Recent Professional Articles

1. 

   Green Building Books from Routledge

   This year Routledge have a number of books publishing on green buildings this year. We have selected a few of the key titles below. For a full listing of our sustainable building titles click on the links to the catalogs below.

   Ecobuild 2013 Catalog  -  Building and Construction 2013 Catalog  -  Architecture 2013 catalog

   • Green Buildings Pay
   • Sustainable Retrofit and Facilities Management
   • The World's Greenest Buildings
   • Intelligent Buildings
   • Passivhaus Designer's Manual
   • Lessons from Vernacular Architecture
2. 

   JUST PUBLISHED - Stadia (February 2013)

   In this fully updated and redesigned edition of the essential and long-established Stadia, the authors offer their unrivalled expertise to all professionals who commission, plan, design, and manage high-quality sports venues.

   To order a copy of this superb book click here

3. 

   Built Environment Titles for Professionals

   Are you looking for new books and the latest research to enhance your practice?

   Routledge Built Environment publishes a wide range of excellent titles in a variety of disciplines, aimed at supporting professionals across Architecture, Construction, Energy, Landscape, Property, and Urban Planning.

   If you're interested in learning more, please take a moment to browse below for a sample of some of our many professional titles that are available.

4. 

   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

5. 

   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
   

6. 

   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.

7. 

   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

8. 

   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.

9. 

   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
    

10. 

    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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