For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation -- yet losing sight of ...
This ground breaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It ...
Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. This book considers what ...
Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of ...
The definitive introductory book on the theory and history of regionalist architecture in the context of globalization, this text addresses issues of identity, community, ...
Concrete is an inherently complex material to produce and an even more complex material to repair. With growing pressure to maintain the built environment, ...
Based on careful analysis and experience in all housing sectors and house types, this handbook explains and demonstrates how to incorporate the most effective ...
Architectural facades now have the potential to be literally kinetic, through automated sunscreens and a range of animated surfaces. This book explores the aesthetic ...
Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of ...
In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and ...
This textbook for planning students and practitioners explains how to develop the necessary technical competences to perform practical tasks efficiently; how to make and ...
This book describes the complete panorama of supporting structures and their function by describing how loads are sustained and transmitted to the ground. With ...
The dwellings of hundreds of African ethnic groups offer a variety of conceptions and building practices that contradict the widespread image of the primitive ...
Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy ...
This authoritative and multi-disciplinary book provides architects, lighting specialists, and anyone else working daylight into design, with all the tools needed to incorporate this ...
