Wild Buildings and Bridges

Wild Buildings and Bridges
Author: Etta Kaner
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1771387815

The surprising ways nature has influenced architecture. It may come as a surprise to learn that architects have found solutions to all kinds of design challenges in nature! Some have looked to nature to solve a structural problem, like creating an earthquake-proof bridge by mimicking the extremely long roots of a special type of grass. Others have turned to nature for artistic inspiration, designing buildings and bridges that evoke the movement of swimming fish or a bird in flight. When it comes to style and structure, nature and architecture make perfect partners! From cactuses to birdsĂȘ wings, termite towers to honeycombs, inspiration for ingenious design is everywhere around us!

The Progressive Synthesis of Architecture and Engineering in Modern Bridge Design

The Progressive Synthesis of Architecture and Engineering in Modern Bridge Design
Author: Timothy Brian Shabanowitz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN:

History states that architects and engineers rarely operate in a peaceful environment as each have their own specific agendas to fulfill. The architect appeals to the plastic form of a building before tending to its structural behavior while the engineer tends towards the opposite. While both are striving for a workable structure, their priorities are mismatched. Bridge building, through history usually was considered an engineering feat as it was strictly constructed to traverse a crevasse, waterway or some other obstacle. However through the 20th century, the respective roles have evolved and bridges have become more than a mere span. The architect has revolutionized the art of building a bridge, but was it the technology of the engineer that helped propel the architect or was it just a simple awakening by the architectural community? By analyzing a variety of bridges by Santiago Calatrava and Robert Maillart among other architects and engineers that have been the most influential in this movement, and their construction process, form, materials, and design process, et al., it can be observed how the bridge building process has evolved. Bridge building is an engineering movement no more, but it is not an architectural movement either. In part, by way of these bridge building pioneers, the two professions have started to sideline their angst and ridicule and create a new harmony throughout the built environment.

Architecture & Sustainable Development (vol.1)

Architecture & Sustainable Development (vol.1)
Author: Magali Bodart
Publisher: Presses univ. de Louvain
Total Pages: 917
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 2874632767

This book of Proceedings presents the latest thinking and research in the rapidly evolving world of architecture and sustainable development through 255 selected papers by authors coming from over 60 countries.

Smart Technologies and Design For Healthy Built Environments

Smart Technologies and Design For Healthy Built Environments
Author: Ming Hu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3030512924

Smart Technologies and Design for Healthy Built Environment connects smart technology to a healthy built environmentthat builds upon the sustainable building movement.It provides an overall summary of the state-of-the-art technologies that are applied in the built environment. The book covers a broad spectrum of smart technology categories ranging from dynamic operability, energy efficiency, self-regulating and self-learning systems, and responsive systems. The foreseeable challenges that are associated with smart technologies are discussed and outlined in the book. Firstly, this book provides a snapshot of state-of-the-art smart technologies being applied in the built environment. It covers a broad spectrum of smart technology categories, ranging from dynamic operability, energy efficiency, self-regulating and self-learning systems, to responsive systems. Secondly, this book provides in-depth analysis of the four primary components of health (biological, physical, physiological and psychological); their effects on wellbeing and cognitive performance are introduced as well. Thirdly, it connects smart technologies to those health-influencing factors by reviewing three completed smart building projects. This book can also serve as a basis for education and discussion among professionals and students of diverse backgrounds who are interested in smart technologies, smart building, and healthy building. Smart Technologies and Design for Healthy Built Environment serves as the basis for education and discussions among professionals and students who are interested in smart technologies, smart building and healthy building, as it bridges the gap between smart technologies and a healthy built environment. The book also provides a foundation for anyone who is interested in the impact of smart technology on the health of built environment.

The Architecture of Bridge Design

The Architecture of Bridge Design
Author: David Bennett
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997
Genre: Bridges
ISBN: 0727725297

The role of the designer and architect in the planning and design of bridges is undergoing radical change, with architects now being appointed before the engineer on a growing number of projects. The relationship between the two roles is therefore on a different level than either will have previously experienced. This book details the process of design whereby the inspiration for a bridge is developed into the final reality of the built solution. It looks at the functions of a bridge, defining purpose of place and context, the spirit of creativity and the reasoned progression of an idea. It also explores the exploitation of materials technology and construction innovation, and the tension between lightness and mass and between sculpture and scale. The architecture of bridge design takes the form of a number of submissions from leading architects and engineers, each setting out their views on bridge design - present and future. As well as providing vital source material for those tendering for bridge projects in which they will be closely involved in the design process, it also provides a state-of-the-art statement on modern bridge design form the viewpoint of client, architect and engineer.

Architecture and Alienation

Architecture and Alienation
Author: David Clarke
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781412835916

The debate over architecture has been raging for years & shows no signs of abatement. In these entertaining yet serious essays, Clarke traces the origin of the malaise of modern architecture to schools of architecture themselves, both in the United States & France. He is also critical of contemporary artists, & laments the fact that modern art has now lost its connection to architecture. Clarke believes that contemporary architects have alienated the public with hideous buildings & this disaffection will eventually result in the destruction of their profession. He urges renewed recognition of the interdependence of architecture & society, & of the humanities & architecture. This engagingly written work is an important cross-cultural commentary on the state of Western architecture, art & education today. Clarke is professor of Advanced Technical Studies at Southern Illinois University & author of a number of books on architecture & environmental design. Includes an introduction by David Watkin, Head of the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge.