Architectural structure and design Books

Examines the general problems of designing and constructing sites for buildings. Coverage includes: site construction and planning, placing buildings on sites, landscape planning, drainage, site traffic for vehicles and pedestrians, parking, lighting,...

The updated paperback edition of Weaver's landmark work--theessential manual on materials and procedures for restoringbuildingsConserving Buildings, Revised Edition, is the ideal resource foranyone involved in the maintenance, restoration, or...

The guide that takes the guesswork out of Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines conformanceThe Federal government is stepping up its enforcement of the Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines, and failure to comply with these guidelines can result...

A versatile toolbox of ideas for creative design solutions.How do things bend? How are things joined? How do things get larger or smaller? When you work creatively in design or architecture, these are the sort of questions that come up again and...

Practically all books written on interior landscape address the needs of home gardeners or the more detailed needs of business owners and researchers. Technicians, trainees, and advanced personnel alike--those who must maintain large interior...

Landscape ArchitectureRegenerative Design for Sustainable Development Winner, 1994 MeritAward for Communications, American Society of LandscapeArchitects"Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development is nothing lessthan a user's manual for planet Earth...

Wood Planks and Oriental Rugs weren't the only floor coverings found in America's old houses. In fact, a rich array of floor treatments have been used--from brick, tile and linoleum to mats and floorcloths, from rag rugs to ingrain, embroidered and pile...

A current, comprehensive and lavishly illustrated introduction to the fundamental skills needed for architectural drafting. Contains material about drafting equipment and office procedures along with the evolution of construction documents and...

The current transition from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computational Design in architecture represents a profound shift in design thinking and methods. Representation is being replaced by simulation, and the crafting of objects is moving towards the...

This primer for architects explores the basic physical principles and requirements of every aspect of passive and active controls in buildings. Avoiding needless jargon, Environmental Issues for Architecture supports an understanding of environmental...

"The members of 7group and Bill Reed are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into reality, by helping change minds, building practice, and design process." —from the Foreword by S. Rick...

Now more than ever, architects need an interpretive guide to understand how the building code affects the early design of specific projects. This easy-to-use, illustrative guide is part of a new series covering building codes based on the International...

Tracy is in the top one percent of real estate sales people worldwide. She is currently ranked 51st in the country by The Wall Street Journal. She has bought, renovated, and sold more than 20 homes in the Western United States. Tracy has worked for 20...

Hydroelectricity is the world's largest-and cleanest-source of renewable -energy. But despite lively interest in renewables generally, there is an information vacuum about the smallest version of the technology dubbed "the simplest, most reliable and...

This book applies social and political theory to the field of environmental politics in Ireland. It offers both a substantive contribution to understanding environmental politics in this country and a test case of the application of theory within the...

Integrates theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and African cinema studies to examine how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth, and creativity on the...

3D printing is said to revolutionize architecture: Thanks to new technologies, plastic, concrete, or metal can be extruded in a liquid state and then hardened into its final form.With this Construction and Design Manual, architects and researchers Kostas...

An insightful and comprehensive guide to mastering the art of drawing and illustrating architecture.Inspiring architecture and beautiful buildings are all around us. Artists often gravitate toward building facades, doors, windows, and roofs that tell a...

Climate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites - from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galpagos Islands -...

Originally published in Japanese as a call to preserve disappearing facets of Japan's rich and ancient culture, this book takes its inspiration from the 1960s classic, Hidden Hamlets by Shirasu Masako. Like Shirasu, Kerr travels to remote and...

Documents the artworks of the exhibition Repair, Australian Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, under the creative direction of Baracco+Wright Architects in collaboration with Linda Tegg. It shares the thinking...

A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to todayDigital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business,...

2024 Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner! This awe-inspiring guide weaves together permaculture design, food resiliency, climate adaptation, community organizing, and indigenous wisdom that you can implement in your own backyard.This book has been crafted...

