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Mapping Landscapes in Transformation
multidisciplinary Methods for Historical Analysis
2019 || Paperback || Thomas Coomans e.a. || Leuven University Press
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. One of today’s major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation—that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale. The opening up of increasingly divers...
Basics Urban Building Blocks
2021 || Hardcover || Thorsten Burklin e.a. || Birkhauser Verlag AG
Situating more-than-human Ecologies of Extended Urbanisation
Footprint #33
2024 || Paperback || Nikos Katsikis e.a. || Jap Sam Books / TU Delft OPEN
Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
2002 || Paperback || Andrew Ballantyne || Oxford University Press
This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recentavant garde.
Illustrations of p...
Architects' Data / 6th edition
2023 || Paperback || Ernst Neufert || Wiley
An indispensable tool for the initial stages of designing and planning a building project
This new edition of the classic bestselling text provides, in one concise volume, the essential information needed as the basis for the more detailed design and development of any building project. Organized largely by building type, it covers the planning criteria and considerations of function and location--and with over 6200 diagrams, it provides a mass of data on spatial requirements.
Most of the fea...
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order / 5th edition
2023 || Paperback || Francis D.K. Ching || Wiley
For more than forty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has served as the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. In this fifth edition, more recent additions to the architectural panoply illustrate how contemporary digital and building technologies have influenced the development of architectural forms and spaces and how architectural siting and design have responded to the call for more environmentally responsible buildings. ...
Moorish Spain
2022 || Paperback || Richard Fletcher || Orion Publishing Co
A clear, intelligently-written guide to a crucial period of Spanish history
Hotel Design, Planning and Development / 2nd edition
2012 || Hardcover || Richard H. Penner e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Hotel Design, Planning and Development presents the most significant hotels developed internationally in the last ten years so that you can be well-informed of recent trends. The book outlines essential planning and design considerations based on the latest data, supported by technical information and illustrations, including original plans, so you can really study what works. The authors provide analysis and theory to support each of the major trends they present, highlighting how the design...
The Corruption of Co-Design
Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking
2023 || Paperback || Otto von Busch e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Using the notion of "Realdesign", as a parallel to Realpolitik, the authors aim to highlight political, social and methodological obstacles when designers turn to design thinking, participation and "living labs", with the hope of changing the world for the better.
Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture / 1st edition
2000 || Paperback || Eilean Hooper-Greenhill || Taylor & Francis
This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture. This work explores such questions as:How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view?How do museums produce values? How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museums?This stimulating book provokes debate and discussion on t...