Aquatecture: Buildings Designed to Live and Work with Water

by Robert Barker and Richard Coutts

Water plays a vital role in shaping our built environment, as it has done for centuries. We depend on it, we use it, we live with it and we must respect it. Aquatecture is the first book to outline new ways of 'designing for water, ' using examples from around the world to illustrate methods of utilizing water innovatively, efficiently and safely.

The first part of the book explores the historical relationship between water and architecture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859465315
• ISBN13: 9781859465318
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Riba Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.2" x 7.4"