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Reinventing Civil Society: The Emerging Role of Faith-Based Organizations: The Emerging Role of Faith-Based Organizations by Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore
RRP: £29.99£26.64This guide concentrates on resources that are useful, in an easy-to-use format to enable architects, designers and engineers to access a wealth of knowledge. Information allows users to find, evaluate and contact the resources that can save time and... -
Environment and Children by Christopher Day
RRP: £32.99£29.56How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and... -
Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design by Kingston Heath
RRP: £56.99£49.41Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. 'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' defines a set of strategies for understanding the complexities of a regional... -
Design First by David Walters
RRP: £54.99£48.12Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive... -
Altering Houses and Small Scale Residential Developments by Ann Bridger
RRP: £36.99£32.93'Altering Houses and Small-scale Residential Development' is a practical guide for home owners and those undertaking residential building projects. It is also useful for students and emerging professionals concerned with the built environment, especially... -
Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State by Michael Sorkin
RRP: £43.99£38.44Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal,... -
Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader by Douglas Kelbaugh
RRP: £49.99£43.90Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour. Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of urban design, this new collection combines selected... -
Lefebvre for Architects by Nathaniel Coleman
RRP: £115.00£99.36While the work of Henri Lefebvre has become better known in the English-speaking world since the 1991 translation of his 1974 masterpiece, The Production of Space, his influence on the actual production of architecture and the city has been less... -
Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades: State Change by Jules Moloney
RRP: £49.99£43.50Architectural facades now have the potential to be literally kinetic, through automated sunscreens and a range of animated surfaces. This book explores the aesthetic potential of these new types of moving facades. Critique of theory and practice in... -
Developing Your Design Process: Six Key Concepts for Studio by Albert C. Smith
RRP: £39.99£35.06Developing Your Design Process is your primary source for acquiring knowledge of how and why you design. It will help you understand how architects think as well as learn why you should educate yourself about design culture. You'll explore the spark of... -
Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism by Mia Fuller
RRP: £47.99£42.21This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture,... -
Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France by Richard Wittman
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution... -
Designing Relationships: The Art of Collaboration in Architecture by Andrew Pressman
RRP: £32.99£29.16In today's dynamic practice environment, collaboration and teamwork skills are increasingly critical to the successful completion of building projects. Indeed, it is the careful nurturing of comradeship among complementary but distinctive egos that... -
Bauhaus Dream-house: Modernity and Globalization by Katerina Ruedi-Ray
RRP: £53.99£46.87A highly original and innovative study that brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus - tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. Developed in post WW1 Germany, the... -
Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis: Modern Civic Art and International Exchanges by Charles Bohl
RRP: £45.99£41.13These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international... -
The Visual Language of Spatial Planning: Exploring Cartographic Representations for Spatial Planning in Europe by Stefanie Duhr
RRP: £71.99£62.05At a time when strategic spatial planning is undergoing a renaissance in Europe, The Visual Language of Spatial Planning makes a unique contribution to this rapidly growing area of teaching and research. Discussing the relevant theoretical perspectives... -
Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture by Jo Odgers
RRP: £64.99£56.54This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive. The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a convenient starting point for the many myths of... -
Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces: The Architecture of Seduction by Leontine de Wit
RRP: £45.99£40.13Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature.Retail structure has... -
Expressive Form: A Conceptual Approach to Computational Design by Kostas Terzidis
RRP: £47.99£41.81With the increased use of computers, architecture has found itself in the midst of a plethora of possible uses. This book combines theoretical enquiry with practical implementation offering a unique perspective on the use of computers related to... -
Dictionary of Architectural and Building Technology by Henry Cowan
RRP: £71.99£62.05A comprehensive summary of the vocabulary used across the building industry, from the preparation of an architectural brief, through creative and technical design, to construction technology and facilities management. The latest edition has several... -
Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City by Mari Hvattum
RRP: £54.99£48.12First published in 2004. Walter Benjamin famously defined modernity as "the world dominated by its phantasmagorias". The chapters in this book focus on one such phantasmagoria, namely that of 'modernity' itself. From the late seventeenth century until... -
