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Vincent Darre: Surreal Interiors of Paris by Bernard-Henri Levy
£17.04Known for his dynamic personality and extravagant style, Vincent Darre the enfant terrible of Paris s design world presents a debut monograph brimming with his hallmark flamboyant whimsy, unrivaled imagination, and Gallic flair. As a fixture of the city... -
Oxford in 50 Buildings by Andrew Sargent
RRP: £15.99£10.85From the founding of St Frideswide's nunnery in the sixth century and the emergence of its university in the late twelfth century - the first in the English-speaking world - through its growth and development as one of the country's leading centres of... -
Late-Georgian Churches: Anglican architecture, patronage and churchgoing in England 1790-1840 Dr Christopher Webster 9781739822903
RRP: £80.00£76.61How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the finest quality. This book is the first comprehensive study of late-Georgian church-building. After... -
Street Furniture by Lynn Pearson
RRP: £15.99£10.85Our streets are enriched by a huge variety of objects, from water fountains and horse troughs to post boxes, signposts and more. Collectively, these objects are known as street furniture. From Roman-era milestones to modern infrastructure disguised as... -
Facades: Principles of Construction Ulrich Knaack 9783038210443
RRP: £30.50£28.23Introduction to building facades as revised edition Facades determine the appearance of a building. Hence, they constitute a major element in architecture. At the same time, the building's envelope has important functions to fulfil, such as lighting,... -
Architectural Conservation: Principles and Practice Aylin Orbasli (Oxford Brookes University) 9780632040254
RRP: £45.95£40.11This book provides an introductory text for students in built environment disciplines, as well as those who manage or own historic properties, and those embarking upon architectural conservation professionally. It is designed to give an understanding of... -
Doors: History, Repair and Conservation Michael Tutton 9781138121157
£81.03In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field. This book offers depth and range of detail from dating... -
Theatre and Architecture by Juliet Rufford 9780230218727
£8.05Theatre and architecture are seeming opposites: one a time-based art-form experienced in space, the other a spatial art experienced over time. The book unpicks these assumptions, demonstrating ways in which theatre and architecture are essential to each... -
How Designers Think Bryan Lawson 9780750660778
RRP: £47.99£42.21How 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... -
Site and Composition: Design Strategies in Architecture and Urbanism by Enis Aldallal
RRP: £45.99£40.13Site and Composition examines design strategies and tactics in site making. It is concerned with the need for a renewed understanding of the site in the twenty-first century and the need for a critical position regarding the continued tendency to view... -
Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister 9781586853211
RRP: £19.99£17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586853211Author Douglas KeisterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 235mm... -
Aquatecture: Buildings Designed to Live and Work with Water by Robert Barker
RRP: £39.00£32.99Water plays a vital role in shaping our built environment, as it has done for centuries. We depend on it, we use it, we live with it and we must respect it. Aquatecture is the first book to outline new ways of `designing for water,' using examples from... -
The Stones of Christ Church: The Story of the Buildings of Christ Church, Oxford by Judith Curthoys
RRP: £35.00£25.44Christ Church, Oxford's largest and arguably grandest college, has awed visitors ever since its foundation by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525: one seventeenth-century visitor said 'it is more like some fine castle, or great palace than a College'. The already... -
Once Upon a China CJ Lim 9781138224438
RRP: £25.99£22.63Once 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... -
Proportion: In Art and Architecture by Michael Schneider 9781907155482
RRP: £6.95£4.69What is the difference between ratio and proportion? When is a harmonic rectangle also geometric? Do pentagons, hexagons and heptagons really each have their own characters? Is there a secret to great art? In this beautiful little book, art educator... -
Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture Rory Hyde 9780415533546
RRP: £37.99£33.38Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen... -
How to Begin? Architecture and Construction in Annette Spiro's First-Year Course, ETH Zurich by Annette Spiro
RRP: £64.00£24.29How does one teach architecture and construction in the first year of studies; and how does one handle pre-existing experience and the different potential of the prospective architects? Annette Spiro, architect and ETH Professor, has dealt intensively... -
Architecture and Disjunction by Bernard Tschumi
RRP: £33.00£22.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262700603Author Bernard TschumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit
£17.68Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.Writer-historian Rebecca Solnit and... -
Sustainable Construction Sandy Halliday (Gaia Group, UK) 9781138200289
RRP: £47.99£43.41The second edition of Sustainable Construction provides a masterclass on the principles and techniques involved in the design and delivery of practical, affordable, high quality sustainable buildings and places. It presents precedents, theory, concepts... -
The New Pavilions by Philip Jodidio 9780500343227
