Architecture Books

New and Published Books

1. Lean Design Management

   Edited by Stephen Emmitt

   Series: Architectural Engineering and Design Management

   The fields of design management and lean construction appear to be developing independently. This volume brings together authors from four continents to argue that lean thinking should be integral to design management in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). The...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Two Spheres

   Physical and Strategic Design in Architecture

   By Leonard Bachman

   Explaining the connection between physical and strategic design, this book proposes an aesthetic connection between two equal aspects of architectural design: the Real and the Ideal. Addressing architectural thinkers from the broad realms of academia and practice, it is suitable either as a seminar...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Florentine Villa

   Architecture History Society

   By Grazia Gobbi Sica

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

   Policy and Governance in a Changing World

   Edited by Kevin S. Hanna, Douglas A. Clark, D. Scott Slocombe

   **This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette

   By Fiona McLachlan

   How do architects use colour? Do they adopt a different strategy or starting point for every project? Do they gradually cultivate individual colour palettes, which develop alongside their body of built work? Do they utilise, or are they aware of, the body of theoretical work that underpins the use...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. Systemic Architecture

   Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City

   By Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero

   This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. Mapping Modernity in Shanghai

   Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

   By Samuel Y. Liang

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Reformations

    From High Renaissance to Mannerism in the New West of Religious Contention and Colonial Expansion

    By Christopher Tadgell

    Series: Architecture in Context

    The rediscovery of classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists, architects and theorists of late fithteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy led to the cultural peak characterised as the High Renaissance. This fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series begins with a definition...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge