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The Construction of Drawings and Movies: Models for Architectural Design and Analysis Thomas Forget 9780415898409
RRP: £54.99£49.78The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be examples of architectural presentation tools. This book asks... -
The Architecture of Information: Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information Martyn Dade-Robertson 9780415561846
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between... -
Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development by Adrian Pitts
RRP: £71.99£62.45With appropriate planning and design, Olympic urban development has the potential to leave positive environmental legacies to the host city and contribute to environmental sustainability. This book explains how a modern Olympic games can successfully... -
Dynamic Digital Representations in Architecture: Visions in Motion by Imdat As
RRP: £53.99£47.27Graphic communication in architecture has made a dramatic shift from traditional drafting practices to dynamic and hyper-medial representations. This book provides a concise and practical introduction to new ways of architectural representation. It... -
Planning on the Edge Nick Gallent 9780415402903
RRP: £58.99£51.08More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises 'urban fringe': the countryside around towns that has been called 'planning's last frontier'. One of the key challenges facing spatial planners is the land-use management of this area, regarded by... -
Project Planning, and Control David G. Carmichael 9780415347266
RRP: £120.00£104.01Project management is widely used in the construction industry and is central to planning and controlling time, costs and resources. This book enables readers to perform more effectively, to understand project planning and control procedures and to gain... -
Beyond Description: Singapore Space Historicity by Ryan Bishop
RRP: £71.99£62.05This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside,... -
Innovations in Hospice Architecture by Stephen Verderber
RRP: £84.99£73.85This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book summarizing key historical and recent developments with respect to this rapidly evolving building type. This... -
Sullivanesque: Urban Architecture and Ornamentation by Ronald E. Schmitt
RRP: £27.99£25.14Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique but often overlooked facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan.Highly regarded in architecture for inspiring the Chicago School and the Prairie School, Sullivan was an... -
Beijing: The New City by Claudio Greco
£12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788861303027Author Claudio GrecoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 850g -
Housing Density by Department for Building Construction and Design - HB2, Vienna University of Technology
RRP: £34.50£31.29Verdichteter Wohnbau gilt als ein Indikator fur die soziale Verfasstheit einer Gesellschaft. Lasst sich dieser Wohnbau mit dem weitverbreiteten Wunsch nach einem Eigenheim in Einklang bringen? Uber 400 Studenten der Technischen Universitat Wien sind im... -
The New Kunsthaus Zurich: Museum for Art and Public Kunsthaus Zurich 9783858818751
RRP: £18.00£12.14The completion of David Chipperfield's distinctive new building for Kunsthaus Zurich in December 2020 has nearly doubled the museum's overall space. In combination with the preceding refurbishments of the earlier buildings, this has made it fit to meet... -
The Lutheran Church of St. Peter in Bacharach by Eduard Sebald
£2.48Englischsprachiger Kunstfuhrer. St. Peter in Bacharach ist ein Hauptbeispiel der uberaus dekorationsfreudigen Spatphase spatromanischer Architektur am sudlichen Niederrhein.Book InformationISBN 9783422023642Author Eduard SebaldFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Where Dreams Are Born: nonzero/architecture - works - 2003-2019 by Peter Grueneisen
RRP: £52.00£46.27studio bau:ton, the practice founded by Swiss architect Peter Gruneisen, designs buildings rooted in the sphere of imagination and creativity. The practice's main clients are in the music and film production industry in Los Angeles, for whom it designs... -
Towards a New Architect by Yasmin Shariff
RRP: £37.99£33.38After three years of education, architecture students have to start out on their first year of practical training as the initial step in a career in the professional world - all too often without enough clear advice to make sure that their first step is... -
Project Management: For Designers and Facilities Managers by Howard G. Birnberg
RRP: £52.00£51.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604271201Author Howard BirnbergFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint J Ross PublishingPublisher J Ross PublishingWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Anthropology for Architects: Social Relations and the Built Environment Ray Lucas (University of Manchester, UK) 9781474241496
RRP: £27.99£24.27What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects - a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. ... -
Footprints: Writings 2005–2020 by Josep Lluís Mateo
RRP: £22.00£14.56Josep Lluis Mateo is one of Spain's leading architects and one of Europe's most influential intellectuals. He runs a firm called mateoarquitectura in Barcelona, which has designed buildings in many countries such as Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the... -
Thermal Analysis and Design of Passive Solar Buildings by AK Athienitis
RRP: £45.99£40.13Passive solar design techniques are becoming increasingly important in building design. This design reference book takes the building engineer or physicist step-by-step through the thermal analysis and design of passive solar buildings. In particular it... -
Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice by Harriet Harriss
RRP: £96.99£84.05What can you do with a degree in architecture? Where might it take you? What kind of challenges could you address? Architects After Architecture reframes architecture as a uniquely versatile way of acting on the world, far beyond that of designing... -
