Architecture

Now in its 44th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2025 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs.

The town of Gillingham in Kent grew up around the Royal Navy's Chatham Dockyard.

For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change.

This book is an easily digestible guide to the management and practice knowledge needed to establish and run an architectural practice.

This book examines the city and its rapid growth, as well as the sustainability issues it poses, in several ways.

Cet ouvrage explore l’urbanisme de projet en mettant en avant la démarche de programmation urbaine, son évolution historique et son rôle crucial dans l’urbanisme stratégique et opérationnel.

Der Wolf – ein Symbol für Wildheit, Gefahr und Faszination.

Depuis le tournant du millénaire, la Chine connaît un processus d’urbanisation accélérée sans précédent.

El hormigón armado es, sin duda, uno de los materiales más revolucionarios en la historia de la construcción, y a su vez, es el másutilizado en todo el mundo en una gran variedad de proyectos, desde viviendas y edificios comerciales hasta infraestructuras comopuentes y carreteras.

In this enthralling book, Ben Alderson-Day explores one of the most curious experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing sense that someone or something is there when we are alone - the feeling of an unseen presence.

Con la proliferación de textos divulgativos vinculados a las neurociencias, hay montones de "neuromitos" dando vueltas en la sociedad, como el que dice que solo usamos el 10 % de nuestro cerebro o el que sugiere que una persona es más racional o más creativa por ser más de un hemisferio que del otro.

(Extra) Ordinary Interiors features research articles and visual essays by academics, research students and practitioners that demonstrate contemporary modes of criticality and reflection on specific interior environments in ways that expand upon that which is ordinary (of the everyday, common, banal, or taken for granted).

In einer Welt, die sich rasch wandelt und mit den Herausforderungen des Klimawandels konfrontiert ist, zeigt Petra Jasper eindrucksvoll, wie nachhaltiges Wohnen und Bauen zur Grundlage einer lebenswerten Zukunft werden können.

This book addresses the urgent need to reduce our use of virgin fossil plastics.

Originally published in 1952, this book, profusely illustrated, describes the various styles of wall decoration that have been used in England from the time of Henry VII up to the reign of Queen Victoria.

The gold-standard structural design reference, completely revised and updated with an all-new look Completely revised to reflect the latest standards and practices, Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders, 13th Edition, is the go-to reference on structural design, giving architects and contractors a concise introduction to the structures commonly used for typical buildings.

Freud sobre la arquitectura explica qué ofrece Sigmund Freud para comprender la creatividad y la experiencia de la arquitectura, con ejemplos que van desde el Movimiento Moderno hasta la actualidad.

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health.

This book offers a rigorous but graphically compelling narrative historic analysis of one of the most important civic buildings not only of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, or the State of Illinois, but arguably of the United States, Memorial Stadium.

Este trabajo ha sido preparado íntegramente en la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt von Bern, wie Sie sie noch nie zuvor erlebt haben!

Mit dem Fall der Qing-Dynastie im Jahr 1912 endete nicht nur eine Ära kaiserlicher Herrschaft, sondern begann eine Reise des Wandels für die Verbotene Stadt – das Herz des einstigen Kaiserreichs.

The present book of the Jvari-type churches aims to consider the artistic monuments which are proof of the harmonious completion of the quest of an entire era.

Revelations of the profound effect and long legacy of America's post-Civil War Reconstruction In Landscapes of Freedom, Rebecca Capobianco Toy tells the story of an emblematic community of freedpeople during the Civil War era.

The book addresses the contribution of Intangible Cultural Heritage to the sustainable management of historic cities and towns.

Imagine if every architect had an apprentice who could consistently observe and understand their intentions, take over routine tasks and monitor technical, environmental, and economic constraints.

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century.

A tide mill or tidal mill is worked by harnessing the ebb and flow of the sea.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP), held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-27 July, 2024.