Wood is the building material of the 21st century. Understanding this material and its potential requires us to recognize its ecological, technological and cultural-historical contexts. Touch Wood explores this potential, ...

Materials and the myriad technologies that have been developed to manipulate them are of essential relevance to product designers, architects, artists and stylists, as they represent the starting point for ...

Architectures of Weaving reimagines the art of weaving as the combined result of fiber techniques and cultural practice. Addressing todays urgent energetic and environmental challenges, the book explores new approaches ...

This book - lavishly illustrated with plans, sketches, and photographs - emerged from an international educational cooperation of the University of Liechtenstein in Vaduz, the Norwegian University of Science and ...

The material timber has become particularly important for architecture in the light of the climate crisis and the search for environmentally friendly resources. This book describes the potentials of the ...

Over the last three decades, timber architecture has seen a resurgence in popularity thanks to the level of innovation, experimentation and environmental responsiveness it engenders. Designing Timber Buildings offers a ...

La Instrucción de hormigón estructural (EHE-08), aprobada por Real Decreto 1247/2008, de 18 de julio, ha venido constituyendo, desde su entrada en vigor, el marco en el que se establecen ...

Many buildings are made with standard or system products. However, a whole new world opens up when the architect, in line with his or her design, designs parts that specifically ...

Reinforced concrete is the go-to powerhouse of modern construction: no other load-bearing building material is as malleable with similarly good noise and fire protection properties. The book illustrates this versatility ...

Concrete shell construction started to become popular in the mid-20th century. Technically advanced designs with conspicuous expressiveness began to appear all over the world. With three typical protagonists - Félix ...

Buildings made of brick are found in very different epochs and cultures all over the world. Always astonishing, the qualities of brickwork continue to be explored by the worlds best ...

From hand-made brick to high-tech product: building with blocks of fired clay today draws from a heritage of nine millennia and remains innovative, sustainable, and highly appreciated for its manifold ...

Cest en 1955 que le premier secrétaire du PCUS Nikita Khrouchtchev lance une campagne pour une production en masse d'habitations. À ce moment-là, la préfabrication des bâtiments en usine est ...

In 1951, Konrad Wachsmann and his department at the IIT received a commission from the US Air Force to investigate no less than a completely new method of construction based ...

No other construction material can match steels suitability for bridging long spans and realising unusual building geometries. slender. high. long - Steel Structures documents out-standing high-rise buildings and engineering structures ...

A hands-on guide Building with straw bales is a technique pioneered a century ago in the state of Nebraska. In recent years there has been a renaissance in the use ...

Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six pivotal works of architecture. Written from the perspectives of a practitioner, ...

The buildings of the past were constructed with readily available and local materials, such as stone, wood, or handmade bricks. Architects in the modern era, however, can choose from an ...