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Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture

by David Phillips, Megumi Yamashita ...

Series series Detail
Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 49 of the most recently completed and influential concrete designs for both residential and commercial architecture.The projects are presented in clear and ... Read more

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Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 49 of the most recently completed and influential concrete designs for both residential and commercial architecture.The projects are presented in clear and
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The Village Inn of Secret Dreams

The joyfully heartwarming read from Alison Sherlock

by Alison Sherlock ...

Series Book 3 - The Riverside Lane Series
From the bestselling author of The Village Shop For Lonely HeartsAfter escaping her parents’ unhappy marriage to sleepy Cranbridge a long time ago, Belle Clarke dreams of staying at The Black Swan Inn forever.But with the rundown Inn threatened with closure, Belle may be forced to leave, unless a buyer can be found … quickly.So, when her oldest friend Pete Kennedy returns from working abroad with ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of The Village Shop For Lonely HeartsAfter escaping her parents’ unhappy marriage to sleepy Cranbridge a long time ago, Belle Clarke dreams of staying at The Black Swan Inn forever.But with the rundown Inn threatened with closure, Belle may be forced to leave, unless a buyer can be found … quickly.So, when her oldest friend Pete Kennedy returns from working abroad with
... Read more
Humanise

A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

by Thomas Heatherwick ...

From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about ... Read more

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From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about
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Building a Low Impact Roundhouse

by Tony Wrench ...

Tony covers the process of visualising and designing a house through to the practical side of lifting the living roof, infilling the walls. laying out rooms and adding renewable, autonomous technology. He offers advice on roofs, floors, walls, compost toilets, wood stoves, kitchens, windows and on planning permissions. There are photographs of the dwelling and illustrations from the construction ... Read more

£4.31

Tony covers the process of visualising and designing a house through to the practical side of lifting the living roof, infilling the walls. laying out rooms and adding renewable, autonomous technology. He offers advice on roofs, floors, walls, compost toilets, wood stoves, kitchens, windows and on planning permissions. There are photographs of the dwelling and illustrations from the construction
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Devices

by cj Lim ...

Embedding memories into landscape. Measuring moisture, pressure and wind speed within a bedroom. Drawing power with a potato. These are but a few of the preoccupations described within this book. ‘Devices’ is a manual celebrating the invention of architectural and spatial machines. Nostalgic, metaphorical, analytical or even the down-right daft, each of the illustrated pieces demonstrates the ... Read more

£44.09

Embedding memories into landscape. Measuring moisture, pressure and wind speed within a bedroom. Drawing power with a potato. These are but a few of the preoccupations described within this book. ‘Devices’ is a manual celebrating the invention of architectural and spatial machines. Nostalgic, metaphorical, analytical or even the down-right daft, each of the illustrated pieces demonstrates the
... Read more
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

by Matthew Frederick ...

Get 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from drawing lines to color theory—in this classic architecture book.These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from the basics of “How to Draw a Line” to the complexities of color theory—provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often ... Read more

£8.63

Get 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from drawing lines to color theory—in this classic architecture book.These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from the basics of “How to Draw a Line” to the complexities of color theory—provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often
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The Place Economy - Volume 3

Celebrating the value in placemaking: Real community benefits. Real profits.

by Andrew Hoyne ...

As a project undertaken before, during and in the aftermath of a global pandemic, The Place Economy Volume 3 represents an increased appreciation of our need as humans for place and community. Spanning 80-plus stories, featuring the work of more than 100 global experts, you will find a celebration of the people, places and ideas that make cities great, alongside close examination of the barriers ... Read more

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As a project undertaken before, during and in the aftermath of a global pandemic, The Place Economy Volume 3 represents an increased appreciation of our need as humans for place and community. Spanning 80-plus stories, featuring the work of more than 100 global experts, you will find a celebration of the people, places and ideas that make cities great, alongside close examination of the barriers
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Architecture In Use

by DJM van der Voordt, HBR van Wegen ...

