| REF: 978 0632057719 | Neufert Architects Data Third Edition | PRICE: R 950.00 |
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| Architects Data provides an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project. Organised largely by building type, and with over 6000 diagrams, it provides a mass of data on spatial requirements and also covers planning criteria and considerations of function and siting. This edition has new sections on building components, services, heating, lighting, thermal and sound insulation, fire protection and designing for access. A set of metric/imperial conversion tables are also included. |
| REF: 978 0471268925 | A Global History of Architecture | PRICE: R 1,050.00 |
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| by Francis D.K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash.
A Global History of Architecture presents an innovative approach to the study of architectural history as it is organized along a global timeline. Spanning 3500 BCE to the present, this unique guide is written by an all-star team of architectural experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts and influences of architectural movements throughout history. |
| REF: 978 0470852910 | Eco Design - A Manual for Ecological Design | PRICE: R 1,320.00 |
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| by Ken Yeang.
A highly informative and comprehensive manual on ecological design. The book is intended as a resource, both theoretical and practical for students academics in the discipline and for those engaged in allied trades and construction who want to incorporate green ideas into their working practices. The book gives easy to follow instructions, accompanied by numerous illustrations on how to design, build, manufacture and use green sustainable architecture and products |
| REF: 978 3764371098 | Facade Construction Manual | PRICE: R 1,925.00 |
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| by Herzog, Krippner and Lang. For todays architects and engineers, the design and construction of the building envelope presents a challenge on a scale never seen before. Besides the diversity of the functions to be fulfilled, the specific properties and the potential of the different materials play a crucial role in the design of the facade. This manual outlines hte technical background for the designer and provides specific details about stone, clay, glass, timber, plastics, concrete, and metal in a compact work of refernce. It also includes information on glass double facades, manipulators and solar energy, essential aspects designing for the 21st century. More than 100 design examples. Material related solutions for facade designs. 250 detail drawings and 400 illustrations. Documentation of the technical basis for design. |
| REF: 062025723 | Enviro-friendly Methods in Small Building Design for South Africa | PRICE: R 140.00 |
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| by Alaric Napier B. Arch. Published in 2000 and published by the author. This book contains chapters on: Fundamentals- The Envelope - Clothes- Buildings, the Human Body - Passive Principles, Heat and Building Materials, Solar Control - Roof, Walls, Windows, Thermal Control, Outdoor Living, Environmental Site Design, Planning and Design Methods, Climatic Regions and Appropriate Design and Services, Embodied Energy, the Contract and the Client. |
| REF: 978 0750652810 | Metric Handbook Planning and Design Data Third Edition | PRICE: R 850.00 |
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| Edited by David Littlefield. The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design data for architects. This new edition has been updated to include the most recent changes to regulation and practice - in particular the increasing emphasis on environmental legislation - to meet the needs of the modern building design professional. For each building type the book gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data, and succinct guidance on how to use the information and what regulations the designer may need to be aware of.
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| REF: 978 3764374679 | Sustainable Living 25 International Examples | PRICE: R 1,050.00 |
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| by Dominique Gauzin-Muller. This book offers a thorough and technically detailed documentation of 25 sustainable residential structures, both in the high-tech and low-tech domain. The individual projects differ greatly in size and in the materials used. The examples are chosen from 18 countries on all five continents and are located both in rural and urban areas. |
| REF: 978 0750667975 | Tropical Sustainable Architecture Social and Environmental Dimensions | PRICE: R 815.00 |
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| The tropical belt - where large areas of South East Asia, Africa and parts of both North and South America are located - forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally, architecture in these regions share common problems, the most easily identifiable being the tropical conditions of climate and natural environment. This book developed from the first conference of the International Network for Tropical Arhcitecture supplies a wealth of information from experts worldwide covering cultural, environmental and technical aspects of thinking, researching and designing for the tropics.
