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Topophilia and Topophobia: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat by Xing Ruan
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book is about the love and hate relations that humans establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning modern thinkers as topophilia and topophobia. Whilst such affiliations with the topos, our manmade as well as natural habitat,... -
Future Office by Christopher Grech
RRP: £64.99£56.54Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger architectural and urban design models. This book examines the implications of this revolution on current... -
The Green City: Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs by Assoc Prof Nicholas Low
RRP: £37.99£33.38A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three... -
Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space by Doina Petrescu
RRP: £53.99£47.27This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within... -
Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy by Stephen Cairns
RRP: £58.99£51.48To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregate the places we always imagined to be... -
German Architecture for a Mass Audience by Kathleen James-Chakraborty
RRP: £58.99£51.08This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass... -
The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language by Deborah Cameron
RRP: £58.99£51.08Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation,... -
From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman by Stefano Corbo
RRP: £39.99£35.06Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies, most books... -
Fluid Space and Transformational Learning by Kyriaki Tsoukala
RRP: £21.99£19.34Fluid Space and Transformational Learning presents a critique of the interlocking questions of 'school architecture' and education and attempts to establish a field of questioning that aspectualises and intersects concepts, theories and practices... -
Tradition as Mediation: Louis I. Kahn: The Dominican Motherhouse & The Hurva Synagogue by Dana Margalith
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores Louis I. Kahn's approach to tradition as revealed in two of his important, unbuilt, projects. Focusing on Kahn's designs for the Dominican Motherhouse of St. Catherine de Ricci, Media, Pennsylvania (1965-1969), and the Hurva Synagogue,... -
Undergraduate Research in Architecture: A Guide for Students by D. Andrew Vernooy
RRP: £36.99£32.53Undergraduate Research in Architecture: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, with examples of undergraduate research activities and case studies on projects in the various areas of architecture study. Undergraduate... -
Architectural Conservation and Restoration in Norway and Russia by Evgeny Khodakovsky
RRP: £43.99£38.44Norway and Russia have been closely related through the ages, both geographically and historically, and have experienced similar problems relating to climate, building maintenance and national wooden architecture. As a result, the parallel study of... -
Occidentalist Perceptions of European Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Diaries: Travels in Farangi Space by Vahid Vahdat
RRP: £43.99£38.44In the midst of Europe's nineteenth-century industrial revolution, four men embarked on separate journeys to the wondrous Farangestan - a land of fascinating objects, mysterious technologies, heavenly women, and magical spaces. Determined to learn the... -
Person-Centered Health Care Design by Dak Kopec
RRP: £37.99£33.38Disease, injury, or congenital disorders result in an inability to perform activities of daily living as effectively as others. Most of these activities take place within and are dependent upon the designed environment. This book presents the specialized... -
Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and Contemporary Practices by Madhavi Desai
RRP: £39.99£35.06Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and... -
Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures: Phase Spaces and Generative Domains by Miguel Paredes Maldonado
RRP: £135.00£117.28Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of Post-Structuralism and New Materialism. It investigates how their unique 'ontological regimes' can be mobilised to supersede the classical... -
The Fractured Metropolis: Improving The New City, Restoring The Old City, Reshaping The Region by Jonathan Barnett
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book provides a thorough analysis of cities and the entire metropolitan region, considering how both are intrinsically linked and influence one other, targeted at architects, students, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and... -
Milan Architecture: The city and Expo by Maria Vittoria Capitanucci
RRP: £20.00£13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857228549Author Maria Vittoria CapitanucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 620g -
Moving to Sustainable Buildings:: Paths to Adopt Green Innovations in Developed Countries by Umberto Berardi
RRP: £54.50£49.05In his Moving to Sustainable Buildings. Paths to Adopt Green Innovations in Developed Countries, Umberto Berardi explores the transition of the construction sector to sustainable building through the adoption of green innovations. Applying methods... -
Building Across Worlds: International Projects by Architects von Gerkan, Marg und Partner by Christian Schittich
RRP: £52.00£47.49Over the past 50 years, the architectural office von Gerkan, Marg und Partner has realised 400 projects worldwide - from single-family homes to cultural edifices and office buildings, from transport facilities to master plans. Many of the buildings were... -
Building Integrated Photovoltaics: A Handbook by Simon Roberts
RRP: £39.00£35.61Photovoltaics is one of the most promising technologies for global energy production in the context of the energy crisis and climate change. Photovoltaic modules are now available in such a wide range of forms that nearly all of the usual fl at parts of... -
