Written for the practicing architect, Structural Design addresses the process on both a conceptual and a mathematical level. Most importantly, it helps architects work with structural consultants and understand all the necessary considerations when designing structural systems. Using a minimum of simple math, this book shows you how to make correct design calculations for structures made from steel, wood, concrete, and masonry. What?s more, this edition has been completely updated to reflect the...
Beauty in architecture matters again. This issue of AD posits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back. This is evidenced by a current cultural shift from the supposedly objective to an emerging trust in the subjective – a renewed fascination for aesthetics supported by new knowledge emanating simultaneously from disparate disciplines. Digital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not...
Today there are more tools for communication than ever before, yet very little in the way of reflection on how these are being used and even less on what exactly is being conveyed. This issue of AD looks at how architecture is communicated from a cultural perspective. Do the identities of practices or their business-driven branding and promotional efforts resonate with the critical acclaim many architects seek? Has slick image-led media coverage sold the profession short? How is it possible to...
A collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for students Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers, publishing around 60 books and several hundred essays and shorter pieces over his career. His influential works have inspired undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture and related disciplines for decades. In this compilation of...
Mange turister rejser til Rom for at studere de mange levn fra byens antikke storhedstid, men de fAerreste er klar over, at antikken ogsa har sat sit prAeg pa en rAekke af Roms kirker.I middelalderens kirkebyggeri brugte man antikkens arkitektur som en slags stenbrud med prAefabrikerede byggematerialer. Resultatet blev nogle meget brogede og opfindsomt sammenstykkede kirkerum.I bogen fortAelles om de romerske genbrugskirkers historie, om principperne for fordelingen af de antikke dele og om...
»Architekt zu sein, verspricht geniale Aussichten: gesellschaftliches Renommee, dicke Brieftasche, hoher Bekanntheitsgrad. So die Illusion.« Wolfgang Schneider, Architekt und ehemaliger Kammerpräsident, gewährt einen Blick hinter die Fassade seines Berufsstandes. Die Kolumnen, von Erik Liebermann illustriert, bewegen sich zwischen Dichtung und Wahrheit, schildern Subtilitäten und Absurditäten aus dem Architekten- und Kammeralltag, berichten von Höhenflügen, dem Überwinden von Grenzen, von...
The Museo Vincenzo Vela is the most important artist’s residence preserved today in Switzerland and one of the most interesting in Europe, from both a historical and a cultural perspective. The museum houses nearly all the original plasters by the Ticinese sculptor Vincenzo Vela (1820–1891). Born in Ligornetto and active for a large part of his life in Milan and Turin, Vela was a leading exponent of realism in sculpture and a fervid supporter of the Risorgimento, the political movement to unify...