Architecture

Below please find our interview with Arthur Lyons, author of Materials for Architects and Builders, 5th Edition
 

"I'm not sure I can ever remember not being engaged with fashion nor sustainability. Growing up in a family of community activists in inner city Liverpool in the bleak years of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, it was impossible to avoid direct experience of the necessity of change. As was (for me at any rate), the practice of making clothes."

Meet author of Designing Zero Carbon Buildings Using Dynamic Simulation Methods, Ljubomir Jankovic, at the 1st International Conference on Zero Carbon Buildings Today and in the Future...details below!

Eleni Kalantidou and Tony Fry discuss why they feel Design in the Borderlands had to be written, key messages, trends in the field, and how they got personally interested in the topic...read more below!

Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics. With a focus on key Spanish architects sent to study in Rome by the Bourbon Kings, the book also discusses the establishment of a program of architectural education at the newly founded Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.

Coming Soon

• Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures: Australia and Beyond
• The Films of Charles and Ray Eames: A Universal Sense of Expectation

For a full list of books in the Routledge Research in Architecture series click here

"This valuable collection of essays will provide a benchmark in urban ecology for many years to come. This book is a superb resource for researchers and students who wish to home in on a topic, learn what there is to know, and perhaps carry on further investigations ... " Summing up: Essential. All readership levels." —CHOICE, S. Hammer, Boston University, USA . Want to view inside the book, then click here?

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Editors Paul McMullin and Jonathan Price of the upcoming Architect's Guidebooks to Structures series set out to bridge the gap between architecture and scructural engineering.  Read more...

In their survey of the contemporary climate of campus master planning and architecture University Trends, Jonathan Coulson, Paul Roberts and Isabelle Taylor outline the most widespread, significant and innovative trends currently shaping the physical environments of higher education institutions across the world. Here, Jonathan Coulson profiles the rise of one of these trends, the hub building.