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   The World’s Greenest Buildings (January 2013)

   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.

   For more infomration about the book click here

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   Ecohouse 4th Edition (November 2012)

   '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)

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   Thinkers for Architects Series (November 2012)

   Gadamer for Architects is the latest in the Thinkers for Architects series.

   If you would like a copy of of our latest leafleet about the series please click here.

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   Best Tall Buildings 2012 (October 2012)

   Best Tall Buildings 2012 contains overviews of the nominees and winning projects from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s annual awards. The book provides vital statistics, images, plans and in depth accounts of the architectural design and sustainability features of the year’s best tall buildings. Additionally included is the official list of the World’s Tallest Buildings with the judging criteria from the foremost authority on tall buildings. Full color illustrations and photographs throughout.

   To order your copy click here
   

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   The Construction of Drawings and Movies (September 2012)

   "Combining Alberti’s theory with examples of experimental movie making is a brilliant way to continue the traditions of linear perspective construction in the digital age, and to establish greater rigor and knowledge in the application of movement and time to architectural representations."  Brian McGrath, associate professor, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA
    

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   Latin American Modern Architectures (August 2012)

   Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture.

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   Future Practice (September 2012)

   Whether the "civic entrepreneur," the "double agent," or the "strategic designer," this Future Practice offers a diverse spectrum of approaches to design, each offering a potential future for architectural practice.

   The author, Rory Hyde has set up a Facebook page specially for Future Practice which contains more about the book, Views and comments - to visit the page click here
    

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   Cine-scapes (August 2012)

   Cine-scapes explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the way in which architecture is portrayed in movie, this book offers a new perspective

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   Architect’s Legal Pocketbook

   Architect’s Legal Pocket Book  Watch this space, this handy and indispensible guide could well usurp its coveted predecessors and emerge as the essential guide for the next generation of architects and students. –Ike Ijeh, Building.co.uk

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    Atomic Dwelling: Anxiety, Domesticity, and Postwar Architecture

    This book brings together an international group of scholars from architecture, design, urban planning, and interior design to reappraise mid-twentieth century modern life, offering a timely reassessment of culture and the economic and political effects on civilian life.

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