Spring Reading 2013
Winter is turning to spring – and we are celebrating with the first of this year’s ‘Season’ collections.
The focus this time around is on sustainability titles, with additional new titles on key industry topics such as design management and construction technology.
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101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture
101 Rules of Thumb sets out the essential elements of low energy architecture in a fresh, intuitive way. In an area where ever-changing technology...
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Whole Life Sustainability
Whole Life Costing (WLC) needs to become a tool in the design process: that is the argument of this new title by Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett...
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Design for Climate Change
Climate change is a pressing concern for the construction sector. Building designers are already on the front line of reducing global greenhouse...
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Eco-minimalism (2nd edition): The antidote to eco-bling
Building energy-efficient, ecologically benign and sustainable buildings is complex since it comprises of a set of interdependent factors...
£24.99
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Green Buildings Tropical Gardens
The publication “Green Buildings, Tropical Gardens“ accompanies the exhibition at ifa Galleries Stuttgart (19.10.2012–06.01.2013...
£21.00
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City as Loft: Adaptive Reuse as a Resource for Sustainable Urban Development
A desire for urbanity, identity and indentification has been a major factor during the last thiry years in stimulating the preservation and...
£46.00
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Green Buildings Pay: Design, Productivity and Ecology
This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made...
£35.00
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Best Practices in Sustainable Building Design
This unique book and DVD is an interactive learning environment composed of seven content areas: building form, envelopes, structures, climate...
£59.95
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A+T 39-40 - Reclaim. Remediate Reuse Recycle
With this first instalment of the 'Reclaim' series, a+t interprets the works analysed and organises its discourse on the basis of “Re-actions...
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Urban Catalyst : The Power of Temporary Use
In many cities, urban wastelands and vacant structures suddenly metamorphose in exuberant places. After city planners and the real estate market...
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AD Reader - Urban Design Ecologies
Urban Design Ecologies Reader gives architects and urban planners critical tools to understand urban design today. Featuring essays by leaders in...
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Ecohouse: 4th Edition
Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that...
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A House in the City: Home Truths in Urban Architecture
What makes a great house in the city? This title examines what has worked well in some of the most successful housing types throughout the world...
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Creating Winning Bids
'Creating Winning Bids' sets out the key stages in the production of a winning bid. Based on tried and tested methods, and using a simple step-by...
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Good Practice Guide: Assessing Loss and Expense
Assessing Loss and Expense explains to architects and other construction industry professionals in accessible language how to assess the quantum...
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Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Technology
Mobility is a challenge that architecture has always had to confront; Aristotle was merely the first to philosophize about it. In the This book in...
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The Shard: The Official Guidebook
Designed by the internationally renowned architect Renzo Piano and developed by Irvine Sellar, The Shard is one of the worlds most striking new...
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Forms of Practice: German-Swiss Architecture 1980-2000
During the 1980s and ’90s, German-Swiss architecture gained worldwide acclaim for the novelty of its construction and its striking aesthetic...
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AIA 2010-2012 Designs Of The New Decade
This book presents award winning projects for the year 2010, 2011 and 2012 in four categories: architecture, interior architecture, regional and...
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Professional Studies in Architecture: A Primer
Aimed at students of architecture, this primer defines the critical subject area of professional studies which runs as a thread through the new...
£25.00
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agIdeas 2012: Design is Difference
Produced to celebrate agIdeas 2012, this book is an invaluable source of inspiration for anyone who buys design services, is a design educator, is...
£36.00
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Sports Architecture
Highlighting 47 sport buildings designed by the best architects from around the world. High quality images and detailed drawings throughout make it...
£32.00
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When Culture Meets Architecture
As the most individualized civil architecture, buildings for cultural events are the best stage for architects to practice their drams, to express...
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Architectural Guide: Japan
Contemporary Japanese architecture has, over half a century,achieved world-wide recognition not only for its highly innovative,often futuristic...
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