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Post-Traumatic Urbanism: Architectural Design
Charles Rice , Adrian Lahoud , Anthony Burke
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470744987
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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Urban trauma describes a condition where conflict or catastrophe has disrupted and damaged not only the physical environment and infrastructure of a city, but also the social and cultural networks. Cities experiencing trauma dominate the daily news. Images of blasted buildings, or events such as Hur....MORE
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The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies
Rivka Oxman
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470742275
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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Today the convergence of design, engineering and architectural technologies are breeding a new material practice in experimental architecture. In this pioneering publication, this important shift is fully defined as a highly dynamic synthesis of emerging principles of spatial, structural and materia....MORE
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Diagrams of Architecture
Mark Garcia
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470519444
RRP Price: £80.00 Hardback
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This book will provide a definitive reader, compiling essays from previously published texts and newly commissioned essays from leading academics, architects and other specialists, each text is prefaced by a brief critical and accessible introduction by Mark Garcia and illustrated with the first-eve....MORE
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Diagrams of Architecture
Mark Garcia
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470519452
RRP Price: £29.99 Paperback
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This book will provide a definitive reader, compiling essays from previously published texts and newly commissioned essays from leading academics, architects and other specialists, each text is prefaced by a brief critical and accessible introduction by Mark Garcia and illustrated with the first-eve....MORE
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The Patterns of Architecture
Mark Garcia (Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470699590
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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Pattern-making is ubiquitous in both the natural and manmade world. The human propensity for pattern recognition and fabrication is innate. Encompassing the historical, vernacular and parametric, this title explores the creation, materialisation and theorisation of some of the world's most significa....MORE
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Digital Cities AD
Prof. Neil Leach (Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470773006
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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Guest-edited by Neil Leach
What is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years, the profound impact of computer-aided techniques on architecture has been well charted. From the use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of gen....MORE
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Bartlett Designs: Speculating with Architecture
Iain Borden (Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470772808
RRP Price: £34.99 Hardback
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The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL is one of the world’s leading places at which to study and teach architecture. Every year it attracts hundreds of students from around to world to come and participate in its highly experimental and rigorous range of architecture programmes. Its graduates h....MORE
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Bartlett Designs: Speculating with Architecture
Iain Borden (Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470772794
RRP Price: £19.99 Paperback
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The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL is one of the world’s leading places at which to study and teach architecture. Every year it attracts hundreds of students from around to world to come and participate in its highly experimental and rigorous range of architecture programmes. Its graduates h....MORE
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The Thinking Hand
Juhani Pallasmaa
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470779292
RRP Price: £24.99 Paperback
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In our current global networked culture that puts so much emphasis on the virtual and the visual, the mind and the body have become detached and ultimately disconnected. Though physical appearance is idolised for its sexual appeal and its social identity, the role of the body in developing a full un....MORE
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Neoplasmatic Design
Marcos Cruz (Editor), Steve Pike (Co-Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470519584
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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Investigating the current groundswell of experiments and creative work that utilises design as a method to explore and manipulate actual biological material, Neoplasmatic Design presents the impact of emerging and progressive biological advances upon architectural and design practice. The rapid deve....MORE
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Drawing
Sir Peter Cook
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470034807
RRP Price: £70.00 Hardback
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Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, Drawings highlights the work of key contemporary figures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course of architectural thinking. Bringing this together is a chapter-by-chapter series of essays that broadly ch....MORE
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Drawing
Sir Peter Cook
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470034815
RRP Price: £24.99 Paperback
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Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, Drawings highlights the work of key contemporary figures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course of architectural thinking. Bringing this together is a chapter-by-chapter series of essays that broadly ch....MORE
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Versatility and Vicissitude: Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470516879
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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This third AD by the guest-editors of the highly successful Emergence and techniques and technologies in Morphogenetic Design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance. Whereas the dictionary definition of performance -to 'carry out an action' or 'to fulfill a ....MORE
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4dsocial
Lucy Bullivant - Guest Editor
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470319119
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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A new breed of public interactive installations is taking root that overturns the traditional approach to artistic experience. Architects, artists and designers are now creating real-time interactive projects at very different scales and in many different guises. Some dominate public squares or tran....MORE
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Italy
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi (Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470031891
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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Every five or six years, a different country takes the architectural lead in Europe: England came to the fore with High Tech in the early 80s; by the end of the 80s, France came to prominence with Francois Mitterand’s great Parisian projects; in the 90s, Spain and Portugal were discovering a new tr....MORE
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Elegance
Ali Rahim (Editor), Hina Jamelle (Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470029684
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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Elegance represents an important watershed in architectural design. Since the onset of computer-driven technologies, innovative designers have, almost exclusively, been preoccupied with the pursuit of digital techniques. This issue of AD extrapolates current design tendencies and brings them togethe....MORE
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Collective Intelligence in Design
Christopher Hight (Guest Editor), Chris Perry (Guest Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470026529
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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Exploring how today’s most compelling architecture is emerging from new forms of collaborative practice, this title of AD engages three predominant phenomena: architecture’s relationship with digital and telecommunication technology; the media; and economies of globalisation. The articles in the iss....MORE
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Programming Cultures
Mike Silver (Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470025859
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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Programming Cultures explores the relationship between software engineering and the various disciplines that benefit from new codes and programming tools. The title focuses on a range of practices including: aviation design, urban infrastructure simulation, Hollywood special effects, nanotechnology,....MORE
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The New Europe
Valentina Croci (Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470018399
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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In May 2004, Europe was redefined. Ten countries - Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia - joined the European Union (EU). Two years on, the full impact of the forces this historical event has unleashed has yet to be understo....MORE
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Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design
Michael Hensel (Editor), Achim Menges (Editor), Michael Weinstock (Editor)
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470015292
RRP Price: £22.99 Paperback
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This issue of AD introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelationship of emergence and self-organisation concepts. A sequence to the successful Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies title by the same guest-editors, it advances on the previous publication by taking ....MORE
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