Architecture: Professional Practice

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

The image of the architect is undeniably gendered. While the male architect might be celebrated as the ideal man in Hollywood romantic comedies, bl...

The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design examines the challenges inherent in exhibiting design ideas. Traditionally, exhibitions of arch...

First published in 1992, this book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past several decades have giv...

Architecture for the Commons dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organizations that a...

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

Planning a new or refurbished public library means considering not only facilities for collections, services, staff and users, but examining also t...

Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people, historical and con...

As part of the PocketArchitecture Series, this volume focuses on inclusive design and its allied fields—ergonomics, accessibility, and participator...

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...

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

As part of the PocketArchitecture Series, this volume focuses on inclusive design and its allied fields—ergonomics, accessibility, and participator...

Autotelic Architect explores how movements towards more self-initiated projects, greater collaboration and design activism have changed how archite...

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

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

„Ich bin das Kino-Auge. Ich bin ein Baumeister", schrieb der Filmregisseur Dziga Vertov. Wo gefilmt wird, fängt die Kamera unweigerlich jene Räume ...

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...

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

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...

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...