Download or read book Activating a Dynamic Architecture Through the Cycle of the Ocean Tides written by Stefan Modzelewski and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The goal of this investigation is to establish ways in which architecture can be created to respond to environmental changes. These changes include variations in the weather, seasons, temperature, light and precipitation."--page 23.
Download or read book Kuth Ranieri Architects written by Byron Kuth and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monograph on SF-based architects Kuth/Ranieri. The book is organized into three distinct sections. Ila Berman introduces the monograph with her essay, 'Paradoxical Matters', and provides additional text insertions that appear on selected projects throughout the volume.
Download or read book Traditional Architecture of the Arabian Gulf written by R. Hawker and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the florescence of architecture in the Arabian Gulf after the expulsion of the Portuguese in the early 1600's. It demonstrates how the power vacuum created by the collapse of Portuguese control over the trade routes in the Indian Ocean encouraged a growth in fortified architecture, especially in Oman, that radiated out to the surrounding region and was then slowly replaced by new patterns in domestic and public architecture and town planning throughout the Gulf as the trade lines were secured and the individual countries took the first steps towards the formation of today's modern nation-states.The book documents the buildings and crafts of this era and analyses them within the framework of the political, economic, and social information available through primary sources from the period in a way that is both intelligent and accessible. It considers the settlements as part of a larger-connected network of cities, towns and villages and focuses both on how the buildings provided innovative solutions to the demanding climate and yet incorporated new decorative and functional ideas. Topics are extensively and richly illustrated with colored photographs of the buildings as they are now, black and white and color historic photographs from archival and museum collections, line drawings, and computer-generated reconstructions.The book is therefore attractive to a number of audiences, including those who live in or travel to the Gulf as well as people with an interest in Arab and Islamic design, culture and society, vernacular architecture, and post-colonial approaches to colonial history.
Download or read book Design with Nature Now written by Frederick R. Steiner and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Ian McHarg's seminal book, Design with Nature, set forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, a team of landscape architects and planners from PennDesign have showcased some of the most advanced ecological design projects in the world today. Written in clear language and featuring vivid color images, Design with Nature Now demonstrates McHarg's enduring influence on contemporary practitioners as they contend with climate change and other 21st-century challenges.
Download or read book TIDES Network written by Dr. Chandra Duggirala, M.D. and published by Portal. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TIDES.Network's white paper detailing an open-source generic protocol for pooling assets for mutual insurance, applied to a peer-to-peer health insurance network. v0.8 is an archived white paper, originally published in early 2018, and now made available in ebook format. ABSTRACT: Health insurance today is extremely centralized and has lost cost-effectiveness for most consumers. The distortions caused by asymmetric information, incentive misalignments, and regulatory and political overload have caused an ongoing dramatic increase in premiums, while reducing the quality of coverage. Moreover, traditional insurance companies’ incentives are diametrically opposed to those of its customers, making these problems intractable. Tides is a peer-to-peer insurance network that uses a decentralized system of functionaries to completely disintermediate the insurance “company”. In Tides’ peer-to-peer health insurance model, the “insurance company” is disintermediated and self-organizing pools of people set their own governance on all aspects of their insurance, such as coverage, limits, terms, etc., utilizing a decentralized network of actuaries, underwriters and claims processors. Thus, all critical functions in a traditional insurance “company” become disaggregated and distributed across a decentralized network. Built-in incentive structures keep all functionaries honest and efficient. Moreover, members are thoroughly incentivized to exercise judgment in consumption of healthcare resources, as any paid but unspent premiums may be distributed back to members, based on the pool contract terms. Anyone can run a peer-to-peer insurance pool as long as they also run a compliance module to keep compliant with the laws that govern mutual insurances in their jurisdiction. This model of insurance eliminates asymmetric information and incentive problems that have plagued health insurance for decades. Tides will redefine insurance to once again become an efficient societal safety net. Let’s make health insurance open, transparent, and decentralized. ABOUT TIDES.NETWORK: Creators of the TIDES.Network Protocol have the perfect balance of Life Sciences, Deep Technical knowledge and Crypto experience. Together, Dr. Chandra Duggirala, M.D., George Burke, and Manoj Duggirala previously founded and ran a hyper-personalized digital nutritionist/nutrition delivery startup that integrated subscribers’ digital health analytics (TryFuel.com) with DNA and other biomarkers to deliver hyper-personalized meals nationwide. They took the concept from idea through successful product development, fundraising, and market execution, building a 7-figure annual run rate (ARR) company in less than 1 year. The team envisioned the TIDES project during 2018. Together, they have developed several blockchain initiatives and proofs-of-concept that reenvision Biotech R&D, Intellectual Property rights, Insurance, Cryptoeconomics, Crowdfunding, and Digital Asset Trading/Exchange.
