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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... -
Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline by Professor Mark Jarzombek 9781350326125
€83.98Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton—between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline,... -
Perspective as Logic: Positioning Film in Architecture by Stefanos Roimpas 9781032381893
RRP: €148.75€128.35Perspective as Logic offers an architectural examination of the filmic screen as an ontologically unique element in the discipline’s repertoire. The book determines the screen’s conditions of possibility by critically asking not what a screen means, but... -
Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality by Michael Jasper 9780367444266
RRP: €42.83€37.71Presents a compelling argument for the still latent potential in modern architecture’s traditions and design principles and its future trajectory.Examines influential built and unbuilt projects of Le Corbusier, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk,... -
Medusa: A Tin Drum Production by Yoyo Munk 9780903696661
RRP: €53.55€34.81Beautiful artist's book about Tin Drum's MR installation, Medusa. A meditation on emergent technologies, nature and architecture amidst the climate crisis with contributions from celebrated writers, academics and thinkers. The mixed reality Medusa... -
Building Children’s Worlds: The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks by Torsten Schmiedeknecht 9780367675479
RRP: €148.75€128.35Reflects upon the representation of modern architecture in children’s books internationally. Twelve essays from authors in: UK, Austria, Italy, France, Australia, Colombia, Venezuela, USA and Sweden. Reveals the stories which are told about modern... -
Political Postmodernisms: Architecture in Chile and Poland, 1970–1990 by Lidia Klein 9781032016542
RRP: €148.75€128.35Investigates postmodern architecture’s manifestations in the unlikely settings of Chile during the neoliberal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and Poland during the late socialist Polish People’s Republic. Argues for a new account that incorporates the... -
Designing Cultures of Care by Laurene Vaughan 9781350353534
€36.46Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety of design approaches, explore the ways in which design intersects with cultures of care. Unique in its focus and disciplinary diversity,... -
Architecture after Covid by Albena Yaneva 9781350271074
RRP: €77.35€67.32In 2020, the Covid pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, causing unprecedented disruption worldwide, architects and designers began rethinking how to design cities... -
Building Practice in the Dutch East Indies: Epistemic Imposition at the Beginning of the 20th Century by David Hutama Setiadi 9781032319827
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book reveals the 'Epistemic Imposition' of architectural ideas and practices by colonists from the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies from the late-19th century onwards, exploring the ways in which this came to shape the profession up to the... -
High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century by Matthew Lasner 9780300269192
€53.53The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family... -
Landscape Architecture Frontiers 49: Urban Wilderness and Planting Design by Kongjian Yu 9781954081543
RRP: €34.45€22.81There are highly fragmented urban wildernesses remaining and scattering in rapidly urbanized and exceedingly industrialized cities, ranging from crevices along sidewalks to large areas of isolated forests. Although differing in scales with the natural... -
Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou by Nadir Lahiji 9781032049045
RRP: €160.65€139.56Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the 'naked power' behind its operation. It conforms to principles of cultural logic of the society of spectacle, consistent with neoliberal... -
Resisting Postmodern Architecture: Critical Regionalism Before Globalisation by Stylianos Giamarelos 9781800081345
RRP: €35.70€31.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081345Author Stylianos GiamarelosFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g -
The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory by Elie G Haddad 9781032274751
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice. Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues... -
Analogical Thinking in Architecture: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment by Dr Jean-Pierre Chupin 9781350343627
€109.33This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, “design thinking” has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected... -
Architecture, Media, Populism... and Violence: Reification and Representation II by Graham Cairns 9781032223186
RRP: €148.75€120.50The 'Storming of the Capitol' was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His Presidency and it's 'final act', bore all the hallmarks of a 21st century form of populism and media-politico spectacle that... -
Architectures of Existence: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics by Chris Younès 9781032429007
RRP: €59.49€51.77Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.In Art et... -
Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire by Ashley Bigham 9781951541644
RRP: €22.55€18.59Based on the eponymous symposium and exhibition, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire considers the role of architecture in a culture shaped by the excessive manufacturing and assuagement of desire. Until the term became synonymous with Amazon... -
