Architecture in Living Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture in Living Structure write by G.A. Zweers. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Architecture in Living Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Structure As Architecture
Structure As Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Structure As Architecture write by Andrew Charleson. This book was released on 2006-08-11. Structure As Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Structure As Architecture provides readers with an accessible insight into the relationship between structure and architecture, focusing on the design principles that relate to both fields. Over one hundred case studies of contemporary buildings from countries across the globe including the UK, the US, France, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia are interspersed throughout the book. The author has visited and photographed each of these examples and analyzed them to show how structure plays a significant architectural role, as well as bearing loads. This is a highly illustrated sourcebook, providing a new insight into the role of structure, and discussing the point where the technical and the aesthetic meet to create the discipline of ‘architecture’.
Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives
Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives write by Rachel Armstrong. This book was released on 2012. Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Pattern Language write by Christopher Alexander. This book was released on 2018-09-20. A Pattern Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.
The Nature of Order: The phenomenon of life
The Nature of Order: The phenomenon of life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Order: The phenomenon of life write by Christopher Alexander. This book was released on 2002. The Nature of Order: The phenomenon of life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Book Oneof this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture. He identifies fifteen geometric properties which tend to accompany the presence of life in nature, and also in the buildings and cities we make. These properties are seen over and over in nature and in the cities and streets of the past, but they have almost disappeared in the impersonal developments and buildings of the last hundred years. This book shows that living structures depend on features which make a close connection with the human self, and that only living structure has the capacity to support human well-being.
