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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

  • 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

    RM 56.69 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

    RM 163.99

  • 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

    RM 125.42

  • 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

    RM 278.32

  • 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

    RM 188.15

  • Los barrios del buen vivir

    En la planificación del bienestar urbano han prevalecido los aspectos económicos o estructurales frente a la experiencia corporal y cotidiana de la ciudadanía. Pero una ciudad próspera es aquella que permite, sin estigmas ni obstáculos, los gestos más básicos que sostienen la vida. En ella no solo intervienen decisiones estratégicas, sino decisiones vitales esenciales para los entornos urbanos y ... Read more

    RM 44.89 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    RM 225.49

  • 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

    RM 227.36

  • 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

    RM 243.04

  • 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

    RM 227.36

  • 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

    RM 49.99 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

    RM 56.69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    RM 15.64

  • 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

    RM 882.14

  • 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

    RM 7.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

    A radical perspective on environmental design

    Over thousands of years, human beings have built habitats in response to their increasingly complex needs. The ultimate form of these habitats is the modern city: a feat in which the benefits are self-evident. However, the city has grown into a paradoxical phenomenon. Providing for the present compromises the ability to provide for the future.The unidirectional metabolism of the city is consuming ... Read more

    RM 35.25 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sonic Wilderness: Wild Vinyl Records

    by Mark Harris ...
    Series Book 11 - The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice
    Sonic Wilderness accesses the critical value of unusual vinyl records that concern our relationship with nature. These wild records reveal unconventional perspectives on the entanglements of human life with animals, gardens and plants. They form a lyrical unconscious exposing the conventions and ideologies of popular music, their warped perspectives and acoustic radioactivity comprising a ... Read more

    RM 31.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homemakers

    A Domestic Handbook for the Digital Generation

    by Brit Morin ...
    From “Silicon Valley’s Martha Stewart” comes a new manifesto for the modern homemaker in the digital age.Over the past three generations, the rules of homemaking and our very notions of what a homemaker is and does have radically changed. We are still a nation of makers, but we are crafting and creating beyond the home, in both the analog and digital worlds. And in the next ten years, “making” and ... Read more

    RM 55.59

  • 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know

    A complete introduction to the key concepts and styles of architecture

    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    In a series of 50 accessible essays, Philip Wilkinson introduces architectural movements and styles throughout history, as well as describing some of the greatest architects' most important and representative works.From the Pyramids of Giza to the Guggenheim, the classical orders of Vitruvius to the most recent contemporary trends today, 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete ... Read more

    RM 44.89

  • Universal Principles of Architecture

    100 Architectural Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries

    Series series Rockport Universal
    Take an expansive and provocative tour of architectural theory and practice, exploring everything from basic concepts to speculative design and subversive interventions.Universal Principles of Architecture illustrates in 100 concepts the importance, possibilities, challenges, and roles that architecture plays in shaping the world. This radical and perhaps surprising survey is divided into five ... Read more

    RM 112.99

  • 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

    RM 70.69

  • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

    American Architecture in the Depression Era

    New Deal Book Award 2022 Honourable MentionFrank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater explores the relationship between the economic tumult in the United States in the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the construction of his most famous house, Fallingwater.The book reinterprets the history of this iconic building, recognizing it as a Depression-era monument that stands as a testimony to what an American ... Read more

    RM 227.36