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Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design by Bob Giddings 9780419236009
RRP: £37.99£33.78Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design analyses the ways in which architects have presented their designs for clients and the public, both historically and contemporarily. It spans a period from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.Architects... -
Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit 9781788731348
RRP: £20.99£17.59Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg describe the complex interactions that make up a living, creative, diverse city.One... -
The Stones of Venice - Volume III: The Fall by John Ruskin 9781602067035
£25.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602067035Author John RuskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *... -
Dover in 50 Buildings by Paul Harris
RRP: £15.99£10.85Once known as the 'Key to England', Dover is one of the country's most important ports and has been at the forefront of this island's history from the earliest times. This has left a rich legacy of buildings from Roman times to the present day, such as... -
Approved Document R: Infrastructure for electronic communications – Volume 1: Physical infrastructure and network connection for new dwellings (2022 edition) by HM Government
RRP: £10.00£8.18This 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... -
Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London's Towering Cityscape by Gunter Gassner
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in London's tall-building boom, it develops a critique of the construction of more and more speculative towers as well as a... -
Archispeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms by Tom Porter 9780415300124
RRP: £43.99£38.44Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and... -
Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990 Peter Blundell Jones 9780750663748
RRP: £135.00£117.68Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence and role have been overlooked by conventional histories of the subject, is discussed. The case study... -
Lighting Design: A Perception-Based Approach Christopher Cuttle 9780415731973
RRP: £58.99£51.08By reading this book, you will develop the skills to perceive a space and its contents in light, and be able to devise a layout of luminaires that will provide that lit appearance.Written by renowned lighting expert Christopher (Kit) Cuttle, the book: ... -
Architecture, Power and National Identity by Lawrence J. Vale
RRP: £45.99£40.13The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which... -
Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination by Dr. Renee Tobe
RRP: £43.99£38.44Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity... -
Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications Umut Toker 9781032136011
RRP: £33.99£30.00This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural design process with relevant parametric approaches.Readers will find applications of parametric methods... -
The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992 - 2012 by Mario Carpo
RRP: £37.95£33.36The digital turn in architecture has gone through several stages and phases, and Architectural Design ( AD) has captured them all. This anthology of AD's most salient articles is chronologically and thematically arranged to provide a complete historical... -
100 Turn-of-the-Century Brick Bungalows with Floor Plans by Rogers & Manson 9780486281193
RRP: £10.99£8.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486281193Author Rogers & MansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Remembering Places: A Memoir Joseph Rykwert (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 9781138242470
RRP: £35.99£31.69Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. One of very few writers to be awarded the RIBA's highest honour, the Royal Gold Medal, in 2014, and author of countless books and essays, his... -
Inside Smartgeometry: Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design Terri Peters (Freelance writer, Copenhagen and London) 9781118522479
RRP: £32.95£30.14Smartgeometry (SG) is a key influence on the architectural community who explore creative computational methods for the design of buildings. An informal international network of practitioners and researchers, the group meets annually to experiment with... -
Bang Your Head by David Konow
RRP: £14.99£10.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653374Author David KonowFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Design Expertise Bryan Lawson 9781856176705
RRP: £47.99£42.21Design Expertise explores what it takes to become an expert designer.It examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, skills, attributes and experiences are necessary in order to design well. Bryan Lawson and Kees Dorst develop... -
Part-Architecture: The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris Emma Cheatle 9781138490482
RRP: £47.99£41.81Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. Aligning the two works materially, historically and conceptually, the book challenges... -
Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture by Mark Crinson 9780415139410
RRP: £76.99£67.45The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they... -
Women Architects and Politics - Intersections between Gender, Power Structures, and Architecture in the Long Twentieth Century by Mary Pepchinski
RRP: £43.99£35.94In the late 1960s, the feminist scholar Kate Millet broadly defined "politics" as arrangements of power which enable individuals collectively to assert authority over others. Taking this definition, case studies by scholars from Europe, Israel and the... -
At One with Nature: Advances in Ecological Architecture in the Work of Ken Yeang Ken Yeang (T. R. Hamzah & Yeang, Malaysia) 9781119528036
