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  • 101 Things I Didn't Learn In Architecture School

    And wish I had known before my first job

    by Sarah Lebner ...
    Your first architecture job can involve a very steep learning curve.This book helps students and graduates of architecture kick-start their career and shave months off their professional development.This book will help you:Understand construction basics so you can avoid embarrassing situations and quickly understand instructions.Grasp an overview of the industry and business of architecture so ... Read more

    RM 35.25

  • Louis Kahn

    A Life in Architecture

    by Carter Wiseman ...
    The man who envisioned and realized such landmark buildings as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, Louis Kahn was born in what is now Estonia, immigrated to America, and became one of the towering figures in his adopted country’s built world. His works are unmistakable in their elegance, monolithic power, and architectural honesty.Written by ... Read more

    RM 100.39

  • Be ARCH

    A perception by U-WE-DESIGN

    by Vaibhavi Bhandary, Rahul Rao, Shravan Shetty ...
    In a world of rat race, amidst an ocean of career options and opportunities, students often face a dilemma in making the right choice for their careers. While some of them find themselves at a juncture of social pressure, a few others become a victim of lack of knowledge regarding various courses and often end up pursuing a course that may not be what they are really looking for. Hence it is vital ... Read more

    RM 4.75

  • Embedding Resilience in the Built Environment Using the EU Taxonomy

    Edited by Elzbieta Rynska ...
    Taxonomy is the common name for an EU regulation that supports companies in sustainable environmental and climate action (Regulation [EU] No. 2020/852). It is a classification tool designed for investors, companies, and financial institutions to define the environmental impact of business activities and the requirements that organisations must meet to be considered as sustainable.The aim of this ... Read more

    Was RM 313.61 Now RM 266.56

  • Creating Winning Bids

    by Basil Sawczuk ...
    'Creating Winning Bids' sets out the key stages in the production of a winning bid. Based on tried and tested methods, and using a simple step-by-step process, it will improve your chances of success in what can otherwise seem a daunting and complex process. Distilling the author’s experience of over 25 years of bidding in the public and private sectors, it is packed with practical tips about what ... Read more

    RM 195.83

  • Dirty Theory

    Troubling Architecture

    by Hélène Frichot ...
    Series Book 6 - The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice
    Dirty theory follows the dirt of material and conceptual relations from the midst of complex milieus. It messes with mixed disciplines, showing up in ethnography, in geography, in philosophy, and discovering a suitable habitat in architecture, design and the creative arts. Dirty theory disrupts a comfortable status quo, including our everyday modes of inhabitation and our habits of thinking. This ... Read more

    RM 31.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • CAD Fundamentals for Architecture

    by Elys John ...
    Series series Portfolio Skills
    Computer-aided design (CAD) is the dominant design and drawing tool used in architecture, and all students need to acquire basic skills in using it. This book explains the key CAD skills required to create plans, 3D models and perspectives. Detailed text and hundreds of screengrabs and visuals are used to demonstrate the various techniques and processes.2D skills are shown using AutoCAD, SketchUp ... Read more

    RM 102.89

  • The Secret of the Pyramids

    How Pharaoh Khufu presents us the methods used for building the ancient Egyptian Pyramids

    by Michel Michel, Michael E. Habicht ...
    Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of the Egyptian pyramids and discover the secrets of their impressive construction. In this groundbreaking reference book, written by an experienced Egyptologist and a French logistician, the invention and construction of the pyramids is illuminated with a detailed study. From the archaeological documentation of the building evidence to the development of ... Read more

    RM 21.19

  • Discovering the History of Your House and Your Neighborhood

    by Betsy J Green ...
    Every home has a story to tell! Whether you own an elaborate Victorian, cozy bungalow or cottage, ranch style, or are part of a newer subdivision, your house and property have a unique history that is just waiting to be uncovered.Part treasure hunt and part jigsaw puzzle, researching the history of your house is a fascinating and rewarding experience. In Discovering the History of Your House and ... Read more

    RM 35.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Architect and the Academy

    Essays on Research and Environment

    by Dean Hawkes ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes’ impressive 50-year academic career.The book considers the relationship between the technologies of the environment and wider historical and theoretical factors, with chapters on topics ranging from the origins of modern ‘building science’ in ... Read more

    RM 235.20

  • Plumbing Licensing Study Guide

    by Rex Miller, Mark R. Miller ...
    This book is designed for use as both a text and study guide for those students taking the licensing test in plumbing. Because of the large number of residential dwellings under construction and planned for the near future, this is a growing area. Well trained and knowledgeable plumbers are urgently needed in most of the individual United States and Canada. The field of plumbers, pipefitters, and ... Read more

    RM 225.69

  • Workplace Bullying and Mobbing in the United States

    [2 volumes]

    Edited by Maureen Duffy, David C. Yamada ...
    Offering multidisciplinary research and analysis on workplace bullying and mobbing, this two-volume set explores the prevalence of these behaviors in sectors ranging from K–12 education to corporate environments and exposes their effects on both individuals and organizations.Workplace Bullying and Mobbing in the United States provides a comprehensive overview of the nature and scope of the problem ... Read more

