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Flexibility and Design: Learning from the School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) Project by Joshua D. Lee
RRP: $263.25$228.70This book questions flexibility as a design approach by providing a longitudinal analysis of an innovative architectural experiment called the School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) project. The SCSD pioneered the use of performance... -
: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988) by Paul L. Knox
RRP: $179.38$155.61First published in 1988, this book argues that discussions of urban development often neglect to consider that much of the urban environment is designed by architects and planners, and that the particular world-view of architects and planners is crucial... -
Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies And The Built Environment by Andrew Kincaid
RRP: $40.93$35.82For hundreds of years, Ireland has been a testing ground for colonizing techniques. Postcolonial Dublin shows how perpetrators of colonialism have made use of urban planning and architecture to underscore and legitimate ideologies. From suburban... -
Cedar Style: a Look at Lovely Log Homes by Roger Wade
RRP: $72.13$46.76Take a tour of high-end log homes in this inspiring compendium. Photographer Roger Wade focuses on the finer features of 25 very fine log homes found throughout the United States. More than 200 full-color photographs and detailed floor plans act as a... -
Waterjetting Technology by D.A. Summers
RRP: $115.03$99.61Waterjet technology is used in a variety of industries including civil engineering, mining, geotechnical engineering, tunnelling, defence, construction and conservation. This book is essential reading for all those engaged in waterjet technology - from... -
History of Architecture From the Earliest Times: Its Present Condition in Europe and the United States; with a Biography of Eminent Architects, and a Glossary of Architectural Terms by L. C. Tuthill
RRP: $64.33$57.64Originally published in 1848, according to the author, 'every person has an individual interest in Architecture as a useful art, and all who cultivate a taste of the Fine Arts must give it a high place among them.' The chapters include examinations of... -
Environmentally Friendly Cities: Proceedings of Plea 1998, Passive and Low Energy Architecture, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1998 by Eduardo Maldonado
RRP: $234.00$203.99The 15th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference considered the issues of sustainability and environmental friendliness at the city scale. Some 150 papers address the many and varied questions faced by architects and planners in reducing... -
LEISURE/HOSPITALITY/EXHIBITION (LHE): 2020 by Fabrizio Leoni
RRP: $46.80$38.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080285Author Fabrizio LeoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLabWeight(grams) 230g -
The Pleasures of Royal Gardening in Sanssouci Park: Design, Cultivation, Enjoyment Stiftung Preussische Schloesser 9783422072688
RRP: $16.58$15.48Verfuhrung und Genuss, Inszenierung und Ernte, Biotop und Klimawandel: Die Bedeutungsebenen des Parks Sanssouci in Potsdam sind ebenso vielfaltig wie die in Jahrhunderten gewachsenen unterschiedlichen Partien des weltberuhmten, von Friedrich dem Grossen... -
Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life Aysegul Akcay Kavakoglu 9781789382716
RRP: $146.25$130.98Analysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and emerging digital image-based technologies, the contributions explore the expanding range of 'mediated' narratives of... -
Architecture: A Global Approach by Maddison Cunningham
RRP: $235.95$211.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641724975Author Maddison CunninghamFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Larsen and Keller EducationPublisher Larsen and Keller EducationWeight(grams) 594g -
Environmental Design Perspectives: Viewpoints on the Profession, Education and Research by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser
RRP: $64.33$56.86The 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... -
Architecture as Cultural and Political Discourse: Case studies of conceptual norms and aesthetic practices by Daniel Grinceri
RRP: $93.58$81.53This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture. It examines how these discursive mechanisms and technologies combine to normalise and aestheticise everyday practices. It queries the means by which... -
Lit Interior by Frederick H Jones
RRP: $234.00$202.04Presents an organised, comprehensive and easy to understand overview of the lighting design process. It covers every topic from the nature of light itself, through selecting the correct equipment, to preparing project plans and the finished design... -
Changing Architectural Education: Towards a New Professionalism by David Nicol
RRP: $263.25$228.70Architectural education is under pressure to meet the demands of an evolving construction industry and to cater to the increasingly varied career destinations of graduates. How should architectural education respond to these professional challenges? How... -
Building Rules: How Local Controls Shape Community Environments And Economies by Kee Warner
RRP: $263.25$228.70Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion and more intangible... -
Architektur ferner Welten: Santiago Calatravas skulpturales Architekturverstandnis und die Bildhaftigkeit seiner Bauwerke in Werbung, Film, Musik, Computerspiel und Mode by Marc Bonner
RRP: $71.18$66.36Im Zentrum der Monographie uber Santiago Calatrava (*1951) steht die Rolle seiner Architektur als Mittlerin zwischen Medienwelten und Mensch. Der renommierte spanische Architekt verschmilzt in seinem OEuvre Bauwerk und Skulptur zu einer phantastischen... -
2008/2009 by Bayerisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege
RRP: $71.18$69.09Der reich bebilderte Aufsatzteil des Jahrbuchs behandelt herausragende Objekte und Fragestellungen der Denkmalpflege, diesmal schwerpunktmassig aus der Denkmalforschung. Dendrochronologische Untersuchungen der mittelalterlichen Unteren Burghoefe... -
How Is a Building Like a Termite Mound?: Structures Imitating Nature by Walt Brody
RRP: $13.63$9.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728423579Author Walt BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Lerner Publications (Tm)Publisher Lerner Publications (Tm) -
Discover Icelandic Architecture: 2018 by Birgit Abrecht
RRP: $126.65$117.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789979339489Author Birgit AbrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint Mal Og Menning,IcelandPublisher Mal Og Menning,IcelandWeight(grams) 145g -
Basics Tendering by Tim Brandt
RRP: $38.03$29.06Tendering constitutes the transition from the drawing and planning stage to the construction phase. In addition to its economic and contractual dimension, it is also an essential tool for translating design quality into built quality. This volume... -
The Designer's Workspace by Douglas Caywood
RRP: $234.00$202.04The Designer's Workspace presents an extensive resource of distinguished firms' responses to the design of their own offices. Featuring everythingfrom technical detail to interior design, it illustrates what these designers see as the major... -
Structure and Style: Conserving Twentieth-Century Buildings by Michael Stratton
RRP: $263.25$228.70This book provides the first study of approaches to appraising and conserving mainstream architecture of the twentieth century - commercial buildings, industrial buildings and housing. Architects, surveyors and conservationists are now appreciating the... -
New Architecture on Indigenous Lands by Joy Monice Malnar
RRP: $60.45$55.30Black Elk speaks of the "square boxes" his people were forced into, and Winona LaDuke of the "boxes of mints" on Native lands. As long as the government was deciding what tribal buildings should look like, Native custom and culture were bound to be boxed... -
Efficient Comfort Conditioning: The Heating And Cooling Of Buildings by Walter G Berl
RRP: $263.25$229.48This timely study deals with the heating and cooling ofbuildings using innovative systems that can reduce fossilfuel and electric energy requirements by as much as 80 percent.Emphasis is placed on thermal storage, utility rate structures,peak load... -
Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation Community by John Scott Watson
RRP: $46.78$40.64Carved out of century-old farmland near Chicago, the Prairie Crossing development is a novel experiment in urban public policy that preserves 69 percent of the land as open space. The for-profit project has set out to do nothing less than use access to... -
NiVo: Journal for Architecture and Cement Composite by Manuela Hoetzl
RRP: $50.70$45.38Keeping alive the tradition of Eternit AG's architectural journals, this book presents new directions in architecture, design and art: a panorama sweeping the multifaceted world of cement composite, illustrated with photographic essays.Book... -
Furstliche Reprasentation im Sakralraum: Die Schlosskirchen der thuringisch-ernestinischen Residenzen im 17. und beginnenden 18. Jahrhundert by Niels Fleck
RRP: $84.83$78.21Fur protestantische Reichsfursten war die Kirche im Schloss ein Herzstuck der Reprasentation. Ebenso prachtvoll wie programmatisch gestaltet, fuhrte sie neben der gottgegebenen Macht des Landesherrn auch sein Kirchenregiment im bewegten Bilderschmuck des... -
First Amendment Under Fire: America's Radicals, Congress, and the Courts by Milton Cantor
RRP: $263.25$228.70The First Amendment is perhaps the most important - and most debated - amendment in the US Constitution. It establishes freedom of speech, as well as that of religion, the press, peaceable assembly and the right to petition the government. But how has... -
I. Vikelas: Bilingual edition, Greek/English by Andreas Giakoumakatos
$96.19This volume presents architectural syntheses distinctive of the oeuvre of architect Ioannis Vikelas. The selection is based on chronological rather than thematic criteria, so giving a diachronic picture of Vikelas' work and enabling the reader to follow... -
Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Peacebuilding: Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform by Nadine Ansorg
RRP: $169.63$147.30Security 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... -
Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing by Venugopal Maddipati
RRP: $263.25$228.70Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing chronicles the emergence of a low-cost, low-rise housing architecture that conforms to M.K. Gandhi’s religious need to establish finite boundaries for everyday actions; finitude in turn defines... -
The Architect and Engineer: October 1938 (Classic Reprint) by Fred W. Jones
RRP: $55.56$43.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780332882017Author Fred W. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 441Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books -
The Appearance of the Form: Four Essays on the Position Designing takes between People and Things by N.J. Habraken
RRP: $56.53$48.93Originally published in 1985 this book explores, in four interwoven essays, the many ways human life and built form interact and the place that professional designing takes in this interaction. Together, the essays touch on a number of ideas: the idea... -
The Mose Effect by Elisabetta Sptiz
RRP: $132.60$87.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788829713349Author Elisabetta SptizFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Marsilio EditoriPublisher Marsilio EditoriWeight(grams) 241g -
Tensile Architecture by Philip Drew
RRP: $74.08$65.09This book provides an historical perspective for modern tensile architecture in the 20th century. It explores the tents of nomad cultures, geographical distribution of tent types, the effect of the dromedary on the distribution of the black tent, and... -
Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism by Maria Georgopoulou
RRP: $85.78$75.15Originally published in 2001, this book examines the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia... -
Architect's Essentials of Professional Development by Jean R. Valence
RRP: $77.90$68.33The architect's interest in continuing education has increased as a result of the national trend of state initiatives requiring continuing education for architect registration. Architect's Essentials of Professional Development assists registered... -
Responding to Chaos: Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese Design by David N Buck
RRP: $189.13$164.68A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a new century. The country's economic boom in the 1980s produced a surge of interest in land and building, and... -
The Selective Environment Dean Hawkes 9780419235309
RRP: $155.98$135.72The complex art of architecture embraces all of the concerns of the world's cultures. It meets the fundamental needs for shelter from the elements, but, almost from its origins, has acquired other purposes and meanings. The Selective Environment is an...