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21st Century Learning Environments
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2006; US$ 35.00School buildings have a crucial contribution to make to raising educational achievement. Designing high performance school buildings for the 21st century for all children is a shared concern amongst OECD countries. Innovative research seeks architectural answers that make efficient use of the resources invested in building, renovating and running schools.... more...
21st Century Security and CPTED
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 97.95Offering an answer to concerns with violence and terrorism, this book examines trends in the field of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED). It addresses application of CPTED to high-security environments, as well as public and private sector buildings. It explains the architecture process to security directors. more...
25 Tropical Houses in Indonesia
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 44.9525 Tropical Houses in Indonesia offers a selection of the best contemporary architecture in the archipelago, ranging from a new type of urban shop house to dramatic and flamboyant buildings emerging from the countryside. Drawing on classical Indonesian aesthetics and conventions and blending these with dynamic, cutting-edge design ideas, modern... more...
25 Tropical Houses in the Philippines
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 45.0025 Tropical Houses of the Philippines features top Filipino architects and designers with ideas that are stylish, contemporary, and show twenty-first century savvy. These distinctive homes showcase the best residential work by Filipino architects--outstanding works by 20 designers stepping beyond traditional conventions toward Asian fusion trends... more...
AIA Guide to New York City
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 29.99Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture... more...
ARCHAEOLOGIES OF PLACEMAKING
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95This collection of original essays explores the tensions between prevailing regional and national versions of Indigenous pasts created, reified, and disseminated through monuments, and Indigenous peoples’ memories and experiences of place. The contributors ask critical questions about historic preservation and commemoration methods used by modern... more...
Abbeys & Priories of Great Britain - Volume One
Heritage Trail Publications Ltd 2004; US$ 11.99Historical tour of the Abbeys and Priories of Great Britain - Volume 1 more...
Access for Disabled People to Arts Premises: The Journey Sequence
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 120.00Illustrating actual building design solutions that have been created to improve accessibility for disabled patrons and performers, the 'Journey Sequence' outlines the best examples of design innovation produced in response to new and upcoming legislation. A knowledge of how to design for the disabled can be crucial in winning contracts and having... more...
Actions of Architecture
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 75.00Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader. The book's thesis is informed by the text 'The Death of the Author', in which Roland Barthes argues for a writer aware... more...
Adapting Buildings for Changing Uses
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 110.00Adapting Building for Changing Uses discusses the comprehensive refurbishment of buildings to enable them to be used for purposes different to those originally intended. For those involved in the often risky business of conversion of buildings from one type of use to another, Adapting Building for Changing Uses provides secure guidance on which... more...









