Structure, Materials and Detailing Books

New and Published Books

1. The Tall Buildings Reference Book

   Edited by David Parker, Antony Wood

   As the ever-changing skylines of cities all over the world show, tall buildings are an increasingly important solution to accommodating growth more sustainably in today’s urban areas. Whether it is residential, a workplace or mixed use, the tower is both a statement of intent and the defining image...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Architecture and Energy

   Performance and Style

   Edited by William Braham, Daniel Willis

   Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Should more energy-efficient buildings look different? Can that "look" be used to explain or enhance their performance? Architecture and Energy provides architects and architectural theorists with more durable arguments for environmental...

   Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
3. Security Glazing: Is It All It's Cracked Up To Be?

   A Guide to the Selection of Effective Security Glazing

   By Craig Devine, Richard Flint

   The BRE Trust-funded research project ‘Security glazing: is it all that it’s cracked up to be?’ followed a spate of burglaries in the West End of London in 2008. The burglaries in London used ‘smash-and-grab’ attacks to steal expensive goods such as jewellery and designer clothing from window...

   Published April 29th 2013 by IHS BRE Press
4. Contemporary Library Architecture

   A Planning and Design Guide

   By Ken Worpole

   Focusing on the practical issues which need to be addressed by anyone involved in library design, here Ken Worpole offers his renowned expertise to architects, planners, library professionals, students, local government officers and members interested in creating and sustaining successful library...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. Architecture Re-assembled

   The Use (and Abuse) of History

   By Trevor Garnham

   Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day. It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. Principles of Structure, Fifth Edition

   By Ken Wyatt, Richard Hough

   Since its first publication in 1974, Principles of Structure has established itself at the forefront of introductory texts for students of architecture, building and project management seeking a basic understanding of the behavior and design of building structures. It provides a simple quantitative...

   Published February 7th 2013 by CRC Press
7. Green Buildings Pay

   Design, Productivity and Ecology, 3rd Edition

   By Brian Edwards, Emanuele Naboni

   This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced...

   Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
8. The World's Greenest Buildings

   Promise Versus Performance in Sustainable Design

   By Jerry Yudelson, Ulf Meyer

   The World’s Greenest Buildings tackles an audacious task. Among the thousands of green buildings out there, which are the best, and how do we know? Authors Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer examined hundreds of the highest-rated large green buildings from around the world and asked their owners to...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Planning and Place in the City

   Mapping Place Identity

   By Marichela Sepe

   Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city’s uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. A key task for planners and residents, working together, is to preserve...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Urban Design Reader

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald

    Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series

    The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge