Product Description: Learn the essentials of designing housing and care environments for the elderly with this volume in The Building Type Basic Series. Includes material on active retirement communities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living facilities, Alzheimer's facilities, hospices and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

* Content ranges from isolated bucolic environments to large urban environments. * Includes many building types such as dormitories, classrooms, and research facilities. * Covers sweeping changes such as distance learning facilities, technology-driven research laboratories, and electronically enhanced dormitories. * Contributing industry leaders include Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, Kieren Timberlake, Ruble Yudell, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Ellenzweig Associates, and many others. Order your copy today!

An updated guide to the complexities of effective writing in design practice shares a range of real-world illustrations and exercises, from marketing and promotion material to reports and client communications.

Product Description: Building Type Basics for Transit Facilities covers the essentials of designing transit facilities. * Features innovative transit station designs, including light and heavy rail, airports, and cruise terminals. * Presents numerous illustratrations with descriptive floor plans, diagrams, and photographs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Here's the essential information you need to initiate designs for art, science, and natural history museums, ethnic art and cultural centers, youth museums, and more. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details. Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to museums and cultural facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion. Order your copy today!

Product Description: Provides the nuts-and-bolts material to begin designing a retail or mixed-use facility. * Features project photographs, diagrams and floor plans, and sections and details. * Provides need-to-know information on such essential topics as consensus-based decision making, site selection, renovation, code compliance, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A look at the contributions of African American architects in the United States from colonial times to today. Is there anything different about black architecture in America? How has black culture influenced American architecture, and vice versa? How do black architects feel about their profession? This thoughtful, well-illustrated book presents black professionals in their own voices, promotes changes in attitude, puts misconceptions to rest, and provides a critical history...read more

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