Here at the RIBA Birmingham Bookshop, we are constantly receiving new stock. Below are some new titles that may be of interest:
Rough Guide to Sustainability, 3rd Edition
Brian Edwards, February 2010: RIBA Publishing
£29.95
This is a comprehensively updated, restructured and expanded new edition of this non-nonsense student and practice primer equips the contemporary architect to deal with the profession's most important challenge: designing buildings for sustainability.
Written by Brian Edwards, Professor of Sustainable Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, this book sets out the environmental, professional and governmental context underlying sustainable principles, as well as outlining the science, measures and design solutions that designers need to adopt to meet twenty-first century definitions of responsible architecture. The third edition includes updated design advice on building types, a useful history of green architecture education and new material prepared in anticipation of fresh international agreements at the Copenhagen Conference on Global Warming in 2009.
Stunningly redesigned and extensively illustrated throughout, this guide will appeal to design and built environment students and professionals, and anyone keen to cut through to the facts about sustainability.
Architecture '09: RIBA Buidings of the Year
Tony Chapman, RIBA Publishing, January 2010
Special Offer Price £14.95 (25% off rrp)
Architecture 09 is the official guide to the work of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and all RIBA Awards presented in 2009. The featured awards include the prestigious Stirling Prize, awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution in the past year to the evolution of architecture and the built environment, and the Royal Gold Medal, conferred on a distinguished architect. Also included for the first time are the Housing Design Awards, the Student Awards, and International and Honorary Fellowships, together with an essay on 'The Year in Architecture' by the President of the RIBA and an exploration of the sustainability of buildings that have won previous RIBA Awards. Featuring projects of all types worldwide by both established and emerging practices, this informative book is essential reading for anyone interested in recent developments in contemporary architecture.
To order the above, or any other title, please contact Sue on 0121 2332321.