MCE E-Books: Recent submissions

  • Universal design 
    Selwyn Goldsmith (Architectural Press, 2000)
    Designing for the disabled is about making buildings accessible to and usable by people with disabilities. Universal design is about making buildings safe and convenient for all their users, including people with ...
  • Travels in the History of Architectures 
    Robert Harbison (reaktion books, 2009)
    At times I have wanted to write a history with none of the expected examples in it, containing in fact nothing recognizable at all, but feared this might lead to something like a garden I remember from childhood, whose ...
  • Mechanics and Meaning in Architectures 
    Lance La Vine (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
    ing in a school of architecture for nearly twenty years. Over the course of that experience, only on the rarest of occasions has a student exhibited a genuine interest in technology. The calculations required in structures, ...
  • THe Codes Guidebook for Interiors 
    Sharon Koomen Harmon, Katherine E. Kennon, AIA IIDA (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005)
    As we have seen in recent years, building codes cannot protect people in every situation. Since September 11, 2001, there has been much talk about creating stricter codes, standards, and federal regulations for the purpose ...
  • Jail Design Guide 
    U.S. Department of Justice, Project Director Dennis A. Kimme, A.I.A. (U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections, 1998)
    This work is an updated version of the Small Jail Design Guide originally published in 1988. It updates and expands upon the original work, adding new and revised graphics. It removes dated references to standards and adds ...
  • Introduction To Architecture Architectural Dictionary of Terms, Movements and Architects 
    Billie Grahm & Mike Garde (2015)
  • Introduction to Architectural Science the Basis of Sustainable Design 
    Steven V. Szokolay (Elsevie, 2004)
    Four chainsof thought led to the idea of thisbook and to the definition of itscontent: 1. It can no longer be disputed that the resources of this earth are finite, that itscapacity to absorb our wastesislimited, that ...
  • The Pyramid builders of Ancient Egypt 
    A. R David (Routledge, 1996)
    South-west of Cairo, the modern capital of Egypt, on the west side of the Nile, there lies the province of Fayoum, the largest of the country’s oases, which owes its remarkable fertility both to springs of water, and ...
  • The Lit Interior 
    William J. Fielder P (Architectural Press, 2001)
    This book is intended as a design guide for those individuals in the fields of electrical engineering, architecture, and interior design who will one day design lighting systems for others to build. The book is organized ...
  • The Architect’s Guide to Running a Job 
    Ronald Green (Architectural Press, 2001)
    It is a privilege to follow Sir Hugh Casson’s Foreword to the original publication of this book with a Preface for this new edition. It is a tribute to the author that this book remains as fresh and as relevant now as it ...
  • Taking Shape 
    Susannah Hagan (Architectural Press, 2001)
    Neither half of this book’s title is self-explanatory, not ‘Taking Shape’ and not the reference to a ‘new contract’. ‘Taking Shape’ emphasizes the still emergent state of an architecture that is engaging in a new contract ...
  • Structure and Architecture 
    Angus J. Macdonald (Architectural Press, 2001)
    The major theme of this book is the relationship between structural design and architectural design. The various aspects of this are brought together in the last chapter which has been expanded in this second edition, ...
  • Structures as Architectures 
    Andrew W. Charleson (Elsevier, 2005)
    This book explores the potential of structure, that is beams, columns, frames, struts and other structural members, to enrich architecture. At the most basic level I hope to raise architects’ perception of structure as ...
  • Spirit & Place 
    Christopher Day (Elsevier, 2002)
    This book is two things: it is a manifesto for twenty-first century architecture, stating clearly the qualities we should expect from the buildings around us in the future, and a manual, showing us carefully how to ...
  • Space Grid Structures 
    John Chilton (d Elsevier plc group, 2000)
    This book has been long in gestation. The original stimulus for it came about seven years ago out of my teaching about space structures to student architects, reinforced by my earlier doctoral research into space ...
  • Site Planning and Design Handbook 
    Thomas H Russ (McGraw Hill, 2002)
    The activities of human beings have had and will continue to have a significant impact on the earth’s environment. It has been said that 60 percent of the earth’s land surface is under the management of people, but 100 ...
  • Managing Quality in Architecture 
    Charles Nelson (Elsevier Ltd, 2006)
    Quality management has all the earmarks of an oxymoron – no wonder design professionals are suspicious of the concept! Quality is an idea, an approach, a theory. The hallmarks of any theory are simplicity, brevity and ...
  • Introduction to Architectural Science 
    Steven V. Szokolay (Elsevier Science, 2004)
    My hope isthat after absorbing the contentsof thismodest work, the reader will be able to answer this question. After all, the main aim of any education isto develop a critical faculty. Building environments affect us ...
  • Historical Dictionary of Architecture 
    Allison Lee Palmer (The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2008)
    The entries in this encyclopedia include architectural developments, major structures, primary materials, and noted architects. By developments, I mean historical eras like the Renaissance, for example, or movements such ...
  • Geometric and Engineering Drawing Third Edition 
    K Morling (Elsevier, 2010)
    Our world has become one where computers are used to solve many problems quickly and accurately. We use calculators to solve arithmetical problems, word processors to check spelling and grammar in texts and computer-aided ...

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