Architecture: professional practice

This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning.

As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia.

Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-living.

This highly illustrated text brings together two areas which have both grown in popularity in recent years: gridshells and bamboo.

This book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity.

Construction Contract Administration for Project Owners is aimed at public and private owners of real estate and construction projects.

Éste es un libro sobre el habitar del ser humano.

A New Index for Public Space: After Distancing offers readers a re-evaluation of the notion of publicness as a lens to unpack the complexity of urban space.

The emergence of new digital and visualisation technologies in recent years has led to rapid changes in the field of architecture.

Now an established global force, China has experienced a sustained period of staggering economic growth since policy reform in the 1970s.

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southeast Asian cities.

Este libro está escrito usando una receta infalible para el fracaso: contentar a todos los que desean usar bien AutoCAD.

Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career.

Challenging mainstream architecture's understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea's centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.

Product longevity is one of the cornerstones in the transition towards a more sustainable society and a key driver for the circular economy model.

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southeast Asian cities.

In this book, first published in 1999, Hershberger presents architectural programming and predesign management in a clear, detailed manner.

This second book in the BEST series explores the fundamental generators and contextual issues - philosophical, physical and political - that influence built environments.

Este libro es una reelaboración y ampliación de la biografía crítica de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe publicada por Franz Schulze en 1985, que fue el primer estudio completo de este maestro de la arquitectura moderna.

Design for Dementia is written by an interdisciplinary team of professionals and academics whose aim is to present lessons learnt from the Dementia Demonstration House at the Building Research Establishment's Innovation Park.

"El centenario de la Bauhaus vuelve a poner en el foco de nuestro interés la figura de su fundador, el arquitecto Walter Gropius (1883-1969), que en sus escritos y conferencias supo plantear muchos de los temas que, pese al profundo cambio de las condiciones y de nuestros juicios, nos siguen ocupando.

This book offers an efficient set of step-by-step tips and overarching lessons about how to gather useful, meaningful, and socially-informed data about clients' and other stakeholders' experiences in architecture and interior design professions.

This book provides 101 real-life construction management case studies from an author with over 40 years' experience in the construction industry and as a lecturer in construction management.

In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world.

Este libro tiene como objetivo fundamental enseñar a realizar mediciones y presupuestos tanto a los alumnos de arquitectura y de ingeniería de edificación como a los profesionales con poca experiencia; pero no presenta los presupuestos como una colección de sumatorios, sino como un acuerdo entre todos los agentes que intervienen en la edificación en torno a un alcance, unas prestaciones y un coste: un acuerdo que tiene que mantenerse desde el inicio del proyecto hasta la entrega de la obra acabada.

Temporary architecture is flourishing in our urban public spaces.

"e;Focuses on taking students through each drawing they would have to do in a set of construction documents.

This book captures concepts and projects that reshape the discipline of architecture by prioritizing people over buildings.

The image of the architect is undeniably gendered.

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective curriculum necessary to teach public interest designers.

Ethnography for Designers teaches architects and designers how to listen actively to the knowledge people have about their own culture.

Architecture can inspire young children; the very shape and form of a daycare center can not only stimulate their imagination but can help children form strong relationships and help promote development.

Computing for Architects provides an introduction to computers and their use in architectural offices.

This is the third in a must-have series of step-by-step guides to using the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013 on your project.

Sustainability has become a driver of innovation in the built environment, but the affordability of sustainable building remains a significant challenge.

Quick, concise and direct, this pocketbook outlines the essentials that every architect needs to know about construction disputes - from tips on avoiding them in the first place and informally negotiating issues as they arise, to how to go about settling full-blown disputes more formally.

A successful design practice requires principals and staff who are creative, technically proficient, and financially savvy.

Provides a framework for understanding of the legal, contractual and procedural implication of architectural practice.

Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation.

This book provides a timely review of the contemporary interpretation of the 'comprehensive health centre', a building type that was originally advocated by health reformers in the UK in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Environmental Design Pocketbook 2nd ed places the information you need for sustainable, low energy building design at your fingertips.

Guide to the JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2024 is a must-have resource for architects and construction professionals navigating the latest JCT Intermediate Building Contract (IC and ICD).

Environmental assessment is a means of counteracting, foreseeing and controlling interference in the environment.

The Organizer's Guide to Architecture Education serves as a timely call-to-action for transforming architecture education to meet the monumental environmental and social challenges of our time.

This is a design guide for architects, engineers and contractors concerning the principles and application of design management.

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This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis - on-site or in the studio.

This book presents 25 international housing schemes that draw on traditional vernacular principles whilst taking into account modern day materials, methods and financial or energy requirements.