Architecture

From Organisation to Decoration: An Interiors Reader is a reader for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the theories, processes and principles of the aspects of the theory and practice of interior architecture, interior design and interior decoration.

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Simon Unwin has helped students learn to think as architects for over three decades. He is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Previously he taught architectural design and analysis at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff University. He has lived in Great Britain and Australia, and taught or lectured on his work in China, Israel, India, Sweden, Turkey, Canada and the United States as well as at other schools in the UK and Europe. Simon Unwin’s books are used in schools of architecture around the world. Analysing Architecture has been translated into Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Korean and is currently being translated into Portuguese, Russian and Arabic. He continues to teach at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff.
 

Simon Unwin's five textbooks are aimed at those who wish to understand the workings of architecture. Visit his website here

• Analysing Architecture
• Twenty Building Every Architect should Understand
• Exercises in Architecture
• Doorway
• An Architecture Notebook

The World’s Greenest Buildings tackles an audacious task. Among the thousands of green buildings out there, which are the best, and how do we know?

Authors Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer examined hundreds of the highest-rated large green buildings from around the world and asked their owners to supply one simple thing: actual performance data, to demonstrate their claims to sustainable operations.

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'ecohouse is an invaluable and in depth resource for anybody wishing to get to grips with the issues of sustainability and domestic design. If you plan to build homes for the future, you really should be reading this book.' - Oliver Heath, Blustin Heath Design ( review of the 3rd Edition from Amazon)

'This book steps forward boldly to present a vast array of information in a way that is accessible to professionals and lay people … [it] will be useful to all those interested in finding greener ways of designing and making buildings … [and] will enable you to make better-informed decisions.' - Building

This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced by architect, engineer and client today. To order your copy click here

This design guide presents all the elements of building design that combine to create the very best environment for young children and the people who work with them, including building materials, multi-functional spaces and design scaled to suit small children.

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The Tall Buildings Reference Book addresses all the issues of building tall, from the procurement stage through the design and construction process to new technologies and the building’s contribution to the urban habitat. A case study section highlights the latest, the most innovative, the greenest and the most inspirational tall buildings being constructed today.

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This is the first writing reference book for designers. Whether you're an architect, landscape architect, interior designers, or an industrial designer How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design.

This year The Temporary City  has been nominated for Urban Design Groups Publisher Award 2013

The Urban Design Group's annual celebration of excellence in urban design will this year be held at the Royal Overseas League in St James's, Central London and will showcase some of the best examples of urban design work produced in the UK and beyond over the past 12 months.

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A brilliant review by Anthony Vidler of Composition, Non-Composition in the Architectural Review.

‘Lucan’s narrative, as he develops this ‘story of a word’, is never dry or dull, as the question is always addressed through examples – whether drawn from the rule books, or analyzed as the processes by which projects emerge.’

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We are delighted to announce that RIBA Publishing books are now available via Routledge, for customers outside of the UK and Ireland. 

RIBA Enterprises remains the exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland.
 

Click here to read a great review of Rory Hyde's new book Future Practice by John Hill @archidose