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In this stunning, full-colour book, John Kinross explores the fascinating history behind the castles of Herefordshire, Shropshire and the Welsh border. Areas characterised by their rural beauty and agricultural charm, it is no surprise that they are home...

How is technology shaping our built environment and changing the practice of architecture?This book explores how buildings and spaces are designed, built, used, and better understood through technology. A practical guide to technical advances including...

Straddling the Derwent River, the cathedral city of Derby, its foundations in the Roman occupation of Britain, can directly attribute its contemporary status to the Industrial Revolution. Spinning mills proliferated from the eighteenth century,...

One House Per Day no.001-365 collects the first 365 drawings from Andrew Bruno's project One House Per Day, along with a foreword by Keith Krumwiede and essay contributions by Malcolm Rio, Alessandro Orsini & Nick Roseboro, and Clark Thenhaus. The...

From its status as a major coal mining centre in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and today the home of the National Coal Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery that retains England's last deep coal mine, to its current role as the capital of...

Guest-edited by Owen Hopkins Multispace exists at the intersection of the physical and digital, and in the blurring of their previously clear dividing lines. Multispace is not a single space, but a hybrid space where, in effect, we occupy multiple spaces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948789243Author David BestFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Carnegie Publishing LtdPublisher Carnegie Publishing Ltd

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of 'Dream of the Red Mansion', 'Journey to the West ', 'The Water Margin', and 'Romance of the Three...

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...

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,...

Published 100 years ago, Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture was conceived as a way of making sense architecturally of a moment of profound social and technological change. Today, we live at another pivotal moment for architecture and for the wider...

SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION DISCOVER THE LATEST EDITION OF THE LEADING TEXTBOOK ON SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION AND GREEN BUILDING In the newly revised Fifth Edition of Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, the late Dr. Charles J...

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

Catalogue of the exhibition to be held at the MAXXI in Rome from October 2024 to March 2025, curated by the world-famous studio DS+R. The exhibition and thus the catalogue intends to address the theme of movement not so much as a possibility for a...

A subjective, candid, multi-vocal story about the creation of the building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Warsaw's Parade Square, where the MSN building designed by Thomas Phifer stands, is a unique place and a meaningful context for the Museum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788794418263Author René KuralFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Strandberg PublishingPublisher Strandberg Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959050913Author Regina BittnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

The Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano is recognized worldwide as one of the most renowned architects of our time. Central elements of his aesthetics include the playful use of natural light, the transparency of his buildings and their fine detailing. This...

In 1980, photographer Geoff Winningham and architect Cyrus Sutherland travelled extensively throughout Arkansas to locate and photograph examples of southern American vernacular architecture. They were working on a commission from the First Federal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876290163Author John H. ChiangFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint R.S. Means Company LtdPublisher R.S. Means Company LtdWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492921423Author Marc KushnerFormat HardbackImprint UranoPublisher UranoWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935935780Author Suman SorgFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Oro EditionsPublisher Oro EditionsWeight(grams) 136g

In The New, New Home, Boyce Thompson, the editorial director of Builder magazine for 17 years, demystifies the challenges and opportunities facing new homebuyers. In it, he lays out the new green, high-tech, aging in place, space planning and...

In 1940, manufacturer Robert Bosch (1861-1942) opened the first hospital to bear his name. He was interested in promoting public welfare as well as his highly successful business activities. Since 1964, 92 per cent of Robert Bosch GmbH has belonged to...

With the widespread availability of high-speed, high-capacity microprocessors and microcomputers with high-speed communication ability, and sophisticated energy analytics software, the technology to support deployment of automated diagnostics is now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668034439Author Thomas HeatherwickFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916023062Author Harry PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Shane BooksPublisher Shane BooksDimensions(mm) 245mm * 190mm * 6mm

Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies, challenging the nature of textual and representational-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733030915Author Elizabeth Plater-ZyberkFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Inst Classical Arch, Class AmericaPublisher Inst Classical Arch, Class...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733030922Author W MaynardFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Inst Classical Arch, Class AmericaPublisher Inst Classical Arch, Class...

The Truth About The Barn offers answers to important questions about how barns came into being, why they look the way they do, why they’re worth reflecting on,and what possible future they may have. Chapters investigate the barn’s place in culture and...

Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890-1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which...

In an era of accelerating population growth, mass urbanization, and increasing pressure on the natural environment, the megacities of China's eastern seaboard have become a focal point of architectural and urban-design attention. The "reform and...

"What constitutes good architecture?" is a question Werner Blaser was always asked by friends, readers, companions and students. In this comprehensive work the author sets out on a search for the answer to that question. This volume is not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870707759Author Gustavo Luis MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern Art

Visual Delight in Architecture examines the many ways that our lives are enriched by the presence of natural daylight and window views within our buildings. It makes a compelling case that daily exposure to the rhythms of daylight is essential to our...

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...

From humble beginnings Woking grew with the opening of the Wey Navigation Canal in the mid-seventeenth century, carrying traffic from Guildford to the River Thames, then more significantly with the arrival of the railway in 1838 and subsequent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789720297Author Simon GodfreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Independent Publishing NetworkPublisher Independent Publishing NetworkWeight(grams)...