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Detail in Contemporary Glass Architecture
Virginia McLeod
Laurence King
ISBN: 1856697401
RRP Price: £35.00
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Following the success of the earlier titles in this series, Detail in Contemporary Glass Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern glass architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 50 o....MORE
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Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture
David Phillips, Megumi Yamashita
Laurence King
ISBN: 1780670095
RRP Price: £35.00
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Hardback with CD-ROM
Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 49 of the most recently completed ....MORE
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Wood Architecture Now! Vol. 1
Philip Jodidio
Taschen
ISBN: 3836523299
RRP Price: £24.99
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Nature's greatest resource
Modern wood architecture from Tierra del Fuego to North Cape
Wood is renewable and sustainable, solid and attractive. Wood can be bent and shaped to the most modern of designs. It is the material of the moment for contemporary architecture and this new volume allows re....MORE
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Structural Glass Facades and Enclosures
Mic Patterson
Wiley
ISBN: 0470502436
RRP Price: £57.50
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A comprehensive guide to structural glass facades for architects, engineers, and builders
Once an experimental building form, structural glass facades have matured into a fully robust technology. Structural Glass Facades and Enclosures documents, defines, and categorizes the current state of the ....MORE
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Building with Timber
Hermann Kaufmann, Winfried Nerdinger
Prestel
ISBN: 3791351818
RRP Price: £35.00
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A building material of the future, timber bridges the gap between nature and technology.
A sustainable resource and climate-friendly construction material, timber is also materialised solar energy and carbon dioxide accumulator. As a universally applicable heat-insulating material and highly resi....MORE
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Concrete
Edited by William Hall, Leonard Koren
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714863548
RRP Price: £29.95
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Concrete is a visual celebration of concrete architecture, through an exploration of 180 structures from ancient Rome to the present day, in
Concrete is the most extensive book of its kind on this popular material.
Covering everything from monuments and churches to bus stations and crematorium....MORE
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Materials, Structures, and Standards
Julia McMorrough
Rockport
ISBN: 1592531938
RRP Price: £16.99
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Most architectural standards references contain thousands of pages of details-overwhelmingly more than architects need to know to know on any given day. Now there is a place where architects can find vital information essential to planning and executing architectural projects of all shapes and sizes....MORE
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Architecture in Detail: Materials
Oscar Riera Ojeda , Mark Pasnik
Rockport
ISBN: 1564969304
RRP Price: £50.00
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This new series examines the role of details in contemporary architecture through the work of many emerging and established practitioners whose designs speak sensitively and energetically at the small scale. The collection presents these details in photographs, accompanied by working drawings, sketc....MORE
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Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture
Virginia McLeod
Laurence King
ISBN: 1856696413
RRP Price: £32.00
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Architectural detailing is what makes a design unique, and an architect outstanding. Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern timber architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the wor....MORE
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The Ecology of Building Materials - 2nd Edition
Bjørn Berge
Architectural Press
ISBN: 1856175375
RRP Price: £41.99
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The Ecology of Building Materials explores key questions surrounding sustainability of building materials. It provides technical data to enable design and building professionals to choose the most appropriate materials for a project: those that are least polluting, most energy efficient, and from su....MORE
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Wood Design
daab
ISBN: 3937718397
RRP Price: £22.50
Hardback
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In modern architecture, wood plays an especially central role, and the significance of this wonderfully diverse raw material in the design of sophisticated buildings and interiors continues to increase. New materials and innovative processing techniques enable the production of absolutely precise wo....MORE
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Stone Design
daab
ISBN: 3937718664
RRP Price: £22.50
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Stone is one of the oldest building materials humanity knows. And even today with all the new materials and techniques available to architects and designers, stone is still used everywhere in the world. Its stability, elegance, insulating and accoustical properties are too highly regarded to abandon....MORE
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Steel Design
daab
ISBN: 3937718656
RRP Price: £22.50
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Architecture has advanced quickly in the field of construction materials, which are fundamental when fulfilling dreams of raising massive buildings. Amongst these materials that have had the biggest influence in the creation of this kind of architecture is steel. As a result of a carbon-alloy, steel....MORE
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Plastic Design
daab
ISBN: 3937718605
RRP Price: £22.50
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During the last 50 years, the plastic industry has grown at an incredible pace until becoming part of nearly all the areas of human activity. Plastic materials moreover have made practically any architectural solution affordable to all. This book contains dozens of examples and architectural project....MORE
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Glass Design
daab
ISBN: 3937718354
RRP Price: £22.50
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Glass protects from sunshine, warmth, noise and radiation. It can be self-cleaning, energy storing, regulating and supporting. Glass can do more than encase and illuminate, it can expressively put on display and so accompanies light on its way in both directions. It is provided every time again, wha....MORE
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