Philip Booth & Philip Booth University of Sheffield. 
Controlling Development [PDF ebook] 
Certainty, Discretion And Accountability

Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of …

This book proposes a system structure in architectural design that conceptualises a systemic level in architecture and construction that lies between general construction techniques and specific arch …

Brought together for the first time – the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly cent …

Architectural education is under pressure to meet the demands of an evolving construction industry and to cater to the increasingly varied career destinations of graduates. How should architectural e …

Architecture is conventionally seen as being synonymous with building. In contrast, this book introduces and defines a new category – the unbuildable. The unbuildable involves projects that are not j …

Historiography is the study of the methodology of writing history, the development of the discipline of history, and the changing interpretations of historical events in the works of individual histo …

Buildings with load-bearing earth walls were once widespread throughout Britain and many thousands still survive, including some dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Earth is the ultim …

Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians. In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent par …

This French–English and English–French dictionary lists over 20, 000 specialist terms, covering architecture, building, civil engineering and property. It is written for all construction professional …

The sensing, processing, and visualizing that are currently in development within the environment boldly change the ways design and maintenance of landscapes are perceived and conceptualised. This is …