Design Books

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51. Design for Sustainability

    A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

    By Janis Birkeland

    With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts...

    Published February 28th 2002 by Routledge
52. Proportion

    Science, Philosophy, Architecture

    By Richard Padovan

    This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of...

    Published September 8th 1999 by Taylor & Francis
53. Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

    By Brian Edwards

    This introduction to design and graphic techniques will help the designer increase his or her understanding of buildings and places through drawing....

    Published November 17th 1993 by Taylor & Francis
54. Design History

    A Students' Handbook

    Edited by Dr Hazel Conway, Hazel Conway

    Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties. No background knowledge of design history, art or architecture is assumed....

    Published October 21st 1987 by Routledge