Design Technology - Valparaiso

This book provides students of architecture and young practitioners with a readable guide to the profession, outlining an architect's duties to their client and contractor, the key aspects of running a building contract, and the essentials of management, finance and drawing office procedure.

The industry-standard guide to designing well-performing buildings, this book systematically describes the principles by which good architectural details are designed.

This book provides an introduction architectural history and theory This collection of 40 essays covering key subjects, ranging from memory and heritage to everyday life, building materials and city spaces. As well as critical theory, philosophy, literature and experimental design, it refers to more immediate and topical issues in the built environment, such as globalization, localism, regeneration and ecologies.

This book explains the core aspects of architectural technology: structural physics, structural elements and forms, heating, lighting, environmental control, and computer modelling. Hundreds of photographs, diagrams, and screengrabs demonstrate common architectural forms and construction techniques.

This book is about impulses and conditions which are expressed, but often ignored in architecture. The author looks at the ordinary, physical, visible and tactile involvement of our urban environment and the way it affects, communicates with, or influences us.

Covering all of the 2D concepts, this comprehensive resource uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application.

Explore the serverless world using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and develop various architectures, including those for event-driven and disaster recovery designs.

Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition teaches you how to design, secure, and manage serverless backend APIs for web and mobile applications on the AWS platform. You'll get going quickly with this book's relevant real-world examples, code listings, diagrams, and clearly-described architectures that you can readily apply to your own work. You'll master serverless systems using AWS Lambda and the myriad other services on the AWS platform.   This new edition has been fully updated to reflect the newest serverless design best practices and changes to AWS. It features two entirely new chapters dedicated to DevOps, monitoring, and microservices, as well as working with DynamoDB, GraphQL and Kinesis.   Key Features ·   First steps with serverless computing ·   The principles of serverless design ·   Transitioning from servers to services ·   Writing AWS Lambda functions and using the API Gateway   Audience This book is for server-side and full-stack software developers with some experience using Node.js and AWS.   Author Bio Peter Sbarski is VP of Engineering at A Cloud Guru and the head organizer of Serverlessconf, the world's first conference dedicated entirely to serverless architectures and technologies. Throughout his extensive IT career, Peter has led teams across large enterprise solutions with a focus on web and AWS cloud technologies.