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
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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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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

Professional Practice for Interior Designers

Editor: Christine M. Piotrowski
Publisher: John Wiley &Sons, Inc., 2002
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Contents:

Part I An Introduction to the Profession of Interior Design

1. The Profession

2. Ethics

3. Personal Goal Setting

Part II How to Establish an Interior Design Practice

4. Planning a New Interior Design Practice

5. Advice and Counsel

6. Business Formations

7. Legal Filings

8. On Your Own

9. Business Organization and Management

10. The Planning Function

11. Personnel Management

12. Legal Issues of Employment

13. Legal Responsibilities

14. Warranties and Product Liability

15. Financial Accounting

16. Financial Management

17. Determining Design Fees

18. Preparing Design Contracts

19. Product Pricing Considerations

20. The Sale of Goods and the Uniform

21. Marketing Interior Design Services

22. Promoting the Interior Design Practice

23. Advanced Promotional Tools

24. Selling Your Services

25. Design Presentations

26. Personal Power

27. Project Management Techniques

28. Working with Trade Sources

29. Contract Documents and Specifications

30. Contract Administration

31. Contract Administration: Delivery and Project Closeout

32. Career Options

33. Getting the Next—or First—Job 577

Planning Middle Eastern Cities : An urban kaleidoscope in a globalizing world

Editor: Yasser Elsheshtawy
Publisher: Routledge, First published 2004
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Contents:

1 The Middle East City: Moving beyond the Narrative of Loss

2 The Merits of Cities’ Locations

Overview and Developments

3 The Spatial Development and Urban Transformation of Colonial and Postcolonial Algiers

4 Globalization and the Search for Modern Local Architecture: Learning from Baghdad

5 Sana’a: Transformation of the Old City and the Impacts of the Modern Era

Case Studies: Redrawing Boundaries

6 Lake Tunis, or the Concept of the Third Centre

7 Cairo’s Urban Déjà Vu: Globalization and Urban Fantasies

8 Redrawing Boundaries: Dubai, an Emerging Global City