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Housing Design Awards 2010
The annual Housing Design Awards need no introduction, and nor does the concise, well-produced volume documenting the winners. Featured schemes...
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What Architects Desire
The leitmotiv of the German contribution to the 12th Architecture Biennial in Venice, “desire“, is at the same time the topic of a...
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El Croquis 150: David Chipperfield 2006-2010 Concilliation of Opposites
This issue is dedicated to the projects and finished buildings of David Chipperfield in the last four years. These include the renovation of the...
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Architecture Now! 7: (special offer price)
Special offer price £20 (rrp £24.99) while stocks last! After the Fall - Architecture in a new Economic Climate TASCHEN's...
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Construction Contracts: Questions and Answers
The eagerly awaited second edition of this bestseller is now available! What they said about the first edition:"A fascinating concept, full of...
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A guide to letter contracts: Second Edition
On very small projects, many architects prefer to make the contract with their client by means of a letter rather than a standard form of...
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Music Accommodation in Secondary Schools: A design guide
There are many important factors to be considered when designing music accommodation for secondary schools – such as the location of the...
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Guide to RIBA Agreements 2010
The 2010 edition of this guide explains how to use the brand new and comprehensively reviewed suite of contracts for professional services known as
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Sustainable Concrete Architecture
Based on real-world evidence and independent research, Sustainable Concrete Architecture provides designers with a tool to help calculate the total
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Which Contract? Choosing the appropriate building contract
The indispensable Which Contract? Fourth Edition is the most up-to-date and reliable comparative analysis of the burgeoning number of standard...
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Plane Tree House: MGM Morales de Giles
Another volume in the “one construction one study” monograph series this title provides a detailed chronology of the entire project as...
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The Joy of Home
Whether homeowner or tenant, our homes are one of our most significant emotional assets. They can define our quality of life,protecting and...
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Living in Collectivity
An ever present and critically important social need, collective housing remains at the top of the political agenda in many countries. This title...
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Tricia Guild: A Certain Style
For almost 40 years, Tricia Guild has been setting the pace with her up-to-the-minute collections of fabrics, wallpapers and furnishings for...
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Guide to the Building Regulations: (pre-publication special offer)
Pre-publication Special Offer Price - £5 Off (RRP £24.99) From the official publishers of the Building Regulations comes the latest in
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Plane Tree House: MGM Morales de Giles
Another volume in the “one construction one study” monograph series this title provides a detailed chronology of the entire project as...
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Architects Handbook of Practice Management: 8th Edition
The professional architect’s business management bible has been completely revised andradically overhauled to reflect the very latest...
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Featured Reviews
Biodiversity for Low and Zero Carbon Buildings: A Technical Guide for New Build
Andrew Macintosh, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios for BD Review, July 2010
For people needing reference material, this is a thorough, clear and information-packed book… A good book for the reference library.
Rough Guide to Sustainability: 3rd Edition
Review by Geoff Wilkinson, Vice Chair, CIOB Building Standard Faculty, and Building Regulations Columnist for Architects Journal
In this book Brian Edwards tries to achieve the impossible by pulling together all of the complex strands of sustainability into one easy to read volume.
Brian is Associate professor of Sustainable Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy so it is not surprising that this is an...
Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions
Review by Stephen Bird, Managing Editor, www.ESI.info
There is something odd about a hard-copy book devoted to emergent technologies. It feels old before its time. Aren’t practicing architects’ methods more likely to be shaped on the job, or by the real-time peer reviews that social networks are starting to provide?
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Britain's Lost Cities: A Chronicle of Architectural Destruction
Review by Patrick Baty, Architectural Paint Researcher, Papers and Paints Ltd
In his book Dr Gavin Stamp recounts the destruction of so much of our cities, emphasizing that rather than the Luftwaffe the real villains were here at home. Many a city’s appeal has been undermined by thoughtless town-planning and a desire to accommodate the motor car, while...