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81. 

    Exercises in Architecture

    This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop their capacity for doing architecture. Exercises in Architecture builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the author’s previous book Analysing Architecture (third edition, Routledge, 2009) and demonstrated in his Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge, 2010). The three books taken together deal with the three aspects of learning: description, analysis of examples, and practice.

82. 

    Review of “Spatial Agency” on Arquilecturas

    “Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture” by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider & Jeremy Till (2011) has received another positive review, this time on the Spanish website, Arquilecturas. Please click here to read the full review.

83. 

    “Designing Architecture” highly recommended

    Architect, Randy Deutsch “highly recommend(s)” Andrew Pressman’s new book, "Designing Architecture: The Elements of Process" (published December 2011) on his blog, architects2zebras.com, describing Pressman’s writing as “top-rate” and his books as “all extremely readable, entertaining and especially important in our field, accessible”. Please click here to read the full review.

84. 

    Three Footprint readers win copies of ‘Traditional Construction for a Sustainable Future’

    We teamed up with Footprint in December to offer readers three free copies of Traditional Construction for a Sustainable Future by Carol Ryan. The winners were: Andrew Goodman (Hertfordshire), Steven Phillips (Norfolk) and Dima Srouji (Greater London). Congratulations! To read more about this title, please visit the book's page on our website.

85. 

    Spatial Agency highly rated on Weekly Dose of Architecture

    Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider & Jeremy Till (2011), was very positively reviewed on John Hill’s Weekly Dose of Architecture page on Archidose last month:

    "Ultimately this is a valuable book for those interested in pursuing alternatives to traditional architecture, those searching for ideas about how to make positive change when other means are not available, and for those gauging the state of architecture today." Read more >

    Hill highlighted this title as a favorite, and also featured it in his list of Notable Books of 2011 on his Designers & Books page.
     

86. 

    “Spatial Agency” Wins 2011 RIBA President’s Award

    Routledge is proud to announce that Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture has won a 2011 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University-located Research.

87. 

    USA Today article on Sunburnt Cities March 2011

    'Sunburnt' cities have a shot to control growth  -
    Read Haya El Nasser article about Sunburnt Cities in USA TODAY ( March 2011) . For more information or to order a copy of Justin Hollander's new book of the same name click here.
    

88. 

    Featured Title: Around and About Stock Orchard Street

    9/10 Stock Orchard Street, colloquially known as the Straw House, is a house and an office designed by two architects, Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till for their own use and was one of the buildings to feature in the first series of Channel 4's Grand Designs program. Completed in 2000, the buildings were experimental in design, execution and inhabitation, and have resisted categorization, challenged received wisdom and provoked debate, especially among architectural critics.

    For more information about this exciting new book click here

89. 

    New Online Resources Brochure Out Now

    Browse our new Online Resources Brochure to discover outstanding academic electronic resources across the Social Sciences, Humanities and Science and Technology.

    30 day free trials are available for libraries and institutions.

    To order a copy of the brochure, email reference@routledge.com

90. 

    Featured Title - Best Tall Buildings 2010

    The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is the world’s foremost authority on tall buildings. This book is the culmination of the annual awards process in which the CTBUH recognizes outstanding tall buildings from the past year.