Dry Construction: Principles, Details, Examples by Karsten Tichelmann
RRP: £37.50£34.31Detail-Practice: Dry Construction provides an overview of the most widely used dry construction systems, organized according to the building components wall, ceiling, and floor and their applications. The volume is conceived as a practical manual for... -
Basics Urban Building Blocks by Thorsten Burklin
RRP: £19.50£15.45Our cities and neighborhoods are composed of urban building blocks and a knowledge of these elementary components is part of the basic equipment of city planning. It is absolutely essential for urban design that one understands their form and structure,... -
Nano Materials: in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design by Sylvia Leydecker
RRP: £21.50£19.86Nanotechnology is widely regarded as one of the twenty-first century's key technologies, and its economic importance is sharply on the rise. In architecture and the construction industry it has potentials that are already usable today, especially the... -
Architectural Guide Basel: New Buildings in the Trinational City since 1980 by Lutz Windhoefel
RRP: £28.50£25.39There is no other place of comparable size where one can experience local and global building cultures side by side the way one can in Basel with its trinational urban space in Switzerland, Germany, and France. The local stars Herzog & de Meuron and... -
Solar Thermal Technologies for Buildings: The State of the Art by Mat Santamouris
RRP: £120.00£104.01Solar thermal is now a proven technology in terms of reliability, cost-benefit, and low environmental impact. The integration of solar thermal systems and installations into the design of buildings can provide a clean, efficient and sustainable... -
Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World: A Critical Anthology by Peter H Christensen
RRP: £79.95£76.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783209286Author Peter H ChristensenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books -
Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes by Danilo Udovicki-Selb
£109.68Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges that view. Radically redefining the... -
British Architectural Theory 1540-1750: An Anthology of Texts by Caroline van Eck
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book was published in 2003. Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large corpus of writing on architecture pre-dating the introduction of Palladianism by Lord... -
Automotive Systems: Principles and Practice by G.K. Awari
RRP: £120.00£103.61This book introduces the principles and practices in automotive systems, including modern automotive systems that incorporate the latest trends in the automobile industry. The fifteen chapters present new and innovative methods to master the complexities... -
International Beach Houses by Louisa Wattson
RRP: £19.95£14.90Situated on the shores of glistening seas, oceans, and great lakes, the contemporary beach houses featured in this book are as dazzling as the coastal paradises they inhabit. International Beach Houses takes readers on a tour of twenty fabulous houses... -
The Short Works of John Habraken: Ways of Seeing / Ways of Doing by Stephen H. Kendall
RRP: £76.99£67.05This book offers, for the first time, access to the chronological arc of John Habraken's writing in a single collection.Few architects or scholars have so consistently and patiently pursued such a humane and culturally vital set of radical questions... -
4a Architekten - Setting Locations, Forming Spaces, Giving Light, Showing True Colors by Wolfgang Bachmann
RRP: £50.00£33.95Stuttgart-based 4a Architekten have gained much recognition especially for their public swimming pools and spas. Yet the firm, established in 1990 by Matthias Burkart, Eberhard Pritzer, Alexander von Salmuth, and Ernst Ulrich Tillmanns, has also created... -
The Art of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship in Design by Nathan Richardson
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Art of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship in Design explores the form and nature of entrepreneurship in a range of creative disciplines. It explores the complex ecology of activities that enable design, entrepreneurship, and alternative methods of practice... -
Faces and Spaces: 40 Years Aedes Architecture Forum by Kristin Feireiss
RRP: £25.00£16.38Berlin's Aedes Architecture Forum is one of the best-known centres for architecture and architectural culture in the world. Founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss und Helga Retzer, Aedes has since put on 500 important exhibitions on current themes,... -
20x14. Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad by Franco Pisani
RRP: £18.95£12.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954081161Author Franco PisaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Oro EditionsPublisher Oro EditionsWeight(grams) 140g -
Architectural Possibilities in the Work of Eisenman by Michael Jasper
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenman's work through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and arguing for their productive continuity and transformative role. ... -
Oma--Meet Toulouse: [[english Edition!]] by Dominique Boudet
RRP: £42.00£27.39The new MEETT Toulouse exhibition and convention centre in the French city of Toulouse once again demonstrates how a seemingly dull, functional task results in striking and refined architecture if the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture... -
New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey by Bulent Batuman
RRP: £43.99£38.44New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today's world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping - and in return being shaped by - the built... -
Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange by Ana Miljacki
RRP: £43.99£38.84This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared...