Architectural Structure & Design

Compelling Form: Architecture as Visual Persuasion is an assessment of the visual persuasiveness of buildings. It demonstrates that architecture is...

Get to know Frank Lloyd Wright through this book filled with his quotes, which are grouped into twelve themes including Humanity, Nature, Beauty an...

Building information modeling (BIM) is rapidly replacing AutoCAD as the digital drawing tool of choice for architects and interior designersand Rev...

Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape. From the Crystal Palace through to the towering glass spires of todays cities, few architec...

A final edition of 200 copies in a slipcase of the original title of the same name. With 32 extended interviews, as well as essays on the City's hi...

This is a broadly chronological account of the decorative and innovative use of Portland cement-based concrete. Contrary to the oft-held belief tha...

ALICE (Atelier de la conception de l'espace) is an innovative educational laboratory affiliated to the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's (...

Quality living in old age is one of the important topics of our time. Architects and builders can contribute innovative types of housing, intellige...

A Journey in Steel: Hintan provides an insight into the practice of Hin Tan and his impressive career as an architect and as the principal Director...

Architects use CAD to help them visualize their ideas. Parametric design is a fast-growing development of CAD that lets architects and designers sp...

Sanjay Patils tryst with architecture began in his early childhood as he soaked up the environs that surrounded him in his birthplace, Nashik. Movi...

Wood has unique qualities, yet is undervalued or ignored in histories of architecture. However, leading designers around the world are increasingly...

A ground-breaking visual survey of architecture designed by women from the early twentieth century to the present day 'Would they still call me a d...

Keeping Up with Technologies to Improve Places brings together a selection of papers presented at the First International Academic Conference on Pl...

Can concrete panels fly? Though at first it sounds improbable, the answer to this question is yes, they did fly through the world, supported by oth...

A new edition of George Nelson's classic guide to visual appreciation, released on the fortieth anniversary of its original publicationOriginally p...

Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified),...

Published by Visual Profile Books, Michigan Modern: An Architectural Legacy takes readers on a privileged tour of iconic buildings and interiors de...

The Story of Design, by world-renowned design writers Charlotte and Peter Fiell, is a must-have read for all design students and practitioners and ...

Proceedings of the 2013 Architectural Engineering Conference, held in State College, Pennsylvania, April 3-5, 2013. Sponsored by the Architectural ...

This book examines the application of the principle of layering in architecture, its mechanics, possible application and meaning. Layering is widel...