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City-building In America by Anthony M. Orum
RRP: £43.99£38.44Why do some cities grow and expand, while others dwindle and decline? Why is Milwaukee a town of the past, while Minneapolis-St. Paul seems reborn and infused with future dynamism? And what do Milwaukee and the Twin Cities have to tell us about other... -
Geometric Computation: Foundations for Design by Joy Ko
RRP: £135.00£118.88Geometric Computation: Foundations for Design describes the mathematical and computational concepts that are central to the practical application of design computation in a manner tailored to the visual designer. Uniquely pairing key topics in code and... -
Cisterns: Sustainable Development, Architecture and Energy by Alireza Dehghani-Sanij
RRP: £66.99£57.83Cisterns: Sustainable Development, Architecture and Energy was written on beliefs that based on historical evidence and actual findings, Iran is most probably the country where cisterns, or "Aub-anbars" in Farsi, were first developed and built... -
Building The Future: Massstabe Des Nachhaltigen Bauens by Hans Drexler
RRP: £24.50£22.00Sustainable planning and building have become a key issue in architecture. Climate change, resource depletion and economic crises are also increasingly forcing architects and planners to question traditional methods and solutions. In recent years,... -
Architektur beginnt im Kopf: The Making of Architecture by Elke Krasny
RRP: £33.00£30.39Wie und wo entsteht heute Architektur? Wovon lassen sich Architekten inspirieren? Welche Entwurfswerkzeuge kommen zum Einsatz? Das Buch gibt den Blick frei hinter die Kulissen von 20 international hochkaratigen Architekturburos und vermittelt... -
Renato Salvi Architect by Bruno Marchand
RRP: £32.00£29.53Renato Salvi (b. 1956) completed his studies at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich and at Sapienza University in Rome and served as assistant professor under Flora Ruchat and Vincent Mangeat. In... -
The Fundamentals of Architecture by Professor Lorraine Farrelly
RRP: £29.99£24.21The Fundamentals of Architecture, 2nd Edition is an introduction to the basic ideas that inform architecture. It is intended to unravel the complexity of architecture to explain its process and make it more accessible. It guides students through the rich... -
ahaa: Anthologie by Heinz Wirz
RRP: £19.90£13.29Following his studies at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and various internships, Andreas Heierle founded his Atelier für Architektur in Lucerne in 2012. Since then, he has produced a number of architectural gems, including a small, ... -
Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures by Lindsey Wikstrom
RRP: £125.00£107.86If we want to continue existing on this earth, an era of renewable energy and materials is urgently needed. What role could mass timber, with its potential to replace concrete and steel, have in ensuring the planet’s survival? This book retraces wood’s... -
Building Theories: Architecture as the Art of Building by Franca Trubiano
RRP: £125.00£107.86Building 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... -
The Great Festival: A Theoretical Performance Narrative of Antiquity's Feasts and the Modern Rock Festival by Olav Harslof
RRP: £19.99£17.69The Great Festival presents and analyzes two historical festivals - the ancient Dionysus Festival and the present Roskilde Festival. The purpose is to set up two comparable structures or 'codes' to explain the universal artistic effects, structures and... -
Flexibility and Design: Learning from the School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) Project by Joshua D. Lee
RRP: £135.00£117.28This 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: £91.99£79.80First 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: £20.99£18.37For 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: £36.99£23.98Take 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: £58.99£51.08Waterjet 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: £32.99£29.56Originally 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: £120.00£104.61The 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: £24.00£19.93Apologies 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 by Stiftung Preussische Schloesser
RRP: £8.50£7.94Verfuhrung 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 by Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu
RRP: £75.00£67.17Analysing 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: £121.00£110.90Apologies 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: £32.99£29.16The 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: £47.99£41.81This 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: £120.00£103.61Presents 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: £135.00£117.28Architectural 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: £135.00£117.28Urban 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: £36.50£34.03Im 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: £36.50£35.43Der 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: £6.99£4.64Apologies 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) -
Reconstructing Historic Landmarks: Fabrication, Negotiation, and the Past by Wayde Brown
RRP: £39.99£35.06Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Canada. Indeed, reconstruction has been the primary tool at the most influential historic sites, for example:... -
Discover Icelandic Architecture: 2018 by Birgit Abrecht
RRP: £64.95£60.49Apologies 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: £19.50£15.24Tendering 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: £120.00£103.61The 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: £135.00£117.28This 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: £31.00£28.36Black 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... -
Buildings Used: Human Interactions with Architecture by Nora Lefa
RRP: £135.00£117.28Buildings Used takes the reader on an exploration into the impact of use on buildings and users. While most histories and theories of architecture focus on a building's conception, design, and realization, this book argues that its identity is formed... -
Efficient Comfort Conditioning: The Heating And Cooling Of Buildings by Walter G Berl
RRP: £135.00£117.68This 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: £23.99£20.84Carved 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: £26.00£23.27Keeping 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...