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20/20 Visions: Collaborative Planning and Placemaking by Charles Campion
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.93Community involvement in planning and placemaking through early, inclusive participatory Charrette processes can build consensus, speed up planning and add social, economic and environmental value to... -
Approved Document F: Ventilation - Volume 1: Dwellings (2021 edition) by HM Government
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.07This Approved Document provides guidance on how to comply with Part F to Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations covering ventilation and applies to dwellings only, and takes effect on 15 June 2022... -
All Together Now: The co-working and co-living revolution by Naomi Cleaver
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.88Collaborative spaces have been hailed as either the solution to the 21st century's culture of overwork and broken housing market, or as an unworkable and impractical aspiration. Designing for such... -
Squeezing It In: Designing for compact spaces by Mary Leslie
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Our living spaces are getting smaller but, as we spend more time at home, they must now work harder than ever to provide us with room to relax, work and entertain. Interior designers need to... -
Radical Housing: Designing multi-generational and co-living housing for all by Caroline Dove
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.58Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-living. Abundantly illustrated with case studies and... -
RIBA Ethical Practice Guide by Carys Rowlands 9781914124723
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.29Ethical practice distinguishes an RIBA chartered architect from other design professionals. The RIBA Code of Professional Conduct requires practitioners to uphold high standards, while encouraging... -
Renovations: An Inspirational Design Primer by Richard Wilcock 9781859465028
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.35The UK's housing stock has proved to be remarkably durable, as houses from the 18th and 19th centuries are still adaptable to the requirements of modern living. However, the need to respect the... -
Guide to JCT Minor Works Building Contract 2024 2025 Sarah Lupton 9781915722775
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.74The latest edition of the JCT guide series provides an indispensable resource for architects navigating the JCT Minor Works Contract suite 2024. It offers a clear, practical breakdown of every... -
Future Homes: Domestic Architecture in a Changing World Ellie Stathaki 9781915722645
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Close to nature, sustainable, healthy, social, spectacular... We ask a lot of our future homes and the architects that design them. Over time, innovative domestic design has taken many forms... -
RIBA Climate Guide by Mina Hasman
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.80Climate change is a threat to humankind, which requires immediate action. The built environment has a vital role to play in responding to the climate and biodiversity emergencies. There is a... -
Design your life: An architect's guide to achieving a work/life balance by Clare Nash
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.29Ten years ago, Clare Nash was struggling with a common problem: how to be an architect and still have a life. With no job, no savings and no clients in the midst of a recession, Clare set up her own... -
Approved Document L: Conservation of fuel and power - Volume 1: Dwellings (2021 edition) by HM Government
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.26This Approved Document provides guidance on how to comply with Part L to Schedule 1 of the Building Regulations covering the conservation of fuel and power and the associated energy efficiency... -
Chinese Urban Transformation: A Tale of Six Cities Chen Yuanzhi 9781859466292
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.26Now an established global force, China has experienced a sustained period of staggering economic growth since policy reform in the 1970s. Chinese urbanisation is the most significant example of... -
Inside Information: The defining concepts of interior design by Sally Stone
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.32Every built structure has an interior: whether it takes the rough form of a rudimentary shelter, the grey walls of a hospital or the finessed decoration of a one-off residence. We spend most of our... -
Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities by Tim Gill
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.04What type of cities do we want our children to grow up in? Car-dominated, noisy, polluted and devoid of nature? Or walkable, welcoming, and green? As the climate crisis and urbanisation escalate,... -
Good Practice Guide: Making Successful Planning Applications by Colin Haylock
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.60How do you obtain permission? How can you satisfactorily tackle objections? How can you convince planning officers of the value of your work? Drawing on substantial experience from both applicant... -
RETHINK Design Guide: Architecture for a post-pandemic world by Nicola Gillen
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71The world has changed. How will society emerge post-pandemic? Will we take the opportunity to reset the status quo? And, if so, what possibilities are there for architects to take the initiative in... -
Better Buildings: Learning from Buildings in Use by Richard Partington
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £33.55This book started life as a successor to Sustainable Architecture, published in 2007, which set out to prove that sustainable architecture can indeed both `lift the spirit' as well as save the planet... -
How to extend your Victorian terraced house by Jaqueline Green
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.18Brimming with design ideas, drawings and photographs of exemplary projects, this is a must-have, highly visual guide to extending a Victorian terraced house for designers, architects and homeowners... -
Urban Design Practice: An International Review Sebastian Loew 9781859464496
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.40Urban Design Practice gives a fascinating account of the state of urban design practice across the world today. Packed with invaluable local knowledge from on-the-spot contributors, its global scope... -
