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  • Clean Mama's Guide to a Peaceful Home

    Effortless Systems and Joyful Rituals for a Calm, Cozy Home

    The creator of the popular cleaning website Clean Mama and author of Clean Mama’s Guide to a Healthy Home shows you how to establish systems and rituals to transform your home into a clean, organized, and comfortable space for you and your family.Weall want our homes to be cozy and comfortable spaces where we can leave the challengesof the outside world behind and connect with our families. But ... Read more

    $99.79 HKD

  • Architectural Styles You Can Identify - Architecture Reference & Specification Book | Children's Architecture Books

    Are you interested in architecture? Those archs and curves belong to an era. Identify different architectural styles with confidence. Use this wonderful reference book that includes pictures and features in every page. Extending your knowledge beyond your school curriculum is never a bad move. You’ll never know when stock knowledge will come in handy. Grab a copy now. ... Read more

    $31.19 HKD

  • Architectural Styles

    A Visual Guide

    by Owen Hopkins ...
    Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present ... Read more

    $140.99 HKD

  • Materials and Interior Design

    Series series Portfolio Skills
    The choice of materials is critical to the success of an interior. This book examines every aspect of the the use of materials in interior design, from initial concept and selection to visual representation and practical application.Following a brief introduction, the first five sections offer historical context and detailed guidance on selection, application, representation, communication, and ... Read more

    $243.59 HKD

  • The Architecture Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about key concepts behind the world's most incredible buildings in The Architecture Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Architecture in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Architecture ... Read more

    $174.99 HKD

  • Exhibition Design Second Edition

    An Introduction

    by Philip Hughes ...
    Exhibition Design describes the skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including: developing a brief and working with clients; design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting, and accessibility; presenting ideas to clients; and the practicalities of production.A wealth of visual material includes photographs of completed exhibitions by world-renowned designers, concept drawings, ... Read more

    $243.59 HKD

  • Thinking about Architecture

    An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    by Colin Davies ...
    In order to understand architecture in all its cultural complexity it is necessary to grasp such basic concepts as representation, form and space. The aim of this book is to provide teachers, students, practising architects and general readers with a set of ideas that will enrich their conversation, their writing, and above all their thinking about architecture.The book is divided into eight ... Read more

    $160.29 HKD

  • 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

    Get 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from drawing lines to color theory—in this classic architecture book.These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from the basics of “How to Draw a Line” to the complexities of color theory—provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often ... Read more

    $112.29 HKD

  • Breaking Glass

    Spatial Fabulations & Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality

    Series Book 6 - SAC 6
    Within a relatively short time, Augmented and Virtual Reality have emerged centre stage in architecture and the arts as novel means for exploring how their creative output is produced, mediated and experienced. Feeding the continuous spectrum between the "fully real" and the "fully virtual," the underlying technology of these media present machine-generated sensorial input where to date the image ... Read more

    $128.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detail in Contemporary Hotel Design

    Series series Detailing for Interior Design
    Hotel interiors need to satisfy the imaginations of their customers and whet the appetite for a return visit or recommendation, and the design that gets the formula right will do as much to prolong the life of the business as the service delivered within the hotel. This book explores in detail 36 of the best recent hotel interior design schemes, featuring projects by leading architects from around ... Read more

    $326.89 HKD

  • Building the Architect's Character

    Explorations in Traits

    An understanding of architects’ character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits include leadership skills necessary to coordinate a team, honest and ethical behavior, being well educated and possessing a life-long love of learning, flexibility, resourcefulness, and visionary and strategic thinking. Characteristics such as these describe a successful ... Read more

    $625.35 HKD

  • Out of Architecture

    The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

    Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education, and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills, passions, and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways.Written by design professionals and expert career consultants, this book is informed by numerous client accounts as well as the authors’ ... Read more

    $250.09 HKD

  • Illustrated Building Pocket Book

    Series series Routledge Pocket Books
    Building and architecture has developed a language of its own, with terms and jargon that can confuse an expert let alone an outsider. Misunderstandings over what a word means can be irritating but unimportant, but could in the worst cases be costly or even dangerous. Traditional building dictionaries rely on the reader to already know what the correct word is, and that's not always the case. ... Read more

