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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Digital Modernism Heritage Lexicon

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book investigates the theme of Modernism (1920-1960 and its epigones) as an integral part of tangible and intangible cultural heritage which contains the result of a whole range of disciplines whose aim is to identify, document and preserve the memory of the past and the value of the future. Including several chapters, it contains research results relating to cultural heritage, more ... Read more

    $345.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Heritage Lexicon

    Volume 1

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents themes related to contemporary architecture as the results of diverse cultural influences and architectural legacies, manifested in a rich variety of styles, materials, and spatial perceptions. It consists of 24 chapters written by authors from various continents and contains the result of research highlighting contemporary architecture in relation to multiple aspects that are ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Heritage Lexicon

    Volume 2

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book presents themes related to contemporary architecture as the results of diverse cultural influences and architectural legacies, manifested in a rich variety of styles, materials, and spatial perceptions. It consists of 24 chapters written by authors from various continents and contains the result of research highlighting contemporary architecture in relation to multiple aspects that are ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

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  • Visual Notes for Architects and Designers

    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

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Second Digital Turn

    Design Beyond Intelligence

    by Mario Carpo ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today's digitally ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Drawing for Urban Design

    Series series Portfolio Skills
    Architects and urban planners need to describe cities in the course of their work, be it through maps, diagrams, sketches, computer renderings or models. Drawing for Urban Design explores a wide range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to sophisticated computer models.The book provides a practical introduction to these techniques for students while explaining the processes ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Art of Understanding Art

    A Behind the Scenes Story

    The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.Offers an inquiry—unique among introductory art texts—into the learning process of understanding and appreciating artExamines the multiple issues and processes essential to making, analyzing and evaluating artUses ... Read more

    $127.99 CAD

  • Design Languages

    Most of the people who work in the field attain an implicit knowledge of design languages through exposure to design discourse, that is to say, to the ecosystem comprised of products, companies, showrooms, trade shows, events, exhibitions, magazines, and blogs that deal with design. And just as there is no need to study grammar in order to speak effectively, so too can one learn to “speak” design ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conversations With Form

    A Workbook for Students of Architecture

    Through a progressive series of exercises - accompanied by observational studies, examples and applied theory - Conversations with Form: A Workbook for Students of Architecture improves designers’ understanding, dexterity and resilience in making form. It specifically focuses on the skills needed to succeed in the everyday context in which the vast majority of architects will ultimately design and ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Terragni and Lingeri's Casa Rustici

    Series Book 27 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    Terragni and Lingeri’s Casa Rustici is going back to its original splendour. Since it was declared a national monument in 1992, a new awareness aimed at the protection was aroused. The stones of the floors, the walls of glass tiles, the marbles of the façades have been restored. Careful stratigraphic analyses have allowed to re-establish materials and colours. This book shows the state the art ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Digital

    Design and Automation at the End of Modernity

    by Mario Carpo ...
    Recasting computational design: a new modern agenda for a post-industrial, post-pandemic world.Mass production was the core technical logic of industrial modernity: for the last hundred years, architects and designers have tried to industrialize construction and standardize building materials and processes in the pursuit of economies of scale. But this epochal march of modernity is now over. In ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Urban Landscape Strategies

    Series Book 2 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    The projects illustrated here exemplify the way contemporary urban planning is moving in practice, and how it is precisely in the effective transformation of cities and landscapes that it is finding the theoretical and practical forms of its action. An urban planning that, as has recently been pointed out, having emancipated itself from the typo-morphological tradition focused on the built, is now ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus