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Mapping the Global Architect of Alterity: Practice, Representation and Education by Michael Jenson 9780415818964
RRP: $224.25$193.75Due to globalization, cultural spaces are now developing with no tangible connection to geographical place. The territorial logic traditionally used to underpin architecture and envision our built environment is being radically altered, forcing the... -
Material Imagination in Architecture by David Dernie 9780415810890
RRP: $81.88$72.44Material Imagination in Architecture draws on history and the visual arts, and contemporary architecture to explore this popular theme in architectural practice and education.In the context of a discipline increasingly driven by digital production, this... -
New Directions in Sustainable Design Adrian Parr 9780415780377
RRP: $105.28$92.18Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approach. More often than not these books fail to introduce readers to the larger challenge of what thinking... -
The Possibility of (an) Architecture: Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, dECOi Architects by Mark Goulthorpe 9780415774949
RRP: $224.25$194.53Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process. Essays and lectures from... -
Market Towns: Roles, challenges and prospects by Neil Powe 9780415541114
RRP: $81.88$71.66Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for evaluating policy initiatives and progress in market towns.Through a detailed analysis of... -
Benjamin for Architects by Brian Elliott 9780415558143
RRP: $214.50$185.46Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin's contributions to cultural criticism in... -
The Design Dimension of Planning: Theory, content and best practice for design policies by Professor Matthew Carmona 9780415512282
RRP: $85.78$75.74This book examines the design policies in current development plans. With design quality of growing importance to the public, consumers, developers and their clients, and high on the Secretary of State's agenda, this book makes an important practical... -
Baudrillard for Architects by Francesco Proto 9780415508858
RRP: $165.73$144.01Marginalized due to the deployment of both a highly specialized jargon and a novel stylistic approach meant to upset established norms and conventions, Baudrillard's thought has suffered from the lack of an accessible, consistent and comprehensive... -
The Architecture of Art Museums: A Decade of Design: 2000 - 2010 Ronnie Self 9780415506526
RRP: $115.03$101.56As a building type, art museums are unparalleled for the opportunities they provide for architectural investigation and experimentation. They are frequently key components of urban revitalization and often push the limits of building technology. Art... -
Effective Press Relations for the Built Environment: A Practical Guide by Helen Elias 9780415348669
RRP: $97.48$85.61This practical guide explains to architects, engineers, designers and other consultants how to establish press plans for firms and for individual projects, and how to actively develop reputation by getting work published in the architectural, engineering... -
Bhabha for Architects by Felipe Hernandez 9780415477451
RRP: $214.50$185.46The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin... -
Curating Architecture and the City Sarah Chaplin (University of Greenwich, UK) 9780415489836
RRP: $107.23$93.83Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial... -
Risk: An Introduction: The Concepts of Risk, Danger and Chance Ben Ale 9780415490900
RRP: $89.68$78.25Investments, global warming and crossing the road - risk is a factor embedded in our everyday lives but do we really understand what it means, how it is quantified and how decisions are made? In six chapters Ben Ale explains the concepts, methods and... -
The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680-1820 Dana Arnold (Middlesex University, London) 9780415325165
RRP: $105.28$91.40The Spaces of the Hospital examines how hospitals operated as a complex category of social, urban and architectural space in London from 1680 to 1820. This period witnessed the transformation of the city into a modern metropolis. The hospital was very... -
The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts Philip Steadman 9780415447539
RRP: $115.03$100.39This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and... -
The Florentine Villa: Architecture History Society Grazia Gobbi Sica (University of Florence, Italy) 9780415443975
RRP: $165.73$145.96Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the... -
Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity Lorens Holm 9780415419697
RRP: $85.78$75.74This well-argued, analytic text provides a greater understanding of spatial issues in the field of architecture. Re-interpreting the fifteenth century demonstration of perspective, Lorens Holm puts it in relation to today's theories of subjectivity and... -
History, Performance and Conservation by Barry Bridgwood 9780415434201
RRP: $77.98$69.15Ideal for students of architectural technology, this volume of the Technologies of Architecture series covers the technologies available and the processes necessary for the conservation of existing buildings and environments. This book provides, in a... -
Form Follows Fun: Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925-1940 Bruce Peter (Glasgow School of Art, UK) 9780415428194
RRP: $115.03$100.39Authoritative and readable, this excellent text, illustrated by a unique pictorial record of period architecture, surveys and examines how and why the architecture of pleasure related to the stylistic and ideological concerns of modernism in 1930s... -
