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Advances in Urban Planning in Developing Nations: Data Analytics and Technology by Arnab Jana
RRP: £44.99£39.28This book studies the increasing use of data analytics and technology in urban planning and development in developing nations. It examines the application of urban science and engineering in different sectors of urban planning and looks at the challenges... -
Reassessing Rudolph Timothy M. Rohan 9780300225860
RRP: £25.00£20.92American architect Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) was internationally known in the 1950s and early 1960s for his powerful, large-scale concrete buildings. Hugely influential during his lifetime, Rudolph was one of the most significant American architects of... -
The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture by Jean La Marche
RRP: £32.00£28.21This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century. The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture examines... -
SINGAPORE GOOD CLASS BUNGALOW 1819-2015 by ROBERT POWELL
RRP: £15.00£13.65Singapore Good Class Bungalow traces the development of stand-alone residential architecture in Singapore from its early days as a colony to the present. Expertly researched by noted academic and author Robert Powell, it is also a partial history of the... -
Transformation: Basic Principles and Methodology of Design Roland Knauer 9783764367619
RRP: £48.00£44.61Bar, surface, body, and space are the fundamental elements of the design process. Every form, however complex, may be understood as a variation of them. And underlying every concrete design is a design methodology that can be analyzed, taught, and... -
The Drama of Space: Spatial Sequences and Compositions in Architecture Holger Kleine 9783035604313
RRP: £61.00£55.89The experience of architectural spaces is formed by the way they are staged. The Drama of Space examines the composition and articulation of architectural spaces in terms of spatial dramaturgy, as a repertoire of means and strategies for shaping spatial... -
Urban Design Practice: An International Review Sebastian Loew 9781859464496
RRP: £48.00£40.73Urban Design Practice gives a fascinating account of the state of urban design practice across the world today. Packed with invaluable local knowledge from on-the-spot contributors, its global scope offers an armoury of background facts and figures to... -
The Greening of Architecture: A Critical History and Survey of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design Phillip James Tabb 9781409447399
RRP: £58.99£48.24Contemporary architecture, and the culture it reflects dependent as it is on fossil fuels, has contributed to the cause and necessity of a burgeoning green process that emerged over the past half century. This text is the first to offer a comprehensive... -
Openings: h2o Architects h2o architectes 9783038601982
RRP: £35.00£22.83This book brings together 29 projects from the past ten years, completed and ongoing, designed by Paris-based h2o Architects. The presentation is arranged by thematic categories that stem from the firm's singular approach. The tasks vary greatly... -
A History of Architecture and Trade by Patrick Haughey
RRP: £39.99£35.06A 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,... -
Europan 15 Austria – Productive Cities 2: Resources, Mobility, Equity by EUROPAN Austria
RRP: £22.00£14.56EUROPAN is an initiative that puts on competitions for young architects. Founded in 1989 and supported by 13 countries in the EU, it runs a competition every two years for innovative and experimental models in urban development. The 2017 and 2019 EUROPAN... -
Urban Housing Forms by Jingmin Zhou
RRP: £105.00£91.86Over three-quarters of the world's population live in cities where the need for affordable urban housing of good design is vital to the quality of urban living. Zhou and Colquhoun look at a wide variety of solutions to this urban design problem showing... -
Architecture + Perception by Jorg Kurt Grutter
RRP: £49.95£33.93Certain aspects and contexts of the perception of architecture can best be explained by means of images - that is the idea upon which this book is based. The author has divided selected structural details into individual chapters, including such subjects... -
Transportable Environments 3 by Robert Kronenburg
RRP: £120.00£103.61The latest volume in this popular series of books which explores the theoretical basis for temporary and transportable structures where permanence is either not possible or desirable. The book provides insight into the wide range of uses of these... -
Urban Architectures in Interwar Yugoslavia by Tanja D. Conley
RRP: £39.99£35.06Urban Architectures in Interwar Yugoslavia will appeal to researchers, academics and students interested in Central and Eastern European architectural history.Book InformationISBN 9781032238234Author Tanja D. ConleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint... -
Writing Architecture in Modern Italy: Narratives, Historiography, and Myths Daria Ricchi 9780367559977
RRP: £37.99£33.38Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s. It concentrates on a diverse group of individuals, including Bruno... -
Embracing Complexity in Design by Jeffrey Johnson
RRP: £43.99£38.44Outlining state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design, this book collates them into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and complex systems communities. The book is based on research which focuses on a variety... -
How Architects Write by Tom Spector
RRP: £32.99£29.56How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design in both student and professional examples. This fully updated edition features more than 50 color images, a new chapter on online communication, and sections on critical reading,... -
Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide Dewey Thorbeck (University of Minnesota, USA) 9781138937680
RRP: £47.99£42.21Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place. Following on from the author's... -
Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design by Margot McDonald
RRP: £135.00£117.28This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism. Focusing on the pioneering work of the influential American... -
A Musicology for Landscape by David Nicholas Buck
RRP: £135.00£117.68Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture's inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised... -