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| REF: 978 0750682022 | Flexible Housing | PRICE: R 770.00 |
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| Flexible Housing is housing that can adjust to changing needs and patterns, both social and technological. This book argues that flexible housing has the potential to make a key contribution to more adaptable and therefore more sustainable buildings, showing how it has clear social and economic benefits. Specially commissioned plans, printed to scale, together with over 200 illlustrations and diagrams allow direct visual comparisons to be made. |
| REF: 978 0750686174 | Architects Pocket Book | PRICE: R 400.00 |
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| by Charlotte Baden-Powell, Jonathan Hetreed & Ann Ross. This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis - on site or in the studio. |
| REF: 978 0500342497 | Micro Architecture | PRICE: R 350.00 |
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| by Richard Horden. This book gives information on lightweight, mobile and ecological buildings for the future. With 680 illustrations. |
| REF: 978 3938780312 | Magic Metal - Buildings of Steel, Aluminium, Copper and Tin | PRICE: R 635.00 |
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| Projects selected by Dirk Meyhofer. Magic Metal in Architecture - no other material develops so many different facets in the application. Whether in the form of skin and bones or as a high-tech facade, brilliant constructions always bring the quality of metal into focus. On the basis of about seventy projects from the last five years, this publication presents how steel and aluminium have developed for constructional purpose and how archaic materials such as copper create future potentials. |
| REF: 978 0500342435 | New Tent Architecture | PRICE: R 690.00 |
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| by Philip Drew. The first book on the history of the tent and its use, along with an international survey of the most exciting contemporary fabric structures. The tent is one of the oldest man-made structures. Prized for its lightness, mobility, small footprint and structural elegance, it has been used for centuries by nomadic cultures. With increasing ecological concerns and the new formal possibilities offered by innovative materials and technologies, tents and tensile structures offer exciting fand significant solutions to age-old problems. The core of the book comprises thirty contemporary projects grouped by theme - ring roofs, atrium covers, small peaks, large waves - each presented in detail through descriptions, photographs and line drawings. |
| REF: 978 0473099701 | Stone House A Guide to Self-Building with Slipforms | PRICE: R 350.00 |
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| by Tomm Stanley. Includes Slipforming Methods, sourcing materials, passive solr principles, making concrete, stonelaying, moulding and casting techniques, stripping and refurbishing recycled timber and more. |
| REF: 978 3938780503 | Touch Wood The Rediscovery of a Building Material | PRICE: R 635.00 |
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| by Dirk Meyhofer. Wood demands to be touched. It embodies not only a feeling of well-being and stability, but also a natural charm that is comforting and life-affirming. This economical, multifunctional and renewable resource has been in use as a building material for centuries; yet in the current age of energy conciousness and ecological awareness it is gaining fresh attention. Todays architects are testing bold new interpretations of this traditional building material, resulting in some very special buildings. Touch Wood presents 63 international projects, from architects as varied as Kengo Kuma, Steven Holl and Matteo Thun. |
| REF: 978 0750665575 | Design-Tech Building Science for Architects | PRICE: R 575.00 |
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| by Jason Alread and Thomas Leslie. Taking a fresh, holistic approach to the topic of architectural technology, this indispensible book looks at the why as well as the how of building science, providing comprehensive, clear and concise introduction to the subject.
Written by two practicing architects who teach building technology and design, the text exsures that the reader is given the full picture of the discipline, as it integrates technical material with design sensibilities. Includes hundreds of illustrations and numerous case studies that show how these theories work in practice. |
| REF: 978 0750684507 | Specifying Buildings - A Design Management Perspective Second Edition | PRICE: R 550.00 |
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| by Stephen Emmitt & David Yeomans. This book provides a unique insight into the entire specification process, from selecting materials and products to writing the specification, dealing with changes and minimising risk. This new edition has been extensively revised and includes new case studies, research findings and reviewes to illustrate how to translate design intent into building assembly. This book is structured to meet the needs of students on construction-related programmes such as architecture, engineering, surveying and construction management. |
| REF: 978 0750683005 | Sustainability at the Cutting Edge - Emerging Technologies for Low Energy Buildings - Second Edition | PRICE: R 620.00 |
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| by Peter Smith. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state-of-the-art case studies, but also with the very lastest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy.
Packed with useful diagrams, charts and full colour photographs, this immensely practical books is a great reference for professionals in the design and construction industry. |
| REF: 978 0936070421 | The Barefoot Architect - A Handbook for Green Building | PRICE: R 200.00 |
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| by Johan van Legen. This is the first English translation of this International Bestseller. Contents include chapters on: Adobe, rammed earth, bamboo, plaster wood, concrete and ferro-cement. Also, foundations, roofs, floors, walls, doors, windows and eco-techniques. This green building handbook also includes information on solar heating, water-powered electricity, natural cooling, ventilation and wood stoves, water purification, pumps, cisterns, septic and composting toilets. |
| REF: 978 3764386696 | Components and Connections - Principles of Construction | PRICE: R 480.00 |
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| by Maarten Meijs and Ulrich Knaack. Every building is composed of parts or components that may be organised in various ways. There are, for instance, different ways to configure walls so that they perform their primary function - bearing, dividing and sheltering - in an efficient way. The individual elements, such as floor slabs, roofs and openings, are described with their various functions, and the possibilities for connecting them are explained. The book goes beyond the wealth of possible detail to demonstrate the basic principles of architectural detailing. Numerous specially prepared drawings set forth the principles of components and then illustrate them with built examples. |
| REF: 978 3899861075 | Media Facades - History, Technology and Content | PRICE: R 800.00 |
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| by M. Hank Haeusler. This book introduces a canon of media architectural terminology and traces the history of media facades from early examples of embeddidng media in architecture, like Times Square, New York, and Centre Pompidou in Paris, through to the present day. State of the art developments are documented by preenting 36 international projects of contemporary media architecture, classified in seven distinct technical categories: mechanical facades, projection facades, rear projection facades, illuminated facades, window raster animation, display facades and voxel facades. |
| REF: 978 0500342374 | The Architecture of Parking | PRICE: R 500.00 |
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| by Simon Henley. A vibrant, quirky survey of the finest examples of parking garages and a presentation of exciting and innovative designs.
