Electronic Books

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A Language of Contemporary Architecture : An Index of Topology and Typology / Rafael Luna, Dongwoo Yim

Provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary ...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices : Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century / Marianna Charitonidou

Explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees ...

Architecture and Collective Life / Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm, Sandra Costa Santos

Addresses the changing nature of public life alongside an analysis of changes in the architectural profession. Contains thought-provoking ...

Architecture: Form, Space, and Order ; 5th edition / Francis D. K. Ching

Distills complex concepts of design into a clear focus and brings difficult abstractions to life. It explains form and space ...

Artery Guidebook

"Artery" is an initiative on a European scale, funded by the INTERREG IIIB NWE programme, which puts riverside restoration ...

Building Children's Worlds : The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks / Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, Emma Hayward

Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed ...

Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice / Karen Kensek, Douglas Noble

Thought leaders from universities and professional practice composed essays exploring BIM's potential to improve the products ...

Changing places : the science and art of new urban planning / Charles C. Branas, John Michael MacDonald, Robert Stokes

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livable

Designing Urban Food Policies : Concepts and Approaches

This book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding ...

Designing healthy and liveable cities : creating sustainable urban regeneration / Marichela Sepe

Aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics ...

Designing sustainable cities / Rob Roggema

Emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment. From several angles the future of our urbanism ...

Doors : History, Repair and Conservation / Michael Tutton, James W.P. Campbell

Guides you through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are ...

Drawing Imagining Building : Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices / Paul Emmons

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked ...

Ecologies Design : Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism / Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Peter Connolly, Mark Southcombe

Ecologies Design challenges professionals and academics to expand the concept of applying and understanding ecologies, both ...

Essential Urban Design : A Handbook for Architects, Designers and Planners / Rob Cowan

Shaping our cities, streets and public spaces, urban design informs the places we live. It is a complex multi-disciplinary ...

Essentials of Urban Design / Mark Sheppard

Explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and tools needed to achieve better design ...

Foresight and Design : Composing Future Places / Mark C. Childs

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve ...

Housing Contemporary Ireland

This book, the first comprehensive review of housing in Ireland for many years, introduces, in an accessible manner, the ...

Landscape Architecture as Storytelling : Learning Design Through Analogy / Bob Scarfo

Introduces a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their ...

Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory / Charles Waldheim

Traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing ...

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