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Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture by Kenneth Frampton
RRP: £45.00£30.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Honorable Mention, 1995, in the category of Excellence in Design and Production, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the... -
On Bramante by Pier Paolo Tamburelli
RRP: £36.00£23.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543422Author Pier Paolo TamburelliFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand 9780140139969
RRP: £45.00£28.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140139969Author Stewart BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 273mm... -
Arts and Crafts Architecture - History and Heritage in New England by Maureen Meister
RRP: £28.00£23.67This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since... -
Highlands and Islands by John Gifford 9780300096255
RRP: £60.00£50.11This volume covers the vast area of the Highland region, the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland and highlights buildings and monuments as varied as its landscapes: brochs, cairns and ceremonial settings of standing stones; cathedrals and abbeys, both... -
And It Came to Pass - Not to Stay by ,R.,Buckminster Fuller 9783037786215
RRP: £15.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786215Author R Buckminster FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG -
Architecture and Embodiment: The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design Harry Francis Mallgrave 9780415810203
RRP: £47.99£41.81In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our... -
Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain by John Grindrod 9781906964900
£20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964900Author John GrindrodFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
A History of Building Types by Nikolaus Pevsner
RRP: £55.00£43.91An essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the WestThis book provides vital insights into the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society. Drawing on his immense erudition and... -
The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely by Anthony Vidler
£35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262720182Author Anthony VidlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm -
Dust: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture by Xenia Nikolskaya
RRP: £39.99£32.77A stunning photographic compilation of Egypt's abandoned palaces and grand buildingsBetween 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These... -
Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati - Written by Markus Breitschmid Valerio Olgiati 9783038601425
RRP: £20.00£13.35More than ever, architecture is in need of provocation, a new path beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or symbols of something outside themselves. Non-Referential Architecture is nothing less than a manifesto for a new... -
The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education by Kirsten Day 9781032532813
RRP: £28.99£25.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Brutalism: Post-War British Architecture by Alexander Clement
RRP: £19.95£16.80The term Brutalism is used to describe a form of architecture that appeared, mainly in Europe, from around 1945 - 1975. Uncompromisingly modern, this trend in architecture was both striking and arresting and, perhaps like no other style before or since,... -
Ideas and Integrities: a Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure by R.Buckminster Fuller 9783037781982
RRP: £20.00£14.29In "Ideas and Integrities" Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered - among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the Dymaxion 4-D automobile, and the countless other... -
Housing Atlas: Europe – 20th Century by Orsina Simona Pierini 9781848225879
RRP: £65.00£51.04In Housing Atlas, beautifully drawn plans, sections and elevations illustrate nearly a hundred of the most important European housing schemes of the 20th century, a period when architects addressed the multiple challenges of modern urban living and... -
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition by Sigfried Giedion
RRP: £45.95£38.29"This new edition ensures that the book will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture." -Walter Gropius"A remarkable accomplishment. . . one of the most valuable reference books for... -
Atmospheric Architectures by Professor Gernot Boehme 9781350141827
£31.23There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Boehme. ... -
Mexico: The Land of Charm Jose Luis Lugo 9788417975517
RRP: £30.00£21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975517Author Jose Luis LugoFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL -
Architecture and the Public World: Kenneth Frampton by Kenneth Frampton 9781350183780
£27.99This book brings together Kenneth Frampton’s essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical–theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and... -
The Intimate City: Walking New York by Michael Kimmelman
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593298411Author Michael KimmelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture by John Coles
£35.52The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture (second edition) offers an introduction to the key elements involved in the creation of aesthetically appealing and practically appropriate interior architecture. The book contains five sections, which... -
Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik by Kenneth Frampton 9781941332641
RRP: £16.99£14.05Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik presents seven interviews with the architectural historian reflecting on the long arc of his rich and influential career in the discipline. Spanning Frampton's early years as an architecture student at... -
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan
RRP: £19.00£11.46Apologies 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... -
Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli 9781847085191
RRP: £12.99£8.56Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neighbourhood, revisiting the landmarks of her past, or getting lost in a... -
Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning Leland M. Roth 9780367724658
RRP: £81.99£71.30The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that... -
Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon by Owen Hopkins
RRP: £25.00£20.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781856697361Author Owen HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 640g -
Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives by Rene Boer 9789493246201
RRP: £22.00£15.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246201Author Rene BoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 119mm * 23mm -
Junkspace/Running Room by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: £14.99£12.55In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemises in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from architectural critic Hal Foster. 'The manifesto... -
Glasgow by Dr Elizabeth Williamson
RRP: £60.00£50.11Glasgow has a wide array of architectural treasures: the greatest medieval cathedral in Scotland; fragments of a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century 'merchant city'; the well-preserved heart of a planned new town, Blythswood; a city centre dense with... -
The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity Inaki Abalos 9783038600510
RRP: £35.00£22.43With his book The Good Life, Inaki Abalos takes the reader on a tour of seven iconic 20th-century houses. Some of them were actually built, others merely imagined or film sets: Mies van der Rohe's House with Three Patios, Martin Heidegger's cabin in the... -
Heidegger for Architects by Adam Sharr
RRP: £25.99£22.63Informing the designs of architects as diverse as Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun and Colin St. John Wilson, the work of Martin Heidegger has proved of great interest to architects and architectural theorists.The first introduction to... -
Ayrshire and Arran by Rob Close 9780300141702
RRP: £60.00£50.11Ayrshire and Arran is an area of striking contrasts. Its landscape ranges from sand dunes to rolling pastures to moors. The local architecture is similarly diverse, marrying natural beauty with industry and modernity. This survey, featuring specially... -
The City and the Architecture of Change: The Work and Radical Visions of Cedric Price Tanja Herdt 9783038600459
RRP: £40.00£26.55For his entire professional life, British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) reflected on the mechanisation of society and its effect on people's lives. In the 1960s and 1970s Price searched for a new language in modern architecture. His multifaceted,... -
Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous Phillip James Tabb (Texas A&M University, USA) 9781032408293
RRP: £32.99£29.16What 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... -
Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West Richard Pollard 9780300109108
RRP: £60.00£50.11This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian... -
The Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place: A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture by Nili Portugali 9783936681055
RRP: £39.90£29.44NOMINATED FOR THE RIBA INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2007. In this book Nili Portugali, presents her particular interpretation of the holistic-phenomenological worldview in theory and in practice, a worldview which stands in recent years at the forefront of... -
Theorising Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Perspectives, Questions, and Concepts by Philipp Meuser
RRP: £25.00£20.30Considering the immense diversity of sub-Saharan Africa's archi tecture and built realities, does it make sense to speak of an African architecture? How does this differ from archi tecture in Africa? What does the term architecture actually mean in the... -
Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture' by Vitruvius 9780521002929
RRP: £30.99£24.88The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped... -
Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago by Blair Kamin 9780226822730
RRP: £24.00£20.52A vividly illustrated collaboration between two of Chicago's most celebrated architecture critics casts a wise and unsparing eye on inequities in the built environment and attempts to rectify them. From his high-profile battles with Donald Trump to...