James A. Flath 
Traces of the Sage 
Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius

Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn”t we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? Happy by Design explores the ways in …

How do film and television makers around the world depict public housing? Why is public housing so often chosen as the backdrop for drama, horror, social critique, rebellion, violence, artistic creat …

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art contains the contributions presented at the World Tunnel Congress 2019 (Naples, Italy, 3-9 May 2019). …

Atlas of Material Worlds is a highly designed narrative atlas illustrating the agency of nonliving materials with unique, ubiquitous, and often hidden influence on our daily lives. Employing new ma …

This book examines the experimental and theoretical aspects of bifurcation analysis as applied to geomechanics. Coverage includes basic continuum mechanics for dry and fluid unfiltrated porous media, …

This unique volume presents the practical tools for architects and urban designers to improve the work processes of architectural design—from conception to construction, taking into consideration the …

Nietzsche and Architecture explores Nietzsche”s relationship to the architects, buildings, and modern architectural movements he went on to inspire, and situates his philosophy more appropriately …

How can a nation”s archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria”s? Ross Burns chooses 40 among Syria”s outstanding range of sites to take the reader …

The energy used to build and operate buildings is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. While it is possible to reduce emissions through low-carbon design, many architects are not trained …

Challenging mainstream architecture s understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea s centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be …