Buildings

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300273168Author Charles BossuFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874336785Author Michael BillettFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

Discover a diverse selection of beautiful Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket homes from a dozen of the top architects practicing in this region. Breathtaking landscapes and water views abound throughout this area, providing a powerful backdrop...

This book is devoted to the seafront, the space between the seaward ends of seaside piers and the first line of buildings. The seafront is a place that is familiar yet unfamiliar, predictable but exciting, natural but artificial. It is a place to live,...

Built and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1928-1930, the Tugendhat House in Brno / Czech Republic is one of the most significant buildings of European modernism. In 2001, UNESCO added the house to the List of World Cultural Heritage Sites. In...

New York is a town of more quartiers and arondissements than Paris, more souks and bazaars than Cairo, a place of havens from overwhelming energy and of studios where that energy is generated. Above all else, it is where everyone wants to make a mark...

"... Photos of jaw-dropping houses will tide keen cottagers over until spring." - Canadian House & Home We are all drawn to water, whether for relaxation or recreation. So it is little surprise that many homes are designed especially for a gorgeous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847719058Author Huw EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

A small church nestling deep in the countryside is instantly evocative. Why is it there at all? Whom does it serve? In a county by county guide to the smallest gems of English ecclesiastical architecture, John Kinross provides the reader with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080247537Author Adrien GoetzFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 2500g

Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural consciousness. The Domestic Space Reader addresses our...

Wineries across the globe now regularly engage leading architects to create extraordinary, original constructions that complement the winemaking and tasting experiences. In Europe, world-renowned studios have rejuvenated winery and cellar-door...

Can we get a feeling of spaciousness and well-being in an apartment when the available space is very limited? This book shows that not only is it possible, but often the solutions turn the house itself into a unique and singular space. These types of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859461372Author Margaret RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint RIBA PublicationsPublisher RIBA Publications Ltd

For this volume, over forty internationally renowned architects and educators from Peter Eisenman and the late Zaha Hadid to Rafael Moneo and Cesar Pelli were asked to list the top 100 twentieth-century architectural projects they would teach to students...

For 200 years the Thurn und Taxis family have called the palace of St. Emmeram home. Regarded as one of Germany's finest examples of historicist architecture, the Regensburg residence's myriad rooms trace centuries of distinctive styles: a...

As Buckfast Abbey prepares to celebrate its millennium in 2018, this new book chronicles the remarkable history of this famous English abbey, today both home to a self-sufficient community of Benedictine monks and a site that welcomes some half a million...

Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 641. Amr immediately established his capital at al-Fustat, just south of modern Cairo, and there he built...

This new edition of John Illingworth's popular book provides a thorough introduction to the selection of construction methods, their planning and organization on site. Thoroughly revised and updated, Construction Methods and Planning takes a practical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578553658Author Ben StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Skyline ForumPublisher Skyline ForumWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 18mm

The task of designing a large aquarium pre sents architects with a multiplicity of challenges: the fundamental elements of interior design - light, colour, and surfaces - must be meshed with special requirements concerning building technology. This...

Twenty chapters, authored by leading scholars from around the world, explore the astonishing variety of building styles and traditions that have evolved over millennia in a region of diverse terrains, extreme climates and distinctive local histories...

Build a classic, enduring, and affordable home. With Jack A. Sobon's careful guidance, you can construct your own timber-framed house in the traditional hall-and-parlor style. From felling trees to cutting timbers, and frame construction to door...

From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad...

Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer, once pleaded for `a pretty move for the love of God' when watching his beloved soccer. This book is likewise interested in `beautiful moves', but turns instead to the architecture of the stadium as an architectural type...

Our relationship with our homes changed in 2020 when the pandemic known as Covid-19 led to enforced periods of self-isolation, called 'lockdown'. We got to know our living spaces intimately and learned the greatest risk of infection was indoors through...

Soccer stadiums, airports, theaters, museums - it falls to very few architects to tackle spectacular building tasks like these. The everyday work of most architects is more often focused on "manageable" projects like the renovation, remodeling, or...

Huddersfield has a surprisingly rich architectural heritage. Developed mainly in a period of explosive growth during Georgian and Victorian times, it has many buildings of very high quality. This book describes and illustrates around 200 of the best and...

Houses without stairs or obstacles, all distributed on the same floor, lounge area, dining room, bedrooms, kitchen and service facilities. They stand out for their spaciousness in all rooms, both exterior and interior. Having a house distributed on one...

This ambitious and generously illustrated study is an in-depth account of the architectural character of a vast range of eighteenth-century ecclesiastical buildings, including the Anglican parish churches, medieval cathedrals repaired and modified during...

The market town of Altrincham, historically part of Cheshire but now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, has a rich history dating back to its charter as a free borough and the establishment of a market in 1290. The buildings found in Old...

Renovation continues to be an important and fundamental part of modern architecture, whether it be through a desire to preserve history, or resurrect an old family home. This book provides a useful overview of nearly 30 case studies from across the...

A study of the thirty-five Carnegie libraries built in towns and industrial communities in Wales before the First World War. The library system is in a transformative phase that attracts much attention; these Carnegie buildings have never been fully...

There's something especially beautiful about being able to look to the full expanse of a horizon, something that speaks to the most ancient part of our soul. With the continuing build up of our surroundings, that precious ability to gaze into the...

The city of Cork is a place of tradition, continuity, change and legacy. It is a place of direction and experiment by people of ambition and determination, experiences and learning, of ingenuity and innovation, and of nostalgia and memory. Its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681776866Author Marc MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus Books

At the heart of one of London's busiest boroughs, nestled on the bank of the River Thames, lies Kingston upon Thames. This vibrant town first appears on record in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles when King Alfred the Great's grandfather came here in AD 838,...

Here is a new, larger edition of a classic reference. From its origins on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century, this charming and practical style of house has been transplanted and modified to accommodate varying life styles from as far...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394501010Author Gautam BhatiaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 28g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898253549Author Museum of Domestic Design & ArchitectureFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Middlesex University PressPublisher Middlesex University...