Private Dwelling

Contemplating the Use of Housing

By Peter King

Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy and security and allows us to be intimate with those we are...

Published August 19th 2004 by Routledge.

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Remaking Birmingham

The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration

Edited by Liam Kennedy

The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image. Positioned between decline...

Published August 5th 2004 by Routledge.

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Advanced Building Simulation

Edited by Godfried Augenbroe, Ali Malkawi

This book introduces recent advances in building simulation and outlines its historic development. Two important topics are described: uncertainty in simulation and coupled simulations, which...

Published July 29th 2004 by Taylor and Francis.

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Free-Standing Tension Structures

From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems

By Binbing Wang

Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports. Tensile and cable-strut structures are one method...

Published July 22nd 2004 by Taylor and Francis.

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Transforming Barcelona

The Renewal of a European Metropolis

Edited by Tim Marshall

This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held...

Published July 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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Spaces of Global Cultures

Architecture, Urbanism, Identity

By Anthony King

This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking...

Published July 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order, Book 4

An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

By Christopher Alexander

Book Four presents a new cosmology that arises from the careful study of architecture and art, and above all from the practice of the arts....

Published July 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Phenomenon of Life: The Nature of Order, Book 1

An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

By Christopher Alexander

In Book One of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes...

Published July 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Process of Creating Life: The Nature of Order, Book 2

An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

By Christopher Alexander

Christopher Alexander's masterwork, the result of 27 years of research, considers three vital perspectives: a scientific perspective; a perspective based on beauty and grace; a...

Published July 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems

Proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG7.5 Working Conference, Banff, Canada, 2-5 November 2003

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Published July 1st 2004 by Taylor and Francis.

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