Recent Professional Articles

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   Green Buildings Pay 3rd Edition ( January 2013)

   '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

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   Nurseries: A Design Guide - (November 2012)

   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.

   To order your copy of Nurseries: A Design Guide click here
   

3. 

   Design Education for a Sustainable Future

   By Rob Fleming

   Design Education for a Sustainable Future argues for a change in design education: from an individualistic and competitive model focused on greening to a new approach defined by an integral consciousness.

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   Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes (November 2012)

   "From design and analysis, to project construction and delivery, to new materials and techniques, the book carefully collects top authors, content, and case studies to help explicate what the editor describes as "energy-free architectural design". As well illustrated as it is written, this book convincingly merges the range of historical, technical, theoretical, and architectural obligations that presuppose our understanding of higher-performance buildings."  Kiel Moe, Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA

   For more information about the book click here

5. 

   Hotel Design, Planning and Development 2nd Edition ( October 2012)

   Hotel Design, Planning and Development presents the most significant hotels developed internationally in the last ten years so that you can be well-informed of recent trends.

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   Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication (August 2012)

   "Beorkrem’s new book brings together what an inquisitive mind desires – an unravelling of the complexities and contradictions found in the built form. In each carefully selected case study, he systematically picks apart the design intentions, tools’capabilities and material limitations, and reveals the real invention and experimentation behind the photogenic work. This book introduces a different mode of formal analysis that acknowledges a new form of design intelligence. It succeeds in demystifying the problems of complex forms, and makes a renewed attempt in connecting architects deeply with the tools that are increasingly available in fabrication plants around the world."

   H. Koon Wee, director of SKEW Collaborative and assistant professor, faculty of architecture, University of Hong Kong
    

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   Designing to Avoid Disaters (August 2012)

   In Designing to Avoid Disaster, the author discusses the context and cultural assumptions that have led to a number of disasters worldwide, describing the nature of fracture-critical design and why it has become so prevalent.

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   Designed for Habitat ( August 2012)

   "Unlike most architecture books, this book goes beyond the pictures to explain how these houses were designed and built, and offers practical lessons for architects and practitioners. It should be required reading for anyone who develops or builds modest, affordable single family houses, as well as for any architect who considers this product unworthy of their talents."

   Alan Mallach, The Brookings Institution, Author of A Decent Home: Planning, Building and Preserving Affordable Housing
    

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   Architecture & Design Versus Consumerism (July 2012)

   'Architecture and Design versus Consumerism provides a highly productive and authentic investigation into what design means in the twenty-first Century. Through her lucid analysis, Thorpe surfaces the most important questions the design industry needs to ask, and offers a new way of thinking about answers. In a crowded market of design books that seem to range from self-help to self-congratulation, Architecture and Design versus Consumerism offers a contextualized and timely framework that is powerful in any designer's toolkit.' – Valerie Casey, founder and executive director of the Designers Accord

10. 

    Systemic Architecture (March 2012)

    The book investigates the subject of urban ecology from the perspective of architectural design, engaging its definition at multiple levels, the biological, the informational and the social. The book has two main goals – to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization, a new kind of emergent "real-time world-city". Structured in the form of a manual, the authors draw on nearly a decade of design experiments from their ecoLogicStudio practice.
     

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