Industrial Design category: 757 books
Japan Living
Form and Function at the Cutting Edge
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Gain insight into both modern and Japanese styles with this stunning Japanese interior design book.
Japan Living presents thirty exceptional houses that transcend function and resonate with spirit. These new Japanese homes, chosen for their inspiring and innovative designs, are special places...
The Modern Thai House
Innovative Designs in Tropical Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
With rich photography and insightful commentary, this Thai architecture and interior design book showcases some of the finest modern masterpieces in Southeast Asia.
A tremendous body of sophisticated and sensitively designed architectural work has been produced in Thailand in the first decade...
Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns
Designing and Retrofitting for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world’s population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Common approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking....
Cool Hotels
India, Maldives, Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
With over 500 beautiful photographs, Cool Hotels showcases the best hotels in India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka.
Be it a rustic retreat or a five-star, super-deluxe resort that can hold its own globally, all are at the cutting-edge of the new wave of hotel design and management. Each property...
Sri Lanka Style
Tropical Design and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Sri Lanka Style showcases 30 of the finest traditional and modern dwellings in Sri Lanka.
Reflecting its location and status as a hub of Indian Ocean trade from time immemorial, the tropical island of Sri Lanka has always been open to the movements and patterns of world culture. Indigenous...
The Inspired Home
Interiors of Deep Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty opens the door to twenty-five of the most beautiful homes in the world—ones owned by top interior designers, fashion designers, artists, and stylists—to reveal how simple principles borrowed from nature can inspire gorgeous, innovative interiors that...
Tall Buildings
The Proceedings of a Symposium on Tall Buildings with Particular Reference to Shear Wall Structures, Held in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southampton, April 1966
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Tall Buildings provides information and research on tall buildings. This book presents the advances in structural analysis, in methods of design, in methods of construction, and in the properties of materials.
Organized into three sections encompassing 27 chapters, this book begins with an...
Modern London
An illustrated tour of London's cityscape from the 1920s to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
From the art deco factories of the 1920s through to the skyscraper boom of the twenty-first century, Modern London takes you on an illustrated tour of the capital’s ever-changing landscape.
Shaped variously by war, economics, population growth and design trends, the city has been moulded by some...
Welcome to Your World
How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience.
Taking us on a fascinating journey through some...
by Elizabeth V. Reyes
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Featuring over 250 photographs and insightful commentary, this topical interior design book will add a uniquely Asian-Pacific element to your home.
The Philippines is home to a new generation of craftsmen, including furniture makers, artists, sculptors, and weavers. They specialize in taking...
IdeaSpotting
How to Find Your Next Great Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Positioning ideas as the fuel of business success and personal fulfillment, this indispensable resource helps readers find creative fuel by helping them discover insights and develop habits that lead to more and better ideas. Written in a punchy style with easily digestible single-page messages,...
by Akihiko Seki, Elizabeth Heilman Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
With over 300 gorgeous photographs, this book is an exploration of Asia's most stunning hotels and resorts.
From a stilled villa above a blue lagoon in the Maldives and a remote yoga resort in the hills of Bhutan to serene enclaves in the bustling cities of Dubai and Bangkok, Asia offers an...
Creating the Productive Workplace
Places to Work Creatively
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The built environment affects our physical, mental and social well-being. Here renowned professionals from practice and academia explore the evidence from basic research as well as case studies to test this belief. They show that many elements in the built environment contribute to establishing a...
by Stephen Verderber
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
***WINNER OF A NAUTILUS 2018 SILVER MEDAL BOOK AWARD***
Innovations in Behavioural Health Architecture is the most comprehensive book written on this topic in more than 40 years. It examines the ways in which healthcare architecture can contribute, as a highly valued informational and reference...