Presents an introduction to historic preservation. This book shows how wood, stone, masonry, and metal were used in the past and how adaptive re-use ...
This complete guide to the evaluation, selection, and use of sustainable materials in the landscape features strategies to minimize environmental and human health impacts ...
When published in 2004, Cities People Planet effectively anticipated current concerns about climate change, most significantly, outlining the central role of cities in contributing ...
Over Structures goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure. ...
In the last decade, the interface of CAD (computer-aided drawing) and CAM (computer-aided manufacture) has opened up a whole new range of possibilities for ...
This third AD by the guest-editors of the highly successful Emergence and techniques and technologies in Morphogenetic Design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project ...
China is undergoing a process of unprecedented urbanisation, with cities often being built from scratch in just three to five years. It is projected ...
Get the definitive, holistic guide to transforming space with light. There are no shortcuts to designing beautiful and effective architectural lighting. Lighting is both ...
Reinterprets the underlying causes and effects of architecture and town planning in urban Italy during one of the country's most vibrant and celebrated periods. ...
With nearly five millennia of architectural heritage, China boasts the longest continuous architectural lineage in history. A hundred years after the dawn of the ...
As today's valued examples of modern architecture age to the point that preservation is called for, the methods and technology used in such preservation ...
Is the present obsession with the icon and the promotion of image over substance symptomatic of a general trend in contemporary architecture? Arup Associates ...
Investigating the current groundswell of experiments and creative work that utilises design as a method to explore and manipulate actual biological material, "Neoplasmatic Design" ...
