Architecture

Designs for gardens and landscapes need to contain accurate information to ensure that both the designer's intent is clear and to enable the highes...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

Successful ecological architecture must take into account multiple factors within the construction process of a project, and the impact that constr...

Branding & Spaces Design presents different spaces - including offices, bookshops, cafes, hairdressers, jewellery shops, fashion retail stores,...

Filled with superb full-colour photography and detailed architectural plans and drawings Efficient Offices brings together a range of architectural...

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...

This book focuses on the life and artistic activities of Emilio Sanchez (19211999) in New York, and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. More spec...

The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) - INTELLIGENCE, CREATIVITY AND FANTASY were compiled with the intent to establish ...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis an...

Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural ...

Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how...

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honest...

In architectural terms, rehabilitation is all about breathing new life into an old building using modern materials and designs that both compliment...

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment o...

Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in newsmart or intelligent materials and technologies for solutions to lo...

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...

In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainabi...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural...

During his lifetime, the work of architect George Hadfield (1763-1826) was highly regarded, both in England and the United States. Since his death,...

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

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobss legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs,...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...