Télécharger le livre :  Between Mechanics and Architecture
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This collection of essays reflects the author's decades-long dedication to studying the interplay between mechanics and architecture. It explores how advancements in mechanics have influenced architectural innovation and how the need for new architectural solutions has...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2025-01-31
Collection : Mathematics and the Built Environment
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158,24
Télécharger le livre :  Architecture Beyond the Cupola
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This book reviews Dante Bini’s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems. Dante Bini’s double profile of architect and builder underpins the narrative of the entire book. It is used to analyse the evolution...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2023-05-24
Collection : Mathematics and the Built Environment
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94,94
Télécharger le livre :  Architectural and Urban Subsymmetries
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This book focuses on symmetries in the analysis and synthesis of architectural designs. Crucial in the history of architecture, principles of symmetry provided the means to achieve balance and harmony of spatial composition in architecture. Less well known is the...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2022-09-24
Collection : Mathematics and the Built Environment
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105,49
Télécharger le livre :  Stereotomy
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This book deals with the general concepts in stereotomy and its connection with descriptive geometry, the social background of its practitioners and theoreticians, the general methods and tools of this technology, and the specific procedures for the members built in...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2020-08-08
Collection : Mathematics and the Built Environment
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137,14
Télécharger le livre :  Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach
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This book deals with the genre of geometric design in the Islamic sphere. Part I presents an overview of Islamic history, its extraordinary spread from the Atlantic to the borders of China in its first century, its adoption of the cultural outlook of the older...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2018-05-02
Collection : Mathematics and the Built Environment
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137,14
Télécharger le livre :  The Mathematics of the Modernist Villa
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This book presents the first detailed mathematical analysis of the social, cognitive and experiential properties of Modernist domestic architecture.The Modern Movement in architecture, which came to prominence during the first half of the twentieth century, may have...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2018-04-12
Collection : Mathematics and the Built Environment
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126,59
Télécharger le livre :  The Fractal Dimension of Architecture
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Fractal analysis is a method for measuring, analysing and comparing the formal or geometric properties of complex objects. In this book it is used to investigate eighty-five buildings that have been designed by some of the twentieth-century’s most respected and...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2016-09-01
Collection : Mathematics and the Built Environment
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126,59