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Inclusive Design: Designing and Developing Accessible Environments by Rob Imrie 9781138147812
RRP: £135.00£117.28The reality of the built environment for disabled people is one of social, physical and attitudinal barriers which prevent their ease of mobility, movement and access. In the United Kingdom, most homes cannot be accessed by wheelchair, while accessible... -
Conserving the Railway Heritage Peter Burman 9781138156340
RRP: £135.00£117.28Great Britain not only invented the main-line railway but has also led the way in it's preservation - not just locomotves and carriages but also the buildings and structures that bear witness to the confidence of railway developers, architects and... -
Reekie's Architectural Drawing by Fraser Reekie 9781138146570
RRP: £135.00£117.28Reekie's Architectural Drawing is the new title chosen for the latest revision of the author's classic text Draughtmanship: Architectural and Building Graphics. The book remains faithful to its original aim of introducing beginners to a wide range of... -
Identity by Design by Georgia Butina-Watson 9781138146020
RRP: £135.00£117.28In a world of increasing globalisation, where one high street becomes interchangeable with the next, Identity by Design addresses the idea of place-making and the concept of identity, looking at how these things can be considered as an integral part of... -
Architecture Design Notebook by A. Peter Fawcett 9781138145665
RRP: £135.00£117.28Architecture Design Notebook focuses on the process of design as pragmatic and non-theoretical. Dealing systematically with the core design curriculum, it clearly demonstrates the skills required for designing at undergraduate level. Providing students... -
Libraries and Learning Resource Centres by Brian Edwards 9781138145375
RRP: £135.00£117.28Libraries and Learning Resource Centres is a comprehensive reference text examining the changing role and design of library buildings. Critical evaluations of international case studies demonstrate the principles of library design. Available for the... -
Introduction to Natural and Man-made Disasters and Their Effects on Buildings by Roxanna McDonald 9781138145207
RRP: £135.00£117.28This is a comprehensive guide to all types of natural and man made disasters and their effect on buildings. It gives overall guidance and a basic technical understanding of prevention, mitigation and management of disaster, and outlines a checklist of... -
The Regeneration of Public Parks Ken Fieldhouse 9781138144583
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Urban Parks Programme, financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund, has sparked a new enthusiasm for the regeneration of Britain's parks. This unique reference book gives a valuable overview of all the elements of public park design. It emphasizes our... -
Children's Spaces by Mark Dudek 9781138143999
RRP: £135.00£117.28This collection of essays is concerned with the experiences children have within the supervised worlds they inhabit, as well as with architecture and landscape architecture. International examples of innovative childcare practice are illustrated... -
The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook by Charles Doidge 9781138143517
RRP: £135.00£117.28The architectural crit, review or jury is a cornerstone of architectural education around the world. The defence of ideas, drawings, and models in an open format before staff and peers is intended to be a foreground for healthy creative debate, but many... -
Future Forms and Design For Sustainable Cities by Mike Jenks 9781138143579
RRP: £135.00£118.28Concentrating on the planning and design of cities, the three sections take a logical route through the discussion from the broad considerations at regional and city scale, to the larger city at high and lower densities through to design considerations... -
Introduction to Urban Housing Design by Graham Towers 9781138137592
RRP: £135.00£117.68This clear and concise guide is the ideal introduction to contemporary housing design for students and professionals of architecture, urban design and planning. With the increasing commitment to sustainable design and with an ever-increasing demand for... -
Eco-Resorts by Zbigniew Bromberek 9781138136489
RRP: £130.00£112.11Eco-Resorts is a design guide for low impact, environmentally friendly tourist resorts in the tropics. The book is the first to offer architects practical, detailed guidance in developing resort buildings that work with a tropical climate and meet the... -
Architectural Design in Steel by Mark Lawson 9781138136267
RRP: £135.00£117.28Steelwork offers the opportunity for architectural expression, as well as being structurally versatile and adaptable material. Good detailing is vital because it affects structural performance, costs, buildability and, perhaps most importantly,... -
Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes by Andre Viljoen 9781138135949
RRP: £89.99£78.49This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural... -
Universal Design by Selwyn Goldsmith 9781138131057
RRP: £135.00£117.28Universal Design is Selwyn Goldsmith's new authoritative design manual, the successor to his internationally acclaimed Designing for the Disabled. A clear and concise design guide for practising and student architects, it describes and illustrates the... -
Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space by Anoma Pieris 9781138102811
RRP: £135.00£68.14Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted social realities are embodied in the physical and... -
The Idea of Building: Thought and Action in the Design and Production of Buildings by Steven Groak 9781138135116
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book is unique in its attempt to explore the many ways we have of thinking about buildings. In particular it raises questions about the kinds of knowledge we have and will need in designing, making and enjoying our buildings. At the very least this... -
Understanding the Building Regulations by Simon Polley 9781138129450
RRP: £135.00£117.68Do you need a concise, jargon-free and compact guide to the UK building regulations? Simon Polley boils down the regulations to their basic features, explaining the core principles behind them. Easy to read and light enough to carry around with you,... -
Constructing the Architect: An Introduction to Design, Research, Planning, and Education by Leonard R. Bachman 9781138062702
RRP: £135.00£117.68Unlike books that concentrate on the monuments and other artefacts that architects produce, Constructing the Architect focuses on architecture as a disciplinary and professional process, an institution of society, and a career of learning and mastery. In... -
