Architecture

Accessible and comprehensive and written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with an highly visual account of historical, contemporary and international projects...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This engaging introduction provides students and professionals in architectural design and digital architecture with an overview of techniques and methods they can apply in their own work. An ideal starting point for embracing new technologies...

Digital Poetics celebrates the architectural design exuberance made possible by new digital modelling techniques and fabrication technologies. By presenting an unconventional and original ’humanistic’ theory of CAD (computer-aided design), the author suggests that beyond the generation of innovative..

This edited volume presents the methodological bases of ecodesign, life cycle assessments, impact studies, and methods for planning and transport. Several specific subjects are covered, i.e. public transport, parking, road traffic, the environmental profile of building materials, building retrofits,..

With a hands-on approach and advice from industry experts, this guide will enable any construction or architectural practice to make more effective use of the architectural and general press...

The purpose of this title, first published in 1972, was to bring into focus the work and viewpoints of individuals and groups that were engaged in man-environment research, design and education. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field of man-environment relations, topics range from aspe..

Women continue to be very under-represented in the architectural profession, which has become defined by a narrow middle-class, heterosexual, Eurasian male perspective, out of kilter with today's diverse community. This book brings together a team of up and coming female architects and designers to ..

Women continue to be very under-represented in the architectural profession, which has become defined by a narrow middle-class, heterosexual, Eurasian male perspective, out of kilter with today's diverse community. This book brings together a team of up and coming female architects and designers to ..

It is normally asserted that French architects looked to North America for technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in the 1960s but that the French cultural environment was generally hostile to American ideas. This book includes interviews with French architects who visited the U..

Lang and Moleski argue here that the model of 'function' and the concept of a 'functional building' that we have inherited from the 20th-century Modernists is limited in scope. They propose a new model, which responds to observations about the inadequacy of current ways of thinking about functionali..

Lang and Moleski argue here that the model of 'function' and the concept of a 'functional building' that we have inherited from the 20th-century Modernists is limited in scope. They propose a new model, which responds to observations about the inadequacy of current ways of thinking about functionali..