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The Nature of Order (4 volume set)
Christopher Alexander's four volume masterwork, the result of twenty-seven years of research, considers three vital perspectives: a scientific perspective; a perspective based on beauty and...2005 | Hardback: 978-0-9726529-0-2 (Routledge)
Building Structures
From Concepts to Design
A thorough introduction to building for the non-expert, this book is a one-stop book reference source for knowing everything important about building structures.
Readers:
- follow the history of structural...
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33623-9 (Taylor & Francis)
The Modern Airport Terminal
New Approaches to Airport Architecture
This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and...2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-24812-9 (Taylor & Francis)
An Urban Approach To Climate Sensitive Design
Strategies for the Tropics
The need to respond to the rapidly changing city climate is particularly urgent in the tropics where the urban transition is currently at its peak....2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33410-5 (Taylor & Francis)
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Architecture and Participation
Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in...
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31746-7 (Routledge)
Sustainable Architectures
Critical explorations of green building practice in Europe and North America
As buildings are responsible for fifty per cent of CO2 emissions, their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build...
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70045-0 (Routledge)
The Transparent State
Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany
Examining the transformation of transparency as a metaphor in West German political thought to an analogy for democratic architecture, this book questions the prevailing assumption in German...2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70019-1 (Routledge)
Performative Architecture
Beyond Instrumentality
This book addresses the emergence of a new kind of architecture, in which building performance is a guiding design principle, adopting new performance-based priorities for...2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70083-2 (Routledge)
Understanding Architecture
Understanding Architecture gives the first ever all-inclusive introduction to architecture and architectural history. Exceptional in its approach, it explores architecture as a current practice in...2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32059-7 (Routledge)
Sustaining Urban Networks
The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems
Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three...2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32459-5 (Routledge)
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