Ian Stewart

Edward Denison

This accessible book is a visual guide to understanding and identifying architectural styles and engineering techniques of all types of bridges, from ancient Roman arch bridges and nineteenth-century truss bridges prevalent in the United States, to the latest high-design cantilever and suspension bridges of the moment. It explores the elegant and varied ways in which engineers and architects have designed ever longer yet less heavy bridges, devising new methods of construction along the way. Illustrated throughout with detailed line drawings and cross sections, including dramatic images of the world's iconic bridges, this charming guide still fits in a pocket or purse--perfect for anyone who likes to explore the dynamic bridges and built environment on foot.

A Crash Course in Engineering and Architecture

How to Read Bridges

Jonathan Glancey

Dragana Cebzan Antic

The 50 most significant principles and styles in architecture, each explained in half a minute. The bestselling 30-Second series offers a new approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Every title takes a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Each idea, no matter how complex, is explained using a mere two pages, 300 words, and one picture: all easily digested in only half a minute. 30-Second Architecture presents you with the foundations of architectural knowledge. Expert authors are challenged to define and describe both the principles upon which architects depend, and the styles with which they put those principles into practice. So, if you want to know your arch from your elevation, and your Baroque from your Brutalism, or you wish to top off your next dinner party with a stirring speech on how form follows function, this is the quickest way to build your argument.

The 50 Most Signicant Principles and Styles in Architecture, Each Explained in Half a Minute

30-Second Architecture

"For print and production finishing ideas on everything from boxes, cartons, bottles, tubes, cans, packs, jars, multi-packs, and gift packs, this book is an indispensable ideas sourcebook and practical guide to finishes, surface graphics, detailing, and materials that help make packaging stand out from the crowd--including foil blocking, pigment blocking, thermography, varnishing, laminating, embossing, debossing, die-cutting and laser-cutting; specialist inks, including metallics and fluorescents; different paper stocks and other materials; lenticular printing, and so on."--Publisher.

Print and production finishes for packaging

Richard Cawthray

Packaging Prototypes (Design Fundamentals Series)

Roger Fawcett-Tang

Carolyn Knight

Jessica Glaser

Scott Witham

Print Formats and Finishes is a comprehensive resource on formats, materials and finishes. This book explores the production and manufacturing aspects of a range of products including CD and DVD packaging, bags and labels, brochures, sustainable design products, product packaging, and promotional items. With succinct text and specially commissioned photos it shows, at one glance, the effects that can be created and the printing and production techniques used to achieve them. Work across all budgets and production/print runs is showcased, revealing the skills and techniques that allow creative solutions that grab audience attention and sell. For ideas on everything from mass-mail flyers, unique CD packaging, to customized products and packaging, The Print and Production Finishes Sourcebook is an indispensable ideas sourcebook and practical guide. By analyzing the best in the business, it gives readers a thorough understanding of materials, and of print and production processes that can be applied to any job.

The Designer's Illustrated Guide to Brochures, Catalogs, Bags, Labels, Packaging, and Promotion

Print Formats and Finishes

Provides a visual catalyst for the creation of packaging designs. This book demonstrates the huge variety of packaging possibilities. It includes photographed finished models. It details the principles of packaging, along with the issues and challenges faced by contemporary packaging designers.

Templates for Innovative Cartons, Packages, and Boxes

The Big Book of Packaging Prototypes

Print and Production Finishes for Sustainable Design is an indispensable ideas sourcebook and practical guide to what has become an important consideration for many designers: sustainability. The book shows examples of environmentally friendly inks, varnishes, pigments, and finishes that can be used in a wide range of standard printed media. Printing innovations and specialized printing techniques using environmentally friendly ingredients are also included. The book provides an overview of different printable materials available to both 2-D and 3-D designers, including recyclable paper, paper substitutes, and biodegradable plastics. Innovative 3-D designs that demonstrate clear environmental benefits derived from the application of printing, types of manufacturing techniques or use of specific materials are showcased and explained. Environmentally sound printing and production finishes are often one of the outcomes of a lengthy design process by companies dedicated to reducing their impact on the environment. Print and Production Finishes for Sustainable Design includes case studies of companies where the entire organizational objective is based on achieving organizational sustainability (i.e. zero net impact) and where printing and production processes have been integral to achieving this.

Print and Production Finishes for Sustainable Design

How to Read Bridges is a practical introduction to looking at the structure and purpose of bridges. It is a guide to reading the structural clues embedded in every bridge that allows their variety and ingenuity to be better appreciated. Small enough to carry in your pocket and serious enough to provide real answers, this comprehensive guide: - analyses and explores all types of bridges from around the world from the first millennium to the present day. - explores fundamental concepts of bridge design, key materials and engineering techniques. - provides an accessible visual guide with intelligent text, using detailed illustrations and cross-sections of technical features.

A Crash Course Spanning the Centuries

Guang Yu Ren

"Packaging today is a potent visual symbol of our 'throw-away' culture; a culture which likes its fresh fruit shrink-wrapped and every product presented in a shiny new package. Towering landfill sites, decimated forests and the ever present hole in the ozone layer, all attest to the destructive effects of the modern world's insatiable consumerist appetites. Our attitudes to packaging need to change, and to aid this process, it must be the responsibility of the designer to recognise, through a systemic approach, environmental issues at the very inception of the design idea." "This resource book explains the systems by which improvements can be made in the pre-production, manufacture and distribution of a packaging product - illustrating the results of these improvements with a collection of superb packs, the quality and efficiency of which are enough to encourage any design professional or student to start 'thinking green'."--Jacket

Thinking Green

Packaging Prototypes 3

Marie-Noëlle Antolin

Vous avez déjà entendu parler du gothique, du byzantin et du baroque, mais sauriez-vous les définir? Connaissez-vous la différence entre un voussoir et une voûte, l’Art déco et l’Art nouveau? Architecture en 30 secondes saura vous éclairer en un temps record sur ces points et nombre d’autres. Ce livre de «vulgarisation intelligente» vous aidera à connaître les 50 plus grands principes et styles architecturaux grâce à son approche pratique: chaque innovation est développée en une double page, 300 mots et une image, pour une compréhension claire et rapide. Nombre d’or, point de fuite, art roman, contrefort... Autant d’expressions courantes au sens premier jusqu’alors pour vous opaque et qui vous sera désormais limpide. Grâce à Architecture en 30 secondes et son glossaire sur la perspective, la symétrie ou l’avant-garde, ses biographies de Palladio, du Corbusier ou de Frank Lloyd Wright, son survol des théories, des plans et des mouvements, vous pourrez mieux comprendre les principes de portance d’un dôme, les techniques de construction d’un gratte-ciel et les projections de l’habitat du futur.

Architecture en 30 secondes

Luke Him Sau/Lu Qianshou (1904–1991) is best knowninternationally and in China as the architect of the iconic Bank ofChina Headquarters in Shanghai. One of the first Chinese studentsto be trained at the Architectural Association in London in thelate 1920s, Luke’s long, prolific and highly successfulcareer in China and Hong Kong offers unique insights into anextraordinary period of Chinese political turbulence that scupperedthe professional prospects and historical recognition of so many ofhis colleagues. Global interest in China has risen exponentially in recenttimes, creating an appetite for the country’s history andculture. This book satiates this by providing a highly engaging andvisual account of China’s 20th-century architecture throughthe lens of one of the country’s most distinguished yetoverlooked designers. It features over 250 new colour photographsby Edward Denison of Luke’s buildings and original archivematerial. The book charts Luke’s life and work, commencing with hischildhood in colonial Hong Kong and his apprenticeship with aBritish architectural firm before focusing on his education at theArchitectural Association (1927–30). In London, Luke wasoffered the post of Head of the Architecture Department at thenewly established Bank of China, where IM Pei’s father was asenior figure. Luke spent the next seven years in the inimitablecity of Shanghai designing buildings all over China for the Bankbefore the Japanese invasion in 1937 forced him, and countlessothers, to flee to the proxy wartime capital of Chongqing. In 1945he returned to Shanghai where he formed a partnership with fourother Chinese graduates of UK universities; but civil war (betweenthe Communists and Nationalists) once again caused him and othersto uproot in 1949. Initially intent on fleeing with theNationalists to Taiwan, Luke was almost convinced to stay inCommunist China but decided finally to move to Hong Kong. There,for the third time in his life, he had to establish his career allover again. Despite many challenges, he eventually prospered,becoming a pioneer in the design of private residences, schools,hospitals, chapels and public housing.

China's Missing Modern

Luke Him Sau, Architect

The 50 Most Signicant Principles and Styles in Architecture, each Explained in Half a Minute

M.P. for Newark

Letters and Other Writings of the Late Edward Denison

Naigzy Gebremedhin

Written by experts with extensive first-hand knowledge of the city's architectural heritage, this is the first book to be published on the architecture of Asmara. It contains new photography and an extraordinary range of previously unpublished archival material, including original plans and drawings.

Africa's Secret Modernist City

Asmara

This book explores China’s encounter with architecture and modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism – an encounter that was mediated not by a singular notion of modernism emanating from the west, but that was uniquely multifarious, deriving from a variety of sources both from the west and, importantly, from the east. The heterogeneous origins of modernity in China are what make its experience distinctive and its architectural encounters exceptional. These experiences are investigated through a re-evaluation of established knowledge of the subject within the wider landscape of modern art practices in China. The study draws on original archival and photographic material from different artistic genres and, architecturally, concentrates on China’s engagement with the west through the treaty ports and leased territories, the emergence of architecture as a profession in China, and Japan’s omnipresence, not least in Manchuria, which reached its apogee in the puppet state of Manchukuo. The study’s geographically, temporally, and architecturally inclusive approach framed by the concept of multiple modernities questions the application of conventional theories of modernity or post-colonialism to the Chinese situation. By challenging conventional modernist historiography that has marginalised the experiences of the west’s other for much of the last century, this book proposes different ways of grappling with and comprehending the distinction and complexity of China’s experiences and its encounter with architectural modernity.

Architecture and the Landscape of Modernity in China before 1949

Shanghai's illustrious history and phenomenal future is celebrated in this book, which examines the evolution of the city's architecture and urban form in order to contextualise the challenges facing the city today. The physical legacies that reflect Shanghai's uniqueness historically and contemporarily are examined chronologically using specific case studies of exemplary architecture interwoven in a compelling narrative that unlocks the many mysteries surrounding this amazing metropolis. Some of the most influential colonial architecture in the world, outstanding examples of Modernism and Art Deco, and an exceptional selection of eclectic and vernacular architecture reflecting Shanghai's many adopted cultures are revealed. This is the first book ever to examine this remarkable subject in a manner that is both comprehensive and captivating in its written content and stunningly illustrated with over 300 archive and contemporary photographs and maps.

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