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250 Things An Architect Should Know by Michael Sorkin
RRP: €17.84€12.11Michael Sorkin's iconic list is now in a handsome printed package, a perfect gift for any architect, student of architecture, or design-savvy urbanist. By turns poetic and humorous, practical and wise, this book is a joyful celebration of the craft of... -
BOLD: The Interiors of Drake/Anderson by Jamie Drake
RRP: €53.55€37.85Jamie Drake and Caleb Anderson of Drake/Anderson delight in creating imaginative rooms that emphasise the precious alongside the everyday. This book documents the firm s fearless, eclectic, and deeply informed modernist sensibility in thirteen remarkable... -
Children as Place-Makers: the innate architect in all of us Simon Unwin (University of Dundee, UK) 9781138046016
RRP: €27.36€23.99Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997... -
Energy and Climate in the Urban Built Environment M. Santamouris 9781873936900
RRP: €148.75€128.83Both the number and percentage of people living in urban areas is growing rapidly. Up to half of the world's population is expected to be living in a city by the end of the century and there are over 170 cities in the world with populations over a... -
Cross Laminated Timber: A design stage primer by Nic Crawley
RRP: €53.55€43.73With a light environmental footprint, high strength, quick installation times and reduced waste, cross laminated timber (CLT) has long been heralded as a wonder material. Despite these benefits, the uptake of CLT has been dogged by challenges. Delving... -
Britain's New Towns: Garden Cities to Sustainable Communities by Anthony Alexander
RRP: €57.11€50.23The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain. The New Towns have often been described as a social experiment; so what has this experiment proved?This book covers the story of how these... -
The Shard - London Bridge Quarter by Renzo Piano 9788862640145
RRP: €53.55€37.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788862640145Author Renzo PianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Fondazione Renzo PianoPublisher Fondazione Renzo Piano -
Courtyard Living: Contemporary Houses of the Asia-Pacific by Charmaine Chan
RRP: €29.75€21.40A stunning showcase of the unique lifestyle opportunities afforded by contemporary courtyard design in the Asia-Pacific region. Courtyards have long played an important function in residential design, regulating light, shade and the use of space. With... -
Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference Miguel Guitart 9781032077499
€44.22Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory charged spatial experiences. The book addresses how the material and the psychological strategies of permeable... -
The Songyang Story: Architectural Acupuncture as Driver for Progress in Rural China. Projects by Xu Tiantian, DnA_Beijing Kirsten Feireiss 9783038601869
RRP: €41.65€28.04In 2014, Xu Tiantian, founder of Beijing-based studio Design and Architecture (DnA) began to work in Songyang County, in China's Zhejiang Province. Her exemplary holistic planning concept of Architectural Acupuncture, which has gained the support... -
Louis I. Kahn - Silence and Light: The Lecture at Eth Zurich, February 12, 1969 Alessandro Vassella 9783906027180
RRP: €35.70€23.09Louis I. Kahn is unarguably one of the most eminent and influential figures of 20th-century architecture. He is known as the poet and philosopher among the great modern architects. On 12 February 1969, Kahn gave a lecture at the Swiss Federal Institute... -
Byoung Cho: My Life as An Architect in Seoul by Byoung Cho 9780500027110
RRP: €21.42€14.45The second book in the 'My Life as an Architect' series, looking at the Seoul buildings that have shaped the practice and outlook of the celebrated Korean architect Byoung Cho. Since founding his practice BCHO Architects Associates in Seoul in 1994,... -
Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North by William Craft Brumfield
RRP: €40.46€37.47Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural... -
Jali: Lattice of Divine Light in Mughal Architecture by Navina Najat Haidar 9789385360749
RRP: €58.31€50.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385360749Author Navina Najat HaidarFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdWeight(grams)... -
Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste 9783836560146
RRP: €17.85€17.14In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and... -
The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays by Colin Rowe 9780262680370
€52.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262680370Author Colin RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 175mm * 13mm -
Architectural Drawing: A Visual Compendium of Types and Methods Rendow Yee (Daly City, CA) 9781118012871
€84.75Architectural Drawing is the classic, comprehensive compendium of architectural drawing. Featuring examples from many high-profile architects and firms, the nearly one-thousand drawings and photos in this book illustrate all of the various types and... -
The British Building Industry since 1800: An economic history by Christopher Powell
RRP: €47.59€41.72This scholarly and well-researched study of the building industry documents the interplay of new materials and technologies, costs and the changing social and economic forces that affected the decision-making about our built environment over the last two... -
American Art and Architecture by Michael J. Lewis
RRP: €13.03€9.26New in the renowned World of Art series, this is a concise, reliable introduction to the history of American art and architecture from its 17th-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work. Structured chronologically, the book... -
Southwark and Blackfriars in 50 Buildings by Lucy McMurdo
