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Programming for Design: From Theory to Practice Edith Cherry 9780471196457
RRP: $150.05$131.49Quickly master architectural programming concepts, skills, and techniques In the essential discipline of architectural programming, the ideas of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and history find their focus in the realities of site... -
Senior Residences: Designing Retirement Communities for the Future by John E. Harrigan 9780471190615
RRP: $204.65$177.90A comprehensive framework for capitalizing on the growing market for Continuing Care Retirement Communities. Senior Residences equips architects and other industry professionals with a proven executive strategy for the design and development of... -
African American Historic Places Beth L. Savage 9780471143451
RRP: $92.63$82.70Culled from the records of the National Register of Historic Places, a roster of all types of significant properties across the United States, African American Historic Places includes over 800 places in 42 states and two U.S. territories that have... -
The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume I: A New Framework for Architecture by Patrik Schumacher 9780470772997
RRP: $208.55$182.36Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary... -
Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment David Gissen (California College of the Arts, San Francisco) 9780470721650
RRP: $56.45$49.67Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a framework that draws from physical and human... -
Working Toward Sustainability: Ethical Decision-Making in a Technological World Charles J. Kibert (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL) 9780470539729
RRP: $124.70$108.58A comprehensive introduction to the ethics of sustainability for empowering professionals and practitioners in many different fields By building the framework for balancing technological developments with their social and environmental effects,... -
The New Competitiveness in Design and Construction: 12 Strategies That Will Drive the 21st-Century's Most Successful Firms by Joe M. Powell 9780470065600
RRP: $83.75$74.04What is it that keeps professionals in the AEC industry up at night if it is not their ability to design and build good buildings? It's their never-ending search for a competitive advantage - their ability, on a daily basis, to effectively compete for... -
Australian Metropolis: A Planning History by Robert Freestone 9780419258100
RRP: $120.88$104.54The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of Australian cities and the crucial role which planning has played in their genesis and growth. Spanning two... -
Towards Universality: Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl Richard Padovan 9780419240303
RRP: $140.38$121.78There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. However, this book considers them in relation to each other, observing how a study of one can illuminate the works of the others. Going beyond a superficial look at the... -
Structure and Style: Conserving Twentieth-Century Buildings Michael Stratton 9780419217404
RRP: $234.00$202.82This book provides the first study of approaches to appraising and conserving mainstream architecture of the twentieth century - commercial buildings, industrial buildings and housing. Architects, surveyors and conservationists are now appreciating the... -
The Environmental Tradition: Studies in the architecture of environment Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge, UK) 9780419199007
RRP: $165.73$144.79This text brings together a unique collection of writing by a leading researcher and critic which outlines the evolution of the environmental dimension of architectural theory and practice in the past twenty-five years. It deals with the transformation... -
Pathologies of Modern Space: Empty Space, Urban Anxiety, and the Recovery of the Public Self by Kathryn Milun 9780415952743
RRP: $85.78$74.96Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. In contrast to traditional medical conceptions of the disorder, Kathryn Milun shows that this anxiety is closely related to... -
New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures by Emily Talen 9780415701334
RRP: $93.58$82.31New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners' quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years... -
Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City Noeleen Murray 9780415701310
RRP: $140.38$121.78This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act... -
Festival Architecture Sarah Bonnemaison 9780415701297
RRP: $140.38$121.78With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival... -
Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life Karen Franck 9780415701174
RRP: $107.23$93.83In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space... -
Space Meets Status: Designing Workplace Performance by Jacqueline C. Vischer 9780415701044
RRP: $185.23$160.58Showing how worker productivity and stress levels are affected by factors such as lighting, ventilation, temperature, noise and layout, this book demonstrates how the technical aspects of human comfort do not always tally with users' perceptions and... -
Sustainable Architectures: Critical Explorations of Green Building Practice in Europe and North America by Simon Guy 9780415700450
RRP: $134.53$116.06As buildings are responsible for fifty per cent of CO2 emissions, their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or ecologically responsible, buildings, and being able to assemble the... -
Scale: Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture Gerald Adler 9780415687126
RRP: $97.48$84.83Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human... -
Creating Child Friendly Cities: Reinstating Kids in the City by Brendan Gleeson 9780415648974
RRP: $105.28$91.40Leading planning and geography authors present this comprehensive assessment of the extent to which the physical and social make up of Western cities accommodates and nourishes the needs of children and youth. Examining the areas of planning, design,... -
Permutation Design: Buildings, Texts, and Contexts by Kostas Terzidis 9780415644501
RRP: $107.23$93.05In design, the problems that designers are called upon to solve can be regarded as a problem of permutations. A permutation is an ordered arrangement of elements in a set. In our case, the set is design and the elements are design components, such as... -
Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture by Francois Penz 9780415639071
RRP: $263.25$229.48Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture provides architects, planners, designer practitioners, politicians and decision makers with a new awareness of the practice of everyday life through the medium of film. This novel approach... -
Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005 Duanfang Lu 9780415665698
RRP: $74.08$65.09In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival documents, professional journals and her... -
Composition, Non-composition Jacques Lucan 9780415641111
RRP: $195.00$189.07In architecture, composition refers to the conception of a building according to principles of regularity and hierarchy, or according to the principles of obtaining equilibrium. However, it is not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that the... -
Frank Lloyd Wright's Sacred Architecture: Faith, Form and Building Technology Anat Geva 9780415775083
RRP: $120.88$106.49A comprehensive study of the sacred buildings built and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this book offers scholarly discussion with analytical drawings and photographs. These projects represent different periods of Wright's career (from 1886 to 1958), new... -
Goodman for Architects Remei Capdevila-Werning 9780415639378
RRP: $64.33$56.86American philosopher Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the foremost analytical thinkers of the twentieth century, with groundbreaking contributions in the fields of logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, and aesthetics. This book is an... -
Framing Strategic Urban Projects: Learning from current experiences in European urban regions by Willem Salet 9780415647885
RRP: $97.48$84.83Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences. ... -
Integrating Care: The architecture of the comprehensive health centre Justin De Syllas 9780415608589
RRP: $140.38$121.78This book provides a timely review of the contemporary interpretation of the 'comprehensive health centre', a building type that was originally advocated by health reformers in the UK in the first half of the twentieth century. The book discusses the... -
Architecture 3.0: The Disruptive Design Practice Handbook Cliff Moser (AECCatalyst, USA) 9780415622820
RRP: $93.58$82.31This book provides a definitive guide for the future direction of the practice and profession of architecture.In five parts, Cliff Moser provides you with all the tools and know-how to implement changes that will serve you and your practice in the short,... -
The Politics of Making by Mark Swenarton 9780415488006
RRP: $93.58$82.31A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspective Taking a broad view of the word 'politics', the essays... -
Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture: Academia Eolia Revisited by Barbara Kenda 9780415398046
RRP: $126.73$109.47Written by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and the disciplines of art and science. One of the... -
The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 John Potvin (Concordia University, Canada) 9780415873826
RRP: $87.73$76.60The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 brings together art, design, fashion, and a much neglected concern for its spatial realities. The spaces and places of fashion have often been overlooked in the writing of fashion history and visual culture... -
Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the Experience Economy Brian Lonsway (Syracuse University, NY, USA) 9780415849371
RRP: $97.48$84.83Contemporary architecture of theme-based design is examined in this book, leading to a new understanding of architecture's role in the increasingly diversified consumer environment. It explores the 'Experience Economy' to reveal how everyday environments... -
The Architecture of Use: Aesthetics and Function in Architectural Design Stephen Grabow (University of Kansas, USA) 9780415843027
RRP: $115.03$99.61By analyzing ten examples of buildings that embody the human experience at an extraordinary level, this book clarifies the central importance of the role of function in architecture as a generative force in determining built form. Using familiar... -
Concrete, From Archeology to Invention, 1700-1769: The Renaissance of Pozzolana and Roman Construction Techniques Roberto Gargiani 9780415833462
RRP: $210.60$202.53The reemergence in the early eighteenth century of the technology and use of concrete provide the starting point for this first volume of the Treatise on Concrete. In this book are described and analyzed, for the first time, the various contributions... -
Product Configurators: Tools and Strategies for the Personalization of Objects by Fabio Schillaci 9780415790123
RRP: $263.25$229.48This book provides a source of inspiration and a manual for designers, entrepreneurs and professionals who are looking into the practical application of product configurators. In this growing profession, there is a need for a book which focuses on the... -
The Architect's Guide to Effective Self-Presentation by Andreas Luescher 9780415783453
RRP: $72.13$63.43In today's increasingly competitive marketplace, the creation of a successful resume is a vital skill needed by architectural students and professionals alike. This book demystifies the architecture resume, its working strategy and its purposes. The... -
Two Spheres: Physical and Strategic Design in Architecture by Leonard R. Bachman 9780415782470
RRP: $97.48$85.61Explaining the connection between physical and strategic design, this book proposes an aesthetic connection between two equal aspects of architectural design: the Real and the Ideal. Addressing architectural thinkers from the broad realms of academia and... -
The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: A Reader Renata Hejduk 9780415780810
RRP: $93.58$83.48This anthology collects, substaniates, and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architecture.The essays written expressly for the anthology take a critical look at the relationship between... -
Team 10: An Archival History by Annie Pedret 9780415780766
RRP: $107.23$93.05This early history of Team 10 and the group's emergence from CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture ) shifts the locus of the group's importance from their better-known projects of the 1960s and 70s to the group's more theoretically intense...