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A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates by John Boughton
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.39'It was like heaven! It was like a palace, even without anything in it ... We'd got this lovely, lovely house.' In 1980, there were well over 5 million council homes in Britain, housing around one... -
Think Like An Architect: How to develop critical, creative and collaborative problem-solving skills by Randy Deutsch
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71Do you know how to think like an architect? Do you know why you should? How do you make sure that you have the critical thinking tools necessary to prosper in your academic and professional career?... -
An Introduction to Architectural Conservation: Philosophy, Legislation and Practice by Nick Lee Evans
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35There are over half a million listed buildings in Britain, conservation areas can be found in every borough, and a large proportion of our housing stock pre-dates 1914. So, whether in extending a... -
Domestic Client's Guide to Engaging an Architect by Nigel Ostime
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62If you need to understand about engaging the services of an architect, this updated RIBA guide is for you. Straightforward and completely up-to-date regarding legislation, it sets out everything you... -
How to Thrive at Architecture School: A Student Guide by Neil Spiller
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.76Studying architecture is hugely exciting and rewarding. It entails developing design skills, problem-solving abilities and tapping into creativity, as well as acquiring cultural, technical and... -
Self-build: How to design and build your own home by Julian Owen
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.18If you've ever dreamt of designing and building your own home, this book is for you. Becoming a 'self-builder' doesn't necessarily mean learning to build a house physically from scratch. Anyone can... -
Lives in Architecture: Nigel Coates by Nigel Coates
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.64Irreverent and iconoclastic, Nigel Coates has been stirring up the architectural scene for over 40 years. In this warm and compelling autobiography, he explores the highs and lows of life at the... -
The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections by Charles Hind
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38A Victorian club house in a castle in the West End of London, complete with battlements and turrets. A design for the post-war reconstruction of the capital in 1945. A fantasy landscape featuring Le... -
Part 3 Handbook by Stephen Brookhouse
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £29.01The decision to take the final step to becoming a fully qualified architect can be daunting. Fortunately, this new edition of the Part 3 Handbook demystifies the whole process of qualifying,... -
Mediated Space: The architecture of news, advertising and entertainment James Brown 9781859469477
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71As the social media revolution embeds itself in our daily lives, and as those who once consumed media become producers, established broadcast media producers are witnessing the dissolution of trust... -
Assembling a Collaborative Project Team: Practical tools including Multidisciplinary Schedules of Services by Dale Sinclair
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.71Contemporary construction practice presents a shift in emphasis from thinking about the design team in isolation, to considering the project team as a collaborative whole: client, design team, and... -
Aquatecture: Buildings Designed to Live and Work with Water by Robert Barker
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Water plays a vital role in shaping our built environment, as it has done for centuries. We depend on it, we use it, we live with it and we must respect it. Aquatecture is the first book to outline... -
Approved Document K: Protection from falling, collision and impact (2013 edition - for use in England) by DCLG 9781859464847
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Effective 6 April 2013. This edition has been updated to amalgamate Approved Document N: Glazing and also some overlapping guidance that is in Approved Document M: Access to and use of buildings... -
Sustainable Concrete Architecture by David Bennett 9781859463529
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £41.91Based on new thinking and real world evidence, "Sustainable Concrete Architecture" offers a rational method for accounting for the carbon impact of concrete in contemporary architecture. Highly... -
Architecture Apprenticeship Handbook by Daniel Goodricke 9781915722102
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45So, you are considering an architecture apprenticeship? As a new route into the profession, you likely have lots of questions. Amongst them might be: What is an architecture apprenticeship and is it... -
Protest Architecture: Structures of civil resistance Nick Newman 9781915722171
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.82A complex bamboo pyramid to block a busy crossing in London. A maze of ‘mini Stonehenge’ brick structures to hinder government crackdowns in Hong Kong. The takeover of a Dallas highway to create a... -
RIBA Building Regulations Principal Designer Professional Services Contract 2024 by RIBA 9781915722638
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £45.64The RIBA Building Regulations Principal Designer Professional Services Contract 2024 is a new contract for the appointment of a Building Regulations Principal Designer and is suitable for the... -
The Building Regulations 2010: Approved document H: Drainage and waste disposal by Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government 9781859465998
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Approved Document H provides guidance on observing the Building Regulations concerned with drainage and waste disposal. This is an essential reference for anyone undertaking building work. This... -
Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from London's Past for a Sustainable Future by Peter Guillery
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.88The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one. This book, for anyone with a professional or personal interest in improving housing provision... -
Commercial Client's Guide to Engaging an Architect by Nigel Ostime
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62If you need to understand about engaging the services of an architect, this updated RIBA guide is for you. Straightforward and completely up-to-date regarding legislation, it sets out everything you... -