This is the first comprehensive international survey of one of the most neglected but most important building types of the modern era: the parking garage. An introduction sets out the history and architectural significance of these buildings and their relevance today, and is followed by four main chapters that define the most influential aspects of parking design: elevations and facades; construction and materiality; the use of light; and experimentation. This books wide-ranging importance and detailed plans make it an indispensible and inspirational resource for students, architects, engineers, urban planners and developers. |
| REF: 978 3938780510 | Pure Plastic New Materials for Todays Architecture | PRICE: R 635.00 |
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| by Chris van Uffelen. In the last hundred years plastics have carved out a signigficant place for themselves in culture. This proliferation of the easily processed material is certainly due to its ability to assume practically any form and fulfull a wide range of function. Plastics stand for stability, flexibility and long life. New developments and discoveries constantly push new applications, thereby challenging architects and designers to ever more bold, creative experiments using this modern material. Pure Plastic introduces 64 international projects. |
| REF: 978 0750685856 | Architecture in Detail | PRICE: R 660.00 |
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| by Graham Bizley. this books is a collection of detailed studies of recent construction projects, selected from the authors works as first published in the Building Design magazine, In Detail.
Produced in full colour, each project featured within the book consists of striking, detailed drawings, supplemented by photographs and explantory text. Included projects have been selected for their use of innovative techniques and represent some of the most intetesting examples of recent architecture. |
| REF: 978 0750681179 | Design for Diversity Exploring Socially Mixed Neighbourhoods | PRICE: R 660.00 |
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| by Emily Talen. The city ismore that a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse - in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity - and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful. This book provides urban designers and architects with design strategies and tools to ensure that their work sustains and nurtures social diversity. |
| REF: 978 0750687041 | Introduction to Architectural Science - The Basis of Sustainable Design - Second Edition | PRICE: R 450.00 |
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| by Steven Szokolay. Fully updated and revised, this new edition provides a trusted and comprehensive refernce tool demonstrating the basic principles of sustainable design for architects and designers. Giving an overview of deisgning and controlling indoor environmental conditions, this book shows how variables such as heat, light and sound can be controlled with the best use of renewable energy sources. |
| REF: 978 0750663946 | Sustainable Construction | PRICE: R 640.00 |
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| by Sandy Halliday. This groundbreaking book will help all building design, managment and cost professionals to understand sustainable deisgn and provide the technical skills needed to implement the most up-to-date concepts. Based on a hugely successful series of workshops for professionals in construction, the books covers the history of ideas, materials, measurement - both cost and benchmarking performance, environmental services and the building design and delivery process through to post-occupancy evaluation. It covers individual buildings and the urban scale. This book is a masterclass in how to achieve practical, affordable, replicable, sustainable design. |
| REF: 978 0750669856 | Architectural Design and Ethics Tools for Survival | PRICE: R 450.00 |
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| by Thomas Fischer. This book offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves.
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| REF: 978 3938780367 | Architectural Details: Doors | PRICE: R 450.00 |
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| Doors are prominent and essential elements of all buildings. As a connecting space that simultaneously encloses and exposes and interior, the door is primal, yet very intricate architectural component charged with unmistakable mystery. This book reveals the harmony achieved by their versatile proportions, design, materials and colors. |
| REF: 978 3938780473 | Architectural Details: Pillars | PRICE: R 450.00 |
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| A pillar finds myriad applications around us: As a free-standing support it creates places of refuge, as an ornamental detail it surrounds edifices with enchanting decor, or simply carries the load as part of a buildings structure. This comprehensive collection of photographs documents how this architectural element has been and continues to be used in the various executions, materials and colors that have enchanted building masters from then and until now. |
| REF: 978 3938780381 | Architectural Details: Facades | PRICE: R 450.00 |
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| Facades are the first feature one notices in a building. they determine its distinctive appearance, communicate its purpose - and sometimes become subjects of intense debate. the facade is an expression of idividuality, imparting a unique face on each building. |
| REF: 978 3938780374 | Architectural Details: Windows | PRICE: R 450.00 |
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| Windows serve as the eye of the house as the eye is the window to the soul. Opening up the wall, windows are the essential means of contact between the internal and external world of the building, facilitating exchange in both directions - they permit light and air to move into the space, while allowing the gaze to travel beyond. This copiously illustrated book presents a varied selection of windows from Europes architectural capitals. A plentitude of high-quality photographs reveals the intriguing diverfsity of style, proportions and color in European window design of all epochs. |
| REF: 978 3938780466 | Architectural Details: Stairs | PRICE: R 450.00 |
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| Every building taller than one story has a very important common element - the stairs. They are an essential structure for crossing height differences. Having fulfilled this functional requirement, the architect has a lot of elbowroom in designing and constructing. As a preferred meeting place or a setting for public events, step for step, the stairs ensure communication and movement. this volume examines the architectural plurality of the urban stairwell. From pared-down treads to refined steps leading to breathtaking heights and to commanding open-air perrons - the richly illustrated volume take the reader on a foray through Europe. |
| REF: 978 1856695664 | Introduction to Architectural Technology | PRICE: R 440.00 |
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| by Pete Silver & Will McLean. Understanding the relationship between design and technology is critical to the understanding of architecture. Aimed clearly at the architectural student, this book provides an accessible introduction to all aspects of architectural technology: structural physics, structural elements and forms, heating, lighting, environmental control and computer modelling. As well as providing a clear grounding in these topics, it will also help students to integrate their design thinking with appropriate structural and environmental solutions. The book sets out to explain the relationships between physical phenomena, materials, building elements and structural types using simple classification systems and real world examples. Photographs are used to familiarize the user with common construction technology, while historical examples are employed to chart significant moments in the history of architectural engineering. In addition, this volume explores current computer techniques for assisting students to predict the structural and environmental behaviour of buildings. It also uses historical precedents to explain how the success of a tachnology is directly related to it cultural context. |
| REF: 978 0500500163 | Burley Katon Halliday (BKH) | PRICE: R 880.00 |
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| BKH - no names are needed. The style certainty of this Sydney firm of architectural designers resonates. Burley Katon Halliday has influenced a generation of designers and clients with waterside apartments, grand interiors of signature buildings, dramatic restaurants and retail spaces, corporate headquarters adn harbourside homes that consistently challenge convention, and have pioneered a particular Sydney Modernism grounded in style and engulfing elegance. |
| REF: 978 0500500156 | VOLUME John Wardle Architects | PRICE: R 1,210.00 |
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| by Leon van Schaick, Paul Carter, Christopher McAuliffe, Andrew Hutson and Davina Jackson. This 2008 book contains essays on some of the works of John Wardle Architects plus many buildings in Melbourne, Adelaide, Victoria and Sydney Australia. Beautiful photographs and drawings fill the pages. |
| REF: 978 0470772706 | Cities People Planet Urban Development and Climate Change Second Edition | PRICE: R 725.00 |
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| by Herbert Girardet. Urban growth is changing the condition of humanity and the face of the earth. Half the worlds people now live in cities, with most of the other half depending on them for their economic survival. Since 2004 this publication has established itself as the classic book on urbanisation. With this new edition, the fast-moving text and ninety case studies of leading-edge city initiatives the world over, have been supplemented by a new chapter that looks how cities are constructivelt tackling climate change as the changes to both the biosphere and the atmosphere have become undisputed and as the depletion of natural resosurces are becoming a major constraint. |
| REF: 978 0470130629 | Sustainable Design - The Science of Sustainability and Green Engineering | PRICE: R 1,160.00 |
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| by Daniel Vallero and Chris Brasier. Written to enable readers to take a more scientific approach to sustainable design, the book offers many practical features including: Case studies presenting the authors firsthand accounts of actual green projects. Lessons learned from Duke Universitys Smart House Program that demonstrates the concepts and techniques discussed in the book. Excercises that encourage readers to use their newfound knowledge to solve green design problems. Figures, tables and sidebars illustratin g key concepts and summarizing imporatant points. Refernces leading to additional resource and information. |
| REF: 978 0471777519 | Sustainable Urbanism - Urban Design with Nature | PRICE: R 1,090.00 |
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| by Douglas Farr. This book celebrates the magical power of design and of an emerging pattern of human settlement - Sustainable Urbanism - that holds the promise of strengthing th interdependence of all life on earth. This book is a strategic call for leadership in the design and development of places where Americans live, work and play. From the Preface by Andres Duany |
