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Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle embodied energy and energy use. Highly illustrated with practical information and simple explanations for design ideas this book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction material properties and environmental performance of buildings in an accessible way. In explaining the principles and technologies by which we heat cool moderate and mitigate it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to create sustainable buildings with impact. Keep this sourcebook with you. Features: Amphibious House (Baca Architects) Ashen Cabin (HANNAH) Bunhill 2 Energy Centre (Ramboll Cullinan Studio McGurk Architects and Colloide) Cork House (Matthew Barnett Howland Oliver Wilton and Dido Milne) Dymaxion House (Richard Buckminster Fuller) Eastgate Centre (Mick Pearce) Neuron Pod (Will Alsop – aLL Design and AKT II) Quik House (Adam Kalkin) and Tension Pavilion (StructureMode and Weber Industries). Covers: Acoustics bamboo construction biopolymer bioremediation CLT climatic envelope computational fluid dynamics earthen architecture fabric formwork hempcrete insulation mycelium biofabrication paper construction passive solar heating pneumatic structures solar geometry tensegrity structures thermal mass and more. | Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

GBP 35.00
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Wellbeing in Interiors Philosophy Design and Value in Practice

Lives in Architecture Peter Cook

Desire Lines A Guide to Community Participation in Designing Places

Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

Architecture needs women. How can the built environment be designed without the expert input of half the population? In spite of the significant number of women choosing to study architecture as undergraduates once qualified women remain in the minority. As professionals their expertise is often overlooked their work devalued and their contribution to the canon forgotten. Yet women’s work is critical to the sustainability of a profession that must aspire to design high-quality buildings for the whole of society. How can architecture attract recruit and retain women? And how can women find ways to thrive within it? Underpinned by inclusion internationalism and intersectionality this practical guide looks back as well as forward exploring the history of women working in architecture as well as interrogating the contemporary landscape. It provides guidance tips and examples for navigating key points in an architect’s career including education practice projects and promotion. Inspiring case studies of women and women-led practices consider what success means and how to negotiate a route to a fruitful career and a balanced life as an architect. The book covers women architects from all walks of life all sizes of practice and from all over the world including Jeanne Gang Yasmeen Lari and Anupama Kundoo as well as many other historical and contemporary women architects and emerging practices. Featuring guidance on: Understanding the barriers and history of women in architecture Expanding the opportunities and visibility of women in leading roles The importance of role models and mentoring. With a foreword by Jane Duncan OBE PPRIBA. | Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

GBP 35.00
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RIBA Climate Guide

Lives in Architecture Terry Farrell

A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

‘It was like heaven! It was like a palace even without anything in it … We’d got this lovely lovely house. ’ In 1980 there were well over 5 million council homes in Britain housing around one third of the population. The right of all to adequate housing had been recognised in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights but long before that popular notions of what constituted a ‘moral economy’ had advanced the idea that everyone was entitled to adequate shelter. At its best council housing has been at the vanguard of housing progress – an example to the private sector and a lifeline for working-class and vulnerable people. However with the emergence of Thatcherism the veneration of the free market and a desire to curtail public spending council housing became seen as a problem not a solution. We are now in the midst of a housing crisis with 1. 4 million fewer social homes at affordable rent than in 1980. In this highly illustrated survey eminent social historian John Boughton author of Municipal Dreams examines the remarkable history of social housing in the UK. He presents 100 examples from the almshouses of the 16th century to Goldsmith Street the 2019 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize. Through the various political aesthetic and ideological changes the well-being of community and environment demands that good housing for all must prevail. Features: 100 examples of social housing from all over the UK illustrated with over 250 images including photographs and sketches. A complete history dating from early charitable provision to ‘homes for heroes’ garden villages to new towns multi-storey tower blocks and modernist developments to contemporary sustainable housing. Iconic estates including: Alton East and West Becontree Dawson’s Heights Donnybrook Quarter Dunboyne Road and Park Hill. Projects from leading architects and practices including: Peter Barber Neave Brown Karakusevic Carson Kate Macintosh and Mikhail Riches. | A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

GBP 42.00
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The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy

Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

Retrofitting for Flood Resilience A Guide to Building & Community Design

New Work New Workspace Innovative design in a connected world

Future Office Next-generation workplace design

Old Buildings New Ideas A Selective Architectural History of Additions Adaptations Reuse and Design Invention

