Engineering Books

Pages: 326,
Specialty: Architecture,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis,
Publication Year: 2015,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 189x246x19.05mm

Diversity and Design explores how design - whether of products, buildings, landscapes, cities, media, or systems - affects diverse members of society. Fifteen case studies in television, marketing, product design, architecture, film, video games, and more, illustrate the profound, though often hidden, consequences design decisions and processes have on the total human experience. The book not only investigates how gender, race, class, age, disability, and other factors influence the ways designers think, but also emphasizes the importance of understanding increasingly diverse cultures and, thus, averting design that leads to discrimination, isolation, and segregation. With over 140 full-color illustrations, chapter summaries, discussion questions and exercises, Diversity and Design is a valuable tool to help you understand the importance of designing for all.

Weight: 0.88 KG
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Pages: 290,
Specialty: Architecture,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis,
Publication Year: 2016,
Cover: Hardback,
Dimensions: 189x246x19.05mm

Digital Design Exercises for Architecture Students teaches you the basics of digital design and fabrication tools with creative design exercises, featuring over 200 illustrations, which emphasize process and evaluation as key to designing in digital mediums. The book is software neutral, letting you choose the software with which to edit raster and vector graphics and to model digital objects. The clear, jargon-free introductions to key concepts and terms help you experiment and build your digital media skills. During the fabrication exercises you will learn strategies for laser cutting, CNC (computer-numerically controlled) milling, and 3D printing to help you focus on the processes of design thinking. Reading lists and essays from practitioners, instructors, and theorists ground the exercises in both broader and deeper contexts and encourage you to continue your investigative journey.

Weight: 0.84 KG
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Pages: 472,
Specialty: Architecture,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis,
Publication Year: 2006,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 190.5x243.8x30.5mm

"Digital Compositing for Film and Video" is a hands-on, how-to guide that addresses the problems and difficult choices faced by the professional compositor in real-life situations. This book presents you with tips, tricks and techniques for dealing with the badly shot elements, color artifacts, and mismatched lighting that bedevil compositors. Included in this book is: in-depth, practical methods for blue screen matte extraction, despill operations, compositing operations, and color correction-the 'meat and potatoes' of all digital effects. Written in a completely software independent style, it is totally applicable to any brand of compositing software. The second edition contains many important additions: printed in full color with over 400 color photos and illustrations; companion DVD with 3.7 gigabytes of test images, including hard to get HiDef video and feature film scans; new section on working with HiDef video; new section on digital intermediate, the feature film finishing process of today; more Adobe Photoshop blending modes and procedures; and, new material that reveals the add-mix composite, light wrap, slot gags, and how to defeat banding problems.

Weight: 1.2 KG
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Pages: 253,
Specialty: Architecture,
Publisher: Libri ,
Publication Year: 2010,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 194x262x16mm

Bringing together some of the world's leading practitioners and thinkers from the fields of art, architecture, and design, this work reveals their working processes that break down traditional creative disciplinary boundaries. The collection provides a detailed insight into the techniques of these 10 significant creative individuals and how they exploit the latest computing technologies in their work and the impact such innovation will have for creative practices in the future.show more

Weight: 0.88 KG
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Pages: 320,
Specialty: Architecture,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis,
Publication Year: 2016,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 156x234mm

This second edition of Designing Tall Buildings, an accessible reference to guide you through the fundamental principles of designing high-rises, features two new chapters, additional sections, 400 images, project examples, and updated US and international codes. Each chapter focuses on a theme central to tall-building design, giving a comprehensive overview of the related architecture and structural engineering concepts. Author Mark Sarkisian, PE, SE, LEED(R) AP BD+C, provides clear definitions of technical terms and introduces important equations, gradually developing your knowledge. Projects drawn from SOM's vast portfolio of built high-rises, many of which Sarkisian engineered, demonstrate these concepts. This book advises you to consider the influence of a particular site's geology, wind conditions, and seismicity. Using this contextual knowledge and analysis, you can determine what types of structural solutions are best suited for a tower on that site. You can then conceptualize and devise efficient structural systems that are not only safe, but also constructible and economical. Sarkisian also addresses the influence of nature in design, urging you to integrate structure and architecture for buildings of superior performance, sustainability, and aesthetic excellence.

Weight: 0.52 KG
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Pages: 256,
Specialty: Architecture,
Publisher: Libri ,
Publication Year: 2014,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 152x228x16mm

This is a book conceived in the ever-widening realm of design practice and education. It is premised on the belief that the forces of globalization that have affected design practice for decades have, in recent years, manifest themselves in design education as well. Consequently, it brings authors, practitioners, and educators together from 10 countries across six continents. They each offer an overview of the socio-cultural and economic factors that affect the built environment in their particular region of the world. They discuss how the practices of architecture, interior design, planning, and landscape architecture interact with those forces but, equally as importantly, they discuss how design education does the same. This book is written by and for practitioners, educators, and students of the built environment whose critical eye is prepared to scan the globe for lessons that are both universally, but also specifically applicable to their own geographical and discipline context. It is more specifically geared to those who see the built environment through a socio-political prism and also as a model through which we can better understand that external context."show more

Weight: 0.62 KG
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Pages: 408,
Specialty: Architecture,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis,
Publication Year: 2006,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 187.96x243.84x25.4mm

Get the most realistic effects from 3ds Max without having to spend more on plug-ins! Boost your effects skill-set with this 3ds Max workshop. Tutorial lessons give you hands-on experience in creating realistic fire, earth, air and water effects. Updated to demonstrate production techniques suitable for any version of 3ds Max, this new edition is co-published by Autodesk Media and Entertainment, and includes new tutorials on entering the Earth's atmosphere, glaciers, lava eruptions and a Badlands landscape. Inspirational color images cover every page of the book as the author shares his professional techniques and workflow processes. The companion DVD contains all of the required tutorial media as well as over 6 hours of video tutorials. It features user level: intermediate and advanced realistic effects without plug-ins! Tutorial lessons demonstrate professional techniques and workflow processes. Companion DVD contains all of the required tutorial media plus additional video tutorials.

Weight: 1.2 KG
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Pages: 220,
Specialty: Architecture,
Publisher: Libri ,
Publication Year: 2010,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 150x226x10mm

This fascinating account looks at the increasingly sophisticated methods used--not just in advertising campaigns but also in art and architecture--to sell products to a smarter and ever more cynical public. Examining the underlying strategies and relating these to academic theories, this book will be of particular interest to students of advertising and retail architecture. The in-depth analysis is also packed with case studies, including the famous Benetton, Diesel, and Timberland advertising campaigns.show more

Weight: 0.42 KG
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Pages: 464,
Specialty: Architecture,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis,
Publication Year: 2017,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 174x246mm

The second edition of Corporate Real Estate Asset Management is fully up to date with the latest thought and practice on successful and efficient use of corporate office space. Written from an occupier's perspective, the book presents a ten-point CREAM model that offers advice on issues such as sustainability, workplace productivity, real estate performance measurement, change management and customer focus. In addition, new case studies provide real-life examples of how corporations in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi actively manage their corporate real estate. The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students on corporate real estate, facilities management and real estate courses and international MBA programmes.show more

Weight: 1 KG
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