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“mary ann steane”

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  • The Architecture of Light

    Recent Approaches to Designing with Natural Light

    by Mary Ann Steane ...
    Reviewing the use of natural light by architects in the era of electricity, this book aims to show that natural light not only remains a potential source of order in architecture, but that natural lighting strategies impose a usefully creative discipline on design.Considering an approach to environmental context that sees light as a critical aspect of place, this book explores current attitudes to ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Environmental Diversity in Architecture

    Edited by Mary Ann Steane, Koen Steemers ...
    This book takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well anticipated or understood. Environmental variety is a design characteristic closely related to our experience of architecture - an architecture of the senses. Each chapter demonstrates how an understanding of a particular context or environmental characteristic ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

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  • The Age of Comfort

    When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began

    by Joan DeJean ...
    Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in seventeenth-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, the sofa ushered in an era known as the golden age of conversation; as the first piece of furniture designed for two, it was also considered an ... Read more

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  • Kevin McCloud’s How to Make Your House a Home

    by Kevin McCloud ...
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  • Visual Notes for Architects and Designers

    by Norman Crowe, Paul Laseau ...
    The completely updated step-by-step guide to¿capturing experiences in sketch format—regardless of artistic abilityRecording your ideas and observations primarily in pictures instead of words can help you become more creative and constructive on the job, no matter what your level of artistic ability. Featuring completely new coverage of visual note-taking in a digital world, Visual Notes for ... Read more

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  • Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time

    by Frederick Litchfield ...
    In the following pages the Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we have any reliable or certain record until the present time. A careful selection of illustrations has been made from examples of established authenticity, the majority of which are to be seen, either in the Museums to which ... Read more

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  • BIM Design

    Realising the Creative Potential of Building Information Modelling

    by Richard Garber ...
    Series series AD Smart
    Building information modelling (BIM) is revolutionising building design and construction. For architects, BIM has the potential to optimise their creativity while reducing risk in the design and construction process, thus giving them a more significant role in the building process. This book demonstrates how innovative firms are using BIM technologies to move design away from the utilitarian ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Interior Design Clients

    The Designer's Guide to Building and Keeping a Great Clientele

    by Thomas L. Williams ...
    Clients are the lifeblood of any interior design firm and a sound understanding of how to manage those clients is essential. Interior Design Clients is an informative yet fun read for entrepreneurial designers interested in gaining a better understanding of how to build and manage their clientele. Tom Williams, designer, author, and blogger, deconstructs the pitfalls and challenges that can waylay ... Read more

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  • Drawing Architecture and the Urban

    by Sam Jacoby ...
    Drawing is an important means to analyse information and develop rigorous arguments both conceptually and visually. Going beyond the how-to drawing manual, this book provides an instrumental approach to drawing, especially computer-generated drawings; it outlines how drawings should be used to convey clear and analytical information in the process of design, as well as the communication and ... Read more

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  • Design Thinking Research

    Measuring Performance in Context

    Edited by Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book summarizes the results of the third year in the Design Thinking Research Program, a joint venture of Stanford University in Palo Alto and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. Understanding the evolution of innovation, and how to measure the performance of the design thinking teams behind innovations, is the central motivation behind the research work presented in this book. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Death of Drawing

    Architecture in the Age of Simulation

    by David Scheer ...
    The Death of Drawing explores the causes and effects of the epochal shift from drawing to computation as the chief design and communication medium in architecture. Drawing both framed the thinking of architects and organized the design and construction process to place architects at its center. Its displacement by building information modeling (BIM) and computational design recasts both the terms ... Read more

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