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The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico by Ian Volner
RRP: $24.50$4.19During his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that hewould build a "great great wall" on the border between the US and Mexico, and Mexico wasgoing to pay for it. A year and a half into his term, with only a few... -
Eco-Refurbishment by Peter Smith 9780750659734 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.27$3.50This clear and accessible guide provides a comprehensive outline on how to convert your house into a more 'green' home. Buildings are the greates energy wasters and for those of us concerned about the environment, and household bills, this book presents... -
Eco-Refurbishment by Peter Smith
RRP: $41.27$36.55This clear and accessible guide provides a comprehensive outline on how to convert your house into a more 'green' home. Buildings are the greates energy wasters and for those of us concerned about the environment, and household bills, this book presents... -
To Have and To Hold: Future of a Contested Landscape by Gerrie Van Noord
RRP: $19.35$14.36At the Venice Biennale, NVA art agency along with great minds from many different disciplines gathered together to discuss the fate of Scotland's iconic modernist building, St Peter's Seminary. Rather than providing a structured blue print for St... -
As I Was Saying: Texas, Pre-Texas, Cambridge: Volume 1 by Colin Rowe 9780262681100
$45.98Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful ofoutstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emergewithin the last two generations. Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio... -
Design for Life: Creating Meaning in a Distracted World by Stuart Walker 9781138232471
RRP: $42.56$37.68Stuart Walker's design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and ferocious. Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice, Design for Life penetrates to the heart of modern culture and... -
Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning by Sophia Psarra 9780415343763
RRP: $61.91$54.45Architecture is often seen as the art of a thinking mind that arranges, organizes and establishes relationships between the parts and the whole. It is also seen as the art of designing spaces, which we experience through movement and use. Conceptual... -
Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South by Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
RRP: $46.43$40.88This extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of "development" after World War II. Development theory did not manifest itself in tracts of economic and political theory alone... -
Skyline: The Narcissistic City by Hubert Damisch 9780804732468
RRP: $25.79$22.63One of today's foremost art historians and critics presents a strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. Hubert Damisch-whose work on the history of perspective, the notion of... -
French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment by Antoine Picon 9780521123693
RRP: $39.98$37.00The professions of architect and engineer, which had maintained very close links since the time of the Renaissance, became increasingly isolated from one another in France during the course of the eighteenth century, the 'Age of the Enlightenment'. This... -
Land. Milk. Honey: Animal Stories in Promised Landscapes by Rachel Gottesman
RRP: $28.38$18.78The biblical metaphor of a "Land of Milk and Honey" has denoted for millennia a prophecy and promise for plenitude. This book, published in conjunction with the Israeli Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale,... -
Data, Matter, Design: Strategies in Computational Design by Frank Melendez
RRP: $46.43$40.88Data, Matter, Design presents a comprehensive overview of current design processes that rely on the input of data and use of computational design strategies, and their relationship to an array of outputs.Technological changes, through the use of... -
Pathways to Well-Being in Design: Examples from the Arts, Humanities and the Built Environment by Richard Coles
RRP: $54.17$47.41How can we achieve and promote well-being? Drawing on examples from the arts, humanities and design, this book brings together work from a wide range of areas to reveal the unique ways in which different disciplines approach the universal goal of... -
What Architecture Means: Connecting Ideas and Design by Denise Costanzo
RRP: $69.65$60.46What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and informed role in architecture either as a professional... -
Taste: A cultural history of the home interior by Drew Plunkett
RRP: $54.18$45.63Democratic in intention and approach, the book will argue that the home interior, as independently created by the 'amateur' householder, offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism)... -
Design Out Crime by Ian Colquhoun
RRP: $70.94$62.07Here is a book about the practical design of communities and housing in which people can enjoy a good quality of life, free from crime and fear of crime.Recognising that crime, vandalism and anti-social behaviour are issues of high public concern, and... -
The Architecture Student's Handbook of Professional Practice by American Institute of Architects 9781118738979
RRP: $134.10$118.13The essential guide to beginning your career in architecture The Architecture Student's Handbook of Professional Practice opens the door to the vast body of knowledge required to effectively manage architectural projects and practice. A professional... -
Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices by Paul Emmons 9780367730574
RRP: $51.59$45.23Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process. Using 80 black and white images to illustrate the examples, it examines architectural drawing practices... -
Towards Creative Learning Spaces: Re-thinking the Architecture of Post-Compulsory Education by Jos Boys
RRP: $59.33$51.77This book offers new ways of investigating relationships between learning and the spaces in which it takes place. It suggests that we need to understand more about the distinctiveness of teaching and learning in post-compulsory education, and what it is... -
Architecture Filmmaking by Igea Troiani
RRP: $127.65$116.94Unlike other books on architecture and film, Architecture Filmmaking investigates how the now-expanded field of architecture utilizes the practice of filmmaking (feature/short film, stop motion animation and documentary) or video/moving image in... -
Support I Materialise: Columns, Walls, Floors by Henning Baurmann
RRP: $22.58$21.26Designing and constructing load-bearing building elements Columns, walls and floors make up the skeleton of nearly every building. This third volume in the series SCALE, Support| Materialise, takes an in-depth look at these load-bearing structures,... -
Autotelic Architect: Changing world, changing practice by Sumita Sinha 9781138820432
RRP: $61.91$50.45Autotelic Architect explores how movements towards more self-initiated projects, greater collaboration and design activism have changed how architects and designers are practicing, as well as the kinds of projects they are working on. Similar to the... -
The Italian Renaissance Palace Facade: Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense by Charles Burroughs 9780521109734
RRP: $47.72$40.39The architectural facade addresses and enhances the space of the city, while displaying, or dissembling, interior arrangements. In this book, Charles Burroughs tracks the emergence of the facade in late medieval Florence and then follows the sharply... -
Bruno Taut's Design Inspiration for the Glashaus by David Nielsen
RRP: $61.91$53.93As a formative exemplar of early architectural modernism, Bruno Taut's seminal exhibition pavilion the Glashaus (literally translated Glasshouse) is logically part of the important debate of rethinking the origins of modernism. However, the historical... -
Robot House by Peter Testa
RRP: $64.50$46.48The next generation of architectural design is moving outside the box. Robotic arms are beginning to replace and advance now common digital fabrication technologies. Six-axis robots are showing the way to non-linear workflows, interactive interfaces,... -
Venetian Vernacular Architecture: Traditional Housing in the Venetian Lagoon by Richard J. Goy 9780521154901
RRP: $56.75$49.72This book is an introduction to the vernacular or 'minor' architecture of the villages of the Venetian lagoon, excluding the historic centre of the city itself. This 1989 study provides an authoritative account of their architectural style and... -
Irish Housing Design 1950 - 1980: Out of the Ordinary by Brian Ward
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and... -
The Business of Research: Knowledge and Learning Redefined in Architectural Practice by Deborah Saunt 9781119546023
RRP: $41.22$37.01Architectural research is being redefined in practice. Whereas once the value of a piece of research was solely measured by the number of citations it received by fellow academics, shifting funding models and new societal concerns are forcing academia to... -
Architecture and Health: Guiding Principles for Practice by Dina Battisto 9780367075224
RRP: $59.33$53.83Architecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mind-set for the profession. Over 40 international award-winning projects are included to explore innovative design principles linked to health outcomes... -
Design for the Changing Educational Landscape: Space, Place and the Future of Learning by Andrew Harrison
RRP: $99.32$87.78The whole landscape of space use is undergoing a radical transformation. In the workplace a period of unprecedented change has created a mix of responses with one overriding outcome observable worldwide: the rise of distributed space. In the learning... -
Architecture Live Projects: Pedagogy into Practice by Ms Harriet Harriss 9780415733526
RRP: $69.65$60.46Architecture Live Projects provides a persuasive, evidence-based advocacy for moving a particular kind of architectural learning, known as Live Projects, towards a holistic integration into current and future architectural curricula. Live Projects are... -
Cine-scapes: Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities by Richard Koeck
RRP: $64.49$56.12Cine-scapes explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the way in which architecture is portrayed in film, this book offers a new perspective...... -
Energy Manual: Sustainable Architecture by Matthias Fuchs 9783764388300
RRP: $106.43$96.49While the efficiency and sustainability offensive is in full swing in most sectors of the economy, in the construction sector it is still in its very beginnings - economically as well as ecologically. However, politicians and policymakers at the global,... -
Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile by Ann M.Pendleton- Jullian 9780262660990
$45.98Foreword by Joseph Rykwert Several thousand miles south of the equator along the Pacific coast of South America, is the site of the Open City Amereida. It is a laboratory for thought and work, conceived and built by the faculty of architecture of the... -
Access Audit Handbook by Alison Grant
RRP: $74.18$60.72The Access Audit Handbook is an invaluable tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services, and for writing reports in appropriate formats in the content of current legislation, funding requirements and best practice in building management... -
Scrap Cities: Joyful Modern Architecture-Inspired Quilts by Cathy J Perlmutter 9780979993251
RRP: $29.66$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979993251Author Cathy J PerlmutterFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Cathy PerlmutterPublisher Cathy PerlmutterWeight(grams) 327g -
Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User by Professor Jonathan Hill
RRP: $76.10$66.41Occupying Architecture focuses on the importance of the user of architecture. It emphasises the cross-currents between design, theory and use, and the need for a wider cross-cultural approach to architecture. Beginning with the architect, the book... -
Allies & Morrison: Buildings and Projects by Ian Latham 9780953284832
RRP: $45.15$38.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953284832Author Ian LathamFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Right Angle Publishing LtdPublisher Right Angle Publishing Ltd -
Mass Customization and Design Democratization by Branko Kolarevic
RRP: $56.75$49.59Parametric design and digital fabrication are enabling non-designers to mass produce non-standard, highly differentiated products - from shoes and tableware to furniture and even houses. The result of these newly available mass customization tools has... -
Building to Suit the Climate: A Handbook by Petra Liedl
RRP: $33.54$31.31In future, buildings that make sense from a bioclimatic perspective will not be the exception; planners will simply be expected to design them. With its wealth of facts, this book serves as a concrete aid to planning and design. With the planning process...