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   From Organisation to Decoration ( November 2012)

   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.

   For more information about the book or to order your complimentary examination copy click here

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   The Simon Unwin Trilogy - a must for any architecture student

   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
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   Diagramming the Big Idea ( August 2012)

   In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher illustrate how you can create and use diagrams to clarify your understanding of both particular projects and organizing principles and ideas. With accessible, step-by-step exercises that interweave diagrams, drawings and virtual models, the authors clearly show you how to compose meaningful and useful diagrams.

4. 

   Design and Ethics (March 2012)

   This multi-disciplinary books considers how to create design which is at once aesthetically pleasing and also ethically considered, with contributions from fields as diverse as architecture, fashion, urban design and philosophy. The authors also address how to teach design based subjects while instilling a desire in the student to develop ethical work practices, both inside and outside the studio.
    

5. 

   Rural Design

   This book is the first step along the path for rural design to emerge as an important new design discipline. Rural Design: A New Design Discipline establishes the theoretical base for rural design and the importance of looking at connecting issues to create synergy and optimal solutions from a global, national, state, region, and local perspective.

6. 

   Introducing Architectural Theory

   This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject – such as tectonics, use, and site – as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text.

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   Architecture and Climate

   Copiously illustrated with drawings and photographs, including a color plate section, this book brings a historical dimension to the appreciation of the environment in architecture and, equally, introduces an environmental dimension to the study of the history of architecture.
    

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   Exercises in Architecture

   This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop their capacity for doing architecture. Exercises in Architecture builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the author’s previous book Analysing Architecture (third edition, Routledge, 2009) and demonstrated in his Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge, 2010). The three books taken together deal with the three aspects of learning: description, analysis of examples, and practice.

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   Review of “Spatial Agency” on Arquilecturas

   “Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture” by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider & Jeremy Till (2011) has received another positive review, this time on the Spanish website, Arquilecturas. Please click here to read the full review.

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    Architecture Textbook Catalog

    The new 2011 Architecture Textbook Catalog is now available online - to view a copy click here

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