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Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Peacebuilding: Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform by Nadine Ansorg 9780367637606
RRP: £39.99£35.06Security Sector Reform (SSR) remains a key feature of peacebuilding interventions and is usually undertaken by a state alongside national and international partners. External actors engaged in SSR tend to follow a normative agenda that often has little... -
Learning GIS Using Open Source Software: An Applied Guide for Geo-spatial Analysis by Kakoli Saha 9780367522124
RRP: £32.99£29.16This volume,• Serves as a practical guidebook of GIS and its application for architects and planners in India and South Asia.• Includes theory of GIS alongside exercises and examples using open source software, thus having a global appeal• Will be of... -
50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know Philip Wilkinson 9781529432206
RRP: £9.99£6.80In a series of 50 accessible essays, Philip Wilkinson introduces architectural movements and styles throughout history, as well as describing some of the greatest architects' most important and representative works.From the Pyramids of Giza to the... -
Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory by Amir H Ameri 9781032008011
RRP: £39.99£35.06Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the... -
Shaping the American Interior: Structures, Contexts and Practices by Paula Lupkin 9781138697690
RRP: £135.00£117.68Bringing together 12 original essays, Shaping the American Interior maps out, for the first time, the development and definition of the field of interiors in the United States in the period from 1870 until 1960. Its interdisciplinary approach encompasses... -
Natural Ventilation in the Urban Environment: Assessment and Design Francis Allard 9781138994393
RRP: £49.99£43.50Throughout the world, there is an increasing interest in ecological design of buildings, and natural ventilation has proved to be the most efficient low-energy cooling technique. Its practical application, however, is hindered by the lack of information... -
Building Ventilation: The State of the Art by Mat Santamouris 9781138988019
RRP: £43.99£38.84Ensuring optimum ventilation performance is a vital part of building design. Prepared by recognized experts from Europe and the US, and published in association with the International Energy Agency's Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), this... -
University Architecture Brian Edwards 9781138986534
RRP: £45.99£40.13Some of the most exciting architecture in the world can be found on university campuses. In Europe, America and the Far East, vice chancellors and their architects have, over several centuries, produced an extraordinary range of innovative buildings... -
Ventilation and Airflow in Buildings: Methods for Diagnosis and Evaluation by Claude-Alain Roulet 9781138986695
RRP: £43.99£38.44Energy efficiency in buildings requires, among other things, that ventilation be appropriately dimensioned: too much ventilation wastes energy, and insufficient ventilation leads to poor indoor air quality and low comfort. Studies have shown that... -
New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey by Bulent Batuman 9781138953284
RRP: £135.00£117.28New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today's world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping - and in return being shaped by - the built... -
Architects' Sketches by Kendra Schank Smith 9781138950825
RRP: £61.99£53.61Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects... -
Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal: Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe by Torsten Schmiedeknecht 9781138945166
RRP: £135.00£117.28The production of this book stems from two of the editors' longstanding research interests: the representation of architecture in print media, and the complex identity of the second phase of modernism in architecture given the role it played in postwar... -
Pueblo Style and Regional Architecture by Nicholas C. Markovich 9781138929753
RRP: £49.99£43.90Few architectural styles evoke so strong a sense of place as Pueblo architecture. This book brings together experts from architecture and art, archaeology and anthropology, philosophy and history, considering Pueblo style not simply architecturally, but... -
Environmental Design Perspectives: Viewpoints on the Profession, Education and Research by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser 9781138944572
RRP: £110.00£95.51The purpose of this title, first published in 1972, was to bring into focus the work and viewpoints of individuals and groups that were engaged in man-environment research, design and education. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field of... -
The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation and Agency by Tahl Kaminer 9781138909854
RRP: £175.00£84.75A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the 'starchitecture' system and the focus on aesthetic innovation, a growing number of architects, emboldened... -
Design Intervention: Toward a More Humane Architecture by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser 9781138887206
RRP: £41.99£37.15Design Intervention: Toward a More Humane Architecture, first published in 1991, intends to demonstrate that interest in social issues is alive and well in architecture, that there is a small but effective cadre of dedicated professionals who continue to... -
Programming the Built Environment by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser 9781138885462
RRP: £37.99£33.38Architectural programming - the analysis of any given environment to satisfy users' needs - has become a given prerequisite to the design process. The programming process is often a complicated one: users' present and future needs must be identified;... -
Programming the Built Environment by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser 9781138885271
RRP: £110.00£95.51Architectural programming - the analysis of any given environment to satisfy users' needs - has become a given prerequisite to the design process. The programming process is often a complicated one: users' present and future needs must be identified;... -
Architectural Management by M. Paul Nicholson 9781138963788
RRP: £43.99£38.84This book allows the construction professional to gain an insight into the fast moving subject of architectural management. Subjects covered include: organization of design and construction; Computing and the architect; quality and value engineering;... -
Sports Facilities and Technologies by Peter Culley 9781138880634
RRP: £43.99£38.84Developers, designers and operators are increasingly needing to create versatile sport and leisure amenities that are of lasting value to local and wider communities. Placing facilities design and operation at the heart of sports development, this... -
