Architectural Structure & Design

For the Aalto Moment in Your Projects This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Ev...

The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool present...

Designing and Constructing Prestressed Bridges shows how designs using prestressing methods can be utilised in the building of bridge structures. P...

The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The soaring beauty of Pier Luigi Nervi's visi...

Snøhetta Schneekappe nennt sich das 1989 von mehreren Architekten verschiedener Nationalitäten gegründete Büro für Architektur, Landschaft und al...

This book showcases the latest trends and innovations in the field of Green Building, covering topics from research and design to innovative practi...

This book brings together the insights from professional associations who involved in developing relevant national standards in China, domestic and...

This book highlights the sustainable innovation in environmental design, materials science, and engineering technologies. It provides a multidiscip...

A collection of inspiring homes for design enthusiasts that puts renewable mass timber front and center as a unique, and beautiful, solution to the...

This book takes a comprehensive and forward-looking approach to urban resilience and climate change preparedness. It combines theoretical insights,...

Global climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing humanity and it is affecting every country on every continent. Recent evi...

Solid matter. Monolithic and homogeneous concepts for a circular approach to architecture. In response to climate change, architects have been...

La 4ème édition française du Manuel Nouvelle édition, enrichie du chapitre « Considérations autour du climat » consacré aux principes de base de...

New edition of the popular handbook The Modern Construction Handbook has become a classic of advanced construction literature, not least due ...

New edition of the popular handbook The Modern Construction Handbook has become a classic of advanced construction literature, not least due to i...

The architectural work of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt (18901954/18891972) is not yet adequately appreciated. As members of the Glass Chain initiativ...

From casting to sculpture Cast materials become solid, yet they originate as fluid materials that can take on any imaginable form. This simple yet...

Materials and the myriad technologies that have been developed to manipulate them are of essential relevance to product designers, architects, arti...

This book delves into the performance-based design approach, highlighting the necessity for bespoke, adaptive, and cognitive building envelopes tha...

Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britains built environment was ima...

Technical Drawing deals with the representation of plans throughout all phases of a project. For students, the primary focus is on the development ...

Libraries as a building type have been subjected to substantial changes in particular in the past ten years. Milestones such as Rem Koolhaas Seattl...

Designers and forward thinkers in the field of interactive design share their reflections and show examples of different models of a responsive fut...

There is a long tradition of using wood as a distinct and ecologically sound building material. Wooden architecture conveys for todays world the b...

An insightful and engagingly narrated exploratory work on a pioneer of modern architecture from Switzerland The Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in Davo...

Eine effiziente, ökonomische und ökologische Lichtgestaltung ist integraler Bestandteil eines gelungenen Neubaus sowie der Altbausanierung. Praktik...

Werner Schmidt (1953) is one of the most interesting contemporary Swiss architects. After graduating from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna,...

Dynamic artificial light in museums In galleries and museums, ones perception of art, space, and atmosphere is largely determined by lighting. But...

Solid matter. Monolithic and homogeneous concepts for a circular approach to architecture In response to climate change, architects have been ...

Biophilic architecture integrates nature into spaces and buildings to improve peoples health and well-being. It is based on the idea that humans ar...

In 2008, the Department of Art and Architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts developed a new basis for the architecture curriculum. They crea...

Plastics are high-performance materials of wide use in the built environment. Their versatile technical properties are particularly fascinating. A ...