Digital Participation and Collaboration in Architectural Design by Richard Laing 9781138062641
RRP: £135.00£117.28The emergence of new digital and visualisation technologies in recent years has led to rapid changes in the field of architecture. Current drives to incorporate building information modelling as a part of architectural design are giving way to the... -
Development Control by Keith Thomas 9781138144668
RRP: £135.00£117.68Development Control" is a comprehensive introductory text for students of planning and related subjects. Drawing widely on the literature - the approach and treatment are very much geared to the needs of students on courses, rather than focusing on... -
Architecture and Resilience: Interdisciplinary Dialogues by Kim Trogal 9781138065802
RRP: £135.00£117.28Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not... -
: School Design (1994) by Henry Sanoff 9781138064270
RRP: £110.00£95.51Educators often overlook the positive impact of changing the environment of the school itself when considering how to improve the quality of education. First published in 1994, School Design shows how to create more effective schools through a design... -
Beyond Utopia: Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia Agnes Nyilas 9781138056039
RRP: £54.99£47.72Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are commonly identified with the concept of utopia. Beyond this partial understanding, Agnes Nyilas suggests that rather than being merely utopian, the Megastructure of Metabolism represents a... -
The Concept of Monument in Achaemenid Empire by Mehr Azar Soheil 9781138055919
RRP: £135.00£117.28The aim of this book is to explore the significance of the concept of 'monument' in the context of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC), with particular reference to the Royal Ensemble of Persepolis, founded by Darius I and built together with his son... -
Organizational Behaviour and the Physical Environment by Oluremi B. Ayoko 9781138053526
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book looks at how the physical environment of work shapes organizational behaviour, demonstrating that our physical surroundings at work can have a big influence on employee productivity, performance and wellbeing. Drawing upon the latest... -
Architecture's Appeal: How Theory Informs Architectural Praxis by Marc J. Neveu 9781138024229
RRP: £53.99£46.87This collection of previously unpublished essays from a diverse range of well-known scholars and architects builds on the architectural tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics as developed by Dalibor Veseley and Joseph Rykwert and carried on by David... -
Language of Space Bryan Lawson 9781138168855
RRP: £135.00£117.28This unique guide provides a systematic overview of the idea of architectural space. Bryan Lawson provides an ideal introduction to the topic, breaking down the complex and abstract terms used by many design theoreticians when writing about architectural... -
Law and Practice for Architects by Robert Greenstreet 9781138168299
RRP: £135.00£117.28Provides a framework for understanding of the legal, contractual and procedural implication of architectural practice. The book acts as a useful aide-memoire for students and practitioners based on the premise that smooth legal administration will... -
Handbook for the Architectural Manager by Stephen Emmitt 9781119225508
RRP: £65.95£56.97The essential resource for becoming more effective in the highly competitive architectural marketplace Handbook for the Architectural Manager offers architects a comprehensive resource that brings together critical information on four interlinked... -
Architectural Conservation in Asia: National Experiences and Practice by Robert G. Thomson 9781032097565
RRP: £32.99£29.16At a time when organized heritage protection in Asia is developing at a rapid pace, Architectural Conservation in Asia provides the first comprehensive overview of architectural conservation practice from Afghanistan to the Philippines. The... -
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Design Review: University of Cincinnati, October 8-11, 1992 by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser 9781138693197
RRP: £32.99£30.16First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address the growing tendency of local governments to institute programs of aesthetic control. The editor argues... -
Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation by Vinayak Bharne 9781032093680
RRP: £43.99£38.44The act of identifying, protecting, restoring, and reusing buildings, districts, and built landscapes of historic and cultural significance is, at its best, a reflective and consequential process of urban and socio-economic reform. It has the potential... -
Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil by Gaia Piccarolo 9781032085333
RRP: £39.99£35.06Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act... -
The Multi-Skilled Designer: A Cognitive Foundation for Inclusive Architectural Thinking by Newton D'Souza 9781032084909
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Multi-Skilled Designer presents and analyzes different approaches to contemporary architectural design and interprets them through the theory of multiple intelligences. The book establishes a systematic framework that uses the lens of cognitive... -
InterVIEWS: Insights and Introspection on Doctoral Research in Architecture by Federica Goffi 9781032081984
RRP: £39.99£35.06With the continued growth of PhD programs in architecture and the simultaneous broadening of approaches, InterVIEWS: Insights and Introspection on Doctoral Research in Architecture begins a timely survey into contemporary research at academic... -
The Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain by William M. Taylor 9780815398394
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences oflife entailed in studies of botany and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on... -
Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956 by David Smiley 9780816679300
RRP: £27.99£24.54Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the history of architecture. And yet, throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, stores and... -
Relearning from Las Vegas by Aron Vinegar 9780816650613
RRP: £21.99£19.19Evaluates for the first time one of the foundational works in architecture criticismImmediately on its publication in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the...