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A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

‘It was like heaven! It was like a palace even without anything in it … We’d got this lovely lovely house. ’ In 1980 there were well over 5 million council homes in Britain housing around one third of the population. The right of all to adequate housing had been recognised in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights but long before that popular notions of what constituted a ‘moral economy’ had advanced the idea that everyone was entitled to adequate shelter. At its best council housing has been at the vanguard of housing progress – an example to the private sector and a lifeline for working-class and vulnerable people. However with the emergence of Thatcherism the veneration of the free market and a desire to curtail public spending council housing became seen as a problem not a solution. We are now in the midst of a housing crisis with 1. 4 million fewer social homes at affordable rent than in 1980. In this highly illustrated survey eminent social historian John Boughton author of Municipal Dreams examines the remarkable history of social housing in the UK. He presents 100 examples from the almshouses of the 16th century to Goldsmith Street the 2019 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize. Through the various political aesthetic and ideological changes the well-being of community and environment demands that good housing for all must prevail. Features: 100 examples of social housing from all over the UK illustrated with over 250 images including photographs and sketches. A complete history dating from early charitable provision to ‘homes for heroes’ garden villages to new towns multi-storey tower blocks and modernist developments to contemporary sustainable housing. Iconic estates including: Alton East and West Becontree Dawson’s Heights Donnybrook Quarter Dunboyne Road and Park Hill. Projects from leading architects and practices including: Peter Barber Neave Brown Karakusevic Carson Kate Macintosh and Mikhail Riches. | A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

GBP 42.00

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Wellbeing in Interiors Philosophy Design and Value in Practice

This 4-colour practical guide explores how the design of interior spaces impacts wellbeing. In the built environment this topic is generally overlooked even though it is one of the most important topics in sustainable building. This book will enable project teams to understand how specific decisions about sustainable design and materials can be implemented on a day to day basis. Each Part ends by placing each issue into context exploring how it is a part of sustainable design and includes practical examples. This books raises awareness of the impact interior environments have on wellbeing and provide details and guidance on how to immediately apply the knowledge in this book to short and long term projects. It also quantifies the impacts in financial and other value terms making this book immediately useful in a designer's day-to-day work. | Wellbeing in Interiors Philosophy Design and Value in Practice

GBP 37.00

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Lives in Architecture Peter Cook

Peter Cook has been a pivotal figure within the architecture world for over half a century. He first came to international renown in the 1960s as a founder of the radical experimental group Archigram winners of the 2002 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. He is also former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London and Emeritus Professor and former Chair of the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London). Suffused with Peter’s infectious energy enthusiasm and charm this intriguing memoir explores major themes in architecture through the lens of his life and work. Taking the reader on a journey through his colourful and wide-ranging career it touches on his early years and architectural education his relationships with key figures within the architecture community and his work teaching and lecturing internationally. It also provides an inside account of his leadership of the Bartlett for which he is frequently credited as a central figure in rescuing the reputation of a once-ailing now world-famous school of architecture. Featuring full-colour images of his most famous drawings including Archigram’s ‘Plug-in City’ and built works such as the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria and the Vienna Economics and Business University’s Department of Law and Central Administration Buildings this book is a window into the life of one of architecture’s most celebrated rebels. | Lives in Architecture Peter Cook

GBP 33.00

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Lives in Architecture Terry Farrell

Terry Farrell is one of Britain’s most influential architects of the twenty-first century. Offering a compelling personal account of his life in architecture as an influential postmodern designer architect-planner and principal of a leading global practice this autobiography includes anecdotes and invaluable insights into Terry’s life and work from the 1940s to the present day. An inside view of what it’s like to be an architect at the top of his profession this book also highlights what it takes to develop a successful international practice. Offers the inside view of what it is like to be an architect at the top of his profession including insights into the defining projects and watershed moments of Sir Terry Farrell's career Provides the inside story on some of Terry Farrell’s most significant buildings and projects including Charing Cross Station The MI6 Building Alban Gate and Beijing South Railway Station Abundantly illustrated with over 80 images including personal photos and images of key buildings. | Lives in Architecture Terry Farrell