The Changing Image of Affordable Housing: Design, Gentrification and Community in Canada and Europe by Dr. Ulduz Maschaykh
RRP: £45.99£40.13Illustrated by a range of case studies of affordable housing options in Canada, this book examines the liveability and affordability of twenty-first-century residential architecture. Focussing on the architects' and communities' commitment to these... -
Structure for Architects: A Case Study in Steel, Wood, and Reinforced Concrete Design by Ashwani Bedi
RRP: £36.99£32.53Structure for Architects: A Case Study in Steel, Wood, and Reinforced Concrete Design is a sequel to the authors' first text, Structure for Architects: A Primer, emphasizing the conceptual understanding of structural design in simple language and terms... -
Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism by Nicole Kalms
RRP: £43.99£38.44Much of feminist architectural scholarship focuses on the enormous task of instating women's experience of space into spatial praxis. Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism suggests this attention to women's invisibility in sociocultural... -
Architecture and Globalisation in the Persian Gulf Region Nasser Golzari 9781138245624
RRP: £53.99£47.27This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on the eastern Iranian shoreline as in Arabic countries on the western side. By inviting a range of architects... -
Integrating Programming, Evaluation and Participation in Design: A Theory Z Approach by Henry Sanoff
RRP: £69.99£60.36First published in 1992, this book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past several decades have given rise mainly to new kinds of specialists in the areas of programming, evaluation, and participation. The... -
Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture by Kim Sexton
RRP: £135.00£117.68The relationship of architecture to the human body is a centuries-long and complex one, but not always symmetrical. This book opens a space for historians of the visual arts, archaeologists, architects, and digital humanities professionals to reflect... -
Worship Sound Spaces: Architecture, Acoustics and Anthropology Christine Guillebaud (University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France) 9781032083544
RRP: £39.99£35.06Worship Sound Spaces unites specialists from architecture, acoustic engineering and the social sciences to encourage closer analysis of the sound environments within places of worship. Gathering a wide range of case studies set in Europe, Asia, North... -
Savannah Architectural Tours by Jonathan E. Stalcup
RRP: £13.99£8.77Taking an architectural walking tour of Savannah is a great way to learn about the buildings and history of the city. This book, composed of three self-guided walking tours, takes you on a journey through Savannahs past and introduces you to the citys... -
All Decked Out...Redwood Decks: Ideas and Plans for Contemporary Outdoor Living by Tina Skinner
RRP: £27.99£18.02Redwood Decks: Ideas and Plans for Contemporary Outdoor Living is absolutely packed with more than 200 big, full-color photographs of fabulous decks from around the country, along with plans and building instructions for do-it-yourselfers. These great... -
Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner Peter Draper 9780754635826
RRP: £135.00£117.68Nikolaus Pevsner was one of the most important and influential art historians of the twentieth century. He opened up new areas of enquiry in the history of art, revolutionising architectural studies in England and playing a key role in establishing the... -
Design for Critical Care: An Evidence-Based Approach D. Kirk Hamilton (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA) 9780750665308
RRP: £86.99£75.94It is now widely recognized that the physical environment has an impact on the physiology,psychology, and sociology of those who experience it. When designing a critical care unit,the demands on the architect or designer working together with the... -
Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States Randall F. Mason 9780367025823
RRP: £49.99£44.50In this volume, some of the leading figures in the field have been brought together to write on the roots of the historic preservation movement in the United States, ranging from New York to Santa Fe, Charleston to Chicago. Giving Preservation a History... -
Architecture History, Theory and Preservation: Prehistory to the Middle Ages Arleen Pabon-Charneco 9781138326774
RRP: £37.99£33.78Architecture History, Theory and Preservation critically explores the historic development, theoretical underpinnings and conservation practices of architecture. Complete with 170 full color images, this volume presents architectural and urban examples,... -
Utopias and Architecture Nathaniel Coleman 9780415700856
RRP: £71.99£62.45Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian... -
Facility Management by Edmond P. Rondeau
RRP: £115.95£101.18From the moment it was first published, "Facility Management" became the ultimate reference for facility and design professionals who want to create a productive workplace that corresponds to the short and long term goals of their corporation... -
Modern City Revisited Thomas Deckker 9780419256403
RRP: £79.99£70.00The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and... -
Inclusive Design: Designing and Developing Accessible Environments Rob Imrie 9780419256205
RRP: £120.00£104.01The reality of the built environment for disabled people is one of social, physical and attitudinal barriers which prevent their ease of mobility, movement and access. In the United Kingdom, most homes cannot be accessed by wheelchair, while accessible... -
Design, Technology and the Development Process in the Built Environment Tom Collier 9780419195504
RRP: £49.99£43.50This second book in the BEST series explores the fundamental generators and contextual issues - philosophical, physical and political - that influence built environments. It draws on international examples to show how societies and cultures in different... -
Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation Rebecca Krinke (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, USA) 9780415700696
RRP: £49.99£43.50Contemplative landscape and contemplative space are familiar terms in the areas of design, landscape architecture and architecture. Krinke and her highly regarded contributors set out to explore definitions, theories, and case studies of contemplative...