Rihan Xing Ed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine in fine dust jacket (in protector) ; White hardcover binding. Color photos, architectural drawings. Showcases work of innovative designs from architects throughout the world ; 4to (10.05 X 1.11 X 11.6 inches); 372 pages.

4°, Ppbd. m. SU. 372 S., mit 764 meist farb. Abb. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // As building materials and technologies advance, architects are creating new kinds of urban environments. Among the innovations showcased in this book that are contributing to new architectural forms are parametric modeling enabled by computer-aided technology, environmentally friendly building skins, and HOPSCAs a hybrid building type that can house hotels, offices, parking, shopping, a convention center, and apartments under one roof. The "dream" buildings in this book reflect a changing architectural and cultural environment, and the processes that turn these concepts from vision to reality will open a new chapter in architectural history. Many of the architects represented here are addressing themes of developments in structural and material technologies that will allow infinite possibilities in form. Within the new urban landscape of greater scale and complexity, architects must either find appropriate "new textures" or construct new rules. One imaginative process demonstrated here is the merging of nature and architecture sometimes accomplished through the use of natural forms, and at other times through materials and levels of energy consumption. A related new process, bionics the application of biological principles to the design of architectural systems has been used to streamline buildings and simulate nature. ISBN: 9783936681451 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2136.…