Global City Regions: Their Emerging Forms by Gary Hack 9781138873896
RRP: £43.99£38.84A unique comparative study based on funded research, of eleven city regions across three continents looking at changes over the last 30 years. Detailed changes in land use are presented here with series of maps prepared especially for the study. The... -
Materiality and Architecture Sandra Loschke (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781138840652
RRP: £47.99£41.81Once regarded a secondary consideration, in recent years, materiality has emerged as a powerful concept in architectural discourse and practice. Prompted in part by developments in digital fabrication and digital science, the impact of materiality on... -
The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture: Bucharest, 1949-1964 by Juliana Maxim 9781138820340
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture is the first systematic architectural history of Romania under socialism written in English. It examines the mechanisms through which modern architecture was invested with political meaning and, in reverse, how... -
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Rod Hackney 9781138778948
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects... -
Design for Innovative Technology: From Disruption to Acceptance Nicholas Henchoz (Director of the EPFL + ECAL Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EPFL), Switzerland) 9781138782785
RRP: £48.00£46.39Despite their often remarkable performance, new and `disruptive' technologies often meet with resistance from the general public. Design - sometimes assumed to play a purely aesthetic role - is central in making revolutionary technology acceptable to... -
Architectural Conservation and Restoration in Norway and Russia by Evgeny Khodakovsky 9781138279926
RRP: £135.00£117.28Norway and Russia have been closely related through the ages, both geographically and historically, and have experienced similar problems relating to climate, building maintenance and national wooden architecture. As a result, the parallel study of... -
Time Matter(s): Invention and Re-Imagination in Built Conservation: The Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peter's, the Vatican by Federica Goffi 9781138279667
RRP: £53.99£46.87Even though the idea of altering an existing building is presently a well established practice within the context of adaptive reuse, when the building in question is a 'mnemonic building', of recognized heritage value, alterations are viewed with... -
Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital Project: An Investigation into its Structural Formulation by Mahnaz Shah 9781138253308
RRP: £53.99£46.87While Le Corbusier's urban projects are generally considered confrontational in their relationship to the traditional urban fabric, his proposal for the Venice hospital project remained an exercise in preserving the medieval fabric of the city of Venice... -
Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII by Izumi Kuroishi 9781138248977
RRP: £53.99£46.87Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties... -
Reconstructing Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era Stephanie Zeier Pilat 9781138248434
RRP: £53.99£46.87Reconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, established in 1949 to address the employment and housing crises. Government sponsored housing programs... -
Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner by Peter Draper 9781138258648
RRP: £49.99£43.50Nikolaus Pevsner was one of the most important and influential art historians of the twentieth century. He opened up new areas of enquiry in the history of art, revolutionising architectural studies in England and playing a key role in establishing the... -
Memories of Cities: Trips and Manifestoes by Jonathan Charley 9781138269989
RRP: £49.99£43.50Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic history of the built environment. Drawing upon fiction and non-fiction, and illustrated by original photographs, the essays employ a... -
Getting There by Design by Kenneth Allinson 9781138175570
RRP: £89.99£78.09There was military project management. There was construction project management. Then there was business project management, a tool described as 'the wave of the future'. Where are architects in all this, professionals whose work has always been... -
Architects Without Frontiers by Esther Charlesworth 9781138175556
RRP: £135.00£117.28From the targeted demolition of Mostar's Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social havoc caused by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, the history of cities is often a history of destruction and reconstruction. But what political and aesthetic... -
The Way We Build Now: Form, Scale and Technique by Andrew Orton 9781138175228
RRP: £135.00£118.28This book examines the structural and construction design of buildings. The first part presents an overview of materials and structural forms taking the point of view of the designer, architect and engineer. The second part is an extensive examination of... -
The Production of Hospice Space: Conceptualising the Space of Caring and Dying by Sarah McGann 9781138245723
RRP: £49.99£43.50Challenging the widely held notion of a hospice as a building or a place, this book argues that it should instead be a philosophy of care. It proposes that the positive and negative impact that space can have in the pursuit of an ideal such as hospice... -
The Changing Shape of Architecture: Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice by Michael Hensel 9781138240254
RRP: £135.00£117.68The discipline of architecture if currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings. This book continues the discussion started in The... -
Once Upon a China by CJ Lim 9781138224414
RRP: £135.00£117.28Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious re-imaginations of 'Dream of the Red Mansion', 'Journey to the West ', 'The Water Margin', and 'Romance of the Three... -
The New Tenement: Residences in the Inner City Since 1970 by Florian Urban 9781138224452
RRP: £135.00£118.28This book examines "new tenements"-dense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since the 1970s and came with a new positive view on urban living. Focusing principally on Berlin,... -
Shedding New Light on Art Museum Additions: Front Stage and Back Stage Experiences by Altaf Engineer 9781138215856
RRP: £135.00£117.28Vast sums of money spent to design, construct, and maintain museum additions demand great accountability of museum leaders and design professionals towards visitors and employees. Museum visitors today come not only to view works of art, but also to...