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Tropical Sustainable Architecture by Joo Hwa Bay 9780750667975
RRP: £58.99£51.48The tropical belt - where large areas of South East Asia, India, Africa and parts of both North and South America are located - forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally,... -
Space and Power: Politics, War and Architecture by Paul Q. Hirst 9780745634555
RRP: £55.00£47.73Paul Hirst was one was one of the most original thinkers of his generation. This book is being published post-humously after his tragic death in 2003. Written with verve and lucidity, it is a scholarly account of the various ways in which space is... -
Human Resources Management: The Complete Guidebook for Design Firms by Mark C. Zweig 9780471633747
RRP: £109.95£95.48A veteran human resources manager and consultant shares his firsthand experience to show human resources professionals in the design field how to attract, develop and retain the best people. Demonstrates how the nature of the design profession lends... -
Value Pricing for the Design Firm by Frank A. Stasiowski 9780471579335
RRP: £76.95£67.03Focuses on how to be competitive through pricing services based upon value to the client. Contains excellent advice on managing cost, contract types, pricing change orders, cost accounting techniques, negotiating methods, liability considerations,... -
Construction Technology For Tall Buildings (3rd Edition) by Michael Chew Yit Lin 9789812818614
RRP: £61.00£53.56This book introduces the latest construction practices and processes for tall buildings from foundation to roof. It attempts to acquaint readers with the methods, materials, equipment and systems used for the construction of tall buildings.The text... -
Facility Programming: Methods and Applications by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser 9781138688483
RRP: £36.99£32.93First published in 1978, the objective of this book is to provide an authoritative and selective overview of current, user-orientated programming methods within the field of environmental design. The 19 chapters compiled in this volume describe... -
Towards an Ecology of Tectonics: The Need for Rethinking Construction in Architecture by Anne Beim 9783936681864
RRP: £59.00£41.65The global resources situation and the climate crisis are amongst the biggest challenges faced by mankind today. In the years to come, these issues will no doubt have an influence on societal evolution, on urban and rural land development, and how we... -
Erich Engelbrecht Chateau des Fougis, Parc de sculptures by Gottfried Knapp 9783932565847
RRP: £29.90£20.94In their sculptural works, artists have always broken out of the workshop or studio and into open-air spaces. After all, the place where sculptures are best able to show their three-dimensionalquality is in an open space not enclosed by walls and... -
New Military Museums by John Zukowsky 9783869050157
RRP: £35.90£25.46Museum architecture has blossomed over the past few decades. Art museums lead the way in terms of new buildings by superstar architects such as Frank Gehry, Herzog and de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, and Renzo Piano, among many more. Those facilities have... -
Visual Research Methods in Design by Henry Sanoff 9781138688391
RRP: £135.00£117.68First published in 1991, this book is about applications and issues relating to the visual environment. The content pertains to the understanding of human behaviour in the environment by recording behaviour and actions or by direct interaction with... -
A Fashionable Style: Carl von Diebitsch und das maurische Revival by Francine Giese 9783034329392
RRP: £46.20£40.92Als ein globales Phanomen des 19. Jahrhunderts belegt das Maurische Revival die Faszination westlicher Architekten fur das islamische Erbe von al-Andalus. Dieses spielte eine zentrale Rolle im Werk Carl von Diebitschs (1819-1869), der als einer der... -
The Right Formula: The Story of the National Graphene Institute by David Taylor 9781526113931
RRP: £19.99£14.52In the corner of a Manchester laboratory in 2004, two scientists stumbled on a major discovery while pulling pieces of Sellotape apart - graphene. This is the story of those scientists, Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev, their eureka moment,... -
Riverine: Architecture and Rivers by Gerald Adler 9781138681750
RRP: £135.00£117.68Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world's largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements - given life through the space of the local waterscape - soon... -
Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability by Joo Hwa P. Bay 9781138680401
RRP: £49.99£44.50Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities. It looks at the socio-climatic implications of density and takes a more... -
Investigation and Conservation of East Asian Cabinets in Imperial Residences (1700-1900): Lacquerware, Porcelain, Paper & Wall Hangings. Conference 2015 Postprints by Elfriede Iby 9783205205012
RRP: £61.99£50.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205205012Author Elfriede IbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 924g -
The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn by Nathalie Bredella 9781032038872
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn asks what it means to speak of a "digital turn" in architecture. It examines how architects at the time engaged with the digital and imagined future modes of practice, and looks at the technological,... -
Architecture and the Housing Question by Can Bilsel 9781032181868
RRP: £39.99£35.06Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects and to the architecture profession. How have architects acting as housing experts helped... -
Architectural Technicities: A Foray Into Larval Space by Stavros Kousoulas 9781032235257
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book poses a simple question: how is this architecture possible? To respond, it will embark on a captivating journey through many singular architectural concepts. The entasis of Doric columns, Ulysses and desert islands will outline an architectural... -
Pyrotechnic Cities: Architecture, Fire-Safety and Standardisation by Liam Ross 9781032214740
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the relationship between architecture, government and fire. It posits that, through the question of fire-safety standardisation, building design comes to be both a problem for, and a tool of, government. Through a close study of... -