Environmental Design Sourcebook: Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment by William McLean
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.62How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices, a re-invention of construction, and evolving building programmes that look at... -
Good Practice Guide: Professionalism at Work by Richard Brindley
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90Professionalism is not automatic with qualification. It is decided by the manner in which you carry out your professional life - the conduct and qualities that you bring to your role. In... -
Colour and Create Architecture: Georgie finds a new home by Nerea Bermejo Olaizola
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Help Georgie the giraffe find a new home with this entertaining and educational Colour and Create book. With over 50 beautiful pages to design, little architects will have hours of fun colouring and... -
Lives in Architecture: Peter Cook by Peter Cook
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71Peter Cook has been a pivotal figure within the architecture world for over half a century. He first came to international renown in the 1960s as a founder of the radical, experimental group... -
21st Century Houses: RIBA Award-Winning Homes by Dominic Bradbury
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.18Many people dream of commissioning an architect to design their perfect home. It is a commitment that takes time and money, but having a bespoke space built around your specific needs, interests and... -
Building in Arcadia: The case for well-designed rural development by Ruth Reed
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.23Building in Arcadia: The case for well-designed rural development is a reasoned, impassioned and ultimately practical book identifying key barriers to rural development, and how planning applicants... -
Adapt As An Architect: A career companion by Randy Deutsch
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71Adapt As An Architect: A career companion is the only book that helps design professionals to navigate the vast heart of the architect's journey. It serves as a roadmap: a career GPS that provides... -
Feasibility Studies: An Architect's Guide by Peter Farrall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.26Find that you're spending much longer than planned on a feasibility study? Or that you have drifted into detailed design without formalising an appropriate form of appointment? This practical... -
The Happy Design Toolkit: Architecture for Better Mental Wellbeing by Ben Channon
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.73If you were to design a building that prioritises occupants' happiness, what would it look like? How would the materials, form and layout support healthy ways of living and working? Delving into... -
Approved Document F: Ventilation - Volume 2: Buildings other than 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 covers ventilation and applies to buildings other than dwellings only, and takes effect... -
Approved Document R: Infrastructure for electronic communications – Volume 1: Physical infrastructure and network connection for new dwellings (2022 edition) by HM Government
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.84This Approved Document provides guidance on how to comply with requirement RA1 and requirement RA2 of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010, which respectively deal with the installation of... -
How To Win Work: The architect's guide to business development and marketing by Jan Knikker
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.25You are a great designer, but no-one knows. Now what? This indispensable book, written by one of the most influential marketers in architecture, will demystify Public Relations and marketing for all... -
Ecominimalism: The Antidote to Eco-bling by Howard Liddell 9781859464953
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71Eco-minimalism: the antidote to eco-bling reminds us that to build energy-efficient, ecologically benign and sustainable buildings is complex, comprising a set of interdependent factors influenced by... -
RIBA Standard Professional Services Contract 2020 (2024 Amendment): Architectural Services 9781915722614
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £54.78Fully revised and updated to align with the 2022 Building Safety Act and the requirements of clause 11F (competence: general requirement) under Part 2A of the Building Regulations, the RIBA Standard... -
At Home in the City: Domestic Architecture for Challenging Urban Sites Alan Power 9781915722652
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.79The concept of home represents fundamental human needs – both for physical shelter and emotional belonging – yet housing provision is a perpetual and global issue. Could awkward, unusual and... -
101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture by Huw Heywood
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.84Buildings and construction are a major contributor to the climate and biodiversity emergency. They account for nearly 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It is more important than... -
Essential Urban Design: A Handbook for Architects, Designers and Planners by Rob Cowan
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.23Shaping our cities, streets and public spaces, urban design informs the places we live. It is a complex multi-disciplinary process, requiring the input of a wide variety of stakeholders and design... -
The Urban Block: A Guide for Urban Designers, Architects and Town Planners by Jonathan Tarbatt
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.76The block is no more than the land and building area defined by streets. It is the nature of the interface between the two, which has a critical impact on the quality of the spaces between those... -
Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency: 2021 by Sofie Pelsmakers
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90Want to keep up with emerging design thinking and issues worldwide? Design Studio is a new thematic series that distils the most topical work and ideas from schools and practices globally. The... -
Approved Document S: Infrastructure for the charging of electric vehicles (2021 edition) by HM Government
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.07All new homes and buildings in England will be required by law to install electric vehicle charging points from June 2022. New-build supermarkets, workplaces and buildings undergoing major...