Architecture: professional practice

Designed for Habitat: New Directions for Habitat for Humanity presents 12 new projects designed and built via collaborations between architects and Habitat for Humanity(R).

Design Technology in Contemporary Architectural Practice lifts the curtain to unveil how eleven world-leading design studios integrate technology (such as computational design, BIM, and digital fabrication) as part of their day-to-day design exploration and delivery.

Interior Design for Small Dwellings addresses the onrush of interest in smaller homes and the possibility that small dwellings might be the answer to housing needs and sustainability.

The Business of Architecture is the essential guide to understanding the critical fundamentals to succeed as an architect.

Architects and healthcare clients are increasingly coming to recognize that, once built, healthcare facilities are almost immediately subject to physical alterations which both respond to and affect healthcare practices.

Guide to JCT Minor Works is a practical guide to the operation and administration of the JCT Minor Works Building Contract suite 2016.

Mängel vermeiden und was tun, wenn sie doch auftretenBeim Hausbau muss man mit Fehlern rechnen, die mit Ärger und immensen Kosten verbunden sein können.

STAY INFORMED OF THE LATEST UPDATES TO THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE WITH THE LEADING VISUAL REFERENCE In the newly revised Seventh Edition of Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2021 International Building Code , architectural drawing expert Francis D.

How do we ensure sustainable buildings perform as intended?

Most newly qualified architects have scant knowledge about the practicalities of running a practice and in particular the challenges of managing the financial side of the business.

Beautiful Light by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Randall Whitehead and lighting industry expert and educator Clifton Stanley Lemon is a combination of idea book, design resource, and product guide.

This book is a celebration of good new design for old buildings and the SPAB philosophy that good new architecture can sit happily alongside old and is preferable to pastiche.

This book showcases small hotels, all located in the United States, designed by architects who use light and materials in interesting and intentional ways.

The importance of freehand drawing for educating architects is often underestimated.

Verbraucherschutz am Bau – ein Spannungsfeld zwischen der existenziellen wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung und technischen Komplexität von Bauvorhaben aus Verbrauchersicht einerseits und den legitimen ökonomischen Interessen des Unternehmers andererseits.

THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO DRAWING FOR DESIGNERS, REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE CURRENT DIGITAL-DRAWING TECHNIQUES Hand drawing is an integral part of the design process and central to the architecture profession.

Warum gehen Bauunternehmer massenweise in Polen pleite?

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

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

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

Voices of Design Leadership Provides inspiration to architecture and design students and professionals through the insights, stories, and projects of successful design leaders Voices of Design Leadership seeks to educate, inform, and inspire a new generation of diverse design leaders.

This unique and established guide to the management of design and designers has been comprehensively reimagined and updated.

This book explores the creative potential for architecture curricula to integrate solid interdisciplinary thinking in design studio education.

Graphic Design for Architects is a handbook of techniques, explanations and examples of graphic design most relevant to architects.

Find that you're spending much longer than planned on a feasibility study?

First translated in English ten years after its original Dutch publication in 1962, this book has inspired practitioners for generations.

The bestselling structural design reference, fully updated and revised Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders is the go-to reference on structural design, giving architects and designers a concise introduction to the structures commonly used for typical buildings.

This book explores the wide-ranging elements of property PR in the UK, with a strong emphasis on communications theory, strategy and technique.

Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings.

BIM Demystified is a short, practical introduction to Building Information Modelling (BIM).

Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success presents all the information key decision-makers need to respond to the fast-growing market for green buildings, design and construction services and products.

Concrete is the most used man-made material in the world and is the fundamental physical medium for most of the world's architecture and construction.

This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space.

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments-unique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreographers.

Graduate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Chartered Landscape Architect, MBA and Barrister, Gordon Rowland Fraser draws upon 30 years of project management, professional practice and teaching experience to provide an uncomplicated and intuitive guide to the business aspects of the landscape profession.

The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design presents an in-depth exploration of criticism and criticality in theory and practice across the disciplines of art, architecture, and design.

Start-Up Creation: The Smart Eco-efficient Built Environment provides a state-of-the-art review on high-technology applications and explains how these can be applied to improve the eco-efficiency of the built environment.

Professionalism is not automatic with qualification.

Ten years ago, Clare Nash was struggling with a common problem: how to be an architect and still have a life.

Construction Superintendents: Essential Skills for the Next Generation is the first college-level textbook designed to prepare you to take on a site supervisor role on a complex jobsite.

Building Inclusion: A Practical Guide to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture and the Built Environment is just that - a manual to support and provide essential guidance to the profession on these key issues.

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

This book offers architects strategies in the design and manufacturing of custom, repetitively manufactured building components.

101 Rules of Thumb sets out the essential elements of low energy architecture in a fresh, intuitive way.

The last half of the twentieth century saw the emergence, evolution and consolidation of a distinct interior design practice and profession.

The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice.

Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture.