BattersbyHowat
Architectural Signatures Canada has been developed by Dalhousie Architectural Press to illuminate the work of emerging architects and designers across Canada and promote a widening debate about ideas, architecture, and design.
Fabricate 2011
Making Digital Architecture
Stewardship of the Built Environment
Sustainability, Preservation, and Reuse
Stewardship of the Built Environment shows how rehabilitating and reusing existing structures holds untapped potential for achieving sustainable communities.
@LAB Architextile Laboratory
Electronic textiles in architecture
Architecture and the Canadian Fabric
Architecture and the Canadian Fabric traces how culture and politics have influenced, and been influenced by, Canadian architecture from first contact to the postmodern era.
Making Healthy Places
Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability
Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built environment.
Hylozoic Ground
Liminal Responsive Architecture
Philip Beesley; edited by Pernilla Ohrstedt and Hayley Isaacs
The Agile City
Building Well-Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change
In a very short time, America realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: What to do about it?
Towards 0-Impact Buildings and Built Environments
A compilation of key notes and best papers of the 2010 Sustainable Building Euregional Conference.
Designing and Building
Rockhill and Associates
This book outlines twelve projects from the Kansas architectural practice of Rockhill and Associates, spanning from their early design-build work to their more recent projects.
Architecture of Community
A seminal work by a renowned architect and planner that provides a contemporary roadmap for designing or completing today's fragmented communities.
Biophilic Cities
Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning
A biophilic city, says Beatley, is a place that learns from nature and incorporates natural forms and images into its buildings and cityscapes. Biophilic Cities outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, and provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully integrated biophilic elements – from the building to the regional level – around the world.
Design with Microclimate
The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space
Arguing that a comfortable microclimate is the foundation of well-used outdoor places, Robert Brown provides useful guidelines for dealing with climate data, site assessment, microclimate modification, communication, design, and evaluation.
Kinetic Architectures and Geotextile Installations
Atelier BUILD
Architectural Signatures Canada has been developed by Dalhousie Architectural Press to illuminate the work of emerging architects and designers across Canada and promote a widening debate about ideas, architecture, and design.
Twenty + Change 01
Emerging Toronto Design Practices
A History of Domestic Space
Privacy and the Canadian Home
Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped – and been shaped by – these changing spaces.
Architecture e+c
Work of Elin + Carmen Corneil, 1958 to 2008
This publication documents the travelling exhibition of the Corneils’ work which opened as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Carleton School of Architecture in October 2008.
Free Lab
Design-build projects from the School of Architecture, Dalhousie University, Canada, 1991-2006
A selection of 44 projects from the 20-year old design-build summer laboratory offered at Dalhousie University School of Architecture, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Responsive Textile Environments
Companion publication for the Metabolic Network Sensory CDRN workshop, Oct. 1-2, 2007, held in conjunction with the ACADIA conference "Expanding Bodies" in Halifax, NS.
Expanding Bodies
Art, Cities, Environment
Companion publication for the ACADIA conference “Expanding Bodies” held in Halifax, NS, October 4-7, 2007.
Atlantic Modern
The Architecture of the Atlantic Provinces 1950-2000
Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, 1995-2002
The Vancouver Achievement
Urban Planning and Design
This first comprehensive account of contemporary planning and urban design practice in any Canadian city examines the development of Vancouver's unique approach to zoning, planning, and urban design from its inception in the early 1970s to the present day.
Environmental Land Use Planning and Management
Environmental Land Use Planning and Management is a unique new textbook that presents a diverse, comprehensive, and coordinated approach to issues of land use planning and management and their impacts on the environment.
Planning the New Suburbia
Flexibility by Design
Everybody sneers at the suburb, but two-thirds of us now live there. Friedman's book shows how we might make the suburb liveable, affordable, adaptable and environmentally sustainable -- make them into real neighbourhoods.