Materials

Demolition offers a supply of aggregate which must otherwise be transported and dumped. This book on all aspects of concrete reuse, draws on the Recybeton project, which lasted more than 5 years and gathered about 50 partners from both academia and industry.

Explores the advantages and challenges of using bamboo as a building material for gridshells. Highly illustrated text which includes examples from design-build experiments and case studies from Hawai'i and Vietnam.

Arguing that architects' continued ignorance about plastics has prevented its use as a building material from becoming fully exploited, Billie Faircloth draws on a wide range of original data to explore its use and development. Essential reading.

Concrete Design covers concrete design fundamentals for architects and engineers, such as tension, flexural, shear, and compression elements, anchorage, lateral design, and footings.

Masonry Design-part of the Architect's Guidebook to Structures series-presents the fundamentals in an accessible fashion through beautiful illustrations, simple and complete examples, and from the perspective of practicing professionals with hundreds of projects under their belt and decades of teaching experience.