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Different Engines: Media Technologies From Latin America by Andrés Burbano 9781032001111
RRP: $262.50$226.51Different Engines investigates the emergence of technologies in Latin America to create images, sounds, video games, and physical interactions. The book contributes to the construction of a historiographical and theoretical framework for understanding... -
Architecture for Spain's Recovered Democracy: Public Patronage, Regional Identity, and Civic Significance in 1980s Valencia by Manuel López Segura 9781032347462
RRP: $262.50$226.51Historical studies on the involvement of architecture in twentieth-century politics have overlooked its contribution to building Spain’s democracy. This pioneering book seeks to fill that void. Between the late 1970s and early 1990s, Spain founded... -
Environment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design by Suining Ding 9781032010755
RRP: $262.50$226.51- Introduces environment-behavior studies for healthcare design research - Explores how evidence-based design theories can be applied and integrated into healthcare design practice - Presents specific environment-behavior theories in the healthcare... -
Louis I. Kahn in Rome and Venice: Tangible Forms by Elisabetta Barizza 9781032002422
RRP: $79.78$70.10This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project for Venice. It presents an original interpretation of the work of Kahn during one of the most fruitful periods of his career, when he was... -
The Deck Access Housing Design Guide: A Return to Streets in the Sky by Andrew Beharrell 9781032218946
RRP: $262.50$226.51***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***The Deck Access Housing Design Guide is the first practical design guide to deck access housing. It focuses on the contemporary use of deck access housing, sharing practical guidance and providing... -
Urban Sprawl in Europe – Landscapes, Land–use Change and Policy by C Couch 9781405139175
RRP: $222.50$193.35Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe. It increasingly creates major impacts on the environment (via surface sealing, emissions by transport and ecosystem fragmentation); on the social structure of... -
Hot Questions—Cold Storage: Architecture from Austria. The Permanent Exhibition at the Az W by Angelika Fitz 9783038603184
RRP: $115.50$74.45The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien's (Az W) collection, opened in February 2022, is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. Now this most comprehensive collection on Austrian architecture of the 20th... -
Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City by Binti Singh 9781032440378
RRP: $79.78$70.10This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from... -
Architecture in Digital Culture: Machines, Networks and Computation by Socrates Yiannoudes 9781032148212
RRP: $75.58$66.55This book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities and design processes within digital culture. Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and... -
Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications by Umut Toker 9781032136004
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural design process with relevant parametric approaches. Readers will find applications of parametric methods... -
Designed to Sell: The Evolution of Modern Merchandising and Display by Alessandra Wood 9781032474755
RRP: $79.78$70.10Designed to Sell presents an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century department store design and display in America from the 1930s to the 1960s. It traces the development of postwar philosophies of retail design that embodied aesthetics and function... -
Towards a Critique of Architecture's Contemporaneity: 4 Essays by Gevork Hartoonian 9781032418681
RRP: $96.58$84.27Pursuing historical analogies between nineteenth-century theories and the current practices captivated by digital reproducibility, this book offers a critical take on architecture's contemporaneity through four essays: tectonics, materiality, cladding,... -
Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf: Obsolescence and Opportunities by Roberto Fabbri 9780367741969
RRP: $83.98$73.63Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing on the 20th century as a starting point, the book explores the display of... -
The Apatani Way of Life: Practices of Architecture through Bamboo, Cane, and Land Use by Ritu Varuni 9781032247137
RRP: $96.58$84.27This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It explores the fascinating indigenous knowledge of field and forest and a uniquely sustainable and enduring way of... -
Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn - The Connected Farm Buildings of New England by Thomas C. Hubka 9781684581351
RRP: $58.80$48.22A classic work on farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders refreshed with a new introduction. Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn portrays the four essential components of the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made... -
Interior Design Concept: Critical Practices, Processes and Explorations in Interior Architecture and Design by Natalie Badenduck 9781032080260
RRP: $182.68$158.63- Accessible introduction to design concept for interior design students - Provides a concise explanation of what design concept is, why it plays such an integral role in the design process and how it is utilized by interior designers - Includes over 50... -
Transnational Buildings in Local Environments by Luciana Melchert Saguas Presas 9781138358508
RRP: $62.98$55.94By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting major cities - globalization and ecological and sustainable building design. While such structures tend to be... -
Garden by Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects 9783038600794
RRP: $52.50$34.40Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin founded their firm in Zurich in 2005. Their broad scope of work encompasses design and realisation of building projects, urban planning, exhibitions and publications. Housing is a key interest in... -
Building Theories: Architecture as the Art of Building by Franca Trubiano 9781138859043
RRP: $75.58$68.65Building Theories speaks to the value of words in architecture. It addresses the author's fascination for the thoughts of architects, builders, and craftspeople whose voices, however faint, remain captured in text. Building Theories also considers how... -
Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture by Stephen Verderber 9781138847194
RRP: $178.48$158.45Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities. Aimed at architects and other professionals working across the... -
Space and Language in Architectural Education: Catalysts and Tensions by Kasia Nawratek 9781032193823
RRP: $104.98$91.35Architects habitually disregard disciplinary boundaries of their profession in search for synergies and inspiration. The realm of language, although not considered to be architects' natural environment, opens opportunities to further stretch and expand... -
Marcel Breuer: Shaping Architecture in the Post-War Era by John Poros 9781032058153
RRP: $273.00$235.43This book tracks the development of Marcel Breuer's aesthetic clash between uniformity and singularity through the detailed examination of his seminal buildings. Each chapter examines a specific building and puts into context Breuer's other work and the... -
Design Strategies for Reimagining the City: The Disruptive Image by Linda Matthews 9780367680176
RRP: $273.00$235.43Digital Disruptors 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 prototypes. The book reveals... -
Mies at Home: From Am Karlsbad to the Tugendhat House by Xiangnan Xiong 9780367478247
RRP: $273.00$235.43Mies 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... -
Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva 9780367348618
RRP: $178.48$155.09Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognized in the arts. His theories 'flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and... -
Validity and Reliability in Built Environment Research: A Selection of Case Studies by Vian Ahmed 9780367197766
RRP: $231.00$199.73This book aims to guide researchers who are engaged in social science and built environment research through the process of testing the reliability and validity of their research outputs following the application of different methods of data collection. ... -
Architectural Type and Character: A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture by Samir Younes 9781138584051
RRP: $77.68$68.31Architectural Type and Character provides an alternative perspective to the current role given to history in architecture, reunifying architectural history and architectural design to reform architectural discourse and practice. Historians provide... -
Resilience Paradigm and Southern Urbanism: Towards a New Paradigm by Binti Singh 9780367563523
RRP: $104.98$91.35This volume studies the urbanization trends of medium-sized cities of India to develop a typology of urban resilience. It looks at historic second-tier cities like Nashik, Bhopal, Kolkata, and Agra, which are laboratories of smart experiments and are... -
Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archive of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown by Hilar Stadler 9783858817655
RRP: $52.50$35.24Since it was first published in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas has become a classic in the theory of architecture and one of the most influential architecture texts of the 20th century. The treatise by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour... -
The Art of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship in Design by Nathan Richardson 9780367468316
RRP: $283.50$246.29The Art of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship in Design explores the form and nature of entrepreneurship in a range of creative disciplines. It explores the complex ecology of activities that enable design, entrepreneurship, and alternative methods of practice... -
Ethical Design Intelligence: The Virtuous Designer by Philippe d'Anjou 9781032238265
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book explores the deep significance of philosophy and ethics to the practice of design. It offers designers from disciplines such as architecture, planning, landscape, interiors and industrial design an epistemological framework to expand their... -
Confucius' Courtyard: Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China by Xing Ruan 9781350217621
$212.00For more than three thousand years, Chinese life - from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home - was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and... -
LEED Lab: A Model for Sustainable Design Education by Patricia Andrasik 9781138326699
RRP: $75.58$66.55Facility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with design or construction. To this aim, Patricia Andrasik created LEED Lab in collaboration with the US Green Building Council, an increasingly popular... -
Create Stunning Renders Using V-Ray in 3d Max: Guiding the Next Generation of 3D Renderers by Margarita Nikita 9780367701482
RRP: $273.00$235.43Create Stunning Renders Using V-Ray in 3d Max: Guiding the Next Generation of 3D Renderers is a step by step guide on how to create realistic renderings using V-Ray for 3ds Max. The potentials of V-Ray are detailed using a bedroom scene as an example... -
Pseudo-Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls: Rise, Publicness and Consequences by Yiming Wang 9781032177991
RRP: $96.58$84.27Shopping malls in China create a new pseudo-public urban space which is under the control of private or quasi-public power structure. As they are open for public use, mediated by the co-mingling of private property rights and public meanings of urban... -
Global Construction Data by Stephen Gruneberg 9781032177472
RRP: $96.58$84.27Global construction data is vital for contractors, governments, international organisations, policy makers, academic researchers and statisticians. As the global population of the world expands, the sustainability of the built environment raises the... -
Building Paradise: Episodes in Paradisiacal Thinking by Harry F Mallgrave 9781032014012
RRP: $283.50$246.29A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise, seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that-with our recent ecological and biological insights-we can build more intelligently and more creatively than... -
Philosophical Difference and Advanced Computation in Architectural Theory: From Less to More by Jefferson Ellinger 9780367554279
RRP: $77.68$69.15This book presents a new take on the evolution of digital design theories in architecture from modernity to today, as they have been inspired both by contemporary philosophy and the emergence and access to advanced computation. It focuses on how concepts... -
Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament: David Boswell Reid and Disruptive Environmentalism by Henrik Schoenefeldt 9780367690083
RRP: $79.78$70.10Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental design perspective, and the role David Boswell Reid played in the development of the original ventilation and climate control... -
Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism by Antony Moulis 9780367646462
RRP: $79.78$70.10This book considers the architect Le Corbusier's encounters with Australia and New Zealand as a two-way exchange, showing the impact of his ideas and projects on architects of the region whilst also revealing counterinfluences on Le Corbusier in his...