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Fashion Design for Living by Alison Gwilt
RRP: $54.17$49.23Fashion Design for Living explores the positive contribution that the contemporary fashion designer can make within society. The book seeks to reveal new ways of designing and making fashion garments and products that not only enhance and enrich our... -
Creating Emotionally Intelligent Workspaces: A Design Guide to Office Chemistry by Edward Finch 9781138602472
RRP: $61.91$53.93Emotions in the workplace have until recently been seen simply as a distraction. We often think of work as rational, logical and non-emotional. But organisations are waking up to the key role of emotions and affect at work. Emotions influence how we make... -
Scale: Heat Cool: Energy Concepts, Principles, Installations by Manfred Hegger
RRP: $22.58$21.26Today, careful energy planning and design has become an integral component of every building task. The second volume of the SCALE series, Heat | Cool, picks up at precisely this point, providing strategies for an energetically sensible and suitable... -
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities by Jean-Francois Lejeune 9780415776349
RRP: $70.94$62.07Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate... -
Aesthetics and Technology in Building: The Twenty-First-Century Edition by Pier Nervi
RRP: $64.50$57.29The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The "soaring beauty" of Pier Luigi Nervi's visionary designs and buildings changed cityscapes in the twentieth century. His uncanny ingenuity with... -
Approved Document F: Ventilation - Volume 2: Buildings other than dwellings (2021 edition) by HM Government
RRP: $23.22$19.20This Approved Document provides guidance on how to comply with Part F to Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations covers ventilation and applies to buildings other than dwellings only, and takes effect on 15 June 2022. It does not apply to work subject to... -
Immediate Spaces: 16-19 by Leopold Banchini
RRP: $28.38$18.78The Studio for Immediate Spaces (SIS) is a two-year MA programme at Amsterdam's renowned Sandberg Instituut. It aims to explore and shape spatial practices on the genesis and production of contemporary spatial configurations. Through extensive... -
Housing for People of All Ages: flexible, unrestricted, senior-friendly by Peter Ebner
RRP: $83.85$75.81Communal living, intergenerational living, living for families, handicap-accessible living, living and working, living and leisure time - the wide variety of current demands is shaping future concepts in housing, which will have to do justice to the... -
On Surface and Place: Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography by Peta Carlin
RRP: $51.59$45.23On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place. Adopting weaving as its overarching metaphor, it departs from Gottfried Semper's discussion of... -
Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition by Christy Anderson 9780521820271
RRP: $116.10$87.27Inigo Jones worked as hard on the creation of his architectural persona as he did on the design of the buildings for the early Stuart court. Through his study of continental architectural and art theory, humanist education, and courtly behavior, Jones... -
The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning: Tools for Design, Teaching, and Research by Marta Brkovic Dodig
RRP: $56.75$49.59The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games, including: simulation games, game-like approaches, game scenarios, and gamification processes for teaching/learning, design and... -
Marketing and Communication for Architects: Fundamentals, Strategies and Practice by Edgar Haupt
RRP: $16.77$16.33The profile and standing of the architectural profession is undergoing a transformation. Competition from civil engineers and integrated construction companies is on the increase and the market segments are becoming narrower. Buildings alone are... -
Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation: Theory and Evidence-Based Practice by Jeremy C. Wells
RRP: $56.75$50.10Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation addresses the question of how a human-centred conservation approach can and should change practice. For the most part, there are few answers to this question because professionals in the heritage... -
Remaking Cities: An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting by Tony Fry
$38.91Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability - in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable... -
Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again by Reinhold Martin
RRP: $28.37$27.83Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia's Ghost is a critical reconsideration of their relationship. Combining discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and close readings of... -
Geometric Computation: Foundations for Design by Joy Ko 9780415811972
RRP: $64.49$57.41Geometric Computation: Foundations for Design describes the mathematical and computational concepts that are central to the practical application of design computation in a manner tailored to the visual designer. Uniquely pairing key topics in code and... -
Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire by Patricia Blessing
RRP: $116.10$105.82In this book, Patricia Blessing explores the emergence of Ottoman architecture in the fifteenth century and its connection with broader geographical contexts. Analyzing how transregional exchange shaped building practices, she examines how workers from... -
Steel Cities: The Architecture of Logistics in Central and Eastern Europe by Tadeas Riha
RRP: $32.25$21.65In the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, a certain type of industry has rapidly developed - an industry that produces nothing physical. Storing, packaging, classifying, assembling, and other ancillary processes of manufacturing and... -
Unravelling Sustainability and Resilience in the Built Environment by Emilio Garcia
RRP: $49.01$43.06In this timely book, Emilio Jose Garcia and Brenda Vale explore what sustainability and resilience might mean when applied to the built environment. Conceived as a primer for students and professionals, it defines what the terms sustainability and... -
Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race,a nd Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession by Kathryn H. Anthony
