first v

Authors:Michael Erlhoff,  Michael Erlhoff, Timothy Mar
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: design, research, international, board, dictionary
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2003-12-06
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 3764377399
ISBN-13: 9783764377397

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. 110 authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have written original articles for this design dictionary. Their cultural differences provide perspectives for a shared understanding of central design categories and communicating about design. The volume includes b

Author: Carl Fingerhuth
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: city, tao, china, learning
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-08-09
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 3764369434
ISBN-13: 9783764369439

The powerful social and cultural transformations of recent decades as expressed in the shape and form of the city need to be examined and reviewed. New methods and procedures in urban planning and a new relationship between town and land are urgently required. Learning from China calls to mind that seminal work of the post-modern, Learning from Las Vegas, and relates the principles of Taoist thought and action to the perspectives for a new urban design beyond that of today, truly post modern.

Authors:Christian Schittich,  Christian Schittich,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: detail, englisch, building, effective, cost
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-10-18
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 3764383933
ISBN-13: 9783764383930

This latest volume in the In Detail series turns the spotlight on projects otherwise overshadowed by the spectacular and extravagant buildings that fill the specialist journals: unvarnished, unpretentious buildings that, despite tight budgets, are clearly worked out to the last detail. They exemplify how, and by what measures, cost-effective planning and building are possible. Because cost-effective building requires that special attention be paid to the overall planning and implementation these processes are examined comprehensively in specialist contributions and project documentations, fro

Author: Peter Zumthor
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: objects, surrounding, environments, architectural, atmospheres
Number of Pages: 75
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 3764374950
ISBN-13: 9783764374952

What "really constitutes an architectural atmosphere, Peter Zumthor says, is "this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty ... under whose spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience in precisely this way. Zumthor s passion is the creation of buildings that produce this kind of effect, but how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Peter Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his houses. Images of spaces and buildings

Authors:William Norwich,  Carolyn Horwitz, Anthony Ian
Publisher: Architecture Interiors Pre
Keywords: pushelberg, yabu
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0982319002
ISBN-13: 9780982319000

Yabu Pushelberg, an interiors firm with offices in New York and Toronto, has been named to Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame for its luxurious retail, hospitality and residential projects. The volume Yabu Pushelberg features lavish photography of projects that include the Four Seasons Tokyo, Bergdorf Goodman, The Hazelton Hotel, Tiffany & Co., Lane Crawford and Louis Vuitton.Yabu Pushelberg features six essays by William Norwich, columnist and contributing editor to Vogue.