5 English Architecture eBooks

Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto, "Toronto, No Mean City, 3rd Edition"
Aaron Shkuda, "The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980"
Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Andrea Hardy, Jacob J. Wilhelm, "Adaptive Architecture: Changing Parameters and Practice"
Osamu A. Wakita, Richard M. Linde, Nagy R. Bakhoum, "The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings, 5th Edition"
Introduction to Japanese Architecture by David Young, Michiko Kimura Young

*Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto, "Toronto, No Mean City, 3rd Edition"

ISBN: 0802065872, 0802056687 | 1986 | EPUB | 315 pages | 28 MB
Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded a clarion call in his crusade. First published in 1964, it sparked the preservation movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became its bible. This reprint of the third edition, prepared by Stephen Otto, updates Arthur's classic to include information and illustrations uncovered since the appearance of the first edition.
Four new essays were commissioned for this reprint. Christopher Hume, architecture critic and urban affairs columnist for the Toronto Star, addresses the changes to the city since the appearance of the third edition in 1986. Architect and heritage preservation activist Catherine Nasmith assesses the current status of the city's heritage preservation movement. Susan Crean, a freelance writer in Toronto, explores Toronto's vibrant arts scene. Mark Kingwell, professor and cultural commentator, reflects on the development of professional and amateur sports in and around town.

*Aaron Shkuda, "The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980"

English | ISBN: 022633418X | 2016 | EPUB | 320 pages | 4,3 MB
American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was born. From 1960 to 1980, residents transformed the industrial neighborhood into an artist district, creating the conditions under which it evolved into an upper-income, gentrified area. Introducing the idea—still potent in city planning today—that art could be harnessed to drive municipal prosperity, SoHo was the forerunner of gentrified districts in cities nationwide, spawning the notion of the creative class.
In The Lofts of SoHo, Aaron Shkuda studies the transition of the district from industrial space to artists’ enclave to affluent residential area, focusing on the legacy of urban renewal in and around SoHo and the growth of artist-led redevelopment. Shkuda explores conflicts between residents and property owners and analyzes the city’s embrace of the once-illegal loft conversion as an urban development strategy. As Shkuda explains, artists eventually lost control of SoHo’s development, but over several decades they nonetheless forced scholars, policymakers, and the general public to take them seriously as critical actors in the twentieth-century American city.

*Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Andrea Hardy, Jacob J. Wilhelm, "Adaptive Architecture: Changing Parameters and Practice"

English | ISBN: 1138647268, 1138647276 | 2017 | EPUB | 312 pages | 14 MB
The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing technological, economic, ecological and social conditions have altered the playing field for architecture from the design of single purpose structures to the design of interacting systems of synergistically interdependent, distributed buildings. Including contributors from the US, UK, Japan, Australia, Germany and South Africa, the essays are woven into a five-part framework which provides a broad and unique treatment of this important and timely issue.

*Osamu A. Wakita, Richard M. Linde, Nagy R. Bakhoum, "The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings, 5th Edition"

English | ISBN: 1118880528 | 2017 | EPUB | 688 pages | 154 MB
The detailed, highly illustrated, comprehensive guide to architectural working drawings
The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings is a complete guide to the skills you need to create a set of drawings that clearly and effectively communicate your design. Covering everything from site, floor, framing, and foundation plans to building sections and elevations, this book presents crucial concepts and real-world techniques architects rely on every day. You'll learn the standards, customs, regulations, and symbols, alongside computer-generated drawings, 3D modeling, Building Information Modeling, and other architectural technology. This new fifth edition includes updated information on sustainability concepts, layering systems in line with AIA standards, deeper explorations of dimensioning, more sample ADA drawings, and a new selection of case studies that offer a real-world glimpse into how these topics relate to the architect's everyday work. Hundreds of drawings demonstrate important skills and concepts, and online ancillary materials offer a robust set of resources to students and instructors.
Architectural drawings must be precise, accurate, and complete; they must follow certain standards that make them universally understood in the proper context. This book teaches you how to produce professional-level drawings that leave no room for questions or confusion.
Create architectural drawings that effectively communicate your design
Learn techniques used in both residential and light commercial projects
Investigate BIM, 3D modeling, and other architectural technologies
Understand dimensioning, sustainability, ADA standards, and more
Architects use drawings as a second language, to effectively communicate ideas to clients, contractors, builders, and other design professionals throughout all stages of the project. The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings teaches you how to become fluent in the visual language of architecture, to communicate more effectively with all project stakeholders.

*Introduction to Japanese Architecture by David Young, Michiko Kimura Young

English | December 15th, 2003 | ISBN: 0794601006 | 128 pages | PDF | 34.04 MB
Introduction to Japanese Architecture provides an overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. It begins with a discussion of prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a description of contemporary trends in areas as diverse as country inns, underground malls, and love hotels.
The intervening 12,000 years are analyzed in reference to major changes in architecture caused by Buddhist and indigenous influences, feudalism, and finally the influence of Western culture in the 19th century.