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Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781472463418
RRP: €160.65€140.04Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a... -
Image, Text, Architecture: The Utopics of the Architectural Media by Robin Wilson 9781472414434
RRP: €160.65€140.04Image, 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 Meaning of Modern Architecture: Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler 9781472453013
RRP: €160.65€139.56Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative... -
Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World by Katharine S. Willis 9781472438621
RRP: €160.65€140.04The focus of this book is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that is how we experience and inhabit urban space. It reflects on the nature of the spatial effects of the... -
The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968 by Isabelle Doucet 9781472437358
RRP: €148.75€128.83What 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... -
The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance by Douglas Spencer 9781350375901
€32.68The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while... -
Architecture History and Theory in Reverse: From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning by Jassen Callender 9781138958197
RRP: €53.54€46.74This book looks at architecture history in reverse, in order to follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas alter the course of civilization in general and the discipline of architecture in particular. Part I begins with present-day... -
The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture: Between Imitation and Invention by David Mayernik 9781138275249
RRP: €47.59€42.20Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary... -
: Housing in Europe (1984) by Martin Wynn 9781138083523
RRP: €44.02€38.71First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded. Each chapter begins by surveying the problem in each country since the Second World War, before going on... -
: Housing in Europe (1984) by Martin Wynn 9781138083493
RRP: €142.80€123.77First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded. Each chapter begins by surveying the problem in each country since the Second World War, before going on... -
Architecture and Freedom: Searching for Agency in a Changing World by Owen Hopkins 9781119332633
RRP: €38.02€34.14Architects are facing a crisis of agency. For decades, they have seen their traditional role diminish in scope as more and more of their responsibilities have been taken over by other disciplines within the building construction industry. Once upon a... -
Constructions: An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures by Michael Hensel 9781118700570
RRP: €32.07€28.36The current trend for constructing experimental structures is now an international phenomenon. It has been taken up worldwide by design professionals, researchers, educators and students alike. There exist, however, distinct and significant tendencies... -
Monsterpieces by Aude-Line Duliere 9780981985732
RRP: €14.22€9.50This collection of kids' bestiaries is a critique of Monster Contemporary Architecture. It is a reinterpretation of contemporary iconic forms and the contemplation of the future states of these masterpieces, or more fittingly, Monsterpieces. Two Harvard... -
The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age by Pedro Fiori Arantes 9780816699285
RRP: €128.52€109.28A critique of prominent architects' approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades With the advent of revolutionary digital design and production technologies, contemporary architects and their clients developed a taste... -
Historic Architecture of Pennsylvania by Scott D. Butcher 9780764342752
RRP: €38.07€24.99Nestled among the rolling hills of South Central Pennsylvania, six counties a Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York a are home to more than three centuries of history and architecture. Beginning with early eighteenth century buildings,... -
Mexican Architectures by Gabriela Varela 9786079489533
RRP: €35.70€24.13Contemporary Mexican architecture: a selection of diverse architectural projects from 2017-2018 Volume eight in this series presents a selection of buildings constructed in Mexico between 2017 and 2018. The projects are organized geographically, as... -
Open Space: Transparency - Freedom - Dematerialisation by Gunther Feuerstein 9783936681550
RRP: €59.38€42.30The aim of the study is to analyse and describe in detail one of the most important trends in architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries: the evolution leading from the closed, hermetic spaces of the early cultures and the Middle Ages to the "open... -
Moderne, Postmoderne - Und Nun Barock? Entwicklungslinien Der Architektur Des 20. Jahrhunderts by Stefan Grundmann 9783930698639
RRP: €38.08€27.26"This book is an attempt at architectural criticism" that is how Robert Venturi opened the discussion on Post-Modernism in architecture in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecturea generation ago. And this was a typical beginning... -
Androgynos--The Male-Female in Art and Architecture: The Male-female in Art and Architecture by Gunther Feuerstein 9783930698745
RRP: €54.74€39.19This book deals with elemental basic architectural questions: the age-old subject of antithesis and thesis, unity and duality, contrast and harmony.Book InformationISBN 9783930698745Author Gunther FeuersteinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edition... -
Vancouver in Focus: The City's Built Form by Mike Chadwick 9781894694445
RRP: €36.88€24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894694445Author Mike ChadwickFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 1186g -
Kōjin Karatani’s Philosophy of Architecture by Nadir Lahiji 9781032647593
RRP: €44.02€38.71The first book to uncover Kōjin Karatani’s highly significant ideas on architecture for an architectural audience.Explores Karatani’s Architecture as Metaphor where he introduces a different definition of philosophy.The eighth book from Nadir Lahiji to... -
She City: Designing Out Women’s Inequity in Cities by Nicole Kalms 9781350153080
€109.33Rooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: 'Resisting Sexist Cities', 'Designing Feminist Cities', and 'Prioritizing Safer Cities', Kalms examines barriers to... -
Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded by Gevork Hartoonian 9781138573376
RRP: €57.11€49.75Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to... -
Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War by Rika Devos 9781138573352
RRP: €57.11€49.75This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture... -
Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China by Nicholas Jewell 9781138573338
RRP: €57.11€50.23China's rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable... -
In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions by Hooman Koliji 9781138572379
RRP: €57.11€49.75Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the... -
The City Crown by Bruno Taut by Matthew Mindrup 9781138572324
RRP: €57.11€49.75This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut's early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban... -
Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure of a Demonstration by Sam Ridgway 9781138567795
RRP: €57.11€49.75Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect, academic and theorist, Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary... -
Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America by Donia Zhang 9781138567757
RRP: €57.11€49.75Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for governments to include happiness as a criterion to their policies. The Healthy Cities or Happy Cities movement... -
Intersections of Space and Ethos by Kyriaki Tsoukala 9781138567368
RRP: €57.11€49.75The pressing economic, environmental and social crises emanate the need for a redefinition of the dominant views, perspectives and values in the field of architecture. The intellectual production of the last two decades has witnessed an impressive number... -
Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence by Rana Abughannam 9781032412320
RRP: €44.02€39.19This is the first book to look at this underserved subject in history and theory.Includes contributions from authors in Canada, US, Lebanon, China, UK, France, Spain and Belgium.Fully illustrated in both colour and black and white.Book InformationISBN... -
Architecture Thinking across Boundaries: Knowledge transfers since the 1960s by Rajesh Heynickx 9781350153172
€142.55While most studies on the history of architectural theory have been concerned with what has been said and written, this book is concerned with how architecture theory has been created and transmitted. Architecture Thinking across Boundaries looks at... -
Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate by Tülay Atak 9781032398129
RRP: €160.65€140.04- 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... -
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... -
Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate by Korydon Smith 9780367335175
RRP: €160.65€139.56Building on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate, broadens the range of themes, voices, and geographies represented to provide a more... -
Digital Fabrication and the Design Build Studio by William Carpenter 9780367766702
RRP: €42.83€38.19- Explores the impact of digital fabrication on design-build studios in both academic and professional settings - Includes 17 essays and cases studies from well-known scholars and practitioners whose theoretical and practical work addresses design-build... -
Water and Sacred Architecture by Anat Geva 9781032415901
RRP: €148.75€128.35• Examines architecture that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred • All chapters are based on original archival studies, historical documents, and field visits to the sites and buildings • A stellar group of scholars and... -
Practice Practice by Ashton Hamm 9781951541958
RRP: €22.55€15.14The business of architecture - shaped by anti-trust legislation and pro-corporate governmental policies - has created an extractive, inequitable, and precarious environment for its practitioners. These pressures have led many small firms, which make up... -
Theatres of Architectural Imagination by Lisa Landrum 9781032286112
RRP: €42.83€37.71• Edited by the leading academics in this area with contributions by internationally recognised scholars, professional architects, as well as several early career academics. • Chapters inspire imaginative architectural thinking and can be used to help... -
Touching Architecture: Affective Atmospheres and Embodied Encounters by Anthony Brand 9781032048994
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings and bodies contribute to this. Our experience of architecture is an embodied one, with all our senses...