Welcome to the RIBA Bookshop at the RSUA
The RIBA bookshop is situated in the newly refurbished premises at the RSUA at 2 Mount Charles, Belfast,
BT7 1NZ.
The bookshop stocks a wide-range of building contracts and forms to the architecture, construction and design industries as well as a wide selection of recently published architectural books.
If a publication is not available in the shop our bookshop team will endeavour to source it.
Please come and visit our bookshop and browse our wide range of publications in a relaxed and friendly environment, where our staff are always on hand to help with any queries you may have.
If you would like to open an account and receive up to 30 days credit and an easy-order service, please contact Julia or Julie for more information.
By ordering with the RSUA directly, you are supporting our work in architecture throughout Northern Ireland.
Opening hours: Monday - Friday 09.00-16.30hrs
Tel: 028 90323760
028 90237313
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This Months Top 10 Books
Sustainable Concrete ArchitectureDavid BennettBased on real-world evidence and independent research, Sustainable Concrete Architecture provides designers with a tool to help calculate the total embodied CO2 in their building designs. Highly illustrated and detailed in scope, the book combines comprehensive technical analyses of concrete materials with useful case studies demonstrating the value of the material in low-energy, green building.
Part 1 (Technology) takes a detailed technical look at embodied CO2 in different forms of concrete including cement, cement replacements, formwork, precast, reinforcements, aggregates and concrete blocks. The manufacturing and distribution processes of each material product are described and embodied CO2 figures are given. CO2 audit figures are also included for materials which have been subject to an audit. Embodied CO2 tables, construction industry CO2 audit figures and DEFRA conversion tables are included in the Appendix to Part 1. The book then goes on to cover the heating and cooling of buildings, and how to use concrete's thermal mass to reduce long-term energy consumption.
Part 2 (Case Studies) contains 24 superbly illustrated, detailed case studies which show the materials covered in Part 1 being used to create visually exciting, efficient new buildings. Building types covered include residential buildings, offices, education buildings and visitor centres. Each case study includes a statement on the building's energy efficiency, how it was specified and designed, and an environmental impact study which details the SAP ratings where applicable.
An invaluable resource for anyone involved in the design and specification of efficient buildings.
£40.00 Code 69976
Thinkers for Architects: Bourdieu for ArchitectsHelena WebsterPierre Bourdieu is arguably one of the 20th century's greatest socio-philosophical thinkers and his writings have much to offer anyone interested in the ways that people value, consume and produce architecture. Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production through detailed empirical research that included studies of dwellings, art, museums, photography and aesthetics. This book introduces the architectural reader to Bourdieu's key writings on culture and outlines the ways in which they offer powerful practical tools and novel conceptual frameworks for understanding architectural value, taste, and practice.
£15.99 Code 72470
Handmade Houses & Other Buildings: The World of Vernacular ArchitectureJohn MayHandmade Houses and Other Buildings looks at everyday structures all over the world, from whatever wood, grass, earth or stone that was to hand, in ways that offered practical solutions to the challenges of climate or terrain. Based on immemorial principles, but highly relevant to our newly found environmental concerns, these buildings show the simple and satisfying ways in which humans have worked out how to live and live well, in harmony with their surroundings.
£14.95 Code 71813
2G Dossier : EnergyscapesEditorial Gustavo Gili2G Dossier: Energyscapes analyses the way in which the huge structures involved in the energy production sector relate to the world which surrounds us. Through an analysis of the systems, sequences and sources of energy production including dismantled and decommissioned structures as well as operational ones - it methodically elucidates the numerous facets the world of energy presents when it comes into contact with the territory surrounding us.It also addresses how energy production can integrate more harmoniously with the landscape, including ways of converting those artefacts that have become obsolete from the technical point of view but which could accommodate other uses.
£28.37 Code 67380
Future Architecture Magazine 23/24Future ArquitecturasFuture Architecture Magazine emerged from the desire to show the current architecture competitions being developed in Spain and all around the world. Future Arquitecturas aims to disseminate the pedagogical function of the competitions in the international scene, whether they are public, private, open or restricted�with a total of five numbers per year, one of them monographic about a city in the world which is developing through the competitions.
Issue 23/24 contains the most up-to-date international news, events and competitions from around the world. Projects include a new performing arts centre in Taiwan, the Munch & Sternersen Museum Oslo and the Cruise Terminal in Hamburg. It also discussed Archilab 09 and Europan 2010.
£15.50 Code 73001
Metropolis 4: Metrozones: Designs for the Future of the MetropolisIBA HamburgVolume 4 of the Metropolis series discusses strategies and offers visions for the transformation of urban spaces into Metrozones. It shows how waste ground, unused and unoccupied spaces in cities and industrial areas can offer opportunities for creative exploitation and sustainable development.
