Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment Author: Shashi Caan (Author) Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Publication Date: 2011-08-10 Edition: Edition Unstated Language: English Print Length: 192 pages ISBN-10: 1856697568 ISBN-13: 9781856697569 Book Description Interior design helps to shape all aspects of our lives and has now come of age both intellectually and professionally. This text sets out to change and clarify the perceptions and misconceptions about conte...
Design of Structural Timber: To Eurocode 5 Author: William McKenzie (Author), Binsheng Zhang (Author) Publisher: Red Globe Press Publication Date: 2007-09-12 Edition: 2nd Language: English Print Length: 520 pages ISBN-10: 0230007775 ISBN-13: 9781403941053 Book Description This textbook provides a comprehensive source of information on practical timber design, and introduces the nature and inherent characteristics of timber given in relation to the requirements of Eurocode 5 (EC5). The scope of t...
Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief Collection Volume 1 Author: Ben Sammler (Editor), Don Harvey (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: 2002-08-02 Edition: 1st Language: English Print Length: 284 pages ISBN-10: 0240804902 ISBN-13: 9780240804903 Book Description The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publicatio...
Universal Design: Solutions for a barrier-free living Author: Oliver Herwig (Author) Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture Publication Date: 2008-08-08 Edition: 1st Language: English Print Length: 176 pages ISBN-10: 3764387181 ISBN-13: 9783764387181 Book Description Die Zukunft sieht alt aus. Wir stehen vor dem größten demographischen Wandel der Modee, am Beginn des Zeitalters der Senioren. Was erwartet uns, welche Produkte, welche Häuser? Denn die Generation 50+ birgt ein riesiges Potential: Allei...
Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design Author: Kevin Thwaites (Editor), Sergio Porta (Editor), Ombretta Romice (Editor), Mark Greaves (Editor) Publisher: Taylor & Francis Edition: 1st edition Publication Date: 2008-01-31 Language: English Paperback: 200 pages ISBN-10: 041538480X ISBN-13: 9780415384803 Book Description What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe? Urban Sustainab...
Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design, Second Edition Author: Mica R. Endsley Publisher: CRC Press Edition: 2nd edition Publication Date: 2011-12-19 Language: English Paperback: 396 pages ISBN-10: 1420063553 ISBN-13: 9781420063554 Book Description The barrage of data overload is threatening the ability of people to effectively operate in a wide range of systems including aircraft cockpits and ground control stations, military command and control centers, intell...
Chinese Urban Design: The Typomorphological Approach (Design and the Built Environment) Author: Fei Chen , Kevin Thwaites Publisher: Routledge Edition: 1st edition Publication Date: 2013-07-28 Language: English Paperback: 260 pages ISBN-10: 1409433889 ISBN-13: 9781409433880 Book Description The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis. With the rapid development taking place, there is growing conflict between this new building and the existing urban heritage. An appropriate ap...
Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research Author: Gary King , Robert O. Keohane , Sidney Verba Publisher: Princeton University Press Edition: N/A Publication Date: 1994-05-02 Language: Princeton University Press (May 2, 1994) Paperback: English ISBN-10: 300 pages ISBN-13: 9780691034713 Book Description While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert...
Crack Analysis in Structural Concrete: Theory and Applications Author: Zihai Shi Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Edition: 1st edition Publication Date: 2009-07-09 Language: English Paperback: 344 pages ISBN-10: 0750684461 ISBN-13: 9780750684460 Book Description This new book on the fracture mechanics of concrete focuses on the latest developments in computational theories, and how to apply those theories to solve real engineering problems. Zihai Shi uses his extensive research experience to p...
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