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  • Ritual House

    Drawing on Nature's Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design

    by Ralph Knowles ...
    The houses we dwell in, the cities surrounding our houses, even the clothes we wear—these are all shelters we erect against the elements. They are also the embodiment of intuitive rituals, individual and cultural responses to nature’s rhythms. Life in the 21st century has separated us from those traditions—now, Ritual House reawakens us to our lost natural heritage.Celebrated architect Ralph ... Read more

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  • Radical Cities

    Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

    by Justin McGuirk ...
    What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.Ever since the mid ... Read more

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  • Concrete Toronto

    A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies

    by Michael McClelland, Graeme Stewart ...
    Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But for how long? As architectural fashion has shifted to the glass-and-steel neomodernism of today, these concrete structures have been increasingly ignored - and in ... Read more

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  • Directions in Person-Environment Research and Practice (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Jack Nasar, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this book presents a fresh and diverse set of perspectives representing key directions of research and practice in the field of environmental design research. Leading researchers in various areas of person-environment research, such as privacy, children’s environment, post-occupancy evaluation, environmental cognition, environmental aesthetics, crime prevention, housing ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Architect's Portable Handbook: First-Step Rules of Thumb for Building Design 4/e

    by John Patten ("Pat") Guthrie ...
    The Essentials of Building Design--at Your Fingertips!Fully updated with the 2009 IBC International Building Code, this practical guide delivers the key data you need in every step of an architectural project--from initial planning and estimating through design and completion. The Architect's Portable Handbook, Fourth Edition, provides the latest code and cost information, along with a wealth of ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood

    by David Rudlin, Nicholas Falk ...
    This successful title, previously known as 'Building the 21st Century Home' and now in its second edition, explores and explains the trends and issues that underlie the renaissance of UK towns and cities and describes the sustainable urban neighbourhood as a model for rebuilding urban areas. The book reviews the way that planning policies, architectural trends and economic forces have undermined ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Urban Housing Design

    by Graham Towers ...
    This clear and concise guide is the ideal introduction to contemporary housing design for students and professionals of architecture, urban design and planning. With the increasing commitment to sustainable design and with an ever-increasing demand for houses in urban areas, housing design has taken on a new and crucial role in urban planning. This guide introduces the reader to the key aspects of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Urban Forms

    by Ivor Samuels, Phillippe Panerai, Jean Castex, Jean Charles Depaule ...
    This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town ... Read more

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  • Visual Research Methods in Design (Routledge Revivals)

    by Henry Sanoff ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1991, this book is about applications and issues relating to the visual environment. The content pertains to the understanding of human behaviour in the environment by recording behaviour and actions or by direct interaction with people. The author examines research and planning methods that primarily stress the visual features of the physical environment. Traditionally, ... Read more

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  • Designing for Designers (Routledge Revivals)

    Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture

    by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Jack Nasar, Thomas Fisher ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 2007, this book examines the designs of seventeen architecture and design schools and answers questions such as: How has architectural education evolved and what is its future? Are architectural schools discernible types of designs and what are their effects on those who experience them? What lessons can be learned from evaluations of recently completed school buildings and what ... Read more

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  • Future Forms and Design For Sustainable Cities

    Edited by Mike Jenks, Nicola Dempsey ...
    Concentrating on the planning and design of cities, the three sections take a logical route through the discussion from the broad considerations at regional and city scale, to the larger city at high and lower densities through to design considerations on the smaller block scale. Key design issues such as access to facilities, access for sunlight, life cycle analyses, and the impact of ... Read more

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  • Inclusive Urban Design: Public Toilets

    by Clara Greed ...
    This is a unique text providing both design guidance and policy direction for the provision and design of public toilets covering city-wide, district-level and site-specific principles. It highlights the role of urban design in reversing the trend of inadequate toilet provision, and sets out guidelines for design which meets both user need and provider requirements. Greed presents the fundamental ... Read more

    $87.99 USD