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  • Humanise

    A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

    by Thomas Heatherwick ...
    From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about ... Read more

    S$ 22.66 SGD

  • The Secrets of Hawthorn Place

    A heartfelt and charming dual-time story of the power of love

    by Jenni Keer ...
    'This is definitely up there as one of the best books that I have read. It's got a special place in my heart. Just amazing!' 5* reader review'Gorgeous! Exuberant writing, convincing, adorable characters, romance and a little whimsy' TRACY REES***Love will always find a way . . .***Discover the intriguing secrets of Hawthorn Place in this heartfelt dual-time novel, filled with warmth and charm, ... Read more

    S$ 16.45 SGD

  • Henry V

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. The play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, part 1 and Henry IV, part 2. The original audiences would thus have already been ... Read more

    S$ 0.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Testing During Concrete Construction

    Proceedings of RILEM Colloquium, Darmstadt, March 1990

    Edited by H.W. Reinhardt ...
    Testing concrete while construction is underway enables decisions to be made which can improve the quality of the finished structure. The book covers testing and measuring techniques for fresh concrete and concrete during the first few days after placing, and for reinforcement and prestressing tendons. Many examples are given of practical methods w ... Read more

    S$ 123.77 SGD

  • Death and Rebirth in a Southern City

    Richmond's Historic Cemeteries

    by Ryan K. Smith ...
    This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital.Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds show the sweep of Southern history ... Read more

    S$ 42.83 SGD

  • Modernismos Syndéticos

    Lugar e hibridación cultural en la arquitectura moderna

    by Autores Varios ...
    Series series Modernismos Syndéticos
    Libro que ofrece en su primer volumen un indefinido pero largo número de visitas detalladas a la inmensa minoría de edificios y paisajes que configuran el mundo de los Modernismos syndéticos. La syndesis implica ligar con una conjunción; la obra nos ofrece la visión de cada autor, Castro en Chile, Rueda en Colombia y Mellin en Estados Unidos, sobre la syndesis un común denominador sobre el efecto ... Read more

    S$ 19.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LEED GA Mock Exams: Questions, Answers, and Explanations: A Must-Have for the LEED Green Associate Exam, Green Building LEED Certification, and Sustainability

    by Gang Chen ...
    From this book, you will be able to:Identify your weakness through practice questionsLearn to work well under the pressure of timed testsCheck your responses against the solutionsUnderstand the solutions for the difficult questions through the explanationsFully understand the scope, difficulty level, and format of the LEED Green Associate Exam ... Read more

    S$ 25.22 SGD

  • Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition

    by Walker Wells, Kimberly Vermeer ...
    The lack of affordable housing and the climate crisis are two of the most pressing challenges facing cities today. Green affordable housing addresses both by providing housing stability, safety, and financial predictability while constructing and operating the buildings to reduce environmental and climate impacts.Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing is the most comprehensive resource on how ... Read more

    S$ 38.68 SGD

  • People, Planet, Design

    A Practical Guide to Realizing Architecture's Potential

    by Corey Squire ...
    If you were asked to close your eyes and envision where you are happiest, would you picture somewhere inside a building? North Americans are inside buildings for more than 90% of the day. Meanwhile, the indoors are stifling us, sometimes even killing us. Buildings, and the materials that make them up, expose us to materials linked to negative health impacts. The construction and operation of ... Read more

    S$ 39.67 SGD

  • Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts

    Edited by Ted Ruddock ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Civil Engineering
    For 2,000 years the most durable spanning structures have been built of masonry, and the surviving bridges of the Roman Empire have challenged master masons, architects and engineers to emulate and surpass them. Down the centuries, bridge-builders have been commissioned by monarchs, bishops, councils of state, cities, private individuals and, more recently, waterway and railway companies. The ... Read more

    S$ 105.89 SGD

  • Conservation Today

    Conservation in Britain since 1975

    by David Pearce ...
    This is the official book accompanying the major exhibition at the Royal Academy in May and June 1989, organised by the oyal Fine Art Commission. The exhibition, which is sponsored by The Wolfson Foundation, will follow its London opening with a travelling exhibit to the major British cities and to 13 European countries under the auspices of the British Council. The issue of conserving the 'built ... Read more

    S$ 44.00 SGD

  • 未竟之事：實踐都市更新的希望之書

    by 蔡漢霖 ...
    Series Book 1131 - 生活館-Simple
    少子化、超高齡社會的今天，我們真正需要的，究竟是更多房屋，還是——符合實際需求、安心生活的居家住宅？保留都市紋理又符合21世紀現代生活所需的都市規劃？結合都市再生、人文觀察與行動反思——探討與檢視我們想留給後代一座「怎麼樣的城市」這是一篇老屋重建過程的忠實記錄，也是臺灣都市更新改革的行動指南。書中以「忠孝懷生危老案」推動過程為楔子，再透過一場生動的都市展演，深入剖析都市更新法規框架、制度矛盾與住戶心理，省思配套措施的不足，如何影響臺灣城市再生；顯示都市再生需要跨足技術、政策與人文整合的能力，該如何展現更新推動者的現場智慧？在都更的爭議與拉鋸之間，本書提出六大改革倡議，面對當前臺灣都更實務的制度困境與信任裂痕；企盼對於過去錯失契機的反省，為未來都市再生提供新的想像。... ... Read more

    S$ 20.69 SGD

  • Polymers in Concrete

    Edited by Y. Ohama ...
    Increasing attention is being given to the use of concrete-polymer composites as high performance and multi-functional materials in the construction industry, as well as in mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering. Particular interest is being given to these materials in Japan and other East Asian countries. This book forms the proceedings o ... Read more

    S$ 97.64 SGD

  • MCHAP Book One

    The Americas

    Edited by Fabrizio Gallanti ...
    MCHAP: The Americas brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas and analyzes themes raised by the seven finalist projects (designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Álvaro Siza, Steven Holl Architects, OMA/ LMN – Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus, Smiljan Radić, Cristián Undurraga, Rafael Iglesia) from the inaugural ... Read more

    S$ 26.69 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Proceso Productivo para Fabricar Bloques de Hormigón

    Bloqueras artesanales, #2

    by Jorge Yances - Dr. Concreto, jorge yances ...
    Series Book 2 - Bloqueras artesanales
    "El CEMENTO no es el único material que aporta resistencia en un bloque, también lo hacen los agregados".Esta dirigido a pequeños fabricantes, artesanales, que poseen bloqueras mecánicas, que todo su proceso es manual y que fabrican bloques de baja resistencia.¿Cual es el orden de ingreso de los materiales al mezclador?¿Cual es el tiempo de mezclado?¿Se puede elaborar la mezcla con pala y hacer un ... Read more

    S$ 12.61 SGD

  • Design Computing

    An Overview of an Emergent Field

    by Brian Johnson ...
    Design Computing will help you understand the rapidly evolving relationship between computing, designers, and the many different environments they create or work in. The book introduces the topic of design computing, and covers the basics of hardware and software, so you don’t need to be an expert. Topics include the fundamentals of digital representation, programming and interfaces for design; ... Read more

    S$ 121.02 SGD

  • Time Frames

    Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage

    Edited by Ugo Carughi, Massimo Visone ...
    Time Frames provides a reconnaissance on the conservation rules and current protection policies of more than 100 countries, with particular attention to the emerging nations and twentieth-century architecture. The contributions illustrate the critical issues related to architectural listings, with a brief history of national approaches, a linkography and a short bibliography. The book also ... Read more

    S$ 90.76 SGD

  • Architectural Exaptation

    When Function Follows Form

    by Alessandro Melis, Telmo Pievani, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience.The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and ... Read more

    S$ 85.26 SGD

  • Naive Intention

    by von Ellrichshausen Pezo, Edwin van Gelder ...
    Introduced by an essay about the vague contradiction between intentionality and chance, necessity and accident, reason and futility, authorship and anonymity, the book presents a selection of images that inform Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s cross production between art, architecture and academia. Each page contains a single picture and a brief caption describing it.Beyond a comprehensive depiction of ... Read more

    S$ 15.90 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing with Alternative Building Materials and Review of Building Materials

    by Kalyan Kumar Ganguly ...
    This book explores alternative building materials and their test results. It includes a review of common building materials, earth engineering and construction, suitable soil types, soil mechanics and production, masonry construction, rammed earth construction, the use of ferro-cement units in projects, and the application of fibre-reinforced concrete. Other topics such as project management, ... Read more

    S$ 309.46 SGD

  • Geotechnics and Heritage

    Case Histories

    Edited by Emilio Bilotta, Alessandro Flora, Stefania Lirer, Carlo Viggiani ...
    Conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems facing modern civilization. It involves various cultural, humanistic, social, technical, economical and administrative factors, intertwining in inextricable patterns. The complexity of the topic is such that guidelines or recommendations for intervention techniques ... Read more

    S$ 123.77 SGD

  • Intermediate Guide to Japanese Joinery: The Secret to Making Complex Japanese Joints and Furniture Using Affordable Tools

    by Jin Izuhara ...
    Are you a weekend hobby carpenter with a passion for creating high-quality pieces, but not quite the equipment budget to match?Would you like to know how to create Japanese joints using common tools?Japanese joinery is an ancient carpentry skill developed in a time before mass production when ingenuity and character of design still mattered. Now, you can revive this ancient art and introduce it to ... Read more

    S$ 3.77 SGD

  • Designing the British Post-War Home

    Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968

    by Fiona Fisher ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    In Designing the British Post-War Home Fiona Fisher explores the development of modern domestic architecture in Britain through a detailed study of the work of the successful Surrey-based architectural practice of Kenneth Wood. Wood’s firm is representative of a geographically distinct category of post-war architectural and design practice - that of the small private practice that flourished in ... Read more

    S$ 97.64 SGD

  • Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials

    Proceedings of the Second International RILEM Symposium

    Edited by H.S. Sobral ...
    This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments. It makes available research results on new techniques for fibre reinforcement and their use in concrete, stabilized clay and other matrices. Procedures for making vegetable fibres and wood-based ... Read more

    S$ 67.38 SGD