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The book takes the reader on an architectural discovery tour of Berlin. It gives an impressive insight into the latest architecture of the German capital: Distinctive buildings, urban spaces and places characterising urban everyday life in the city are...

Across Western cities, there is an increasing obsession with producing manicured landscapes. Standing in contrast to these aesthetically and socially regulated spaces are the neglected sites of industrial ruins, places on the margin which accommodate...

The Palais de Tokyo, built for the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Technology, is an icon of French Art Deco architecture. Located prominently on the northern bank of the Seine near the Eiffel Tower, the vast complex today is a hotspot ...

East Anglia has a unique and very substantial heritage of flint-built churches and secular buildings over a wide area that range from Saxon times to the 20th century, many of them of exceptional beauty, and most in a good state of preservation. Stephen...

From ancient stadium construction to a design object of the twenty-first century, sports arenas have long been turned into places hosting a global media spectacle. For a few hours or days, colossuses made of steel and concrete transform into colourful...

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...

This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to...

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...

Illustrated with hundreds of illuminating line drawings, this classic guide reveals virtually every secret of a building's function: how it stands up, keeps its occupants safe and comfortable, gets built, grows old, and dies--and why some buildings do...

The City of Refuge complex-commissioned by the Salvation Army as part of its program to transform social outcasts into spiritually renewed workers-represents a significant confluence of design principles, technological experiments, and attitudes on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472071544Author F. Solaguren-BeascoaFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint RuedaPublisher Rueda

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472071506Author Jose A. CorralesFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint RuedaPublisher Rueda

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472071483Author Miguel SeguiFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint RuedaPublisher Rueda

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472071674Author Mariano BayonFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint RuedaPublisher Rueda

This richly illustrated book describes the construction of the first Capitol building from its design, to the development of the exterior, House and Senate wings, and its transformation into the building which stands today.About the AuthorUSABook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226263694Author Alex JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037680360Author Sibylle KramerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Braun Publishing AGPublisher Braun Publishing AGWeight(grams) 1800g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037787229Author Louisa HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Lars Muller PublishersWeight(grams) 340g

In the post-war decades, Thai architects, many of whom had studied abroad, embraced modern principles as they addressed the pressing demand for residential and commercial space, as well as the shortage of public facilities, in the rapidly growing capital...

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press award winning Culture Politics & the Built Environment seriesBook InformationISBN 9780822948469Author Amber N WileyFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher...

Enter the museum, the most radical site of experimentation for architecture.This book tackles the role of architecture in shaping the museum of the future, and its undeniable power in articulating our relationship to art. Only through the museum can we...

Over the past decade, the AKP, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, has decisively turned Turkish politics in the direction of conservative Islamic national identity. A specific ideological framework undergirded the AKP's conception of the built...

A narrative of the early modern Indian sculpture known as the Mithuna couple. Meena Kandasamy writes about the Mithuna couple, a seventeenth-century ivory sculpture from Tamil Nadu, India, depicting lovers. Kandasamy unfurls a multi-layered,...

Gasholders became one of the most instantly recognisable and iconic features on the landscape since they first appeared in the early 19th century. Their simple but precise engineering, durability and flexibility allowed then to operate over a span of 200...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474486583Author Sara EbrahimiFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

The Dictionary is divided into two sections. The main sequence of the book consists of some 4,000 terms given in English, in alphabetical order, with their translations. The remainder of the book consists of alphabetical indexes for the other eleven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737517894Author Stewart F. LaneFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Broad Book PressPublisher Broad Book Group

Celebrating Herzog & de Meuron's iconic new National Library of Israel, this book takes the reader on a journey that transcends stone and mortar to explore the importance of libraries in our fastpaced Digital Age. The book features original short...

"Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on...

Celebrating Herzog & de Meuron's iconic new National Library of Israel, this book takes the reader on a journey that transcends stone and mortar to explore the importance of libraries in our fastpaced Digital Age. The book features original short...

A stirring large-format celebration of cooling towers, the monumental brutalist structures dotted around Britain that are relics of twentieth-century industrial history - and are about to disappear for good.Bringing together some of the country's most...

The Liebling Haus in Tel Aviv was built in 1936 to designs by architect Dov Karmi for Tony and Max Liebling after they fled from Europe. With its bright plaster facades, deep balconies, clear proportions, and a layout tailored to the regional climate, it...

This book charts a twenty-year period in theatre design that maps the growth of large-scale adaptable theatre through Charcoalblue's work, alongside the world's leading architects. From the remaking of London's Young Vic Theatre in the mid-2000s, through...

World Zoo and Aquarium Architecture Vol. 1 provides an overview of current trends in planning zoos and aquariums. As the curator of this series, the Institute of Zoo Architecture is committed to inspiring both decision-makers and visitors in favour of...

Paris-based Gaetan Le Penhuel Architectes & Associes have acquired great expertise in the construction of school buildings over nearly 30 years, having made their name in this field with pioneering designs. Based on this wealth of experience, Gaetan Le...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986873331Author James MacnuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint SSP PublicationsPublisher SSP PublicationsWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954486334Author Alan GiffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Heage Windmill SocietyPublisher Heage Windmill Society

The 13th issue of speech: focuses on the subway as an architectural feature and important public space. In the 21st century 'metro' is increasingly perceived as synonymous with 'megalopolis'. However, in this issue of speech: the metro is treated as a...

In the vast literature on architectural theory and practice, the ways in which architectural knowledge is actually taught, debated, and understood are too often ignored. The essays collected in this groundbreaking volume address the current state of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462087057Author Marco LannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)