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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (40) Seller: Amazon 2008 Silver Award Winner, Architecture Category, Independent Publisher Book Awards. and Winning entry, General Trade Illustrated Category, in the 2008 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to...

Why Architecture Matters (Why X Matters Series)...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (2) Seller: Amazon Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to “come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually[Read...

The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage)...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (48) Seller: Amazon The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings,[Read...

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4t...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (18) Seller: Amazon The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favor of multi-core microprocessors--chips...

Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Fo...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (45) Seller: Amazon Does it seem you’ve formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can’t get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution—an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes to automate your company’s core capabilities. In Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, author[Read...

Architecture: Form, Space, & Order...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (40) Seller: Amazon A superb visual reference to the principles of architecture Now including interactive CD-ROM! For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has been the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. The updated Third Edition features expanded sections on circulatio[Read...

Thinking Architecture...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (6) Seller: Amazon In order to design a building with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. In these essays Peter Zumthor expresses his motivation in designing buildings, which speak to our emotions and understanding in so many ways, and possess a powerful and unmistakable presence and personality. This...

Game Engine Architecture...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (8) Seller: Amazon A 2009 Game Developer Magazine Front Line Award Finalist, this book covers both the theory and practice of game engine software development, bringing together complete coverage of a wide range of topics. The concepts and techniques described are the actual ones used by real game studios like Electronic Arts and Naughty Dog. The examples are often...

European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford History of...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (4) Seller: Amazon This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention. Bergdoll trac[Read...

Software Architecture in Practice (2nd Edition)...

Overall Rating:   Total Customer Reviews: (26) Seller: Amazon This award-winning book, substantially updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, introduces the concepts and best practices of software architecture--how a software system is structured and how that system's elements are meant to interact. Distinct from the details of implementation, algorithm, and data representation, an architectur[Read...

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