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Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808-86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Despite his lack of formal training, he became an expert in the field of Indian architecture. The topography and temples of ancient Jerusalem also fascinated him. This 1865 collection of two lectures summarises his controversial topographical and architectural argument that the location where Constantine erected the original Holy Sepulchre was the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. Fergusson then describes the Temple in its successive forms, arguing against the view that the rock known as the foundation stone was the site of the Jewish altar. The work is illustrated throughout with plans and drawings. Fergusson's Cave Temples of India (1880) and the two-volume revised edition of his History of Indian and Eastern Architecture (1910) are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Architecture --- Jerusalem --- Description and travel. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Description --- Architecture, Primitive

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Public service authorities are required to solicit bids for architectural and engineering services. This work helps to structure the bidding process. It offers procedural recommendations, discusses options for awarding contracts when specific thresholds have not been met by bids, makes specific suggestions for coordinating bidding with the planning process, and presents typical problems that arise in architectural and engineering contracts. Öffentliche Auftraggeber sind regelmäßig verpflichtet, Planungsleistungen förmlich auszuschreiben. Dieses Werk bringt Struktur in das Vergabeverfahren, und zwar sowohl im Unter- wie auch im Oberschwellenbereich. Es werden Ablaufempfehlungen gegeben, Gestaltungsspielräume zur Durchführung von Unterschwellenverfahren erläutert, konkrete Empfehlungen zu Planungsprozessen und zur Durchführung eines darauf abgestimmten Verhandlungsverfahrens gegeben. Es werden Besonderheiten erläutert, die für Sektorenauftraggeber bestehen und für Auftraggeber, die im Bereich der Verteidigung und Sicherheit tätig sind. Das Werk gibt eine konkrete Empfehlung zur Gestaltung von Architekten- und Ingenieurverträgen, deren Abschluss am Ende des Verhandlungsprozesses steht.

Architecture --- Building --- Architectural engineering --- Buildings --- Construction --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Construction industry --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive

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This book provides an overview of state of the art research in the mechanics of masonry structures. It continues the series Between Mechanics and Architecture, initially launched in 1995 from the collaboration of several renowned scholars, including Edoardo Benvenuto and Patricia Radelet-de Grave.   The contributions in this volume represent the main approaches to the complex topic of masonry structures. In addition to historical studies, the mechanical behavior of masonry arches and structures is studied using different approaches (structural analysis, limit analysis, elastic analysis, plasticity, mathematical approaches, etc.), at times difficult to reconcile, at others intertwined and complementary.   Readers will have the opportunity to compare different theoretical lines of inquiry and thus explore new horizons of research.   Contributions by: Danila Aita Andrea Bacigalupo Riccardo Barsotti Stefano Bennati Antonio Brencich Mario Como Salvatore D’Agostino Luigi Gambarotta Jacques Heyman Santiago Huerta Massimiliano Lucchesi Patricia Radelet-de Grave Elio Sacco Miroslav Šilhavý Anna Sinopoli Piero Villaggio Nicola Zani.

Fine Arts - General --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Masonry --- Mechanics. --- Architecture. --- Standards. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Design and construction --- Mathematics. --- History. --- Mathematics in Art and Architecture. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Art --- Building --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Foundations --- Walls --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Math --- Science

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The aim of this collection of essays is to present a broad portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are interconnected. The diversity and varied texture of the essays richly illustrates the affinity between architecture and mathematics. As the almost 100 papers presented in this two-volume publication show, every age and every culture has relied on principles of mathematics incorporated in their works of architecture to imbue their built environment with meaning and order. Included are discussions of geometry, proportional systems, linear algebra, periodic and aperiodic tilings, fractals, perspective, computer science and mechanics. Western architecture of every period is examined: Egyptian, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment, twentieth-century and beyond, as is the architecture of Turkey, China, India, Japan, Australia and Islam. The mathematical nature of the architecture of Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio and Frank Lloyd Wright is examined, and the philosophical background behind Renaissance architecture is explored. Contributors come from a wide range of disciplines and cultural backgrounds: architects, mathematicians, historians, theoreticians, scientists and educators from the world over. Architecture may be seen and understood in a new light, by professionals as well as non-professionals.

Architecture --- Architectural design --- Mathematics --- History. --- Design --- Structural design --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Mathematics in Art and Architecture. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Mathematics. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Math --- Science

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La décentralisation est au cœur de la genèse de l'internet, dont l'objectif premier était de faire communiquer des machines hétérogènes et distantes, sans passer par un point unique. Aujourd'hui, la concentration domine, autour de macro-acteurs, ces « géants » dont les immenses fermes de serveurs voient passer l'essentiel du trafic du web. Pourtant, le principe originel n'a pas été entièrement abandonné et, dans tous les domaines d'application, des développeurs explorent des alternatives décentralisées. Ces « nains » proposent des moteurs de recherche, des réseaux sociaux, des espaces de stockage qui répartissent ressources et compétences entre les membres du réseau. Cet ouvrage explore les formes d'organisation décentralisées de l'internet : il montre comment un réseau qui répartit la responsabilité de son fonctionnement à ses marges, en s'organisant selon un modèle non - ou faiblement - hiérarchisé, peut se développer dans l'internet contemporain si fortement structuré. Un tel dispositif pose des questions d'organisation des marchés, d'efficacité des techniques, de durabilité des modèles, ainsi que de protection de la vie privée et de droit des données personnelles. Comme le fait remarquer Geoffrey Bowker dans sa préface, cet ouvrage nous conduit à interroger la gouvernance d'internet, et, pour comprendre cette question sociotechnique clef de notre temps, il nous faut analyser les alternatives au fonctionnement actuel. C'est précisément ce que fait, d'une manière fine et informée, Nains sans géants.

Architecture. --- Internet service providers. --- IAPs (Internet service providers) --- Internet access providers --- Internet service industry --- ISPs (Internet service providers) --- Internet industry --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- IMS (protocole de réseaux d'ordinateurs) --- réseaux sociaux --- décentralisation --- internet