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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Part 3 Handbook is the only book of its kind – an approved RIBA guide to taking Part 3, with support on all the essential components including the Professional Experience and Development Record, the written examination, the case study and the oral examination. It also outlines the Part 3 criteria, professional registration and CPD.

This book is a call to arms to all architects, designers and built environment professionals. To avoid a climate catastrophe and achieve a regenerative built environment, the use of new materials and any excess waste in resources need to be cut out from the very beginning of the design process.

Featuring articles, building profiles and case studies from a range of leading voices, this book explores solutions to climatic, environmental and social challenges. It urges readers to radically rethink what it means to be an architect in an era of climate crisis, and what the role of the architect is or can be.

This guide will help prepare architects for the forthcoming RIBA health and safety test, providing practitioners with the guidance they require regarding site safety, both before and during construction, significant hazards and design risk management to discharge their professional services and legal duties competently and safely.

How should we train? What should we learn? What is our value? Disruptive technologies have increased speculation about what it means to be an architect. Innovations simultaneously offer great promise and potential risk to design practice.

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices, a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle, embodied energy and energy use.

If you've ever dreamt of designing and building your own home, this book is for you. Becoming a 'self-builder' doesn't necessarily mean learning to build a house physically from scratch. Anyone can be a self-builder.

A practical and inspirational design guide, this book draws on Naomi Cleaver's own experience as a designer. Featuring detailed and highly illustrated case studies across co-living and co-working typologies, it takes in new builds and conversions of various sizes that have been implemented internationally.

Bursting with tips, ideas and how-tos on all aspects of designing a working life that suits you and your business, this book explains in clear and accessible language how to avoid the common pitfalls of long hours and low pay.

Fully-revised and updated, this new edition provides essential updates on the latest version of the Planning Package - an essential read for any architects, designers and students wanting utilise the PHPP as a design tool.

101 Rules of Thumb sets out the essential elements of low-energy architecture in a fresh, intuitive way. Where ever-changing technology and complex legislation can cloud the designer's thought-process, this book equips you with the fundamentals you need to minimise CO2 emissions, design for low-energy use and work with, not against, the forces of nature.

This book is the go-to guide for students throughout their architectural education. It introduces architecture students to all they need to know to get on an architecture course, thrive at school and be prepared for the realities of becoming a practising architect.

Discover the cities of the world with Georgie the giraffe in this entertaining and educational Colour and Create Architecture book. With over 50 beautiful pages to design and colour in, and featuring cities including Barcelona, Istanbul, London, New York, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai and many more.

Each architectural design is a new history. To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future. We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in concrete or seeded in soil.