The Gothic Cathedral – Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order

ARCHITECTURE

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The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order

The Gothic Cathedral is the most stimulating and comprehensive work on the subject to date If the cathedrals are to be understood, Mr von Simson rightly declares, they must be seen not in the light of twentieth-century esthetic observation, but of twelfth-century religious experience, through which the supernatural permeated every aspect of human existence The resulting interpretation of the monuments is a critical tour de force

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Annette Spiro, David Ganzoni
The Working Drawing: The Architect’s Tool

Large-scale working drawings are one of the fundamental tools in architecture, crucial from the early stages of creation up through the actual construction of buildings Surprisingly, however, there has been very little published analysis of this tool The Working Drawing fills that gap, drawing on a vast collection of working drawings held by the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich

Annette Spiro, who assembled and categorized the collection itself, here presents one hundred highlights, with the assistance of coeditor David Ganzoni The drawings featured span more than five centuries, cover a range of architectural tasks, and display a striking array of representational techniques All the drawings are presented in full-color via large-trim spreads or fold-outs, accompanied by full catalog information and actual-size detail shots The buildings featured range from masterpieces such as St Peter’s Basilica in Rome to contemporary classics by Peter Zumthor, Diller + Scofidio, and more Twelve essays by renowned authors thread through the volume, giving context and analyzing the different approaches The result is a landmark volume, sure to be of value both to students and to practicing architects

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Jiren Feng
Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the Yingzao Fashi Building Manual (Spatial Habitus)

This book investigates the historical tradition of Chinese architectural writing from antiquity to the Song period, with a focus on a building manual titled Yingzao Fashi (Building Standards 1103) It explores the rich cultural connotations and architectural concepts reflected in the technical contend of the Yingzao Fashi This is the first exploration in a Western language of this foundational text

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Mark W Maier
The Art of Systems Architecting, Third Edition (Systems Engineering)

“If engineering is the art and science of technical problem solving, systems architecting happens when you do not yet know what the problem is The third edition of a highly respected bestseller, The Art of Systems Architecting provides in-depth coverage of the least understood part of systems design: moving from a vague concept and limited resources to a satisfactory and feasible system concept and an executable program The book delineates a practical, heuristic approach to the “art” of systems architecting, giving you methods for embracing, and then taming, the growing complexity of modern systems ” “Extensively rewritten to reflect the latest developments, the text describes how to create a system from scratch, presenting invention/design rules together with clear explanations of how to use them The author supplies practical guidelines for avoiding common systematic failures while implementing new mandates He uses a heuristics-based approach that provides an organized attack on ill-structured engineering problems Examining architecture as more than a set of diagrams and documents, but as a set of decisions that either drives a system to success or dooms it to failure, the book provides methods for integrating business strategy with technical architectural decision making “

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Marshall Long
Architectural Acoustics

This book presents a comprehensive technical overview of the field at a level suitable for working practitioners as well as advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate architecture or engineering course The book is structured as a logical progression through acoustic interactions It will be particularly beneficial for architects and engineers working in fields where speech intelligibility, music appreciation, and noise isolation are critical

This is comprehensive guide to the basics of acoustical science and its applications to architectural design
Beginning with an architectural history, it reviews the fundamentals of acoustics, human perception and reaction to sound, acoustic noise measurements and noise metrics, and environmental noise It then moves into wave acoustics, sound and solid surfaces, sound in enclosed spaces, sound transmission loss, sound transmission in buildings, vibration and vibration isolation, noise transmission in floor systems, noise in mechanical systems, and sound attenuation in ducts
Chapters on specific design problems follow including treatment of multifamily dwellings, office buildings, rooms for speech, sound reinforcement systems, rooms for music, multipurpose rooms, auditoriums, sanctuaries, and studios and listening rooms While providing a thorough overview of acoustics, it also includes the theory of loudspeaker systems and sound system modeling as well as an in-depth presentation of computer modeling, ray tracing and auralization

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