Electronic Books

2050: Designing Our Tomorrow / Chris Luebkeman

Envisioning a positive future through design 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes the ways in which architecture and design ...

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 ...

Barcelona : urban architecture and community since 2010 / Sandra Hofmeister, Heide Wessely

Highlights some of the most exciting structures built in Barcelona since 2010, bringing readers on a guided tour of surprising ...

Basics design and living / :Jan Krebs

Residential Buildings are normally the first design projects encountered by the student in his or her training. The focus ...

Best of detail : Holz / wood / Christian Schittich

Brings together highlights from DETAIL about wood as a material. Besides a theoretical basis, the publication also offers ...

Brunet Saunier Architecture : Monospace and Simplexity / Pascale Blin, Agence Brunet Saunier Architecture

Discusses and analyzes this concept in detail, presenting trueto- scale floor plans, cross-sections, architectural views, ...

Building from Tradition: Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture / Elizabeth Golden

Examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...

Close Binaries in the 21st Century: New Opportunities and Challenges

This book is the proceedings of an international conference entitled "Close Binaries in the 21st Century: New Opportunities ...

Critical practices in architecture : the unexamined / Jonathan Y Bean; Susannah Dickinson; Aletheia Ida; Jane Rendell

Embraces the idea that in today's complex world, multiple, emerging perspectives are critical to the design fields, the ...

David Chipperfield Architects = Architektur und Baudetails : Architecture and Construction Details / Sandra Hofmeister

Diagrid structures : systems, connections, details / Terri Meyer Boake

Diagrids are load-bearing structures made of steel diagonal grids. They were first used in the great buildings of the turn ...

Educating Students to Improve the World

This book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of ...

Graeme Mann & Patricia Capua Mann / Bruno Marchand

The Lausanne architects Mann & Capua Mann have been active since 1991. Their structures are compelling thanks to the variety ...

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects / George Baird, Mark Kingwell, Thomas Fisher, Mirko Zardini

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, founded in 1987 in Toronto, is one of most innovative architectural offi ces ...

New architecture in wood : forms and structures / Marc Wilhelm Lennartz, Susanne Jacob-Freitag, Philip Thrift

Building with wood is currently enjoying a comeback. The reasons for the return of this ancient construction material are ...

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects / Michael C. Crosbie

Pelli Clarke Pelli, founded in 1977 by Cesar Pelli, is an architectural office of worldwide renown. They are known in particular ...

Phenomenology of Life. Meeting the Challenges of the Present-Day World

Philosophy has been always received or bypassed for its resonance or aloofness with the spirit of the time. Should not philosophy/phenomenology ...

Reusable and Sustainable Building Materials in Modern Architecture / Gülşah Koç and Bryan Christiansen

Designing buildings and physical environments depends on social structure, social needs, economic data, environment, and ...

Stufish - Entertainment Architecture (Architectural Design) / Ray Winkler, Neil Spiller

Looks at the work of STUFISH Entertainment Architects. Founded by the late Mark Fisher, the legendary British architect known ...

The Asian 21st Century

This book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia ...