This title discusses an array of critical contemporary issues on housing design pertaining to sustainable practices, emerging technologies, heritage conservation, humanitarian efforts, and their effects on occupants’ physical and psychological experience and well-being.
Lithuanian Architecture and Urbanism
This book offers a critical overview of Lithuania’s architecture and urbanism since 1990. It explores how the Soviet legacy and the new challenges of a market economy and commercialism have reshaped the country’s cities and public spaces.
The Transformation of Addis Ababa
Written by Ethiopian and Finnish experts in urban planning, architecture, geography, and ethnology, this publication documents for the first time Addis Ababa’s process of radical transformation, and asks how the city’s poorest residents are affected by urban renewal.
The Art of Building at the Dawn of Human Civilization
This book offers an unconventional outlook on architecture’s evolution, showing how prehistoric people developed building by solving complex problems. It demonstrates building to be in synergy with the advancement of human abstract thought, proposing a new field of study.
Representing papers delivered at the EURAU2014 Istanbul “Composite Cities” Conference, this text addresses the importance of research on the complexity of today’s cities, while also shedding light on new models of urbanism discussed together with new decision-making actors.
This book examines the political role of architecture through a study of Tehran’s bazaar. Going beyond conventional discourse, it considers architecture as an event, using concepts from Foucault to analyze how it transforms individuals through the act of exchange.
Leading experts discuss the ecological and salutogenic design principles for creating a healthy built environment. This book explores how to provide clean air, water, and land, intertwining these principles to support human health and wellbeing globally.
The Spread of Islamic Architecture to the USA
Islamic architecture is one of the world’s most renowned styles. This book highlights how its splendid domes, arches, and minarets have been integrated into modern American designs, and the role of European settlers, including Jewish architects, in this process.
This book explores urban renewal in post-industrial regional cities through an in-depth study of Geelong. While architecture is key to change, an intersectional perspective reveals contested pasts, from the dispossession of First Nations people to the exploitation of immigrants.
Contemporary Architecture
This book offers an exciting journey into recent architectural achievements. In contrast to many books, architecture is not described chronologically here, but independently for each trend. This allows a better explanation of the evolution and continuity of each movement.
The Contribution of 101 Women to Design and Architecture
Woman’s contribution to art, design, and architecture has historically been kept from the limelight. This publication remedies past oversights, emphasising the remarkable artists and their innovative works through 101 brief biographies and 1000 photographic representations.
Re-Interpreting and Re-Assessing Difficult Heritage
This volume explores contested heritage, examining how colonial legacies and conflicting narratives shape public spaces. Through diverse case studies, it analyses the role of artists, activists, and planners in reshaping how societies engage with difficult pasts in the present.
Histories of Housing
This book bridges historical housing narratives with contemporary challenges in architecture, urban planning, and sustainability. Through global case studies, it highlights housing’s evolution, offering actionable insights and inspiration for future design and policy innovations.
Human Settlements and Social Dynamics
This guide explores how human settlements shape social life, bridging planning theory and on-the-ground practice. It presents practical strategies for current challenges—like rapid urbanisation and climate change—to help readers create inclusive, resilient, and equitable places.
Making Design Public
Go beyond the traditional studio with innovative design education. This book offers case studies and strategies for projects where students collaborate with communities, learning to navigate the social, political, and environmental challenges of the 21st century.
This book explores landscape management and ecology, investigating issues from urban park design and green urbanism to protected areas and urban transformation. The volume will appeal to researchers, local authorities, academics, and students.
This book explores the window’s transformation in Early Modern Europe. Driven by a classical revival and the climate change of the Little Ice Age, builders created new traditions that rivalled Italy, culminating in the iconic French casement and the English sash window.
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