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  • 100 Site Analysis Essentials

    An architect's guide

    by Peter Farrall, Iain Jackson ...
    How do I follow a brief? What is the site’s context? What’s its history and what is adjacent to it now? How have other designers responded to similar site conditions? Conducting a site analysis is an essential part of the design process. Through careful examination, observation and documentation, you can cultivate a deeper understanding of the place you are designing. Designed to help students ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

    Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics

    by Iain Jackson, Jessica Holland ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its spread into the late-colonial arena and finally, to its re-evaluation that resulted in a more ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • How the Railways Will Fix the Future

    Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road

    by Gareth Dennis ...
    Railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world for us all.The world's railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation, so what right do they have to exist and how can they be harnessed for good? Railway engineer and writer Gareth Dennis builds a case not simply for railways as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Dynamic Urban Design

    A Handbook for Creating Sustainable Communities Worldwide

    by Michael A. von Hausen ...
    Advance Praise for Dynamic Urban Design“Finally, in one book a complete guide to the theory, practice, and potential of urban design by one of Canada’s preeminent urban designers.”—David R. Witty, former dean, School of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Canada“Michael von Hausen has given us a clear and hopeful path to the creation of a sustainable urbanism, one that will be inspiring and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • European Landscape Architecture

    Best Practice in Detailing

    Edited by Ian Thompson, Torben Dam, Jens Balsby Nielsen ...
    Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details.Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book offers a more profound understanding of decision making through all stages of the design process.The book ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

    by Brian Edwards ...
    This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings and places through drawing. For many, the camera has replaced the sketchbook, but here the author ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • The Story of Crossrail

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer.Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and Churchill, has cost more than £15bn and is expected to serve 200 million passengers annually. From Reading and Heathrow in the west, the Elizabeth line will extend to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Museums, Collections and Communities

    Reflections on the life of Martin Hallett

    Edited by Margaret Anderson, Eleanor Whitworth, Deborah Tout-Smith ...
    A vital account of change in Australian museums.Martin Hallett - a notable curator of science and technology at Museums Victoria - had a long and distinguished career. He pioneered electronic cataloguing documentation systems (now used world-wide, including at the British Museum and the Smithsonian), established portals to access distributed collections and championed the presence of diverse ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Sprawl Repair Manual

    by Galina Tachieva ...
    There is a wealth of research and literature explaining suburban sprawl and the urgent need to retrofit suburbia. However, until now there has been no single guide that directly explains how to repair typical sprawl elements. The Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economical, energy- and ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • The Urban Design Process

    by Philip Black, Taki Eddin Sonbli ...
    Series series Concise Guides to Planning
    This useful guide sets out clearly a bespoke urban design process for practice, developed by the authors. The process works through urban analysis; policy and people; strategic framework; concepts and options; design layering and technical detail; to delivery of place. It considers design across multiple scales within the built environment and describes the complexity of project management in ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 1960s Home

    by Paul Evans ...
    Series Book 604 - Shire Library
    The 1960s witnessed a sustained period of economic growth, consumer spending and stable employment. This hitherto unknown prosperity enabled a market growth in levels of owner occupation and a subsequent boom in the sale of household furnishings and luxury goods. The 1960s Home looks at the styles and fashions in domestic housing and interiors between 1960 and 1970. Although this period has ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Landscape Architecture

    An Introduction

    by Robert Holden, Jamie Liversedge ...
    Aimed at prospective and new students, this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature and practice of landscape architecture, the professional skills required and the latest developments.After discussing the history of the profession, the book explains the design process through principles such as hierarchy, human scale, unity, harmony, asymmetry, colour, form and texture. It looks at ... Read more

    $4.99 USD