This unique book discusses programming, design and building evaluation providing a ‘joined up’ approach to building design. By linking the functional and architectonic qualities of a building, the authors show the practical implications of the utility value of buildings. Starting by looking at how the relationship between form and function has been dealt with by different approaches to ... Read more

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This unique book discusses programming, design and building evaluation providing a ‘joined up’ approach to building design. By linking the functional and architectonic qualities of a building, the authors show the practical implications of the utility value of buildings. Starting by looking at how the relationship between form and function has been dealt with by different approaches to
... Read more
Digital Fabrications

Architectural and Material Techniques

by Lisa Iwamoto ...

Series series Architecture Briefs
Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our new Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms. The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and ... Read more

£11.06

Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our new Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms. The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and
... Read more
Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property

by Adrian Tagg ...

Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property is the first book to introduce the process of technical due diligence (TDD) and examine the role of the building surveyor within the commercial property sector. The book outlines the processes that the surveyor must go through when performing a TDD inspection and report and, most importantly, covers in detail the typical ... Read more

£56.69

Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property is the first book to introduce the process of technical due diligence (TDD) and examine the role of the building surveyor within the commercial property sector. The book outlines the processes that the surveyor must go through when performing a TDD inspection and report and, most importantly, covers in detail the typical
... Read more
Sustainable Home Refurbishment

The Earthscan Expert Guide to Retrofitting Homes for Efficiency

by David Thorpe ...

Series series Earthscan Expert
A retro-fit offers many benefits: cutting electricity and heating bills, increasing the resale value of homes, slashing carbon emissions and creating a healthier place to live. This book is the guide to making it happen. It looks at:draught-proofing, insulation and dampventilation, heating and coolingelectrical efficiency and renewable energywater use and re-usematerials' life cycles and ... Read more

£30.59

A retro-fit offers many benefits: cutting electricity and heating bills, increasing the resale value of homes, slashing carbon emissions and creating a healthier place to live. This book is the guide to making it happen. It looks at:draught-proofing, insulation and dampventilation, heating and coolingelectrical efficiency and renewable energywater use and re-usematerials' life cycles and
... Read more
Materiality and Architecture

Edited by Sandra Loschke ...

Once regarded a secondary consideration, in recent years, materiality has emerged as a powerful concept in architectural discourse and practice. Prompted in part by developments in digital fabrication and digital science, the impact of materiality on design and practice is being widely reassessed and reimagined.Materiality and Architecture extends architectural thinking beyond the confines of ... Read more

£50.39

Once regarded a secondary consideration, in recent years, materiality has emerged as a powerful concept in architectural discourse and practice. Prompted in part by developments in digital fabrication and digital science, the impact of materiality on design and practice is being widely reassessed and reimagined.Materiality and Architecture extends architectural thinking beyond the confines of
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Understanding Buildings a Multidisciplinary Approach

by E. Reid ...

This book meets the needs for a basic, yet comprehensive and up-to-date, introductory text to building technology for students in architecture and the other disciplines in building design. The wide coverage is organised under the chapter headings: structure, enclosure, climate services, utility services, lighting, acoustics, fire safety, the future? The treatment in each case is concentrated on ... Read more

£79.19

This book meets the needs for a basic, yet comprehensive and up-to-date, introductory text to building technology for students in architecture and the other disciplines in building design. The wide coverage is organised under the chapter headings: structure, enclosure, climate services, utility services, lighting, acoustics, fire safety, the future? The treatment in each case is concentrated on
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Building Envelopes

An Integrated Approach

by Jenny Lovell ...

Series series Architecture Briefs
Few parts of a building work harder than its envelope (also known as its facade). The envelope is the part of the building most visible from the outside--so it should be visually appealing--but it can also have the biggest effect on the well-being and safety of its occupants--so the envelope should be help heat and cool the building, allow light into it, and provide necessary structure. Too often, ... Read more

£11.06

Few parts of a building work harder than its envelope (also known as its facade). The envelope is the part of the building most visible from the outside--so it should be visually appealing--but it can also have the biggest effect on the well-being and safety of its occupants--so the envelope should be help heat and cool the building, allow light into it, and provide necessary structure. Too often,
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Καλύτερες Κατοικίες

Α

by Γιάννης Καρόζης ...