RRP: $28.37$24.76A powerful statement about the repercussions of discrimination and the benefits of diversity in architecture Providing hard data for trends that many perceive only vaguely and some deny altogether, Designing for Diversity reveals a profession rife with... -
Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies: Towards a Relational Planning for Our Times by Prof. Patsy Healey
RRP: $69.65$60.98Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to all those with an interest in cities and urban areas.Well-illustrated chapters weave together... -
Building Systems: Design Technology and Society by Kiel Moe 9780415617949
RRP: $59.33$51.77We can no longer view building components as artifacts (a brick or a boiler) or as autonomous systems (air conditioning or prefabrication). Rather these components and systems are part of much larger systems of which architects are one agent. This book... -
Design Realities: Creativity, Nature and the Human Spirit by Stuart Walker
RRP: $49.01$43.58Design Realities explores a wide range of topics on creativity, design and spiritual well-being. Using critique, rational inquiry and personal reflection, Stuart Walker looks squarely at our contemporary condition, demonstrates how current assumptions... -
Syria Matters by Rania Abdellatif 9788836641222
RRP: $51.54$34.09A look on the multifaceted layers of Syria's architectural and cultural history from its pre-Islamic past onward. For more than seven years, Syria has been undergoing one of the worst human tragedies worldwide. This once proud and splendid country,... -
The Wooden Churches of Eastern Europe: An Introductory Survey by David Buxton 9780521090544
RRP: $56.75$49.72Previously issued in 1981, this book examines the wooden church architecture of Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe is the principal refuge of styles and techniques of 'solid' timber and log building which were once far more widespread. These same building... -
The Architecture of Transgression by Rachel Sara 9781118361795
RRP: $34.77$30.74Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social... -
Design Tools for Evidence-Based Healthcare Design by Michael Phiri
RRP: $79.97$69.67The growing movement towards evidence-based healthcare design has largely emphasised a change of culture and attitudes. It has advocated for new ways of working, but until now, it has not focused on equipping healthcare clients and their designers with... -
The Living Tradition of Architecture by Jose de Paiva 9781138640504
RRP: $64.49$56.63The Living Tradition of Architecture explores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwelling and thinking. This is a timely appraisal of the field by some of its foremost contributors. Beyond modern... -
Architecture and Systems Ecology: Thermodynamic Principles of Environmental Building Design, in three parts by William W. Braham
RRP: $76.10$65.89Modern buildings are both wasteful machines that can be made more efficient and instruments of the massive, metropolitan system engendered by the power of high-quality fuels. A comprehensive method of environmental design must reconcile the techniques of... -
The Complexities of John Hejduk's Work: Exorcising Outlines, Apparitions and Angels by J. Kevin Story
RRP: $49.01$43.06This book traces the development of John Hejduk's architectural career, using the idea of "exorcism" to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound questioning on what, why and how we build, which... -
Le Corbusier in Detail by Flora Samuel 9780750663540
RRP: $59.33$52.28This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings. It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier's details were expressive of his overall philosophical intentions. It is not a construction book in... -
The Break with the Past: Avant-Garde Architecture in Germany, 1910 - 1925 by Deborah Ascher Barnstone 9781138101609
RRP: $174.15$151.81Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism. These innovations continue to influence artistic practice, theory, and arts education today, thus making a comprehensive study... -
New Investigations in Collective Form by Neeraj Bhatia
RRP: $51.54$32.80New Investigations in Collective Form presents a group of design experiments by the design-research office THE OPEN WORKSHOP, that test how architecture can empower the diverse voices that make up the public realm and the environments in which they exist... -
Brick 18: Outstanding International Brick Architecture by Wienerberger AG
RRP: $58.05$37.73Brick architecture is more vibrant than ever. As a building material, brick has been in use constantly for more than nine millennia. Today, the appreciation of its versatile application, construction qualities, and its energy efficiency remains unbroken... -
Gabriel Guevrekian: The Elusive Modernist by Hamed Khosravi
RRP: $61.92$40.13The Elusive Modernist revisits the history of the Modern movement through the legacy of one of its protagonists, Gabriel Guevrekian (c. 1900-1970). Born in Istanbul, Guevrekian grew up in Tehran and then moved to Vienna to study architecture at the... -
Architecture as the Ethics of Climate by Jin Baek
RRP: $61.91$53.93At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book proposes an entirely new way for architects to engage with these core issues. Drawing on Tetsuro Watsuji's (1889-1960) philosophy, the book illuminates climate... -
Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer, and Artist by David P. Billington
RRP: $56.75$49.72This comprehensive biography traces the life and works of Robert Maillart, one of the most important engineers and designers of the twentieth century. His career developed around a central issue of modern technological society: the debate between two... -
The Mereological City: A Reading of the Works of Ludwig Hilberseimer by Daniel Kohler
RRP: $50.30$41.77In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition. The resonance of parts unfolds to an alternative of a purely... -
The Place Vendome: Architecture and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Rochelle Ziskin 9780521592598
RRP: $74.81$67.35In The Place Vendome, Rochelle Ziskin explores the sociological foundations of domestic design in eighteenth-century France, the acknowledged leader of domestic architecture in this period. Focusing on the Place Vendome, which was developed by the... -
Architecture Theory since 1968 by K. Michael Hays 9780262581882
$83.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262581882Author K. Michael HaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 824Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1905gDimensions(mm) 267mm * 191mm *...