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Solar House: A Guide for the Solar Designer
Solar House: A Guide for the Solar Designer
Covering the full life span of the project, from siting issues through specific design features to maintenance of the property and equipment, this is a comprehensive guide to designing, planning and building a solar house.

The author uses his experience of living in a solar house to inform the reader of the technology and practices
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Instant: The Story of Polaroid
Instant: The Story of Polaroid

"Instant photography at the push of a button!" During the 1960s and '70s, Polaroid was the coolest technology company on earth. Like Apple, it was an innovation machine that cranked out one must-have product after another. Led by its own visionary genius founder, Edwin Land, Polaroid grew from a 1937 garage start-up into a...

The Business of Design
The Business of Design

For thirty years, consultant Keith Granet has enjoyed helping design professionals turn their passion into profit. In his new book, The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability, Granet debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive. The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity...

Introduction to Architectural Science, Second Edition: The Basis of Sustainable Design
Introduction to Architectural Science, Second Edition: The Basis of Sustainable Design
The book is intended to give an introduction to architectural science, to provide an understanding of the physical phenomena we are to deal with and to provide the tools for realizing the many good intentions. Many projects in recent times are claimed to constitute sustainable development, to be sustainable architecture. But...
Reciprocal Frame Architecture
Reciprocal Frame Architecture
Simple and beautifully illustrated introduction to the use of reciprocal frame structures in architecture

In structural terms reciprocal frame structures are 'three dimensional assemblies of mutually supporting beams'. But behind this definition lie some breathtakingly beautiful and complex structures at the heart of
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Structure and Architecture, Second Edition
Structure and Architecture, Second Edition
'Structure and Architecture' is an essential textbook for students and practitioners of architecture and structural engineering. MacDonald explains the basic principles of structure and describes the ranges of structure types in current use. Furthermore, the book links these topics directly with the activity of architectural design and criticism....
RIBA Book of British Housing, Second Edition: 1900 to the present day
RIBA Book of British Housing, Second Edition: 1900 to the present day
RIBA Book of British Housing Design looks at the design solutions developed during the 20th and the 21st centuries, and illustrates over 200 of the most successful projects. It provides an overview of the evolution of housing development, and includes present day schemes and estate regeneration as well as special sections on housing in Scotland and...
Seismic Design for Architects
Seismic Design for Architects
Essential visual guide to successful architecture in earthquake zones

Architects across the world have to design buildings that need to comply with strict seismic codes. All too often the need to comply with the code is put ahead of the design of the building, resulting in dull and functional architecture.

Andrew
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Sustainability at the Cutting Edge, Second Edition: Emerging Technologies for low energy buildings
Sustainability at the Cutting Edge, Second Edition: Emerging Technologies for low energy buildings
Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy....
Virtual Reality and the Built Environment
Virtual Reality and the Built Environment
This is the first text to focus on virtual reality applications for design of the built environment. This guide explores the use of virtual reality at the practical level. It provides an overview of industrial applications of virtual reality and explores relevant scientific research.

Virtual Reality in the Built
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Structure as Architecture: A Source Book for Architects and Structural Engineers
Structure as Architecture: A Source Book for Architects and Structural Engineers
A beautifully illustrated guide to integrating functional structures as a design feature in buildings

Structure As Architecture provides readers with an accessible insight into the relationship between structure and architecture, focusing on the design principles that relate to both fields. Over one hundred case studies of
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Architects and Architecture of London
Architects and Architecture of London
A lively and colourful guide to the architecture of London and the people that made it

The guide explains why London is the way it is. It helps you link the historical and contemporary into a single pattern of significant places, spaces and buildings. It highlights old and new as a lively and vibrant pattern of on-going
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