Mastering AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010

Mastering AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010 by George Omura

Sybex | June 22 2009 | ISBN: 0470466030 | 1224 pages | PDF | RAR | 66MB

An award-winning author presents a detailed tutorial covering every feature of this popular program

Each year, Mastering AutoCAD appears at the top of the AutoCAD book sales charts; it's the world's all-time bestselling series on the AutoCAD design software. This revision thoroughly covers all the new features and gives you a complete education in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.

Whether you're an architect or drafter, involved in another discipline that uses CAD software, or an AutoCAD instructor, you'll benefit from Omura's comprehensive coverage.

* Award-winning Autodesk Authorized Author, George Omura, has written more than 20 books on AutoCAD
* Uses concise explanations, focused examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on projects to fully cover both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
* Introduces the basics of the interface and drafting tools, then moves into intermediate skills such as effectively using hatches, fields, and tables
* Elaborates on the more important skills for real world applications like layouts, plotting, and quick 3D modeling
* Showcases the newest features including parametric design, free-form 3D mesh modeling, and enhanced PDF support
* Details advanced skills including attributes, dynamic blocks, drawing curves, and macro programming
* Explores 3D modeling and imaging, and discusses customization and integration

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

Andrew Benjamin, Charles Rice, "Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity"

re.press | 2009 | ISBN: 0980544025 | 234 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB


Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively underexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture and, if so, how does this architecture affect the explicit propositions that he offers us? In what ways are Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architectural concerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movements that individuals can make within the new spaces of modern cities? How can Benjamin's theses help us to understand the secret architectures of the present? This volume takes up the architectural challenge in a number of innovative ways, collecting essays by both well-known and emerging scholars on time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves and tombs, the orders of road-signs, childhood experience in modern cities, and much more. Engaged, interdisciplinary, bristling with insights, the essays in this collection will constitute an indispensable supplement to the work of Walter Benjamin, as well as providing a guide to some of the obscurities of our own present.

Landscape Architecture 2009 / 02

Landscape Architecture 2009 / 02
American Socity for Landscape Architects | 2009 / 02 | ISSN 00238031 | PDF | 124 pages | 52.6 MB

Inside the Smart Home

Richard Harper, "Inside the Smart Home"

Springer | 2003-08-14 | ISBN: 1852336889 | 264 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

"A fascinating insight into potentially one of the most exciting developments that affects each and every one of us as we move forward into the 21st Century. This book indicates the direction industry must take if we are to achieve the dream of living in a Smart Home." Steve Hearnden, Mobile Telecommunications Consultant, UK

"A timely and much needed compliment to more technology-led explorations of the Smart Home. It draws attention to the complexity, diversity and conceptual richness of domestic life and critically reflects on the adoption and use of technologies in the home to date." Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Sapient Ltd, UK

If the predictions of leading electronics and consumer companies are to be believed, in the future you may never again have to worry about forgetting to switch the lights off, or locking the front door when you leave your home. Even mundane chores such as visiting your local supermarket to stock up your fridge will become a thing of the past, as the Smart Homes of the future will be able to decide what is needed and order them for us. Inside the Smart Home looks at the designs and technologies behind these new innovations, along with their time-saving, environmental and security benefits, amongst others. Despite these clear advantages however, Smart Homes have so far failed to reach the levels of success originally anticipated, thereby forcing designers to further examine the roles and practicalities of these new technologies. Through the use of detailed case studies from such international giants as Orange, Ariston, Philips Electronics and Electrolux, this book clearly demonstrates what will be possible for our domestic settings in the future if we continue to develop the concept of the Smart Home.

Revit Architecture 2010: No Experience Required

Eric Wing "Revit Architecture 2010: No Experience Required"

Sybex | English | 2009-05-11 | ISBN: 0470447222 | 984 pages | PDF | 25 MB

Author and Revit Architecture expert Eric Wing walks you through designing, documenting, and presenting a four-story office building. The continuous tutorial begins with the Revit interface and standard conventions for placing walls, doors, and windows, then progresses through the buildings design as would happen in the real world. Youll learn how to work with structural grids, beams, and foundations; add text and dimensions; build floors layer by layer; join exterior and interior walls; and create roofs and ceilings as well as stairs, ramps, and railings. Youll also be introduced to using embedded families and formulas, crucial site considerations, and importing and exporting to various formats.

Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users

Jonathan Hill - Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users

Routledge | 2003 | ISBN: 0415290430 | Pages: 232 | PDF | 8.08 MB

A stimulating and exciting book that is imaginative and thought provoking ... the importance of the book is that it is one of the few to challeneg orthodox ideas and practices in the architectural profession, and for this it deserves to be widely read. - Environment and Planning B

'A book as important for its theoretical grounding as for its relevance to the future of the profession.' - Bobby Open, The Architectural Review

Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism.