Mies at Home: From Am Karlsbad 24 to the Tugendhat House by Xiangnan Xiong 9781032279725
RRP: £39.99£35.06Mies at Home is a radical rereading of one of the most significant periods in Mies van der Rohe’s career, from the mid- to late 1920s when he was developing his seminal spatial ideas— ideas that would culminate in his celebrated design of the Tugendhat... -
Influence and Resistance in Post-Independence Egyptian Architecture by Marwa M. El-Ashmouni 9780367703639
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book is an effort towards an in-depth understanding of the architectural discourse in Egypt developed over more than eight decades. It offers a distinctive theoretical interpretation of the forces shaping the kaleidoscopic shifts in Egyptian... -
Design Strategies for Reimagining the City: The Disruptive Image by Linda Matthews 9780367680183
RRP: £39.99£35.06Design Strategies for Reimagining the City is situated between projective geometry, optical science and architectural design. It draws together seemingly unrelated fields in a series of new digital design tools and techniques underpinned by tested... -
Material Theories: Locating Artefacts and People in Gottfried Semper's Writings by Elena Chestnova 9781032276441
RRP: £39.99£35.06Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper’s classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating... -
Virtual Reality and the Built Environment by Jennifer Whyte 9781138668751
RRP: £125.00£107.86Like the first edition, the central question this book addresses is how virtual reality can be used in the design, production and management of the built environment. The book aims to consider three key questions. What are the business drivers for the... -
Urban Latin America: Images, Words, Flows and the Built Environment by Bianca Freire-Medeiros 9781138658196
RRP: £135.00£117.68Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a timely emphasis on comparative studies. The book brings together scholars with various disciplinary... -
Brutalism Resurgent by Julia Gatley 9781138652361
RRP: £135.00£117.28Brutalism had its origins in beton brut - concrete in the raw - and thus in the post-war work of Le Corbusier. The British architects Alison and Peter Smithson used the term "New Brutalism" from 1953, claiming that if their house in Soho had... -
Designing Post-Virtual Architectures: Wicked Tactics and World-Building by Heather Renee Barker 9781138639973
RRP: £39.99£35.06Designing Post-Virtual Architectures: Wicked Tactics and World-Building explores, describes, and demonstrates theories and strategies for design in a post-virtual world. This book reveals affinities among social, mathematical, philosophical, and language... -
A History of Architecture and Trade by Patrick Haughey 9781138635739
RRP: £135.00£117.28A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading,... -
Etudes for Architects by Joseph Choma 9781138632240
RRP: £36.99£32.93Organized around a series of pedagogical exercises, this book provides a visual journey through a series of games architects can play as a means to design. Aimed specifically at beginner design students, learning objectives include: computational... -
Fluid Space and Transformational Learning by Kyriaki Tsoukala 9781138628939
RRP: £54.99£47.72Fluid Space and Transformational Learning presents a critique of the interlocking questions of 'school architecture' and education and attempts to establish a field of questioning that aspectualises and intersects concepts, theories and practices... -
Visioning Technologies: The Architectures of Sight by Graham Cairns 9781138616684
RRP: £43.99£38.44Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different 'technologies of sight' -... -
Confabulations : Storytelling in Architecture by Paul Emmons 9781138616622
RRP: £43.99£38.84Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception,memory, and thought is the way we join fractured experiences to construct anarrative. Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture weaves together poetic... -
Living Architecture, Living Cities: Soul-Nourishing Sustainability by Christopher Day 9781138594821
RRP: £37.99£33.78It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities - the places where most of us live. As this powerful new book elucidates, global sustainability is therefore... -
Living Architecture, Living Cities: Soul-Nourishing Sustainability by Christopher Day 9781138594807
RRP: £135.00£117.28It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities - the places where most of us live. As this powerful new book elucidates, global sustainability is therefore... -
Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture: Material, Culture, and Technology by Aki Ishida 9781138584020
RRP: £41.99£36.75Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six pivotal works of architecture. Written from the perspectives of a practitioner, the six essays challenge... -
Design Realities: Creativity, Nature and the Human Spirit by Stuart Walker 9781138580183
RRP: £135.00£117.68Design Realities explores a wide range of topics on creativity, design and spiritual well-being. Using critique, rational inquiry and personal reflection, Stuart Walker looks squarely at our contemporary condition, demonstrates how current assumptions... -
The Architecture of the Illusive Distance by Amir H. Ameri 9781138567412
RRP: £45.99£40.13Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture and architecture. It explores the cultural imperatives which have seen to the formation of these... -
A History of Design Institutes in China: From Mao to Market by Charlie Q. L. Xue 9781138562332
RRP: £135.00£117.68A History of Design Institutes in China examines the intricate relationship between design institutes, the state, and, in later periods, the market economy through a carefully situated discussion of significant theoretical and historical issues including... -
The Production Sites of Architecture by Sophia Psarra 9781138559431
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Production Sites of Architecture examines the intimate link between material sites and meaning. It explores questions such as: how do spatial configurations produce meaning? What are alternative modes of knowledge production? How do these change our... -
People and Buildings by Robert Gutman 9781138529700
RRP: £135.00£117.68There is at the present time a continuing interest in relating the behavioral sciences to design disciplines. Sociologists and social psychologists have been added to faculties of architecture schools, where they off er seminars and participate as...