Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today....Loe edasi...
This book examines how the geometric outcomes of spatialised algorithmic operations influence more complex human experiences of accessibility, belonging, and identity as well as shape the dynamics of equity, connectivity, privacy, and power in archi...Loe edasi...
Solar Powered Urbanization for a Sustainable Future presents a comprehensive and integrated approach to utilizing solar energy as a key solution for reducing grid dependency and pollution while fostering self-sufficient and cleaner urban centers....Loe edasi...
This book highlights innovative planning strategies for liveability and wellbeing of communities supported by lessons from notable international case studies, addressing varied issues including accommodating elderly populations, designing walkable c...Loe edasi...
This book employs narrative and imagery to tell stories of contestation, exploitation, and complication within the landscapes upon which the worlds green energy transition depends. Counternarratives propose alternatives to silver-bullet ecomodernism...Loe edasi...
This book explores the transition to the circular economy through a multi-dimensional lens, highlighting its necessity for a sustainable future. It analyses both public and network governance models essential for systemic transitions and contextuali...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jan-2026, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429329463)
This book critically examines the methodology of visual perception of urban places. Based on systematic study of different parameters derived from investigative research and on empirical analysis of Kolkata as a case, it discusses generic issues of...Loe edasi...
Spatial Justice: The Basics offers a concise and accessible introduction to spatial justice as both a theoretical framework and a practical agenda for urban transformation. It examines how urban space is produced, contested, and governed, and how it...Loe edasi...
Mobility Injustice by Design examines the social exclusion of vulnerable people in urban spaces, revealing how millions of citizens have their right to roam curbed by design and planning decisions made either intentionally to facilitate immobility o...Loe edasi...
This survey of lightweight specialty structures provides in-depth case studies supplemented with technical guidance and an overview of fundamental theories. Written for structural architecture students and early career professionals, this book is an...Loe edasi...
This book is an attempt to comprehend the reasons for modernity in the Balkans, through the figures of Le Corbusier and Josip Broz Tito. It presents a series of intersecting relations to trace a path that gives this region an unquestionably central...Loe edasi...
Creating Sensory Spaces celebrates spaces enlivened with sensual richness and provides you with the knowledge and tools necessary to create them. Drawing on numerous built case studies in ten countries and illustrated with over 85 full color images,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jan-2026, Kirjastus: River Publishers, ISBN-13: 9788743807223)
Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 43rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2025, the second volume of twelve from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engi...Loe edasi...
This handbook examines the important relationship between interior environments and their users, presenting diverse analyses of human-centred design approaches....Loe edasi...
First published in 2002, Germain Boffrands Livre dArchitecture is one of the most original books on architecture ever written in France. Translated for the first time the text is accompanied by an extensive introduction and notes which explain Bof...Loe edasi...
This book calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination of common and marginalised precedents. It offers an alternative to the compulsion to normalise, universalise, repeat, and re-enact, tra...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking study examines courtyard architecture across Paris, Florence, Siena, Granada, and Yazd to reveal how the deliberate creation of emptinessthe bounded voidfunctions as architectures primary generative principle....Loe edasi...
Good Houses brings together the design process, building science, and the environmental systems that can be used by both teachers and students in teaching and learning about designing good, responsible houses. It is essential reading for those desig...Loe edasi...
This new English edition of Roman Building makes available the most up-to-date revision of the text to a new generation of English scholars of Roman architecture and technology....Loe edasi...
Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life. This volume explores how cartographic practices are being reimagined across disciplines to understand and re...Loe edasi...
In this book, Michael Cassidy argues that the built environment should be designed to last physically for a very long time, saving on valuable material resources. This is essential reading for practising architects, those entering the profession, an...Loe edasi...
Building Information Modeling: Framework for Structural Design introduces a structure and architecture synergy (SAS) framework that helps develop and enhance the understanding of the fundamental principles of architectural analysis using BIM tools....Loe edasi...
Designers seek moments of creative bliss when everything aligns, stress dissolves, and decisions flow effortlessly. These in the zone experiences keep creatives inspired. This book uncovers the dynamic nature of the design process, shedding light on...Loe edasi...
Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK....Loe edasi...
Through the presentation of original research and diverse case studies, the book inspires students and designers alike to expand their knowledge and practice....Loe edasi...
This book critically reflects on dominant landscape techniques, discusses landscapes that are marginalised through globalising market forces, and focuses on the collective nature of landscapesfrom planetary climates to intimate private spaces....Loe edasi...
This book aims to illustrate the value of design in a systematic and scientific manner, to reap the full benefits of design. The authors aim to address the challenges in the quantification and evaluation of the value of design....Loe edasi...
Detroit: A City Imagined in Film is a survey of prominent feature films depicting or referring to Detroit, and how they have captured and fed popular perceptions about the Motor City....Loe edasi...
Through its engagement with the ground-breaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a history of architecture seen from the building site, this book sets out a programme for a new field of Production Studies for architectu...Loe edasi...
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-garde takes a terminological, sociological and semiological approach that develops by tracing the avant-garde in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process...Loe edasi...
In this translation and editing of the four books by Mohammad Fawaz, Director of Lebanons Directorate General of Urbanism from 1974 to 1993, Christine Mady provides a unique insight into the development and urban planning of Lebanon and its capital...Loe edasi...
This book describes one hundred memorable places that have been important in the architectural career of the author. The illustrated essays provide insights from a variety of buildings and places on five continents: from different eras, from the eve...Loe edasi...
This book explores how urban sustainability is negotiated and enacted through planning practices, narratives, and institutional change. It does so through the case of Aalborg, to illustrate transitions that are shaped by urgency, legitimation and im...Loe edasi...
This edited volume explores the agency of environmental media in architectural production. As design disciplines confront the changing landscapes and consequences of climate breakdown, media for communicating socio-environmental relations play an in...Loe edasi...
Vacant Land Regeneration provides readers with a comprehensive and transformative understanding of vacant land regeneration. Through the lens of influential research, groundbreaking case studies, and future trends, the book equips readers with the k...Loe edasi...
This book reconceptualizes tall buildings as civic agents that deliver spatial legibility, cultural significance, and vibrant social interaction by embedding placemaking at the heart of vertical development. It articulates ten pragmatic planning and...Loe edasi...
Architect and urban planner Frans van der Werf discloses in this book his own experiences as one of the pioneers of the worldwide Open Building approach. This book is essential reading for students, architects, urbanists, developers and city authori...Loe edasi...
Construct introduces a new category of architecture and engineering in our cities. These structures are highly visible, large-scale and built without traditional designers. These constructions represent an overlooked but significant aspect of our ur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Dec-2025, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003600466)
This book examines the concept of smart cities in the context of the UNs sustainable development goals, through three Mediterranean port cities....Loe edasi...
This study focusses on the moment in the history of modern art, during the 1950s when sculptors and architects began to use concrete to create a previous impossible fusion of their respective art forms and the mutual influences between sculpture and...Loe edasi...
This architectural design book re-examines the apartment block as a design model, for today and tomorrow, through a simple, flexible and explicit design approach. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this book is essential reading for any architect...Loe edasi...
Seamlessly combining architecture with cognitive science and neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology, and social theory and anthropology, in clear, direct and engaging prose, this book will be essential reading for all architecture s...Loe edasi...
This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder. It stands as both a scholarly tribute to Gunders intellectual legacy an...Loe edasi...
Speculative Architecture after Minoritarian Futurisms is a work of architectural theory which understands architecture as a practice of speculation analogous to science fiction....Loe edasi...
Integrated Perspectives in Offsite Construction offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted aspects of offsite construction and addresses critical gaps to advance this promising field....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the questions of how one might approach using this method in landscape architectural design, what the outcome of such an indeterminate design would be, and whether or not it could lead to a viable constructed landscape....Loe edasi...
This book explores how privately owned public spaces (POPS) are presented today as desirable additions to urban redevelopment projects, regardless of their inherently divisive social impact, usually delivered through, amongst other factors, carefull...Loe edasi...
The richly illustrated book carefully situates architecture, design, and urban planning within Kolkatas political economy and social milieu....Loe edasi...
This first comprehensive overview of the process of commissioning and financing the construction of cathedrals in the Middle Ages reveals a financing system almost as monumental as the cathedrals themselves....Loe edasi...
