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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193883945Author Chithra MadhavanFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint D. K. PrintworldPublisher D. K. Printworld

This book is an inspirational story about how an idea got started, hit the ground running, and took flight. Solar Decathlon (SD) was a response to the need for innovative solutions to address a global problem—climate change. Richard King believed a...

A revolutionary study of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space   Maps are rarely given the same attention as other print media or art forms in urban history. Author Min Kyung Lee shows their rich...

Jeanne Gang, one of America’s most distinguished contemporary architects, proposes using the ancient plant-cultivation technique of grafting in architecture and urban design as an effective way to address the pressing issue of climate change. Grafting is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789995750244Author Conrad ThakeFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Kite Group LtdPublisher Kite Group Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789995750220Author Richard EnglandFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Kite Group LtdPublisher Kite Group Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789602042793Author Dimitris PhilippidisFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Melissa Publishing HousePublisher Melissa Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491775406Author Anne DaemsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789490693879Author Angelique CampensFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Today Venice is facing major problems, an overload of tourists and a declining population as well as its precipitous tidal and structural dilemmas. It is to be hoped that it does not become a theme park dead city. The results of the UNSW workshops prove...

This publication retraces the 4-year Sun Life project through thematic studies that describe the project's process divided in two stages. The first seeks the development of the framework of analysis regarding the conservation status of species and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788899836153Author Renata BizzottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Architetti Roma Edizioni srlPublisher Architetti Roma Edizioni srl

Red Location Cultural Precinct is a project for the renovation and the creation of an heritage in Red Location, a district of New Brighton's township in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Jo Noero and his studio have worked to this ambitious project of...

Renewable energies have an important role in today's changing landscapes. This research analyses the current transition to sustainable energy from the architectural landscape point of view.Book InformationISBN 9788898774524Author Giulia GarbariniFormat...

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated by the Vatican Museums to Santiago Calatrava, one of the finest worldwide exponents of contemporary architecture. This evocative excursus, in accordance with the purposes of the...

Text in English & German. The architects in the Viennese Coop Himmelb(l)au team have felt committed to the credo of constructing cities and buildings that float like clouds ever since the practice was founded in 1968, though it did take a while before...

Usually, architects and artists make unlikely bedfellows. Artists think they have some inborn expertise on spatial structures, while architects credit themselves with being artists by virtue of their genre. Therefore, it is all the more surprising that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848710836Author Liza Wing Man KamFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832511371Author Gerald FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

When cricket was democratised and taken up more widely in the nineteenth century, the pavilion became an essential item for every cricket club. Pavilions provide the necessary facilities – changing areas, room to eat, drink and socialise, an external...

rootedness Discover the insights and lessons of architect Juhani Pallasmaa In Rootedness: Reflections for Young Architects, Juhani Pallasmaa delivers an insightful and expansive collection of his most compelling ideas into architecture’s position among...

THE EYES OF THE SKIN Explore the relationship between architecture and the sensory experience with the fourth edition of this groundbreaking work First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching...

The word time occurs more than seven times as often as space in written English, yet in the design of the indoor environments where we now spend most of our lives these priorities are typically reversed, with time often being little more than an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496028611Author Astrid WonnebergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 397Imprint Dietrich Reimer Verlag,BerlinPublisher Dietrich Reimer Verlag,Berlin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496013259Author Silke DahmlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 431g

The lavish five-volume set of Food for Architects is dedicated to the buildings and cooking of the renowned Zurich-based firm Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners. As enthusiastic housing designers, they have been searching for both the perfect floor...

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s Performance + Assembly: The Experience of Space covers a range of performance and assembly spaces designed by AS+GG from central spaces in the world’s largest expositions to small, flexible high-technology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877015274Author Jiat-Hwee ChangFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Pesaro PublishingPublisher Pesaro Publishing

Contexts: The Work of Hodder + Partners brings together contributions from architectural writers, academics and journalists to review the buildings, culture and philosophy of Hodder Associates (now Hodder + Partners), founded in 1992. Including...

This practical handbook published in conjunction with the Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) sets out the design and specification principles of steps, stairs, ramps, escalators and moving walks for inclusive environments. These critically...

Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum not only for presenting Asian phenomena and their characteristics to the world, but also for understanding diversity and multiculturalism within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739404109Author Anna KostrevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Plural StudioPublisher Plural Studio

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018147Author Robin WilsonPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40g

Lilian J. Rice was given the opportunity of a lifetime in 1922, when her employeraarchitect, Richard Requaapassed over to her his commission to design and develop Rancho Santa Fe, the master planned, high class community in Southern California. Rice went...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351073Author Benjamin N. VisFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351066Author Benjamin N. VisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 790g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783206384Author Christiane GruberFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

The Architecture of Colonial America sets forth a brief history and an analysis of the architecture of Colonial America, in such a way that they may be of interest and value both to the general reader and to the architect. Architecture is crystallised...

Evergreen-the long-time home of the Garrett family in north Baltimore-offers a preeminent example of antebellum-American Italianate architecture. It also houses a remarkably diverse collection of over 50,000 objects, including paintings, furniture,...

The emphasis here is to explore the key issues influencing the culture, strategies and management operations of professional practices. The focus is upon established practices from growing ones to large international firms in the built environment. A key...