Supertight is an exploration of high-density urban life and reducing the footprint of cites through adaptations in design and behaviour.Tightness is a positive urban quality, examined through the observations of designers, with a focus on the cities of...

This book documents the intersection of architecture and design with ecology, environmental history, policy, governance and law from the 19th century to today. It presents conflicting definitions and concepts of architects and designers and the parallel...

This book 'deconstructs' a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory. The information is presented along four vectors atoms, labors, sources and ingredients.Though remarkably detailed, the A House...

Prefabricated housing, often associated with blighted urban landscapes and monotonous grey boxes, has evolved into an approach to housing with a wealth of aesthetic and structural possibilities. Modern methods of constructing and assembling prefabricated...

This book collects the work of the MIAS studio over twenty years. Their projects cannot be explained only as finished works, but need an understanding of the design process: everything that happens before the cranes arrive.Based on four concepts, MIAS...

Geospaces is an extended visual essay of ideas, images, drawings and projects that follows the work of Alper Derinboaz over the past decade, framing an approach to architecture based on empathy with earth.Architectural history is a fragment of the long...

An edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project.The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a coproducer of urban life...

Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform...

A remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture, and how the style and features can serve as a model for contemporary residential buildings.With incredible detail (as well as numerous architectural plans and drawings), author and architect...

During the Covid-19 pandemic we have been forced to retreat into private shelters and to question the limits of residential typologies. The villa is an obvious example of such a shelter. It has reemerged as an object of desire, because of the urge to...

The cycle of production and consumption, artificially accelerated by advertising and marketing, has characterised our society for decades. This cycle has recently also taken hold of the architecture of the city, leading to a waste that is both...

In the last few decades, the "diagram" has evolved into a constitutive, generative medium for the architectural design process and is now an everyday term used in the context of design. The diagram represents an imaginative process that enables...

Prefabricated housing has long since ceased to mean the disfigurement of the urban landscape with monotonous grey boxes. Particularly in Central Europe and Russia, modern assembly methods and 100 years of experience in planning prefabricated buildings...

Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital.While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco works and social realist...

Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio - Stefano Boeri Architetti - have followed in the last fifteen years of practice, aiming at the redefinition of the relationship between city and nature. The book follows a...

Scott Ruff's studio, "Gullah/Geechee Institute," investigated architecture's role as a cultural signifier in the African-American GullahGeechee community off the South Carolina coast. It challenged students to translate cultural ideas into tectonic and...

Unless dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building.In doing so, this book aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet...

An architectural drawing book looking at the critical practice of various methods of drawing, their conception and their reception in the world.WWW.Drawing refers to two realms - One is the realm of the three 'W' authors - West, Wines...

Design with Life chronicles the breakthroughs and projects of a nonprofit that is defining resolute new directions in socio-ecological design and other deep-seated intersections of synthetic biology, architecture, and urban systems. In the challenging...

Emilio Sanchez Fonts (1921-1999) was a Cuban-American artist known for his architectural paintings, drawings, and graphic prints of New York, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As a realist artist, he was attracted to folklore and the vernacular, with...

In the early 1980's with the customary dearth of commissions for a young architectural practice Massimo Vignelli had designed a series of prototypical houses. These were specifically affordable houses, houses that could be built inexpensively, but...

From the world's leading publisher of Architecture and Architectural Practices, comes a look into how VTN Architects have used bamboo to create groundbreaking projects. With the climate crisis raging and awareness of humanity's...

David Hu's Sea Girt House ocillates gracefully between a sort of proto minimalism and a hyper orchestrated spatial awareness. It's a project that makes no bones about its purpose of providing a single-minded solitude for its inhabitant,...

Amass makes a case for architectural experiments with massing. By understanding architecture as a collection of interrelationships between multiple masses, plusClover uses pressure, thickness and media - the core subjects of this book - to...

A homage to the 1973 publication of Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri, this book is devoted to the radical experiences of the 1960s and to their consequences for the most recent developments in contemporary architecture.As a response to the...