The Environmental Design Pocketbook by Sofie Pelsmakers
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.20The Environmental Design Pocketbook 2nd ed places the information you need for sustainable, low energy building design at your fingertips. Packed with diagrams, tools and tips, it cuts through the... -
Demystifying Architectural Research: Adding Value to Your Practice by Flora Samuel
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71This practical, hands on introduction guides you through the basics of undertaking research in day-to-day architectural practice helping you to exploit the growing opportunities on offer. It explores... -
Good Practice Guide: Assessing Loss and Expense Jeffrey Whitfield 9781859464458
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90Assessing Loss and Expense explains to architects and other construction industry professionals in accessible language how to assess the quantum value of loss and expense claims arising from projects... -
FutuREstorative: Working Towards a New Sustainability by Martin Brown
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.74This book aims to further the debate on new sustainability thinking in the built environment, by bringing together a selection of short contributions from thought leaders in the UK and the rest of... -
Cross Laminated Timber: A design stage primer by Nic Crawley
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38With a light environmental footprint, high strength, quick installation times and reduced waste, cross laminated timber (CLT) has long been heralded as a wonder material. Despite these benefits, the... -
McMorran & Whitby Edward Denison 9781859463208
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.55McMorran & Whitby are a secret presence in post-war British architecture. Led from the late 1950s by Donald McMorran and George Whitby, the practice represented an unbroken development from the... -
Houses: Created by Peter Aldington by Peter Aldington 9781859467008
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £56.90The author is one of the most influential designers of post-war houses in Britain and this book is a collection of all the houses that he `created', either individually or with his two partners John... -
The Inclusive Housing Design Guide Habinteg Housing Association 9781915722355
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.79The Inclusive Housing Design Guide is a revised and updated edition of the seminal Habinteg Housing Design Guide first published in 2002. The guide provides a brief and advice for all those involved... -
Guide to JCT Design and Build Contract 2024 2025 Sarah Lupton 9781915722768
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.44The latest edition of the JCT Guide series is an essential resource for architects working with the JCT Design & Build Contract 2024. Organised by topic, this guide offers a clear, practical... -
Post-War Homes: Mid-Century British Architecture Dominic Bradbury 9781915722492
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.18Post-war housing across Britain is an extraordinary story of optimism, ambition and innovation. During the 1950s and 1960s, a combination of reconstruction, consumer-led demand and the rise of the... -
100 Women: Architects in Practice Harriet Harriss 9781915722706
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.92All the architects in this book deserve international recognition. The reality is, though, that few are household names. Over the last decade, awareness of the need for gender balance in architecture... -
Happy by Design: A Guide to Architecture and Mental Wellbeing by Ben Channon 9781915722287
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.26Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? Happy by Design explores the ways in... -
Dulwich: Mid-Century Oasis by Paul Davis 9781915722317
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.67Dulwich's mid-century modern architecture is increasingly recognised for its qualities of light, landscape and lifestyle. In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, around 2,000 new homes were created to the most... -
Blueprints for the Soul: Why we need emotion in architecture Nick Moss 9781915722386
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98You know that something is wrong, even if you can't quite put your finger on it. This book tells you why, and how to solve it. There is a lack of beauty and emotion in our built environment. The... -
The Re-use Atlas: A Designer's Guide Towards a Circular Economy Duncan Baker-Brown 9781914124129
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.15Do you know how to design for a circular economy? A truly sustainable, circular economy is both a robust and viable option for architecture. Through inspirational case studies, interviews and essays,... -
Reclaiming Colonial Architecture Tania Sengupta 9781915722362
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38Our world is full of lands, cities, buildings and artefacts, many of which are deposits and residues of colonial times and, more pervasively, colonial processes. Reclaiming Colonial Architecture... -
RIBA Principal Designer's Guide by Dieter Bentley-Gockmann 9781915722201
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £21.27The RIBA Principal Designer Guide, a companion guide to the RIBA Health and Safety Guide, provides architects with the essential guidance required to understand the Principal Designer duties under... -
Targeting Zero: Whole Life and Embodied Carbon Strategies for Design Professionals by Simon Sturgis
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.74Embodied and Whole Life Carbon thinking will change the way buildings are designed, yet carbon emissions associated with the construction and life of buildings are not wholly understood by the... -
Learning from the Local: Designing responsively for people, climate and culture Piers Taylor 9781915722508
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.18Architecture struggles with the 'local'. As the move towards globalisation falters, the question of how a building might relate to its place in a meaningful manner has never been more pressing. The... -
The New Country: City style for rural living by Dean Keyworth
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Your client has decided to move out of the city to a country property. But they want to create a stylish, urban home in their new rural idyll. As a designer, it can seem difficult to recreate a...