Architectural Design, Drawing and Presentation Books

New and Published Books

1. Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals)

   How People Are Creating Their Own Environment

   By Nick Wates, Charles Knevitt

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The conceptual framework rests fundamentally on the principle that the built...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Architectural Theories of the Environment

   Posthuman Territory

   Edited by Ariane Lourie Harrison

   As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects. Our new geological era, the Anthropocene, marks humans as the largest environmental force on the planet and suggests that conventional anthropocentric...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. The Construction of Drawings and Movies

   Models for Architectural Design and Analysis

   By Thomas Forget

   The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be examples of architectural presentation tools. This book asks you to consider drawings and movies to be...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Designing To Avoid Disaster

   The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design

   By Thomas Fisher

   Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of...

   Published August 27th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cine-scapes

   Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities

   By Richard Koeck

   Cine-scapes explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the way in which architecture is portrayed in film, this book offers a new perspective.... What happens if we begin to see the city as...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication

   By Christopher Beorkrem

   Author Christopher Beorkrem shows how material performance drives the digital fabrication process and determines technique. He has recreated and dissected thirty-six of the most progressive works of architecture of the last few years, with perspectives from the designers so that you can learn from...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

   How Design Activism Confronts Growth

   By Ann Thorpe

   The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not...

   Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
8. Diagramming the Big Idea

   Methods for Architectural Composition

   By Jeffrey Balmer, Michael Swisher

   As a beginning design student, you need to learn to think like a designer, to visualize ideas and concepts, as well as objects. 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...

   Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
9. Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette

   By Fiona McLachlan

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

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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