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Structure for Architects
Ramsey Dabby, Ashwani Bedi
Wiley
ISBN: 047063376X
RRP Price: £47.50 Hardback
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Structure for Architects explains the fundamental structural concepts required for architects and architectural technologists using a highly illustrated approach and real-world examples. With an intuitive, easy-to-read and graphically-friendly format, Structure for Architects is meant for the visual....MORE
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Working Toward Sustainability: Ethical Decision-Making in a Technological World
Charles Kibert, Anna Peterson, Leslie P. Thiele, Martha C. Monroe
Wiley
ISBN: 0470539720
RRP Price: £42.50 Hardback
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Because sustainability ultimately rests on ethics, this groundbreaking book is a crucial link in extending sustainability from a mere intellectual exercise to a broader spectrum. Working Toward Sustainability develops a comprehensive ethical foundation for sustainability by bringing together nine et....MORE
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London 2012
Hattie Hartman
Wiley
ISBN: 1119992990
RRP Price: £49.99 Hardback
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Designing the greenest Olympic games in history
Beginning with the bidding process, planners for London's 2012 Olympics envisioned nothing less than a transformation of East London with permanent structures that would bring to life the driving creative principle of sustainability. In London 2012,....MORE
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Building Structures, 3rd Edition
James Ambrose, Patrick Tripeny
Wiley
ISBN: 0470542608
RRP Price: £90.00 Hardback
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The comprehensive reference on the basics of structural analysis and design, now updated with the latest considerations of building technology
Structural design is an essential element of the building process, yet one of the most difficult to learn. While structural engineers do the detailed cons....MORE
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Sustainable Renovation
Lisa Gelfand, Chris Duncan
Wiley
ISBN: 0470872616
RRP Price: £57.50 Hardback
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The complete resource on performing sustainable renovations for both Historic and modern existing buildings
This forward-looking and insightful guide explores how the sustainable renovation of existing buildings presents great opportunities for initiating extensive changes in the performance of t....MORE
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Natural Ventilation of Buildings
David Etheridge
Wiley
ISBN: 047066035X
RRP Price: £83.95 Hardback
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Natural ventilation is considered a prerequisite for sustainable buildings and is therefore in line with current trends in the construction industry. The design of naturally ventilated buildings is more difficult and carries greater risk than those that are mechanically ventilated. A successful resu....MORE
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A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, 2nd Edition
Francis D. K. Ching
Wiley
ISBN: 0470648856
RRP Price: £36.99 Paperback
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The classic, bestselling reference on architecture now revised and expanded!
An essential one-volume reference of architectural topics using Francis D.K. Ching's signature presentation. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-re....MORE
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Structural Glass Facades and Enclosures
Mic Patterson
Wiley
ISBN: 0470502436
RRP Price: £57.50 Hardback
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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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Sustainable Design of Research Laboratories: Planning, Design, and Operation
KlingStubbins
Wiley
ISBN: 0470485647
RRP Price: £57.50 Hardback
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Architecture, Sustainable Design
A comprehensive book on the sustainable design of research laboratories
Today's research laboratories are complex and difficult building types to design, and making them sustainable adds more obstacles. Written by members of the well-known firm KlingStubbins, u....MORE
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Architecture and Beauty
Yael Reisner
Wiley
ISBN: 0470997842
RRP Price: £50.00 Hardback
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Architecture and Beauty provides a rare insight into the minds of 20 of today's most progressive and high profile architects, each from a radically different position and each displaying a distinctive aesthetic.
Based on a series of interviews, the book raises poignant issues regarding the notion....MORE
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Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition
William J. Cavanaugh , Gregory C. Tocci , Joseph A. Wilkes
Wiley
ISBN: 0470190523
RRP Price: £85.00 Hardback
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The leading guide to acoustics for architects, engineers, and interior designers
A widely recognized, comprehensive reference to acoustic principles for all concerned with the built environment, Architectural Acoustics, Second Edition provides design professionals with up-to-date information on b....MORE
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Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures
Edward Allen , Waclaw Zalewski
Wiley
ISBN: 047017465X
RRP Price: £80.00 Hardback
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Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling author Edward Allen's graphical approach, the book enables you to quickly determine the desired form of a building or other structure and easily design it wit....MORE
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Shaping London
Sir Terry Farrell
Wiley
ISBN: 0470699965
RRP Price: £39.99 Hardback
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In this wholly new and dynamic view of London, Farrell looks beyond the contribution of individual buildings to the city. He creates a larger, more exciting frame, charting how the capital’s messy and complex shape has been hewn out of a series of layers – natural and manmade, so the Thames and the ....MORE
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Becoming a Landscape Architect
Kelleann Foster
Wiley
ISBN: 0470338458
RRP Price: £26.99 Paperback
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Explore exciting options for a career in landscape architecture
Blending aesthetics and environmental consciousness, landscape architecture is one of the fastest growing fields, according to the US Department of Labor. Becoming a Landscape Architect gives you a comprehensive survey of the field a....MORE
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Low Energy Cooling for Sustainable Buildings
Ursula Eicker (Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences)
Wiley
ISBN: 047069744X
RRP Price: £55.00 Hardback
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This long-awaited reference guide provides a complete overview of low energy cooling systems for buildings, covering a wide range of existing and emerging sustainable energy technologies in one comprehensive volume. An excellent data source on cooling performance, such as building loads or solar the....MORE
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Fundamentals of Building Construction
Edward Allen, Joseph Iano
Wiley
ISBN: 047007468X
RRP Price: £75.00 Hardback
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Now in its Fifth Edition, this essential textbook has been used by thousands of students annually in schools of architecture, engineering, and construction technology. The bestselling reference focuses on the basic materials and methods used in building construction, emphasizing common construction ....MORE
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Architectural Lighting Design
Gary Steffy
Wiley
ISBN: 0470112492
RRP Price: £55.00 Hardback
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Get the definitive, holistic guide to transforming space with light.
There are no shortcuts to designing beautiful and effective architectural lighting. Lighting is both an art and a science that impacts occupants' health and well-being, the Earth's resources, a project's cost, and user satisfact....MORE
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Architect's Essentials of Starting, Assessing and Transitioning a Design Firm
Peter Piven , Bradford Perkins
Wiley
ISBN: 0470261064
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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Written by two leading experts in the field this essential volume offers a step-by-step guide to understanding and evaluating the goals, risks and the rewards of starting a firm.
* Covers the basics of firm organisation, personnel requirements, legal considerations, fee setting, marketing iss....MORE
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Architecture
Francis D. Ching
Wiley
ISBN: 0471752169
RRP Price: £27.99 Paperback
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A superb visual reference to the principles of architecture
Now including interactive CD-ROM!
For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has been the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. The updated Third Editio....MORE
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Fashion Retail, 2nd Edition
Eleanor Curtis, Howard Watson, Liz Sephton
Wiley
ISBN: 0470066474
RRP Price: £34.99 Hardback
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With over 200 sumptuous photographs, Fashion Retail reveals how the world’s top labels (including Prada, Hèrmes, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney and Louis Vuitton) have revolutionised fashion-retail design. Since the late 1990s, designers have realised that the perfect showcase for their cutting....MORE
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