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A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STRUCTURAL GLASS FACADES FOR ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, AND BUILDERS Once an experimental building form, structural glass facades…

This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of co…

Discover sustainable methods for designing crucial building systems for architects. This indispensable companion to Norbert Lechner's landmark volume …

The all-in-one interior detailing guide that unites creative and technical aspects A well-executed interior space requires the successful combination …

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary an…

Quick, reliable answers to your most common on-site questions When you're in the field, you never know what you'll come across. The Graphic Standards …

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides’ The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day …

The key to successful project control is the fusing of cost to schedule whereby the management of one helps to manage the other. Project Control: Inte…

The newly updated guide to design process modeling techniques Designing with Models, Third Edition is the revised, step-by-step guide to basic and adv…

Thousands of interior design professionals have come to rely on The Interior Design Business Handbook for comprehensive, accessible coverage of the es…

“Although the live-work concept is now accepted among progressive urban design and planning professionals, the specifics that define the term, and its…

An essential guide for a firm of any size to effectively position itself in the marketplace For an architecture or design firm to survive and prosper …

The process-oriented guide to context-sensitive site selection, planning, and design Sustainable design is responsive to context. And each site has a …

1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England explores issues of authority, gender, and language within and across the variety of lite…

The new, updated edition of the successful book on interior design Interior Design Visual Presentation, Second Edition is fully revised to include the…

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiogr…

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and…

A comprehensive guide to the design and execution of sophisticated exterior building enclosures Focused on the design process for architects and relat…

Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the …

A unique cost reference, updated and expanded, for architects, engineers, contractors, building owners, and managers Green building is no longer a tre…

An innovative look at design solutions for building lifelong neighborhoods Livable Communities for Aging Populations provides architects and designers…

Architecture, Sustainable Design A comprehensive book on the sustainable design of research laboratories Today's research laboratories are complex and…

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that…

The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines …

The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional digital visualization …

The Great American Dream of cruising down the parkway, zipping from here to there at any time has given way to a true nightmare that is destroying the…

Get the single-source solutions guide to the sustainable management of water resources. Why is water the environmental issue? The answer is simple: wi…

A unique graphical guide for using architectural terminology to jump-start the design process This design studio companion presents architectural term…

A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural design Landscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users'…

If you're embarking upon a career in interior design, here's a highly visual overview of the profession, with in-depth material on educational require…

The new student edition of the definitive reference on architectural interiors Interior Graphic Standards, Student Edition is a carefully edited treat…

Features access to video tutorials! Designed to help architects, planners, and landscape architects use freehand sketching to quickly and creatively g…

This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic wo…

The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His …

An easy-to-use illustrated guide to building codes for residential structures As the construction industry moves to a single set of international buil…

Otl Aicher's writings are explorations of the world, a substantive part of his work. In moving through the history of thought and design, building and…

A highly original architectural history of Solomon’s Temple and Islam’s Dome of the Rock that doubles as a social and cultural history of the region T…

Get organized and streamline your workflow with this A-Z accountability system. Design is only part of an interior designer’s job—you’re also responsi…

The complete guide to portfolio development for interior designers It's a widely known fact that interior designers need a strong visual presence in t…

The bestselling guide to architectural drawing, with new information, examples, and resources Architectural Graphics is the classic bestselling refere…

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was prac…

Learn to apply the International Building Code and International Existing Building Code to historic buildings Written for architects, engineers, prese…

As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart Cities are employi…

This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature…

A practical guide to SketchUp addressing the specific needs of interior designers Already a common and popular tool for architects and landscape archi…