Category: Architecture

30 books

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Matthew Frederick

MIT Press, 2007-08-31

Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of “How to Draw a Line” ...

213 pages View Details

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture

Francis D. K. Ching

John Wiley & Sons, 2011-12-30

The classic, bestselling reference on architecture now revised and expanded! An essential one-volume reference of archit...

340 pages View Details

Architects' Data

Ernst Neufert, Peter Neufert

John Wiley & Sons, 2012-03-26

Neufert's Architects' Data is an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project. It provi...

609 pages View Details

Building Construction Illustrated

Francis D. K. Ching

John Wiley & Sons, 2019-12-13

The #1 visual guide to building construction principles, updated with the latest materials, methods, and systems For ove...

515 pages View Details

Cities and Affordable Housing

Sasha Tsenkova

Routledge, 2021-09-06

This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing o...

407 pages View Details

Cognitive Architecture

Ann Sussman, Justin B Hollander

Routledge, 2014-09-25

*Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association 2016 Place Research Award!* In Cognitive Architecture, the auth...

240 pages View Details

Conceptual Design of Structures

Pierluigi D'Acunto, Patrick Ole Ohlbrock, Roland Pawlitschko

Birkhäuser, 2024-04-22

Most of the embodied energy can be saved in the load-bearing structure! Conceptual Design of Structures is working at th...

224 pages View Details

Corrosion and Protection of Reinforced Concrete

Brian Cherry, Warren Green

CRC Press, 2021-03-16

Reinforced concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world, and extended performance is rightly expe...

403 pages View Details

Cost Accounting and Financial Management for Construction Project Managers

Len Holm

Routledge, 2018-09-03

Proper cost accounting and financial management are essential elements of any successful construction job, and therefore...

400 pages View Details

Creating Sensory Spaces

Barbara Erwine

Routledge, 2016-12-19

Creating Sensory Spaces celebrates spaces enlivened with sensual richness and provides you with the knowledge and tools ...

310 pages View Details

Dictionary of Landscape Architecture and Construction

Alan Christensen

McGraw Hill Professional, 2005-04-07

A unique, comprehensive reference that defines the language of today's landscape architecture, planning, construction, a...

493 pages View Details

Essential Cob Construction

Anthony Dente, Michael G. Smith, Massey Burke

New Society Publishers, 2024-01-16

Setting the standard for modern cob construction – from design, engineering, and building code compliance, to sculptin...

266 pages View Details

Experiment in Architecture

Frank Stepper, Timo Carl, Sarah Blahut

Birkhäuser, 2023-09-05

Dare experiments! The book documents the teaching philosophy developed at the chair of experimental design by Frank Step...

152 pages View Details

Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling

Erika Epstein

Artech House, 2012

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of generating and managing building data during a building's lifecycl...

272 pages View Details

Informal Urbanization in Latin America

Christian Werthmann

Routledge, 2021-07-14

Various kinds of informal and extra-legal settlements—commonly called shantytowns, favelas, or barrios—are the preva...

209 pages View Details

Integrating Innovation in Architecture

Ajla Aksamija

John Wiley & Sons, 2016-12-06

Today’s design professionals are faced with challenges on all fronts. They need not only to keep in step with rapid te...

461 pages View Details

Integrating Innovation in Architecture

Ajla Aksamija

John Wiley & Sons, 2016-12-06

Today’s design professionals are faced with challenges on all fronts. They need not only to keep in step with rapid te...

461 pages View Details

Interior Design

Roderick Adams

Routledge, 2020-06-09

As the globe shrinks and the concept of distance diminishes, this text challenges the current status quo by identifying ...

389 pages View Details

Offsite Architecture

Ryan E. Smith, John D. Quale

Routledge, 2017-03-16

Architects have been intrigued by prefabricated construction since the early twentieth century. Recent advances in desig...

341 pages View Details

Prefabricated and Modular Architecture

William Hogan-O'Neill

The Crowood Press, 2021-02-22

Prefabricated and Modular Architecture demystifies age-old perceptions surrounding prefabrication and modularization of ...

434 pages View Details

Public Space Reader

Miodrag Mitrašinović, Vikas Mehta

Routledge, 2021-03-30

Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism, public uprising, and political protest have brough...

563 pages View Details

SPON'S Landscape and External Works Price Book, 1993

Derek Lovejoy and Partners, Davis Langdon & Everest, Davis, Langdon, and Everest (Firm)

, 1990

227 pages View Details

Structural Design

James R. Underwood, Michele Chiuini

John Wiley & Sons, 2007-06-22

Written for the practicing architect, Structural Design addresses the process on both a conceptual and a mathematical le...

822 pages View Details

Structure and Architecture

Angus J. MacDonald

Routledge, 2001

This guide enables the reader to develop an understanding of how architectural structures function, and is generously il...

168 pages View Details