Heidegger for Architects by Adam Sharr 9780415415156
RRP: $214.50$185.46Informing the designs of architects as diverse as Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun and Colin St. John Wilson, the work of Martin Heidegger has proved of great interest to architects and architectural theorists. The first introduction to... -
Visions of Sustainability: Cities and Regions by Hildebrand Frey 9780415426480
RRP: $93.58$81.53This book examines the sustainability of cities and regions and concludes that currently sustainability is not achievable. By identifying how cities and regions in the past have maintained or lost sustainability and how cities and regions of today might... -
Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design: Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces Kevin Thwaites (University of Sheffield, UK) 9780415384803
RRP: $93.58$81.53What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe? Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design answers this question by providing the analytical tools... -
On Span and Space: Exploring Structures in Architecture Bjorn N. Sandaker 9780415357920
RRP: $76.03$67.51In this richly illustrated book with many practical examples, Bjorn Sandaker provides readers with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture. As an experienced teacher and writer, Sandaker offers a well-founded... -
Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces by Nicos Komninos 9780415277181
RRP: $107.23$93.83At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the USA, displayed an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge and innovations. The favourable environment for research, technology and innovation created in these... -
Persistent Modelling: Extending the Role of Architectural Representation Phil Ayres 9780415594073
RRP: $107.23$93.05With contributions from some of the world's most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture. It speculates upon implications of Persistent Modelling... -
Derrida for Architects by Richard Coyne 9780415591782
RRP: $214.50$185.46Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida`s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that... -
Planning at the Landscape Scale Paul Selman 9780415351423
RRP: $115.03$99.61Traditionally, landscape planning has involved the designation and protection of exceptional countryside. However, whilst this still remains important, there is a growing recognition of the multi-functionality of rural areas, and the need to encourage... -
An Urban Approach To Climate Sensitive Design: Strategies for the Tropics by Rohinton Emmanuel 9780415334105
RRP: $189.13$163.90The need to respond to the rapidly changing city climate is particularly urgent in the tropics where the urban transition is currently at its peak. While the need is clearly felt by the tropical urban dwellers, texts that provide an overview of the... -
Engineers: A History of Engineering and Structural Design Matthew Wells (Techniker, London, UK) 9780415325264
RRP: $85.78$74.96This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present... -
Architecture as Experience: Radical Change in Spatial Practice Dana Arnold (Middlesex University, London) 9780415301596
RRP: $115.03$99.61Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical... -
Frank Gehry: The City and Music by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe 9780415290081
RRP: $72.13$63.43Frank Gehry: The City and Music is the result of a unique collaboration between the architect and leading critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. It focuses on two projects, Gehry's unrealised proposal for the rehabilitation of Berlin's Museum Island and his soon... -
Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960 Brenda Martin 9780415284493
RRP: $107.23$93.05What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a series of case studies, Women's Places: Architecture and... -
Housing and Social Change: East-West Perspectives Ray Forrest 9780415273329
RRP: $134.53$116.06This wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing is both policy-oriented and theoretical, drawing on a group of internationally-respected academics. It is also multidisciplinary, incorporating... -
The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810 by Liane Lefaivre 9780415260251
RRP: $115.03$101.56A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here... -
Twentieth-Century Suburbs: A Morphological Approach C.M.H Carr 9780415257701
RRP: $234.00$202.04Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since... -
Modernism and the Spirit of the City Iain Boyd Whyte (University of Edinburgh, UK) 9780415258418
RRP: $107.23$93.83Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which... -
Architecture in the Space of Flows by Andrew Ballantyne 9780415585422
RRP: $97.48$84.83Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together... -
What is Architecture? by Andrew Ballantyne 9780415256278
RRP: $107.23$93.05Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things. The essays collected here challenge, and help to define a view of architecture which ranges from the minimal... -
Rio de Janeiro: Urban Life through the Eyes of the City Beatriz Jaguaribe 9780367864330
RRP: $77.98$68.37"Through artistic imaginaries, media productions, social practices and spatial mappings, this book offers an insightful and original contribution to the understanding of Rio de Janeiro, one of the highly contested urban terrains in the world. Offering a... -
Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism by Janet Stewart 9780415221764
RRP: $185.23$160.58This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century. It makes extensive...