Architectural Structure & Design

The Chair on Ecodesign for buildings and infrastructures was created by ParisTech in partnership with VINCI with the aim of developing evaluation a...

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 7th International Conference on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering and Structures (CIGOS 2024) held ...

On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. ...

The United States has about $10.5 trillion tied up in aging school facilities. School districts throughout the country spend about $30 billion ever...

Providing a complete and in-depth overview of the available knowledge in the area of low energy and low carbon architecture. The scope of this edit...

This new, revised edition of Approved Document B incorporates the June 2022 amendment booklet which takes effect on 1st December 2022. Approved Do...

FABRIC[ated] examines fabric as a catalyst for innovation, reflection, change and transformation in architecture.This book explores the ways in whi...

Cantilever Architecture shows you how to integrate cantilever designs into your building from conception, to help you create support-free structure...

Cantilever Architecture shows you how to integrate cantilever designs into your building from conception, to help you create support-free structure...

Diverse Practices, the third book in the Active Landscape Photography series, presents a set of unique photographic examples for site-specific inve...

The demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being destroyed by civ...

In addition to the application of fundamental principles that lead to a structured method for zero carbon design of buildings, this considerably ex...

This book captures concepts and projects that reshape the discipline of architecture by prioritizing people over buildings. In doing so, it uncover...

***Winner of the 2023 BTES Book Award*** Architectural Terra Cotta examines the evolution of terra cotta and prepares architects and builders to ma...

*Winner of the 2021 TAA Textbook Excellence Award*Honorable Mention of the 2021 BTES Book AwardStructures by Design: Thinking, Making, Breaking is ...

Delve into the world of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his Glasgow School of Art-trained contemporaries who forged a unique and distinct vision in b...

Well established as a classic reference and specialised textbook, since its first publication in 1973, Heinrich Kuttruffs Room Acoustics combines d...

Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions. For example, the UK Government has committed to an eighty per...

Tubular Structures XIII contains the latest scientific and engineering developments in the field of tubular steel structures, as presented at the 1...

The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one anoth...

The peak of architectural ironwork in the 19th Century saw the spread of ornate decorative ironwork across the world. In recent years there has bee...

Microalgae architecture has gained awareness for its biotechnical potential to achieve net-zero energy architecture while also promoting ecological...

Digital Fabrication in Interior Design: Body, Object, Enclosure draws together emerging topics of making that span primary forms of craftsmanship t...

What kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20t...

Its widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities the ...

En la antigüedad, los primeros arquitectos amasaban la tierra con sus pies para elaborar ladrillos, hoy en día esa imagen está bastante alejada de ...

Facility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with design or construction. To this aim, Patricia Andrasik...

Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture   Arch...

Joinery, Joists and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century is the first publication of its kind to survey the long and rich historie...

From its creation in January 2012, The Scarcity and Creativity Studio has developed a teaching method which reaffirms a commitment to architecture ...

Global material crises are imminent. In the very near future, recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment, b...

Diverse Practices, the third book in the Active Landscape Photography series, presents a set of unique photographic examples for site-specific inve...

Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in ...

This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core pres...