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1. Fiction, Image, Tone: The Metropolis and the Realisation of Architecture

   By Raymond Quek

   Offering students a unique opportunity to understand architecture’s place in arts and indeed how architecture could strive to offer the ultimate synthesis of the arts, this book makes essential reading for any individual studying the theory, philosophy or history of architecture....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-49293-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production

   Edited by Gail Peter Borden, Michael Meredith

   Beginning with material, this book revolves around physical material making and design decisions that emerge from material interaction. Combining essays from both practice and academia, this book presents some of the most significant projects and thoughts on materiality from the last...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-78029-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Façade Engineering

   By Mikkel Kragh

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-45773-6 | Paperback (Spon Press)

4. Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

   By Pamela Karimi

   Since 1979 the focus on Iran’s internal politics and its foreign relations has distracted attention from more subtle transformations, which took place prior to and in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. This book explores Iranian domesticity and consumer culture from before the revolution...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-78183-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Hotel Lobbies and Lounges: The architecture of professional hospitality

   Edited by Anne Massey, Tom Avermaete

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-49653-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. The Architecture of Information

   By Martyn Dade-Robertson

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56184-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades

   By Jules Moloney

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-61034-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Urban Design: The Composition of Complexity

   By Ron Kasprisin

   For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation – yet losing sight of the importance of the design process is all too often exactly what has happened. Ron Kasprisin has written a book for students of planning and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59147-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Structural Design in Building Conservation

   By Dimitris Theodossopoulos

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-47946-2 | Paperback (Spon Press)

10. Natural Stone in the Built Environment: Resources, Use and Conservation

    By Bernard Smith, Akos Torok, Richard Prikryl, Jirina Prikrylova

    Fundamental and interdisciplinary textbook on natural stone properties, occurrence, exploration, use, decay and conservation. Primary inforation source for third level students and professionals using natural stone in the built environment. Indented for a wide academic and professiounal...

    May 2011 | 978-0-415-54849-6 | Hardback (CRC Press)