Architectural structure and design Books
Valiz Around Amsterdam's Waterfront
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£17.10
Cengage Learning Transforming with Water
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£38.25
Sidestone Press Deciding about Design Quality
Book SynopsisIn the past few years the image of tender procedures in which Dutch public clients selected an architect has been dominated by distressing newspaper headlines. Architects fear that the current tender culture will harm the quality of our built environment due to a potential lack of diversity, creativity and innovation in architectural design. Due to potential risks clients often allow legal requirements to overrule their actual wishes. This PhD research addresses the origin of the problems as currently experienced by public commissioning clients in architect selection and proposes pragmatic implications for future practice. It is therefore of interest for commissioning clients, management consultants, policy makers and legal advisors but also for designers and researchers in the field of architecture and decision making.
£36.00
Stolpe Publishing The Layman's Guide to Classical Architecture
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£44.48
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing AB Model Archive A Witness to the City
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£29.45
Stolpe Publishing A Treatise on Civil Architecture
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£71.25
Copal Publishing Sikandarah
Book SynopsisJalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar's resting place is located in Sikandarah (British synonyms to Sikandra) in the outskirts of Agra, Uttar Pradesh. This handsome monument displays a coherent amalgamation of architecture, landscape and detailing through geometry, calligraphy and Islimi in Mughal architecture. Documenting the geometric adornments of this magnificent yet humble monument was the starting of this book. The scope expanded in adding the other details like calligraphy and Islimi thus completing the book. H. Masud Taj, an architect, calligrapher and poet, generously contributed through his elegant calligraphy and further expanding to epigraphy and poetry. He also contributed an essay on the significance of Charbagh. Shruti Barve, a landscape architect, wrote an essay about the landscape and Islimi details binding it together. Following the introduction, the book is seamlessly organized through geometry, photography and essay on Islimi and calligraphy, epigraphy, poetry. The book is a
£94.04
Niyogi Books The Churches of India
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£35.62
Lector House Homes And How To Make Them: Or Hints On Locating
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£9.90
Lannoo Publishers Converted. Reinventing architecture
Book SynopsisThis book features the best and most spectacular conversions on the international architecture scene, accompanied by an insightful text and photographs. It includes over 60 projects around the world, including work by Hassell + OMA, David Chipperfield, Heatherwick Studios, Ney + Partners, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid and many others. The author explores how these architects creatively approached the conversions of older buildings, ultimately finding a new functionality and life for them in the 21st century.
£32.00
Lannoo Publishers Curved: Bending Architecture
Book SynopsisIn Curved: Bending Architecture, the author seeks out the most sensational contemporary buildings from around the world that incorporate wave-like, rounded forms into their design. Curved forms in architecture are found throughout history (like the Colosseum in Rome) but today’s constructions explore the curve to its utmost fluid and freeform potential. From Zaha Hadid to Bosjes Chapel and from Brussels to China, this is a selection of amazing buildings by world class architects who think outside the box and have redefined the built world around us.
£30.00
Lannoo Publishers Hidden Architecture: Buildings that Blend In
Book SynopsisThis book presents innovative examples of hidden architecture: buildings that are designed to disappear into their surroundings or hide in plain sight. In the city, hidden buildings are often designed to provide the occupants with privacy and protection from the busy world outside or they can be incorporated into the streetscape to free up space for public use. In the countryside, buildings should not spoil a scenic landscape, so they can be designed to become a part of it. Buildings can be buried underground, hidden amongst trees, covered with greenery or even sunk into the sea. They can be clad in mirrors to reflect their surroundings, disappear beneath an urban plaza or be hidden from view on top of another building. Each of these imaginative solutions offers a way for architecture to blend in rather than stand out. Hidden Architecture tells the stories of projects from around the world that are cleverly disguised but still beautifully detailed and outstanding in their execution.
£40.50
Lannoo Publishers Carchitecture USA
Book SynopsisDesign writers Thijs Demeulemeester and Bert Voet's book Carchitecture explores the historical parallels between trends in architectural styles and car design.- Financial TimesA book like a road trip along iconic American homes and the unique cars that perfectly match them. Carchitecture goes America. Through four chapters - Iconic Houses, Cars & Stars, Californication and American Cars - and five essays, the reader discovers the wonderful interplay of architecture and car design. Eyecandy for architecture and car lovers alike.