The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement by Colin Porteous
RRP: £71.99£62.45The New Eco-Architecture builds a historical bridge between architectural science and design. It seeks to address neglected aspects of the Modern Movement as a prelude to supporting a diversity of architectural insight and experimentation aimed at... -
The Modern Airport Terminal: New Approaches to Airport Architecture by Brian Edwards
RRP: £115.00£100.36This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical issues that the designer has to address. Contemporary... -
Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette by Fiona McLachlan
RRP: £54.99£48.12How do architects use color? Do they adopt a different strategy or starting point for every project? Do they gradually cultivate individual color palettes, which develop alongside their body of built work? Do they utilize, or are they aware of, the body... -
Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism by Janet Stewart
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century. It makes extensive... -
John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture by Anuradha Chatterjee
RRP: £43.99£38.44Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies, gender, science, and visual studies, this volume analyses the impact John Ruskin has had on architecture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores Ruskin's different ideologies, such... -
Site Planning: International Practice by Gary Hack
RRP: £76.00£70.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534857Author Gary HackFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 279mm * 229mm * 33mm -
The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development by Yasser Elsheshtawy
RRP: £36.99£32.93"This outstanding collection, written by sophisticated and engaged Arab architects/urbanists, is a stunning sequel to Planning Middle Eastern Cities (2004) Like its predecessor, it does three things: effectively demolishes the monopoly 'orientalists' had... -
Basics CAD by Jan Krebs
RRP: £19.50£15.55Computer aided design (CAD) is the rendering of architectural drawings using the computer, which today plays a central role in almost all architectural firms. This volume explains the principles and fundamentals of CAD and provides the student with a... -
Building Berlin, Vol. 5: The Latest Architecture in and out of the Capital by Architektenkammer Berlin
RRP: £24.95£17.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037682050Author Architektenkammer BerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Braun Publishing AGPublisher Braun Publishing AGWeight(grams) 970g -
Daylight Performance of Buildings by Marc Fontoynont
RRP: £105.00£91.86As part of Daylight Europe, the daylighting behaviour of 60 buildings was observed and measured during a three year period. Buildings of many different types, sizes and ages were included - from offices to museums, libraries, churches, houses, airports... -
Future Campus by Ian Taylor
RRP: £44.00£35.95This book is to help architects, design teams and University clients (estates departments, and academics) in their pursuit of practical and innovative solutions for the creation of enabling higher education learning environments. It includes abundant... -
Solar Energy Houses: Strategies, Technologies, Examples by Anne-Grete Hestnes
RRP: £69.99£60.36Passive and active solar strategies together with the adoption of energy conservation measures and the integration of new materials and technologies can lead to a dramatic reduction of 75-90 per cent in the energy consumption of the buildings. The... -
Advances in Building Energy Research: Volume 2 by Mat Santamouris
RRP: £76.99£67.45'Several high quality scientific journals are published in the area of building energy and indoor/outdoor environment; however, one has been missing. Advances in Building Energy Research fills the gap. I recommend ABER to all technical libraries,... -
Bioclimatic Housing: Innovative Designs for Warm Climates by Richard Hyde
RRP: £81.99£72.30In the search for sustainable architecture, there is growing interest in the relationship between nature and design. In this vital new book, the termbioclimatic relating to the dynamic between climate and living organisms, is applied by the authors in... -
Architecture Beyond Criticism: Expert Judgment and Performance Evaluation by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser
RRP: £53.99£47.27For the first time, this book demonstrates that the two paradigms of architectural criticism and performance evaluation can not only co-exist but complement each other in the assessment of built works. As architecture takes more principled stances... -
The EcoEdge: Urgent Design Challenges in Building Sustainable Cities by Esther Charlesworth
RRP: £47.99£41.81Presenting diverse case studies of contemporary sustainable urban practice from Europe, Africa, India, South America, the USA and Australia, this book offers the reader a fantastic wealth of practical material from a range of internationally renowned... -
Fundamentals of Sound and Vibration by Frank Fahy
RRP: £94.99£82.75A Solid Introduction to Sound and Vibration: No Formal Background NeededThis Second Edition of Fundamentals of Sound and Vibration covers the physical, mathematical and technical foundations of sound and vibration at audio frequencies. It presents... -
Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society by Amira K. Bennison
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists, engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the pre-modern... -
The Florentine Villa: Architecture History Society by Grazia Gobbi Sica
RRP: £45.99£40.53Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the...