Architectural Structure & Design

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the worl...

A valuable source of information, insight, and fresh ideas about a crucial aspect of the growing sustainable design movement Mounting resource shor...

This guide to the designs, technologies and materials that really make green buildings work will help architects, specifiers and clients make infor...

This book presents a new class of metallic materials, called shape memory alloys (SMAs), as emerging materials for civil engineering applications. ...

An inside view of how one of the world's leading architecture and engineering practice does business Sustainable Built Environments: Principles and...

Since the publication of the first edition of Architectural Technology, in 2002, there have been significant developments in the number of courses,...

Carved out of century-old farmland near Chicago, the Prairie Crossing development is a novel experiment in urban public policy that preserves 69 pe...

Begin Again. Fail Better: Preliminary Drawings in Architecture engages with one of the principal activities of the architect in the process of desi...

Building on her experience following a several-week trip to Taliesin West, Kora Bürgi investigates Frank Lloyd Wrights architecture and traces his ...

Contemporary Living presents 20 new residential projects - houses and apartments - in the Middle East, designed by renowned architects and interior...

In order for the turnaround in the construction industry to succeed, material resources must be fully reused and recycled. Single-origin and low-po...

Integrating the technical aspects of buildings into architectural design is a crucial objective for architects and architectural engineers. Design ...

The United Nations, Australia Post, and governments in the UK, Finland, Taiwan, France, Brazil, and Israel are just a few of the organizations and ...

The Anthropocene concept highlights that we are now living in a new epoch of earth history where both the rapid accumulation of greenhouse gases an...

From paper folding genius Paul Jackson comes his latest book How to Think and Design in the Third Dimension. We live in a 3-D world, but most three...

An architectural, personal, and historical account of one of the towering figures from Americas Gilded Age First published in 2001, this acclaimed ...

Architecture and design specialist Dominic Bradbury draws back the curtain on the iconic South Bank, providing an unrivalled insight into the build...

Typology 2 follows up on the preceding and successful Typology, published in 2012. Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein together with their teac...

Sean Pickersgill demonstrates that the goal of creating meaningful architecture can take a variety of critical and philosophical paths. The importa...