Taylor Francis imprint: 366 books

by M. Paul Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005

Fee bidding still generates emotive reactions from within many sections of the architectural profession. Fee bidding is not taught in most schools of architecture, so practitioners generally rely on hunches and guesswork. It is these wild card guesses, which exacerbate the poor levels of income for...
by Joan Zunde, Hocine Bougdah
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006

This key text presents students with a holistic view of the building design process, bridging the gap between the theory and practice of constructing and assembling buildings. Integrated Strategies in Architecture encourages and enables students to gain a sound understanding of the purpose...

Threatened Landscapes

Conserving Cultural Environments

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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Few, if any, environments are free of human intervention. Often this generates ecosystems which are rich in biodiversity, historical interest, recreational opportunity and scenic beauty just as worthy of conservation as the more natural ecosystems on which protection programmes have been almost exclusively...
by Tom Porter
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

As 'visual animals' architects continue to live and work in a pictorial age in which image-making remains the central activity of environmental design. Selling Architectural Ideas explores the promotional role of architectural graphics and drawing at the point of communication, i.e. at their point...
by Jaki Howes, Christopher Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005

This book provides a concise introduction for small and medium sized architectural practices considering introducing computers or using them more widely.

The Modern Airport Terminal

New Approaches to Airport Architecture

by Brian Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical issues that the designer has to address. Contemporary examples are critically reviewed through a...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005

The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic...
by Roy P.C. Morgan, R.J. Rickson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

This book is an up-to-date review of research and practice on the use of vegetation for slope stabilization and control of surface erosion caused by water and wind. From a basic understanding of the principles and practices of vegetation growth and establishment, it describes how vegetation can be treated as an engineering material and used to solve erosion and slope stability problems.

Design Strategies in Architecture

An Approach to the Analysis of Form

by Geoffrey H. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003

Modern architecture has become extremely complex and its study has been made more difficult by changes in fashion and a proliferation of design modes. In this book, Geoffrey Baker develops a methodology for design analysis that reveals the underlying organisation of buildings. Part One explains the...

Sustainable Urban Design

An Environmental Approach

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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

By the end of the twenty-first century it is thought that three-quarters of the world’s population will be urban; our future is in cities. Making these cities healthy, vibrant and sustainable is an exceptional challenge which this book addresses. It sets out some of the basic principles of the design...

Building on the Past

A Guide to the Archaeology and Development Process

by G. McGill
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

This comprehensive guide provides planners, developers, architects and archaeologists with an analysis of the conflicts between the archaeological development and planning processes. It takes a pragmatic approach to the effects of archaeology on development, enabling practitioners to reach practical...
by Hocine Bougdah, Stephen Sharples
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009

This second volume in the Technologies of Architecture series – the only series of books tuned to the architectural technology syllabus – explores the environmental influences on building design. Looking particularly at sustainable building, a holistic view is taken, so that the influence...
by Mark Dudek
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014

This fully illustrated guide to the planning and design of pre-school facilities for children is supported by a broad range of case studies, drawn from around the world. Both new buildings and adapted premises are covered. Essays on social development and childcare put the projects in context. Based...
by Brian Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008

This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings...
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