GBP 33.00

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The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy

This book is a call to arms to all architects designers and built environment professionals. To avoid a climate catastrophe and achieve a regenerative built environment the use of new materials and any excess waste in resources need to be cut out from the very beginning of the design process. This requires far-reaching change in established industry processes. How might this begin? What are the key fundamentals you need to know? How can a more effective model be applied? This book a much-updated second edition of the author’s previous work Building Revolutions answers all your questions. Inspiring but never overwhelming the Handbook to Building a Circular Economy is your must-have companion to helping create a more sustainable future. It explains in simple and practical terms how the principles of a circular economy can be applied to the built environment thereby reducing the resources required to construct fit-out maintain and refurbish buildings. Case studies include: The Forge UK by Landsec The Bath School of Art UK by Grimshaw Urban Mining and Recycling Experimental Unit Switzerland by Werner Sobek NASA Sustainability Base USA by William McDonough + Partners University of East Anglia Enterprise Centre UK by Architype Park 20|20 The Netherlands by William McDonough + Partners.

GBP 34.00

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Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

Architecture needs women. How can the built environment be designed without the expert input of half the population? In spite of the significant number of women choosing to study architecture as undergraduates once qualified women remain in the minority. As professionals their expertise is often overlooked their work devalued and their contribution to the canon forgotten. Yet women’s work is critical to the sustainability of a profession that must aspire to design high-quality buildings for the whole of society. How can architecture attract recruit and retain women? And how can women find ways to thrive within it? Underpinned by inclusion internationalism and intersectionality this practical guide looks back as well as forward exploring the history of women working in architecture as well as interrogating the contemporary landscape. It provides guidance tips and examples for navigating key points in an architect’s career including education practice projects and promotion. Inspiring case studies of women and women-led practices consider what success means and how to negotiate a route to a fruitful career and a balanced life as an architect. The book covers women architects from all walks of life all sizes of practice and from all over the world including Jeanne Gang Yasmeen Lari and Anupama Kundoo as well as many other historical and contemporary women architects and emerging practices. Featuring guidance on: Understanding the barriers and history of women in architecture Expanding the opportunities and visibility of women in leading roles The importance of role models and mentoring. With a foreword by Jane Duncan OBE PPRIBA. | Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

GBP 35.00

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Rescue and Reuse Communities Heritage and Architecture

Historic buildings and places play an essential role in the everyday lives of the people of the UK their cultural identity and the economy. They can inspire creativity and enterprise bring communities together and make people happier about where they live. This book explores how historic buildings across the UK have been brought back to life through the technical and enabling skills creativity and sensitivity of architects. Exemplar projects explored through richly illustrated case studies demonstrate the value to society of re-using historic buildings and will inspire a new generation of architects to get involved with community heritage projects at a time of great opportunity. Drawing on interviews with architects and their community clients this book explores the challenges that they face how they are overcome and the benefits that follow. | Rescue and Reuse Communities Heritage and Architecture

GBP 44.00

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Desire Lines A Guide to Community Participation in Designing Places

Desire lines are the paths that people create through regular usage. They appear where people repeatedly choose to walk and usually signify a route from A to B that’s quicker than the formal path provided. In most cases they indicate the mismatch between what local people want and what designers think people want. By employing some social research basics in the design development process placemakers can work more meaningfully with local communities to meet their needs and aspirations. This is a practical guide to running public consultations co-design and community engagement to help practitioners make the most of local knowledge and insight for the benefit of design. It offers guidance on managing community participation and unapologetically aims to encourage designers to start thinking like social researchers when they undertake these programmes. It’s intended for placemakers - architects urban designers landscape architects and other built environment professionals involved in the planning and design of public realm - who want to develop more people-centred community-led design approaches. | Desire Lines A Guide to Community Participation in Designing Places

GBP 32.00

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Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

‘The advent of machine learning-based AI systems demands that our industry does not just share toys but builds a new sandbox in which to play with them. ’ - Phil Bernstein The profession is changing. A new era is rapidly approaching when computers will not merely be instruments for data creation manipulation and management but empowered by artificial intelligence they will become agents of design themselves. Architects need a strategy for facing the opportunities and threats of these emergent capabilities or risk being left behind. Architecture’s best-known technologist Phil Bernstein provides that strategy. Divided into three key sections – Process Relationships and Results – Machine Learning lays out an approach for anticipating understanding and managing a world in which computers often augment but may well also supplant knowledge workers like architects. Armed with this insight practices can take full advantage of the new technologies to future-proof their business. Features chapters on: Professionalism Tools and technologies Laws policy and risk Delivery means and methods Creating consuming and curating data Value propositions and business models. | Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

GBP 37.00

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Social Housing Definitions and Design Exemplars

This is a growing sector undergoing a huge period of change - with local authorities able to build their own housing for the first time in decades. Social Housing: Definitions and Design Exemplars explores how social/affordable housing has been delivered and designed with success throughout the UK in the last 10 years. Weaving together exemplar case studies essays and interviews with social housing pioneers and clients this book demonstrates real-life best practice responses to the challenges associated with housing provision with a focus on design ideas. | Social Housing Definitions and Design Exemplars

GBP 47.00

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New Work New Workspace Innovative design in a connected world

Does it matter where and how we work any more? Increasingly many of us can work anywhere so what is the meaning of the dedicated workspace? With 30 detailed case studies of all kinds of workspaces – from traditional workspaces to writer’s sheds and studios – this book argues that a specific place to work is still needed but that the kind of space is changing fast. As social interaction is favoured over places to toil and as millennials and Generation X take a very different attitude to work than their predecessors being more concerned with completing tasks than presenteeism so the needs of design change. There are increasing metrics for measuring the effectiveness of workspace and they show that good design – design that is focused on the environment and wellbeing that the workforce needs – is valued. At the same time there are more generic spaces such as co-working spaces that have to fit all – or at least all of the target community. Case studies include: 80 Atlantic Avenue Toronto Nick Veasey studio and gallery Kent Kostner House Italy GS1 Lisbon. | New Work New Workspace Innovative design in a connected world

GBP 38.00

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New Design for Old Buildings

This book is a celebration of good new design for old buildings and the SPAB philosophy that good new architecture can sit happily alongside old and is preferable to pastiche. Endorsing the value of architects who are engaged to work in the historic environment this book explores design materials and technical considerations in creating the best low energy ecological and sustainable retrofits. It has never been more important to understand how old buildings can be adapted to make them useful and sustainable in the future. Showcasing the best examples of imaginative design and best practice this book illustrates how old buildings can be made sustainable through the best new design and puts these design exemplars into a historical and philosophical context. With illustrative case studies and interviews throughout including formal buildings churches domestic buildings commercial industrial and agricultural from all periods in the UK New Design for Old Buildings provides essential guidance on good imaginative new design for old buildings.

GBP 45.00

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Radical Housing Designing multi-generational and co-living housing for all

Radical Housing explores the planning technical financial health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-living. Abundantly illustrated with case studies and plans from projects across the UK and abroad this book inform sand inspires the delivery of alternative approaches to affordable and flexible housing and is an essential text for architecture practitioners students and community groups. | Radical Housing Designing multi-generational and co-living housing for all

GBP 44.00

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Lead Designer's Handbook The Lead Designer and Design Management

Despite co-ordination being the principal focus of the Lead Designer’s role there is very little written about how to undertake these duties. What tools can the Lead Designer use to address the many complexities of developing a design as part of an iterative process? How can the Lead Designer redefine what they do using a digital world to provide profoundly different and new services? This book analyses at all of these questions setting out how the Lead Designer can perform effectively and efficiently in the digital world addressing clients’ new whole life project requirements and new ways of constructing and assembling buildings. Managing increasing numbers of specialists in the construction process requires experience to ensure that their contributions are properly managed and produced at the right time. This book considers this challenge. It will also consider how the Lead Designer can effectively lead and manage health and safety aspects and risks (the principal designer role in UK regulations). | Lead Designer's Handbook The Lead Designer and Design Management

GBP 40.00

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How to Thrive at Architecture School A Student Guide

Studying architecture is hugely exciting and rewarding. It entails developing design skills problem-solving abilities and tapping into creativity as well as acquiring cultural technical and professional knowledge. This book is the go-to guide for students throughout their architectural education. It introduces architecture students to all they need to know to get on an architecture course thrive at school and be prepared for the realities of becoming a practising architect. Split into three main sections – Part I (BA or BSC in Architecture) Part II (Masters or Diploma) and Part III (Advanced Diploma in Professional Practice) – it offers direction on all aspects of an architectural education. These range from initial tutorials the first crit and essay-writing through to the development of final project and thesis work. Covering all bases it is a comprehensive guide for a student’s passage from university preparation through to undergraduate and graduate study and out into the profession. It features RIBA UK architecture schools and those validated overseas as well as a short final chapter on architectural education elsewhere in the world. | How to Thrive at Architecture School A Student Guide

GBP 24.00

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21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

Many people dream of commissioning an architect to design their perfect home. It is a commitment that takes time and money but having a bespoke space built around your specific needs interests and desires can be life-changing. So what makes an award-winning 21st-century house? The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has been championing outstanding work for over 180 years and the internationally recognised RIBA awards celebrate the very best in British architecture. The winning houses featured here showcase truly innovative design contemporary materials and techniques and inspired responses to historical and urban settings as well as areas of natural beauty. By working closely with clients every step of the way the architects’ extraordinary buildings redefine what ‘home’ looks like. This compilation of some of the best RIBA award-winning houses from the last ten years offers an essential source of ideas and inspiration for the contemporary British home. From a sustainable townhouse to a modern cottage a hillside home to a lakeside escape these houses are show-stopping examples of architects surpassing their clients’ loftiest dreams. Featuring: The best RIBA award-winning houses from the last decade Houses from each region of the UK A rich variety of projects – from new builds to conversions to extensions Case studies from esteemed practices including: Alison Brooks Architects Chris Dyson Architects Foster Lomas Henning Stummel Architects Mole Architects and Tonkin Liu Guidance for working with architects. | 21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

GBP 45.00

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Queer Spaces An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories

An independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Havana where strawberry is the queerest choice. A cathedral in ruins in Managua occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community. Queer people have always found ways to exist and be together and there will always be a need for queer spaces. In this lavishly illustrated volume Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell have gathered together a community of contributors to share stories of spaces that range from the educational to the institutional to the re-appropriated and many more besides. With historic contemporary and speculative examples from around the world Queer Spaces recognises LGBTQIA+ life past and present as strong vibrant vigorous and worthy of its own place in history. Looking forward it suggests visions of what form these spaces may take in the future to continue uplifting queer lives. Featured spaces include: Black Lesbian and Gay Centre London Category Is Books Glasgow Christopher Street New York Coppelia Havana New Sazae Tokyo ONE Institute for Homophile Studies Los Angeles Pop-Up spaces Dhaka Queer House Party Online Santiago Apóstol Cathedral Managua Trans Memory Archive Buenos Aires Victorian Pride Centre Melbourne | Queer Spaces An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories

GBP 42.00

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Taste A cultural history of the home interior

Democratic in intention and approach the book will argue that the home interior as independently created by the ‘amateur’ householder offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the design mainstream. Indeed it will suggest that the popular increasingly exerts an influence on the professional. Underpinned by academic rigour but not in thrall to it above all this book is an engaging attempt to identify the cultural drivers of aesthetic change in the home extrapolating the wider influence of ‘taste’ to a broad audience – both professional and ‘trade’. In so doing it will explore enthralling territory – money class power and influence. Illustrated with contemporary drawings and cartoons as well as photos the book will not only be an absorbing read but an enticing and attractive object in itself. | Taste A cultural history of the home interior

GBP 42.00

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The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

A club house in a castle in the West End of London complete with battlements and turrets from 1882. A design for the post-war reconstruction of the City of London in 1945. A fantasy landscape featuring Le Corbusier’s Capriccio of Notre-Dame du Haut in ruins. A section of a 19th-century townhouse showing a slice of the staircase wallpaper winding from deep navy on the ground floor to pale sky blue at the top. This is a treasury of architectural drawing from the 16th century to the present day. Exploring both how and why architects draw it offers a rich visual history from Palladio Inigo Jones and Augustus Pugin to contemporaries such as Richard Rogers Foster Associates and Zaha Hadid via Sir Christopher Wren George Gilbert Scott and Erno Goldfinger and everything else in between. From back-of-envelope concept sketches to painstaking pen and ink perspectives exploded axonometrics and born-digital drawings this book celebrates the full gamut of architectural representation. With over 200 lush full-colour reproductions this is a window into soul of architectural drawing over the past five hundred years. Includes newly digitised never-seen-before material from the RIBA Collections one of the largest architectural archives in the world. Explores rare drawings and designs from John Nash Sir Edwin Lutyens Frank Lloyd Wright and many more. Insightful commentary alongside each drawing ensures that they are as accessible and engaging as possible. Wide-ranging in scope this book will both inspire and inform. | The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

GBP 45.00

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Nature Inside A biophilic design guide

Written by a leading proponent of biophilic design this is the only practical guide to biophilic design principles for interior designers. Describing the key benefits principles and processes of biophilic design Nature Inside illustrates the implementation of biophilic design in interior design practice across a range of international case studies – at different scales and different typologies. Starting with the principles of biophilic design and the principles and processes in practice the book then showcases a variety of interior spaces – residential retail workplace hospitality education healthcare and manufacturing. The final chapter looks ‘outside the walls’ giving a case study at the campus and city scale. With practical guidance and real-world solutions that can be directly-applied in day-to-day practice this is a must-have for designers interested in applying biophilic principles. | Nature Inside A biophilic design guide

GBP 47.00

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Chinese Urban Transformation A Tale of Six Cities

Now an established global force China has experienced a sustained period of staggering economic growth since policy reform in the 1970s. Chinese urbanisation is the most significant example of economic environmental and social change both within China and globally. In recent years central government has made a concerted effort to encourage city governments to realign their priorities and achieve a balance between economic efficiency social justice and environmental protection. Chinese Urban Transformation: A Tale of Six Cities is a fascinating exploration of the dramatic development Chinese cities have undergone. Tracing this transformation through a comprehensive analysis of social and economic change in six cities it unravels the complex relationship between policy outlook and role that urban development plays in China’s view of itself including the tensions resulting from rapid social and economic change. | Chinese Urban Transformation A Tale of Six Cities

GBP 42.00

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Think Like An Architect How to develop critical creative and collaborative problem-solving skills

Do you know how to think like an architect? Do you know why you should? How do you make sure that you have the critical thinking tools necessary to prosper in your academic and professional career? This book gives you the answers. Architects have a valuable and critical set of multiple thinking types that they develop throughout the design process. In this book Randy Deutsch shows readers how to access those thinking types and use them outside pure design thinking – showing how they can both solve problems but also identify the problems that need solving. To think the way the best architects do. With a clear driving narrative peppered with anecdote stories and real-life scenarios this book will future-proof the architectural student. Change is coming in the architecture profession and this is a much-needed exploration of the critical thinking skills that architects have in abundance but that are not taught well enough within architecture schools. These skills are crucial in being able to respond agilely to a future that nobody is quite sure of. | Think Like An Architect How to develop critical creative and collaborative problem-solving skills

GBP 33.00

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Healthy Placemaking Wellbeing Through Urban Design

In modern-day society the main threats to public health are now considered ‘avoidable illnesses’ which are often caused by a lack of exercise and physical activity. Research suggests that architectural and urban design strategies play an important role in reducing the amount of avoidable illnesses by enabling physical activity through healthier streets. Practitioners must now consider how they can encourage people to lead healthier lifestyles and improve health through urban design. This book presents the path to healthier cities through six core themes - urban planning walkable communities neighbourhood building blocks movement networks environmental integration and community empowerment. Each theme is presented with an overview of the issues the solutions and how to apply them practically with exemplars and precedents. It's an essential text that provides practitioners across urban design architecture master planning with the necessary knowledge and guidance to understand their role in producing healthier places and put it in to practice. | Healthy Placemaking Wellbeing Through Urban Design

GBP 37.00

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RIBA Climate Guide

Climate change is a threat to humankind which requires immediate action. The built environment has a vital role to play in responding to the climate emergency. There is a pressing need for architects to acquire the requisite skills and knowledge to design buildings that deliver sustainable outcomes meeting the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge and mandatory competence in climate literacy. Equipping you with the key information that built environment professionals require to halt climate change and mitigate its impacts in your day-to-day work this book is organised around six overarching topics: 1. Human Factors 2. Circular Economy 3. Energy and Carbon 4. Water 5. Ecology and Biodiversity 6. Connectivity and Transport Featuring images and original illustrations each themed section will guide you through fundamental elements and competencies for creating a sustainable design and delivery framework that can be implemented by you in your practice. Contextualising the climate emergency within the built environment landscape the guide maps out the essential background knowledge around climate science international agreements legislations commitments and roadmaps. A collection of short building- and urban-scale case studies present key takeaways illustrating real-life applications of design strategies and industry-wide tools as well as standards that are deployed in climate-conscious built environments all around the world. | RIBA Climate Guide

GBP 40.00

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How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

You are a great designer but no-one knows. Now what? This indispensable book written by one of the most influential marketers in architecture will demystify Public Relations and marketing for all architects whether in large practices or practicing as sole practitioners. It bridges the distance between architects and marketing by giving practical tips best practice and anecdotes from an author with 20 years’ experience in architecture marketing. It explains all aspects of PR and Business Development for architects: for example how to write a good press release; how to make a fee proposal; how to prepare for a pitch. It gives examples of how others do it well and the pitfalls to avoid. In addition it discusses more general aspects which are linked to PR and BD such as being a good employer ethics for architects and the challenges when working abroad. Featuring vital insights from a wide variety of architects from multinational practices to small offices this book is an essential companion to any architectural office. | How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

GBP 34.00

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A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

Wellbeing in Interiors Philosophy Design and Value in Practice

Lives in Architecture Peter Cook

Lives in Architecture Terry Farrell

The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy

Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

Rescue and Reuse Communities Heritage and Architecture

Desire Lines A Guide to Community Participation in Designing Places

Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Social Housing Definitions and Design Exemplars

New Work New Workspace Innovative design in a connected world

New Design for Old Buildings

Radical Housing Designing multi-generational and co-living housing for all

Lead Designer's Handbook The Lead Designer and Design Management

How to Thrive at Architecture School A Student Guide

21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

Queer Spaces An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories

Taste A cultural history of the home interior

The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

Nature Inside A biophilic design guide

Chinese Urban Transformation A Tale of Six Cities

Think Like An Architect How to develop critical creative and collaborative problem-solving skills

Healthy Placemaking Wellbeing Through Urban Design

RIBA Climate Guide

How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

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