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Architecture and Culture
Author(s): Gregory H. Tew, Amrita Raja
This textbook explores how forces beyond design—including money, politics, and the environment—shape our buildings. It investigates how architecture both reflects and influences the cultures that create it, examining how people have built and lived in spaces over time. By understanding the successes...
Digital Production Practices for Designers
Author(s): Cherise Robb
Digital Production Practices for Designers introduces students to an industry-specific software program used to create accurate drawings for the build process, plus the topics that surround the use of this software. Students are introduced to:The design process Design drawings, as they relate to eac...
Finding Human Centered Design Solutions: Exploring Interiority Attributes
Author(s): Sherrill Baldwin-Halbe
Human Centered Design Solutions: Exploring Interiority Attributes explores and advances the importance of human centered design in architecture, interior design and allied fields in design. By definition, the concept of interiority (the mental and physical essence of the interior) closely aligns wit...
The Complete Facilities Manager
Author(s): Daniel Demland
The Complete Facilities Manager provides you with a foundational base for the critical thinking required to design, construct, and maintain facilities of all sizes and shapes to increase the value of large investment assets for any organization. This book is written from the perspective of an archit...
Architecture of the World: The Story of All of Us
Author(s): Mark Comeau
It is intended that this book be para-conventional. Just as the design of architecture can be avant-garde while at the same time being reflective, the format contained herein offers a pictorially-centric layout while containing related briefs. As a text book that accompanies the lecture portion ...
The Contextual Nature of Design and Everyday Things
Author(s): Jacques Giard
The Contextual Nature of Design and Everyday Things focuses on the history of industrial design beginning in the 18th century in principally in Europe and the United States but does so with a thematic twist. Instead of revealing the world of everyday things in a chronological manner as many books do...