£32.00 Code 71011
Good Practice Guide: Fee ManagementRIBA PublicationFee Management is a straightforward professional guide for architects about calculating and negotiating fees to maximise profits. The advice puts equal emphasis on good administrative procedures and on the softer skills of negotiation and selling the architect's unique ability to add value to construction projects.
Packed with worked examples and comprehensive in its coverage, it explores how to evaluate costs, explains the anatomy of a fee offer, and advises on getting paid. Outlining the essential management tools for keeping track of the whole process, this easy-to-read guide also explains the ins-and-outs of cash flow, accounting and the jargon behind VAT, and sets out the 'Golden rules for a healthy fee regime'.
£17.95 Code 61859
Good Practice Guide: Negotiating the Planning MazeRIBA PublicationAimed not only at architects and developers, this fully updated new edition of this popular RIBA Good Practice Guide offers concise and accessible practical guidance to the many other construction professionals, private individuals and interest groups who struggle to find their way around the complex and expanding planning maze in England and Wales. It explains how to deal effectively with - and avoid the pitfalls of - the recently revised plan-making regime and the planning application process, and how to keep abreast with further expected changes in planning law and practice.
£17.95 Code 69963
Twentieth Century Architects: Aldington, Craig and CollingeAlan PowersAldington, Craig and Collinge, a small practice based in Buckinghamshire, made a major impact in the 1960s and 1970s through its houses and medical buildings, each of which was deeply considered in relation to the site and the way that it would be used. Landscape was integral to the designs, and construction details were clearly expressed within an overall concept of varied and enjoyable spaces. The story unfolds against a background of high hopes for a more sensitive modern architecture in Britain, up to the retirement of the two original partners in 1986. The book is richly illustrated with original colour and black and white photos by Richard Einzig and Richard Bryant, together with drawings from the firm's archive.
£20.00 Code 68615
Old Favourites
Architect's Job Book Eighth Edition3DReid"Whatever the stage of your career, the Architect's Job Book will provide an accessible and vital knowledge resource for contemporary architectural practice."
From the foreword by Sunand Prasad, RIBA President
The Architect's Job Book is the Royal Institute of British Architects' long-established and recognised standard reference work for running architectural jobs and administering construction contracts. Providing a systematic operational framework that can be applied to any building type or procurement method, its comprehensive scope is logically laid out along the RIBA's Outline Plan of Work 2007.
The new Eighth Edition has been completely updated to reflect current practice and substantially reformatted to make it easier to use for today's practising architect. Now supported by a companion website, the book examines the architect's key obligations and actions to be undertaken at every work stage set out as a series of checklists. The guidance is amplified by useful notes as well as references to supplementary guidance material at the end of every chapter.
In all, the Architect's Job Book's straightforward, no-nonsense coverage is invaluable and will form the cornerstone of an office quality management system, making it essential reading for anyone in architectural practice or, indeed, for students undertaking their Part 3 examinations
£60.00
Architect's Pocket BookCharlotte Baden-PowellNow in its 3rd edition, the Architect's Pocket Book is an essential reference that helps thousands of students and professionals find the information they need, every day. This best selling pocket book has been fully revised, complete with new and updated diagrams, tables and symbol guides, so it will continue to provide readers with crucial facts that would otherwise have to be looked up in less convenient and portable sources
£17.99
Metric Handbook, Planning and Design DataEdited by: David LittlefieldThe Metric Handbook is a unique authoritative reference for solving everyday planning problems. It has sold well over 100,000 copies worldwide to successive generations of architects and designers - this is a book that truly belongs on every design office desk and drawing board.
This new edition has been updated to include the most recent changes to regulation and practice - in particular the increasing emphasis on environmental legislation - to meet the needs of the modern building design professional.
£34.99
Plan of Work, Multi-Disciplinary ServicesRoland PhillipsPlan of Work: Multi-Disciplinary Services is the new edition of the guide to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work 2007, the de facto standard project framework used by the construction industry. Now updated to reflect current procurement practice and the consequences of better risk management, this guide describes how the different parties in the contemporary multi-disciplinary team can work together effectively to complete work stages.
It considers the Client's role and identifies the parties to the multi-disciplinary team as the Lead Consultant, CDM Co-ordinator, Cost Consultant, Design Leader, Architect, Structural Engineer and Services Engineer. Set out in a series of easy-to-use tables, the multi-disciplinary team's typical responsibilities and tasks are outlined in Part 1 along the standard or Model procurement route. Similar tables outline variant activity schedules for design and build contracts for, in Part 2, the Client's team preparing Employer's Requirements and, in Part 3, the contractors' designers preparing Contractor's Proposals. Part 4 includes simple but nonetheless vitally important new schedules for initial occupation services and post-occupation evaluation - work stages L2 and L3.
In effect, these tables comprise a comprehensive set of services schedules which may be used safely to define each consultant's responsibilities in their respective appointment documents and ensure that no activity responsibility is overlooked.