    RM 442.09

  • Out of Architecture

    The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

    by Jake Rudin, Erin Pellegrino ...
    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

    RM 133.26

  • Walter Gropius in Britain

    Emigration and Collaborations

    by Alborz Dianat ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius’s activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founder’s contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934 and 1937. Drawing on earlier and later decades, this reveals the close contact between British, German and American design circles, with Gropius bridging parallel developments.In ... Read more

    RM 254.80

  • The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism for a Sustainable, Living Planet

    Edited by Mitra Kanaani ...
    This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigates multiple facets of "smart" approaches to design thinking that augment the potentials of user experiences as well as his/her physical and mental interactions with the built environment.Split into six paradigms, this volume looks at the theoretical and historical background of smart design, ... Read more

    RM 286.16

  • Design For More-Than-Human Futures

    Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding

    Edited by Martín Tironi, Marcos Chilet, Carola Ureta Marín, Pablo Hermansen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society
    This book explores the work of important authors in the search for a transition towards more ethical design focused on more-than-human coexistence.In a time of environmental crises in which the human species threatens its own survival and the highest level of exacerbation of the idea of a future and technological innovation, it is important to discard certain anthropocentric categories in order to ... Read more

    RM 231.28

  • Architectural Aesthetic Speculations

    On Kahn and Deleuze

    by Jasper Michael ...
    Series Book 1 - The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice
    Architectural Aesthetic Speculations expands our understanding of the role of formal aesthetic criteria in twentieth-century artistic practices and reveals potentially transformative aspects in the art of architectural composition. The book stages an encounter of philosopher Gilles Deleuze's (1925–1995) constructivist sensibility and architect Louis Kahn's (1901–1974) mode of architectural ... Read more

    RM 31.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing Our Future

    GIS for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

    Edited by Kathleen Kewley, Micah Callough, Keith Mann ...
    Series Book 10 - Applying GIS
    Learn how architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms work to improve sustainability objectives and advance new ideas about creating more livable cities, workplaces, and campuses as they create greater operational efficiency.Location intelligence is changing how land development and large infrastructure projects take shape. From new residential construction to planning a modern urban ... Read more

    RM 67.79

  • Scandalous Space

    Between architecture and archaeology

    by Alessandro Zambelli ...
    Series Book 4 - The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice
    If architecture is a design-centred discipline which proceeds by suggesting propositional constructions then, Zambelli argues, archaeology also designs, but in the form of reconstructions. He proposes that whilst practitioners of architecture and archaeology generally purport to practice in future-facing and past-facing-modes respectively, elements of these disciplines also resemble one another. ... Read more

    RM 31.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Place, Practice, Politics

    by Esther Anatolitis ...
    Series Book 10 - The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice
    What futures are we designing by default? What collaborations are we complicit in? How can we incorporate an active civic engagement into our professional and creative practice – into our everyday lives? Esther Anatolitis presents a dynamic snapshot of her own practice from a distinctly Australian context but with a global perspective, offering tools and techniques for integrating civic engagement ... Read more

    RM 31.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mario Roberto Álvarez

    Arquitectura, forma y cuidad

    by Esteban Barrera ...
    Este libro busca ser un incentivo a mirar en profundidad tres obras claves de quien fuera uno de los más grandes arquitectos argentinos del sigo XX, Mario Roberto Álvarez. Unas páginas que nos ayuden a develar los valores de estas obras y que a su vez nos permitan aprender de ellas. Un recorrido por sus obras, con la mirada puesta en las relaciones entre arquitectura y ciudad.¿Hay un interés real ... Read more

    RM 39.17 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inflection 06: Originals

    Journal of the Melbourne School of Design

    by Sir Peter Cook, Alison Brooks, Beatriz Colomina, Sean Godsell, Adam Peacock ...
    Series Book 6 - Inflection
    Architects are expected to create original ideas resulting in a unique, bespoke design. With the rise of Modern Architecture, originality became ingrained in perceptions of good design. As a result, originality has become a barometer against which we measure the value of design. However technology today allows for ease of replication and copies, thus originality in design has become an ostensibly ... Read more

    RM 56.69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die Baustile

    Baukunst Europas von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

    by Susanne Lücke-David ...
    Series series marixwissen
    Die Europäische Baustilfibel gibt einen Überblick über die stilistische Entwicklung der Architektur Europas von ihren Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. In der großen Entfernung, aus der ein solcher Abriss nur möglich ist, fällt naturgemäß das Herausragende ins Auge, sei es dass es für sich ein Meisterwerk darstellt, sei es dass es wegweisend für die weitere Entwicklung geworden ist. Aus der ... Read more

    RM 31.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople - 1894- Illustrated Edition

    A Study of Byzantine Building

    by W. R. Lethaby, Harold Swainson ...
    Sancta Sophia is the most interesting building on the world’s surface. Like Karnak in Egypt, or the Athenian Parthenon, it is one of the four great pinnacles of architecture, but unlike them this is no ruin, nor does it belong to a past world of constructive ideas although it precedes by seven hundred years the fourth culmination of the building art in Chartres, Amiens, or Bourges, and thus must ... Read more

    RM 15.64 or Free with Kobo Plus