Architecture

Contemporary cities are in thrall to rocketing real estate prices, climate change, and relentless growth. Make City brings together highly diverse ...

In every place there are invisible lines to discover. - Piet BlanckaertPiet Blanckaert, one of Belgiums most important landscape architects, brings...

Part of a generation that came to prominence in the 1860s, the rogue architects are a byword for Victorian Gothic at its most wayward and flamboyan...

For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduc...

Somerville knows more about wooden barn construction than almost anyone alive.The Telegraph A joyful reminder of why nature, being outside, being ...

The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design. Drawing inspiration from the concept of exaptation ...

Gumshoe is new series of architectural books, introducing a new approach to the writing of architectural history. It returns the focus of architect...

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond c...

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for ...

Integrating Building Performance with Design shows you the importance of designing for building performance early in your architectural design proc...

This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates as develo...

DIY enthusiasts, tiny house-lovers, and van-lifers will find inspiration and step-by-step instructions in Tin Can Homestead, the ultimate resource ...

This Must Be The Place is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, ...

A few of the fortifications and fortified lines of the world wars are well known and have often been written about, illustrated and studied. But th...

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance...

This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. I...

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond c...

Special Structural Topics covers specialty structural situations for students and professional architects and engineers, such as soil mechanics, st...

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two...

Suzhou, near Shanghai, is among the great garden cities of the world. The city's masterpieces of classical Chinese garden design, built from the el...

A fascinating overview of the lands and peoples of the United States and Canada, both past and present.Based on decades of research and written in ...

For the Aalto Moment in Your Projects This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Ev...

The bestselling guide to interior design, updated with new code and technology Interior Design Illustrated is the definitive guide to design for in...

The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool present...

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case i...

The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture focuses on a non-linear, multilateral, ethical way of design thin...

This book details how Building Information Modelling is being successfully deployed in the planning, design, construction and future operation of t...

Designing and Constructing Prestressed Bridges shows how designs using prestressing methods can be utilised in the building of bridge structures. P...

The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The soaring beauty of Pier Luigi Nervi's visi...

Snøhetta Schneekappe nennt sich das 1989 von mehreren Architekten verschiedener Nationalitäten gegründete Büro für Architektur, Landschaft und al...

SHORTLISTED, 2024 MSA FIRST BOOK PRIZE Topothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of Br...

SHORTLISTED, 2024 MSA FIRST BOOK PRIZE Topothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of Br...