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Urban Space and Structures by Leslie Martin 9780521099349
RRP: £22.99£20.66This is a digitally reprinted edition of Urban Space and Structures, first published in 1972. This first volume in the Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies series is a compilation outlining the growth of a particular line of research work which was... -
Contemporary Library Architecture: A Planning and Design Guide by Ken Worpole
RRP: £76.99£67.45Focusing on the practical issues which need to be addressed by anyone involved in library design, here Ken Worpole offers his renowned expertise to architects, planners, library professionals, students, local government officers and members interested in... -
Algorithmic Architecture by Kostas Terzidis
RRP: £53.99£46.87Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides and why is his philosophy still puzzling today? This... -
Basics Construction Scheduling by Bert Bielefeld
RRP: £19.50£17.76In a world of tight time frames and highly interdependent processes, scheduling is an indispensable prerequisite for successful project implementation. It is the duty of the architect to manage all the project participants in a goal-oriented manner and... -
Architecture, Participation and Society by Leslie Forsyth 9780415547246
RRP: £54.99£47.72How can architects best increase their engagement with building users and wider society to provide better architecture?Since the mid 1990s government policy has promoted the idea of greater social participation in the production and management of the... -
Building & Drawing: Noero Architects by Samanta Bartocci
RRP: £43.00£35.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080384Author Samanta BartocciFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLabWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 200mm -
The Design of Lighting by Peter Tregenza
RRP: £61.99£54.01This fully updated edition of the successful book The Design of Lighting, provides the lighting knowledge needed by the architect in practice, the interior designer and students of both disciplines. The new edition offers a clear structure, carefully... -
Mid-Century Modern Interiors: The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America by Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand
RRP: £25.99£22.61Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of... -
Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular by Peter Guillery
RRP: £54.99£47.72This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass... -
The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation and Agency by Tahl Kaminer
RRP: £53.99£46.87A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the 'starchitecture' system and the focus on aesthetic innovation, a growing number of architects, emboldened... -
Decoding Homes and Houses by Julienne Hanson 9780521543514
RRP: £38.99£33.66Houses are not just assemblages of individual rooms but intricate patterns of organised space, governed by rules and conventions about the size and configuration of rooms, which domestic activities go together, how the interior should be decorated and... -
The Humanities in Architectural Design: A Contemporary and Historical Perspective by Prof. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay 9780415551144
RRP: £42.99£37.59Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore the traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity... -
Urville by Gilles Trehin 9781843104193
RRP: £24.99£24.18Urville, the capital of a large island province, has a population of nearly 12 million, making it the one of the most significant cities in Europe. It is also entirely imaginary.Gilles Trehin, an autistic man with exceptional creative talents and an... -
Conservation of Architectural Ironwork by David S. Mitchell 9780367873776
RRP: £45.99£40.13The peak of architectural ironwork in the 19th Century saw the spread of ornate decorative ironwork across the world. In recent years there has been a significant increase in conservation and restoration projects aiming to protect the artistry of... -
Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies by Michael U. Hensel 9780470866887
RRP: £29.95£27.01Emergence is an important new concept in artificial intelligence, information theory, digital technology, economics, climate studies, material science and biometric engineering. It is a development which is set to inform not only the construction of... -
The Architecture of Form by Lionel March
RRP: £37.99£34.83Originally published in 1976, The Architecture of Form is a collection of fourteen contributions by ten authors towards a quantitative approach to architectural design. The volume opens with an extended editorial introduction on the logic of design and... -
Masted Structures in Architecture by James B. Harris 9780750612821
RRP: £68.99£59.52This is the first fully comprehensive survey and analysis of masted structures and covers examples that have evolved during the past three decades. Masted Structures are one of the most interesting developments in post-war architecture resulting from a... -
Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition by Christy Anderson 9780521181310
RRP: £38.99£33.26Inigo Jones worked as hard on the creation of his architectural persona as he did on the design of the buildings for the early Stuart court. Through his study of continental architectural and art theory, humanist education, and courtly behavior, Jones... -
Smart Materials and Technologies: For the Architecture and Design Professions by D. Michelle Addington 9780750662253
RRP: £71.99£62.45Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new"smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problemsin building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a... -
Understanding Architecture Through Drawing by Brian Edwards 9780415444149
RRP: £71.99£62.45This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help... -
Space and Language in Architectural Education: Catalysts and Tensions by Kasia Nawratek 9781032193847
RRP: £19.99£17.69Architects habitually disregard disciplinary boundaries of their profession in search for synergies and inspiration. The realm of language, although not considered to be architects' natural environment, opens opportunities to further stretch and expand... -
Architect Knows Best: Environmental Determinism in Architecture Culture from 1956 to the Present by Simon Richards
RRP: £49.99£43.50The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of people like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Jose Luis Sert in the first half of the 20th century. Their... -
The Planning Imagination: Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning by Mark Tewdwr-Jones
RRP: £53.99£47.27Knighted in 1998 'for services to the Town and Country Planning Association', and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a 'Pioneer in the Life of the Nation', Peter Hall is internationally renowned for the breadth and depth of his studies... -
Modersohn and Freiesleben--Reality: Buildings and Projects 2000-2020 by Johannes Modersohn
RRP: £35.00£22.43When Antje Freiesleben and Johannes Modersohn opened their own Berlin-based firm Modersohn & Freiesleben Architekten in 1994, the city, which had been divided until 1989, needed to be repaired and re-united. The Potsdamer Platz train station and the... -
Chinese Vernacular Dwellings by Deqi Shan
RRP: £19.99£15.23China has one of the most ancient civilisations in the world, occupying a vast territorial expanse. This has led to great diversification in Chinese vernacular dwellings, rarely seen in the architecture of the world and reflecting a wide variety of... -
Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture by Donald Hoffmann 9780486283647
RRP: £14.49£9.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955 - 1980 by Barry Bergdoll 9780870709630
£55.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Architecture of the Renaissance: From Brunelleschi to Palladio by Bertrand Jestaz 9780500300626 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.95£2.15In early 15th-century Florence an idea took root that was to change art and society for ever: the revival of classical Rome, its values, its culture and its architecture. Abruptly rejecting the Gothic style of the Middle Ages, European architects eagerly... -
Life and Death in the Templo Mayor by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma 9780870814006
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870814006Author Eduardo Matos MoctezumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint University of Colorado,Department of Fine ArtsPublisher University of... -
The Modern American House: Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity by Sandy Isenstadt 9780521770132
RRP: £103.00£92.84Sandy Isenstadt examines how architects, interior designers, and landscape designers worked to enhance spatial perception in middle class houses visually. The desire for spaciousness reached its highest pitch where it was most lacking, in the small,... -
Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion by Joseph M. Siry 9780521629911
RRP: £43.99£37.95The first in-depth study of one of the seminal works of America's most renowned twentieth-century architect, first published in 1996, is now available in paperback. In this study, Joseph Siry examines the building in the light of Wright's earlier... -
The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth by Eleni Bastea 9780521641203
RRP: £89.99£77.49This book, first published in 2000, was the first to examine the urban development of Athens in the nineteenth century. Analysing the process of architectural and urban design as it was experienced and evaluated by architects and the public, Eleni Bastea... -
Lewis Mumford and American Modernism: Eutopian Theories for Architecture and Urban Planning by Robert Wojtowicz 9780521639248
RRP: £36.99£31.31Lewis Mumford and American Modernism examines the career and writings of America's leading critic of architecture. The author of numerous books on the history of architecture, Mumford focused on the roles that technology and urbanism have played in... -
Building-Art: Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction by Joseph Masheck 9780521440134
RRP: £79.99£72.56Building-Art is an anthology of essays by noted critic Joseph Masheck. Considering topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture, its theory and practice, as well as selected achievements by such great modernists as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies... -
English Medieval Sculpture by Arthur Gardner 9780521166195
RRP: £41.99£36.59First published in 1951, as the revised edition of a 1935 original, this volume provides a historical study of English sculpture during the medieval period. It was created as a response to the increasing popularity of art history, providing students with... -
Monastic Architecture in France: From the Renaissance to the Revolution by Joan Evans 9780521180849
RRP: £45.99£43.06France is a country so rich in architecture that it is not surprising that some of its fine buildings receive little attention. Amongst the Romanesque and Gothic churches and the Renaissance chateaux, the domestic architecture of the monasteries has been... -
Fortress-Churches of Languedoc: Architecture, Religion and Conflict in the High Middle Ages by Sheila Bonde 9780521052023
RRP: £36.99£31.71Fortress-Churches of Languedoc traces the changing relationship between military and religious realms as expressed in architecture across medieval Europe. The scholarship of medieval architecture has traditionally imposed a division between military and... -
Hanks Family: Virginia, John and Mary Mott Hanks; Excerpts from Newspapers and Other Sources (Classic Reprint) by Lincoln Financial Foundation 9780265864784
RRP: £24.33£18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780265864784Author Lincoln Financial FoundationFormat HardbackPage Count 20Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 186g -
Building Chan Chan: The Application of Construction Project Management to the Analysis of Ancient Architecture by Richard Smailes 9780530004716
RRP: £80.00£70.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530004716Author Richard SmailesFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Building Chan Chan: The Application of Construction Project Management to the Analysis of Ancient Architecture by Richard Smailes 9780530004709
RRP: £53.00£46.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.