£40.00
The Architect in Practice: Ninth EditionDavid Chappell, Andrew WillisThis classic text has long provided the student of architecture and the young practitioner with a readable guide to the profession, outlining an architect's duties to client and contractor, the key aspects of running a building contract, and the essentials of management, finance and drawing office procedure.
The Ninth Edition has again been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date. Revisions include new planning and building regulation requirements, the latest RIBA Code of Conduct and form of architects' appointment, new legislation on limited liability partnerships, the 2005 JCT standard forms of contract, and adjudication.
£38.99
Recommended Reading for Students
Mix Future Interiors Magazine Issue 20: Spring / Summer 2011Global Color Research LtdMix is the colour, trend and design magazine, which brings you accurate information in colour trends, design, materials and products. The inspirational and innovative concepts presented in this leading publication will help you to implement colour trends into your business/products.
Mix magazine latest issue brings information on Spring/Summer 2011, these are the main features:
Observers: Ceramic trend, purple colour, Best of Milan, Bathroom (Armani Casa), colour and angular shades, trends: wonderlandism, Matt black as a trend to watch up, Knoll new collection.
Stories: Eat & Drink, Structure & Shadow: report from Chelsea Flower Show, The complete package: trends in packaging, Cultural Synergy: Architectural report from the Middle East with colour palette for the Middle East for Spring/Summer 2011.
Interview: Tord Boontje talks to Tamsin Kingswell: The value in making things.
Colour Trend Predictions: Part 2 of Mix Trends' Spring/Summer 2011 colour forecast, focusing on the forthcoming trends Genteel & Risk Materials: Wall treatments, fabrics, paint and wallpaper trends, emerging micro-trends for Spring/Summer 2011
Micro Trends: Patchwork Quilt, Matt Luxury, New Chintz
Student Trends: Trend information from Maastricht Academy, George Brown Colleague and Art Academy of Latvia.
Things we love: A collection of 'things we love' from the team
£15.50 Code 73066
Towards a New Architect: The Guide for Architecture StudentsYasmin Shariff and Jane TankardAfter three years of education, architecture students have to start out on their first year of practical training as the initial step in a career in the professional world--all too often without enough clear advice to make sure that their first step is in the right direction.
Towards a New Architect helps you to make the right moves. It explores how to research the opportunities available, prepare your CV, make sure that it gets you noticed for the right reasons and deliver a successful interview as part of a clear plan for building your career as an architect.
For many architecture students the ultimate goal in their career is to set up in practice for themselves. This book sets out the steps to get there successfully and to make the process enjoyable and fulfilling.
£22.99 Code 72305
Architecture Student's BundleNikolas Davies, David Littlefield, Charlotte Baden-Powell The Metric Handbook, The Architect's Pocket Book and The Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction.
This special offer is open to everyone, it is not exclusively a student offer. The pack is also suitable for architecture and construction professionals.
Combining two bestselling references and a brand new dictionary, this essential bundle provides complete coverage for the architecture student at a great price! The 3 books contain technical guidance that that will help to ground projects in reality, information that will be referred to time and again.
The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design data for architects. Covering basic design data for all the major building types it is the ideal starting point for any project. The Architect's Pocket Book is a time saver that provides quick and easy references to various architectural data. It's designed an everyday reference to help you locate essential information wherever you are. The Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction is a comprehensive and beautiful guide to a complex industry. Containing over 20,000 definitions and supported with over 4,000 drawings it will help you to quickly understand those terms that you are not familiar with.
Bundled together to save you money, this is the ideal way to get up to speed with the basics as quickly and as cheaply as possible
£69.99
Compositions in ArchitectureDon HanlonCompositions in Architecture gives students and young designers a method for architectural composition to solve problems and organise ideas. Connecting architectural theory with the design process, this book succeeds in relating what happens in the design studio with how the designer thinks about architecture.
In addition to explaining ideas about architectural composition, concepts embedded in diverse intellectual traditions and cultures are presented. By making analogies between architectural ideas throughout the world and through the ages, the formal structures in architecture are revealed. This inspiring introduction to architecture will allow users think in new ways to solve problems.
£33.99
Architectural Models Construction TechniquesWolfgang Knoll, Martin HechingerArchitects' models serve as bridge between an idea and its realisation. Models are one of the three means by which an architect invents and develops his design: sketch-model-computer model. No other representational form is as effective in enabling the viewer to perceive the spaces, shapes, surfaces and textures created by the architect's design - it is therefore a prerequisite in the design process.
Architectural Models provides clear and comprehensible instruction explaining how design ideas can be skillfully translated into models. Some 200 black and white illustrations and, new to this edition, more than 40 extraordinary, full color photographs, provide a comprehensive visual explication of the text. In this completely revised edition, the authors convey practical basics and offer a wealth of innovative and valuable suggestions for students of architecture or graphic arts, as well as for experienced architectural model makers.
£48.00