Precedents in Zero-Energy Design: Architecture and Passive Design in the 2007 Solar Decathlon Michael Zaretsky 9780415778756
RRP: £45.99£40.53'Michael Zaretsky's Precedents in Zero-Energy Design is such an important book ... it will help readers recognize that design comes before technology - and renewable energy systems alone can't solve the problems we face' - John D. Quale, Assistant... -
Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin's Revolution from Above, 1928-1938 Dr Danilo Udovicki-Selb (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9781350288423
RRP: £29.99£26.67Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture, in which utopian modernism was practically prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Radically redefining the historiography of the... -
Fawad Kazi - ETH Zurich Building LEE by Christoph Wieser
RRP: £45.00£30.85ETH Zurich's new building LEE is an extraordinary project from both an urban planning and an architectural design perspective. Located on a slope above the heart of town, it sits very prominently close to the historic main buildings of ETH Zurich and the... -
Zurich University of the Arts - Toni Campus by Janine Schiller
RRP: £30.00£19.40Until the year 2000, Toni was a dairy factory, and its signature yoghurt packed in small brown glass jars, was one of Switzerland's best-known food staples. After production had been relocated to another part of Switzerland the vast plant, situated in... -
Concrete: Photography and Architecture Daniela Janser 9783858813695
RRP: £70.00£47.15Architecture has always been a magnificent and much debated platform to express the spirit of the times, world views, everyday life, and aesthetics. It is a daring materialisation of private and public visions, of applied art and the avant-garde alike... -
Puerto Rico's Henry Klumb: A Modern Architect's Sense of Place by Cesar Cruz
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers a historical narrative, culminating in a series of architectural analyses focusing on four key design strategies employed in Klumb's work: vernacular architecture, the grid and the landscape, dense urban spaces and open-air rooms.Book... -
Visual Research Methods in Architecture by Igea Troiani
RRP: £120.00£112.92This book offers a distinctive approach to the use of visual methodologies for qualitative architectural research. It presents a diverse selection of ways for the architect or architectural researcher to use their gaze as part of their research practice... -
Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal: Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe by Torsten Schmiedeknecht
RRP: £43.99£38.44The 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... -
The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture: Bucharest, 1949-1964 by Juliana Maxim
RRP: £41.99£36.75The 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... -
Lineament: Material, Representation and the Physical Figure in Architectural Production by Gail Peter Borden
RRP: £53.99£47.27This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation, materiality, and architecture. It assembles a range of diverse voices across various institutions, practices, generations, and... -
Sustainable Retrofits: Post War Residential Towers in Britain Asterios Agkathidis 9781138689893
RRP: £47.99£39.51Presenting the state-of-the-art in sustainable retrofits in post war residential towers, this book captures and re-informs the current intense refurbishing process that is taking place in Britain, which is part of a global phenomenon happening all over... -
Revival: The Interpreter Geddes (1928): The Man and His Gospel by Amelia Defries
RRP: £58.99£51.48What so strongly attracted the author in Patrick Geddes when she came to know him in India was, not his scientific achievements, but, on the contrary, the rare fact of the fullness of his personality rising far above his science. Whatever subjects he has... -
Peirce for Architects Richard Coyne 9781138319585
RRP: £25.99£22.63Ideas gain legitimacy as they are put to some practical use. A study of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) supports this pragmatism as a way of thinking about truth and meaning. Architecture has a strong pragmatic strand, not least as we think of... -
Developments in Structural Form by Professor Rowland J. Mainstone
RRP: £135.00£117.68In the critically acclaimed first edition of this book, Mainstone offered a brilliant and highly original account of the structural developments that have made possible the achievements of architects and bridge builders throughout history. In this... -
Building Jerusalem: Jewish Architecture in Britain Sharman Kadish 9780853032830
RRP: £30.00£23.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853032830Author Sharman KadishFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film by Merrill. Schleier
RRP: £21.99£19.59Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema's tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism,... -
Choice Architecture: A new approach to behavior, design, and wellness by Avani Parikh
RRP: £54.99£47.72From Vitruvius in the 1st century BCE on, there has been an attempt to understand how architecture works, especially in its poetic aspect but also in its basic functions. Design can encourage us to walk, to experience community, to imagine new ways of... -
Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp Pablo Meninato 9780815363958
RRP: £37.99£33.38While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects has not been comprehensively analyzed. This book proposes a... -
Towers, Turrets, Cupolas, and Belvederes by Jo Cryder
RRP: £31.99£20.40With 470 eye-catching color photos and informative text, readers are taken on a cross-country tour of towers, turrets, cupolas, and belvederes found on homes, churches, and barns dating from the nineteenth through the early twenty-first century. Towers... -
Mexican Style, Sustainable by Tina Skinner
RRP: £18.99£12.67Take a visually rich tour through a burgeoning community on Mexico's Baja Penninsula, and learn how the dream of visionaries is shaping the community of Loreto Bay as a model for the future. Indigenous materials and culture are helping to shape the...