Название: Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture, 3rd Edition
Автор: Gernot Minke
Издательство: Birkhaeuser
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Размер: 37 Мб
Язык: английский / English

For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and temperate climate zones, earth offers numerous advantages over other materials. Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal. The second and revised edition of this handbook offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of earth and techniques for processing it. Its properties and physical characteristics are described in informed and knowledgeable detail. The author's presentation reflects the rich and varied experiences gained over thirty years of building earth structures all over the world. Numerous photographs of construction sites and drawings show the concrete execution of earth architecture.

Название: Замки и дворцы Европы
Автор: Ульрика Шёбер
Издательство: AO БММ
Год: 2003
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 416
Размер: 43 Mb
Язык: русский



Захватывающие дух ландшафты служат декорациями к самым красивым архитектурным сооружениям от Скандинавии до Португалии: предания и мифы окутывают романтические замки и сказочные дворцы, распространяя дыхание прошлого...
Какую роль сыграли замки в альбигойских войнах во Франции? Какие стилевые особенности отличают Строберри-Хилл в Англии? Как жил Курт Тухольский в замке Грипсхольм в Швеции?

Название: Chinese Contemporary Architecture
Автор: Kai Cui
Издательство: Design Media Publishing
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Размер: 27 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Sixteen outstanding contemporary Chinese architects and teams from a state-owned large-scale design firm and privately owned design firms and individual studios, are presented in this book. Contemporary Chinese architectural languages and form, which connect history and today, with a fusion of Chinese and Western cultures and elements, are presented. It records the developing road of contemporary architecture in China with continuous effort by Chinese architects.

Название: The Art of Creative Pruning: Inventive Ideas for Training and Shaping Trees and Shrubs
Автор: Jake Hobson
Издательство: Timber Press
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Nothing brings a touch of artistry to the garden like ornamental pruning, and a series of deliberate cuts can create landscapes and evoke faraway places. All that's needed to recreate the effect in the garden are a sharp pair of pruners, some imagination, and the instruction found in The Art of Creative Pruning. Drawing on both eastern and western styles, author Jake Hobson moves beyond the traditional lollipops and animals and teaches a wholly new approach to ornamental pruning that appeals to modern sensibilities.

Название: Современная архитектура Японии. Традиции восприятия пространства
Автор: Нина Коновалова
Язык: русский
Издательство: Нестор-История
Год: 2017
Страниц: 360 стр. 85 иллюстраций
Формат: pdf
Размер: 29,7 Мб

Япония отличается особым отношением к традиционным ценностям своей культуры. Понимание механизмов актуализации и развития традиций, которыми пользуется Япония, может открыть новые способы сохранения устойчивости культуры, что становится в настоящее время все более актуальной проблемой для многих стран мира…

Название: The Japanese Bath
Автор: Bruce Smith and Yoshiko Yamamoto
Издательство: Gibbs Smith Publisher
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Размер: 53 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In the West, a bath is a place one goes to cleanse the body. In Japan, one goes there to cleanse the soul. Bathing in Japan is about much more than cleanliness: it is about family and community. It is about being alone and contemplative, time to watch the moon rise above the garden. Along with sixty full-color illustrations of the light and airy baths themselves, The Japanese Bath, delves into the aesthetic of bathing Japanese style and the innate beauty of the steps surrounding the process. The authors explain how to create a Japanese bath in your own home. A Zen meditation, the Japanese bath, indeed, cleanses the soul, and one emerges refreshed, renewed, and serene.

Название: Emotional Rooms
Автор: Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz
Издательство: Atria Books
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Named by House Beautiful as one of "America's Most Brilliant Decorators" for ten consecutive years, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz is recognized as one of the most stylish and influential of today's interior designers. His sensuous, glamorous, and ethereal work captures an unusual sense of openness and light through the use of color, materials, architecture, and the unexpected integration of fashion. Noriega-Ortiz has traveled the world to design spaces for such clients as rock superstar Lenny Kravitz, bestselling author Laura Esquivel, and celebrity photographer Mark Seliger. Now, with Emotional Rooms, he shares his process with anyone who may not have access to a high-end designer but wants a home or workspace that is at once beautiful and true to themselves.

Название: Bernard Maybeck: Architect of Elegance
Автор: Mark Wilson and Joel Puliatti
Издательство: Gibbs Smith
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The work of Bernard Maybeck has influenced generations of architects. His landmark buildings include the Palace of Fine Arts and First Church of Christ, Scientist. His emphasis on an open use of natural materials marks him as a pioneer in sustainable architecture, or “green design.” Maybeck's work achieves that delicate balance between historicism and modernism, and his buildings are still in use throughout several states on the West Coast and the Midwest. This book includes more than two dozen Maybeck buildings that have never been photographed in color in any other book, as well as several of his buildings that were never documented before.

Название: Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies
Автор: Mark DeKay, G. Z. Brown
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2014
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 433
Размер: 61.4 Mb
Язык: English

An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky.
This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. With 432 printed pages and a 450-page electronic book, supplemented with Digital Extras, this package supplies the preliminary design tools and strategies for achieving Architecture 2030® carbon-neutral performance targets. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.

Название: The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture
Автор: Vincent Scully
Издательство: Trinity University Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 50 Мб
Язык: английский / English

When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness. Subsequently, this comprehensive study of Greek temples and site-planning has been widely accepted as a landmark of architectural history, for it offers an inspired and arresting insight into nature and function of Greek sacred architecture. Vincent Scully, one of America's most brilliant and articulate scholars, understands the temples as physical embodiment of the gods in landscapes that had for the Greeks divine attributes and sacred connotations.