RIBA Titles

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Do you know how to think like an architect? Do you know why you should? How do you make sure that you have the critical thinking tools necessary to prosper in your academic and professional career? This book gives you the answers.