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Architectural Acoustics: A guide to integrated thinking by Raj Patel
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.82This book is an authoritative but uniquely accessible and highly illustrated guide to good acoustic design practice for architects, interior designers and acoustic professionals. It provides a... -
Collective Action!: The Power of Collaboration and Co-Design in Architecture: 2023 by Rob Fiehn
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90Buildings cannot be built without people working together. Architects collaborate with other disciplines, other architects and even with the public. These take place every day, across multiple... -
Wellbeing in Interiors: Philosophy, Design and Value in Practice by Elina Grigoriou
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.23This highly illustrated guide explores how the design of interior spaces can impact on wellbeing, enabling interior designers and project teams to understand how specific decisions about sustainable... -
Avoiding and Resolving Disputes: A Short Guide for Architects by Bart Kavanagh
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £23.87Quick, concise and direct, this pocketbook outlines the essentials that every architect needs to know about construction disputes - from tips on avoiding them in the first place and informally... -
Design Studio Vol. 5: Experimental Realism: (Design) Fictions and Futures: 2022 by Gem Barton
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90The experimental provides architects with a vital means to test ideas and the untried. Like authors and artists, architects harness the power of fiction to explore alternative models of society... -
Future Office: Next-generation workplace design by Nicola Gillen
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65The office is dead. Long live the office. Despite decades of predictions that the office is on the verge of extinction, it is surviving and thriving. Of course things are changing. And changing... -
Inspired by Light: A design guide to transforming the home by Sally Storey 9781859469057
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.79A lighting revolution is underway. With new tools and technologies at our disposal, never before have there been so many ways to realise the transformative effects of light. However, without the... -
Architect's Guide to NEC4 by Frances Forward
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £23.87This user friendly guide introduces, explains, and demystifies the NEC4 contract on a practical, work-based level. Made for architects by an architect, it explores the best approach to collaborative... -
Defining Contemporary Professionalism: For Architects in Practice and Education by Alan Jones
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.04This book is a series of curated essays by high-profile architecture and design leaders and educators on the topic of professionalism. The book first sets out the current agenda - defining... -
Future Healthcare Design by Sumita Singha
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £40.79This book describes how architects can design better healthcare buildings for a rapidly changing context and climate. Innovation in the design of healthcare estates is essential to the sustainability... -
Revolution: Interior Design from 1950 by Drew Plunkett
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.26The last half of the twentieth century saw the emergence, evolution and consolidation of a distinct interior design practice and profession. This book is invaluable for students and practitioners,... -
Interior Design: A Professional Guide by Jenny Grove
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71This is a benchmark book which encourages interior designers to raise their professional status and offers their clients an insight into the complex profession of modern interior design. It... -
Contemporary Vernacular Design: How British Housing Can Rediscover its Soul by Clare Nash
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.96This book presents 25 inspirational housing schemes providing hope for the future of home building in Britain. Highlighting the need for the UK to reclaim its sense of local identity through the... -
Rethinking Modernity: Between the local and the International by Antigoni Katsakou
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.74This book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity. Bringing into view the work of lesser-known architects from across the globe, alongside... -
Guide to JCT Minor Works Building Contract 2016 by Sarah Lupton 9781859466384
Booksplease Price: £58.85Guide to JCT Minor Works is a practical guide to the operation and administration of the JCT Minor Works Building Contract suite 2016. All of the contracts' provisions, procedures and conditions are... -
Re-readings: 2: Interior Architecture and the Principles of Remodelling Existing Buildings by Graeme Brooker
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Rereadings 2 is a companion book to Rereadings, originally published in 2004. This second volume is testament to the growing interest and demand for clarification of the re-modelling, adaptation... -
Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology by Mark Bryden
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £39.99What opportunities does Design to Value afford the built environment? Design to Value is a commitment to process above all else. Well understood and applied in the manufacturing industries, its... -
Clerk of Works and Site Inspector Handbook: 2018 Edition by The Institute of Clerks of Works and Construction Inspectorate
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £48.35This new edition of the popular handbook is a practical companion for Clerks of Works, Site Inspectors and anyone with the responsibility of managing construction works on site. Clerk of Works and... -
The Modular Housing Handbook by Simon Bayliss
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38Modular construction has the potential to improve housing quality, speed up delivery and reduce building costs - so why isn't everyone doing it? This practical handbook combines real-world advice on... -
HR for Creative Companies by Kate Marks
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £20.65There is an increasing realisation that small businesses, including architecture practices need to pro-actively engage with HR rather than simply firefighting when something goes wrong. Good HR... -
