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Britain by Alan Powers 9781861892812
$78.35How can the different strands of modern architecture in Britain be understood? For many British people, it remains an alien cultural import and minority taste, yet British architecture has never stood higher in world esteem than at the close of the... -
Architectural Theory: Volume I - An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 by Harry Francis Mallgrave 9781405102582
RRP: $65.10$58.94Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to the year 1870. The first truly comprehensive anthology that brings together the classic essays in the... -
Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture by Robert Cody
RRP: $63.45$55.80In the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible, equitable, sustainable, resilient, and... -
Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference by Miguel Guitart 9781032077499
RRP: $63.45$55.80Behind 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 Socio-Economic Progress in Rural China. Projects by Xu Tiantian, Dna_beijing by Kirsten Feireiss
RRP: $60.04$40.41In 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 by Alessandro Vassela
RRP: $51.46$33.28Louis 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... -
The Experience of Architecture by Henry Plummer
RRP: $51.37$34.96How 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... -
Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste 9783836560146
RRP: $25.73$19.49In 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
$75.97Apologies 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 -
The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design by Fleur Watson 9781138492738
RRP: $56.59$52.13The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design examines the challenges inherent in exhibiting design ideas. Traditionally, exhibitions of architecture and design have predominantly focused on displaying finished outcomes or communicating a work... -
Understanding the Building Regulations by Simon Polley
RRP: $75.46$65.94Do you need a concise, jargon-free and compact guide to the UK building regulations? Simon Polley boils down the regulations to their basic features, explaining the core principles behind them. Easy to read and light enough to carry around with you, this... -
The Temperate House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by Michelle Payne 9781842466643
RRP: $6.86$5.42Kew's Grade 1 listed Temperate House is the world's largest surviving Victorian glasshouse and the reopening in May 2018 will mark its 155th anniversary. The Temperate House has been closed for the past five years for a major restoration project, which... -
A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers by John Zukowsky
RRP: $42.80$29.76A 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... -
Biennale Architettura 2023: The Laboratory of The Future by Lesley Lokko 9788836654512
RRP: $128.65$86.19The 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... -
Architectural Design Procedures by Arthur Thompson
RRP: $80.60$70.28This 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... -
Architecture and Politics in Nigeria: The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016 by Nnamdi Elleh
RRP: $68.59$60.14In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants. Founded five... -
Flat Roof Construction Manual: Materials, Design, Applications by Klaus Sedlbauer
RRP: $156.95$141.80often 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,... -
Ironopolis: The Architecture of Middlesbrough by Michael Johnson
RRP: $27.43$18.61In less than a century, Middlesbrough developed from a small farmstead into an industrial metropolis of 90,000 inhabitants. The genesis of this extraordinary transformation was the establishment of a new coal port on the south bank of the River Tees... -
The Stability of Slopes by Eddie Bromhead 9780367865122
RRP: $111.48$96.30THis new edition of this successful book has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent advances in our understanding of slope stability and instability.The book begins with a consideration of slope stability processes, including the evolution of... -
Ecohouse by Sue Roaf
RRP: $94.32$84.60Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case study, Roaf guides the reader... -
Art and Anarchy by Edgar Wind
RRP: $32.50$26.79Will works of the imagination ever regain the power they once had to challenge and mould society and the individual? This was the question posed by Edgar Wind's influential Reith Lectures delivered in 1960 and later expanded into his book Art and Anarchy... -
Architects on Dwelling by Christopher Platt
RRP: $42.88$28.10While 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... -
Why You Can Build it Like That: Modern Architecture Explained by John Zukowsky
RRP: $17.14$11.66In 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... -
On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time by Mohsen Mostafavi
RRP: $54.89$47.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262631440Author Mohsen MostafaviFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 229mm * 6mm -
