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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,... -
RIBA Principal Designer's Guide by Dieter Bentley-Gockmann 9781915722201
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £25.20The 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... -
RIBA Conservation Guide Marion Barter 9781914124877
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.99This is an essential guide for those taking either the RIBA Conservation Register Course or another building conservation course. Taking as its starting point the ICOMOS Education and Training... -
Asking, Looking, Playing, Making: A nature-focused design process Mike Tonkin 9781915722591
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £24.68Design is a process requiring both rigour and freedom; focus and expansion. Yet how does the concept - the 'intention' - become a built project? This accessible book acts as a storytelling toolkit,... -
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... -
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... -
Residential Retrofit: 24 Case Studies Marion Baeli 9781915722577
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65The UK housing stock is one of the oldest in Europe: over half of its dwellings were built prior to 1960. What options do we have to transform these older houses into spaces that are both comfortable... -
Changing the Game: How to be a Sustainable and Regenerative Small Practice Tara Gbolade 9781915722096
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90Architecture has hit something of a sticking point when it comes to adapting to contemporary life and its various concerns - the finite resources of the planet, the lack of diversity in the... -
Great Estates: Models for modern placemaking by Sarah Yates 9781915722140
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.04The only book that brings together all London's historic and contemporary Great Estates. Documents a remarkable history, unique to London but with lessons for landowners and communities around the... -
Biomimicry in Architecture Michael Pawlyn 9781915722683
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.18Regenerative design requires transformative approaches. Biomimicry provides a perspective that radically rethinks architecture, from the materials we use to the cities and systems we create... -
Nature Inside: A biophilic design guide William D. Browning 9781918216035
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.29With a Foreword by Thomas Heatherwick Biophilic design brings positive experiences of nature into the built environment - whether in a domestic, work, leisure, healthcare, education or retail setting... -
Full Spectrum: Colour in Contemporary Architecture: 2023 by Elena Manferdini 9781915722034
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90Colour is architecture's sharpest tool in the box. It has indexed everything from the feminine, cosmetic and vulgar to the pure, intrinsic and embodied. Attitudes to colour are constantly shifting... -
A Practical Guide to Architectural Drawing: RIBA Collections Guang Yu Ren 9781914124648
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.62A visually stunning guide to architectural drawing from the RIBA Collections for students and those wanting to understand how to develop their graphic and representation skills. Illustrated... -
Architectures of Art and Design Education: An exploration of UK and international design schools Neil Drabble 9781915722539
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.21The art school has had a fundamental effect on society internationally, influencing how the creative arts are represented and perceived. At a time that funding in the UK is placing arts education in... -
Aluminium: A Studio Design Guide by Michael Stacey 9781859467060
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38Are you making the most of aluminium? Aluminium is one of the most flexible and durable materials to design with. With exceptional strength, durability and affordability, it provides us with more... -
Materials: An environmental primer by Hattie Hartman 9781915722218
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.18The environmental impacts of construction are momentous. How can architects minimise these by making responsible material choices? Material choices have a global impact. The design and construction... -
Thrive: A field guide for women in architecture by Sumita Singha 9781914124716
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.32Architecture needs women. How can the built environment be designed without the expert input of half the population? In spite of the significant number of women choosing to study architecture as... -
Approved Document M: Access to and use of buildings Volume 2 - Buildings other than dwellings (2015 edition with 2020 and 2024 amendments) by Department for Communities and Local Government 9781915722676
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.68This Approved Document sets out the amendments to guidance previously published in Approved Document M: Access to and use of buildings, Volume 2 - Buildings other than dwellings, 2015 edition... -
Women Changing Cities: Global stories of urban transformation Melissa Bruntlett 9781915722409
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.69The future of cities is female... As cities around the world face mounting crises - climate change, traffic congestion and growing inequity - the need for bold, people-first solutions has never been... -
Future Campus by Ian Taylor
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.58This book aims 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... -
PHPP Illustrated: A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package Sarah Lewis 9781915722867
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £41.59Passivhaus is a leading low energy building standard. An important tool for designing Passivhaus buildings is the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP). This book is an essential guide to the PHPP,... -
Reworking the Workplace: Connecting people, purpose and place by Nicola Gillen
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38The office has changed forever.Emerging from the pandemic, the workplace has undergone its greatest disruption since the dawn of the service economy. Covid has rewritten the rule book about how,... -
Many Voices: Architecture for Social Equity by Sara Caples
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.93Do you know how to create beautiful buildings that truly promote social change? Architects need to understand how to design for social equity, but too often this is presented as a choice... -
Approved Document T: Toilet accommodation (2024 edition) by Department for Communities and Local Government 9781915722546
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.84This Approved Document supports compliance with Part T of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010 by providing guidance on the design and layout of universal toilets, ambulant toilets and toilet... -
How to Win Work: The architect's guide to business development and marketing Jan Knikker 9781915722898
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.23You are a great designer, but no one knows you. Now what? By directly confronting the burning question 'How do you win work?', this new edition of Jan Knikker's bestselling book addresses the key... -
Designing Community Spaces: A toolkit for architects and communities Mandip Sahota 9781915722584
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.99This book is essential reading for architects and community groups working together to create lasting, meaningful places: a practical toolkit for architects and communities reimagining places... -
Machine Learning: Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence Phil Bernstein 9781915722881
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.23'The advent of machine learning-based AI systems demands that our industry does not just share toys, but builds a new sandbox in which to play with them.' - Phil Bernstein The profession is changing... -
Access Audit Handbook by Alison Grant
RRP: £57.50Booksplease Price: £48.76The Access Audit Handbook is an invaluable tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services, and for writing reports in appropriate formats in the content of current legislation, funding... -
Sustainable Interior Design by Chloe Bullock 9781914124990
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.59What does it mean to be a sustainable interior designer? Where do you start? This book demystifies how to be a sustainable interior designer, both within practice and on design projects. It gives you... -
Approved Document G: Sanitation, hot water safety and water efficiency (2015 edition with 2016 and 2024 amendments) by Department for Communities and Local Government 9781915722669
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.68This Approved Document deals with the sanitation, hot water safety and water efficiency requirements in the Building Regulations 2010. Changes made by the 2024 amendments The changes in the 2024... -
An Introduction to Low Carbon Domestic Refurbishment Construction Products Association 9781859465394
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £16.22The second edition of this guide has been brought up to date in line with the latest legislation and contains new case studies. The guidance chapters take readers through the basic principles and... -
Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories by Adam Nathaniel Furman
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.76An independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Havana, where strawberry is the queerest choice. A cathedral in ruins in Managua, occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community. ... -
New Luxury: Individuality, quality and sustainability in interior design Dean Keyworth 9781915722461
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.68How can a luxurious sustainable interior be attainable regardless of budget? Quiet luxury in interior design taps into the power of understated and timeless elegance. Through the tactical deployment... -
Old Buildings, New Ideas: A Selective Architectural History of Additions, Adaptations, Reuse and Design Invention by Françoise Astorg Bollack 9781914124693
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38Some architectural transformations are modest, some are revolutionary. Shining a light on the hidden side of the accepted narrative of the history of architecture, this book explores works which... -
Good Practice Guide: Business Resilience by Mark Kemp
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90Architecture can be a high risk and low-income profession. Planning to manage risks is essential. Workloads tend to be cyclical and managing lean periods and booms whilst being prepared for the next... -
The Urban Design Toolkit Philip Black 9781915722713
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.54The Urban Design Toolkit provides a comprehensive compendium of applied urban design methods, techniques and approaches. Comprising 32 original 'toolkits', the book offers detailed step-by-step... -
How to Be an Architect Developer by Amanda Baillieu 9781914124938
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.32How many times have you spotted an empty site and dreamt about developing it? And how many times have you given up because you didn't know where to start? Perhaps you couldn't track down the... -
100 Site Analysis Essentials: An architect's guide by Peter Farrall 9781915722058
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £24.68How do I follow a brief? What is the site's context? What's its history and what is adjacent to it now? How have other designers responded to similar site conditions? Conducting a site analysis is an... -
Design Studio Vol. 4: Working at the Intersection: Architecture After the Anthropocene: 2022 by Harriet Harriss
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90Without environmental justice, there can be no social justice. The critical symptoms of human suffering, climate collapse and animal maltreatment are now global and far-reaching. Despite their...