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PocketArchitecture eBook Series

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  • Building Information Modeling

    by Karen Kensek ...
    Series series PocketArchitecture
    This is a design guide for architects, engineers, and contractors concerning the principles and specific applications of building information modeling (BIM). BIM has the potential to revolutionize the building industry, and yet not all architects and construction professionals fully understand what the benefits of BIM are or even the fundamental concepts behind it.As part of the PocketArchitecture ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • Google SketchUp Cookbook

    Practical Recipes and Essential Techniques

    by Bonnie Roskes ...
    As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with detailed color graphics to guide your way, and discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Passive House Details

    Solutions for High-Performance Design

    by Donald Corner, Jan Fillinger, Alison Kwok ...
    Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, healthy, and satisfying buildings currently built in the region. Other topics included: heat transfer, moisture ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Writing Architecture

    A Practical Guide to Clear Communication about the Built Environment

    by Carter Wiseman ...
    Writing Architecture considers the process, methods, and value of architecture writing based on Wiseman’s 30 years of experience in writing, editing, and teaching young architects how to write. This book creatively tackles a problematic issue that Wiseman considers crucial to successful architecture writing: clarity of thinking and expression. He argues that because we live our lives within the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Architecture of Expo 2010 Shanghai

    by Multi-authored ...
    The stunning architecture unveiled at World Expo 2010 Shanghai brings new atmosphere and style to the appearance of Shanghai. This vital book captures and presents more than 60 examples of architecture and design created and built for World Expo 2010 Shanghai in four chapters with content and design examples submitted by the architects involved in creating these landmark buildings. Chapter one ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Art of Shaping the Metropolis

    by Pedro Ortiz ...
    A proven approach for addressing explosive metropolitan growth in an integrated and holistic manner“The book provides a basis for the contemplation of the old network paradigm of the megalopolis into the informational meshwork of the mega- or metacity of the future. The handbook’s review of the networked past is invaluable, while its projection of these networks into future plans raises very many ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Advancing Wood Architecture

    A Computational Approach

    Edited by Achim Menges, Tobias Schwinn, Oliver David Krieg ...
    In light of environmental challenges architecture is facing, wood is no longer regarded as outmoded, nostalgic, and rooted in the past, but increasingly recognized as one of the most promising building materials for the future. Recent years have seen unprecedented innovation of new technologies for advancing wood architecture.Advancing Wood Architecture offers a comprehensive overview of the new ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Architecture In Use

    by DJM van der Voordt, HBR van Wegen ...
    This unique book discusses programming, design and building evaluation providing a ‘joined up’ approach to building design. By linking the functional and architectonic qualities of a building, the authors show the practical implications of the utility value of buildings. Starting by looking at how the relationship between form and function has been dealt with by different approaches to ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Designing Sustainability

    Making radical changes in a material world

    by Stuart Walker ...
    What is the relationship between design, sustainability, inner values and spirituality? How can we create designs that provide a convincing alternative to unsustainable interpretations of progress, growth, consumerism and commercialism? Building on the arguments first advanced in his widely acclaimed books Sustainable by Design and The Spirit of Design, Stuart Walker explains how we can achieve ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing

    Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination

    by Marco Frascari ...
    This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture.Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture

    by Thomas Barrie ...
    The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an ‘in-between’ place. Establishing the contexts, approaches and understandings of architecture through the lens of the mediating roles often ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Beyond BIM

    Architecture Information Modeling

    by Danelle Briscoe ...
    Beyond BIM explores the vast and under-explored design potential undertaken by information modeling. Through a series of investigations grounded in the analysis of built work, interviews with leading practitioners, and speculative projects, the author catalogs the practical advantages and theoretical implications of exploiting BIM as a primary tool for design innovation. Organized by information ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD