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e-topia

William Mitchell

0262632055
£10.50

Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definition so architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as...

ECO-MINIMALISIM - THE ANTIDOTE TO ECO-BLING 2ND EDITION

Howard Liddell

9781859464953
£24.99

Building energy-efficient, ecologically benign and sustainable buildings is complex since it comprises of a set of interdependent factors influenced by little-understood science. Buildings are all too often ‘greenwashed’ with eco-bling,...

Eco-Minimalism: The Antidote to Eco-Bling

Howard Liddell

9781859463000
£22.00

This book aims to expose the pitfalls of â??greenwashing' in an immediate, visually-arresting and authoritative way. The intention is to present basic tenets in a quickfire, highly accessible format that...

Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design

Ken Yeang

0470852917
£60.00

A highly informative and comprehensive manual on ecological design, Ecodesign demonstrates why our current approach to design and perception of architecture must now change radically if our planet is to...

ECOHOUSE 4TH EDITION

SUE ROAF

9780415526777
£34.99

RIAS 2013 CONVENTION SPEAKER Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind...

EDINBURGH COLONIES - HOUSING THE WORKERS

RICHARD RODGER

9781906134785
£11.99

Few cities can boast housing estates with the distinctiveness and charm of 'the Colonies' of Edinburgh. After a dispute in 1861 a group of building workers formed the Edinburgh Co-operative...

EDINBURGH STREET FURNITURE

DAVID BRANDON

9781848683884
£9.99

Edinburgh is now and indeed has for long been a city of stark juxtapositions and piquant contrasts. Historically it is a place of outstanding learning and culture, and yet it...

Edinburgh Through Time

Liz Hanson

9781445607078
£14.99

NEW 2012! This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Edinburgh has changed and developed over the last century. The unique profile of Edinburgh was...

EDUCATION, ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM - THREE UNIVERSITY PROJECTS

Keith Bradley

9781908967046
£24.95

Stirling Prize-winning architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS ) have developed an award-winning reputation for sustainable design and innovation and a strong track record in education and community buildings. The...

EK Modernism

Sylvia Grace Borda

0955312728
£20.00

As part of South Lanarkshire Council\'s Urban Cultural Programme 2005/06 Sylvia Grace Borda was invited to extend her research and visual arts enquiry into the New Town of East Kilbride....

El Croquis: In Progress II (2002-2003)

El Croquis (Ed)

9788488386359
£50.00

Substantial hardcover reprint which combines three previously released issues of El Croquis, namely the three volume issue 115/116 examining the work of Foreign Office Architects, Mansilla + Tu n and...

EMANUEL CHRIST & CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN - REVIEW NO1 - PICTURES FROM ITALY

EMANUEL CHRIST & CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN

9783906027005
£30.00

Christ & Gantenbein Review is a new series of books edited by Swiss architects Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, in which they explore issues and topics arising from their architectural...

Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades

Keller Easterling

9780262550659
£8.95

In 'Enduring Innocence', Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw 'spatial product' - resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal...

Engineering for a Finite Planet: Sustainable Structures by Buro Happold

Peter Davey, Catherine Slessor

9783764372200
£46.90

Our planet's resources are finite, and the engineer's work must take this fact into account. Sustainable elements should be foremost at every stage of a building's design, including the facade,...

Environmental Construction Handbook

Anne Dye, Mike McEvoy

9781859461631
£36.00

'Environmental Construction Handbook' is an illustrated analysis of the various specific sustainability challenges presented by different building types. Based on rigorous research, it examines the consequences of contemporary construction methods...

The Environmental Design Pocketbook

9781859463741
£25.00

The Environmental Design Pocketbook places the information you need for sustainable, low-energy building design at your fingertips. Packed with diagrams, tools, and tips, it cuts through the complex mass of...

An Essay for Today - The Scottish New Towns 1947 to 1997

David Cowling

9781873190470
£2.00

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Scotland's "New Towns", this illustrated volume focuses upon the towns as they are now, in 1997. David Cowling's study sets out to revisit this...

Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism

Bryan Bell, Katie Wakeford

978-1933045788
£17.95

"Expanding Architecture" presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors...

Exploring Boundaries: The Architecture of Wilkinson Eyre

Peter Davey, Kurt W Forster

3764375310
£39.90

This book offers detailed documentation of some 15 structures and projects, with special attention paid to the context of each design. The projects presented include the Stirling Prize-winning Magna Centre...

Facades: Building Envelopes for the 21st Century

Dirk Hindrichs, Winfried Heusler

9783764399597
£63.00

This is the third revised edition of this book and, like so much of Birkhauser's output, is bilingual in German/English. 'Facades' is a promotional vehicle for Schuco International, a major...

Facades: Technical Review

Andrew Watts

1859461840
£15.00

Part of the new Technical Review series, this RIBA CPD-approved book has been specifically written to present information in a way that is most useful to practising construction professionals in...

Falkirk and District:An Illustrated Architectural Guide

Richard Jaques

978-1873190081
£5.00

Read about Dunmore and its mouth-watering Pineapple. the great castles of Airth, Torwood, Almond and Castle Cary, Kinneil House with the finest Renaissance wall paintings in Scotland and Callendar House,...

Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture

Sylvia Lavin

9780262622134
£10.95

Sylvia Lavin's 'Form Follows Libido' argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the...

Forms of Constraint: A History of Prison Architecture

Norman Johnston

9780252074011
£14.99

From musty medieval dungeons to modern concrete cell-blocks, prison architecture reveals much about how a society sees fit to control and contain those who transgress its boundaries. Forms of Constraint...

Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability

Fred Moavenzadeh, Keisuke Hanaki, Peter Baccini

1402005415
£27.00

By the year 2050 cities with populations over three million will more than double from 70 today to over 150. This volume provides new ideas for managing the meg-cities of...

GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE BRITISH ISLES 1714-1830

JAMES STEVENS CURL

9781848020863
£50.00

First published in 1993, this is a fully revised and newly illustrated guide to the architecture of the British Isles during the reigns of the first four Georges (1714-1830). The...

Getting a Job in Architecture and Design

David Patterson

9780393732177
£15.99

This is a practical guide for architects or other design professionals looking for a good job. Better job-hunting skills lead to better jobs. Here, a seasoned architect shows how anyone,...

Gillespie, Kidd and Coia - Architecture 1956 - 1987

Editor: Johnny Rodger

9781873190586
£150.00

This engaging, in-depth analysis of the architectural language of the Scottish practice Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, provides a definitive catalogue and documentation of their projects through the years 1956-1987. The...

GLASGOW GREEN RENEWED

GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL

9781873190647
£50.00

Report on the ten year long Glasgow Green renewal project including a history of the Green's evolution and social relevance, feasibility reporting, fundraising, specific contracts including the restoration of major...

Glasgow Green Renewed: End of Project Report

Glasgow City Council

9781873190647
£50.00

For five and a half centuries, Glasgow Green has served the people of Glasgow. In the mid 1990s the City Council announced ambitious plans to regenerate the Green. This richly...

GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE - ASSESSING LOSS AND EXPENSE

JEFF WHITFIELD

9781859464458
£19.95

Assessing Loss and Expense explains to architects and other construction industry professionals in accessible language how to assess the quantum value of loss and expense claims arising from projects. The...

Good Practice Guide: Building Condition Surveys

Mike Hoxley

9781859463086
£19.95

This Good Practice Guide introduces the core knowledge and essential skills needed to undertake building condition surveys. Concentrating on the private homes sector â?? the source of most surveying work...

Good Practice Guide: Keeping Out of Trouble

Owen Luder

978-1859461815
£19.95

This guide highlights the areas where things consistently go wrong, listing common mistakes that with forethought can usually be either completely avoided or at the very least be mitigated. The...

Good Practice Guide: Marketing Your Practice

Helen Elias

9781859463079
£19.95

Drawing on the expertise of a range of industry insiders, this practical guide shows how effective marketing can give your practice the edge. With examples, tips and guidelines that can...

Good Practice Guide: Mediation

Andy Grossman

9781859463123
£19.95

The popularity of mediation as a form of alternative dispute resolution had increased steadily since it became an inherent part of the court system and was established in the Civil...

Good Practice Guide: Negotiating the Planning Maze

John Collins, Philip Moren

9781859463468
£15.00

The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 has changed the shape and complexity of the planning system in England and Wales significantly, in an effort to make it faster, fairer...

Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide

Sam Small

9781873190326
£10.00

Great ecclesiastical city, Tobacco Lord city, Merchant City, cotton city, industrial city, second city of the Empire: Glasgow has been all of these. Companion volume to Central Glasgow , this...

GREEN BUILDINGS PAY - DESIGN, PRODUCTIVITY AND ECOLOGY

BRIAN W. EDWARDS & EMANUELE NABONI

9780415685351
£35.00

This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has...

The Green Guide To Specification

Jane Anderson, David Shiers

978-1405119610
£69.50

The Green Guide to Specification provides robust information to assist decision-making by translating numerical life-cycle assessment data into a simple A+ to E scale of environmental ratings, enabling specifiers to...

Guide to DB05: JCT Design and Build Contract (DB)

Sarah Lupton

978-1859462690
£34.95

'Guide to DB05', the new edition of Sarah Lupton's very successful Guide to 'WCD98', is a practical guide to the operation and administration of the 'JCT Design and Build Contract'...

Guide to SBC05

Sarah Lupton

9781859461891
£44.50

'Guide to SBC05' acts as a working aid to the operation and administration of the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract (SBC05) which replaces the former JCT98. It provides a...

Hale Ir Sindries

W.D. Forde

XHALE
£14.99

This is a companion to 'The Paix Machine' which was published by the autor in 1996. Like its predecessor 'Hale Ir Sindries' is written in whole-hearted Scots, and aims to...

Hampshire and The Isle of Wight

Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd

9780300096064
£19.95

This southern county has a splendidly varied range of fine buildings. Winchester, with its Cathedral, Castle, College and churches, has some of the finest medieval architecture in England. At Southampton...

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (Pevsner Architectural Guides)

Nikolas Pevsner

0300096062
£19.95

Hampshire boasts some of England\'s finest buildings, set amid a still largely rural landscape. This architectual guide covers the county in superb detail, covering every building of note, from castles...

Handbook of Detailing: The Graphic Anatomy of Construction

Ralph Liebing

9783211991343
£55.99

Liebing is a proven expert and author of specialized literature. He is also a professor in the field of planning rendering and detailing and this is his somewhat different version...

Harden Drawings: Elegance and Entertainment in the New Town of Edinburgh

Iain Brown

1873190174
£4.95

The drawings of John Harden (1772-1847), a selection of which are reproduced in this book, form one of the most appealing and attractive minor treasures of the National Library of...

Hayes Davidson Book Two

Hayes Davidson

0954243110
£10.00

London based studio Hayes Davidson was established in 1989 and is widely credited with starting a revolution in architectural illustration through its pioneering use of computer graphics. Hayes Davidson's second...

Herefordshire - The Buildings of England

Alan Brooks and Nikolaus Pevsner

9780300125757
£35.00

Rich in new discoveries and fresh interpretation, this fully revised survey is the perfect companion and guide to one England's most beguiling counties. A profusion of black-and-white timber-framed houses testifies...

Hip Hotels UK

Herbert Ypma

0500286787
£15.00

For this latest addition to the "HIP Hotels" series, Herbert Ypma has journeyed almost 4,000 miles in search of that special combination of authenticity and style that defines a HIP...

HOK London: Diversity in Design

Kenneth Powell, Sir Peter Cook

9781856695534
£30.00

HOK is an international architectural practice that has established itself through its principles of good design in the context of sustainability. HOK London exemplifies this approach towards building in the...