RRP: £71.95£64.42"At One with Nature is an inspiring collection of the latest work of Ken Yeang that further advances sustainable architecture and design. This collection features recent projects as he explores how we can achieve harmony between the natural and our built... -
Floor Plan Manual Housing Oliver Heckmann 9783035611434
RRP: £69.50£64.07Revised edition of the reference work The Floor Plan Manual Housing has for decades been a seminal work in the field of architecture. In its 5th, revised and expanded edition, approximately 160 international housing projects built after 1945 are... -
The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
RRP: £14.49£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486261454Author Dick Wick HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World by Paul Oliver
RRP: £84.99£74.25The first world atlas ever compiled on vernacular architecture, this comprehensive work illustrates the variety and ingenuity of the world's vernacular building traditions from a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative approach, using over... -
The Idea of Spatial Form by Joseph Frank 9780813516431
RRP: £32.00£23.76The Idea of Spatial Form contains the classic essay that introduced the concept of ""spatial form"" into literary discussion in 1945, and has since been accepted as one of the foundations for a theory of modern literature. It is here... -
Images of Change: An archaeology of England's contemporary landscape by Sefryn Penrose 9781848020719
RRP: £22.00£6.22Motorways, airports, tower blocks, power stations, windfarms; TV and the internet, easy travel and shrinking distances; business parks, starter homes and vast shopping and leisure complexes. All of these helped define the later 20th-century world and... -
Selections from The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge: St Johns College by Robert Willis 9780521147156
RRP: £17.99£15.23Hailed as 'one of the most important contributions to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever been made by a Cambridge man', Robert Willis' monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge is here reprinted. Its... -
Architect's Illustrated Pocket Dictionary Nikolas Davies 9780080965376
RRP: £32.99£29.56This pocket-sized dictionary offers huge coverage for the 40,000 plus people studying or working in architecture, construction or any of the built environment fields. From Abaciscus to Zophorus, the reader is able to quickly track down precisely the term... -
Understanding Steel Design: An Architectural Design Manual Terri Meyer Boake 9783034602693
RRP: £65.00£58.77Understanding Steel Design is based on an overall approach to understand how to design and build with steel from the perspective of its architectural applications. Steel is a material whose qualities have enormous potential for the creation of dynamic... -
Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies Helene Frichot 9781138304888
RRP: £43.99£38.84Set against the background of a 'general crisis' that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that make... -
Demystifying Architectural Research: Adding Value to Your Practice by Flora Samuel
RRP: £33.00£27.23This practical, hands on introduction guides you through the basics of undertaking research in day-to-day architectural practice helping you to exploit the growing opportunities on offer. It explores how developing a research specialism can improve the... -
Green Building Handbook: Volume 1: A Guide to Building Products and their Impact on the Environment by Tom Woolley
RRP: £84.99£74.25Environmentally responsible building involves resolving many conflicting issues and requirements. Each stage in the design process from the fundamental decisions about what, where and even whether to build has implications for the environment. Evolving... -
Planning Architecture: Dimensions and Typologies Bert Bielefeld 9783035603248
RRP: £61.00£56.69In formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in the context of planning typologies such as residential buildings, office buildings, museum, or airport, and... -
The Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris by Nathan Silver 9780262691970
£35.64This is the story of how France's famed cultural icon, one of the most controversial and public buildings of the century, was designed and built. Nathan Silver's detailed account of the Centre Pompidou - still called Beaubourg by its designers, and by... -
Ideas That Shaped Buildings by M. Fil Hearn
£27.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Silver Award Winner for Architecture in the 2003 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780262582278Author M. Fil HearnFormat... -
The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design by Fleur Watson 9781138492738
RRP: £32.99£30.39The 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... -
Of Planting and Planning: The making of British colonial cities Robert Home 9780415540544
RRP: £49.99£43.50'At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.' - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt... -
Fragments of Metropolis East: The Expressionist Heritage in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia Niels Lehmann 9783777430928
RRP: £28.00£18.59The Architecture of Expressionism is the upheaval of architecture in the roaring twenties - with regionally different emphases, schools and protagonists. The series' third volume documents all surviving buildings in Poland, the Czech Republic and... -
Labics - Structures: A System of Relations Stefano Casciani 9783038601289
RRP: £60.00£40.15Labics, based in Rome, is a leader among Italy's up-and-coming architecture firms and has gained great international acclaim for submissions to competitions and a number of realised projects. This first-ever monograph on Labic's fast growing, impressive...