    $554.99 HKD

  • Design Build with The Scarcity and Creativity Studio

    From its creation in January 2012, The Scarcity and Creativity Studio has developed a teaching method which reaffirms a commitment to architecture as a service to society, questions the idea of the individual creator in favour of collaborative design, and challenges the traditional master-student relationship.This book documents the projects and, in so doing, explains the practices and pedagogic ... Read more

    $375.18 HKD

  • The Art of Shaping the Metropolis

    by Pedro Ortiz ...
    A proven approach for addressing explosive metropolitan growth in an integrated and holistic manner“The book provides a basis for the contemplation of the old network paradigm of the megalopolis into the informational meshwork of the mega- or metacity of the future. The handbook’s review of the networked past is invaluable, while its projection of these networks into future plans raises very many ... Read more

    $449.69 HKD

  • La controverse Learning from Las Vegas

    Un retour sur l'émergence du postmodernisme en architecture

    Manifeste sur le postmodernisme architectural américainLa publication par les architectes américains Robert Venturi et Denise Scott Brown de Learning from Las Vegas, d’abord sous forme d’articles puis de livre, a entrainé à partir de 1968 une controverse sans équivalent dans l’histoire moderne de l’architecture. L’historien Stanislaus von Moos a parlé à ce propos d’« une polarisation de ... Read more

    $234.46 HKD

  • Wren’s Burford Masons

    Unsung Heroes of 17th and Early 18th Century English Architecture

    by Melody Mobus ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries.The Burford Masons were involved in the construction of such outstanding buildings as St Paul's Cathedral, City churches, and Blenheim Palace, among many ... Read more

    $453.36 HKD

  • Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum

    Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum engages innovative perspectives to understand our contemporary crisis of forced displacement and detention practices in the Pacific.Multinational contractors responsible for the construction and maintenance of regional processing centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru have flourished as powerful historical actors, exerting global dominance over the ... Read more

    $484.63 HKD

  • Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter

    OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaas, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).This book argues that Koolhaas formulates his approach to architecture on the basis of the “written sketch ... Read more

    $453.36 HKD

  • The Complete Guide to Building Affordable Earth-Sheltered Homes: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply

    Earth-sheltered building has existed since the heyday of Skara Brae in Scotland 5,000 years ago, and is used today by people around the world. If you have ever looked at your power bill in stunned disbelief, if you are interested in green building techniques, or if you want your home to stand out (or hide out), then this book is for you. With The Complete Guide to Building Affordable Earth ... Read more

    $99.69 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zero Piranesi

    SAC Journal 5

    Series Book 5 - SAC Journal
    ZERO PIRANESI Giovanni Battista Piranesi's engravings, Campo Marzio dell'antica Roma of 1762, have a peculiar position within the discipline of ar- chitecture. With their dissemination, the folio collection of six etch- ings have till this day nurtured architects' speculations on the city. Since the Enlightenment, they - and in particular the Campo Marzio plan - have fuelled research, discussions ... Read more

    $128.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictionary of Building and Civil Engineering

    English/French French/English

    by Don Montague ...
    This French–English and English–French dictionary lists over 20,000 specialist terms, covering architecture, building, civil engineering and property. It is written for all construction professionals working on projects overseas. This new edition has been revised and extended, as well as pruned, and serves as an invaluable reference source in an increasingly European marketplace. ... Read more

    $1,759.02 HKD

  • Le startup nell’Edilizia

    Uno sguardo al panorama italiano, tra analogie e diversità, attraverso i casi studio Personal Factory e APR-In

    Manuel Rinaldi, Ingegnere Edile, ci prende per mano e ci conduce in questo rapido ed avvincente viaggio nel mondo delle startup, con un focus particolare proprio nell'edilizia, settore storicamente noto per la sua conservatività. Si tratta di uno scritto semplice nella complessità dei temi trattati, fruibile anche da chi non mastica correntemente temi troppo tecnici. Vengono presentati i due casi ... Read more

    $8.28 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus