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Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground: On Architecture in Seismic Regions by Yun Fu 9783035625585
RRP: £59.00£51.31Building with earthquakes is a familiar yet persistent design problem for resilient construction on all continents. This book elaborates on various factors for earthquake-resilient architecture in six thematic chapters that explore the design strategies... -
Survey of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Architecture by Margaret B. Schiffer 9780916838027
RRP: £31.99£21.60Chester County is one of the three original counties formed in 1682 in southeastern Pennsylvania by William Penn under Charter signed by King Charles II. The greatest number of settlers after 1682 came from the British Isles, and so the architecture they... -
Authorship - Discourse, A Series on Architecture by Antoine Picon 9780964264106
RRP: £28.00£22.20Authorship critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in... -
Curated Decay: Heritage beyond Saving by Caitlin DeSilvey 9780816694365
RRP: £89.00£77.22Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey... -
Indoor America: The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia by Andrea Vesentini 9780813941585
£50.90Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls-these are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the... -
Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment by Maiken Umbach 9780804753432
RRP: £24.99£21.67Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of... -
SchoolParasites: Not the Trailer - Provisional Classrooms for Primary Schools by Michelle Provoost 9789080818514
RRP: £16.00£15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789080818514Author Michelle ProvoostFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 349g -
We Own the City by Francesca Miazzo 9789078088912
RRP: £28.00£27.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088912Author Francesca MiazzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 183mm * 23mm -
Reactivate! - Responsive and Pragmatic New Dutch Architecture by Indira Van't Klooster 9789078088806
RRP: £30.00£29.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088806Author Indira Van't KloosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 599g -
R.O.M.E 2025: Resilient Osmotic Metabolic Ecological by Carlo Gasparrini 9788899854270
RRP: £17.00£14.11The R.O.M.E. look is presented in this book by a project team at the University of Naples. It is part of a more comprehensive interpretation and design experience carried out in 2015 by twenty-five universities, under the international workshop... -
Eugenio Faludi's Montecatini Summer Village in Cervia 1936-1938 by Stefano Poli 9788890802409
RRP: £8.99£7.40The particular type of "Seaside holiday camp" is a good sample of how the architectural research can solve problems. From 1930 to 1960 this new type is created and declined by Italian architects because many industries wanted to solve the... -
Designing Territorial Metabolism: Metropolitan Studio on Brussels, Barcelona, and Veneto by Geoffrey Grulois 9783868594898
RRP: £34.50£27.70The concepts of metabolism, ecosystems, and circular economy are currently challenging the discipline of urbanism. As the shift from linear to circular production-consumption patterns seems to be ultimate for reducing the externalities of our urban... -
Verb Crisis by Mario Ballesteros 9788496540972
£27.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496540972Author Mario BallesterosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ActarD IncPublisher ActarD Inc -
Wright`s Writings - Reflections on Culture and Politics, 1894-1959 by Kenneth Frampton 9781941332351
RRP: £20.00£15.89Wright's Writings traces the discursive work of Frank Lloyd Wright through a set of essays by Kenneth Frampton. Originally written as a series of introductions to the five-volume collection of Wright's writing published in 1992, the essays are gathered... -
The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination by Sean Pickersgill 9781789387407
RRP: £109.95£104.98Sean Pickersgill demonstrates that the goal of creating meaningful architecture can take a variety of critical and philosophical paths. The importance of architecture as an expression of broad, complex social drivers is complemented by the equally... -
The City as a Technical Being: On the Mode of Existence of Architecture by Peter Trummer 9781957183558
RRP: £30.00£19.80The city is the largest human artefact. It is made by us, yet simultaneously it makes us, as well as all other nonhuman entities. The particular discourse to which this book on the city contributes is the discipline of architecture. It explores a simple... -
Designing Mind-Friendly Environments: Architecture and Design for Everyone by Steve Maslin 9781785921421
RRP: £27.99£27.23Exploring the impact of the built environment and design on people with a range of neurological experiences, including autism, dementia, dyslexia and dyspraxia, this comprehensive guide provides project commissioners, architects and designers with all... -
Architecture and Objects by Graham Harman 9781517908522
RRP: £83.00£72.11Thinking through object-oriented ontology-and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid-to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function Object-oriented ontology has become increasingly popular among architectural... -
The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols by Donald Martin Reynolds 9780471014393
RRP: £50.95£45.31From the reviews of the first edition of Architecture of New York City. "It should provide joy to anyone even vaguely interested in this city and its artifacts. It is very likely to turn them into enthusiasts." --New York Times Book Review... -
The Cultured Landscape: Designing the Environment in the 21st Century by Sheila Harvey 9780419250302
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. The editors, highly regarded in their field, have drawn together a distinguished team of writers who provide unique individual perspectives... -
Architecture and the Mimetic Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives by Lucy Huskinson 9780415693035
RRP: £125.00£108.26Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self... -
Performing Home Stuart Andrews 9780415787451
RRP: £135.00£117.28Performing Home is the first sustained study of the ways in which artists create artworks in, and in response to, domestic dwellings.In the context of growing interest in ideas and practices that cross between architecture, arts practice and performance,... -
Global Heritage Assemblages: Development and Modern Architecture in Africa by Christoph Rausch 9780367193058
RRP: £41.99£36.75UNESCO aims to tackle Africa's under-representation on its World Heritage List by inscribing instances of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern architecture and urban planning there. But, what is one to make of the utopias of progress and development... -
Reality Bytes: Selected Essays 1995-2015 by Bart Lootsma 9783990433669
RRP: £26.00£23.27Reality Bytes is a collection of essays by Bart Lootsma, written in the years from 1998 to 2009. "Byte" is a unit of digital information used in information technology and most commonly consists of eight bits. Reality Bytes is also the title of... -
Sensing Space: Future Architecture by Technology by Franziska Eider 9783939633952
RRP: £19.00£17.35Arguably the future of architecture has increasingly more to do with technology: tiny sensors woven almost invisibly into materials, buildings which interact with their surroundings via the facades, or 'intelligent' houses that adapt to fit their... -
Metropolis: Cosmopolis by IBA Hamburg 9783868590753
RRP: £28.00£25.96Globalisation not only involves the worldwide networking of finance and trade; a new international urban society is also emerging: Cosmopolis. The Internationale Bauausstellung (International Building Exhibition) IBA Hamburg aims to adapt the city to the... -
Is There (Anti-)Neoliberal Architecture? Ana Jeinic 9783868592177
RRP: £21.50£19.46Over the last three decades neoliberal ideology has irreversibly changed our political and economic reality. But what-if any-relationship exists between neoliberalism and our built environment? Is There (Anti-)Neoliberal Architecture? seeks to complement... -
Bracket: [Takes Action] by Neeraj Bhatia 9781943532919
RRP: £32.95£22.19The rise of several divisive leaders within contemporary politics, has once again brought action to the foreground. As a new generation makes their voices heard, they are also grappling to find effective platforms for action through design. The notion of... -
Architecture Beyond Experience by Michael Benedikt 9781943532896
RRP: £29.95£19.78Architecture Beyond Experience is an interdisciplinary work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, 'posthuman' and yet humanist strain in architecture. It argues against the values that currently guide much architectural... -
Linear Thought Condensation by Peter Maygar 9781943532155
RRP: £19.95£13.33Condensed thoughts transformed to matter with sequence of drawings. With exceptions of the author's other books, no similar published case studies exist. Uniquely relevant in both the education and practice architecture. This book aims to unify knowing... -
Lunch 13:: Mischief by Colin Giliand 9781941806326
RRP: £19.95£13.73Lunch is an annual, student-edited design research journal at the University of Virginia School of Architecture that aims to facilitate conversations across disciplines and communities, publishing articles, research, interviews, and projects that... -
Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture Andrew Atwood 9781940743530
RRP: £21.95£14.54Not Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This book explores a set of alternatives to the interesting and imagines how architecture might be positioned more broadly... -
Pressing Matters VI: PennDesign Department of Architecture 2016 - 2017 by PennDesign 9781940743066
RRP: £30.00£19.40Pressing Matters VI is an exciting compilation of design and research performed at PennDesign's Department of Architecture. It features recent work by students, news, important symposia and lectures, and is printed on recycled paper with non-toxic inks. ... -
Intervention Architecture: Buildings for Change by Aga Khan Award 9781845116736
£30.56Across a range of settings - from the dry river valleys of Yemen to tropical high-rise fabric of Singapore - the projects selected for the 10th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture match the cutting-edge design with a deep commitment to place... -
Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground: Unreasonable Creatures by Urs Bette 9781787357235
RRP: £50.00£41.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787357235Author Urs BetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
Against Urbanism Franco La Cecla 9781629632353
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629632353Author Franco La CeclaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror - The City in Thepru, Photography and Film . Stierli 9781606061374
RRP: £45.00£38.03This is an intelligent and superbly illustrated reevaluation of the seminal architectural manifesto Learning from Las Vegas. Learning from Las Vegas - published in 1972 by the American architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour -... -
Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity by Maria Voyatzaki 9781474420570
RRP: £105.00£95.39Maps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in... -
Image, Text, Architecture: The Utopics of the Architectural Media Robin Wilson 9781472414434
RRP: £135.00£117.68Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as... -
The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968 by Isabelle Doucet 9781472437358
RRP: £125.00£108.26What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such ambitious questions, this book starts from a city's specificity and complexity. In response to recent...