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Ontology of Construction: On Nihilism of Technology and Theories of Modern Architecture by Gevork Hartoonian 9780521586450
RRP: £19.99£17.13Ontology of Construction, first published in 1994, explores theories of construction in modern architecture, with a particular focus on the relationship between nihilism of technology and architecture. Providing an historical context to the concept of... -
The New Tenement: Residences in the Inner City Since 1970 by Florian Urban
RRP: £49.99£43.90This book examines "new tenements"-dense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since the 1970s and came with a new positive view on urban living. Focusing principally on Berlin, Copenhagen,... -
Autogenic Structures by Evan Douglis 9780415776905
RRP: £48.99£43.06This book offers an alternative vision for the future of architecture, a timely and invaluable contribution to the debate concerning emergent surfaces and the next generation of building membranes in this era of extreme computational control.Areas... -
Beautiful Light: An Insider's Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens by Randall Whitehead
RRP: £35.99£31.69Beautiful Light by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Randall Whitehead and lighting industry expert and educator Clifton Stanley Lemon is a combination of idea book, design resource, and product guide. It explores the transition in residential... -
This Is Not a House by Dan Rubinstein 9780847846368
£46.10This Is Not a House takes a close look at spaces that reformulate the idea of what "home" means, in innovative houses in cities around the globe. This Is Not a House showcases recent projects that represent the vanguard of architects creating innovative... -
Affective Spaces: Architecture and the Living Body by Federico De Matteis
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture. It helps to clarify the first-person, direct experience of the environment and how it impacts a person's emotional states, influencing their perception of the world around them... -
Fabrication by Peter Silver 9781138165304
RRP: £135.00£117.28Packed with stunning images this is an indispensable visual guide illustrating and explaining current fabrication processes and material transformation. Providing a documentary of an eclectic range of fabrication techniques, this is the ideal reference... -
Is it all About Image?: How PR works in Architecture by Laura Iloniemi 9780470866900
RRP: £47.95£42.18Publicity is essential for any practice to keep afloat and continue attracting commissions, as even modest jobs often come in through recommendation and reputation. This is the first comprehensive and accessible guide for any archite who wants to wise up... -
Energy Modelling in Design: A practice guide by Sonja Oliviera
RRP: £42.00£34.37If you've ever wondered how leading architectural firms successfully embed energy modelling into their practices, this book is for you. Featuring expert contributions from leading architects and practices, this book illustrates architects' approaches... -
Daylighting and Integrated Lighting Design by Christopher M. Meek
RRP: £32.99£29.16Daylighting and Integrated Lighting Design provides architects, building designers, and students clear direction for the successful inclusion of daylight and integrated electric light in buildings. It presents design teams with the performance analysis... -
Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy by Hannah Malone 9781138392694
RRP: £43.99£38.44In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in scale and grandeur, and which became destinations on the Grand Tour. From the Middle Ages, the dead had been buried in churches and urban graveyards but, in... -
Opus 26: Himeji Castle by Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter
RRP: £29.90£20.54Spread over a hill that climbs up from the plain, Himeji Castle with its white walls shimmering in the sunlight like the feathers of a fantastic bird seems to be rising into the blue sky like a great heron. This impression has given it the name "Castle... -
William Wilkins 1778-1839 by R.W. Liscombe 9780521144674
RRP: £41.99£36.19Originally published in 1980, this was the first biography of William Wilkins, the regency architect whose reputation once rivalled that of Nash and who is probably the best known today as the designer of the National Gallery in London. The commissions... -
Housing, Architecture and the Edge Condition: Dublin is building, 1935 - 1975 by Ellen Rowley
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book presents an architectural overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, Dublin Corporation built tens of thousands of two-storey houses, developing whole communities from virgin sites and green... -
Common Grounds: Atelier Descombes Rampini 2000-2015 by Julien Descombes 9783035606133
RRP: £43.50£40.71Descombes Rampini's projects are prime examples of the skillful, spatial combination of architecture and landscape architecture. In texts, drawings, models, and photographs, this monograph presents more than 45 completed projects and unbuilt designs from... -
Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production by Jesus A. Bianco
RRP: £47.99£42.81Beginning with material, this book revolves around physical material making and design decisions that emerge from material interaction. Combining essays from both practice and academia, this book presents some of the most significant projects and... -
How we Celebrate the Coronation: Designs for a New Reign by Robert Bargery 9781399948951
£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399948951Author Robert BargeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint The Royal Fine Art Commission TrustPublisher The Royal Fine Art Commission Trust -
Home and Community: Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme by Sandra Costa Santos
RRP: £21.99£19.34Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial,... -
Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications by 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... -
Many Voices: Architecture for Social Equity by Sara Caples