RRP: £24.95£17.35Tents, bandstands, displays, places for sitting, listening, seeing and being seen... Pavilions have myriad forms and as many functions. For architects and designers, they offer unique opportunities to experiment with form, construction, material,... -
Encyclopaedia of Architectural Terms James Stevens Curl 9781873394045
RRP: £135.00£118.28The study of architecture requires not only an understanding of the history of buildings, but also knowledge of the correct terminology that is used to describe them. The "Encyclopaedia of Architectural Terms" provides a comprehensive, clearly written,... -
Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms (New Edition) by William J. R. Curtis 9780714868943
RRP: £100.00£76.50An expanded edition on the master of Modernism, Le Corbusier, by award-winning architectural historian William J. R. Curtis.Originally published in 1996 to critical fanfair, scholar William J.R. Curtis has re-issued his classic text with extensive new... -
The English Buildings Book: An architectural guide Philip Wilkinson (Watson Little Ltd (United Kingdom)) 9781905624638
RRP: £27.00£25.72The English Buildings Book is the most comprehensive single volume on English architecture for the general reader and it celebrates the English built environment, which is the richest and most diverse in the world. Where most general books on English... -
Visual Delight in Architecture: Daylight, Vision and View by Lisa Heschong
RRP: £28.99£26.09Visual Delight in Architecture examines the many ways that our lives are enriched by the presence of natural daylight and window views within our buildings. It makes a compelling case that daily exposure to the rhythms of daylight is essential to our... -
Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier 9781638232575
RRP: £33.99£20.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638232575Author Le CorbusierFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm) 254mm... -
Blueprint Notebook: Architectural Masterpieces by Dokument Press
RRP: £7.99£5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369765Author Dokument PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag -
Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £19.95£15.40The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso.Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all,... -
Traditional Buildings of the English Countryside: An Illustrated Guide Geoffrey R. Sharpe 9781845118419
£28.01No other country offers so rich and varied a heritage of traditional buildings as England. From windmills to water mills, cottages to castles, dovecotes to beeboles a wealth of treasures await discovery. Drawing upon forty years' experience of caring for... -
Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture by Richard Padovan
RRP: £61.99£54.01This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in... -
The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions by Brandon Clifford
RRP: £19.95£13.33The 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... -
Places of the Soul: Architecture and environmental design as a healing art by Christopher Day
RRP: £32.99£29.16For Christopher Day, architecture isn't just about the appearance of buildings but how they're experienced as places to be in. Occupants' experience can differ radically from designers' intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally,... -
The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design by Lars Spuybroek
£32.70'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. ... -
Multispace: Architecture at the Dawn of the Metaverse by Owen Hopkins 9781394163540
RRP: £29.99£27.04Guest-edited by Owen Hopkins Multispace exists at the intersection of the physical and digital, and in the blurring of their previously clear dividing lines. Multispace is not a single space, but a hybrid space where, in effect, we occupy multiple spaces... -
Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture by Andrew Witt
RRP: £36.00£23.03Apologies 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 -
On My Knees: Stark International 2 J. Kenner 9781472226303
RRP: £9.99£6.80New York Times bestselling author J. Kenner continues her smoking hot, emotionally compelling new erotic Stark International trilogy, which began with Say My Name, returning to the world of her beloved Stark novels, Release Me, Claim Me and Complete... -
Social Value in Architecture by F Samuel
RRP: £31.95£20.59This groundbreaking edition of AD brings together a range of global expertise on social value, exploring its potential for demonstrating the positive impact of both architecture and architects on homes and communities in terms of social justice,... -
North West Ulster: The Counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone by Alistair Rowan 9780300096675
RRP: £45.00£37.63The remote, rugged, rough country of North West Ulster possesses buildings as varied as its landscape. Monuments of the Celtic church - sculptured cross-slabs, high crosses and round towers - and medieval tower houses survive from its earliest centuries... -
Montessori Architecture: A Design Instrument for Schools Steve Lawrence 9783038603153
RRP: £42.00£27.39The name Montessori is widely and inextricably associated with an entirely child-centered and careful pedagogy and education of children. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician, reform educator, and philosopher whose ideas and work have... -
A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers by John Zukowsky
RRP: £24.95£17.35A Chronology of Architecture presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between structural innovations, social changes, and artistic interventions. Organized around a...