Books
Featured book
Homes for a Changing Climate
Will Anderson
£20.00. 30% off marked price
Will Anderson’s new book, Homes for a Changing Climate, explores traditional and contemporary responses to the challenges of diverse climates and illustrates the many ways in which houses can be designed, built and adapted to cope with these challenges.
Modernism on Sea: Art and Culture at the British Seaside
Edited by Lara Feigel and Alexandra Harris
£25.00. 30% off marked price
Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today's most exciting seaside critics, curators, filmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on a journey around the coast of Britain to explore the rich artistic and cultural heritage that can be found there, from St Ives to Scarborough. The authors consider avant-garde art, architecture, film, literature and music, from the early twentieth century to the present, setting the arrival of modernism against the background of seaside tradition.
Breuer Houses
Joachim Driller
£39.95. 30% off marked price
This monograph is a comprehensive study of Breuer's house designs from 1923 to 1973. Richly illustrated with drawings, plans and archival photography, the book provides a penetrative insight into the working methods of a key twentieth-century architectural figure.
The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture
Sergi Costa Duran, Julio Farjardo
£40.00. 30% off marked price
This beautifully illustrated book provides an up to date collection of the most recent green architecture. With drawings, floor aerial plans The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture demonstrates the most significant eco-friendly projects happening now.
Shaping Neighbourhoods
Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Richard Guise
£35.00. 30% off marked price
This substantially revised and important second edition responds to a changing agenda in government policy and planning practice, putting issues of climate change and obesity at the centre of its concern.
This guide ensures you:
Understand the underlying principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods and towns;
Plan the collaborative and inclusive processes needed for multi-sectoral cooperation;
Develop know-how and skills in matching local need with urban form;
Discover new ways to integrate development with natural systems;
Design places with character and recognise good urban form;
Guide communities, and advise developers, in the creation of successful and sustainable places for living.
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