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Visual Discoveries: A Collection of Sections by Allen Keith Yee
RRP: £27.95£19.17There are three standard methods to visually represent a building: the plan, elevation, and section. The section drawing is a vertical slice of a building, depicting the relationships between interior and exterior as well as any level changes... -
Andy Senn: De aedibus 89 by Heinz Wirz
RRP: £34.95£22.40The new agricultural school in Salez, in the St. Gallen Rhine valley region, has a slender, airy and light appearance. It is an extremely intelligently conceived low-tech construction made of timber. The design is by Andy Senn, who has led his ... -
Heritage Shops of Singapore by Steve Golden
RRP: £12.99£11.95After nearly a year of research, including interviews with local neighbors, shopkeepers, and heritage experts, he photographed over 70 shops and the families that have run them for generations. shops and the families that have run them for generations... -
Distributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth Gretchen Wilkins (RMIT University, School of Architecture and Design, Australia) 9780415562324
RRP: £49.99£43.50What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and the average length of stay is three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and redefine their economic... -
Street-Level Architecture: The Past, Present and Future of Interactive Frontages Conrad Kickert 9780367486105
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions of designers and planners, interactive frontages have dwindled over the past century in Europe and North America. This... -
The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design by Peter Dedek
RRP: £36.99£32.93The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design explores the history of interior decorating and design from the late nineteenth century to the present, highlighting the careers and contributions of significant American female interior designers who were... -
Validity and Reliability in Built Environment Research: A Selection of Case Studies Vian Ahmed 9780367197803
RRP: £39.99£35.06This 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... -
House 1 Catalogue - All About Space - Volume 2 Dieter Dietz 9783038600381
RRP: £35.00£22.83The Atelier de la Conception de l'Espace (ALICE), affiliated with the School of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, is an educational facility focusing on preparing students for the practice of architecture. To cultivate the... -
Post-Petroleum Design George Elvin 9781138853904
RRP: £37.99£33.78Despite the growing demand for design strategies to reduce our petroleum use, no one has yet brought together the lessons of the world's leading post-petroleum designers into a single resource. Post-Petroleum Design brings them together for the first... -
Designing Post-Virtual Architectures: Wicked Tactics and World-Building by Heather Renee Barker
RRP: £135.00£117.28Designing Post-Virtual Architectures: Wicked Tactics and World-Building explores, describes, and demonstrates theories and strategies for design in a post-virtual world. This book reveals affinities among social, mathematical, philosophical, and language... -
Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities Donald Johnson (Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia) 9781138601628
RRP: £43.99£38.84Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the... -
Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi by Mary N. Woods
RRP: £43.99£38.84As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book reveals a history that is largely unknown, not only in the West, but also in India. Educated in the 1930s and... -
The Production Sites of Architecture Sophia Psarra (University College London, UK) 9781138559448
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Production Sites of Architecture examines the intimate link between material sites and meaning. It explores questions such as: how do spatial configurations produce meaning? What are alternative modes of knowledge production? How do these change our... -
Professional Practice 101: A Compendium of Effective Business Strategies in Architecture Andrew Pressman (University of New Mexico, USA) 9781138506886
£40.09Professional practice courses often suffer from a boring reputation, but there's nothing dull about this updated, cornerstone edition of Professional Practice 101, which renders accessible the art and science of contemporary architectural practice. With... -
Space Unveiled: Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio by Carla Jackson Bell
RRP: £53.99£46.87Since the early 1800s, African Americans have designed signature buildings; however, in the mainstream marketplace, African American architects, especially women, have remained invisible in architecture history, theory and practice. Traditional... -
Catalytic Formations: Architecture and Digital Design by Ali Rahim
RRP: £86.99£75.54At the dawn of the twenty-first century, digital technologies have enabled new techniques for the development of architecture. In Catalytic Formations, Ali Rahim suggests that these digital design techniques have the potential to affect the wider... -
Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture by Robin Schuldenfrei
RRP: £135.00£117.28This edited volume considers the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the final artifact, with a focus on the meaning and use of the iteration. To contextualize iteration within... -
Architecture in a Climate of Change by Peter F. Smith
RRP: £135.00£117.68Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides the latest basic principals of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology. Including new... -
Building Services, Technology and Design by Roger Greeno
RRP: £120.00£103.61Building Services, Technology and Design provides a concise guide to the installation and design of principal services in domestic and commercial buildings. It covers the level 2 module of The CIOB's Education Framework and is officially sanctioned by... -
Design and the Economics of Building by David Jaggar
RRP: £135.00£117.68A textbook on design economics for students of architecture, building and quantity surveying, it examines the links between design and the costs of building as well as more general economic issues and their significance for designers and builders.Book... -
