Architectural Structure & Design

Today, Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-73) is known chiefly for his furniture designs. He is famous also for his erotic polaroid...

This year Pressing Matters 9 was completely rethought; the aim was to present an Open Source publication that shares the Department of Architecture...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Spätestens seit der Auszeichnung mit dem Goldenen Löwen der Biennal...

Beautiful Light by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Randall Whitehead and lighting industry expert and educator Clifton Stanley Lemon is...

Building on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding th...

This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation, materiality, and arch...

Building on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding th...

Architecture of Culture is a project which explores the subject of craft preservation from a macroscale, looking at it in relation to local materia...

'My own interest started in seeking out what was old. When the guide told me that this was the bed in which Queen Elizabeth slept, I believed him. ...

For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Chicago Tribune" architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the ...

Designing Coffee Shops and Cafés for Community brings together research, theory, and practical applications for designing coffee shops and cafes as...

Sustainability is now a buzzword both among professionals and scholars. However, though climate change and resource depletion are now widely recogn...

Carbon is everywhere — in the soil, in the air, in life. Carbon is the foundation of architecture and the built environment. Carbon is also infamou...

Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design provides instrumental theory and practical guidance to bring materials back into a central role in t...

Sketches, essays, projects and more from the Houston-based architect and professor Costa Rican American architect Carlos Jiménez (born 1959) pursu...

Project Archive reforms the contemporary architectural discipline’s understanding of the built environment. The content encourages the audience to ...

This book arose from two observations: that building design in the first decades of the 21st century accepts and pursues some increasingly odd and ...

This book traces the historical identity of Kashmir within the context of Islamic religious architecture between early fourteenth and mid-eighteent...

Interior Design for Small Dwellings addresses the onrush of interest in smaller homes and the possibility that small dwellings might be the answer ...

Why are buildings detailed the way they are? Why do architects and engineers seem to come to the same kind of solutions to their detailing problem...

The story of the author’s cabin build in the wilderness, packed with practical advice for aspiring builders and insights into of the history of cab...

In the critically acclaimed first edition of this book, Mainstone offered a brilliant and highly original account of the structural developments th...

Discover new approaches to green design and sustainable building with this comprehensive guide There's a substantial amount of information designe...

Art deco architecture flourished in large cities and small towns throughout America in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the best examples office buildi...

Concepts from architects’ minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qua...

With its wide variety of topics and up-to-date coverage, Landscape Planning Fifth Edition is an excellent resource for students in a variety of dis...

Can we ‘save the Planet’? For a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and r...

Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger a...

Can we ‘save the Planet’? For a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and r...

Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger a...

This book brings together a collection of recent projects and classic architectural designs by Mario Cucinella Architects, and explores the sensiti...

This book presents interdisciplinary approaches to help buildings, electrical energy networks and their users contribute to the energy and societal...

A visual feast of 49 weird, wonderful and architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world. This book is a sumptuous celebration of ...