Adaptive Reuse & Renovation

The incessant trend to throw away rather than to repair, demolish rather than refurbish has been a topic of discussion and criticism for years-at the same time, resource consumption and the waste continue to increase. To counteract this trend, students...

Historic buildings and places play an essential role in the everyday lives of the people of the UK, their cultural identity and the economy. They can inspire creativity and enterprise, bring communities together, and make people happier about where they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632205964Author Loft PublicationsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 1270gDimensions(mm)...

Since the Industrial Revolution, cities and industry have grown together; towns and metropolitan regions have evolved around factories and expanding industries. New Industrial Urbanism explores the evolving and future relationships between cities and...

From artworks and chairs to architecture, landscaping and interior design, Michael Boyd's devotion to the principles of modernism is comprehensive. An artist and musician, he acquired his expertise as a collector, surrounding himself with rare and...

Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Capriccio...

This book features the best and most spectacular conversions on the international architecture scene, accompanied by an insightful text and photographs. It includes over 60 projects around the world, including work by Hassell + OMA, David...

What is the role of design research in the types of insight and knowledge that architects create? That is the central question raised by this book. It acts as the introductory overview for Ashgate's major new series, 'Design Research in Architecture'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037682753Author Dorian LucasFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Braun Publishing AGPublisher Braun Publishing AGWeight(grams) 1560g

This book chronicles the development of Greenbank House from its origins in a rural Toxteth Park in the mid 18th century to the present day. Home to the prominent merchant Rathbone family from 1788 until it was donated by them in 1944 to the University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998117607Author Stephanie A WaschaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Wascha StudiosPublisher Wascha StudiosWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Gateshead has often been overshadowed by Newcastle, its northern neighbour across the River Tyne, yet its history is full of fascinating insights into the way in which a northern industrial town experienced the 19th and 20th centuries. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095411Author Eva de KlerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 168mm * 20mm

Focusing on the requirement for energy-efficient sustainable architecture with a small carbon footprint, this book explores the many ways in which containers can be renovated to create housing and more. With environmentally friendly design, low...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037682340Author Chris van UffelenFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Braun Publishing AGPublisher Braun Publishing AGWeight(grams) 2450g

This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall, London's historic government district, and replace it with a ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965 the...

Architectural discourse and practice are dominated by a false dichotomy between design and chance, and governed by the belief that the architect's role is to defend against the indeterminate. In Architectures of Chance Yeoryia Manolopoulou challenges...

During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as...

Refurbishment and repair accounts for approximately 50 per cent of annual construction turnover. It is therefore essential that practitioners and those students who aspire to work in this sector are equipped with the best tools to do the job. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478756378Author Anne TooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 95g

Enchanted by their beauty, complexity, and historical significance, the Bartuskas began researching, visiting, and photographing the region's round barns soon after Tom accepted a teaching position at Washington State University's architecture department...

Renovation, conversion and restoration are challenging architectural tasks that are seldom discussed. For many years now, the architect couple from Zurich has pursued this topic with great care, creating notable conversions and restorations such as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788774074434Author Kristian KrogFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Danish Architectural PressPublisher Danish Architectural PressWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945971020Author Scott BurnhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint VrmntrPublisher VrmntrWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914337789Author Veronika ZubkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications LtdWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578691862Author Philip M TusaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Philip Tusa, ArchitectPublisher Philip Tusa, ArchitectWeight(grams) 191g

How to reimagine existing buildings to create a more sustainable futureThe construction and operation of buildings is responsible for 41 percent of all primary energy use and 48 percent of all carbon emissions, and the impact of the demolition and...

Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity. Since the late 1990s, the number of inhabitants has grown from less...

Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis Kahn, this book examines collaboration in the architectural design process over a period ranging...

Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world, including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali,...

This essential reference is a compilation of ideas, suggestions, and design solutions taken from a variety of experts in the field. The goal is to give homeowners increased independence, allowing them to envision and create their own future. Today,...

History, industry, and architecture come alive in this book documenting the six-year transformation of one of the Southeast's largest buildings into a mixed-use civic anchor in 2016. The cavernous Sears, Roebuck and Company distribution and retail...

Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence. However, the Islamisation of the urban landscape, which is at the core of Malaysia's...

Equal parts design inspiration and travelogue, this book highlights the rapidly growing adaptive reuse movement From the author and photographer of Design Brooklyn and Detroit: The Dream Is Now comes Design. Renew. Reuse. a photographic survey of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037682203Author Chris van UffelenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Braun Publishing AGPublisher Braun Publishing AGWeight(grams) 1800g

In a complex transformation, the Basel-based architecture firm Focketyn del Rio Studio converted the main building of Berlin’s former military barracks into a vibrant cultural and creative hub. Situated on the embankment of the Rhine, already a nightlife...

While industrial and chemical innovations have contributed extensively to human advancement, the darker part of their legacy has been the hundreds of thousands of polluted sites left behind. Governments at all levels have rallied to support the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037682401Author Chris van UffelenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Braun Publishing AGPublisher Braun Publishing AGWeight(grams) 1590g

There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal AtatA1/4rk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of...

This book is about contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism, taking the form of a project for The Corviale Void, a one kilometre long strip of urban space, immured in the notorious Corviale housing development in the Southwestern sector of Rome...