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Architecture and Resilience: Interdisciplinary Dialogues by Kim Trogal
RRP: £41.99£36.75Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not... -
Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture by Anat Geva
RRP: £41.99£37.15Mid-20th century sacred architecture in America sought to bridge modernism with religion by abstracting cultural and faith traditions and pushing the envelope in the design of houses of worship. Modern architects embraced the challenges of creating... -
The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture: Using Time to Craft an Enduring, Resilient and Relevant Architecture by Mitra Kanaani
RRP: £43.99£38.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America by Dianne Harris
RRP: £31.00£28.36A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others, creating a powerful and... -
Early Domestic Architecture of Pennsylvania by Eleanor Raymond
RRP: £27.99£18.02A ground-breaking work when first published in 1931, this classic book is now released in soft cover. A visionary, Eleanor Raymond, A.I.A. explored what she called the, "unstudied directness in fitting form to function." The book was one of the... -
Reinventing the Workplace John Worthington 9780750661751
RRP: £58.99£51.48Incorporating a diversity of practices, cultural and organization change, and new building forms, this book provides ideas, inspiration and analysis of the multitude of ways in which an office space can be designed and utilized. Updated to cope with... -
Introduction to Urban Housing Design by Graham Towers
RRP: £41.99£37.15This clear and concise guide is the ideal introduction to contemporary housing design for students and professionals of architecture, urban design and planning. With the increasing commitment to sustainable design and with an ever-increasing demand for... -
Solar House Terry Galloway 9780750658317
RRP: £54.99£48.12Covering the full life span of the project, from siting issues through specific design features to maintenance of the property and equipment, this is a comprehensive guide to designing, planning and building a solar house. The author uses his... -
Introduction to Natural and Man-made Disasters and Their Effects on Buildings Roxanna McDonald 9780750656702
RRP: £49.99£43.90This is a comprehensive guide to all types of natural and man made disasters and their effect on buildings. It gives overall guidance and a basic technical understanding of prevention, mitigation and management of disaster, and outlines a checklist of... -
Front to Back by Sally Lewis
RRP: £47.99£41.81FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings. Using a unique design agenda it provides a step by step approach to achieving quality urban living.Book InformationISBN 9780750651790Author Sally LewisFormat... -
Barrier-Free Design James Holmes-Seidle 9780750616362
RRP: £79.99£69.60This book for architects, interior designers, building managers, students, conference organisers looks at first principles to provide the user with the 'tools' to make their own decisions rather than a 'cookbook' approach. It is intended that designs and... -
Communication in the Design Process Stephen A. Brown 9780419257509
RRP: £76.99£67.05The Design and Construction industry is in a state of attempted change. Improvement is a key word for employer, consultant and contractor. Real steps forward are slow, and most damning is the continuous repetition of the same mistakes. Communication in... -
Dimensions of Sustainability by Andrew Scott
RRP: £84.99£74.25This illustrated book gives a comprehensive view of _ contemporary ideas, innovations and emerging attitudes to sustainability that emanated from the MIT symposium. 16 leading contributors with demonstrable track records in architectural practice,... -
Construction - Craft to Industry by Gyula Sebestyen
RRP: £84.99£73.85This book provides a unique and comprehensive survey of changes and trends in the construction industry focusing on the post-war years and emphasizing their contemporary and future relevance.Book InformationISBN 9780419209201Author Gyula SebestyenFormat... -
Mies van der Rohe Jean Louis Cohen 9780419203308
RRP: £79.99£69.60The career and built works of this enigmatic and fascinating architect are carefully charted from his early work on housing design and high-rise offices in Berlin to his later and most famous work in Chicago, Detroit, Montreal and New York. Original... -
Space Meets Status: Designing Workplace Performance Jacqueline Vischer 9780415701051
RRP: £36.99£32.53Showing how worker productivity and stress levels are affected by factors such as lighting, ventilation, temperature, noise and layout, this book demonstrates how the technical aspects of human comfort do not always tally with users' perceptions and... -
Goodman for Architects by Remei Capdevila-Werning
RRP: £135.00£117.28American philosopher Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the foremost analytical thinkers of the twentieth century, with groundbreaking contributions in the fields of logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, and aesthetics. This book is an... -
Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style William Braham 9780415639309
RRP: £47.99£41.81Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Should more energy-efficient buildings look different? Can that "look" be used to explain or enhance their performance? Architecture and Energy provides architects and architectural theorists with... -
Glorious Visions: John Soane's Spectacular Theater by Helene Furjan
RRP: £49.99£43.50Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned... -
The Possibility of (an) Architecture: Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, dECOi Architects by Mark Goulthorpe
RRP: £29.99£26.64Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process. Essays and lectures from... -
Exploring Post-Development: Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives Aram Ziai 9780415735810
RRP: £45.99£40.13Tackling issues surrounding post-development which is arguably one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of... -
Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures Florian Kossak (University of Sheffield, UK) 9780415566025
RRP: £54.99£47.72While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current... -
Will Alsop: The Noise Tom Porter 9780415549615
RRP: £47.99£41.81The design process of Will Alsop acts as a conduit for the dreams and aspirations of others. Moving from public consultation to the privacy of his painting studio - here ideas are born in the liquidity of paint, the serendipity of collage and the... -
Hotel Lobbies and Lounges: The Architecture of Professional Hospitality Tom Avermaete (TU Delft, The Netherlands) 9780415496537
RRP: £53.99£46.87This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for the practitioner and as a critical introduction to the history of material culture and... -
The Hidden Millions: Homelessness in Developing Countries by Graham Tipple
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book explores the extent, causes and characteristics of homelessness in developing countries. Bringing together a major review of literature and empirical case studies, it is invaluable for those studying, researching or working in housing,... -
Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900-1930 by Robert Freestone
RRP: £54.99£48.12Accessible and comprehensive, written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with a highly visual account of historical, contemporary and international projects. Looking at the ways in which... -
Abstract Space: Beneath the Media Surface by Therese Tierney
RRP: £58.99£51.08This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions... -
Narrating Architecture: A Retrospective Anthology by James Madge
RRP: £53.99£47.87This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, published together for the first time in a single volume. Covering a wide range of topics of central importance to... -
The Politics of Making by Mark Swenarton
RRP: £135.00£117.68A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspective Taking a broad view of the word 'politics', the essays... -
Stockholm: The Making of a Metropolis by Thomas Hall
RRP: £135.00£117.68This is the first history of Stockholm's development from the city's unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today. While the city's planners borrowed the ideas from abroad at certain periods,... -
Writing Spaces: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960-2000 C. Greig Crysler 9780415274937
RRP: £54.99£47.72Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines. The book will be a key resource for courses on critical theory in architecture,... -
Waterfronts in Post-Industrial Cities by Richard Marshall
RRP: £96.99£84.45Most books on waterfronts deal with a relatively narrow collection of cities and projects; one might describe them as the 'top ten' list of waterfront revitalisation projects. For instance, Boston and Baltimore are now the stuff of waterfront... -
Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday Alan Read 9780415235440
RRP: £61.99£54.01Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. Together these essays build to reflect not only what it might mean to 'speak architecturally' but also the innate... -
The European Dimension of British Planning by Mark Tewdwr-Jones
RRP: £54.99£47.72The UK government of Tony Blair is committed to fostering a European dimension of planning practice. Significant developments in relation to planning within Europe are occurring. The creation of the European Spatial Development Perspective, the reform of... -
The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis Neil Leach 9780415198929
RRP: £39.99£35.46'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.' But how exactly are these spatial... -
Acoustics in Moving Inhomogeneous Media by Vladimir E. Ostashev
RRP: £54.99£47.72Introduces Systematic Formulations for Use in Acoustic Applications Acoustics in Moving Inhomogeneous Media, Second Edition offers a uniquely complete and rigorous study of sound propagation and scattering in moving media with deterministic and random... -
Open Architecture for the People: Housing Development in Post-War Japan by Shuichi Matsumura
RRP: £41.99£36.75Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018. Changing ways of life through differing generations have caused fluctuations in the building industry... -
The Protected Vista: An Intellectual and Cultural History Tom Brigden (Newcastle University, UK) 9780367729288
RRP: £33.99£30.00The Protected Vista draws a historical lineage from the eighteenth-century picturesque to present-day planning policy, highlighting how the values embedded within familiar views have developed over time through appropriation by diverse groups for... -
Place Meaning and Attachment: Authenticity, Heritage and Preservation Dak Kopec (University of Nevada, USA) 9780367232658
RRP: £37.99£33.38Revolutions have gripped many countries, leading to the destruction of buildings, places, and artifacts; climate change is threatening the ancestral homes of many, the increasingly uneven distribution of resources has made the poor vulnerable to the... -
Buried City, Unearthing Teufelsberg: Berlin and its Geography of Forgetting Benedict Anderson (Designer, architectural theorist and public artist, UK) 9780367195854
RRP: £43.99£38.44Cities are built over the remnants of their past buried beneath their present. We build on what has been built before, whether over foundations formalising previous permanency or over the temporal occupations of ground. But what happens when you shift a...