Jonathan Hill is Director of the MPhil/PhD program of Architecural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Galleries where he has had solo exhibitions inlcude the Haus der Architektur, Graz and Architektur-Galerie am Weissenhof, Stuttgart. He is the editor of two previous books with Routledge, Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User and Architecture-the Subject is Matter.

2009 International Building Code: Looseleaf Version

International Code Council "2009 International Building Code: Looseleaf Version"

CENGAGE Delmar Learning - DIST | English | 2009-03-26 | ISBN: 158001724X | pages | PDF | 16 MB

Featuring time-tested safety concepts and the very latest industry standards in material design, the 2009 International Building Code® offers up-to-date, comprehensive insight into the regulations surrounding the design and installation of building systems. It provides valuable structural, fire-, and life- safety provisions that cover means of egress, interior finish requirements, roofs, seismic engineering, innovative construction technology, and occupancy classifications. This content is developed in the context of the broad-based principles that facilitate the use of new materials and building designs, making this an indispensable reference guide for anyone seeking a strong working knowledge of building systems.

Mastering Revit Architecture 2009

Mastering Revit Architecture 2009

Publisher: Sybex | ISBN: 0470295287 | edition 2008-09-09 | PDF | 802 pages | 18,2 mb

Move beyond the basics of Revit and BIM and redefine your designs with this new edition of Mastering Revit Architecture. With updated coverage of Revit Architecture 2009 features, this comprehensive guide will help you discover best practices and tips that will make your projects smoother and their implementation easier. You’ll learn how applying key Revit and BIM priniciples to your designs will increase your productivity and improve your workflow plus develop a more thorough understanding of topics like design options and features, advanced modeling, and presentation techniques with the clear explanations and practical examples found in this book.

Photovoltaics And Architecture

Randall Thomas, "Photovoltaics And Architecture "

Taylor & Francis | 2001 | ISBN: 0415231825 | 168 pages | PDF | 7,5 MB

Solar energy is set to play an ever-increasing role in generating the form and affecting the appearance and construction of buildings. This new guide provides an overview of how PVs work and how they are incorporated in the design of buildings.
Review
'An invaluable primer for any architect or client considering integrated photovoltaics.' - Architecture Today

'Comprehensive and authoritative.' - RIBA Journal

'It is tempting to suggest that a copy of this excellent book should be sent to George W Bush!' - Building Engineer

'This book is a concise and useful guide to building-integrated photovoltaics.' - Architectural Review

An invaluable primer for any architect or client considering integrated photovoltaics. - Architecture Today

This book is a concise and useful guide to building-integrated photovoltaics. - Architectural Review

Matthew Frederick - 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Matthew Frederick - 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
The MIT Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0262062666 | Pages: 128 | PDF | 2.73 MB

2008 Silver Award Winner, Architecture Category, Independent Publisher Book Awards. and Winning entry, General Trade Illustrated Category, in the 2008 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston.

This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory—provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum. Each lesson utilizes a two-page format, with a brief explanation and an illustration that can range from diagrammatic to whimsical. The lesson on "How to Draw a Line" is illustrated by examples of good and bad lines; a lesson on the dangers of awkward floor level changes shows the television actor Dick Van Dyke in the midst of a pratfall; a discussion of the proportional differences between traditional and modern buildings features a drawing of a building split neatly in half between the two. Written by an architect and instructor who remembers well the fog of his own student days, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School provides valuable guideposts for navigating the design studio and other classes in the architecture curriculum. Architecture graduates—from young designers to experienced practitioners—will turn to the book as well, for inspiration and a guide back to basics when solving a complex design problem.

Syntax of Landscape

Udo Weilacher "Syntax of Landscape: The Landscape Architecture of Peter Latz and Partners"
Birkhäuser Basel | ISBN: 3764376155 | December 12, 2007 | PDF | 199 pages | 46 Мб

Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park in Germany, the Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxembourg, Parco Dora in Turin, Italy and numerous other projects designed and built by Peter Latz and Partners stand as examples of an up-to-date and intelligent approach to alternative environmental technologies and the reclamation of extensive industrial landscapes. In Peter Latz’s landscape architecture, ecological and social concerns are translated into an individual aesthetic language that aims to achieve a timeless quality. The different layers and meanings of the sites rich in history are revealed and woven into networks of spatial and temporal relationships that follow rules of their own – the syntax of landscape. A sense of process and dynamism in sustainable landscape structures characterises the works, works that are open for change: they are spaces in development, not parks as finite set pieces

Landscape Architect's Pocket Book, Vol 1

Landscape Architect's Pocket Book, Volume 1
Architectural Press | ISBN: 0750683481 | 2009-03-10 | PDF | 296 pages | 2 Mb


An indispensable tool for all landscape architects, this is time-saving guide answers the most frequently asked questions in one pocket-sized volume. A concise, easy to read reference that gives instant access to a wide range if information needed on a daily basis, both out on site and in the office.

