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A Visual Catalog of Jesuit Missions in Spanish America

By: Robert H. Jackson, Juan Antonio Siller Camacho

From £49.99

From the late 16th century until their expulsion in 1767, Jesuits played a pivotal role in Spanish America. Their missions stretched from northern Mexico to South America, leaving a rich historical and architectural heritage. This volume outlines their development and legacy.

The Armageddon of Architecture and Design

By: Anthony Sully

From £44.99

This book examines why modern architecture lacks humanity and creates environmental errors. It studies historical styles to show how the evolution of design was broken in the 20th century by aggressive, reductionist ideologies that attack our inherited communities.

Fenestration Practice and Theory in Early Modern Europe

By: Hentie Louw

£88.99

This book explores the window's transformation in Early Modern Europe. Driven by a classical revival and the climate change of the Little Ice Age, builders created new traditions that rivalled Italy, culminating in the iconic French casement and the English sash window.

This book explores the window’s transformation in Early Modern Europe. Driven by a classical revival and the climate change of the Little Ice Age, builders created new traditions that rivalled Italy, culminating in the iconic French casement and the English sash window.

A Visual Catalog of the Building Complexes of the Male Religious Orders in Mexico’s Colonial Cities

By: Robert H. Jackson

From £43.99

In colonial Mexico, male missionary orders built vast complexes in urban centers. This book surveys what remains of this unique architectural patrimony in Mexico City, Puebla, and other cities, discussing its history and role in urban development for historians and architects.

Climate Resilient Construction and Building Materials

Edited By: B.B. Das

£86.99

This book explores climate-resilient building in India, focusing on durable structures for aggressive environments. It covers the causes of concrete deterioration and offers cost-effective mix designs and improved construction practices to enhance the service life of structures.

Reading Uncensored Palladio in Light of Australian Vernacular Architecture

By: Antonia Clarkeson

From £41.99

Clarkeson turns architecture on its head, reading Palladio’s drawings as carefully crafted and meant to be measured. This book claims Palladio’s rightful place in the history of metrology, offering a fresh interpretation that dispels myths and explains ‘the bits that don’t fit’.

Advances in Materials Used in Civil and Construction Engineering

Edited By: Syed Ali Rizwan, Shahid Ali, Muzna Anam, Bilal Zahid

£83.99

Renowned experts share recent breakthroughs in civil engineering, offering fresh insights on key challenges facing modern society. Focusing on sustainability and efficiency, each chapter will spark new ideas and pave the way for a brighter, more sustainable future for us all.

Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design

Edited By: Fabio Colonnese, Nuno Grancho, Robin Schaeverbeke

From £41.99

Architects draw to think and manage complexity. This collection of chapters and interviews frames a new critical perspective on drawing as a way to encourage spatial thinking and practice in architecture and urbanism, considering both historical and current uses.

Design, Construction, and Operation of Buildings and Structures

Edited By: Alexey Nikolaevich Plotnikov

From £41.99

This book explores the preservation of the urban historical environment. It covers improving and strengthening building structures, construction technology, geotechnics, and energy efficiency, detailing developments in pile structures using discharge-pulse technology.

Formal Methods in Architecture and Urbanism, Volume 2

Edited By: Catarina Ruivo, David Leite Viana, Franklim Morais, Jorge Vieira Vaz

From £40.99

This volume explores the application of formal methods from mathematics to architecture and urbanism. From geometry to shape grammars, it examines the potential of these tools to create new problem-solving languages and advance the digitalization of the field.

Precedented Environmental Futures

Skin and Substance

By: Colin Porteous

From £39.99

This book addresses in a holistic manner the built environment through the lens of environmental architecture. It offers broad discursive messages, rather than narrow conclusions, and will have lasting luminance for new generations involved with the built environment.

Recent Researches in Science and Landscape Management

Edited By: İsa Curebal, Recep Efe

£80.99

This book explores landscape management and ecology, investigating issues from urban park design and green urbanism to protected areas and urban transformation. The volume will appeal to researchers, local authorities, academics, and students.

Tokyo and Venice as Cities on Water

Past Memories and Future Perspectives

Edited By: Rosa Caroli, Stefano Soriani

From £39.99

Tokyo and Venice are fragile cities on water. This volume focuses on how rediscovering water, from architectural and cultural points of view, and preserving their heritage can maintain their unique maritime identity and contribute to new forms of resilience for the future.

Responsible Pedagogies in Architecture

Combating Climate Change

Edited By: Madhura Yadav

From £38.99

This book highlights how Manipal University Jaipur's School of Architecture and Design is addressing climate change. Through its research, teaching, and community outreach, it pursues ‘responsible pedagogies’ for environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

This book highlights how Manipal University Jaipur’s School of Architecture and Design is addressing climate change. Through its research, teaching, and community outreach, it pursues ‘responsible pedagogies’ for environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

Place-Based Sustainability

Research and Design Extending Pathways for Ecological Stewardship

Edited By: Jason Montgomery

From £38.99

As climate change and urbanization challenge our world, this book explores the critical cultural relationship between people and their environment. It reveals new pathways for stewardship of our cities and countryside, essential for building a sustainable future.

Choice, Adaptability and Circularity in Housing

By: Avi Friedman

From £36.99

Current residential design is failing to meet new demands. In a world facing environmental, economic, and social change, this book argues that homes must offer greater choice, adaptability, and circularity. It explores innovative solutions and case studies for today's challenges.

Housing the Poor on the African Continent

Reconsidering Ubuntu Philosophy

Edited By: Mfundo Mandla Masuku, Oliver Mtapuri, Primrose Thandekile Sabela, Nomusa M. Mlondo

From £36.99

This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to address low-cost housing in Africa. It argues that reciprocity and collective solidarity are key to housing rights, informing policy and practice while raising red flags about the challenges of implementing these ideals.

Tectonic Affects in Contemporary Architecture

By: Yonca Hurol

From £36.99

This book explores tectonic affects in architecture, where building technology and aesthetics are not separated. Affects are preconscious feelings that can generate aesthetic value and meaning. The book adopts a practical position, concentrating on these tectonic affects.

The Troubled Life of Richard Castle, Ireland’s Pre-Eminent Early Eighteenth-Century Architect

By: Barbara Freitag

From £35.99

Richard Castle is one of Ireland's most important 18th-century architects, yet this is the first book devoted to his life and career. Using extensive research, it uncovers his surprising personal history and refutes long-held misconceptions about his name, family, and religion.

Richard Castle is one of Ireland’s most important 18th-century architects, yet this is the first book devoted to his life and career. Using extensive research, it uncovers his surprising personal history and refutes long-held misconceptions about his name, family, and religion.

Emerging Perspectives on Teaching Architecture and Urbanism

Edited By: David Leite Viana, Emílio da Cruz Brandão, Franklim Morais, Isabel Cristina Carvalho, José P. Duarte, Nicolau Brandão

From £34.99

The teaching of architecture and urbanism is in crisis, unable to respond to current problems like the human right to housing. This book of essays by international experts presents historical analyses, manifestos, and new objectives to address the challenge.