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A History of Building Types by Nikolaus Pevsner
RRP: €61.88€48.66An 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... -
Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon by Owen Hopkins
RRP: €29.75€25.70Apologies 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: €26.18€19.25Apologies 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 -
The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity by Inaki Abalos
RRP: €41.65€26.69With 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... -
Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva
RRP: €27.36€23.99Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories 'flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and... -
The City and the Architecture of Change: The Work and Radical Visions of Cedric Price by Tanja Herdt
RRP: €47.60€31.59For 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,... -
Japan-ness in Architecture by Arata Isozaki
RRP: €38.08€25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516051Author Arata IsozakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
A Right to Difference: The Architecture of Jean Renaudie by Irenee Scalbert
RRP: €11.90€9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902902364Author Irenee ScalbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association... -
Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West by Richard Pollard 9780300109108
RRP: €71.40€59.63This 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... -
Are We Human? Notes on an Archeology of Design by Beatriz Colomina 9783037785119
RRP: €17.85€13.04Are We Human? rethinks the philosophy of design in a multi-dimensional exploration from the very first tools and ornaments to the constant buzz of social media. The average day involves the experience of thousands of layers of design that reach to... -
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
RRP: €63.07€50.66The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid,... -
Sandfuture by Justin Beal
RRP: €27.37€18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543095Author Justin BealFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Foucault for Architects by Gordana Fontana-Giusti 9780415693318
RRP: €34.50€29.86From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and... -
The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture: Reception and Legacy by Kay Bea Jones
RRP: €52.35€45.74Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini's government constructed thousands of new buildings across the... -
The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design by Lars Spuybroek
€38.20'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. ... -
A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture by Jeffrey Kipnis
RRP: €32.13€22.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262519557Author Jeffrey KipnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 17mm -
Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud by Branko Mitrovic
RRP: €22.55€18.93Philosophy exercises a massive influence on contemporary architectural culture and the understanding of the built environment. Discussions of architects and architectural academics are heavily loaded with theoretical ideas, concepts and views imported... -
Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline by Professor Mark Jarzombek 9781350326118
RRP: €23.79€19.68Architecture 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,... -
Experimental Preservation by Thordis Arrhenius 9783037784921
RRP: €29.75€20.97Old things, historic things, smelly dirty things, all the things that were considered the very opposite of "contemporary," have suddenly irrupted forcefully into architecture and art, blurring their bound- aries. This book takes stock of the emerging... -
Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture by Ashley Paine 9789492095930
RRP: €29.75€21.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095930Author Ashley PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz -
Irigaray for Architects by Peg Rawes 9780415431330
RRP: €30.93€26.93Specifically for architects, the third title in the Thinkers for Architects series examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray's work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore the bodily, spatio-temporal, political and cultural value of her ideas for... -
Centre Pompidou: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument by Francesco Dal Co
RRP: €29.75€24.89A lively intellectual biography of one of the 20th century's most iconic buildings The Centre Georges Pompidou, also called Beaubourg, is today considered an icon of contemporary Paris, the quintessence of a modern building, and a model for what a museum... -
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Rudolf Wittkower 9780471977636
RRP: €64.20€55.74"Professor Wittkower's....studies of humanist architecture are masterpieces of scholarship."-Sir Kenneth Clark, Architectural Review. A fourth edition of the forty-year-old classic. Focusing on the principal architects of that time-from Alberti to... -
Mark Foster Gage: Architecture in High Resolution by Mark Foster Gage
RRP: €53.55€36.71In the course of a ten-month invited competition Mark Foster Gage Architects, using tools ranging from artificial intelligence to 3D fractal software, re-invented the design languages of the ancient Nabatean civilisation located on the Arabian Peninsula... -
The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions by Brandon Clifford
RRP: €23.74€14.99The Cannibal's Cookbook fiercely consumes the body of past cyclopean constructions. It assembles, re-packages, and offers this latent knowledge for your contemporary consumption. It is a manual for the hungry, for those who are not satiated by the... -
How Designers Think by Bryan Lawson
RRP: €57.11€50.23How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and... -
Cities and Islamisms: On the Politics and Production of the Built Environment by Bülent Batuman 9780367331993
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and the built environment. The relationship between Islam and politics has always been controversial, yet it has... -
Judging Architectural Value: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader by William S. Saunders
RRP: €23.79€17.90When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and pay for the buildings? Art historians? Or architects... -
Perspecta 54: Atopia by Melinda Agron
RRP: €32.13€22.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543811Author Melinda AgronFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde by Joseph Giovannini
RRP: €47.60€37.24In Architecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini proposes that our current architectural landscape ultimately emerged from transgressive and progressive art movements that had roiled Europe before and after World War I. By the 1960s,... -
Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change by Chris Abel
RRP: €64.25€56.97Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism, Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundaries in search of a deeper understanding of architecture in the evolution of human culture and identity... -
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley
RRP: €29.74€25.32Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to... -
Why Architects Matter: Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects by Flora Samuel
RRP: €47.59€41.72Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation. It argues that the profession needs to be clear about what it knows and the value of what it knows if it is to work... -
Glasgow by Dr Elizabeth Williamson
RRP: €71.40€59.63Glasgow 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... -
Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves by Irenee Scalbert
RRP: €29.75€19.97Contemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be learned by venturing beyond the library walls to contemplate the real buildings - the things themselves. This urge for 'real living... -
Lateness by Peter Eisenman 9780691147222
RRP: €29.75€25.22A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one of the field's leading theoristsConceptions of modernity in architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or "spirit of the age," an attitude toward architectural form... -
Signal. Image. Architecture. by John May
RRP: €17.84€14.60Architecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be reevaluated. What happens to the architectural mind when it stops pretending that electronic images of drawings made... -
A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain by Owen Hatherley 9781781680759
RRP: €32.12€26.75This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call "the progressive nonsense" of the Big Society agenda.In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, but takes in Belfast, Aberdeen, Plymouth and... -
I Almost Forgot: Unpublished Colin Rowe by Daniel Naegele
RRP: €42.84€26.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047128Author Daniel NaegeleFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis by Caroline O'Donnell
RRP: €32.07€20.90As climate, culture, and technology evolve and become increasingly unpredictable, architecture's stasis becomes more incongruous. Werewolf explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that embraces the transformation of form,...