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Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

Shaping our cities streets and public spaces urban design informs the places we live. It is a complex multi-disciplinary process requiring the input of a wide variety of stakeholders and design and construction professionals. Each urban project invariably throws up a new set of problems and strategic decisions for the design team. This guide distils the essential information required for the expert direction of the day-to-day work of urban design from strategic design to masterplanning through to character assessment and collaboration. Compact and accessible with over 250 hand-drawn figures and plans it's the perfect everyday companion for junior practitioners and experienced heads alike across the built environment. | Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

GBP 37.00
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Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

Architecture can be a high risk and low-income profession. Planning to manage risks is essential. Workloads tend to be cyclical and managing lean periods and booms whilst being prepared for the next downturn is a key requirement. This book is a how-to guide to build business resilience into your architectural practice offering methods for managing business-critical events and crises. It shows you how to analyse trouble pre-emptively tackle pitfalls and gives you confidence in decision-making to stay ahead. Featuring case studies with expert insight into sole shareholder and director experience of a small practice it’s aimed across all levels with straightforward honest and accessible advice. It is structured with people and organisations as the core framework exploring practice staff clients projects consultants and providers. It provides operational advice on the day-to-day running of practice and how to respond to disruption. | Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

GBP 32.00
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Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

Architecture needs women. How can the built environment be designed without the expert input of half the population? In spite of the significant number of women choosing to study architecture as undergraduates once qualified women remain in the minority. As professionals their expertise is often overlooked their work devalued and their contribution to the canon forgotten. Yet women’s work is critical to the sustainability of a profession that must aspire to design high-quality buildings for the whole of society. How can architecture attract recruit and retain women? And how can women find ways to thrive within it? Underpinned by inclusion internationalism and intersectionality this practical guide looks back as well as forward exploring the history of women working in architecture as well as interrogating the contemporary landscape. It provides guidance tips and examples for navigating key points in an architect’s career including education practice projects and promotion. Inspiring case studies of women and women-led practices consider what success means and how to negotiate a route to a fruitful career and a balanced life as an architect. The book covers women architects from all walks of life all sizes of practice and from all over the world including Jeanne Gang Yasmeen Lari and Anupama Kundoo as well as many other historical and contemporary women architects and emerging practices. Featuring guidance on: Understanding the barriers and history of women in architecture Expanding the opportunities and visibility of women in leading roles The importance of role models and mentoring. With a foreword by Jane Duncan OBE PPRIBA. | Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

GBP 35.00
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