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The Figure of Knowledge : Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s
Critical historiography of architectural theory It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmati…
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- 9789461663221
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- 720 LOO f
Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools
This open access book presents the main scientific results from the H2020 GUARD project. The GUARD project aims at filling the current technological gap between software management paradigms and cybersecurity models, the latter still lacking orchestration and agility to effectively address the dynamicity of the former. This book provides a comprehensive review of the main concepts, architecture…
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- 9783031040368
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Living with History, 1914-1964 : Rebuilding Europe after the First and Second…
Living with History focuses on a particular aspect of heritage preservation in the 20th century: destruction and post-war reconstruction in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands. This book establishes a status quaestionis for the historiography of wartime and post-war preservation, and sets these particular developments in preservation history in the context of the gen…
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- 9789461663962
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- 392 pages
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- KADOC-Artes
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- 900 BUL l
Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume II: The 150…
Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different discipli…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-00143-2
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- XIX, 690
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- 624.183 ARC a
Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume I: Antiquit…
Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different discipli…
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- 978-3-319-00137-1
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- XIX, 735
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- 624.183 ARC a
Excavations at Portchester Castle Vol. V: Post Medieval 1609–1819
In the fifth and final report on the excavations at Portchester Castle, the last stage of the castle’s useful life is considered in full. The excavations undertaken between 1961 and 1979 brough to light structural evidence of the various buildings erected during the period 1609–1819, together with a large collection of varied artefacts. This evidence is presented against the backgrounds of …
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- 9780854312641
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Counterfeit Integrated Circuits: Detection and Avoidance
This timely and exhaustive study offers a much-needed examination of the scope and consequences of the electronic counterfeit trade. The authors describe a variety of shortcomings and vulnerabilities in the electronic component supply chain, which can result in counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs). Not only does this book provide an assessment of the current counterfeiting problems facing both…
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- 9783319118246
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- XX, 269
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- 621.395
Discrete optimization in architecture : architectural & urban layout
This book presents three projects that demonstrate the fundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition - the layout design, evaluation and optimization. Part I describes the functional layout design of a residential building, and an evaluation of the quality of a town square (plaza). The algorithm for the functional layout design is based on backtracking using a constraint sa…
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- 9789811011061
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- XIV, 105
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- SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
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- 720
Louise Blanchard Bethune Every Woman Her Own Architect
As America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet, Bethune herself is an enigma. Due to scant information about her life and her firm, Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs, scholars have struggled to provide a complete picture of this trailblazer. …
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- 9781438492896
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A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture
The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806–84), a supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal Newman, was also a historian of architecture, and first published this glossary in 1836. Reissued here is the enlarged third edition of 1840. The work is ordered alphabetically, and illustrated with 700 woodcuts by various artists. As stated in the first edition's p…
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- 9781107446144
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
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