RIBA Titles

A queer independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Cuba, where your order is coded. A cathedral in ruins in Nicaragua, occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community. This lavishly illustrated 'atlas' celebrates over 90 queer spaces.

A treasury of architectural drawing from the 16th century to the present day. Includes 200 full-colour reproductions, from back-of-envelope concept sketches to painstaking pen-and-ink perspectives, exploded axonometrics and born-digital drawings.

This compilation of RIBA award-winning houses offers an essential source of ideas and inspiration for the contemporary British home, as well as guidance on working with architects.

In this highly-illustrated survey, John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams, examines the remarkable history of social housing in the UK.

This book shows practitioners the ways that fees are calculated, negotiated and managed. It will increase your understanding of the different fee-earning roles for architects, professional services contracts, how to calculate sustainable fee levels and improve negotiation skills.

Drawing on substantial experience from both applicant and local planning authority perspectives, this book provides tactics and practical steps to help architects secure early validation of applications and successful outcomes. It's a practical guide to understanding the planning system and maximizing the potential for successful outcomes.

This book explores the conservation, regeneration and adaptive re-use of Modern architecture.

From Ante- to Zeitgeist, this 'treasury' of principal terms and ideas is a provocative read for the interior design student. Readable and illustrated with over 150 images, it covers topics from the practical to the philosophical.

With easy-to-understand tips, real-world examples and over 100 hand-drawn illustrations, this book helps you to create happier places - from individual homes and workplaces to landscaping and urban design. It explores how factors, such as lighting, comfort, control over our environments and access to nature, exercise and social interaction, can impact how we feel.

This inspirational book guides designers and homeowners through the challenges of designing for rural properties and how to adapt a metropolitan design ethos into practical schemes for country living.

A highly illustrated and updated guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes.

A must-have reference for running interior design projects at all sizes, including step-by-step guidance and invaluable checklists.

It's time to act. Make a difference with this accessible guide to designing sustainable architecture. Learn what is needed and when in a step-by-step process with easy-to-understand images.

This stunningly illustrated book showcases the best examples of what can be achieved when homeowners collaborate with RIBA-certified architects to realise their House Goals.

Want to understand the process, benefits and pitfalls of a feasibility study? Learn how to add value as an architect with this practical guide.

The architecture profession is changing. Practices must stay abreast of new developments in AI or risk being left behind. Architecture's best-known technologist, Phil Bernstein, provides a strategy for long-term success.

An essential how-to guide to build business resilience into your architectural practice, offering methods for managing business-critical events and crises.

An eclectic and exciting collection of articles and profiles that dive into a world of speculative design, social fiction and alternative models, exploring new responses to realistic future living conditions.

A searingly honest, unvarnished personal history of one of the UK's most versatile designers - Nigel Coates. Spanning lost loves and a prolific design career: from Tokyo bars and Liberty to the Body Zone at the Millennium Dome. "It is hard to believe ... that someone whose imagination produces forms as beautiful and strange as Coates will ever stop writing his narrative of ecstatic architecture." Aaron Betsky

A fascinating, progressive collection of articles and case studies that explore the intersectionality of environmental justice and social justice, setting the table for inclusive architectural engagement.

Bryden Wood have pioneered the Design to Value approach for architecture, allowing designers to create innovative stakeholder-centric analyses, workflows, construction techniques and products, maximising their value for the built environment.

You have an idea that may be revolutionary, and someone somewhere needs to see it. With technical tips and concept inspiration, this is your guide to drawing their attention.

Uniting retailing and the built environment to develop a shared agenda for the revival of high streets, which are so important to our economy and the spirit of communities.

In the increasingly virtual world of work, the role of the office is changing. Architects need to understand how to promote collaboration when designing within the ecosystem of hybrid working.

A practical guide to how to best design education buildings that meet the wellbeing needs of students and staff, and add social, environmental and economic value to their wider communities.

From the polychromy of the ancients to the great white interiors of high modernism, this book explores the exciting role of colour in the world of architecture.

An empowering showcase of collaborative architecture that shows how good design processes can lay the foundation for a better form of architecture.

Offering practical insight and visual inspiration on successful lighting solutions and schemes, this accessible lighting design guide offeris a toolbox of techniques to apply in practice. Written by one of the UK's leading lighting designers on both commercial and residential projects, it features a variety of real-world projects.

Peter Cook has been a pivotal figure within the architecture world for over half a century. He first came to international renown in the 1960s as a founder of the radical, experimental group Archigram, winners of the 2002 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.

This book presents the path to healthier cities through six core themes - urban planning, walkable communities, neighbourhood building blocks, movement networks, environmental integration and community empowerment.