£33.75
Luster Publishing Best Buildings Britain
Book SynopsisBest Buildings Britain is the third title in the Best Buildings series, following Best Buildings Belgium (2018) and Best Buildings Holland (spring 2019). In this guide, Matthew Freedman presents 75 buildings completed after 1918 in Great Britain, each accompanied by a photo and a short text. The selection is based on the top ten lists of renowned British architects and architecture critics, including great names like Norman Foster, Piers Gough, Charles Holland, Jonathan Meades, Alice Rawsthorn and Richard Rogers. From their lists comes a surprising mix of 'best' buildings, from applauded contemporary projects such as the London Aquatics Centre, to impressive must-sees such as Highpoint in Highgate (London) or Marine Court in St Leonards-on-Sea, up to brutalist gems such as Preston bus station and the National Theatre. The book also features the full lists with all of each contributor's ten favourite buildings.Trade Review'Modern architecture often gets a bad deal… But a new book is looking fondly at our more recent buildings, those built since 1920, that should be looked at in a more appraising light.' -- fashionmommy's Blog
£15.00
Snoeck Publishers The Palace and Gardens of the Cinquantenaire
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£40.80
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Dutch Architecture in 250 Highlights
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£46.00
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Dash - Global Housing
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£42.00
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) MVRDV Buildings - Updated Edition
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£56.25
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Too Big - Rebuild By Design. A Transformative
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£29.25
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Van Nellefabriek Rotterdam
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£15.00
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) OASE 104
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£26.90
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Shared Cities Atlas
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£49.50
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) OASE 109
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£31.15
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Rotterdam Architecture City - The 100 Best
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£20.85
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Acid Clouds - Mapping Data Centre
£54.00
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Port City Atlas - Mapping European Port City
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£46.08
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) African Water Cities
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£35.10
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Oase 114 - Optimism or Bust?
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£29.66
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Oase 115 - Interferences
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£30.81
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Together - A Blueprint for Collaborative Living
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£34.20
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Neuroarchitecture - Designing High-rise Cities at
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£36.10
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Dutch Landscape - An Overview
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£38.00
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Down to Earth - Designing for the Endgame
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£37.50
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Writingplace Journal 8/9 Special Issue - Writing
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£37.40
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) In/formal Marketplaces - Experiments with Urban
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£38.70
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) 'Compliments to our brave architect!' The
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£36.57
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Oase 116 - The Architect as Public Intellectual
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£30.77
Nai010 Publishers Amsterdam Architecture City
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£19.80
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Weather in the City Revised Edition
£35.50
Leuven University Press Between Conventional and Experimental
Book SynopsisHow conventional and experimental prototypes and series created an architecture for all.Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all and responded to crises, nation-building, and housing shortages within the context of transnational and regional research.The book's contributions explore partially unearthed empirical ground, such as cases from Finland and Sweden, while others offer a fresh interpretation of prefabrication's role in the history of global architecture, notably in the USSR and Italy. The chapters'' topics encompass colonial expansion, class, international collaboration, and the achievements and setbacks of industrialised design. The authors scrutinise the cultural impact of mass housing and prefabrication, tracing this influence through exhibitions, memory culture, and typologies, ultimately concluding with an outlook on the preservation and repair of structures and their adaptation for the future.Contributors: Mia Åkerfelt (Åbo Akademi University), Yael Allweil (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Inbal Ben Asher-Gitler (Sapir Academic College / Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Angelo Bertolazzi (University of Padua), Tamara Bjažic Klarin (University of Zagreb), Tzafrir Fainholtz (Technion Israel Institute of Technology / Åbo Akademi University), Alberto Franchini (Technical University of Munich), Ilaria Giannetti (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Regine Hess (ETH Zurich), Silke Langenberg (ETH Zurich), Daphna Levine (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Stefania Mornati (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Uta Pottgiesser (TU Delft), Maryia Rusak (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Liat Savin Ben Shoshan (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Maria Tassopoulou (Technical University of Athens), Anna Wilczynska (Estonian University of Life Sciences/ Warsaw University of Life Sciences).Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
£45.00
Amsterdam University Press Urban Development in the Margins of a World
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap. While previous work on heritage sites has mainly focused on protected areas, this book shifts the attention to the margins, where detrimental, tourism-driven urban development may take place. By delimiting a protected site, a non-heritage space is created in which spatial fragmentation, disruptive development processes, and unjust power plays can occur. In post-war Cambodia, liberalization and collective aspirations for progress have provided a strong incentive for modernization. Controversial interests compete in the arena of urban development, and real estate development prevails over planned growth. At the same time, Siem Reap’s marginal position allows for some freedom in architectural and urban design. In the shadow of institutional control, this architectural space expresses alternative visions of the Khmer heritage and connects them with images of urban modernity.Trade Review"Esposito’s book offers a meaningful entry to empirically grounded conceptual work on peripheral planning of heritage sites, particularly in Southeast Asia, and therefore makes a useful contribution to the scholarship of regional and area studies." - Achala Gupta, Asian Journal of Social Science Winter 2019Table of ContentsList of figures Abbreviations Glossary of Khmer terms Acknowledgements Author's Preface Introduction Ordinary diversity? A secondary tourist city in Southeast Asia Building the city after conflict Understanding the politics of heritage from the margins Designing a research trajectory The content and structure of the book Chapter 1 'Before you build a wall, think of what you are leaving outside it': The construction of core and marginal spaces in the Angkor region 1.1 The triad of heritage conservation 1.2 Angkor, an international icon 1.3 Shaping the legal and institutional heritage system for Angkor 1.4 Zoning a region shaped by Angkor's legacy 1.5 Expanding the heritage system: From the monument to the landscape 1.6 Contracting the heritage system: From the landscape to the archaeological park 1.7 Fragile and malleable Siem Reap Chapter 2 The arena of urban planning and the idea of the city 2.1 Everyone wants a slice of the pie 2.2 Planners as cultural brokers 2.3 Spatial layouts and ideas of the city 2.4 The buttresses of planning 2.5 Projects 2.6 The power of action and the power of ideas Chapter 3 The city as the playground of developers 3.1 Our potential field is tourism 3.2 Reconnecting the disenfranchised links of the economic chain 3.3 An irrational property market 3.4 Negotiating the land laws 3.5 Invisible investment 3.6 A dismal attempt at beautification 3.7 Material effects: Processes and impacts of urban development 3.8 Urban transformation by the local people 3.9 The trajectory of Siem Reap's urban transition Chapter 4 The architectural space: How contemporary design shapes urban identities and ideas of modernity 4.1 Angkor: From discovery to commodity 4.2 Emotional authenticity 4.3 Taming exoticism 4.4 Representing and planning the tourist space 4.5 All hotels want to be 'Grand' 4.6 The quest for the local 4.7 Spectacular heritage: The museums of Siem Reap 4.8 Thematizing urban heritage for consumption 4.9 Models and imitative trends: Towards a contemporary Cambodian architecture? Conclusion Heritage space and non-heritage space: A heuristic model The trajectories of the 'coloniality of power' The town, forgotten and yet central Notes Bibliography
£107.35
Amsterdam University Press Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures
Book SynopsisMade up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together or separates the past and the present, the public and the private, the center and the periphery. The present volume focuses on the interaction between the social processes and spatial forms that shape the identity of Italian cities. Using both canonical and less well-known texts along with cultural artifacts, the essays in the volume deprovincialize the Italian city, interpreting the material and symbolic practices that have made it into a unique entity whose enduring influence extends far outside Italy.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Table of Contents I The City as a Performative Space in Early Modern Italy 1. Weintritt: Marketplace Encounters: Social Mixing on the Streets of Early Modern Florence 2. Averett: ‘Noble Edifices’: Performative Urbanism in Early-Modern Rome 3. Gemmani: Perspective Cities: Staging Transferable Spaces in the Learned Comedy 4. Cecchini: The lure of shopping. The Mercerie in early modern Venice and the city as a permanent mall 5. Hafer: Ancient Magnificence and Modern Design: Roman Architecture and Identity in the Printed Works of Alessandro Specchi (1666–1729) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) II The City in Times of Crisis: Urban Spaces in Modern Italy 6. VanWagenen: Le piazze d’Italia: de Chirico’s Prophetic Vision of Public Space in Destination Italy 7. Garvin: Colonie Architecture and Fascism’s Cult of Youth 8. Gillen: Fare la vita grigia: The Industrial City of Italo Calvino and Luciano Bianciardi III The City as a Space of Conflict: Landscapes of Late Capitalism 9. Tholl: Il mondo è meglio non vederlo che vederlo: Naples as Urban Dystopia in Un paio di occhiali 10. Cannamela and Castaldo: Narratives of a ‘City Under Siege’: Bodies and Discourses of the 1977 Movement in Bologna 11. Patat: Terzani’s cityscapes of Asia: In Asia (1965–1997) Index
