Product Description: Spencer Fung is never without a sketchbook or a pencil. Inspiration and ideas can strike at any moment, and often the smallest thing that catches his eye impels him to capture it on paper. Whether it is designing private houses, restaurants, hotels, furniture or lighting, he starts by hand, creating miniature works of art, which he then develops into scale perspective drawings, exploring space, structure and detail...read more

Product Description: The Visual Biography of Color is a first chance at a second look at color, which is so often overlooked in every day living. While other books discuss the phenomenon of color from a cultural perspective, The Visual Biography of Color reveals color through time by using information graphics and other forms of data visualization to visually describe color’s cultural role...read more

Product Description: This volume comprises a complete study of stair design and construction, from technical details to the realization of the projects. The examples featured have been selected from the work of renowned international architects and that of emerging, young talent in the field...read more

Product Description: This journey into Italian architecture is an ongoing enquiry into the diverse project typologies being currently developed—the degree of their innovation and the way they mesh with technical requirements. The book focuses on how the many aspects of Italian architecture developed by Italian architects working in Italy today deal with the layers of building history that have gone before...read more

This guide shows you how to adapt a double-facade building strategy to your climate so that you can meet client needs for beauty and comfort while also reducing their energy load and environmental impacts. Bioclimatic double-skins conserve energy passively and often resonate with the culture of a place, so by incorporating the features and functions defined here, your designs will "feel" right. In-depth, highly illustrated case studies of built projects present double-skin facades as kit of parts adaptable to your circumstances. A map of the buildings, a categorized index, quantitative sidebars, and project descriptions allow you to access and assess the information you need now. The book also includes information on non-double-skin facades, so that you can know all of your options.

This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of appropriation as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the chapters cover a range of architectural subjects that are linked in their investigations of how architects engage with their predecessors.

Product Description: This photo-rich architectural design book is a fascinating profile of one of Asia's most successful and influential firms.HB Design is an award-winning architectural practice with offices in Singapore, Bangkok and Jakarta and projects throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East...read more

Product Description: Introducing Architectural Tectonics is an exploration of the poetics of construction. Tectonic theory is an integrative philosophy examining the relationships formed between design, construction, and space while creating or experiencing a work of architecture...read more

Product Description: For the sheer quantity and quality of his inventions, scientist and structural engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939) is sometimes referred to as the “Russian Thomas Edison.” Among his pioneering contributions are a number of innovations related to the oil industry, including the design and construction of the first Russian pipeline and the world’s first industrial plant for oil cracking...read more

Product Description: This guide provides an understanding of the fundamental concepts involved in the successful implementation of collaborative approaches based on the use of Building Information Model (BIM). For the architect, civil engineer, architectural engineer, construction manager, or facilities manager, The Building Information Model offers a systematic approach for the design, analysis, evaluation, and implementation of collaborative approaches using BIM...read more

Product Description: First published in 1992, this book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past several decades have given rise mainly to new kinds of specialists in the areas of programming, evaluation, and participation...read more