Architecture & Design

From deserts to hidden corners of busy cities, quiet mountain tops to caves submerged deep underground, Great Sites of the Ancient World is a tour of our human past.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes provides keys to help make the experience of drawing architecture and cityscapes fun and rewarding, using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity.

Featuring hundreds of inspiring small houses from around the world, this book will show that a reduced footprint is no obstacle for fine design.

World's Greatest Wonders is an illuminating visual guide to 30 stunning man-made and natural wonders—with annotated 3-D reconstructions and cutaway models from various stages in human development that allow you to journey right to the heart of each of them. We live on a unique planet. The only one ...

Originally published under the title: Process, materials, and measurements, in 2006.

Packed with works that show how the continents rich array of craft traditions are being preserved and revived with an exciting contemporary twist, this book identifies the sophistication, vitality, diversity and soulfulness of the past that is now being harnessed to develop a contemporary African identity.

The ultimate handbook for designers, students, and even educators, this pocket edition is armed with 100 principles of design knowledge to keep your team sharp.

A selection of more than 250 of the surviving letters of legendary architect, historian and critic Colin Rowe.

Explains both the technical and disciplinary role of drawing and how to enable design creativity and application through its practiced use, sharing technique-based instructions for core drawing principles. Original.

The most ambitious survey of its subject ever published, The Art of Things is a monument, and a key, to the objects that surround us. For most of human history, the form of a useful object was determined by its maker, usually a single artisan working within a long cultural tradition. However, the Industrial ...

Business cards have changed. Once they were designed almost as an afterthought, and made to match the letterhead and envelope.

The new business card is a business tool, but only if it stands out. The business card that is given to someone must impact. It must connect the card with the person, and ...

Drawing on sketches, photographs and the iconic axonometrics, this book explores the creative process of James Stirling: from the early inspirations of Liverpool's docks to his devotion to Le Corbusier, acknowledging the fundamental role of the partnerships with James Gowan and Michael Wilford.

Twenty chapters, authored by leading scholars from around the world, explore the astonishing variety of building styles and traditions that have evolved over millennia in a region of diverse terrains, extreme climates and distinctive local histories.

Engineering drawing, though it had its roots in scientific and technical illustration at the time of the Renaissance and in architectural and naval draughtsmanship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was essentially a product of the Industrial Revolution.

DIVLearning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language – the definitions, function, and usage. Language of Architecture provides students and professional architects with ...

A wide-ranging, inspirational instructional showcasing diverse surface design techniques using modern aesthetic. Projects would include more traditional and expected book arts, but really feature useful and unexpected home decor projects.

DIVThis book is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space. Now updated and expanded! /div

This completely revised and updated version of Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type is a hands-on resource, organizing the many complex choices surrounding the effective use of typography.

Drawing on geography, cartography and historical oddities, Mark Ovenden explores what the city looks like from the bottom up. Surprising you with facts and exposing the strange beauty of our underneath realms, Underground Cities teaches us all, just how much goes on beneath our feet.