Arts / Architecture

Building in Value: Pre-Design Issues

de Rick Best & Gerard de Valence

The concept of value in projects is a key issue for everyone involved in the construction industry. Building in Value brings together many experts in the field to outline the wide range of tools, techniques...

The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities

de John MacArthur

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque - when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels...

The Designer's Workspace

de Douglas Caywood

The Designer's Workspace presents an extensive resource of distinguished firms' responses to the design of their own offices. Featuring everything

from technical detail to interior design, it illustrates what...

Architecture and Construction in Steel

de Alan Blanc, Michael McEvoy & Roger Plank

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the successful use of steel in building and will form a unique source of inspiration and reference for all those concerned with architecture in steel.

The West: From the Advent of Christendom to the Eve of Reformation

de Christopher Tadgell

Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the ninth and tenth centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements...

This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions

de Kester Rattenbury

This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the characteristics,...

Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas

de Heather Green Wooten

Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic of an era long past. Constructed of red pressed brick, sandstone, and ruddy Texas granite, the Ashbel Smith Building,...

John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape

de Jody Beck

"A model city, the hope of democracy" - John Nolan on his suggested plans for Madison, Wisconsin

This book connects John Nolen's political and social visions with his design proposals by analyzing his extensive...

Rethinking Aesthetics: The Role of Body in Design

de Ritu Bhatt

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and...

High Performance Homes TRUBIANO

de Franca Trubiano

Both professionals and students are increasingly committed to achieving high-performance metrics in the design, construction and operation of residential buildings. This book responds to this demand by offering...

Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory

de Ariane Lourie Harrison

As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects. Our new geological era, the Anthropocene, marks humans as...

International Heritage and Historic Building Conservation: Saving the World's Past

de Zeynep Aygen

The majority of books in English on historic building conservation and heritage preservation training are often restricted to Western architecture and its origins. Consequently, the history of building conservation,...

Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim

de Mary V. Dearborn

Peggy Guggenheim emerges in Mistress of Modernism as the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant...

Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)

de Jean-Francois Bedard

This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). For the first time, this publication reproduces in their initial state the embellishments...

Navy Pier: A Chicago Landmark

de Douglas Bukowski

An entertaining, abundantly illustrated history of a Chicago landmark, inspired by Daniel Burnham and a feat of engineering, now a grand locale for public recreation.

50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know

de Philip Wilkinson

From the Pyramids of Giza to the Guggenheim, this lively guide explains the key concepts and inventions in architecture clearly and concisely. Exploring the myriad ways in which the built environment is shaped...

The Digital Document

de Bruce Duyshart

Documents, such as drawings, memos and specifications, form an essential function in the design and construction industry. Throughout the lifecycle of a built asset, starting from an initial design idea, right...

Texas State Parks and the CCC: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps

de Angela S. Reed, Cynthia A. Brandimarte & Carter Smith

From Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle to Lake Corpus Christi on the coast, from Balmorhea in far West Texas to Caddo Lake near the Louisiana border, the state parks of Texas are home not only to breathtaking...

Healthy Living Centres

de Geoffrey Purves

By exploring the design process this book looks at the relationship between the architectural and medical professions to see how the next wave of Government health policies can be best provided for. The aim...

Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives

de Carolyn Steel

*Cities cover just 2% of the world's surface, but consume 75% of the world's resources

*Global food production increased by 145% in the last 4 decades of the 20th century - yet an estimated 800 million people...