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The Fabrication of Virtue: English Prison Architecture, 1750-1840 by Robin Evans 9780521181334
RRP: $64.49$56.01First published in 1982, this book describes a new kind of prison architecture that developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book concentrates on architecture, but places it in the context of contemporary penal practice and... -
The Development of English Building Construction by C.F. Innocent 9780521178600
RRP: $39.98$30.70The Development of English Building Construction was originally published in 1916. Its author, C. F. Innocent, had an great passion for his subject and an extensive knowledge of English architecture. He wrote this volume as a reaction to the predominant... -
The Design Student's Journey: understanding How Designers Think by Bryan Lawson
RRP: $47.72$42.48Being a professional designer is one of the most intellectually rewarding careers. Learning to become a designer can be tremendous fun but it can also be frustrating and at times painful. What you have to do to become a designer is not often clearly laid... -
The American House by Phaidon Editors
RRP: $23.16$18.83An introduction to the history and architecture of the American house, from the 12th century to the present day. This book features 100 exemplary houses ranging from traditional dwellings to iconic masterpieces of the twentieth century and contemporary... -
Places for Strangers by Mae Architects
RRP: $25.80$17.22mae Architects is an ambitious design led practice delivering high quality architecture, landscape and urban design. Established in 2001 and based in London, they have designed award-winning projects, mainly in the UK but also for in Copenhagen and Oslo,... -
A Musicology for Landscape by David Nicholas Buck 9781472479389
RRP: $69.65$60.98Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture's inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised... -
Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968 by Harry Francis Mallgrave 9780521130486
RRP: $49.01$42.29Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural... -
Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice by Marian Macken 9781472483232
RRP: $64.49$56.63Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of... -
Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire by Penelope Haralambidou
RRP: $76.10$67.18While much has been written on Marcel Duchamp - one of the twentieth century's most beguiling artists - the subject of his flirtation with architecture seems to have been largely overlooked. Yet, in the carefully arranged plans and sections organising... -
Designers Visionaries and Other Stories: A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays by Jonathan Chapman
RRP: $49.01$43.06Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress... -
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience by Jiat-Hwee Chang
RRP: $61.91$54.45A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. It uncovers how systematic knowledge and practices on building and environmental technologies... -
Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from London's Past for a Sustainable Future by Peter Guillery
RRP: $56.76$46.89The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one. This book, for anyone with a professional or personal interest in improving housing provision everywhere, aims to inspire by offering in-depth studies of... -
Industries of Architecture by Katie Lloyd-Thomas 9781138946828
RRP: $69.65$60.98At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture's relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to... -
Devices by Cj Lim
RRP: $54.17$47.41Embedding memories into landscape. Measuring moisture, pressure and wind speed within a bedroom. Drawing power with a potato. These are but a few of the preoccupations described within this book. `Devices' is a manual celebrating the invention of... -
Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre by David Littlefield 9780470714096
RRP: $69.60$61.71Liverpool is one of the most famous trading cities in the world. The view of its Pier Head with the Liver Building has become iconic: it has been called the second city of the British Empire and in the 1930s it became the model for Shanghai's Bund. The... -
Climate and Architecture by Torben Dahl
RRP: $56.75$50.10Provides a critical overview of the main climate influences which shape the design of buildings. Written by experts in their field, the book contains the latest research into climatic design supported by case studies and examples drawn from both historic... -
At One with Nature: Advances in Ecological Architecture in the Work of Ken Yeang by Ken Yeang
RRP: $92.82$83.10"At One with Nature is an inspiring collection of the latest work of Ken Yeang that further advances sustainable architecture and design. This collection features recent projects as he explores how we can achieve harmony between the natural and our built... -
Inclusive Design: Implementation and Evaluation by Jordana L. Maisel
RRP: $42.56$37.62As part of the PocketArchitecture Series, this volume focuses on inclusive design and its allied fields-ergonomics, accessibility, and participatory design. This book aims for the direct application of inclusive design concepts and technical information... -
Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture by Kenny Cupers
RRP: $61.91$53.93From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people's everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design... -
Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture by Sanford Kwinter 9780262611817
$45.98An exploration of twentieth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form. In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts... -
Eric Parry Architects: Volume 4 by Jay Merrick
RRP: $32.19$27.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911339311Author Jay MerrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Artifice PressPublisher Artifice Press -
Central Cambridge: A Guide to the University and Colleges by Kevin Taylor 9780521888769
RRP: $45.14$38.82The fully revised and updated second edition of this best-selling guidebook is intended for all visitors to Cambridge, and for anyone with an interest in the University. Combining an accessible style with accuracy of fact and a wealth of historical... -
Learning Spaces in Africa: Critical Histories to 21st Century Challenges and Change by Ola Uduku 9780367734251
RRP: $51.59$45.23With a key UN Sustainable Development Goal for 2030 being to make basic education available to all the world's children, Learning Spaces in Africa explores the architectural, socio-political and economic policy factors that have contributed to school... -
Decoding the City: Urbanism in the Age of Big Data by Dietmar Offenhuber
RRP: $39.35$35.90The MIT based SENSEable City Lab under Carlo Ratti is one of the research centers that deal with the flow of people and goods, but also of refuse that moves around the world. Experience with large-scale infrastructure projects suggest that more complex... -
Assembling a Collaborative Project Team: Practical tools including Multidisciplinary Schedules of Services by Dale Sinclair
RRP: $64.50$53.03Contemporary construction practice presents a shift in emphasis from thinking about the design team in isolation, to considering the project team as a collaborative whole: client, design team, and contractor. This approach requires greater... -
Algarve Building: Modernism, Regionalism and Architecture in the South of Portugal, 1925-1965 by Dr. Ricardo Agarez
RRP: $61.91$54.45Foreword by Adrian Forty.The Algarve is not only Portugal's foremost tourism region. Uniquely Mediterranean in an Atlantic country, its building customs have long been markers of historical and cultural specificity, attracting both picturesque driven... -
An Architect's Guide to Fame by Paul Davies
RRP: $54.17$47.92This lively text provides a candid inquiry into the contemporary means by which architects get work and (for better or worse) become famous. In response to the reciprocal relationship between publicity and everyday architectural practice, this book... -
Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century: Theory, Education and Practice by Lindsay Asquith
RRP: $61.91$53.93The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century are complex and extensive. Taking a distinctively rigorous theoretical approach, this book considers these issues from a number of perspectives,... -
Approved Document M: Access to and use of buildings - Volume 2: Buildings other than dwellings by HM Government
RRP: $25.80$21.19Approved Document M has been divided into two volumes. ADM volume 1 covers dwellings and this volume - ADM volume 2 - covers buildings other than dwellings. This document provides guidance on the ease of access to, and use of, buildings other than... -
The Giuseppe Pagano - Design for Social Change in Fascist Italy by Flavia Marcello 9781789381009
RRP: $113.46$99.18Giuseppe Pagano-Pogatschnig (1896-1945) was a twentieth-century polymath operating at the intersection between architecture, media, design and the arts. He was an exhibition and furniture designer, curator, photographer, editor, writer and architect. A... -
Avoiding and Resolving Disputes: A Short Guide for Architects by Bart Kavanagh
RRP: $34.83$28.19Quick, concise and direct, this pocketbook outlines the essentials that every architect needs to know about construction disputes - from tips on avoiding them in the first place and informally negotiating issues as they arise, to how to go about settling... -
Architecture and the Landscape of Modernity in China before 1949 by Edward Denison 9781138342187
RRP: $56.75$50.10This book explores China's encounter with architecture and modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism - an encounter that was mediated not by a singular notion of modernism emanating from the west, but that was uniquely multifarious, deriving... -
Consensus Design by Christopher Day 9780750656054
RRP: $54.17$47.92Consensus Design offers a practical step by step guide to co-design; an increasingly important consideration for architects as they compete for work.The text moves from identifying the methodology of the process to developing a series of principles and... -
Venice Lessons - Industrial Nostalgia. Teaching and Research in Architecture by Harry Gugger
RRP: $45.15$29.45Venice, one of the world's most famous places, has a dual nature of real city and myth. It is suspended in the struggle between sea and soil and unable to survive without cyclical preservation and continual compromise. The myth, which is largely shaped... -
Designing Schools: Space, Place and Pedagogy by Kate Darian-Smith
RRP: $64.49$56.12Designing Schools explores the close connections between the design of school buildings and educational practices throughout the twentieth century to today. Through international cases studies that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this... -
Three Cultural Ecologies by David Leatherbarrow
RRP: $51.59$45.23Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern architecture. It reveals how selected works of two modern architects, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, embraced environmental and cultural conditions as reciprocal and complementary. A... -
Architecture of Schools: The New Learning Environments by Mark Dudek
RRP: $103.19$90.30This is the standard design guide on schools architecture, providing vital information on school architecture. Mark Dudek views school building design as a particularly specialised field encompassing ever changing educational theories, the subtle spatial... -
Digital Property: Open-source Architecture by Wendy W. Fok 9781118954980
RRP: $34.77$30.74Even more than authorship, ownership is challenged by the rise of digital and computational methods of design and production. These challenges are simultaneously legal, ethical and economic. How are new methods of fabrication and manufacture going to... -
Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design by Alice Min Soo Chun 9781118361597
RRP: $42.51$38.11Delve deep into the complex issues surrounding humanitarian design Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design establishes essential foundations for thinking about humanitarian design and its role in global change. Outlining a vital framework for designing for... -
Automatic for the City: Designing for People In the Age of The Driverless Car by Riccardo Bobisse
RRP: $60.63$49.96How will automated vehicles change our lives? Where are the opportunities and challenges? Future streets require planning today. This timely book envisions ways in which changes to urban mobility and technology will transform city streetscapes and,...