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AIA Guide to Chicago by American Institute of Architects Chicago
RRP: £38.00£33.67Chicago's architecture attracts visitors from around the globe. The fourth edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago is the best portable resource for exploring this most breathtaking and dynamic of cityscapes. The editors offer entries on new destinations... -
The Viennese CafA (c) and Fin-de-SiAcle Culture by Charlotte Ashby 9781782389262
RRP: £27.95£22.58The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and... -
Designing for Accessibility by Alison Grant
RRP: £37.00£30.80The new edition of the best-selling Designing for Accessibility is a completely up-to-date and user-friendly good practice guide based on Approved Document M and BS 8300:2009 in the context of the Equality Act 2010. Aimed at all those seeking to fulfil... -
Building the Modern Church: Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975 by Robert Proctor
RRP: £49.99£44.50Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in... -
The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment by Dean Hawkes 9781138628984
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography... -
Light by Ian Ritchie 9781911397755
RRP: £14.99£10.80Light is the material of Architecture. Ian Ritchie is one of the UK's most visionary architects, and remarkable for synthesising multiple creative disciplines to bring the essence of his architectural projects into focus. A poet and artist as well as an... -
The Architecture of Natural Cooling by Brian Ford
RRP: £43.99£39.44Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving comfort and productivity while reducing energy costs and carbon emissions. It provides architects, engineers and policy... -
The Architecture of McKim, Mead, and White: 1879-1915 by Allan Greenberg 9781589798182
RRP: £14.99£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589798182Author Allan GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Architectural Book Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Architectural Book Publishing Co... -
Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone by Andrew Pressman
RRP: £32.99£29.16Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes. Not just for architects or product developers, design... -
Space and Power: Politics, War and Architecture by Paul Q. Hirst 9780745634562
RRP: £17.99£16.04Paul Hirst was one was one of the most original thinkers of his generation. This book is being published post-humously after his tragic death in 2003. Written with verve and lucidity, it is a scholarly account of the various ways in which space is... -
Building the Post-War World by Nicholas Bullock 9780415221795
RRP: £58.99£51.48Building the Post-war World examines the way in which World War II and the ten years of reconstruction that followed saw the establishment of modern architecture in Britain. It charts the opportunities created by post-war rebuilding showing how the... -
Ancoats: The cradle of industrialisation by Mike Rose 9781848020276
RRP: £16.99£15.64First hailed as a wonder of the new industrial world, to later 19th-century commentators the name Ancoats became synonymous with dark satanic mills and urban poverty. This book intends to raise awareness of the wide range and varied character of the... -
This Thing Called Theory by Teresa Stoppani 9781138223004
RRP: £49.99£43.50In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in... -
An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present by Harry Francis Mallgrave 9781405180627
RRP: £29.95£26.61A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in... -
Refurbishment Manual: Maintenance, Conversions, Extensions by Georg Giebeler
RRP: £82.50£74.80Planning tasks involving existing structures are currently among the most common types of contract, and almost every structure makes different demands and raises individual problems. Reflecting this state of affairs, there are a dizzying number of... -
Theories and Practices of Architectural Representation by Mike Christenson
RRP: £39.99£35.06Theories and Practices of Architectural Representation focuses on the study of architectural knowledge approached through the lens of representation: the making of things-about-buildings. Architectural knowledge systems continue to shift away from... -
Approved Document J: Combustion appliances and fuel storage systems (2010 edition incorporating 2010, 2013 and 2022 amendments) by HM Government
RRP: £20.00£16.43This amended edition of Approved Document J: Combustion appliances and fuel storage systems, extends the provisions and guidance for carbon monoxide alarms. The amended provisions and guidance come into effect on 1 October 2022. This Approved... -
Tall Buildings: A Strategic Design Guide by Mr Nigel Clark
RRP: £42.00£34.77Tall Buildings: A Strategic Design Guide is an authoritative guide to the key issues and considerations associated with planning, creating and living with tall buildings. Thoroughly reworked to reflect industry developments and experiences gained over... -
Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture by Richard Padovan
RRP: £61.99£54.01This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in... -
Beyond Live/Work: The Architecture of Home-based Work by Frances Holliss
RRP: £45.99£40.13Beyond Live/Work: the architecture of home-based work explores the old but neglected building type that combines dwelling and workplace, the 'workhome'. It traces a previously untold architectural history illustrated by images of largely forgotten... -
Managing the Brief for Better Design by Alastair Blyth
RRP: £53.99£47.27Briefing is not just presenting a set of documents to the design team; it is a process of developing a deep understanding about client needs. This book provides both inspiration to clients and a framework for practitioners. The coverage extends beyond... -
Laboratory Design Guide by Brian Griffin 9780750660891
RRP: £76.99£67.45Laboratory Design Guide 3rd edition is a complete guide to the complex process of laboratory design and construction. With practical advice and detailedexamples, it is an indispensable reference for anyone involved in building or renovating laboratories... -
Solid Wood: Case Studies in Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design by Joseph Mayo 9780415725309
RRP: £58.99£52.08Over the past 10-15 years a renaissance in wood architecture has occurred with the development of new wood building systems and design strategies, elevating wood from a predominantly single-family residential idiom to a rival of concrete and steel... -
McMorran & Whitby by Edward Denison 9781859463208
RRP: £22.00£19.89McMorran & Whitby are a secret presence in post-war British architecture. Led from the late 1950s by Donald McMorran and George Whitby, the practice represented an unbroken development from the monumental inter-war classicism represented by figures... -
Architecture and Modernity: A Critique by Hilde Heynen 9780262581899
£27.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262581899Author Hilde HeynenFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 16mm -
Approved Document F: Ventilation - Volume 1: Dwellings (2021 edition) by HM Government
RRP: £18.00£14.88This Approved Document provides guidance on how to comply with Part F to Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations covering ventilation and applies to dwellings only, and takes effect on 15 June 2022. It does not apply to work subject to a building notice,... -
Reading Architecture and Culture: Researching Buildings, Spaces and Documents by Adam Sharr 9780415601436
RRP: £43.99£38.44Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who have participated in it, their relationships, and their involvement in the cultures where they lived and... -
Net Zero Energy Building: Predicted and Unintended Consequences by Ming Hu 9780815367802
RRP: £35.99£31.69What do we mean by net zero energy? Zero operating energy? Zero energy costs? Zero emissions? There is no one answer: approaches to net zero building vary widely across the globe and are influenced by different environmental and cultural contexts.Net... -
Design Brooklyn: Renovation, Restoration, Innovation, Industry by Anne Hellman
£31.15Design Brooklyn shows us the architecture, interiors and design trends of New York's hottest borough. The book takes us inside restored brownstones, renovated townhouses and private gardens, and shows us the latest in public space design and architecture... -
Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990 by Peter Blundell Jones 9780750663748
RRP: £135.00£117.68Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence and role have been overlooked by conventional histories of the subject, is discussed. The case study... -
What Designers Know by Bryan Lawson
RRP: £36.99£32.53Each chapter deals with a different technique from which we can best represent and make explicit the forms of knowledge used by designers. The book explores whether design knowledge is special, and attempts to get to the root of where design knowledge... -
Jo Coenen by Moleskine 9788867325740
£18.93Jo Coenen is a Dutch architect and urban planner. He studied architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology (graduating in 1975), and later held professorships at TU Karlsruhe, Eindhoven University of Technology and Delft University of Technology... -
Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms by Jose Sanchez 9781138362369
RRP: £36.99£32.53Architecture for the Commons dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organizations that allow them to exist. By tracing the origins and promises of current technological practices in design, the... -
The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory by Greig Crysler 9781446282632
RRP: £30.00£25.17"Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends the status-quo." - Architectural... -
Freud for Architects by John Abell
RRP: £22.99£20.16Freud for Architects explains what Freud offers to the understanding of architectural creativity and architectural experience, with case examples from early modern architecture to the present. Freud's observations on the human psyche and its influence on... -
Bamboo Contemporary by William Richards
RRP: £45.00£30.81In this globetrotting tour of seventeen houses, discover how bamboo, one of the most sustainable building materials on the planet, can be used in ingenious ways in residential design. Bamboo is a perennial grass that grows rapidly and rivals steel,... -
China's Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities by Austin Williams 9781350003255
£26.93By 2025, China will have built fifteen new 'supercities' each with 25 million inhabitants. It will have created 250 'Eco-cities' as well: clean, green, car-free, people-friendly, high-tech urban centres. From the edge of an impending eco-catastrophe, we... -
The Aesthetics of Industrial Design: Seeing, Designing and Making by Richard Herriott
RRP: £35.99£31.69This textbook introduces design students to key principles of three-dimensional form, bridging aesthetics and practical design objectives. It explores how we see and what it is that characterises visually appealing and satisfactory design.Written by an... -
Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape by Molly Wright Steenson 9780262546782
£35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546782Author Molly Wright SteensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 178g -
Components and Systems: Modular Construction - Design, Structure, New Technologies by Gerald Staib
RRP: £74.00£67.96Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible. Think of the architecture...