Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings

The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century.

What goes on in our heads when we have a thought?

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time?

Research institutions have or are planning to build, expand and renovate animal research facilities to keep up with the demands of biomedical research caused in part by growth in the use of genetically altered rodents and the upsurge of research in infectious diseases.

Research institutions have or are planning to build, expand and renovate animal research facilities to keep up with the demands of biomedical research caused in part by growth in the use of genetically altered rodents and the upsurge of research in infectious diseases.

Around the world concerns about cost, efficiency, and safety - employee, product, process and consumer -- have led to changes in the way food plants are planned, constructed and evaluated.

This book provides the guidelines and fundamental methods of estimation and calculation needed by maintainability engineers.

From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.