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Colour and Light: Spatial Experience by Karin Fridell Anter
RRP: $161.68$141.65Colour and Light: Spatial Experience describes the coherent interaction of light and colour in the spatial context. It explains the nature of light to colour specialists, and the nature of colour to light specialists, simultaneously conveying an... -
Participatory Culture and the Social Value of an Architectural Icon: Sydney Opera House by Cristina Garduno Freeman
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book develops new and innovative methods for understanding the cultural significance of places such as the World Heritage listed Sydney Opera House. By connecting participatory media, visual culture and social value, Cristina Garduno Freeman... -
People and Buildings by Robert Gutman
RRP: $104.98$92.19There is at the present time a continuing interest in relating the behavioral sciences to design disciplines. Sociologists and social psychologists have been added to faculties of architecture schools, where they off er seminars and participate as... -
Stud: Architectures of Masculinity by Joel Sanders
RRP: $67.18$60.33Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity. Architects, artists, and theorists investigate how sexuality is constituted... -
Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World by Liane Lefaivre
RRP: $75.58$66.55This book remains the definitive introductory text on the theory and history of regionalist architecture in the context of globalization. It addresses issues of identity, diversity, community, inequality, geopolitics, and sustainability. From the authors... -
Visual Discoveries: A Collection of Sections by Allen Keith Yee
RRP: $58.70$40.26There 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: $73.40$47.04The 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 ... -
The Poetics of Arabian Sūqs: A Hermeneutic Reading of the Development of Arabian Sūqs from the Pre-Islamic Era to Present by Jasmine Shahin
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book investigates the history of Arabian suqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ruins, Islamic towns, modern cities, Arabic poetry, philosophical debates, political conflicts, puppet shows and... -
Heritage Shops of Singapore by Steve Golden
RRP: $27.28$25.10After 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 by Gretchen Wilkins
RRP: $104.98$91.35What 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 by Conrad Kickert
RRP: $69.28$61.24This 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: $77.68$69.15The 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 by Vian Ahmed
RRP: $83.98$73.63This 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 by Dieter Dietz
RRP: $73.50$47.94The 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 by George Elvin
RRP: $79.78$70.94Despite 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: $283.50$246.29Designing 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 by Donald Leslie Johnson
RRP: $92.38$81.56Frank 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: $92.38$81.56As 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 by Sophia Psarra
RRP: $79.78$70.10The 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 by Andrew Pressman
RRP: $83.98$73.63Professional 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: $113.38$98.43Since 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: $182.68$158.63At 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: $283.50$246.29This 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... -
Smart Materials and Technologies: For the Architecture and Design Professions by D. Michelle Addington
RRP: $273.00$236.27Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new "smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems in building design. However, these new materials have so far... -
Architecture in a Climate of Change by Peter F. Smith
RRP: $283.50$247.13Revised 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: $252.00$217.58Building 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: $283.50$247.13A 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: $88.18$77.18The 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... -
American Architecture: A History by Leland M. Roth
$158.45More than fifteen years after the success of the first edition, this sweeping introduction to the history of architecture in the United States is now a fully revised guide to the major developments that shaped the environment from the first Americans to... -
Handmade Houses by Steven P. Whitsitt
RRP: $58.78$39.10Visit 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: $104.98$92.19Marketing 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 by Peter Smith
RRP: $100.78$87.80Sustainability 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: $123.88$107.27The 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 by Zbigniew Bromberek
RRP: $136.48$118.73Eco-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: $104.98$91.35Provides 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: $123.88$107.27This 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 by Javier Senosiain
RRP: $151.18$131.15Bio-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: $58.78$50.99Presents 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: $88.18$78.02This 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: $48.20$38.01The 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...