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Generic representations. An approach for modelling procedural and declarative knowledge of ....Building Types
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ISBN: 9068145460 9789068145465 Year: 1997 Publisher: Eindhoven Technische Universiteit Uindhoven faculteit bouwkunde


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Skyscrapers : higher and higher
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ISBN: 2909283208 Year: 1995 Publisher: Paris : NORMA,

A history of building types
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ISBN: 0691018294 9780691018294 0691099049 0691252750 Year: 1976 Volume: 19 35 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university press,


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The skyward trend of thought : five essays on the metaphysics of the American skyscraper.
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ISBN: 906739002X Year: 1986 Publisher: 's-Gravenhage AHA books


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The New Nomads : Temporary Spaces and a Life on the Move
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ISBN: 9783899555585 3899555589 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berlin: Die Gestalten verlag,

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Mobility is the ultimate new form of freedom: freedom from routine, traditional values, and geographic restraints. Today's creatives thrive on a lifestyle that enables them to work six months in a shared office in Berlin, spend the summer in a caravan in Chile, and show up in time for their next project at a temporary desk in New York. This growing trend has generated visionary ways of designing products and spaces that facilitate a nomadic yet high-tech life. From a modular dwelling system on wheels to an inflatable classroom in a repurposed dumpster, this book compiles a wide range of flexible spaces and innovative products that define today's nomads. Through innovative technology, and by (literally) thinking outside the box, the designers behind these concepts give people the freedom to call the entire world their home. The New Nomads documents this trend, in particular showing the architecture, interior design, modular furniture, and multi-functional tools that this nomadic generation has developed for its own specific needs. Divided office floors with flexible uses, temporary living and working spaces that move with the nomads, multi-functional objects that are at once chair and storage space, table and bed, or cupboard and desk are all featured in the book. The necessary infrastructure is not hidden away but becomes the distinguishing design feature. Compactness and functionality meet a high standard for aesthetics, sustainability, and material. Representatives of this nomadic generation can be found across the globe. They leave traces, especially in major cities but also in transportation hubs. The sleeping pod at the airport is booked on short notice due to cancelled connecting flights. Desks, meeting rooms, showrooms, and catering are available for a few hours or days at a time if necessary. Experimental thinkers develop mobile units that can be used in conjunction with existing infrastructures or on their own. Putting down roots now means acquiring a weekend abode, a community garden, or a tree house. Through these innovative types of room concepts and furniture, a multi-functional temporary living space becomes a nomadic home. What might currently be perceived as an exception is, in fact, rapidly becoming the rule. The New Nomads explores a phenomenon that is already starting to make an impact on the work of architects, city planners, product designers, and employers worldwide.


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Terratektur : Einstieg in die unterirdische Architektur
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ISBN: 3764323337 Year: 1989 Publisher: Basel Birkhäuser

Buildings and power : freedom and control in the origin of modern building types
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ISBN: 0415076641 041507665X 9780415076654 9781315003153 9781136130847 9781136130922 9781136131004 9780415076647 Year: 1993 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The battles fought over class, ideology and language are represented most clearly in the explosion of new building types during the Century of Revolutions. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, Buildings and Power analyses architectural form, function and space to explore the reproduction and the subversion of power in the modern city.

Tower and office: from modernist theory to contemporary practice
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ISBN: 0262011913 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) MIT

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