RRP: €19.03€12.91Situated on opposite sides of the Thames, the ancient districts of Southwark and Blackfriars have played a crucial role in London's political, social and religious activities throughout the centuries. Today, thousands of visitors flock here to enjoy the... -
Cabin Style Chase Reynolds Ewald 9781423652465
RRP: €49.98€34.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423652465Author Chase Reynolds EwaldFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc -
Robin Boyd: Spatial Continuity by Mauro Baracco
€58.74Australian architect Robin Boyd (1919-1971) advocated tirelessly for the voice of Australian architects so that there could be an architecture that might speak to Australian conditions and sensibilities.His legacy continues in the work of contemporary... -
Mies van der Rohe by Peter Gossel
RRP: €17.85€13.52Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and urban experience. Mies van der Rohe's philosophy was one... -
Biennale Architettura 2023: The Laboratory of The Future Lesley Lokko 9788836654512
RRP: €89.25€59.80The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, in Venice from May 20th to November 26th, 2023, is entitled The Laboratory of the Future. Conceived as “a kind of workshop, a laboratory where architects and practitioners across an expanded field of... -
Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning by Robert Hillenbrand
RRP: €74.97€62.62Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 1996 from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. In a dazzling display of erudition,... -
Clwyd: Denbighshire and Flintshire by Edward Hubbard
RRP: €71.40€59.63Clwyd, covering the former counties of Denbighshire and Flintshire, is exceptionally rewarding in architecture. the medieval period has left a fine legacy, including castles of the time of Edward I as sophisticated as any in Europe, the monastic ruins of... -
The Experience of Architecture by Henry Plummer
RRP: €35.64€24.25How does the experience of turning a door handle, opening a door from one space to lead into another, affect us? It is no wonder that the door, one of the most elemental architectural forms, has such metaphorical richness. But even on a purely physical... -
Architectural Design Procedures Arthur Thompson 9780415502849
RRP: €55.92€48.75This book explains how architects obtain and administer work from the moment the contract is signed, to the handing over of the finished building to the client and is an indispensible guide to all architecture students.This second edition has been... -
Professional Studies in Architecture: A Primer by Stephen Brookhouse
RRP: €34.51€27.83Aimed at students of architecture, this primer defines the critical subject area of professional studies which runs as a thread through the new RIBA validation criteria for Parts 1 and 2. Written by Stephen Brookhouse, author of the highly successful... -
Why You Can Build it Like That: Modern Architecture Explained by John Zukowsky
RRP: €11.89€8.09In Why You Can Build It Like That, John Zukowsky examines buildings from the past half century or so that pushed the boundaries of what was architecturally acceptable when they were built. 100 striking international examples of modern architecture are... -
Shadow: the architectural power of withholding light by Simon Unwin
RRP: €27.36€23.99Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997... -
Lefebvre for Architects by Nathaniel Coleman 9780415639408
RRP: €34.50€29.86While the work of Henri Lefebvre has become better known in the English-speaking world since the 1991 translation of his 1974 masterpiece, The Production of Space, his influence on the actual production of architecture and the city has been less... -
Flat Roof Construction Manual: Materials, Design, Applications Klaus Sedlbauer 9783034606585
RRP: €108.89€98.38often described as the "fifth facade", the flat roof is extremely popular with architects. Its essential task is to shelter the space beneath it from the elements. Beyond this, the use of flat roofs may be optimized by integrating them as green roofs,... -
The Structural Basis of Architecture Bjorn N. Sandaker 9781138651999
€45.92This is a book that shows how to "see" structures as being integral to architecture. It engages a subject that is both about understanding the mechanical aspects of structure as well as being able to relate this to the space, form, and conceptual design... -
Professional Practice for Architects and Project Managers David Chappell (University of Central England in Birmingham) 9781119540076
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... -
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 Social Logic of Space by Bill Hillier 9780521367844
RRP: €46.40€39.58The book presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work. The theory is developed on the basis of a new way of describing and analysing the kinds of spatial patterns produced by buildings and towns. The methods... -
Kinfolk Volume 39 by Kinfolk
RRP: €20.22€14.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941815434Author KinfolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint KinfolkPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Design Companion for Planning and Placemaking by Transport for London
RRP: €41.65€34.77This book is an essential primer to help those involved in planning secure higher standards of building, open space and neighbourhood design and the delivery of better places. The UK Government's policy for design in the planning system is contained in... -
Architects on Dwelling by Christopher Platt
RRP: €29.75€19.49While most books on architecture focus on the architectural outcome itself, Architects on Dwelling takes a close look at how that outcome is created. To design any kind of dwelling, architects draw on both their reservoir of ideas as well as their own...