Covering all the major topics including Hard Landscaping, Soft Landscaping as well as Planning and Legislation, the pocket book also includes a handy glossary of key terms, useful calculations and helpful contacts. Not only an essential tool for everyday queries on British standards and procedures, this is a first point of reference for those seeking more extensive, supplementary sources of information, including websites and further publications.

. A comprehensive overview of the field of landscape architecture

. Gain immediate access to the most frequently asked questions, both out on site and in the office

. Save time with the handy glossary of key terms, essential contacts and useful calculations

Perspective Drawing Handbook

Joseph D'Amelio, "Perspective Drawing Handbook"
Amiel Book Distributors Corp | 1972 | ISBN: 0814802362 | 96 pages | PDF | 43,9 MB

This handy guide to perspective drawing provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing.

Ecological Design, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Sim Van der Ryn, Stuart Cowan
Publisher: Island Press 2007-03-28 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1597261416 | PDF | 2.3 MB


Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This 10th anniversary edition makes the work available to a new generation of practitioners and thinkers concerned with moving our society onto a more sustainable path. Using examples from architecture, industrial ecology, sustainable agriculture, ecological wastewater treatment, and many other fields, Ecological Design provides a framework for integrating human design with living systems. Drawing on complex systems, ecology, and early examples of green building and design, the book challenges us to go further, creating buildings, infrastructures, and landscapes that are truly restorative rather than merely diminishing the rate at which things are getting worse.

Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications

by Konstadinos G. Goulias
CRC; 1 edition | English | December 13, 2002 | ISBN: 0849302730 | 428 Pages | PDF | 9,32 Mb

Description :
Transportation engineering and transportation planning are two sides of the same coin aiming at the design of an efficient infrastructure and service to meet the growing needs for accessibility and mobility. Many well-designed transport systems that meet these needs are based on a solid understanding of human behavior. Since transportation systems are the backbone connecting the vital parts of a city, in-depth understanding of human nature is essential to the planning, design, and operational analysis of transportation systems. With contributions by transportation experts from around the world, Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications compiles engineering data and methods for solving problems in the planning, design, construction, and operation of various transportation modes into one source. It is the first methodological transportation planning reference that illustrates analytical simulation methods that depict human behavior in a realistic way, and many of its chapters emphasize newly developed and previously unpublished simulation methods. The handbook demonstrates how urban and regional planning, geography, demography, economics, sociology, ecology, psychology, business, operations management, and engineering come together to help us plan for better futures that are human-centered.The text reviews projects from an initial problem statement to final policy action and associated decision-making and examines policies at all levels of government, from the city to the national levels. Unlike many other handbooks which are encyclopedic reviews, Transportation Systems Planning extends far beyond modeling in engineering and economics to present a truly transdisciplinary approach to transportation systems planning.

The Architects' Handbook

by Quentin Pickard
Wiley-Blackwell | 2002-05-30 | ISBN: 0632039256 | 454 pages | PDF | 37,9 Mb

The Architects' Handbook provides a comprehensive range of visual and technical information covering the great majority of building types likely to be encountered by architects, designers, building surveyors and others involved in the construction industry. It is organised by building type and concentrates very much on practical examples.
Including over 300 case studies, the Handbook is organised by building type and concentrates very much on practical examples. It includes:

· a brief introduction to the key design considerations for each building type
· numerous plans, sections and elevations for the building examples
· references to key technical standards and design guidance
· a comprehensive bibliography for most building types

The book also includes sections on designing for accessibility, drawing practice, and metric and imperial conversion tables.

Architect's Guide to Feng Shui, Exploding the Myth

by Cate Bramble
Architectural Press | 2003-05-01 | ISBN: 0750656069 | 224 pages | PDF | 5,1 MB

Cate Bramble has devoted her career to highlighting the differences between 'feng shui-lite' as a fashionable pursuit in contrast to the original intentions of the Chinese masters. Here she presents the authentic principles in a technical, no-nonsense pocket book specifically for architects.

As clients become more demanding and the competition for projects heats up, the architect is well advised to have many strings to their bow. This practical guide includes line illustrations that present the principles of feng shui, the Chinese art or practice in which a structure or site is chosen or configured so as to harmonize with the spiritual forces that inhabit it, and their application in architecture through planning principles, services, building elements and materials, in an accessible, easy reference format. The feng shui-savvy architect can also benefit from feng shui's ability to match structures and land, and the peculiar capacity of authentic feng shui to forecast development-related concerns including cost overruns, quality issues - even worker injuries and trade disputes!

