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Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen
RRP: €39.27€26.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262680028Author Steen Eiler RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Once Upon a China by CJ Lim
RRP: €30.93€26.93Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of 'Dream of the Red Mansion', 'Journey to the West ', 'The Water Margin', and 'Romance of the Three... -
Georgian Architectural Designs and Details: The Classic 1757 Stylebook by Abraham Swan 9780486443973
RRP: €23.19€15.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486443973Author Abraham SwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Operative Design: A Catalog of Spatial Verbs by Anthony Di Mari
RRP: €15.46€10.23The core idea for this book is the use of operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective... -
Emergent Tokyo: Patterns of Spontaneous Micro-Urbanism by Jorge Almazan
RRP: €23.80€15.89"A clearly articulated manifesto for those trying to preserve Tokyo's emergent properties, Emergent Tokyo helps distil lessons for other cities" -Benjamin Bansal, Urban Studies Journal This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a... -
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan
RRP: €21.42€13.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114741Author Michael PollanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm... -
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi
RRP: €29.69€19.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870702822Author Robert VenturiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 590g -
Architecture and Abstraction by Pier Vittorio Aureli 9780262545235
RRP: €38.08€24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545235Author Pier Vittorio AureliFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity by Mario Carpo
RRP: €32.13€20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545150Author Mario CarpoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Conditional Design: An introduction to elemental architecture by Anthony Di Mari
RRP: €15.46€9.67Conditional design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in a more detailed, intentional, and perhaps functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. It is not a blind result however... -
Northumberland by Nikolaus Pevsner 9780300096385
RRP: €71.40€59.63The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle... -
Building Condition Surveys: A Practical and Concise Introduction by Mike Hoxley
RRP: €41.65€34.30Condition surveys are becoming increasingly important and standardised in approach but are a high risk service with the potential for legal consequences if mistakes are made. Professionals therefore require clear, up-to-date advice on how to inspect and... -
Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: €29.69€22.02Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first... -
Introducing Architectural Theory: Debating a Discipline by Korydon Smith
RRP: €64.25€56.25This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject - such as tectonics, use, and site - as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the... -
Forty Ways to Think About Architecture: Architectural History and Theory Today by Iain Borden 9781118822616
RRP: €32.07€27.88How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today. The inspiration for... -
Brutalist Paris: Post-War Brutalist Architecture in Paris and Environs by Robin Wilson
RRP: €28.56€20.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018734Author Robin WilsonPage Count 192Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 15mm -
Curated Decay: Heritage beyond Saving by Caitlin DeSilvey
RRP: €27.36€23.32Transporting 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... -
Architecture Depends by Jeremy Till
RRP: €27.37€18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518789Author Jeremy TillFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm -
Northamptonshire by Bruce A. Bailey
RRP: €71.40€59.63Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton... -
Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment by Reyner Banham 9780226036984
RRP: €53.55€51.42Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the... -
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture by Bernard Rudofsky
RRP: €26.12€21.35In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon. He introduces the reader to communal architecture--architecture... -
Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
RRP: €11.89€8.46Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of... -
Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous by Phillip James Tabb 9781032408293
RRP: €39.26€34.70What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of architecture and urban design, and the numinous experiences that accompany them have been an integral dimension... -
Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture by Stephen Kite
€39.45The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. Shadow-Makers tells for the... -
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Rudolf Wittkower 9781013442568
RRP: €39.21€33.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013442568Author Rudolf WittkowerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)... -
Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design by Guido Beltramini
RRP: €73.78€69.69Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he is known as a 20th-century master of architecture. To mark the first centenary of Scarpa's birth, all his works are presented here for the first time. The... -
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 -
New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Planet by Bruce King
RRP: €29.74€19.90Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon - the carbon emitted when... -
Architecture’s Theory by Catherine Ingraham
RRP: €38.08€24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544979Author Catherine IngrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Space, Place and Territory: A Critical Review on Spatialities by Fabio Duarte
RRP: €52.35€45.74Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, place and territory are indeed polysemic and polemic, they have particular characteristics that distinguish... -
On the Appearance of the World: A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture by Mark Foster Gage 9781517917289
RRP: €10.71€9.23How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World,... -
Urbanism Beyond 2020: Reflections During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Vinayak Bharne
RRP: €17.79€11.64Urbanism Beyond 2020 explores numerous questions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: Why is city making a health project? How are ecological and human wellbeing interrelated? How can leadership and governance help bridge gaps in our unjust cities? How... -
Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture by Andrew Witt
RRP: €42.84€27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543002Author Andrew WittFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House by Linda Leigh Paul
RRP: €41.65€30.81A celebration of the uniquely vibrant architecture and interiors of classic and new Spanish-style houses in the south-western United States, Mexico, and Spain. Casa Bohemia showcases a collection of some of the most beautifully preserved Spanish... -
Professional Practice for Architects and Project Managers by David Chappell
RRP: €55.87€49.19Explains construction professional practice in an appealing, succinct, and relatively informal way This book details the management of construction projects from beginning to end, concentrating on the principles underlying what construction professionals... -
The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: €15.46€10.82Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power is a fascinating exploration of the language of architecture as an insight into the psychology of power, from tyrants to billionaires. Why do presidents and prime ministers, tycoons and... -
Modern Architecture Since 1900 by William J. R. Curtis
RRP: €59.44€46.01Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and... -
She City: Designing Out Women’s Inequity in Cities by Nicole Kalms 9781350153073
RRP: €29.74€24.32Rooted 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... -
Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays by Robin Evans
€38.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907896972Author Robin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications -
A Feeling of History by Peter Zumthor
RRP: €29.75€19.49While completing the Almannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian scholar Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. Departing from the ways in which Zumthor's pavilions...