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Ultimate Tropical by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
RRP: $25.20$21.27Here 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 by Mark Lawson
RRP: $220.50$191.65Steelwork 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: $252.00$219.68With 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 by Karen M. Kensek
RRP: $69.28$61.24This 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 by Carol Burns
RRP: $100.78$88.64One 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... -
Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe by Virag Molnar
RRP: $283.50$247.13The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey facade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe,... -
Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design: The Evolution and Impacts of Successful Products by Robin Roy
RRP: $92.38$75.47Consumer 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 by Gevork Hartoonian
RRP: $113.38$98.43The 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 by Steven A. Moore
RRP: $113.38$99.27The 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... -
Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent: Designing and Appreciating Architecture as Nature by Rumiko Handa
RRP: $115.48$100.21Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a building is 'complete' once construction has finished. Striving to create a perfect building, they wish for it to stay in its original state indefinitely, viewing any subsequent alterations as... -
Architecture Re-assembled: The Use (and Abuse) of History by Trevor Garnham
RRP: $100.78$88.64Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day.It reflects upon history in... -
Richard Rogers: The Pompidou Centre: SuperCrit #3 by Kester Rattenbury
RRP: $113.38$99.27The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe,... -
Urban Coding and Planning by Stephen Marshall
RRP: $104.98$91.35Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces. Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have... -
Procuring Innovative Architecture by Leon Van Schaik
RRP: $130.18$113.42The case studies in this book describe how clients' promotion of innovative communities of practice has led to important collections of architectural works. The book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of their approaches. Architects and clients... -
Visualizing the City by Alan Marcus
RRP: $96.58$87.36This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture,... -
Architecture in Words: Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture by Louise Pelletier
RRP: $161.68$140.81What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of... -
Rethinking Architectural Historiography by Dana Arnold
RRP: $130.18$112.58Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections,... -
Architecture, Ethics and Globalization by Graham Owen
RRP: $113.38$98.43Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance... -
The Dynamics of Delight: Architecture and Aesthetics by Peter F. Smith
RRP: $115.48$101.05Rounding off decades of exploration into the various ways in which buildings and urban sequences make an impact on the mind, The Dynamics of Delight emphasizes the qualitative aspects of form and space, providing designers with an analytical framework in... -
Rural Design: A New Design Discipline by Dewey Thorbeck
RRP: $96.58$85.11Rural areas worldwide are undergoing profound change creating considerable challenges and stress for its residents and on the ecosystems upon which they depend. Rural design brings design thinking and the problem-solving process of design to rural issues... -
Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture by Yanni Alexander Loukissas
RRP: $79.78$70.10Designers employ a variety of tools and techniques for speculating about buildings before they are built. In their simplest form, these are personal thought experiments. However, embracing advanced computer simulations means engaging a network of... -
Structure and Performance of Cements by P. Barnes
RRP: $130.18$112.58Drawing together a multinational team of authors, this second edition of Structure and Performance of Cements highlights the latest global advances in the field of cement technology. Three broad categories are covered: basic materials and methods,... -
The Heart of the City: Legacy and Complexity of a Modern Design Idea by Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi
RRP: $83.98$73.63The Heart of the City concept, which was introduced at CIAM 8 in 1951, has played an important role in architectural and urban debates. The Heart became the most important of the organic references used in the 1950s for defining a theory of urban form... -
Architecture or Revolution: An Emancipatory Theory of Building After Marx by Nadir Lahiji
RRP: $77.68$68.31By linking building theory to the emancipatory project of critique advanced by radical thinkers in our time, this work investigates the key conceptual and historical elements that culminate in an emancipatory theory of building entitled: 'Toward A... -
Underpinning and Retention by S. Thorburn
