Architecture

This two-volume set tours the world to cover the most exciting and innovative brick buildings of the past 15 years. The collection features new talents as well as established stars and showcases the use of brick across diverse buildings, from Tate Modern Switch House by Herzog & De Meuron to Mass Design Group's Maternity Waiting Village in...

Travel the world to investigate one of the greatest renaissances in architecture: wood. How has this elemental material come to steal the show at luxury hot spring structures and cutting-edge urban renewal schemes?

Travel the world to investigate one of the greatest renaissances in architecture: wood. How has this elemental material come to steal the show at luxury hot spring structures and cutting-edge urban renewal schemes? With 100 projects from China, Chile, and everywhere in between, this global survey explores the technical, environmental, and...

This superb volume is a captivating and inspiring close-up of 100 houses that combine inspirational, creative and sophisticated design within the art of nature and the urban realm.

A visual testimony to the extraordinary, creative capabilities of the world's greatest architects, engineers and builders.

Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings

The fascinating story behind the revival of an ancient Italian castle and its enduring way of life.

The long-awaited reissue of the autobiography of Peter Rice, one of the main structural engineers behind the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre, the Menil Collection and Lloyd's of London. A must have for any armchair architect.

Provides an introduction to and general background reading for the subject of property valuation. This fifth edition is directed not just at would be surveyors and valuers, but at all those who may be interested in getting an understanding of property valuation.