Practice and Business Management

The third edition of the Construction Project Manager's Pocket Book continues to guide and educate readers on the broad range of essential skills required to be a successful construction project manager.

Written for students of architecture and early career architects, the book explores design management from the context of managing design projects and the management of the architectural businesses. It aligns with the need for architects to improve design management competences and business skills as set out by the ARB and the RIBA.

Well established as the best resource for conducting access audits, this book offers straightforward advice about undertaking access audits and explains how they make buildings, environments and services more inclusive.

Architecture's Afterlife is the first book to examine the sectors into which architecture graduates migrate, and to identify the transferable skills that are learned, but not always taught, in their degree programmes, and that prove most useful in their new careers.

Programming for Health and Wellbeing in Architecture presents a new approach to architectural programming that includes sustainability, neuroscience and human factors.

This book captures the amazing digital gathering of students, academics, practitioners, and activists that happened at the International School of Re-Construction. It is ideal reading for students and academics looking at the issues created by the climate emergency to which architecture must respond.

The Organizer's Guide to Architecture Education serves as a timely call-to-action for transforming architecture education to meet the monumental environmental and social challenges of our time.

Aimed at a workforce whose life and career expectations have changed drastically in recent years, this book helps readers make informed choices about their careers - enabling students, educators and professionals to prioritise well-being and offer their design and practice voice to enhance a built environment for all.

Big Data, Big Design provides designers with the tools they need to harness the potential of machine learning and put it to use for good through thoughtful, human-centered, intentional design.

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government - and the quality of our lives