Image Of the City

Author: Kevin Lynch
Publisher: Twentieth Printing 1990 by Massachusetts Institute Of Tecnology
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The Evolution of Designs : Biological analogy in architecture and the applied arts

Author: Philip Steadman
Publisher: First published 1979 by the Syndics of Cambridge University Press, This revised edition published 2008 by Routledge
Size: 2.5 MB
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Contents:

1 Introduction

2 The organic analogy

3 The classificatory analogy: Building types and natural species

4 The anatomical analogy: Engineering structure and the animal skeleton

5 The ecological analogy: The environments of artefacts and organisms

6 The Darwinian analogy: Trial and error in the evolution of organisms and artefacts

7 The evolution of decoration

8 Tools as organs or as extensions of the physical body

9 How to speed up craft evolution?

10 Design as a process of growth

11 ‘Biotechnics’: Plants and animals as inventors

12 Hierarchical structure and the adaptive process: Biological analogy in Alexander’s Notes on the Synthesis of Form13 The consequences of the biological fallacy: Functional determinism

14 The consequences of the biological fallacy: Historical determinism and the denial of tradition

15 What remains of the analogy? The history and science of the artificial

Integrated Strategies In Architecture-REUPLOADED

Editors: Joan Zunde & Hocine Bougdah
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, First published 2006
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Contents:
PART 1 THE PURPOSE OF BUILDINGS
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Origins
CHAPTER 2: Moderation of the environment
CHAPTER 3: Use of available technology
CHAPTER 4: The demands of the community
Bibliography
PART 2 THE DESIGN TEAM
Introduction
CHAPTER 5: The specialists and how they work together
CHAPTER 6: The client’s role
CHAPTER 7: Communication
CHAPTER 8: Professional responsibility
Bibliography
PART 3 THE DESIGN PROCESS
Introduction
CHAPTER 9: Creative problem-solving
CHAPTER 10: The problem
CHAPTER 11: The process in action
CHAPTER 12: Aesthetics
CHAPTER 13: Evaluation
CHAPTER 14: Completion
Bibliography
PART 4 SPACE
Introduction
CHAPTER 15: Tailored versus loose-fit outcomes
CHAPTER 16: Functional requirements
CHAPTER 17: Anthropometrics and ergonomics
CHAPTER 18: Relationships between spaces
Bibliography
PART 5 ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Introduction
CHAPTER 19: Principles of environmental design
CHAPTER 20: Design strategies
CHAPTER 21: Case studies
Bibliography
PART 6 STRUCTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
Introduction
CHAPTER 22: Structural materials
CHAPTER 23: Structures for domestic buildings
CHAPTER 24: Design of structural elements
Bibliography

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Author: Robert Venturi
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Contents:

1. Nonstraightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto

2. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness

3. Ambiguity

4. Contradictory Levels: The Phenomenon of "Both-And" in Architecture

5. Contradictory Levels Continued: The Double-Functioning Element

6. Accommodation and the Limitations of Order: The Conventional Element

7. Contradiction Adapted

8. Contradiction Juxtaposed

9. The Inside and the Outside

10. Theobligation Toward the Difficult Whole

11. Works

Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and social Practice

Editor: Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann 
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1996
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Contents:

Modernism, Postmodernism, and Architecture's Social Project

Thomas A. Button and Lian Hurst Mann

1 The Suppression of the Social in Design: Architecture as War 

Anthony Ward

2 The F Word in Architecture: Feminist Analyses in/of/for Architecture

Sherry Ahrentzen

3 Second Nature: On the Social Bond of Ecology and Architecture

Richard Ingersoll

4 Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy: Cultural Pedagogy and Architecture

Thomas A. Button

5 Accommodation and Resistance: The Built Environment and the African American Experience

Bradford C. Grant

6 Deconstruction and Architecture

Margaret Soltan

7 Subverting the Avant-Garde: Critical Theory's Real Strategy

Lian Hurst Mann