RRP: $130.18$113.42The failure of foundations leads to distortion of building superstructures and a loss of structural integrity. If allowed to continue unchecked, this process will lead ultimately to non-serviceability and demolition. The chief and most successful... -
The Break with the Past: Avant-Garde Architecture in Germany, 1910 - 1925 by Deborah Ascher Barnstone
RRP: $92.38$80.72Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism. These innovations continue to influence artistic practice, theory, and arts education today, thus making a comprehensive study... -
Pevsner: The BBC Years: Listening to the Visual Arts by Mr. Stephen Games
RRP: $100.78$88.64Pevsner: The BBC Years gives the first full account of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's engagement with the BBC at a time when both were the dominant institutions in their own fields -- Pevsner as the most persuasive figure in architecture and art history, the BBC... -
Exit-Architecture. Design Between War and Peace: With a Foreword by Heiner Muhlmann and a Project by Exit Ltd. by Stephan Truby
RRP: $38.85$35.53"First we shape things, then they shape us", was Churchill's view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The author's answers to these questions are a surprise in this diverting manifesto... -
Daylighting Design: Planning Strategies and Best Practice Solutions by Mohamed Boubekri
RRP: $54.60$50.97For thousands of years people have aligned their homes with the sun. This tendency decreased with the availability of artificial light. Yet, due to the health effects of artificial light as well as rising energy costs, the issue of designing with... -
Transparent Plastics: Design and Technology by Simone Jeska
RRP: $81.90$76.04Recent years have seen the construction of buildings made of plastic, structures that are as attractive as they are unusual. After initial experiments in the 1970s, plastic is currently experiencing a tremendous boom. Originally used for temporary... -
Future Living: Collective Housing in Japan by Claudia Hildner
RRP: $36.75$33.77Single-family houses are becoming increasingly outdated. They offer no response to demographic change or to the fact that there are fewer and fewer life-long relationships. They are often too inflexible for new family models or ways of cohabitation.This... -
The British Papers: Current Thinking on Sustainable City Design by Angela Brady
RRP: $42.00$34.50The British Papers is a collection of invited essays and opinions from architectural and urban -design leaders, as a snapshot of current thinking and approaches to sustainable city-making. This series of essays, compiled and edited by Angela Brady,... -
Daylighting in Architecture: A European Reference Book by Nick V. Baker
RRP: $231.00$201.83Typically one third of the energy used in many buildings may be consumed by electric lighting. Good daylighting design can reduce electricity consumption for lighting and improve standards of visual comfort, health and amenity for the occupants.As the... -
HLM50+ Towards a Social Architecture by Tony Monk
RRP: $283.50$248.39Since its sudden and dramatic formation upon winning the competition to design Paisley Civic Centre in 1963, Hutchison, Locke and Monk (HLM Architects) has consistently served and adapted to the changing requirements of Britain's welfare state, and has... -
Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968 by Mark Shiel
RRP: $60.88$52.42Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the worldwide mass protest movements of 1968-against war, imperialism, racism, poverty, misogyny, and homophobia-the exciting anthology Architectures of Revolt explores the degree to which the real events of... -
Across Space and Time: Architecture and the Politics of Modernity by Patrick Haughey
RRP: $283.50$246.29Modernity tends to be considered a mostly Western, chronologically recent concept. Looking at locations in Brazil, Java, India, Georgia, and Yugoslavia, among others, Across Space and Time provides architectural and cultural evidence that modernity has... -
Studies on the Crusader States and on Venetian Expansion: Studies on the Crusader States and on Venetian Expansion by David Jacoby
RRP: $69.28$61.24This title was first published in 2001. This volume is a sequal to the two published in the Variorum Reprints series,in 1975 and 1979 respectively under the following titles: Societe et demographie.Book InformationISBN 9781138635821Author David... -
Energy and Climate in the Urban Built Environment by M. Santamouris
RRP: $96.58$85.11Both the number and percentage of people living in urban areas is growing rapidly. Up to half of the world's population is expected to be living in a city by the end of the century and there are over 170 cities in the world with populations over a... -
An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala by Velika Ivkovska
RRP: $241.50$208.66An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long period of Kavala's expansion over five centuries under Ottoman rule... -
Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts by eck Spurlock Wilson
RRP: $88.18$77.18Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first beaux arts trained African American architects. Overcoming racial segregation at the beginning of the twentieth century, Abele received his architecture degree from the...