The author explains feng shui from archaeological sources and evidence of practice in the east, contrasting it with what passes for feng shui in the west. She analyses the practice in terms of such concepts as western systems theory, viewshed, space syntax and the 'pattern landscape' theory of urban planning. For the first time, the Sustainable implications of feng shui design are explained with reference to the latest developments in behavioural and cognitve sciences, evolutionary biology and other western viewpoints.

* The first 'how to' guide on feng shui specifically written for architects
* Contains numerous technical illustrations to define and analyse the genuine design elements of feng shui, for quick and easy reference
* Supplies knowledge of the scientific, ethical and ecological principles of the original Chinese system, to impress your clients

Seismic Design of Reinforced and Precast Concrete Buildings

by Robert E. Englekirk

Wiley (March 10, 2003) | ISBN-10: 0471081221 | 848 Pages | PDF | 16,9 MB

* Presents the basics of seismic-resistant design of concrete structures.
* Provides a major focus on the seismic design of precast bracing systems.

From the Back Cover
Cutting-edge coverage of the seismic-resistant technologies used in concrete structures

Seismic Design of Reinforced and Precast Concrete Buildings explores a comprehensive body of experimentally developed conclusions, extending this base to design-relevant relationships and limit states that are reduced to usable forms. Focus throughout the book is given to developing a potent integration of knowledge and imagination to create the highest quality structural systems capable of attaining performance objectives in design-level earthquakes.

This powerful reference tool is packed with broad-ranging material–from fundamental principles to state-of-the-art, seismic-resistant technologies, as well as algorithms that are thoroughly developed to be highly adaptable–offering the most complete guidance to precast bracing systems. Through illustrative examples, the author develops several imaginative approaches used to design constructed buildings. These concepts are detailed to demonstrate the benefits of imaginative problem solving for creating better structural systems based on rational analysis and experimental evidence.

Visually enhanced with hundreds of informative drawings, Seismic Design of Reinforced and Precast Concrete Buildings is the resource engineers, contractors, building code officials, and architects need at their fingertips.

Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

by Brian Edwards

Taylor & Francis; 2 ed | 2008 | ISBN: 0415444136 | 273 pages | PDF | 22,5 MB

This new edition is an introduction to design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings and places through drawing. For many people the camera has replaced the sketchbook, but the author argues that freehand drawing as a means of analysing and understanding buildings develops visual sensitivity and awareness of design. There is a balance of drawing techniques explained as well as guidance provided on how drawing interfaces with with photography, CAD and model making in the genesis of design projects. This second edition incorporates examples from architectural practice, including those of architects Lord Foster, Sir Terry Farrell, Edward Cullinan, Richard Murphy and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw.

So... You Want To Build a House: A Complete Workbook for Building Your Own Home

by J M Gore, William Null

McGraw-Hill Professional | English | 2006-06-26 | ISBN: 0071474935 | 108 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Build your dream house without getting a headache!

From selecting the property and meeting with an architect through resale considerations and construction, So You Want to Build a House walks you through every step of the building process painlessly, on-time, and on-budget.

From the Back Cover
• Easy-to-use WORKSHEETS that can SAVE YOU TENS OF THOUSANDS$$$
• Hundreds of MONEY-SAVING REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION, AND FINANCING TIPS, in plain English
• A step-by-step PROGRAM THAT WORKS
Build your dream home -- without experiencing the common problems and cost overruns associated with custom homes
You can avoid the average cost overrun of 30–50% on custom-built homes that's reported by construction industry insiders. So ... You Want to Build a House arms you with the tools you need to keep your dream home within 1% of budget -- without sacrificing the special features that made you want a custom home in the first place!
A UNIQUE WORKBOOK
This extraordinary collection of tools and inside-the-homebuilding-industry wisdom enables even novices to be masters of the process from stage one. Inside, you'll find:
• More than a DOZEN handy worksheets that walk you through the homebuilding process
• Indispensable, cost-cutting guidance on FINANCING your project
• An easy-to-follow guide to PROPERTY SELECTION, for top-level, real-estate-pro results
• An essential nuts-and-bolts plan for sorting out WHAT YOU NEED vs. WHAT YOU WANT
• A clear program for WHOM to meet with, WHEN to meet them, and WHAT TO SAY
• The smart way to DISTRIBUTE YOUR BUDGET throughout your house
• An ironclad agenda for keeping your homebuilding project ON TIME and ON BUDGET
• A whole chapter full of WAYS TO SAVE MONEY
• Every-step-of-the-way help with IMPROVING RESALE VALUE