Architecture Books

New and Published Books

1. Good Practice Guide: Assessing Loss and Expense

   By Jeffrey Whitfield

   Assessing Loss and Expense explains to architects and other construction industry professionals in accessible language how to assess the quantum value of loss and expense claims arising from projects. The book allows architects, assessors and others to understand the principles of evaluation...

   Published March 31st 2013 by RIBA Publishing
2. RIBA Agreements 2010 (2012 Revision) Complete Reference Set

   By Riba, Roland Phillips

   The Complete Reference Set contains all of the forms in the RIBA Agreements 2010 (2012 revision), together with a copy of all of the Electronic-Only Components, and a copy of the Guide to RIBA Agreements 2010 (2012 revision). This indispensible reference set gives you all you need to begin working...

   Published March 31st 2013 by RIBA Publishing
3. Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

   By Virag Molnar

   Series: Architext

   The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Museum Architecture

   A New Biography

   By Suzanne MacLeod

   Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent publication of multiple texts dedicated to the subject. Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. Collaborative Design Management

   By Stephen Emmitt, Kirti Ruikar

   The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply. To an increasing degree, other stakeholders such as contractors have input at the design stage, and the designer’s role ...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

   By Richard Wittman

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Biographies & Space

   Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture

   Edited by Dana Arnold, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski

   Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships. Biographical methods of historical...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Market Towns

   Roles, challenges and prospects

   By Neil Powe, Trevor Hart, Tim Shaw

   Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for evaluating policy initiatives and progress in market towns. Through a detailed analysis of the characteristics of over 200 towns and...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. The City Rehearsed

   Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

   By Christopher Heuer

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design

    By Ilaria Mazzoleni

    Series: Biomimetics Series

    Applying Properties of Animals Skins to Inspire Architectural EnvelopesBiology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instill a shift in thinking about the...

    Published March 20th 2013 by CRC Press