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Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice
$125.00
A complete guide to the practice and business of interior design, complete for each different types of practice - commercial, retail, residential, healthcare, hospitality, ... [Read more]
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The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings
$115.00
In one beautifully illustrated volume, The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings presents the full range of skills, concepts, principles, and applications... [Read more]
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Places of the Soul
$26.95
Revised to incorporate the changes in opinions and attitudes since its first publication, the second edition of 'Places of the Soul' has brought Christopher Day's classic t... [Read more]
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Buildings and Society
$25.99
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Distributed Workplace
$64.99
The Distributed Workplace provides essential information on sustainable work environments. [Read more]
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Innovation in Architecture
$54.99
The main importance lies in the personal struggles towards design excellence through the appropriate use of technology. It is a book about a continual personal search for i... [Read more]
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The Hieroglyphics Of Space
$39.99
An edited volume containing contributions from eminent theorists across visual culture, architecture, sociology, art, philosophy and American studies including Andrew Benja... [Read more]
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Surrealism and Architecture
$39.99
This edited collection examines a long overlooked topic: the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. It offers a model for a new approach t... [Read more]
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Proportion
$42.00
This handbook provides the student, practising architect or interested layman with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture. [Read more]
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Threatened Landscapes
$49.99
Threatened Landscapes is the outcome of a pilot study undertaken by the LCWG. The study assessed the feasibility of recording and documenting threatened landscapes in order... [Read more]
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Fashioning Vienna
$39.99
This book seeks to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century. [Read more]
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Architecturally Speaking
$34.99
Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. This book will appeal to urbanists, ge... [Read more]
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Homes for the Third Age
$69.99
A design guide to a particular type of housing for the elderly which provides fully independent dwelling units, together with the commissioning, designing, building and run... [Read more]
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Words Between the Spaces
$39.99
The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new parliament, and Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between t... [Read more]
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Cutting the Cost of Cold
$65.00
Academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the t... [Read more]
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Enterprising City Centre
$37.99
This book focuses on urban development processes and the dynamics of changing city centres with the context of the emergence of urban entrepreneurialism as a driving force ... [Read more]
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Building Democracy
$31.99
Based on experience in community architecture projects over the past 20 years, this book should serve as essential reading for students, practitioners and anyone concerned ... [Read more]
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Constructing Place
$39.99
This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impingeson, and thus changes, the site in which it is set. [Read more]
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Spon's Landscape Contract Handbook
$125.00
This indispensable manual for landscape work covers the documentation and management of landscape contracts. It is written for all those involved in the landscape industry. [Read more]
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Transforming Barcelona
$34.99
This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. [Read more]
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Working Drawings Handbook
$56.95
An essential tool for students, architects and architectural technologists covering every aspect of drawing preparation [Read more]
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Practical Experience
$31.95
First hand advice and all-round preparation to a crucial aspect of an architectural students development - the internship or year out [Read more]
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The Modern City Revisited
$54.99
The second in a series of titles published to address issues relating to the conservation of the Modern Movement, this is a key publication for architects, planners and all... [Read more]
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Modern Architectural Theory
$94.00
Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theorem, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries ... [Read more]
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The Architect's Studio Companion: Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design, Third Edition
$90.00
Even in the earliest stages of the design process, architects must be aware of the impact that environmental factors, building codes, and structural demands will have on a ... [Read more]
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Architectural Technology
$84.95
A textbook for architectural technology degree courses. It brings together the technical, legal, social and philosophical issues under the umbrella of architectural technol... [Read more]
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German Architecture for a Mass Audience
$39.99
This book illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of... [Read more]
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Communication in the Design Process
$44.99
This book considers the gap that can exist between client expectation and realisation in building projects. It focuses specifically on the areas of function, finance, times... [Read more]
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Making People-Friendly Towns
$31.99
This informative book suggests the way forward for professionals, decision-makers and all those who care about the future of our urban environment and points the reader in ... [Read more]
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Architecture and Revolution
$39.99
Architecture and Revolution presents a series of essays which explore the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. [Read more]
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Saga of Sydney Opera House
$34.99
Peter Murray has managed to unravel one of the most intriguing architectural controversies of recent times - what really happened when they built Sydney Opera House? [Read more]
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Embodied Utopias
$34.99
A collection of essays from both established and younger scholars from a variety of disciplines address the relationship between gender and projects of social transformatio... [Read more]
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Emergence of Modern Architecture
$39.99
The book records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today. [Read more]
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Urban Planning in Europe
$35.00
An analysis of the influences on urban planning in Europe. Detailed case studies are used to explore planning policies in a range of European cities, and discuss the social... [Read more]
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Selling Architectural Ideas
$44.99
Selling Architectural Ideas explores the promotional role of architectural graphics and drawings at the point of communication, i.e. at their point of sale. [Read more]
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Urban Open Spaces
$55.00
Brings together extensive research and practical experience to prove the opportunities and benefits of open spaces to society and individuals. [Read more]
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Norman Foster Studio
$119.95
This is a unique critical appraisal of the work of Sir Norman Foster & Partners from their early years through to projects completed in 1994. [Read more]
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Environmental Design
$27.50
Written and edited by a team of specialists at Max Fordhams, Environmental Design is the result of their extensive experience in designing environmentally friendly buildings. [Read more]
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Women's Places
$39.99
This book provides new information and new interpretations in the study of gender, material culture and the built environment in the period 1860-1960. [Read more]
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Design First
$59.95
A unique guide applying the principles of urban design and planning to the development of new and better communities [Read more]
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The Architect's Guide to Running a Practice
$31.95
The essential one-stop-shop for information on starting and running an architectural practice [Read more]
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What Designers Know
$38.95
Explores and details the knowledge that designers & architects work with and how they use this knowledge providing essential insight to students & others new to the... [Read more]
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Modern Movement Heritage
$45.99
An introduction to the subject and the specific problems related to the conservation of modern structures. Celebrating the first five years of DoCoMoMo's role and influence... [Read more]
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Learning From Other Countries
$95.00
Learning From Other Countries [Read more]
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Performative Architecture
$37.99
This book addresses the emergence of a new kind of architecture, in which building performance is a guiding design principle, adopting new performance-based priorities for ... [Read more]
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Standard Letters in Architectural Practice
$115.00
Much of an architect's work is concerned with letter writing and many letters have legal and contractual implications. This set of some 285 standard letters is based on the... [Read more]
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Reading Architectural History
$29.99
Reading Architectural History examines the historiographic and social/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eig... [Read more]
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Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture
$27.99
This book is an introduction to landscape architecture for students. Landscape architecture is a visual subject so the book is be illustrated with the author's own drawings. [Read more]
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Architecture as Experience
$39.99
This book investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empi... [Read more]
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Spaces of Global Cultures
$34.99
^SDraws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and also... [Read more]
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Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools
$75.00
Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools provides the essential information needed to initiate designs for preschools and kindergartens as well as elementa... [Read more]
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Computing in Architectural Practice
$54.99
This volume covers the three main areas of architectural practice in which computers have been found most useful: office management; drawing; and project management. It sho... [Read more]
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Exporting American Architecture 1870-2000
$34.99
The export of American architecture began in the nineteenth century as a disjointed set of personal adventures and commercial initiatives. It continues today alongside the ... [Read more]
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Architect's Essentials of Professional Development
$45.00
The architect's interest in continuing education has increased as a result of the national trend of state initiatives requiring continuing education for architect registrat... [Read more]
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Analysing Architecture
$25.99
Analysing Architecture offers a unique 'notebook' of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Beautifu... [Read more]
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Architecture and Nature
$39.99
Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. This book explores how such rhetorical landscapes have also ... [Read more]
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Ecology, Community and Delight
$37.99
Ecology, Community and Delight examines three principal value systems which influence landscape architectural practice: the aesthetic, the social and the environmental, and... [Read more]
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Relating Architecture to Landscape
$44.99
These essays make a unique contribution to the documentation of twentieth century landscape architecture. They present contemporary examples in architecture, landscape arch... [Read more]
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Expressive Form
$24.99
This book combines theoretical enquiry with practical implementation offering a unique perspective on the use of computers related to architectureal form and design. [Read more]
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Anxious City
$29.99
A unique and provocative history of the development of the idea of the city in recent years. Key public spaces and buildings in England, Europe and the USA are discussed in... [Read more]
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Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning
$148.50
The International conference on Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning is organised bi-annually by the Eindhoven University of Technology.... [Read more]
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Beyond Description
$39.99
This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles ... [Read more]
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Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy
$39.99
This book is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place. [Read more]
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Modelling the City
$120.00
Examines the changing role of urban models in relation to urban well-being and planning problems and offers a `new geography of performance indicators' for the public and p... [Read more]
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Higher
$19.00
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the ci... [Read more]
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Tracing Modernity
$39.99
Drawng on architectural and urban history as well as philosophy and sociology, the book outlines the complex and conflicting roots of modernity by tracing its manifestation... [Read more]
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Architecture and Participation
$34.99
Explores ways in which users may be involved in the design of their future environment. Contributors provide both theoretical approaches and concrete outcomes. The issue of... [Read more]
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Architect's Essentials of Starting a Design Firm
$45.00
Written by two leading experts in the field this essential volume offers a step-by-step guide to understanding and evaluating the goals, risks and the rewards of starting a... [Read more]
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
$4.95
In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a book that would examine the essence of Gothic archit... [Read more]
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Urban Forms
$48.95
An historical look at urban design that reveals the key to successful urban forms [Read more]
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Building Type Basics for Research Laboratories
$75.00
Building Type Basics for Research Laboratories provides the essential information needed to initiate designs for government, academic, and private research laboratories. Fi... [Read more]
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Architecture
$12.99
This original and sophisticated look at architecture helps to understand the cultural significance of buildings. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour... [Read more]
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Cultured Landscapes
$29.99
This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. This new international study raises awareness of the landsc... [Read more]
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Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors
$55.00
Get a realisitic guide to producing construction documents that clearly communicate the interior space of new construction, remodeling, or installation projects with Constr... [Read more]
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Interior Design Visual Presentation
$45.00
The new, updated edition of the successful book on interior design. Interior Design Visual Presentation, Second Edition is fully revised to include the latest material on C... [Read more]
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Professional Practice for Interior Designers
$80.00
The tools needed to create and manage a thriving interior design practice. This essential sourcebook provides all of the information needed to establish and manage a produc... [Read more]
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Dynamic Landscape
$27.99
This book advances a fusion of scientific and ecological planting design philosophy that can address the need for more sustainable designed landscapes. [Read more]
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Actions of Architecture
$39.99
Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism. [Read more]
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Archispeak
$24.99
This unique illustrated guide will help students understand the nuances of this specialised language and help them in communicating their own design ideas. [Read more]
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Building Change
$39.99
This book focuses on the role architects and architecture are playing in the process of political and cultural negotiation. [Read more]
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Care Homes for Older People
$54.99
This book describes the needs of the users of residential and nursing homes, provides detailed design guidance and summarises building procurement techniques. [Read more]
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Laboratories
$69.99
This book provides internationally applicable and updated information on the design of laboratories. It is a practical guide for the team responsible for the design and con... [Read more]
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Modern Airport Terminal
$80.00
This book will be a source of inspiration and guiding principles for those who design, commission or manage airport buildings. [Read more]
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Garden History
$29.99
Highly illustrated to present and explain in a most appealing way, the historic styles of gardens with particular emphasis on the philosophy of garden design. This carefull... [Read more]
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The Codes Guidebook for Interiors
$85.00
Now available in an updated and expanded third edition, The Codes Guidebook for Interiors incorporates the latest standards for interior projects. The book presents the Int... [Read more]
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Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City
$85.00
The primary focus of this book is the role of immigrant entrepreneurs and workers in the emerging ethnic tourist industry as well as their interaction with public, private ... [Read more]
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Crisis of the Object
$44.99
A valuable contribution to the debates surrounding architectural history and theory, this work provides a critical analysis of three contemporary architects, which combines... [Read more]
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Transparent State
$37.99
Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Tra... [Read more]
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Understanding Architecture
$25.99
This remarkable book is the first comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history. Introducing issues of urbanism, feminism and ethnicity, it covers co... [Read more]
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Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design
$54.99
This important work provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated ... [Read more]
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Lighting Design Basics
$50.00
Lighting is a basic, yet difficult-to-master, element of interior design, and Lighting Design Basics provides the information you need in a concise, highly visual format. T... [Read more]
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Industrial Buildings
$79.99
This book gives guidance as to the types of building stock offering greatest potential for conversion, that are likely to be viable and sustainable. Chapters are contribute... [Read more]
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Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change
$55.95
Provides an insight into the real changes that are necessary to give our modern day built environment both 'sustainability' and 'survivability' [Read more]
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Architect's Drawings
$63.95
Presents for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from classical civilization to the present day [Read more]
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Architect's Pocket Book of Kitchen Design
$22.95
Targeted primarily at designers and home owners in the UK. As with the best-selling 'Architects Pocket Book' this title includes everyday information which the architect/de... [Read more]
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Architectural Model as Machine
$50.95
Takes the reader through the history and significance of models in architecture [Read more]
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Architecture In Use
$44.95
This unique book discusses programming, design and building evaluation providing a joined up approach to building design [Read more]
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Architecture Design Notebook
$35.95
Architecture Design Notebook focuses on the process of design as pragmatic and non-theoretical. Dealing systematically with the core design curriculum, it clearly demonstra... [Read more]
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Architects Without Frontiers
$54.95
Discusses the potential for architects to play important roles in post-war relief and reconstruction [Read more]
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Architecture in a Climate of Change
$35.95
Provides the latest basic principles of sustainability and the future of sustainable design and technology [Read more]
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