Author: Bryan Lawson
Publisher: Architectural Press
Keywords: process, demystified, design, fourth, think, designers
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-12-14
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0750660775
ISBN-13: 9780750660778

How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson’s many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years’ research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and that we can learn to design better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and extend this creativity. Neither the earlier editions, nor this book, are intended as authoritative prescriptions of how designers should think but provide helpful advice on how to develop a

Author: David Walters
Publisher: Architectural Press
Keywords: based, codes, form, masterplans, community, charrettes, designing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-05-17
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 075066925X
ISBN-13: 9780750669252

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities. In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides a detailed guidance on the proper and most eff

Authors:David Walters, Linda Brown,
Publisher: Architectural Press
Keywords: design, communities, planning, based, first
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0750659343
ISBN-13: 9780750659345

Features: * Focus and emphasis on planning by 3-D design * Clear and practical presentation of how communities can improve their town planning processes * Case studies illustrate the practice and implementation of ideas Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three

Authors:Susan Roaf, Manuel Fuentes, Stephanie Thomas,
Publisher: Architectural Press
Keywords: guide, design, ecohouse
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-06-20
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0750649046
ISBN-13: 9780750649049

-Learn about the key issues of form and construction in Eco house design around the world -Gain an understanding of building materials and their energy and environmental impacts now essential for both student and practitioner -Theory is shown in practice with 21 case-studies from around the world Ecohouse is an exciting and timely text that tells you how to design low energy, environmentally friendly buildings today. It also provides the foundations for building design in a warming world, and stepping stones towards the zero-carbon emission buildings of tomorrow.

Author: Christopher Blow
Publisher: Architectural Press
Keywords: interchanges, modal, terminals, transport
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-03-23
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 075065693X
ISBN-13: 9780750656931

This is the first book to review a trend in transport systems which has only recently come of age: the multi-modal interchange. Separate modes of transport are being linked through ’joined-up thinking’, and transport designers and authorities are only now able to exploit interchange opportunities. This book presents examples of how these new opportunities have been planned and designed, and outlines how transfer and mobility can be improved in the future. Blow takes the airport as the focal point of true multi-modal passenger terminals and presents the development of these buildin

Author: Dan Cruickshank
Publisher: Architectural Press
Keywords: architecture, twentieth, history, fletcher, banister, sir
Number of Pages: 1696
Published: 1996-09-25
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0750622679
ISBN-13: 9780750622677

The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years and continues to give a concise and factual account of world architecture from the earliest times. In this twentieth and centenary edition, edited by Dan Cruickshank with three consultant editors and fourteen new contributors, chapters have been recast and expanded and a third of the text is new. * There are new cha

Authors:J. C. Moughtin, Rafael Cuesta BSc MA MRTPI, Christin
Publisher: Architectural Press
Keywords: second, techniques, method, design, urban
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-07-03
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 0750657189
ISBN-13: 9780750657181

This book deals with a wide range of techniques used in the urban design process. It then goes on to relate these techniques to a unique, comprehensive account of method. A method of urban design is developed which has sustainability and environmental protection at the centre of its philosophy. Previously, literature regarding the urban design method has been almost totally neglected; this book introduces the topic to the reader. This revised Second Edition encompasses the latest techniques including the development of geographic information systems and financial techniques which help evaluate