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Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture by Stephen Cairns
RRP: €32.13€22.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534710Author Stephen CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm -
Toward a Living Architecture?: Complexism and Biology in Generative Design by Christina Cogdell
RRP: €35.69€30.93A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architectureToward a Living Architecture? is the first book-length critique of the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Starting... -
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand 9780140139969
RRP: €53.55€39.26Apologies 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... -
Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design by Sarah Robinson
€73.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533607Author Sarah RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 14mm -
Architecture and the Mimetic Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives by Lucy Huskinson
RRP: €41.64€36.71Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self... -
Architecture after Covid by Albena Yaneva
RRP: €26.17€22.94In 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... -
London 2: South by Bridget Cherry 9780300096514
RRP: €71.40€59.63London 2: South is a uniquely comprehensive guide to the twelve southern boroughs. Its riverside buildings range from the royal splendours of Hampton Court and Greenwich and the Georgian delights of Richmond, to the monuments of Victorian commerce in... -
Mies van der Rohe - Barcelona -1929 by Remei Capdevila-Werning 9788494423420
RRP: €47.60€47.06The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract,... -
Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye by Timothy Hyde 9780691179162
RRP: €41.65€32.86A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment-and its concern... -
Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design by Ginger Nolan
RRP: €35.69€30.93An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the "savage mind"-a way of thinking they... -
Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values by Robert Kozma
RRP: €36.88€35.90"This book is a must read for all with an interest in the future of design." -Jim Spohrer, PhD, Retired Industry executive, International Society of Service Innovation Professionals "The world is in need of better design, and Kozma's book shows us how to... -
Highlands and Islands by John Gifford 9780300096255
RRP: €71.40€59.63This 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... -
Origins of Classical Architecture: Temples, Orders, and Gifts to the Gods in Ancient Greece by Mark Wilson Jones
RRP: €65.45€55.56The Greek architectural orders-Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian-lie at the heart of the classical traditions of building, and yet satisfying accounts for their origins have proved elusive. In contrast with conventional theories that would see the orders... -
Architecture Stuff: and More Stuff by Robert Livesey
RRP: €35.64€23.54Architecture Stuff is about a way of looking at architecture. It examines 7 seminal projects and shows how they might have been conceived with or without the design architect's awareness. More a working method than a theory, the book deals with... -
The Nomadic Listener by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
RRP: €21.42€19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997874464Author Budhaditya ChattopadhyayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant BodiesWeight(grams) 227g -
Sweet & Salt - Water and the Dutch by Maartje van den Heuvel 9789056628482
RRP: €41.65€41.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789056628482Author Maartje van den HeuvelFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi... -
The Latent World of Architecture: Selected Essays by Alexandra Stara
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015). Vesely was a leading authority on philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology in relation to architecture worldwide, and influenced a... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Botton 9780307277244
RRP: €23.80€15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277244Author Alain De BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 204mm... -
Ruskin and His Contemporaries by Robert Hewison
RRP: €71.39€46.35In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of Victorian Britain's greatest thinkers, the art critic and social reformer John Ruskin, the distinguished Ruskinian Robert Hewison introduces Ruskin's ideas and values through revelatory... -
and other such stories - 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial by Yesomi Umolu 9781941332542
RRP: €26.18€20.69What constitutes the social context of architecture? What kind of stories can be told about how lived experiences across global communities, cities, territories, and ecologies resonate with architectural and space-making practices? The 2019 Chicago... -
Pavilion Propositions: Nine Points on an Architectural Phenomenon by John MacArthur 9789492095503
RRP: €20.83€19.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095503Author John MacArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 163mm * 10mm -
Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
RRP: €26.17€23.26Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical... -
Falmouth, Jamaica: Architecture as History by Louis P. Nelson 9789766404932
RRP: €53.49€44.16Founded in 1769 as a new port town on Jamaica's north coast, Falmouth expanded dramatically in the decades around 1800 as it supported the rapidly expanding sugar production of Trelawney and neighboring parishes. Many of the surviving buildings in... -
Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity: Our Past, Our Present by Patrizia Mello 9781954081901
RRP: €29.69€19.46The theme of "modernity" was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionising our way of life. By causing in its development absolutisations and misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound... -
Victorian Buildings of Birmingham by Cliff Thornton
RRP: €15.46€11.15Looks at a selection of Birmingham's Victorian architecture, some of the lost buildings as well as the survivors to illustrate the range of building that took place during Birmingham's most prosperous decades. This book includes a range of photographs,... -
Critical Spatial Practice 4 - Subtraction by Keller Easterling 9783956790461
€17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790461Author Keller EasterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 152mm *... -
Team 10 East - Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism by Lukasz Stanek
RRP: €26.18€25.25This volume coins the term "Team 10 East" as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries - such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polonyi of Hungary, and Radovan Niksic of Yugoslavia. This... -
The Materiality of Architecture by Antoine Picon
RRP: €27.36€23.32A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In... -
Region by Simon Richards 9781032422978
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book explores how the concept of 'region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words 'region' and 'regional' mean for architecture, cities and landscapes past and present, and speculates on the... -
The Empire Remains Shop by Alon Schwabe 9781941332375
RRP: €33.32€26.61"Empire shops" were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they were intended to make previously unfamiliar produce and... -
Tokyoids: The Robotic Face of Architecture by Francois Blanciak
RRP: €27.37€18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544238Author Francois BlanciakFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 133g -
Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X by Beatriz Colomina 9788496954526
RRP: €47.60€46.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496954526Author Beatriz ColominaFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint ActarD IncPublisher ActarD IncWeight(grams) 1908g -
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech by K. Michael Hays
RRP: €60.63€50.24Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images. Against the popular characterization of contemporary architecture as a centerless field where anything goes and... -
Design Visualization: Exploring Design Visualization Through the Art Fundamentals by Shima Rabiee 9781941806036
RRP: €23.74€16.34Artistic principles of presentation are the most influential factors in formation of the observer's interpretation of a certain object. Artists use these principles to enhance the communication of their ideas to their audience. This book aims to teach... -
Public and Private Spaces of the City by Ali Madanipour 9780415256292
RRP: €65.44€56.79The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society. This book investigates this relationship, especially as manifested in the urban space with its social and psychological significance. Through... -
The Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place: A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture by Nili Portugali 9783936681055
RRP: €47.48€35.03NOMINATED 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... -
Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture' by Vitruvius 9780521002929
RRP: €36.88€31.78The 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... -
The Mannerist Mind: An Architecture of Crisis by Francisco González de Canales 9781638400363
RRP: €26.18€18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638400363Author Francisco González de CanalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar Publishers -
Building the Kingdom: Giannozzo Manetti on the Material and Spiritual Edifice by Christine Smith 9782503525815
RRP: €76.16€72.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503525815Author Christine SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V. -
Few Years of Writing : Interspersed with Some Facts of Life by Robert Maxwell 9781908967077
RRP: €23.74€18.58With a body of work firmly at the heart of architectural theory and discourse, Robert Maxwell is undoubtedly one of the most respected architectural writers and educators of recent times. Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, Robert...