Architecture: Products

Edited by Georgia Lindsay

Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases eighteen diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variety of perspectives on this complex building type. Throughout, the authors emphasize new kinds of experiences that museum architecture helps create,…

Paperback – 2020-02-18 
Routledge

By Christopher Tadgell

This book traces the evolution of the great palaces of the Louvre and Versailles, from Pierre Lescot’s designs for expanding the former in the mid-16th century to the successive grands projets for the transformation of the latter over the course of the 18th century. Detailed architectural analysis…

Hardback – 2020-02-15 
Routledge

By Shigeru Satoh

Over the past few decades, Japan has faced severe earthquake disasters, an increasing ageing population, declining birth rates and widening social disparities. These issues have served to highlight gaps left by top-down governance approaches and the urgent need to create resilient societies using…

Hardback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge
Planning, Heritage and Sustainability

By Michael Thompson

First published in 1998, this book describes the surviving medieval remains there and the far more numerous manor houses and castles owned by the bishops, as well as their London houses. Apart from royal residences these are far the largest group of medieval domestic buildings of a single type…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By N.J. Habraken

Originally published in 1985 this book explores, in four interwoven essays, the many ways human life and built form interact and the place that professional designing takes in this interaction. Together, the essays touch on a number of ideas: the idea that our position in space relative to the…

Hardback – 2020-01-31 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Phoebe Lickwar, Roxi Thoren

‘Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs. Agricultural…

Paperback – 2020-01-30 
Routledge

By Roy Chudley, Roger Greeno, Karl Kovac

The 12th edition of Chudley and Greeno’s Building Construction Handbook remains THE authoritative reference for all construction students and professionals. The principles and processes of construction are explained with the concepts of design included where appropriate. Extensive coverage of…

Paperback – 2020-01-30 
Routledge

Edited by Kapila Silva

The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific sheds light onto the balancing act of urban heritage management, focusing specifically on the Asia-Pacific regions in which this challenge is imminent and in need of effective solutions. Urban heritage, while being…

Hardback – 2020-01-29 
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Edward Barsley

This book educates and introduce readers to the ways in which we can adapt to the threat of flooding throughout the built and natural environment. It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of flood risk, whilst highlighting the key approaches and principles necessary for developing…

Hardback – 2020-01-10 
RIBA Publishing

By Claire Thirlwall

From Idea to Site explores how to improve the working practices of landscape architects and therefore the quality of the design and management of our external environment. Based around the life of a project, this book puts innovation and technology at the forefront: looking at how they are changing…

Hardback – 2020-01-10 
RIBA Publishing

By William D. Browning, Catherine O. Ryan

Written by a leading proponent of biophilic design, this is the only practical guide to biophilic design principles for interior designers. Describing the key benefits, principles and processes of biophilic design, Nature Inside illustrates the implementation of biophilic design in…

Paperback – 2020-01-08 
RIBA Publishing

By Howard Davis

Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life. But in the contemporary Western city, production has been hidden or removed, and commerce and consumption have dominated. This book is about the importance of production in the life of the city, and…

Paperback – 2020-01-07 
Routledge