Art, Architecture & Design

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new...

Laura Brouwers--widely known as Instagram sensation @Cyarine--has created her first book to share with her fans and aspiring artists. In Expedition Sketchbook: Inspiration and Skills for Your Artistic Journey, Laura takes readers through techniques that...

A new edition of this classic collection of letters, critical reviews and reminiscences by Impressionist artists and their contemporaries. The Impressionists - Monet, Manet, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley and others - are probably the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486429946Author Roebuck & Co. SearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do, Wilson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998707099Author Wade K MotawiFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint WadePublisher WadeWeight(grams) 216g

This book brings together a broad range of research that interrogates how real estate market analysis, finance, planning, and investment for residential and commercial developments across the African continent are undertaken. In the past two decades,...

Exhibiting the mastery of the gem-engraver from prehistory to the present, Masterpieces in Miniature offers a survey of the finest products of the gems craft over millennia. The creation of miniature intaglios - or incised carvings - which could be...

TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so...

Basil Gogos changed the face of classic horror with his film monster portrait art. Like a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell, he created magazine covers of Frankenstein, the Creature from the Black Lagoon. the Phantom of the Opera, and countless others in...

"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse."-Anselm Kiefer ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756249586Author Pie InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

Japanese artists celebrate the phenomenon that is the Marvel Universe!Experience a fresh take on the Marvel Universe with this collection of stunning illustrations from over twenty exceptional Japanese artists, including Yasuhiro Nightow, Akira Himekawa,...

This classic text offers students and industry professionals detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations for grading pattern pieces for women's, men's and children's wear.About the AuthorJack HanfordBook InformationISBN 9781563673191Author Jack...

Research shows that high-performing organisations focus on diversity and inclusion (D&I). In any workplace, it is important to both understand and recognise the benefits that having a D&I workforce provides. It is integral to developing people within an...

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse...

The first overview in a decade on Arke's poetical explorations of dual ethnicity Central to the multimedia oeuvre of Pia Arke (1958-2007) was the artist's dual ethnicity in Greenland and Denmark, excavated in video works, collaged maps and landscape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857241951Author Filippo MaggiaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1480g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060953508Author Scott McCloudFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 540g

A stunning showcase of the unique lifestyle opportunities afforded by contemporary courtyard design in the Asia-Pacific region. Courtyards have long played an important function in residential design, regulating light, shade and the use of space. With...

Although her body of work is relatively small, Frida Kahlo has inspired adoration and admiration that few other artists have attained. This accessible and elegant book offers full page reproductions of a selection of her works, allowing for a broad...

The nude figure defines the best way to learn the fundamentals of drawing, yet the end goal of most art presents clothed figures, be it animation, video games, film, or fine art. This sixth book in the 'FORCE' series instructs artists on how to...

A Star Wars authority deepens and extends our appreciation of the Star Wars galaxy with this imaginative "history" featuring striking full-color artwork-created exclusively for this entertaining volume-that examines the persuasive messages used to...

"All too often," wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, "designers don't take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account." Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781856697545Author Kate FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing

Despite being one of the oldest building materials, wood is revolutionising the way we design and construct buildings today. Criteria such as a changing work-life balance and working for a carbon-neutral future allow us to better account for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 1997 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780262550383Author Robin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint MIT...

As he turns 100, the definitive monograph of Wayne Thiebaud's work is now available in a reformatted, accessibly priced edition, and including his most recent paintings. This is the most comprehensive monograph to date on Wayne Thiebaud, with new works...

Celebrating the work of 31 of the most outstanding contemporary architecture practices and design firms - each a winner in the A+Firm Awards program from Architizer, the website used by over 335,000 architects throughout the world to celebrate and share...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042802Author Jonas StaalFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 152mm * 21mm

The essential guide to fashion's favourite print. Since Christian Dior first brought leopard print to the catwalk in 1947, it has earned a cult following. Popularised by everyone from 1940s screen sirens to pop...

The preeminent children’s book artist of the 20th century, Maurice Sendak and his 60-year career are celebrated in this full-colour catalogue of more than 200 images being exhibited at the Society of Illustrators in New York City from June 11–August 17,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623260316Author Eames DemetriosFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint AMMO Books LLCPublisher AMMO Books LLC

Draw Fabulous Furries! Furries are so much fun to draw, people have been doing so for thousands of years. By crossing animal traits with human, you can create some fantastic characters with distinct personalities. The authors of Draw Furries bring you...

BLADE has already told his life story through graffiti. Now, more than forty years into his career and armed with an incredible memory, BLADE sits down with Chris Pape to reflect on growing up in the Bronx in the turbulent 1970s, and recounts the highs...

An in-depth and current investigation of how the spiritual is manifestly present in contemporary art The spiritual is everywhere evident in contemporary art, and this publication fulfills a long-awaited need. Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary...

Bowling's transition to abstraction, seen against the backdrop of 1960s-'70s debates on abstract art and the Black Arts movement "Modernism belonged to me also." So resolved the British Guiana-born artist Frank Bowling in 1966, when he moved from his...

2018 IPHS Special Book Prize Award Recipient The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its...

This book presents a fresh perspective on eleventh- and twelfth-century Irish architecture, and a critical assessment of the value of describing it, and indeed contemporary European architecture in general, as "Romanesque".Medieval Irish Architecture and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908967732Author Roger FitzGeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Artifice Books on ArchitecturePublisher Artifice Press