Architecture and Micropolitics: Four Projects by Farshid Moussavi Architecture, 2010-2020 by Farshid Moussavi
RRP: $102.92$70.24This timely book seeks to dispel two widely held misconceptions: first, that architects are no longer central to the making of buildings and, second, that design is a linear process which begins with a fully formed architectural vision. Architect Farshid... -
Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures by Lindsey Wikstrom 9781032023946
RRP: $51.44$45.70If we want to continue existing on this earth, an era of renewable energy and materials is urgently needed. What role could mass timber, with its potential to replace concrete and steel, have in ensuring the planet's survival? This book retraces wood's... -
Social Value in Architecture by F Samuel
RRP: $54.80$35.32This 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,... -
Management and Business Skills in the Built Environment by Geoff Crook
RRP: $132.06$115.01The third book in this series is written by a team of interdisciplinary teachers and professionals, led by Mike Waterhouse and Geoff Crook, is aimed at students and professionals in the built environment who wish to develop their management and business... -
The Identity of the Architect: Culture and Communication by Laura Iloniemi 9781119546214
RRP: $54.80$49.21Today there are more tools for communication than ever before, yet very little in the way of reflection on how these are being used and even less on what exactly is being conveyed. This issue of AD looks at how architecture is communicated from a... -
Structural Engineering for Architects: A Handbook by William McLean
$54.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780670553Author William McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 1020g -
High Wycombe in 50 Buildings by Eddie Brazil
RRP: $27.43$18.61High Wycombe is often looked upon as the archetypal, provincial town - a suburban satellite of London with little history of note. Such a viewpoint is far from the truth as it is Buckinghamshire's second largest town and has a rich heritage stretching... -
Stadia: The Populous Design and Development Guide by Geraint John
RRP: $111.48$98.01In this fully updated and redesigned edition of the essential and long-established Stadia, the authors offer their unrivalled expertise to all professionals who commission, plan, design, and manage high-quality sports venues.Ideas about the design and... -
The Triumphal Arch by Peter Howell
RRP: $85.77$69.83In this first book to explore the entire history of triumphal arches, from their Roman origins to the present day, the Classicist and architectural historian Peter Howell describes arches through time, in terms of their cultural and historical... -
Superusers: Design Technology Specialists and the Future of Practice by Randy Deutsch
RRP: $61.73$54.36Design technology is changing both architectural practice and the role of the architect and related design professionals. With new technologies and work processes appearing every week, how can practitioners be expected to stay on top and thrive? In a... -
Approved Document R: Infrastructure for electronic communications – Volume 1: Physical infrastructure and network connection for new dwellings (2022 edition) by HM Government
RRP: $17.15$14.03This Approved Document provides guidance on how to comply with requirement RA1 and requirement RA2 of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010, which respectively deal with the installation of gigabit-ready physical infrastructure and a connection to... -
Argyll and Bute by Frank Arneil Walker 9780300096705
RRP: $102.92$85.95This volume provides a survey of this region of Scotland stretching from the Atlantic islands and sea-lochs of Argyll to the softer landscape of Bute and the banks of the Clyde. The gazetteer introduces readers and visitors to a range of buildings.Book... -
OMA’s Kunsthal in Rotterdam: Rem Koolhaas and the New Europe by Tibor Pataky 9783038603214
RRP: $77.19$50.17Opened in 1992, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam is a key design in the portfolio of Rem Koolhaas and OMA, the renowned firm Koolhaas co-founded in 1975. It is part of the Museumpark, a park designed by OMA as well and the location of the Nederlands... -
Merleau-Ponty for Architects by Jonathan Hale 9780415480727
RRP: $48.01$41.65The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as informing renowned schools of architectural theory, notably those around Dalibor Vesely at Cambridge,... -
A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order, Book 3: An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe by Christopher Alexander 9780972652933
RRP: $109.78$91.61In Book Three of this four-volume work, Alexander presents hundreds of his own buildings and those of his contemporaries who have used methods consistent with the theory of living process.Containing nearly seven hundred pages of projects which have been... -
2G / #84 MOS by Moises Puente
RRP: $65.18$42.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960989646Author Moises PuenteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...