The Housing Floor Plan Atlas, for 10 years the bestseller among our reference works, has lost none of its actuality. Ground floor planning and living space requirements have changed little over the past decade, but the selected case-studies and their graphic presentation have been updated to satisfy the demands of today’s audience. This new edition [&hellip
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Product Details Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: Edizioni Press (October 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 1931536384 ISBN-13: 978-1931536387 Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.8 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces Average Customer Review:Be the first to review this item Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,499,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) RECEIVE 10% OFF THIS TITLE WITH [&hellip
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Written by experts, Sustainable Housing brings new perspectives on residential sustainability, using case studies of latest practice. This book is based upon the ‘Housing and Sustainability’ conference at the RIBA in 1998, which intended to guide action into the next century, setting down key principles, providing important new technical information and setting UK practices in [&hellip
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Issue 3, Housing Tactics, provides an in-depth look at innovative housing strategies across the Americas. Feature articles investigate a diverse range of subtopics: etekt.com and house_n, innovations which strive to use technology in the design and production of the single-family home; results of the Chicago Housing Competition; and recent housing projects by architects Stanley Saitowitz, [&hellip
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The design of high-density housing is inextricably linked to the growth of towns and cities: as urban centers have increased in both geographical size and density, housing has had to be provided to accommodate the numbers and needs of the population. Whether highly visible or merged with the existing cityscape, a vast proportion of the fabric [&hellip
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As cities evolve architects are constantly searching for appropriate architectonic solutions, and in this book the authors present a systematic examination of innovative single-family houses and residential buildings in the context of presentday cities. The latest developments are reviewed in essays and thematic chapters discuss such topics as lowenergy building, the use of prefabricated materials, [&hellip
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