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This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that the courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past...

Essential for anyone involved in the design, management and use of work places, Creating the Productive Workplace is a critical multidisciplinary review of the factors affecting productivity, as well as a practical solutions manual for common problems and issues...

The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith. Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers provides an easy-to-use and practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300 line..

Provides a practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300 line drawings. This work features case studies of urban mosques in New York, Washington, Boston, and London and Birmingham amongst others, that demonstrate how mosques and Islamic centers have evolved to integrate into th..

The growing movement towards evidence-based healthcare design has largely emphasised a change of culture and attitudes. It has advocated for new ways of working, but until now, it has not focused on equipping healthcare clients and their designers with the practical means to exploit the potential be..

The growing movement towards evidence-based healthcare design has largely emphasised a change of culture and attitudes. It has advocated for new ways of working, but until now, it has not focused on equipping healthcare clients and their designers with the practical means to exploit the potential be..

Selwyn Goldsmith's Designing for the Disabled has, since it was first published in 1963, been a bible for practising architects around the world. Now, as a new book with a radical new vision, comes his Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm.Goldsmith's new paradigm is based on the concept of a..

Designing Public Spaces in Hospitals illustrates that in addition to their aesthetic function, public spaces in hospitals play a fundamental role concerning people’s satisfaction and experience of health care...

Through international cases studies that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume examines historical innovations in school architecture and situates these within changing pedagogical ideas about the ‘best’ ways to educate children...

FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings. Using a unique design agenda it provides a step by step approach to achieving quality urban living...

Developments in IT have challenged traditional concepts of office design. This book examines the implications of this revolution on current urban design and identifies new trends in office design from an international perspective...

This book provides broadened contexts, perspectives and understandings of "home," and provides a unique scholarly contribution to an often misunderstood and inadequately researched subject...