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It’s widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities – the places where most of us live. As this powerful new book elucidates, global sustainability is therefore directly dependent on urban design. In Living…
Paperback – 2019-11-28
Routledge
Architecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mindset for the profession. Over forty international award-winning projects are included to explore innovative design principles linked to health outcomes. The book is organized into three…
Paperback – 2019-11-18
Routledge
This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with cultural and social values integral to rural…
Paperback – 2019-11-15
Routledge
In this volume, some of the leading figures in the field have been brought together to write on the roots of the historic preservation movement in the United States, ranging from New York to Santa Fe, Charleston to Chicago. Giving Preservation a History explores the long history of historic…
Paperback – 2019-11-12
Routledge
Olympic Stadia: Theatres of Dreams provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of Olympic Stadia including: the evolution of running tracks, the introduction of lighting, and continuing improvements in spectator viewing and comfort standards. Co-authored by a world-renowned…
Hardback – 2019-11-08
Routledge
Increasingly the world around us is becoming ‘smart.’ From smart meters to smart production, from smart surfaces to smart grids, from smart phones to smart citizens. ‘Smart’ has become the catch-all term to indicate the advent of a charged technological shift that has been propelled by the promise…
Paperback – 2019-11-08
Routledge
Critiques
Visually enriched with over 250 photographs and drawings, Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades is an essential reference guide for understanding the types and functions of double-skin facades. Author Mary Ben Bonham examines the history and continuing potential of double-skin architecture, informing on…
Paperback – 2019-11-04
Routledge
Architecture as Civil Commitment analyzes the many ways in which Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones.…
Hardback – 2019-11-01
Routledge
Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving comfort and productivity while reducing energy costs and carbon emissions. It provides architects, engineers and policy makers with a ‘how-to’ guide to the application…
Paperback – 2019-11-01
Routledge
Construction Superintendents: Essential Skills for the Next Generation is the first college level textbook designed to prepare you to take on a site supervisor role on a complex jobsite. The book covers the responsibilities of superintendents in relation to the jobsite project management team, the…
Paperback – 2019-11-01
Routledge
The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond…
Paperback – 2019-10-29
Taylor & Francis
This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art history. Reconsidering canonical figures, reexamining prevalent debates, and revisiting aesthetic developments, the book challenges accepted histories and…
Hardback – 2019-10-28
Routledge
Studies in Art Historiography