Category: Buildings

By Amos Rapoport

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By Jeanne Halgren Kilde

Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church structure is in contrast to the other. Her major quandary isn't the structures themselves, yet fairly the dynamic personality of Christianity and the way churches form and effect the faith. Kilde argues basic functionality of churches is to symbolize and reify 3 forms of energy: divine energy, or rules approximately God; own empowerment as manifested within the individual's perceived courting to the divine; and social energy, which means the relationships among teams resembling clergy and laity. each one variety intersects with notions of Christian creed, cult, and code, and is represented spatially and materially in church buildings.Kilde explores those different types chronologically, from the early church to the 20 th century. She considers the shape, association, and use of worship rooms; the site of church buildings; and the interplay among church buildings and the broader tradition. churches were indispensable to Christianity, and Kilde's vital examine sheds new gentle at the approach they influence all features of the faith. Neither mere witnesses to changes of non secular proposal or nor easy backgrounds for spiritual perform, churches are, in Kilde's view, dynamic individuals in non secular switch and goldmines of data on Christianity itself.

By Philipp Meuser;Christoph Schirmer

By Sheila Bonde

Fortress-Churches of Languedoc lines the altering dating among army and non secular geographical regions as expressed in structure throughout medieval Europe. The scholarship of medieval structure has regularly imposed a department among army and ecclesiastical buildings. usually, even if, medieval church buildings have been supplied with fortified enclosures, crenellations, iron-barred doorways and different parts of defence, demonstrating the robust hyperlink among Church and country, and the army and spiritual nation-states. In her research of fortress-churches, Sheila Bonde specializes in 3 twelfth-century monuments in southern France - Maguelone, Agde and Saint-Pon-de-Thomi?re, that are one of the earliest examples of the sort. She analyses her archaeological surveys of those buildings, and in addition re-examines their documentation, that is the following awarded either within the unique Latin and in English translations. The e-book additionally explores the bigger context of fortification and authority in twelfth-century Languedoc and examines the dynamics of architectural alternate and innovation within the Mediterranean at a second of severe old value.

By Charles Carroll Soule

This publication was once digitized and reprinted from the collections of the collage of California Libraries. It was once made out of electronic photos created during the libraries’ mass digitization efforts. The electronic photographs have been wiped clean and ready for printing via computerized strategies. regardless of the cleansing technique, occasional flaws should still be current that have been a part of the unique paintings itself, or brought in the course of digitization. This ebook and thousands of others are available on-line within the HathiTrust electronic Library at www.hathitrust.org.

By Brian Edwards

Courtyard Housing ДИЗАЙН, ДОМ и СЕМЬЯ,НАУКА и УЧЕБА Название: Courtyard Housing: previous, current, destiny Автор: Brian Edwards Издательство: Spon Press Год: 2005 Страниц:248ISBN: 0415262720Формат: pdf Размер: 10 MbCourtyard housing is likely one of the oldest sorts of family improvement spanning a minimum of 2000 years and taking place in specified shape in lots of areas of the area. usually linked to the center East the place weather and tradition have given form to a selected kind of courtyard housing, different examples exist in Latin the USA, China and in Europe the place the version has been reinterpreted. This e-book demonstrates, via discussions on sustainability and local id, and through a chain of case reviews, that she courtyard housing shape has a destiny in addition to a pastСкачать: uploading.com.com eighty five

By P. Novak, A.I.B. Moffat, C. Nalluri, R. Narayanan

Now contains labored Examples for lectutrers in a significant other pdf!

The fourth version of this volume provides layout rules and sensible advice for key hydraulic buildings. absolutely revised and up to date, this new version includes greater texts and sections on:

• environmental matters and the realm fee on Dams
• partially saturated soils, small amenity dams, tailing dams, upstream dam face safeguard and the rehabilitation of embankment dams
• RCC dams and the upgrading of masonry and urban dams
• flow over stepped spillways and scour in plunge pools
• cavitation, aeration and vibration of gates
• risk research and contingency making plans in dam safety
• small hydroelectric energy improvement and tidal and wave power
• wave information, pipeline balance, wave–structure interplay and coastal modelling
• computational types in hydraulic engineering.

The book's key themes are explored in components - dam engineering and different hydraulic buildings – and the textual content concludes with a bankruptcy on versions in hydraulic engineering. labored numerical examples complement the most textual content and broad lists of references finish each one bankruptcy.

Hydraulic Structures offers complicated scholars with a fantastic origin within the topic and is an invaluable reference resource for researchers, designers and different pros.

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By Anne Dickhoff

Open air Rooms II is an inspirational examine what you can still do to create good looks and luxury in any outside house. more and more, owners are spending extra money on their yards, not just to increase the actual house of the house for enjoyable, but additionally simply because they've been proven to drastically bring up resale price. For aspiring open air room creators, Anne Dickhoff takes readers on a guided travel of the worlds most interesting terraces, porches, patios, gazebos, sunrooms, and backyard rooms created through todays best designers and designers. With few books masking as many points of out of doors residing as open air Rooms II, this ebook offers principles for every type of out of doors dwelling occasions offered in web page after web page of idea-inspiring layout.

By Dr. Joachim Rössl (auth.)

By Aurora Cuito