Learn about the history and concepts of architecture while developing and exploring your own architectural ideas!

Every building starts with an idea. But how do you get from a concept to a piece of architecture? What is a 'good' design? This approachable guidebook will help students find their own answers.

The first reference guide to customising repetitive manufacturing for architects. Clear diagrams and narratives explain twenty of the most common manufacturing processes for typical building components.

This book questions received notions about modern architecture and embraces all of the important architectural movements and influences of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.