RRP: £37.00£30.40Do you know how to create beautiful buildings that truly promote social change? Architects need to understand how to design for social equity, but too often this is presented as a choice between work that does good and work that looks good. When... -
Irish Housing Design 1950 - 1980: Out of the Ordinary by Brian Ward 9781138216426
RRP: £120.00£103.61This 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... -
A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd by Catherine Burke
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book provides a detailed exploration of the relationships between individual architects, educators, artists and designers that laid the foundation and shaped the approach to designing new school buildings in post-war Britain. It explores the life... -
Houseboats: Aquatic Architecture of Sausalito by Kathy Shaffer
RRP: £36.99£23.98Prepare to be wowed, amused, and inspired as you visit over 100 houseboats, inside and out. Architect Kathy Shaffer follows her bliss and explores the floating legacy of her Sausalito home. With an eye toward the artistic, Shaffer carefully documents the... -
Basics Designing with Plants by Regine Ellen Woehrle
RRP: £19.50£17.76Unlike concrete or masonry, plants are a living building material that changes in the course of the seasons and the years. Their growth and varying appearance are factors that must be considered when designing and planning.In addition, plants can also be... -
The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design by Chris Brisbin 9780367659813
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design presents an in-depth exploration of criticism and criticality in theory and practice across the disciplines of art, architecture, and design. Professional criticism is a vital part... -
Cut and Paste Urban Landscape: The Work of Gordon Cullen by Mira E. Engler
RRP: £53.99£46.87During the post-war era, the emerging consumer economy radically changed both the discourse and practice of architecture. It was a time where architecture became a mainstream commodity whose products sold through mass media; a time in which Thomas Gordon... -
Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry: The Cultural Significance of Structure by Michael Hann
£46.80Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry: The Cultural Significance of Structure investigates how pattern and symbol has functioned in visual arts, exploring how connections and comparisons in geometrical pattern can be made across different cultures and how the... -
An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice by Nadir Lahiji
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it... -
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States by Carla Yanni
RRP: £21.99£19.59Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums-ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles-were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and... -
Solar Heating Systems for Houses: A Design Handbook for Solar Combisystems by Werner W. Weiss
RRP: £61.99£53.61The use of solar collectors for domestic hot water over the past 20 years has demonstrated that solar heating systems are now founded on a reliable and mature technology. However, the development of similar, but more complex, systems to provide both... -
Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture by Barbara Miller Lane
RRP: £49.99£43.90Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues... -
Communicating The New: Methods to Shape and Accelerate Innovation by Kim Erwin 9781118394175
RRP: £28.95£25.07"Communicating radical innovation is very different from discussing marginal change. Erwin's book provides a serious analysis of why, in this era of VUCA-Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity-we need to change our individual and... -
Koolhaas. Countryside, A Report by AMO 9783836583312
RRP: £20.00£14.55The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the front line where today's most powerful forces-climate and ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic... -
The Anatomy of Body Worlds: Critical Essays on the Plastinated Cadavers of Gunther von Hagens by T.Christine Jespersen 9780786436569
RRP: £28.99£24.05Since its Tokyo debut in 1995, Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition has been visited by more than 25 million people at museums and science centers across North America, Europe, and Asia. Preserved through von Hagens' unique process of... -
Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism by Iain Boyd Whyte 9780521131834
RRP: £38.99£32.28Bruno Taut was the leading architectural theorist in Germany during the years 1914-1920. The architectural and social premises which he developed in this seminal period were to be of paramount importance in the subsequent development of modern... -
Architecture Timed: Designing with Time in Mind by Karen A. Franck 9781118910641
RRP: £26.95£23.83The traditional veneration of architecture for its monumental and enduring qualities seems to be changing. Architects and other designers are moving away from seeking permanence towards a more open, creative use of what time has to offer. This is... -
Police Boxes by Alexander C Schreyer 9780464424048
RRP: £23.54£20.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464424048Author Alexander C SchreyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 186g -
Energy and Environment in Architecture: A Technical Design Guide by Nick Baker 9780419227700
RRP: £105.00£91.26A unique and revolutionary text which explains the principles behind the LT Method (2.1), a manual design tool developed in Cambridge by the BRE. The LT Method is a unique way of estimating the combined energy usage of lighting, heating, cooling and... -
Interior Design: A Global Profession by Roderick Adams
RRP: £35.99£31.69As the globe shrinks and the concept of distance diminishes, this text challenges the current status quo by identifying the cohesions and specialisations of design communities across the continents. It sets out an international spatial design landscape,... -
Revolution: Interior Design from 1950 by Drew Plunkett
RRP: £42.00£34.77The last half of the twentieth century saw the emergence, evolution and consolidation of a distinct interior design practice and profession. This book is invaluable for students and practitioners, providing a detailed specialist, contemporary historical...