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Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye by Timothy Hyde
RRP: €33.32€25.94A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment-and its concern... -
Falmouth, Jamaica: Architecture as History by Louis P. Nelson 9789766404932
RRP: €53.49€48.67Founded in 1769 as a new port town on Jamaica's north coast, Falmouth expanded dramatically in the decades around 1800 as it supported the rapidly expanding sugar production of Trelawney and neighboring parishes. Many of the surviving buildings in... -
The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume II: A New Agenda for Architecture Patrik Schumacher (Partner of Zaha Hadid Architects) 9780470666166
RRP: €49.92€45.61This is the second part of a major theoretical work by Patrik Schumacher, which outlines how the discipline of architecture should be understood as its own distinct system of communication. Autopoeisis comes from the Greek and means literally... -
Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during the Trente Glorieuses by Nicholas Bullock 9780367556518
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from the... -
Architecture and the Text: The (S)Crypts of Joyce and Piranesi by Jennifer Bloomer 9780300063028
€22.81In this profoundly original book, Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture. Drawing together two cultural fantasies from different periods-one literary and one... -
Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope by Michael Sorkin
RRP: €71.40€60.74Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square... -
Essays, Arguments & Interviews on Modern Architecture Kuwait Ricardo Camacho 9783721209587
RRP: €35.64€23.54Between 1949 and 1989, remarkable buildings of late modernity were constructed in the coastal city of Kuwait. Within these four decades, the city state on the Arabian Gulf was comprehensively restructured and practically redesigned. Following a first... -
Cities and Islamisms: On the Politics and Production of the Built Environment by Bülent Batuman 9780367331993
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and the built environment. The relationship between Islam and politics has always been controversial, yet it has... -
Architecture of Resistance: Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict Yara Sharif 9781472447883
RRP: €59.49€52.24Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the... -
Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and Beyond Ashraf M. Salama 9781138573505
RRP: €54.73€48.23Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment of the future. In this book, design education is dealt with as a paradigm whose evolutionary processes,... -
The Golden City by Henry Hope Reed
RRP: €35.64€27.36A controversial manifesto on the role of classical principles in architecture critically examined for relevance today. First published in 1959, The Golden City is a seminal, critical document that developed one of the earliest and most compelling... -
Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design by Zeynep Celik Alexander
RRP: €57.12€48.83Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing,... -
Nights of the Dispossessed – Riots Unbound by Natasha Ginwala
RRP: €26.18€21.13Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the... -
Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence by Mark Crinson
RRP: €47.60€41.16James Stirling (1924-1992) is acclaimed as the most influential and controversial modern British architect. His partnership with James Gowan (b. 1923) between 1956 and 1963 put postwar British architecture on the international map, and their Leicester... -
Judging Architectural Value: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader by William S. Saunders
RRP: €21.41€18.92When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and pay for the buildings? Art historians? Or architects... -
The Nomadic Listener by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
RRP: €21.42€18.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997874464Author Budhaditya ChattopadhyayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant BodiesWeight(grams) 227g -
Urban Commons: Moving Beyond State and Market Mary Dellenbaugh 9783038216612
RRP: €30.94€27.69Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons means that the much sought-after productivity of the city precedes rather than results from strategies of the... -
SkyRoom: The Journey of Brian And Marilyn Mackay-Lyons at Shobac, a Seaside Village on the Edge of Architectural and Utopian Possibility by Larry Gaudet
RRP: €30.88€20.18As you crest the ridge, the green valley below and the ocean beyond come into view. This is Shobac, a seaside village featuring an ensemble of buildings that, at first glance, looks like a monumental work of Land Art. What is this place? A fishing... -
Following Norberg-Schulz: An Architectural History through the Essay Film by Dr Anna Ulrikke Andersen 9781350248403
€33.31Following Norberg-Schulz examines the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 - 2000), drawing new attention to his architectural designs and re-examining his acclaimed theoretical work on the phenomenology of... -
The Founding Myths of Architecture by Konrad Buhagiar
RRP: €23.74€15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907317170Author Konrad BuhagiarFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Artifice PressPublisher Artifice PressDimensions(mm) 245mm * 155mm * 38mm -
Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan Zhongjie Lin (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) 9781032149387
RRP: €39.26€34.70Amid Japan's political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzo Tange's Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban expansion as organic processes and pushed city design to an... -
Singular Multiples: Contemporary Jewellery Beyond the Digital by Chiara Scarpitti
RRP: €27.37€22.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080124Author Chiara ScarpittiFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLabWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 147mm * 13mm -
I Almost Forgot: Unpublished Colin Rowe by Daniel Naegele
RRP: €42.84€25.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047128Author Daniel NaegeleFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict by Andrew Herscher 9780804769365
RRP: €23.79€20.87While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect,... -
Public and Private Spaces of the City by Ali Madanipour 9780415256292
RRP: €65.44€56.79The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society. This book investigates this relationship, especially as manifested in the urban space with its social and psychological significance. Through... -
Architecture Is All Over by Esther Choi
RRP: €26.18€21.13Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and tactical guide, this collection features original texts and design proposals from emerging and established... -
Renewal Architects: The Transformation of Farsons Brewery Malta by Ian Ritchie 9781911397366
RRP: €35.70€24.45The name Farsons is as synonymous with Malta as Guinness is with Ireland. Louis Farrugia’s visionary decision to conduct a European architectural competition has resulted in a stunningly beautiful and brilliant transformation of the 1951 Art Deco Farsons... -
Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate by Tülay Atak 9781032398105
RRP: €44.02€38.71- Original and applied approach: this is the first book to provide practical pedagogical design experiments integrating specific challenges of climate change into the architecture curriculum - Timely: adds to a growing discourse around architecture’s... -
Place and Displacement Exhibiting Architecture by Thordis Arrhenius 9783037784167
RRP: €41.65€29.38Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been conflated with urgent discussions of how material... -
A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture by Jeffrey Kipnis
RRP: €32.13€21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262519557Author Jeffrey KipnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 17mm -
Architecture and Spatial Culture by John Peponis 9781032500423
RRP: €44.02€38.71Built space supports our daily habits and our membership of communities, organizations, institutions, or social formations. Architecture and Spatial Culture argues that architecture matters because it makes the settings of our life intelligible, so that... -
The Ordinary - Recordings by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: €20.22€16.72Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city been has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban... -
Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Thomas Barrie 9781138296848
RRP: €57.11€49.75Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship. The seventeen chapters provide a... -
Style and Solitude: The History of an Architectural Problem by Mari Hvattum
RRP: €45.22€31.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545006Author Mari HvattumFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Women (Re)Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures by Franca Trubiano 9781943532438
RRP: €29.69€19.46Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemic, Futures is exemplary in its mission to combine in one resource reflections on the renewal of feminist thought in architecture (Framing Stories), challenges to practice made possible by activism (Shaping Polemics), and... -
Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts by Giuliana Bruno 9780262524650
RRP: €32.13€21.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262524650Author Giuliana BrunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 15mm -
Greenhouse Stories: A Critical Re-Examination of Transparent Microcosms by Natalya Ayers 9789083362106
RRP: €26.18€16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083362106Author Olivier LacroutsFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint OnomatopeePublisher OnomatopeeWeight(grams) 390g -
Affect, Architecture, and Practice: Toward a Disruptive Temporality of Practice Akari Nakai Kidd (Deakin University, Australia) 9781032005652
RRP: €45.21€39.72Affect, 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... -
Against Architecture by Franco La Cecla 9781604864069
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864069Author Franco La CeclaFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 148g -
The Letters of Colin Rowe: Five Decades of Correspondence by Daniel Naegele 9781908967534
€48.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908967534Author Daniel NaegeleFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Artifice Books on ArchitecturePublisher Artifice Press