Architecture

Part L (2013 edition, effective 6 April 2014) requires new build homes to be 6% more energy efficient than those built under the 2010 edition''s st...

Current design of apartment buildings is facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innova...

Envisioning Better Cities: A Global Tour of Good Ideas takes readers on a world tour of useful, feasible, and novel ideas for making cities more li...

Explore the history of the British Isles in this celebrationof its monarchs, and the development of its finearchitectural legacy. The first half is...

A charmingly illustrated journey through New York City, neighborhood by neighborhood. All the Buildings in New York is a love letter to New York Ci...

Buildings in Britain were first set aside for storing firefighting equipment in the seventeenth century, in the wake of the Great Fire of London. T...

This book, the rst in a planned series, reports on the Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious mission to shape sustainable future cities throu...

Learn the logistics of choosing windows, insulation, appliances, and lighting. Find out about FSC certified wood and about using reclaimed material...

Victorian Turkish Baths is the first book to bring to light the hidden history of a fascinating institution the 600-plus dry hot air baths that sp...

Moving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of tradition and moder...

A fascinating reference to the history of the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the UK and Ireland. The Amazing and Extraordinary Facts series presents inte...