Series series Α
Σήμερα, μετά την ανάγκη εξοικονόμησης ενέργειας στην κατασκευή των κτηρίων προς όφελος του πλανήτη μας και συνεπώς, για την δική μας καλυτέρευση, την καλυτέρευση της ανθρώπινης φυλής, όλα τα τεχνικά υλικά που χρησιμοποιούνται στο κτήριο, στο σπίτι, το αυτοκίνητο, το κατάστημα, τον χώρο εργασίας, εξετάζονται με βασικό στόχο, «την ελαχιστοποίηση των απωλειών της χρησιμοποιούμενης ενέργειας για την ... Read more

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Σήμερα, μετά την ανάγκη εξοικονόμησης ενέργειας στην κατασκευή των κτηρίων προς όφελος του πλανήτη μας και συνεπώς, για την δική μας καλυτέρευση, την καλυτέρευση της ανθρώπινης φυλής, όλα τα τεχνικά υλικά που χρησιμοποιούνται στο κτήριο, στο σπίτι, το αυτοκίνητο, το κατάστημα, τον χώρο εργασίας, εξετάζονται με βασικό στόχο, «την ελαχιστοποίηση των απωλειών της χρησιμοποιούμενης ενέργειας για την
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Σπίτια με Νέα Τεχνολογία

Α, #1

by Ιωάννης Καρόζης ...

Series Book 1 - Α
Πότε λοιπόν θα έχουμε καλύτερες κατοικίες;Και φυσικά, όταν έχουμε εκτός από την άριστη αρχιτεκτονική, διακοσμητική, λειτουργικότητα, την σπουδαιότερη σε όλους μας οικολογική προστασία του πλανήτη μας.Τόσο κατά την κατασκευή του κτηρίου όσο και κατά την λειτουργία του, απαιτούνται αξιόλογες ποσότητες ενέργειας που επιβαρύνουν το κόστος του κτηρίου και κάνουν φοβερή ζημιά στον πλανήτη. Άρα, βασικός ... Read more

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Πότε λοιπόν θα έχουμε καλύτερες κατοικίες;Και φυσικά, όταν έχουμε εκτός από την άριστη αρχιτεκτονική, διακοσμητική, λειτουργικότητα, την σπουδαιότερη σε όλους μας οικολογική προστασία του πλανήτη μας.Τόσο κατά την κατασκευή του κτηρίου όσο και κατά την λειτουργία του, απαιτούνται αξιόλογες ποσότητες ενέργειας που επιβαρύνουν το κόστος του κτηρίου και κάνουν φοβερή ζημιά στον πλανήτη. Άρα, βασικός
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Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice

Concise Professional Advice

by Walter J. Smith ...

Starting your own architecture or engineering firm may seem a bit daunting. In Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice, author Walter J. Smith presents a handbook to help you navigate that process in order to be successful in the long term.Based on information gleaned from creating and running his own firm, Smith details what it takes to plan, organize, staff, direct, and control ... Read more

£5.84

Starting your own architecture or engineering firm may seem a bit daunting. In Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice, author Walter J. Smith presents a handbook to help you navigate that process in order to be successful in the long term.Based on information gleaned from creating and running his own firm, Smith details what it takes to plan, organize, staff, direct, and control
... Read more
Утепление и гидроизоляция дома и квартиры

by Е. В. Колосов ...

Любое жилое строение или помещение должно обладать надежной защитой от воздействия внешних факторов: влаги, перепадов тепла, шума и т. д. Правильно устроенная гидроизоляция и утепление конструкций дома или внутренних поверхностей стен, пола и потолка существенно повлияют на уют и уровень комфорта вашего дома или квартиры. ... Read more

£1.01

Любое жилое строение или помещение должно обладать надежной защитой от воздействия внешних факторов: влаги, перепадов тепла, шума и т. д. Правильно устроенная гидроизоляция и утепление конструкций дома или внутренних поверхностей стен, пола и потолка существенно повлияют на уют и уровень комфорта вашего дома или квартиры.
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Determinant Theories and Philosophies in Architecture

Ten Chapters Examining the Consciousness of Ideas Leading to Our Built World

by Ata Asheghi ...