£100.00
Valiz Make Your City: The City as a Shell: Ndsm
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£21.38
Valiz Rewriting Architecture: 10+1 Actions for an
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£28.02
Frame Publishers BV Hybrid Food Retail: Redesigning Supermarkets for
Book SynopsisOnline shopping and changing consumer demands radically transform the food retail industry for the first time since the introduction of the supermarket in the 1930s. After decades of stagnation, food retail is currently one of most creative fields for designers, architects and other professionals developing new formats like bio food markets, ‘to go’ outlets and pop ups. This handbook prescribes hybridization – a fusion of supermarket and gastronomy, co-working, hospitalityor performative formats – as a powerful remedy against the digital disruption. As a result of a 3-year research with 60 students of retail design at PBSA Dusseldorf and for the first time in this field, Hybrid Food Retail offers an overview of the history, an encyclopaedic analysis of the elements and highlights the emerging trends in the food retail industry.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Supply chain Logistics as an aesthetic principle History The supply chain and its definitions Value chain Logistics in the supply chain Outlook Packaging Wrapping things up History Packaging and its definition Types of packaging Packaging functions Outlook Exterior Design From big box to iconic building History The roof and its definition History of the façade The façade and its definition History of the door The door and its definitions Outlook Scenography Food retail design as scenography Sales formats and their definitions Store layout Space management Product presentation Outlook Interior Design The interior sets the stage The floor and its definitions Floor construction and materials The wall and its definition Wall construction and material The celling and its definition Celling construction and material Celling fittings Outlook Lighting Lighting as the guide in the customer journey The Light and its definitions Terminology Luminaires Quality and effect of light Lighting in food retail Outlook Signage Growing complexity Efficiency and authenticity Food retail signage Merging of typography and space Digital signage Point of sale or point of experience? Outlook Gastronomy Try it – bye it History Gastronomy and its formats Hybridisation of supermarket and gastronomy Outlook Event Eventisation of the non-event supermarket History Event and its definition Event marketing Hybridisation of supermarket and event Outlook Pop-Up Pop-Up as storytelling History Pop-Up and its definition Design features Hybridisation of supermarket and pop-up Outlook Co-Living Co-living as self-fulfilling prophecy History Co-working and its definition Design features Services Visplay – all goods for you From co-working to co-living Outlook Online/Offline E-grocery as hybridisation of stationary retail E-grocery and its challenges Distribution channels Development and best practices Interim conclusion: The online boom has not yet happened Digitalisation of food retail Outlook Index Image credits About the authors/Imprint
£25.00
Frame Publishers BV Where We Learn: Reimagining Educational Spaces
Book SynopsisWhere We Learn investigates how learning spaces are evolving to be made more engaging, flexible and all-around better suited to today’s challenges and opportunities. When educational spaces are designed not only to suit, but to harness the power of new learning models, they have a catalytic potential to improve the way knowledge is shared and retained. Once static, spaces where learning takes place have expanded far beyond the walls of the classroom to spill into more flexible and interactive settings. Where We Learn will offer some of the most novel insights into the design and performance of new environments that are better adapted to contemporary pedagogical practices. This book will shed light on over 50 projects worldwide, ranging from kindergartens, schools and universities to libraries, study cafés and museums. Geared towards readers interested in understanding the broader impact of design on the human experience, Where We Learn will highlight imaginative projects while remaining grounded in practical contexts and real-world settings.
£36.00
Vlaams Architectuurinstituut Flanders Architectural Review 15: Alliances with
Book SynopsisArchitecture today faces social upheavals that are increasingly difficult to ignore. The demand for housing, changing visions on education, the collective past, open space and new care needs are all themes that are growing more urgent by the day. The hesitant response to these issues puts the (international) success of architecture from Flanders and Brussels into perspective.Flanders Architectural Review N15. Alliances with the Real brings together a rich selection of much-discussed recent projects that offer a surprising response to these challenges. Ten essays and two photo series critically reflect upon and hold up a mirror to the architectural field. Alliances with the Real calls for social engagement and social entrepreneurship from all who contribute to the (un)built environment.With essays by Livia de Bethune, Sofie De Caigny, Maarten Desmet, Hülya Ertas, Marleen Goethals, Petrus Kemme, Marc Martens, Mark Pimlott, Martino Tattara and Kiki Verbeeck.With photo essays by Sepideh Farvardin and Miles Fischle.
£31.95
Vlaams Architectuurinstituut Living in Monnikenheide. Care Inclusion and
Book SynopsisMonnikenheide in Zoersel is a residential care centre for people with mental disabilities. A special place for special people, it is examined from an architectural perspective for the first time in this book.In the fifty-year building history of Monnikenheide, different architects have gone in search of new spatial possibilities, with inclusion as leitmotif. This has created a unique landscape that transcends the boundaries of care architecture. Monnikenheide is a powerful architectural statement about the place of people in society who depend on care.
£37.35
