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   Towards Creative Learning Spaces: Re-thinking the Architecture of Post-Compulsory Education

   By Jos Boys

   This book offers new ways of investigating relationships between learning and the spaces in which it takes place. It suggests that we need to understand more about the distinctiveness of teaching and learning in post-compulsory education, and what it is that matters about the design of its spaces....

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-57064-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Best Tall Buildings 2010: CTBUH International Award Winning Projects

   Edited by Antony Wood

   The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is the world’s foremost authority on tall buildings. This book is the culmination of the annual awards process in which the CTBUH recognizes outstanding tall buildings from the past year. One winner is chosen from each of four...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-59404-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   University Planning and Architecture: The Search for Perfection

   By Jonathan Coulson, Paul Roberts, Isabelle Taylor

   The environment of a university – what we term a campus – has long been the setting for some of history’s most exciting experiments in the design of the built environment. Christopher Wren at Cambridge, Thomas Jefferson at Virginia, Le Corbusier at Harvard, Louis Kahn at Yale and Norman Foster in...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-57110-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide

   By Association of British Theatre Technicians

   Edited by Judith Strong

   The Association of British Theatre Technicians produced its first guide to the design and planning of theatres in 1972. Revised in 1986, it became the standard reference work for anyone involved in building, refurbishing, or creating a performance space. Theatre Buildings – a design guide is its...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-54894-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Innovations in Hospital Architecture

   By Stephen Verderber

   This indispensable reference book captures key recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of sustainable hospital architecture. Today’s architects must provide hospitals which enable high quality care for diverse patient populations in carbon neutral care settings, and this book succinctly...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-77795-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Dictionary of Ecodesign: An Illustrated Reference

   By Ken Yeang, Lillian Woo

   The first guide to the terminology of sustainable design. Written by an internationally renowned expert in the field, this illustrated dictionary provides over 1500 definitions and explanations of ecodesign terms. Providing a unique resource for the practitioner and student, ...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-45899-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today

   By Dana Buntrock

   In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the work of five architects -- Fumihiko Maki, Terunobu Fujimori, Ryoji Suzuki, Kengo Kuma, and Jun Aoki -- Buntrock reveals the aims...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-77891-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Best Tall Buildings 2009

   Edited by Antony Wood

   An international overview of the best tall buildings in 2009 as recognised by the awards of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). From the Manitoba Hydro Place in Winnepeg and the Broadgate Tower in London to the QIPCO Tower in Doha and the Linked Hybrid Building in Beijing, this...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-77974-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Housing Design Handbook: A Guide to Good Practice

   By David Levitt

   How well have architects succeeded in building housing and what lessons can be learned from their triumphs and failures? The Housing Design Handbook will give you a complete understanding of what makes successful housing design. Through the analysis of work by Levitt Bernstein and a wide range of...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-49150-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Sports Facilities and Technologies

    By Peter Culley, John Pascoe

    Developers, designers and operators are increasingly needing to create versatile sport and leisure amenities that are of lasting value to local and wider communities. Placing facilities design and operation at the heart of sports development, this book adopts a holistic approach, integrating...

    June 2009 | 978-0-415-45868-9 | Hardback (Routledge)