The Book Company: New Products - Methods & Materials

Light Color Sound (Sensory Effects in Contemporary Architecture)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:14:51 +0000

Light, color, and sound are the three elements capable of generating great sensory impact, transforming buildings into veritable mechanisms of interaction with their context and the passers-by, and this book puts these effects center-stage, covering the conceptual, aesthetic and technical implicat..

Price: $75.00

Rematerial (From Waste to Architecture)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:50:03 +0000

Everyday, millions of tons of garbage are dumped into landfills and consigned to perpetual disuse. But when creativity meets resourcefulness, waste can become the material for building. Never before in history has the impact of man on this planet been so important. The construction industry is one..

Price: $49.95

Historical Building Construction (Design, Materials, and Technology)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:55:35 +0000

A comprehensive guide to the physical construction of buildings from the 1840s to the present, this study covers the history of concrete- , steel- , and skeleton-frame buildings, provides case histories that apply the information to a wide range of actual projects, and supplies technical data esse..

Price: $59.95

Stone Sampler

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:51:33 +0000

It is a concise, portable reference for architects, interior designers, and builders, summarizing the basic technical properties—quarrying locations, availability, compressive and tensile strength, resistance to wear and weather, ..

Price: $55.00

Corrugated Iron (Building on the Frontier)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:33:13 +0000

Within a few years engineers were putting up warehouses and elegant railway stations of corrugated iron. By the late 1840s entrepreneurial manufacturers were sending out build-it-yourself cottages for gold prospectors in California and Australia. Whole townships complete with churches, sport..

Price: $60.00

Fabric Architecture (Creative Resources for Shade, Signage, and Shelter)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:46:36 +0000

Architects, landscape architects, interior designers, fabricators, and owner/developers seeking creative, green solutions for a wide array of structures-shelter, shade, and water protection; outdoor and indoor; permanent and temporary-will find a broad array of ideas in this visual catalog of the ..

Price: $75.00

Window Systems for High-Performance Buildings

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:42:06 +0000

The challenge in designing facades and selecting windows in commercial buildings is balancing many issues and criteria. This fact-packed guide outlines the basics of glazing selection and provides critical information and performance data on the energy efficiency, interior environment, techni..

Price: $50.00

Energy Efficient Buildings (Architecture, Engineering, and Environment)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:41:03 +0000

Exploring the evolving relationship between architecture and engineering, this book examines the environmental function and performance of buildings in the twenty-first century. Critical studies of outstanding recent building projects around the world reveal the many innovative ways designers can ..

Price: $75.00

Fine Marble in Architecture

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:40:12 +0000

This lavishly produced catalog outlines the technical characteristics of fine marble: quality, workability, availability, and aesthetic features; offers photographic samples of sixty varieties; and gives information about the production, historical use, and suppliers of the materials. An additiona..

Price: $85.00

The Designer's Eye

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:40:02 +0000

Photographs of actual buildings, paired with digitally manipulated images in 'before and after' comparisons, demonstrate the sorts of real-life situations that architectural design courses rarely teach students how to address, and show how designers can manipulate form and material to achiev..

Price: $18.95