Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It investigates how planning and policy help to ...
According to urban academic myth, the first restaurants emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. From the very beginning in the elegant salons ...
How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings. That information comes in a variety ...
Heritage stones are those stones that have been used for many years, even centuries, to build the historic buildings and monuments of places around ...
Adaptive reuse - the process of repairing and restoring existing buildings for new or continued use - is becoming an essential part of architectural ...
Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be ...
Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities ...
Global Social Archaeologies contributes to the active engagement of contemporary social archaeology through addressing issues such as postcolonialism, community heritage, and Indigenous rights. It ...
Louis I. Kahn was one of the most influential architects, thinkers and teachers of his time. This book examines the important relationship between his ...
Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Canada. Indeed, reconstruction has ...
Following on from the author's previous book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Surfaces, Steps and Margins, this book, Construction Detailing for Landscape ...
Written in collaboration with the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and LE: NOTRE, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape provides a wide-ranging ...
From examinations of prehistoric burial to understanding post-industrial spaces and heritage practices, the writing of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is gaining increasing importance ...
Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from ...
Masonry is found extensively in construction throughout the world. It is economical and strong. Masonry Design-part of the Architect's Guidebook to Structures series-presents the ...
Architects and healthcare clients are increasingly coming to recognize that, once built, healthcare facilities are almost immediately subject to physical alterations which both respond ...