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81 books match the query 'Design and construction' and 8 start with m
Managing Your Library Construction Project
A Step-by-Step GuideRichard C. McCarthy
American Library Association, 2007
Mechatronic Hands
Prosthetic and robotic designPaul H. Chappell
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2016
Medicine by Design
The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943Annmarie Adams
University of Minnesota Press, 2008
In the history of medicine, hospitals are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture.
At the center of this work is Montreal’s landmark Royal Victoria Hospital, built in 1893. Drawing on a wide range of visual and textual sources, Adams uses the “Royal Vic”—along with other hospitals built or modified over the next fifty years—to explore critical issues in architecture and medicine: the role of gender and class in both fields, the transformation of patients into consumers, the introduction of new medical concepts and technologies, and the use of domestic architecture and regionally inspired imagery to soften the jarring impact of high-tech medicine.
Identifying the roles played by architects in medical history and those played by patients, doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals in the design of hospitals, Adams also links architectural spaces to everyday hospital activities, from meal preparation to the ways in which patients entered the hospital and awaited treatment.
Methodologically and conceptually innovative, Medicine by Design makes a significant contribution to the histories of both architectural and medical practices in the twentieth century.
Annmarie Adams is William C. Macdonald Professor of Architecture at McGill University and the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870–1900 and coauthor of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession.
Microwave Horns and Feeds
A.D. Olver
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1994
Microwave and RF Design
A Systems ApproachMichael Steer
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2010
Microwave and RF Design
A Systems Approach, 2nd EditionMichael Steer
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2013
Modern Mobility Aloft
Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate AmericaAmy D. Finstein
Temple University Press, 2020
In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets; they were statements of civic pride, asserting boldly modern visions for a city’s architecture, economy, and transportation network. Yet three of the most ambitious projects, launched in Chicago, New York, and Boston in the spirit of utopian models by architects such as Le Corbusier and Hugh Ferriss, ultimately fell short of their ideals.
Modern Mobility Aloft is the first study to focus on pre-Interstate urban elevated highways within American architectural and urban history. Amy Finstein traces the idealistic roots of these superstructures, their contrasting realities once built, their impacts on successive development patterns, and the recent challenges they have posed to contemporary urban designers.
Filled with more than 100 historic photographs and illustrations of beaux arts and art deco architecture, Modern Mobility Aloft provides a critical understanding of urban landscapes, transportation, and technological change as cities moved into the modern era.
Motion Vision
Design of compact motion sensing solutions for navigation of autonomous systemsJ. Kolodko
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2005