Architectural Structure & Design

This book focuses on Constructability, a project management tool and its effectiveness in promotion of sustainable development and architecture. Co...

The new volume in the successful series New Exhibition Design presents and documents in images, text and information the museum and its exhibitions...

This book focuses on the ten essentials of facilities planning and design. It covers topics such as strategic planning, space standards, architectu...

Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersecti...

The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses a...

In hot dry or warm humid climates, more than half of the urban peak load of energy consumption is used to satisfy air-conditioning demands alone. S...

Open Building is an internationally recognized approach to the design of buildings and building complexes with roots in the way the ordinary built ...

Architecture Design Notebook focuses on the process of design as pragmatic and non-theoretical. Dealing systematically with the core design curricu...

This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded ...

This is the first book to review a trend in transport systems which has only recently come of age: the multi-modal interchange. Separate modes of t...

This book, the result of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 6th World Congress: Cities in the Third Millennium, examines the issues wh...

Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written ...

A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a ne...

Throughout history, people have constructed simple timber lattice shelters such as the tepee or yurt, covered with animal skins, leaves, grasses an...

First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address...

Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements. How do practices acquire the ability to do so? The Ch...

Throughout history, people have constructed simple timber lattice shelters such as the tepee or yurt, covered with animal skins, leaves, grasses an...

Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner-city migration have transformed the traditional city of spaces i...

Digital Design Exercises for Architecture Students teaches you the basics of digital design and fabrication tools with creative design exercises, f...

Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity’s relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integ...

The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of...

Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner-city migration have transformed the traditional city of spaces i...

What is the role of design research in the types of insight and knowledge that architects create? That is the central question raised by this book....

Daylighting, Architecture and Health examines the relationship between natural light in buildings and human health, considering both psychological ...

Gesundheit und Umweltverträglichkeit stehen im Fokus der Gesellschaft. Das Buch zeigt, wie gebaute Umwelt ästhetisch modern und zugleich gesund und...

Kritische Analyse der Architekturdebatte nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in der DDR: Herrschten in der DDR anfangs noch pluralistische Verhältnisse, tra...

"Basics Architecture: Construction & Materiality" is an in-depth exploration of the key materials used in modern architecture. The book covers ...

Brain Landscape: The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture is the first book to serve as an intellectual bridge between architectural practi...

In the East Falls neighbourhood of Philadelphia, just beyond the northern boundary of the Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus, stands t...

A roof over one’s head is a basic need – it provides shelter from rain, wind and the cold. In addition to these requirements, the structure must b...

The way we heat, cool and ventilate our buildings is central to many of today’s concerns, including providing comfortable, healthy and productive e...

This book develops a model to evaluate and assess life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions based on typical Australian commercial building design option...

If 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 t...

Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces looks at self-built dwellings and settlements in the case study city of Pemba in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozamb...

Charlotte Perriand was one of great designers of the twentieth century. A pioneer of modernism, her work was often overshadowed by her more famous ...

Half-timbered houses, cottages and barnes are a familiar feature of the landscape, but only rarely do we have an opportunity to see below the surfa...

Challenging the hegemony of museums and yearning to communicate with a larger diverse audience, trailblazing conceptual artists and land artists fo...

How does industrial design operate outside of capitalist consumer culture? Designing for Socialist Need assembles a detailed picture of industrial ...

For more than forty years this text has been educating students about the history of city planning and its contemporary practice. The sixth edition...

During Manhattan’s crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city’s great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, an...

Acoustics as a branch of physics involves heavy mathematics, and the practice of architectural acoustics involves knowledge of a broad range of ...

Picture a beautiful, green neighborhood where most of your needs could be met by walking, rolling, or accessing transit.There is a diversity of hou...

Is the present obsession with the icon and the promotion of image over substance symptomatic of a general trend in contemporary architecture? Arup ...