Finding San Carlino: Collected Perspectives on the Geometry of the Baroque by Adil Mansure
RRP: £41.99£36.75The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses and geometric analyses attempting to explain its form and meaning. Numerous investigations have attempted to... -
Handmade Houses Steven P. Whitsitt 9780764332036
RRP: £27.99£18.62Visit a dozen exciting homes where the owners have ignored standard building practices in favor of creative alternatives. These homes, found from Massachusetts to California, are expressive of individuality as well as artistry, and you'll be inspired to... -
Marketing Green Building Services by Jerry Yudelson
RRP: £49.99£43.90Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success presents all the information key decision-makers need to respond to the fast-growing market for green buildings, design and construction services and products. Completely updated, revised and... -
Sustainability at the Cutting Edge Peter Smith 9780750683005
RRP: £47.99£41.81Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest... -
Assessing Building Performance by Wolfgang Preiser
RRP: £58.99£51.08The building performance evaluation (BPE) framework emphasizes an evaluative stance throughout the six phases of the building delivery and life cycle: (1) strategic planning/needs analysis; (2) program review; (3) design review; (4) post-construction... -
Eco-resorts Zbigniew Bromberek 9780750657938
RRP: £64.99£56.54Eco-Resorts is a design guide for low impact, environmentally friendly tourist resorts in the tropics. The book is the first to offer architects practical, detailed guidance in developing resort buildings that work with a tropical climate and meet the... -
Law and Practice for Architects by Robert Greenstreet
RRP: £49.99£43.50Provides a framework for understanding of the legal, contractual and procedural implication of architectural practice. The book acts as a useful aide-memoire for students and practitioners based on the premise that smooth legal administration will... -
Architectural Model as Machine by Albert Smith
RRP: £58.99£51.08This book offers an explanation of why scale models are important to the design process. Albert Smith takes the reader through the history and significance of models in architecture from the magic of the Egyptian scale model to the present day.Through... -
Bio-Architecture Javier Senosiain 9780750656047
RRP: £71.99£62.45Bio-Architecture studies the natural principles of animal and human constructions from several different perspectives, and presents a great part of the knowledge that gives origin and shape to built form. Organic architecture offers a design approach... -
Lit Interior by Frederick H. Jones
RRP: £27.99£24.28Presents 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... -
Architecture, Technology and Process by Chris Abel
RRP: £41.99£37.15This new selection of essays follows Chris Abel's previous best selling collection, Architecture and Identity. Drawing upon a wide range of knowledge and disciplines, the author argues that, underlying technological changes in the process of... -
Imagination by Stephen Bayley
RRP: £22.95£18.10The communications and design agency Imagination was founded by Gary Withers in 1978. It now has almost 500 staff, based in London, Hong Kong and New York, who practise a wide range of disciplines, from architecture, interiors, lighting and acoustics to... -
Ultimate Tropical Luca Invernizzi Tettoni 9780500514153
RRP: £12.00£10.13Here is the ultimate visual resource for the tropical lifestyle, presented via the depiction of an amazing richness of architectural styles - rustic and luxurious, simple and ornate, historic and contemporary. This inspiring collection focuses on the... -
Architectural Design in Steel Mark Lawson 9780419244905
RRP: £105.00£91.26Steelwork offers the opportunity for architectural expression, as well as being structurally versatile and adaptable material. Good detailing is vital because it affects structural performance, costs, buildability and, perhaps most importantly,... -
Multilingual Dictionary of Architecture and Building Terms by Chris Grech
RRP: £120.00£104.61With an increasingly mobile workforce internationally, the need for good communication becomes greater. This new dictionary lists over 2000 key terms used in building design and construction in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The emphasis... -
Building Information Modeling Karen Kensek (University of Southern California, USA) 9780415717748
RRP: £32.99£29.16This is a design guide for architects, engineers, and contractors concerning the principles and specific applications of building information modeling (BIM). BIM has the potential to revolutionize the building industry, and yet not all architects and... -
Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies Carol Burns (Taylor & Burns Architects, USA) 9780415949767
RRP: £47.99£42.21One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site, or larger context (both physical and social), surrounding a building or set of buildings. Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs, Site Matters... -
Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design: The Evolution and Impacts of Successful Products Robin Roy (Open University, UK) 9780415869980
RRP: £43.99£35.94Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design follows the innovation and evolution of consumer products from vacuum cleaners to mobile phones from their original inventions to the present day. It discusses how environmental concerns and legislation... -
Walter Benjamin and Architecture Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia) 9780415851992
RRP: £53.99£46.87The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin's discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories. Issues such as technology and history have been considered central to the very modernity of... -
Questioning Architectural Judgment: The Problem of Codes in the United States Steven A. Moore (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9780415840811
RRP: £53.99£47.27The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge architecture through such lenses, is but one dimension of the...