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Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order: Architectural Theories from Vitruvius to Jefferson and Beyond by Carroll William Westfall
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism. These include the role of imitation in earlier centuries and its potential role in present practice; the necessary relationship... -
Boredom, Architecture and Spatial Experience by Christian Parreno
£104.28Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is a by-product of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundings. As such, this book argues, boredom shares an intimate relationship with modern architecture - one that has... -
Architecture and Interpretation: Essays for Eric Fernie by Jill A. Franklin
RRP: £110.00£105.74Essays centred on the methods, pleasures, and pitfalls of architectural interpretation. Architecture affects us on a number of levels. It can control our movements, change our experience of our own scale, create a particular sense of place, focus... -
Anarchitectural Experiments: When Unbuilt Designs Turn to Film by Maciej Stasiowski
RRP: £94.95£91.18The book investigates speculative filmic architectural projects and animations that go beyond representing buildings, touching upon issues concerning medium, act of representation, or conducting criticism on history, culture, society, or urban politics,... -
Expression - Architecture and the Arts: A Pedagogical Interaction by Josep Lluis Mateo
RRP: £25.00£16.38'Architectural Papers' is a series of books published by the Chair of Josep Lluis Mateo, department of architecture (D-ARCH) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). Established in 2005, the series covers a wide range of topics... -
Arthur Erickson on Learning Systems by Arthur Erickson
RRP: £18.99£16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988111315Author Arthur EricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Concordia UniversityPublisher Concordia UniversityWeight(grams) 100g -
Writing and Seeing Architecture by Christian De Portzamparc
RRP: £15.99£14.24The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing the world in which we live. It is a conscious act to read literature, but the effects of architecture can pass by unnoticed... -
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Pasadena by Laura Massino Smith
RRP: £15.99£9.65The city of Pasadena is rich in history and significant architecture, featuring 9 landmark districts and over 3,500 designated historic sites. Preservation groups like Pasadena Heritage have worked tirelessly with the city to preserve Pasadena's... -
Architecture Tours L.a. Guidebooks: West Hollywood/beverly Hills by Laura Massino Smith
RRP: £9.99£6.41The city of Pasadena is rich in history and significant architecture, featuring 9 landmark districts and over 3,500 designated historic sites. Preservation groups like Pasadena Heritage have worked tirelessly with the city to preserve Pasadena's... -
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Downtown by Laura Massino Smith
RRP: £9.99£6.41The city of Pasadena is rich in history and significant architecture, featuring 9 landmark districts and over 3,500 designated historic sites. Preservation groups like Pasadena Heritage have worked tirelessly with the city to preserve Pasadena's... -
Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China by Nicholas Jewell
RRP: £135.00£117.68China'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... -
Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture by Christian Schmid
RRP: £135.00£117.68When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become reality, Lefebvre's ideas on everyday life, production of space,... -
Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change by Nick Axel
RRP: £108.00£93.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517911508Author Nick AxelFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Eflux ArchitecturePublisher Eflux ArchitectureWeight(grams) 178g -
Philanthropy and Light: Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space by Oriel Prizeman
RRP: £43.99£38.44Walter Gropius associated standardisation with promoting civilisation in 1935, yet Andrew Carnegie's influence on the proliferation of pattern book public library plans internationally predated these observations by 50 years. Through the first twenty... -
Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas by Stanislaus von Moos
RRP: £45.00£29.65At the peak of the 1968/69 students' riots at American Universities, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, pursued their Design and Research Studio on the topic of Las Vegas at Yale School of Architecture. The results of... -
Raw: Architectural Engagements with Nature by Solveig Boe
RRP: £135.00£117.68Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts of both nature and architecture. Nature is examined in a raw intermediary state, where it is noticeable... -
Writing Architectures: Ficto-Critical Approaches by Hélène Frichot
£110.08Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written fiction relies on the construction of a context in... -
Building Children’s Worlds: The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks by Torsten Schmiedeknecht
RRP: £35.99£31.69Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed to in picturebooks during their formative years may be assumed to influence how they regard such architecture as adults... -
Housing and the City by Katharina Borsi
RRP: £36.99£32.53Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of the twentieth-century modern housing project and its social diagram, juxtaposed with case studies from the... -
The Continuous City: Fourteen Essays on Architecture and Urbanisation by Lars Lerup
RRP: £35.00£22.43Swedish-American architect Lars Lerup's writings suggest a mindful collector as their author, rather than a scholar or a theoretician. Lerup sharply observes and analyses his urban environment and its properties, before adding his findings to his own... -
100 Best Paintings in New York by Geoffrey Smith
RRP: £20.99£14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623718220Author Geoffrey SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment by Albena Yaneva
RRP: £45.99£40.13The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos. Cosmos embraces everything, including the multifarious natural and material entities that make humans act. The book examines... -
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Silver Lake by Laura Massino Smith
RRP: £9.99£6.41The city of Pasadena is rich in history and significant architecture, featuring 9 landmark districts and over 3,500 designated historic sites. Preservation groups like Pasadena Heritage have worked tirelessly with the city to preserve Pasadena's... -
The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective: No Masterplan by Andreas Faludi
RRP: £54.99£47.72The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) is published in eleven official EU languages and so is the most international planning policy document that exists. This book is the only comprehensive account of the process of preparing, negotiating... -
German Facade Design: Traditions of Screening from 1500 to Modernism by Professor Randall Ott
RRP: £47.99£42.21German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy, France, and Britain. Scholarly discussion of broad traditions or continuities within Germanic or Central European facade design is even... -
Reflexive Design: Design and Research in Architecture by Margitta Buchert
RRP: £28.00£25.36ReflexiveE Design presents an integrative approach, both in theory and in practice, to the emergence and interpretation of design and research in architecture. The formative role of research-based design strategies, with regard to architectural... -
Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture by Judith Rugg
RRP: £35.95£34.63Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture draws on a distinguished panel of artists, cultural theorists, architects, and geographers to offer a nuanced conceptual framework for understanding the ever-evolving spatial orderings that materially... -
Building Materials: Material Theory and the Architectural Specification by Professor Katie Lloyd Thomas
£98.86At a time of unprecedented levels of change in the production of building materials and their deployment in construction, better theoretical and historical tools are needed to understand these new developments and how they are altering the practices and... -
Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during the Trente Glorieuses by Nicholas Bullock
RRP: £125.00£107.86This 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... -
Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
RRP: £45.99£40.13Critical 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... -
Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction by Dr. Tino Mager
RRP: £45.99£40.13First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past. This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It... -
Architecture and Spectacle: A Critique by Gevork Hartoonian
RRP: £53.99£46.87Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of "neo-avant-garde" architecture. It discusses the... -
Aesthetics beyond the Arts: New and Recent Essays by Arnold Berleant
RRP: £49.99£43.50Taking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as... -
Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, Modernity by Sarah Edwards
RRP: £49.99£43.50Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity,... -
Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital by Hilton Judin
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the... -
Architecture and Labor by Peggy Deamer
RRP: £35.99£31.69Through a collection of 13 chapters, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers.What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better... -
Why Architects Still Draw by Paolo Belardi
RRP: £16.99£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525480Author Paolo BelardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 10mm -
Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope by Michael Sorkin
RRP: £60.00£51.04Cutting-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... -
The Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity by Johnny Rodger
RRP: £135.00£117.68Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero buildings commissioned as manifestations of certain social beliefs, or as a built environmental form of social... -
On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism: Proceeds of the International Conference on Architectural Criticism 2021 by Wilfried Wang
RRP: £35.00£22.43Should architectural criticism be enlightening? Should it help in the creation of a better built environment? Is there a factual basis to it? Does it have a duty to present evidence in the evaluation of a building? Or should it take on what architects...