Download or read book Weather Architecture written by Jonathan Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill’s investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather. At a time when environmental awareness is of growing relevance, the overriding aim is to understand a history of architecture as a history of weather and thus to consider the weather as an architectural author that affects design, construction and use in a creative dialogue with other authors such as the architect and user. Environmental discussions in architecture tend to focus on the practical or the poetic but here they are considered together. Rather than investigate architecture’s relations to the weather in isolation, they are integrated into a wider discussion of cultural and social influences on architecture. The analysis of weather’s effects on the design and experience of specific buildings and gardens is interwoven with a historical survey of changing attitudes to the weather in the arts, sciences and society, leading to a critical re-evaluation of contemporary responses to climate change.
Download or read book The Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rising Currents Projects for New York 39 s Waterfront written by and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Against the Tides written by Ronald Rudin and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration, a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Agency engineers sometimes borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, but they also disregarded local conditions in building tidal dams that compromised some of the region’s rivers. This vivid account of a distinctive landscape and its occupants reveals the push–pull of local and expert knowledge and the role of the postwar state.
Download or read book Tides written by Jonathan White and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture—the very old and very new. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion. Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and sixteen color photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the tides.
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by Royal Institute of British Architects and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aestival Tide written by Elizabeth Hand and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVElizabeth Hand’s Winterlong trilogy continues: Welcome to Araboth/divDIV In Aestival Tide,Elizabeth Hand returns to the extraordinary Winterlong universe. In Araboth—the majestic, domed, multi-tiered city of the Ascendants—obsession with beauty and power vents in haunting, horrific ways. The resurrected Margalis Tast’annin has become the Aviator Imperator of the Ascendants, enslaved by his former lover and exiled to the debauched city of Araboth. And the city that was once home to an advanced society is now a shadow of its former self. Now, as the once-in-a-decade Aestival Tide approaches, the formerly great dome teeters on the brink of its own destruction. /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div
Download or read book Building New Brunswick written by John Leroux and published by Goose Lane Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with an exhibition held at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, June 2008.
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Download or read book Dialogues with Rising Tides written by Kelli Russell Agodon and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life—including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide—are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Dialogues with Rising Tides does not answer, This or that? It passionately exclaims, And also! Even in the midst of great difficulty, radiant wonders are illuminated at every turn.
Download or read book Tides written by David George Bowers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. At the coast, we see the tide as a twice-daily rise and fall of sea level that moves the edge of the sea up and down a beach or cliff-face. In some places, the tide is small but at others it can rise in a few hours by the height of a three storey building; it then has to be treated with great respect by those who live and work by the sea. In this Very Short Introduction David George Bowers and Emyr Martyn Roberts explore what we know about the tides. Blending clear explanations of well known tidal phenomena with recent insights in the deep ocean and coastal seas, Bowers and Roberts use examples from around the world, to tell the story of the tide, considering its nature and causes, its observation and prediction, and unusual tides and their relevance. They explore why tides have attracted the attention of some of the world's greatest scientists, from the initial challenge of explaining why there are two tides a day when the moon and sun pass overhead just once; a problem that was solved by Isaac Newton. In the 19th century, scientists unravelled the rhythms of the tide; good tidal predictions in the form of tide tables were then possible. The predictions were made on beautiful tide predicting machines constructed of brass and mahogany, some of which can still be seen in maritime museums. In the 20th century, the importance of tides as mixers of sea water became evident. As Bowers and Roberts explore, tidal mixing of the ocean is essential for maintaining its deep circulation, a key part of the climate-control system of our planet. In inshore waters, tidal mixing enhances biological productivity, influences sea temperature and turbidity and creates dramatic features such as maelstroms and tidal bores. In the 21st century, space probes are examining the effects of tidal processes on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and the possibility of tidally-heated liquid oceans with their own ecosystems. Looking to the cutting edge of tidal research, Bowers and Roberts also consider how we can study the role of the tide in the geological and biological evolution of our own planet with innovative computer models. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Download or read book The Civil engineer and architect s journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