From Spatial Development to Detail by Emmanuel Rey 9783037611029
RRP: €16.07€10.60Based on aspects arising from architectural work and academic teaching, this essay addresses the wide-ranging issues involved with innovatively integrating sustainability into architecture. It presents five theoretical questions concerning the underlying... -
Bodies in Spaces by Franziska Wittmann 9783037612125
RRP: €40.16€25.80Franziska Wittmann researches at the Chair of Gion A. Caminada on approaches to natural physical laws and physiological factors in architecture. Instead of focusing on the creation of physical constellations through architecture, her work investigates... -
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access by David Gissen 9781517912505
RRP: €26.17€19.18A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical... -
Notes from the Underworld: An Architectural Exploration by Stefano Corbo 9780764358401
RRP: €27.36€17.91Since early times, humans have explored the space below their feet for different purposes: to flee persecution and war, to find protection from severe climates, to improve urban life -- and more recently, to solve environmental problems. A rare look at... -
The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture by Kathryn Holliday
€32.76In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article that asked "Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?" Over the next quarter century, he offered readers of the Dallas Morning News a vision of how good... -
Architecture and Fire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Conservation by Stamatis Zografos
RRP: €23.80€20.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787353718Author Stamatis ZografosFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 370g -
Superhumanity: Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity by Chin Jungkown
RRP: €23.80€18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945150968Author Chin JungkownFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar PublishersWeight(grams) 285g -
Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure of a Demonstration by Sam Ridgway
RRP: €160.65€139.56Marco 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... -
Theatres of Architectural Imagination by Lisa Landrum
RRP: €148.75€128.35• 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... -
Perspecta 55: Futures Index by Ethan Zisson
RRP: €38.08€32.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545464Author Ethan ZissonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 229g -
30: 70. Architecture as a Balancing Act by Sergei Tchoban
RRP: €28.56€23.24Never before have so many buildings been constructed as they are today, and never has architecture had so many technolog-ical and design possibilities at its disposal. And yet there is a sense of unease about contemporary architecture. The authors of... -
A Genius Planet: Energy: From Scarcity to Abundance - a Radical Pathway by Ludger Hovestadt
RRP: €41.06€37.71Imagine a world where the power is always on, where there is not just enough energy, but an abundance of it. Such a world is no Utopia, it is a possible reality. Using indefinitely available sources of energy - especially photovoltaic solar, in... -
Evolo 03 (Fall/Winter 2010): Cities of Tomorrow by Carlo Aiello
RRP: €19.04€14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981665832Author Carlo AielloFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint EvoloPublisher Evolo -
Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, 1995-2002 by Brian Carter
RRP: €48.79€41.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929112466Author Brian CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint Tuns PressPublisher Tuns Press -
The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity by Carolyn Loeb
RRP: €47.59€41.72In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased. Beyond lines on maps, however, borders are spatial zones in which distinctive architectural, graphic, and... -
Forays by Joe Day
RRP: €33.26€22.81How does one envision architecture? Forays gathers the work of Joe Day and Deegan-Day Design into six diptychs, unified by this question. Working in a wide range of media and scales, Day's work mines the differentials between perspective and... -
MORE: The Architecture of Lyons 1996-2011 by Lyons
RRP: €89.25€60.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500500286Author LyonsFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty... -
Landscape Architecture Frontiers 047: Urban Governance and Spatial Quality Improvement by Kongjian Yu
RRP: €35.70€23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954081093Author Kongjian YuFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Oro EditionsPublisher Oro EditionsWeight(grams) 279g -
Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality by Michael Jasper
RRP: €148.75€128.35Presents a compelling argument for the still latent potential in modern architecture’s traditions and design principles and its future trajectory.Examines influential built and unbuilt projects of Le Corbusier, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk,... -
Talking to Architects by Colin Ward
RRP: €8.93€8.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904491439Author Colin WardFormat PaperbackImprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom Press -
Architecture in Mexico, 1900-2010 by Fernanda Canales
RRP: €136.85€90.06An authoritative, two-volume compendium of 20th- and 21st-century Mexican architecture This expanded two-volume edition of Arquine's 2013 publication examines the architectural styles that have taken place in Mexico during the 20th century and the...