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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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Architect: The evolving story of a profession

The architect’s role is constantly adapting. Throughout history it has shifted significantly shaped by social cultural technological and economic forces. The very definition of what an architect is and does has evolved over time from lead builder or master mason to principal designer. A collaborative and reactive profession it is inextricably linked to the power of the patron whether the client is an influential and affluent individual or a political commercial civic or religious organisation. From Ancient Egypt where architects were members of the ruling class tied into the running of the empire to the 21st century when questions are being raised about the future of the profession this book with its engaging narrative explores the constant threads that remain as the profession adapts. While architects are no longer deified their ability to imagine a new impending reality in built form implies a visionary dimension to their work. By focusing on both the practicalities of the profession and the more intangible motivations behind design – humans’ need to make a mark upon their surroundings – this volume provides a critical overview of over 3000 years of practice and education. Looking at the key questions of where the architectural profession originated in the Western tradition why it is how it is today and where it might be going next the authors postulate that architects’ ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in the past will stand them in good stead for the uncertainties of the future. | Architect: The evolving story of a profession

GBP 32.00

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The Happy Design Toolkit Architecture for Better Mental Wellbeing

If you were to design a building that prioritises occupants’ happiness what would it look like? How would the materials form and layout support healthy ways of living and working? Delving into the evidenced-based research on architecture and mental wellbeing The Happy Design Toolkit helps you to create happier places. It explores how factors such as lighting comfort control over our environments and access to nature exercise and social interaction can impact how we feel. Easy-to-understand tips include bringing nature into your developments with roof gardens and living facades and countering social isolation with communal areas that encourage chance interaction. Each of the featured architectural interventions includes an analysis of the wellbeing benefits as well as the potential limitations or associated challenges. From sparking joy in individual homes and workplaces to encouraging healthier lifestyles through landscaping and urban design this book demonstrates how wellbeing concepts can be integrated across a range of scales and typologies. Packed with inspiration and advice The Happy Design Toolkit will breathe new life into your projects and help you create a happier and more inclusive built environment for everyone. Features real-world examples including Marmalade Lane co-housing by Mole Architects Francis Holland School by BDP Maggie’s Centre Oldham by dRMM Architects Kings Crescent Estate by Karakusevic Carson Architects and Happy Street by Yinka Ilori. Over 100 hand-drawn illustrations of design details and elevations. Essential reading for architects interior designers landscape architects and students. | The Happy Design Toolkit Architecture for Better Mental Wellbeing

GBP 37.00

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Reworking the Workplace Connecting people purpose and place

The office has changed forever. Emerging from the pandemic the workplace has undergone its greatest disruption since the dawn of the service economy. Covid has rewritten the rule book about how when where and even why we work. How can investors developers designers operators and users of office buildings navigate this new climate of uncertainty to create successful places to work in the future? Reworking the Workplace delves into this changing landscape. Divided into three sections – People Purpose and Place – it identifies the emerging trends in the reworking of work culture and offers insights into innovations and ideas that will inform the workplace of tomorrow. In doing so it recognises the enduring importance of physical place for meaningful human connection and explores how this must be refocussed in an increasingly virtual world. Featuring over 50 international case studies including Amazon Fresh Brent Cross Town London Capita Springs Singapore Carrefour Diageo Disney King’s College London Mission Rock San Francisco Salesforce Virgin Money and WeWork Tackles topical workplace themes: hybrid working wellbeing ESG operationalising working experience value of place experience destinations physical/virtual interface and future cities Combines essential design guidance with up-to-date workplace thinking throughout. | Reworking the Workplace Connecting people purpose and place

GBP 45.00

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Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

This is a practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of delivery through an array of design approaches and case studies it demystifies the concept and provides the tools for practical implementation - highlighting the challenges and opportunities on both small and large projects. | Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

GBP 38.00

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Smart Buildings Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

How is technology shaping our built environment and changing the practice of architecture? This book explores how buildings and spaces are designed built used and better understood through technology. A practical guide to technical advances including Internet of Things (IoT) 3D printing innovative materials and robotics Smart Buildings also outlines the opportunities for architecture including improved communication flexibility wellbeing productivity and data collection. Bringing together multidisciplinary contributions and case studies from across the globe this book provides an inspiring practical guide on how technology can inspire new architectural ideas improving quality comfort health and wellbeing in the built environment | Smart Buildings Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

GBP 45.00

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Contexts: The Work of Hodder + Partners

Contexts: The Work of Hodder + Partners brings together contributions from architectural writers academics and journalists to review the buildings culture and philosophy of Hodder Associates (now Hodder + Partners) founded in 1992. Including high-quality colour images of both the practice's own work and the influences on it this book will follow the themes of placemaking humanisation the influence of Arne Jacobsen and the essence of 'northerness' to place the practice's influence in context. A vital contribution to the history of one the UK's most important architectural practices Hodder + Partners.

GBP 30.00

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New Towns The Rise Fall and Rebirth

Often misunderstood the New Towns story is a fascinating one of anarchists artists visionaries and the promise of a new beginning for millions of people. New Towns: The Rise Fall and Rebirth offers a new perspective on the New Towns Record and uses case-studies to address the myths and realities of the programme. It provides valuable lessons for the growth and renewal of the existing New Towns and post-war housing estates and town centres including recommendations for practitioners politicians and communities interested in the renewal of existing New Towns and the creation of new communities for the 21st century. | New Towns The Rise Fall and Rebirth

GBP 42.00

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Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

This book is a practical guide for students or those already running or thinking of running a small practice on how to set up and run a small architectural practice and how to run multiple small projects efficiently. It is split into three distinct sections: Part 1 begins with the practicalities of setting up a small architectural business; Part 2 goes into detail on how to run your small practice including valuable advice on business planning and cash flow; and Part 3 follows with guidance on running multiple small projects. Structured around the RIBA Plan of Work this section has plenty of examples of the kinds of projects - both domestic and non-domestic - that the small practice might take on and finishing with 10 illustrated case studies of domestic and commercial projects from £50 000–£750 000. | Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

GBP 35.00

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Masterplanning for Change Designing the Resilient City

Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However this idea has still not been fully integrated in to practice. This book presents a practical approach to masterplanning the city and its areas (existing and new) as urban environments for the 21st century addressing the design of cities as complex adaptive systems. | Masterplanning for Change Designing the Resilient City

GBP 47.00

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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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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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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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The Access Audit Handbook An inclusive approach to auditing buildings

Our buildings and environments should be inclusive to all but how can we assess this? The Access Audit Handbook is an indispensable tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services. This book offers straightforward advice about undertaking access audits and explains how they make buildings environments and services more inclusive. Following the audit the book explains how each of the various report formats works best to communicate recommendations in the content of current legislation funding requirements and best practice in building management. Well established as the best resource for conducting access audits the third edition of The Access Audit Handbook is fully up to date with the latest legal and technical standards as well as developments in equipment and building maintenance. Featuring advice on: Commissioning an access audit Audit methodology Making recommendations Report writing The practical guidance is supported by case studies worked examples and checklists. | The Access Audit Handbook An inclusive approach to auditing buildings

GBP 40.00

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PHPP Illustrated A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

Passive House is a leading low energy building standard. An important tool for designing Passive House buildings is the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP). This book is an essential guide to the PHPP and sets out clear and easy-to-follow steps for inputting and understanding a building in PHPP. Fully-revised and updated this new edition provides essential updates on the latest version of the Planning Package - an essential read for any architects designers and students wanting utilise the PHPP as a design tool. A short pragmatic guide ideal for the time-poor A very visual easy-to-use guide allowing you to quickly get to grips with PHPP Designed for both practitioners and students - you don't need prior experience of low-energy or Passive House design. | PHPP Illustrated A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

GBP 47.00

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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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High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour. Town centres are the victims of these changes rather than the cause of them. To understand the current crisis and how it might be addressed this book takes a long view of retailing based on a hundred case studies. It looks at the way town centres responded to previous crises and explores current trends affecting town centres and how places are responding. The message is optimistic: adaptable town centres can once more become the diverse characterful independent places that existed before they were homogenised by big retail. Explore the past – understand the present – find a better future. | High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

GBP 40.00

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Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change Architecture and the Climate Emergency

Want to keep up with emerging design thinking and issues worldwide? Design Studio is a new thematic series that distils the most topical work and ideas from schools and practices globally. The first volume launches with a statement: Everything Needs to Change. Exploring architecture and the climate emergency editors Sofie Pelsmakers (author of Environmental Design Sourcebook) and Nick Newman (climate activist and Director at Studio Bark) are channelling the message of Greta Thunberg to inspire enthuse and inform the next generation of architects. Featuring articles building profiles and case studies from a range of leading voices it explores solutions to climatic environmental and social challenges. It urges readers to radically rethink what it means to be an architect in an era of climate crisis and what the role of the architect is or can be. Discover how using local materials working with nature radical design processes transformative learning and activism can help us find hope in the burning world. Together we can force change for a more sustainable and equitable tomorrow. This first volume is produced in four unique fluorescent colours – green red yellow and purple – to be your own poster for change. | Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change Architecture and the Climate Emergency

GBP 32.00

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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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Old Buildings New Ideas A Selective Architectural History of Additions Adaptations Reuse and Design Invention

Some architectural transformations are modest some are revolutionary. Shining a light on the hidden side of the accepted narrative of the history of architecture this book explores works which transform existing buildings to build a way forward through adaptations additions and visual shifts. Examining 30 buildings across Europe North America and South America spanning from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century it demonstrates the creative possibilities of working with existing buildings. The book reveals how formal inventions can shape architecture and our environment over time in a built world constantly in a state of becoming. As we face a climate emergency it taps into our deep cultural knowledge about the inventive use and re-use of buildings. Generously illustrated with architectural plans and over 300 colour images it provides an alternative to the dominant view which sees conservation and preservation of historic buildings as a 20th century creation. | Old Buildings New Ideas A Selective Architectural History of Additions Adaptations Reuse and Design Invention

GBP 45.00

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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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Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

Shaping our cities streets and public spaces urban design informs the places we live. It is a complex multi-disciplinary process requiring the input of a wide variety of stakeholders and design and construction professionals. Each urban project invariably throws up a new set of problems and strategic decisions for the design team. This guide distils the essential information required for the expert direction of the day-to-day work of urban design from strategic design to masterplanning through to character assessment and collaboration. Compact and accessible with over 250 hand-drawn figures and plans it's the perfect everyday companion for junior practitioners and experienced heads alike across the built environment. | Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

GBP 37.00

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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

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Age-friendly Housing

This book embeds the principles of how we should approach the design of future housing for an ageing population reminding us that this is not about ‘other people’ but about each of us. This book focuses on anticipating the needs and aspirations of the next generation of older people and touches on what this implies for our communities our towns and our cities as well as for our living spaces. It will look at how well-designed buildings can facilitate the provision of care support independence and wellbeing while providing companionship and stimulation. It will also examine how to ensure that buildings remain flexible over a long life. Dealing mainly with new-build but with a section on adaptation and refurbishment this book sets out the underlying design principles that should be applied and the early decisions that must be taken. | Age-friendly Housing

GBP 44.00

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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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The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

Architect: The evolving story of a profession

The Happy Design Toolkit Architecture for Better Mental Wellbeing

Reworking the Workplace Connecting people purpose and place

Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

Smart Buildings Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

Contexts: The Work of Hodder + Partners

New Towns The Rise Fall and Rebirth

Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

Masterplanning for Change Designing the Resilient City

The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy

Taste A cultural history of the home interior

Lead Designer's Handbook The Lead Designer and Design Management

The Access Audit Handbook An inclusive approach to auditing buildings

PHPP Illustrated A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change Architecture and the Climate Emergency

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

Old Buildings New Ideas A Selective Architectural History of Additions Adaptations Reuse and Design Invention

A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

Lives in Architecture Terry Farrell

Age-friendly Housing

New Work New Workspace Innovative design in a connected world

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