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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

  • 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

    by Matthew Frederick ...
    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

    S$ 19.83 SGD

  • Building Services and Equipment

    Volume 2

    by Frederick Hall ...
    A widely acclaimed trilogy that has become established as the leading work in this field as well as taking account of current Building Regulations, Codes of Practice and recent technological advances. Special attention has been paid to the reduction of fuel costs and environmental factors. This volume covers pipe-sizing for hot and cold water installations, fine control systems, fire detactor ... Read more

    S$ 123.77 SGD

  • Made Up

    Design’s Fictions

    Edited by Tim Durfee, Mimi Zeiger ...
    Through essays, interviews, and narratives by Bruce Sterling, Fiona Raby, Sam Jacob and other significant voices in the field, this volume questions the initial discourses around “design fiction”—a broad category of critical design that includes overlapping interests in science fiction, world building, speculation, and futuring. Made Up: Design’s Fictions advances contemporary analysis and ... Read more

    S$ 11.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ville numérique

    La qualité urbaine en question

    by Emeline Bailly, Dorothée Marchand ...
    Comment la ville numérique affecte-t-elle la qualité, l’attractivité et la vitalité des territoires ? Comment les objets connectés urbains sont-ils appréhendés ? Remettent-ils en cause nos représentations de la ville et nos perceptions des paysages urbains ?Dans le contexte de la promotion de la ville numérique, Emeline Bailly et Dorothée Marchand interrogent les implications de son essor sur la ... Read more

    S$ 37.84 SGD

  • Timber Framing for the Rest of Us

    A Guide to Contemporary Post and Beam Construction

    by Rob Roy ...
    Series Book 12 - Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series
    All those of us without traditional skills need to know to build with timber framingMany natural building methods rely upon the use of post and beam frame structures that are then in-filled with straw, cob, cordwood, or more conventional wall materials. But traditional timber framing employs the use of finely crafted jointing and wooden pegs, requiring a high degree of craftsmanship and training, ... Read more

    S$ 29.75 SGD

  • Understanding Housing Defects

    by Duncan Marshall, Derek Worthing, Roger Heath, Nigel Dann ...
    Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise, coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings.For this new edition, many of the chapters have been substantially updated and new photographs have been added. There are four new chapters covering:How defects are definedAn overview of building and architectural historyExternal ... Read more

    S$ 159.53 SGD

  • The Design-Build Studio

    Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education

    Edited by Tolya Stonorov ...
    The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map. Together these projects serve as a field guide to the current trends in academic design-build studios, a window into the different processes and methodologies ... Read more

    S$ 105.89 SGD

  • Studio Craft & Technique for Architects Second Edition

    by Anne Gorman, Miriam Delaney ...
    This is an excellent, clear and comprehensive book for Year 1 architecture students, which will continue to be useful throughout their course and into practice. - Laura Evans, Kingston University, UKThis one-stop handbook for architecture students provides step-by-step techniques for perfecting the vital skills of drawing, model making and surveying. It is a primer on the conventions of ... Read more

    S$ 36.07 SGD

  • Going for Zero

    Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our Urban Future

    by Carl Elefante ...
    Climate change is no longer an abstract threat. Day after day, an already disrupted climate is impacting the lives of millions, and the time available to curtail climate change is alarmingly limited. Going for zero greenhouse gas emissions requires retooling everything about industry, agriculture, transportation, and every city and town that people inhabit. The work of architects, engineers, ... Read more

    S$ 31.71 SGD

  • Builders' Detail Sheets

    by S. Smith ...
    This book contains a unique set of information sheets, covering all aspects of building from sit setting-out to roofs and floors. It gives builders and students of building a sound knowledge of materials, their properties and limitations, and shows the practice of using these materials for sound construction. The sheets also give information on the Building Regulations and how to comply with them. ... Read more

    S$ 220.06 SGD

  • Annals of a Fortress

    by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc ...
    Translated by Benjamin Bucknall ...
    In "Annals of a Fortress," Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc deftly intertwines architectural critique with historical narrative, exploring the evolution of medieval fortifications in France. The book is imbued with a meticulous attention to detail, reflecting Viollet-le-Duc's expertise in Gothic architecture and his innovative style that blends vivid imagery with informative commentary. Set against ... Read more

    S$ 2.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Make the Best Use of Salvage

    A Practical Guide to Reclamation

    by Barty Phillips ...
    This book about reclamation shows whats available and why salvage is a good option for people doing up their homes or wanting to have a stylish talking point whether it s stained glass windows, a vintage garden bench, Victorian roll-top bath or an Edwardian door or tiled fire surround. It also appeals to the fast-growing green market with its recycling element, plus reclaimed goods can be great ... Read more

    S$ 11.11 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spon's Practical Guide to Alterations & Extensions

    by Andrew R. Williams ...
    The procedures, the problems and pitfalls of extending or altering property are discussed in this fully updated new edition. The author gives helpful advice on how to make the project go smoothly from beginning to end. This is a practical guide for those at the beginning of their career in building, or who want to be updated on the new regulations now in force.This new edition incorporates the ... Read more

    S$ 93.51 SGD

  • Materials and Meaning in Architecture

    Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings

    by Nathaniel Coleman ...
    Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image and visual representation.Arguing that architecture is primarily experiencedby the whole body, rather than chiefly with the eyes, this broad ... Read more

    S$ 47.84 SGD

  • 不良宅改造術！住進自然健康屋：做對格局、選對建材，調溼、控溫、通風一次搞定，迎向光和風的裝修完全解剖書

    by 漂亮家居編輯部 ...
    原《住進光和風的自然好宅》改版上市！是否常常覺得開了窗還是不通風，甚至有異味？！室內無採光，究竟是格局不好還是照明不夠亮？！頂樓住家猛開冷氣降溫，耗能又花錢，該如何改善才好？！不用重新起厝，只要做好通風、隔熱，住在都市公寓也能擁有健康的自然住宅！【通風篇】NG1 廚房有對外窗，但油煙還是充滿整間屋子！每次煮飯都有開廚房對外窗和抽油煙機，但油煙還是排不出去，整間屋子都能聞到油煙味，好不舒服！NG2 家裡多隔一房，雖然好使用，但是房間變得不通風，當初設計是哪裡出了問題？！由於家庭成員變多，將原本的兩房格局增為三房，但是新增的一房卻顯得悶熱不通風，當初的設計是出了什麼問題？【採光照明篇】NG3 客廳位置不佳，又有隔間遮住，導致中央無光，白天就要開燈！客廳位於空間中央，靠窗處則是配置衛浴和廚房，都有隔間圍擋，陽光都照不進來，即便是白天都要開燈才行，要怎麼解決比較好？！【隔熱調濕... ... Read more

    S$ 10.70 SGD

  • Mass Customization and Design Democratization

    Edited by Branko Kolarevic, José Pinto Duarte ...
    Parametric design and digital fabrication are enabling non-designers to mass produce non-standard, highly differentiated products – from shoes and tableware to furniture and even houses. The result of these newly available mass customization tools has been a ‘democratization’ of design.Mass Customization and Design Democratization is the first book to address this recent phenomenon. Demonstrating ... Read more

    S$ 90.76 SGD

  • Design, Technology and the Development Process in the Built Environment

    by Tom Collier ...
    This second book in the BEST series explores the fundamental generators and contextual issues - philosophical, physical and political - that influence built environments. It draws on international examples to show how societies and cultures in different parts of the world react to similar problems. It contrasts dramatically different types of buildings and enclosures from primitive shelters to ... Read more

    S$ 100.39 SGD

  • Programming the Built Environment (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Architectural programming – the analysis of any given environment to satisfy users’ needs – has become a given prerequisite to the design process. The programming process is often a complicated one: users’ present and future needs must be identified; space allowances, often predetermined, must be considered; equipment must be accommodated; all in the most cost-effective way possible. The variety ... Read more

    S$ 79.76 SGD

  • Demolishing Whitehall

    Leslie Martin, Harold Wilson and the Architecture of White Heat

    by Adam Sharr, Stephen Thornton ...
    This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall, London’s historic government district, and replace it with a ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965 the architect Leslie Martin submitted a proposal to Charles Pannell, Minister of Public Building and Works in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, for ... Read more

    S$ 100.39 SGD

  • Adaptive Sensory Environments

    An Introduction

    by Maria Lorena Lehman ...
    ***WINNER OF A NAUTILUS 2017 SILVER MEDAL BOOK AWARD***Adaptive Sensory Environments: An Introduction presents a cutting-edge methodology for adaptive sensory design by fostering an inter-disciplinary approach in which aspects of neuroscience, biophilia, captology, nanotechnology, kinetics, and sensemaking all play critical roles in helping adaptive architecture "tune" to occupants. Furthermore, ... Read more

    S$ 107.27 SGD

  • The Architecture of Pleasure

    British Amusement Parks 1900–1939

    by Josephine Kane ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience. Though drawing on a diverse range of existing leisure practices, the particular entertainment formula they offered marked a radical departure ... Read more

    S$ 97.64 SGD