Architect: The evolving story of a profession

Architect: The evolving story of a profession

The architect’s role is constantly adapting. Throughout history it has shifted significantly shaped by social cultural technological and economic forces. The very definition of what an architect is and does has evolved over time from lead builder or master mason to principal designer. A collaborative and reactive profession it is inextricably linked to the power of the patron whether the client is an influential and affluent individual or a political commercial civic or religious organisation. From Ancient Egypt where architects were members of the ruling class tied into the running of the empire to the 21st century when questions are being raised about the future of the profession this book with its engaging narrative explores the constant threads that remain as the profession adapts. While architects are no longer deified their ability to imagine a new impending reality in built form implies a visionary dimension to their work. By focusing on both the practicalities of the profession and the more intangible motivations behind design – humans’ need to make a mark upon their surroundings – this volume provides a critical overview of over 3000 years of practice and education. Looking at the key questions of where the architectural profession originated in the Western tradition why it is how it is today and where it might be going next the authors postulate that architects’ ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in the past will stand them in good stead for the uncertainties of the future. | Architect: The evolving story of a profession

GBP 32.00
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Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

Eric Lyons and Span

Eric Lyons and Span

Due to popular demand we are delighted to offer this new paperback edition of Eric Lyons and Span. Lavishly illustrated and deeply researched this book celebrates the work of the architect Eric Lyons OBE (1912-1980) whose famous post-war housing - that today would be marketed as 'lifestyle housing' - is as well-loved today as it was vibrantly successful when first constructed. Built almost entirely for Span Developments its mission was to provide an affordable environment that gave people a lift. Influenced by Walter Gropius Lyons brought a commitment to high density housing and the idea of fostering community into his Span work without compromising his intuitive sensitivity for landscape. His success brought the practice an impressive array of awards and led to a term as President of the RIBA. The enduring success of his design philosophy can be traced forward to 2005 when Span received a special Housing Design Award given to schemes that meet the current Sustainable Communities Plan. Indeed the concept of Span mirrors current best practice thinking in housing design and continues to offer a fresh relevant challenge to volume housebuilders in Britain today. This book serves as a lively reminder of that fact. Written by distinguished historians practitioners and Span enthusiasts the book has been researched using the archive compiled by Ivor Cunningham one of Lyons ex-partners while a detailed gazetteer contains scale plan drawings of many of Spans housing templates.

GBP 35.00
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21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

Many people dream of commissioning an architect to design their perfect home. It is a commitment that takes time and money but having a bespoke space built around your specific needs interests and desires can be life-changing. So what makes an award-winning 21st-century house? The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has been championing outstanding work for over 180 years and the internationally recognised RIBA awards celebrate the very best in British architecture. The winning houses featured here showcase truly innovative design contemporary materials and techniques and inspired responses to historical and urban settings as well as areas of natural beauty. By working closely with clients every step of the way the architects’ extraordinary buildings redefine what ‘home’ looks like. This compilation of some of the best RIBA award-winning houses from the last ten years offers an essential source of ideas and inspiration for the contemporary British home. From a sustainable townhouse to a modern cottage a hillside home to a lakeside escape these houses are show-stopping examples of architects surpassing their clients’ loftiest dreams. Featuring: The best RIBA award-winning houses from the last decade Houses from each region of the UK A rich variety of projects – from new builds to conversions to extensions Case studies from esteemed practices including: Alison Brooks Architects Chris Dyson Architects Foster Lomas Henning Stummel Architects Mole Architects and Tonkin Liu Guidance for working with architects. | 21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

GBP 45.00
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Starting a Practice A Plan of Work

The Happy Design Toolkit Architecture for Better Mental Wellbeing

The Happy Design Toolkit Architecture for Better Mental Wellbeing

If you were to design a building that prioritises occupants’ happiness what would it look like? How would the materials form and layout support healthy ways of living and working? Delving into the evidenced-based research on architecture and mental wellbeing The Happy Design Toolkit helps you to create happier places. It explores how factors such as lighting comfort control over our environments and access to nature exercise and social interaction can impact how we feel. Easy-to-understand tips include bringing nature into your developments with roof gardens and living facades and countering social isolation with communal areas that encourage chance interaction. Each of the featured architectural interventions includes an analysis of the wellbeing benefits as well as the potential limitations or associated challenges. From sparking joy in individual homes and workplaces to encouraging healthier lifestyles through landscaping and urban design this book demonstrates how wellbeing concepts can be integrated across a range of scales and typologies. Packed with inspiration and advice The Happy Design Toolkit will breathe new life into your projects and help you create a happier and more inclusive built environment for everyone. Features real-world examples including Marmalade Lane co-housing by Mole Architects Francis Holland School by BDP Maggie’s Centre Oldham by dRMM Architects Kings Crescent Estate by Karakusevic Carson Architects and Happy Street by Yinka Ilori. Over 100 hand-drawn illustrations of design details and elevations. Essential reading for architects interior designers landscape architects and students. | The Happy Design Toolkit Architecture for Better Mental Wellbeing

GBP 37.00
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Queer Spaces An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories

Taste A cultural history of the home interior