Architecture: Professional Practice

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the YearSharp, revealing, funny.The GuardianAn original and even occasi...

In an age where the globalization process is threatening the uniqueness and vitality of small towns, and where most urban planning discourse is dir...

The growing movement towards evidence-based healthcare design has largely emphasised a change of culture and attitudes. It has advocated for new wa...

Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation. This book explores how the transgression of bou...

Whether used in fashion and textiles, print or online, as tattoos, in jewellery or home furnishings, geometric patterns are one of the most recogni...

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

***Winner of Architectural Guide of the Year at the Architectural Book Awards 2024***The Deck Access Housing Design Guide is the first practical de...

The Design and Construction industry is in a state of attempted change. Improvement is a key word for employer, consultant and contractor. Real ste...

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New Yorks World Trade C...

The Digital Bespoke? is about mass customization, 3D printing, human bodies, and the step towards digitally built objects made to individual specif...

Assessment in architecture and creative arts schools has traditionally adopted a one size fits all approach by using the crit, where students pin u...

This collection introduces, illustrates, and advances fresh ideas about creative practice inquiry in architecture. It concerns architectural knowle...

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design. UAS or drones can be deployed with direct ap...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how paradoxic...

In todays dynamic practice environment, collaboration and teamwork skills are increasingly critical to the successful completion of building projec...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring p...

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring p...

Extended methods of analysis for urbanisation processes illustrated in eight world regions. Urbanisation processes are unfolding far beyond the re...

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, and th...

This book offers architects strategies in the design and manufacturing of custom, repetitively manufactured building components.A total of 36 case ...

This book explores the creative potential for architecture curricula to integrate solid interdisciplinary thinking in design studio education.Annot...

This book explores the creative potential for architecture curricula to integrate solid interdisciplinary thinking in design studio education.Annot...

Packed with accessible information, this book covers all the technical and practical aspects of home design in tropical environments.It begins by o...

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of prac...

This book explores the relationship between architecture, government and fire. It posits that, through the question of fire-safety standardisation,...

The Organizers Guide to Architecture Education serves as a timely call-to-action for transforming architecture education to meet the monumental env...

The Organizers Guide to Architecture Education serves as a timely call-to-action for transforming architecture education to meet the monumental env...

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecol...