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Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
Have you ever wondered how the ideas behind the world’s greatest architectural designs came about? What process does an architect go through to design buildings…
read moreMarch 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55252-3 (Routledge)
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Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture
Tradition and Today
In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the work…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77891-6 (Routledge)
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The Humanities in Architectural Design
A Contemporary and Historical Perspective
Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55114-4 (Routledge)
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Emergent Technologies and Design
Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture
Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties ‘emerge’ from within complex systems
Traditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural…
read moreJanuary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49344-4 (Routledge)
Quality Out of Control
Standards for Measuring Architecture
Formerly grounded in values of craftsmanship, in the skilled making of products, ‘quality’ is now associated with the management of administrative or technical processes. Its…
read moreJanuary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55366-7 (Routledge)
Overlooking the Visual
Demystifying the Art of Design
Making tangible connections between theory and practice, ideas and form, this book encourages debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30870-0 (Routledge)
Walter Benjamin and Architecture
The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin’s discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories.
Issues such as…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48292-9 (Routledge)
Embracing Complexity in Design
Outlining state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design, this book collates them into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49700-8 (Routledge)
James Stirling
Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture
James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling’s reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the Leicester…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55059-8 (Routledge)
Modern Hospice Design
The Architecture of Palliative Care
There is a global public debate going on about care for the elderly and the dying, and what is meant by good quality palliative care.…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45180-2 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture
By Thomas Barrie
To be published April 7th 2010
The Universe of Design: Horst Rittel's Theories of Design and Planning
By Jean-Pierre Protzen, David Harris
To be published May 6th 2010
Elements of Parametric Design
By Robert Woodbury
To be published June 30th 2010
Will Alsop: the noise
By Tom Porter
To be published August 10th 2010
Companion to Urban Design
Edited by Tridib Banerjee, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
To be published September 22nd 2010
Environmental and Architectural Acoustics
By Z. Maekawa
To be published October 1st 2010
Richard Rogers: Centre Pompidou: Supercrit #3
Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham
To be published January 1st 2011
Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette: Supercrit #4
Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham
To be published January 1st 2011
Computer Aided Design Guide for Architecture, Engineering and Construction
By Ghassan Aouad, Angela Lee, Song Wu
To be published January 2nd 2011
Sustainable Timber Design
By Michael Dickson, Dave Parker
To be published January 10th 2011
Prospects for an ethics of architecture
By William Taylor, Michael Levine
To be published January 15th 2011
Performalism: Between Form, Function and Performance in Contemporary Architecture
By Yasha Grobman, Eran Neuman
To be published January 15th 2011
The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: a reader
Edited by Renata Hejduk, Jim Williamson
To be published January 15th 2011
Around and About Stock Orchard Street
By Sarah Wigglesworth
To be published January 15th 2011
The EcoEdge: Urgent Design Challenges in Building Sustainable Cities
By Esther Charlesworth, Rob Adams
To be published January 15th 2011
Spatial Agency: Other ways of Doing Architecture
By Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till, Nishat Awan
To be published January 15th 2011
Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow-Food for the Architect's Imagination
By Marco Frascari
To be published January 15th 2011
Urban Design: The Composition of Complexity
By Ron Kasprisin
To be published February 1st 2011
Short Stories: London in two-and-a-half dimensions
By CJ Lim, Ed Liu
To be published February 1st 2011
The Digital in Architecture: A Critical Mapping
Edited by Rivka Oxman, Robert Oxman
To be published February 1st 2011
Beyond Live / Work
By Frances Holliss
To be published March 1st 2011
The Architecture of Geometry: Systems, Behaviour and Boundaries
By Lars Hesselgren
To be published March 1st 2011
Fiction, Image, Tone: The Metropolis an the Realisation of Architecture
By Raymond Quek
To be published March 15th 2011
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