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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Art of faith is a visually sumptuous series exploring the architecture and art of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Each program is presented and narrated by the broadcaster John McCarthy, who visits many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings of the world. Art of faith: Judaism Judaism visits one of the earliest synagogues on the mountain fort of Masada, the Gothic Old-New Synagogue in Prague and nineteenth-century houses of worship...
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Publisher
RIBA Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When searching for genuinely sustainable building design and technology - designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly restorative - we often find that nature got there first. Over 3.5 billion years of natural history have evolved innumerable examples of forms, systems, and processes that can be applied to modern green design. Aimed at architects, urban designers and product designers, this new edition of 'Biomimicry in Architecture'...
Author
Publisher
RIBA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Organised into three parts - the mediated space of broadcast news, advertising and entertainment - the book explores the interface between space, broadcast media and architecture, offering a compelling critique of how these elements collude to assert a particular message or power structure. Academic in rigour, but accessible in tone and intent, Mediated space will challenge ways of seeing and knowing, (showing how these are co-produced by the creators...
Author
Publisher
Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Complete Guide to Succeeding with Microservices and Docker in Large Software Projects Together, microservices and Docker containers can bring unprecedented agility and scalability to application development and deployment-especially in large, complex projects where speed is crucial but small errors can be disastrous. In Microservices and Containers, Parminder Singh Kocher demonstrates why and how these technologies can help you build, deploy,...
Publisher
ABC
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In The Mind Of The Architect is a three-part television documentary series and multimedia presentation about the thing we call architecture..but more particularly about us.. This is the story of how buildings and public spaces get to be made, told principally through an exposure of the public and private realms of a number of very different Australian architects.. This series is about politics, art, history, poetry, philosophy...about dreams and despair....
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Publisher
Manning Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Successfully developing microservices-based applications requires mastering a new set of architectural insights and practices. In this unique book, microservice architecture pioneer and Java Champion Chris Richardson collects, catalogues, and explains 44 patterns that solve problems such as service decomposition, transaction management, querying, and inter-service communication. "Microservices patterns" teaches you how to develop and deploy production-quality...
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Publisher
Apress L.P
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Master how to implement a repeatable software construction system. This book closely examines how a system is designed to tie a series of activities together that are needed when building software-intensive systems. Software construction and operations don't get enough attention as a repeatable system. The world is stuck in agile backlog grooming sessions, and quality is not increasing. Companies' budgets are shrinking, and teams need a way to get...
Author
Publisher
RIBA Publications
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
This book presents 25 international housing schemes that draw on traditional vernacular principles whilst taking into account modern day materials, methods and financial or energy requirements. The aim is to show how, despite mass housing needs, we can design quality modern schemes that fit' their surroundings and generate a sense of place, community and regional identity - rather than the poor quality, identikit housing currently seen wherever you...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Whether serving as Christian church, Islamic mosque, or secular museum, Hagia Sophia and its soaring dome have inspired reverence and awe. For 800 years, it was the largest enclosed building in the world-the Statue of Liberty can fit beneath its dome with room to spare. How has it survived its location on one of the world's most active seismic faults, which has inflicted a dozen devastating earthquakes since it was built in 537?. As Istanbul braces...
Publisher
Film Art Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The first documentary retrospective of Harry Seidler's architectural legacy, Harry Seidler: Modernist reveals an intimate portrait of his extraordinary life and internationally recognised work. Seidler is acclaimed as one of the greatest modernist architects. He won every architectural major prize in Australia, is represented in every major city, and was embraced internationally by the likes of Norman Foster (the London Gherkin) and Renzo Piano &...
Author
Publisher
RIBA Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you could reinvent your home? A link to the garden, to bring nature closer. A re-thought layout, that complements your lifestyle. A greener home, for a sustainable future (and lower energy bills). More space. Better space. You probably know what is wrong with your house, but do you really know what would improve it? Architects do. Even better, they can design a home that works for you, with ideas and solutions that you may not...
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Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of software and IT architects is also transforming. Rather than focus on technical decisions alone, architects and senior technologists need to combine organizational and technical knowledge to effect change in their company's structure and processes. To accomplish that, they need to connect the IT engine room to the penthouse, where the business strategy is defined. In...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Software architecture metrics are used to measure the maintainability, architectural quality of a software project and to warn early in the process about dangerous accumulations of architectural and technical debt. In this book leading hands-on software architects introduce some key software architecture metrics through case studies, that every software architect should know. This book is not about theory, it is more about practice and implementation,...
Author
Publisher
RIBA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Revisiting Postmodernism' offers an engaging, wide-ranging and highly illustrated account of postmodernism in architecture from its roots in the 1940s to its ongoing relevance today. This book invites readers to see Postmodernism in a new light: not just a style but a cultural phenomenon that embraces all areas of life and thrives on complexity and pluralism, in contrast to the strait-laced, single-style, top-down inclination of its predecessor, Modernism....
18) Libraries
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How do you design a library?. Go behind the mind of the architect in this episode of COOL SPACES as architect and teacher Stephen Chung presents how the most innovative libraries were designed, featuring the spaces of James B. Hunt Jr. Library (Raleigh, NC), South Mountain Community Library (Phoenix, AZ), and Seattle Central Library (Seattle, WA).
Publisher
Belinda Rukschcio
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A film about the famous Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. This cinematic journey through her most important architectural projects in São Paulo and Salvador da Bahia poses the question of what remains of a person in the work they leave behind.. Audience prize by Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa 2014.
20) In the Monument
Publisher
Interfilm Productions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
World renowned architect Daniel Libeskind (Jewish Museums in Berlin, Copenhagen, San Francisco), prolific scholar James E. Young (The Texture of Memory, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust), museum designer Ralph Appelbaum (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Canadian Museum for Human Rights), visual artist Esther Shalev-Gerz (Hamburg-Harburg Monument Against Fascism) and many other knowledgeable artists, designers, and educators share their thoughts on...
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