Architect: The evolving story of a profession by Eleanor Jolliffe
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.20The architect's role is constantly adapting. Throughout history it has shifted significantly, shaped by social, cultural, technological and economic forces. The very definition of what an architect... -
Smart Buildings: Technology and the Design of the Built Environment by Ron Bakker
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.68How is technology shaping our built environment and changing the practice of architecture?This book explores how buildings and spaces are designed, built, used, and better understood through... -
Housing Fit For Purpose: Performance, Feedback and Learning by Fionn Stevenson
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.62Housing Fit for Purpose sets out a research-focused approach to looking at the challenges facing the built environment in approaching the design, construction and management of housing. This book... -
From Idea to Site: A project guide to creating better landscapes by Claire Thirlwall
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.26From Idea to Site explores how to improve the working practices of landscape architects and therefore the quality of the design and management of our external environment. Based around the life of... -
Energy / People / Buildings: Architecture for a changing climate by Judit Kimpian
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £40.79Energy performance feedback is an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis. However, this is not simply another theoretical text about energy performance in buildings. This book is... -
Revisiting Postmodernism by Terry Farrell
Booksplease Price: £45.18Revisiting Postmodernism invites readers to see postmodernism in a new light: not just as a style, but as a cultural phenomenon which embraces all areas of life, and thrives on complexity and... -
Wheelchair Housing Design Guide by Centre for Accessible Environments
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.04This guide provides all the information you need to design good quality, wheelchair accessible housing. Filled with practical advice, insightful design considerations and clear explanations, this... -
Financial Management by Brian Pinder-Ayres
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Most newly qualified architects have scant knowledge about the practicalities of running a practice and in particular the challenges of managing the financial side of the business. This book... -
The Competition Grid: Experimenting With and Within Architecture Competitions Maria Theodorou 9781859467107
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.59The Competition Grid: Experimenting With and Within Architecture Competitions is a comprehensive review of architectural competitions, exploring them as a tool for public policy planning, as well as... -
Sustainable Building Conservation: Theory and Practice of Responsive Design in the Heritage Environment by Oriel Prizeman
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.96Principles of conservation and sustainability are easily married but often at odds for architects under increasing pressure to navigate the energy needs of older buildings. By incorporating UK and... -
New Life in Public Squares by Marie Burns
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.26New Life in Public Squares investigates the evolution of the public square within the urban form and its meaning to a city's image. It explores what is driving investment in the creation of new or... -
Revaluing Modern Architecture: Changing conservation culture by John Allan
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £39.99The conservation of our Modern architectural heritage is a subject of vehement debate. When do buildings become old or significant enough to warrant special heritage status and protection? Should... -
This is Temporary: How transient projects are redefining architecture by St. Cate Hill
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.23Temporary architecture is flourishing in our urban public spaces. Branded 'pop-ups' and follies to provide a moment of light entertainment they are in fact borne of a long history of more holistic... -
Light in Architecture: The Intangible Material by Elisa Valero Ramos
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71Light in Architecture explores the role of light in buildings throughout history and the many disparate ways in which architects have approached the phenomenon around the world. Translated and... -
Urban Lighting for People: Evidence-Based Lighting Design for the Built Environment by Navaz Davoudian
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.26Lighting has the power to illuminate and enhance our experience within the built environment. The light that enables people to travel around their neighbourhood or their city; the light which they... -
New Work, New Workspace: Innovative design in a connected world by Ruth Slavid
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.74If you can set up your laptop anywhere, what is the meaning of the dedicated workspace? New Work, New Workspace argues that designated space is still needed, but that it is changing fast.As ... -
Biomimicry in Architecture by Michael Pawlyn
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.23When searching for genuinely sustainable building design and technology - designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly restorative - we often find that nature got there first. Over... -
Energy Modelling in Design: A practice guide by Sonja Oliviera
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.96If you've ever wondered how leading architectural firms successfully embed energy modelling into their practices, this book is for you. Featuring expert contributions from leading architects and... -
Lead Designer's Handbook: The Lead Designer and Design Management by Dale Sinclair
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Despite co-ordination being the principal focus of the Lead Designer's role, there is very little written about how to undertake these duties. What tools can the Lead Designer use to address the... -
Law in Practice: The RIBA Legal Handbook by John Wevill
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £40.79Intensely practical and clearly written, Law in Practice is the definitive jargon-free, professional guide to the law as it relates to a construction project. Addressing all the fundamental issues of...