“Determinant Theories and Philosophies in Architecture” discusses the vast array of the power of mental decisional options used for practitioners and socially developing people in the career driven world. It puts an emphasis on the fundamentals of the design and interpretational abilities of people. In the architectural world, it is a writing that promoted self-identify, through knowing the ... Read more

£3.14

“Determinant Theories and Philosophies in Architecture” discusses the vast array of the power of mental decisional options used for practitioners and socially developing people in the career driven world. It puts an emphasis on the fundamentals of the design and interpretational abilities of people. In the architectural world, it is a writing that promoted self-identify, through knowing the
... Read more
Thinking the Contemporary Landscape

Edited by Dora Imhof, Christophe Girot ...

On the heels of our groundbreaking books in landscape architecture, James Corner's Recovering Landscape and Charles Waldheim's Landscape Urbanism Reader, comes another essential reader, . Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture, the seventeen essayists in argue for an all-encompassing view of ... Read more

£20.78

On the heels of our groundbreaking books in landscape architecture, James Corner's Recovering Landscape and Charles Waldheim's Landscape Urbanism Reader, comes another essential reader, . Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture, the seventeen essayists in argue for an all-encompassing view of
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Our Voices II

The DE-colonial Project

by Rebecca Kiddle, Patrick Reid Stewart, Kevin O'Brian ...

Our Voices II: the DE-colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been disregarded or appropriated. Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of the places to which they ... Read more

£4.67

Our Voices II: the DE-colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been disregarded or appropriated. Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of the places to which they
... Read more
New Architecture Of Science, The: Learning From Graphene

by Kostya S Novoselov, Albena Yaneva ...

The New Architecture of Science explores how the architecture of advanced nanoscience labs affects the way scientists think, conduct experiments, interact and collaborate. The unique design of the National Graphene Institute in Manchester, UK sheds light on the new generation of 21st century science laboratories. Weaving together two tales of this building, lead scientist and one of the designers, ... Read more

£22.67

The New Architecture of Science explores how the architecture of advanced nanoscience labs affects the way scientists think, conduct experiments, interact and collaborate. The unique design of the National Graphene Institute in Manchester, UK sheds light on the new generation of 21st century science laboratories. Weaving together two tales of this building, lead scientist and one of the designers,
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Exhibition

by Arch. Duccio Brunelli ...

Oggi è opinione condivisa da molti architetti e designer che non si possa progettare un'architettura o un oggetto di design senza tener conto del rapporto con le risorse, le fonti energetiche e l'ecosistema entro il quale si progetta. L'obiettivo condiviso da molti è far emergere una nuova cultura tecnica che superi la dimensione consumistica esasperata emersa nel corso degli anni settanta e ... Read more

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Oggi è opinione condivisa da molti architetti e designer che non si possa progettare un'architettura o un oggetto di design senza tener conto del rapporto con le risorse, le fonti energetiche e l'ecosistema entro il quale si progetta. L'obiettivo condiviso da molti è far emergere una nuova cultura tecnica che superi la dimensione consumistica esasperata emersa nel corso degli anni settanta e
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Color Theory for Interior Design

by M Kaur ...

Transform Your Space with Masterful Color – Your Ultimate Guide to Interior Design Success!Unlock the secret to breathtaking interiors with Color Theory for Interior Design: A Practical Guide to Creating Stunning and Balanced Color Palettes**. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a DIY enthusiast, this comprehensive guide empowers you to harness the transformative power of color. Discover how ... Read more

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Transform Your Space with Masterful Color – Your Ultimate Guide to Interior Design Success!Unlock the secret to breathtaking interiors with Color Theory for Interior Design: A Practical Guide to Creating Stunning and Balanced Color Palettes**. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a DIY enthusiast, this comprehensive guide empowers you to harness the transformative power of color. Discover how
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