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Building materials, Components

3D Printing and Material Extrusion in Architecture
Construction and Design Manual

3D printing is said to ­revolutionise archi­tecture: Thanks to new technologies, plastic, concrete, or metal can be extruded in a liquid state and…


Building materials, Components

New Public Spaces
European Urban Streetscapes in the 21st Century

This book brings together 28 examples of converted street spaces from 14 European cities. These are graphically documented and described in detail in…


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Green space

Garden and Metaphor
Essays on the Essence of the Garden

A beautifully designed volume about the importance of the garden for the present and the future. With essays by renowned authors and photographs by…


Architecture, Building, CityEcology, sustainability
Green space

Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and…


Publications

Cleaning

Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. So much so that cleaning seems to be an inherent part of human nature and an expression of…


Architecture, Building, CityRefurbishment, Recycling

Adaptive Reuse in Architecture
A Typological Index

The book grew out of an examination of two seemingly unrelated observations: the first use of the term "adaptive reuse" in 1973 and the exponential…


Architecture, Building, CityEcology, sustainability
Publications

Urban Block Cities
10 Design Principles for Contemporary Planning

The ideal city is social, healthy and sustainable. Karsten Pålsson outlines such a city in his new book Urban Block Cities. The Copenhagen architect…


Refurbishment, RecyclingPublications

Upcycling
Reuse and Repurposing as a Design Principle in Architecture

This publication explores the potential of historical concepts of upcycling – the qualitative recycling of buildings and building components – and…


Architecture, Building, CityEcology, sustainability
Publications

Towards a Resilient Architecture

The book explores the interrelated social, sustainability and spatial principles that underpin the design of more environmentally conscious buildings…


Publications

PIM for BIM
Product and Building Information Management in the Digital Built Environment

PIM for BIM book is an introduction to an area in-between product information management (PIM) and building information modelling (BIM). What…