The book you’re referring to is likely “Designing for the Disabled” by Selwyn Goldsmith. This influential work, first published in 1963, has been a cornerstone for architects focusing on barr…
“Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies” by Reyner Banham is a seminal work that explores the unique architectural and urban landscape of Los Angeles. Banham categorizes the city into …
“Villages in the Sun: Mediterranean Community Architecture” by Myron Goldfinger is a fascinating exploration of the architectural and urban forms of Mediterranean villages. Originally published…
Written by a cost-control expert with more than thirty years of design and building expertise, this volume in the Professional Practice Essentials Series gives you practical, user-friendly guidance…
A comprehensive interdisciplinary study of private inner-city rehabilitation, this text examines the current research on residential revitalization and creates a new theoretical frame work for reso…
New Generation Whole-Life Costing presents an innovative approach to decision-making and risk management for construction and real estate. It applies the options-based approach that has revolutioni…
It is difficult to acknowledge the origin of all the material used in this book. In part, the book was written from notes accumulated years ago while preparing lectures for students at the Detroit …
Buildings don't just appear. While the aesthetics and theory of architecture have their glamour, architecture would not exist without the hands-on, nuts-and-bolts process of construction. Construct…
From 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world's population will live in cities. Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture and planning, there is to date no single…
"Building on his pioneering work on the management of technology and innovation in his first book, Managing the Flow of Technology, Thomas J. Allen of MIT has joined with award-winning German archi…