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Quirky, surprising and entertaining - with more than 400 houses, Jutaku is architecture at the speed of Japan.Frenetic. Pulsating. Disorienting. Japan's contemporary culture is constantly in flux. In stark contrast to the centuries old imperial...

The 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...

This comprehensive, full-color guidebook describes all the architecturally significant buildings in Liverpool, the city selected as European Capital of Culture for 2008. The book includes suburban areas of interest and excursions to notable sites farther...

A fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This book showcases 100 houses - one from each year from 1914 - that represent the range of architectural styles throughout the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529420340Author Owen HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)...

Welcome to the club you never wanted to join. When someone you love dies, it may seem impossible to know what will happen next and how you will cope. Losing someone in early adulthood, you may feel even more alone, when no-one around you seems to have...

The South Yorkshire town of Barnsley grew through its industries of linen weaving, glass-making and coal mining from a settlement around Monk Bretton Priory. Communities grew up around these industries which also brought wealth to the town but today many...

Glasshouse Greenhouse fuses together cultures and countries under one glass roof. In their debut book, photographers India Hobson and Magnus Edmondson take you on a worldwide journey through their favourite botanical spaces. The Haarkon Greenhouse...

From its origins as a fishing town, Scarborough has become the largest holiday resort on the North Yorkshire coast. In this book, author Mike Smith highlights fifty of Scarborough's architectural landmarks and notable structures, old and new. Through a...

A compact edition of this landmark publication, which celebrates humanity's ability to create buildings that for millennia have responded ingeniously to cultural and environmental conditions. There has never been a more important time to understand how...

This book started life as a successor to Sustainable Architecture, published in 2007, which set out to prove that sustainable architecture can indeed both `lift the spirit' as well as save the planet. This fully revised edition seeks to take a step...

In our current global networked culture that puts so much emphasis on the virtual and the visual, the mind and the body have become detached and ultimately disconnected. Though physical appearance is idolised for its sexual appeal and its social...

In Specifications for Building Conservation, the National Trust draws on a range of case studies and specifications to provide a much needed guide to specification writing for building conservation. Although traditional building accounts for...

A lavishly illustrated practical guide for understanding bridges, with case studies of the world's most famous bridges. How to Read Bridges is a practical introduction to looking at the structure and purpose of bridges and a guide to reading the...

This comprehensive guide to the architecture of the center of the City of Bristol encompasses all the significant buildings of the area: the cathedrals; key civic buildings; medieval, Georgian, and Victorian churches; commercial and industrial buildings;...

This groundbreaking edition of AD brings together a range of global expertise on social value, exploring its potential for demonstrating the positive impact of both architecture and architects on homes and communities in terms of social justice,...

One of Sweden's most renowned contemporary architects, Johan Celsing has created a diverse body of work that spans from housing to public institutions such as museums, libraries, and churches - all of it united by an intense and realistic engagement with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423647638Author Ben RahnFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986106989Author Arthur GenslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Wilson LaffertyPublisher Wilson LaffertyWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907896972Author Robin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications

Winner of the 2017 IDEC Book Award, 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Book Category), 2017 American Society of Interior Designers Joel Polsky Prize and the 2016 International Interior Design Association TXOK Research AwardDesigning for Autism Spectrum...

One of the most important architects practising in Britain during the years 1820-1880, Anthony Salvin had a long and successful career as a builder of country houses and churches and as a restorer of some of the most important castles in England,...

This volume describes the villa estate and how it was managed, its fields, equipment and outbuildings and looks at the interdependence of villas and towns and examines the rate of the villas and their estates when Roman rule ended. Throughout the book,...

Due to popular demand we are delighted to offer this new paperback edition of Eric Lyons and Span.Lavishly illustrated and deeply researched, this book celebrates the work of the architect Eric Lyons OBE (1912-1980), whose famous post-war housing - that...

As with the best-selling 'Architects Pocket Book' this title includes everyday information which the architect/designer normally has to find from a wide variety of sources and which is not always easily to hand.Focusing on kitchen design, this book is of...

This work covers the English county of Berkshire. Stretching from the fringes of London, Berkshire originally covered much of present day Oxfordshire. The variety of architecture is, consequently, broad and remarkable, from the towns of the home counties...

The name Montessori is widely and inextricably associated with an entirely child-centered and careful pedagogy and education of children. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician, reform educator, and philosopher whose ideas and work have...

The lost buildings of Birmingham.Book InformationISBN 9780750950992Author Roy ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 170mm * 10mm

How do we get to know air? Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds offers a speculative and interdisciplinary framework to reorient common understandings of air and air pollution as matter "out there." Aeropolis contests regimes of managing air...

The architecture of Scotland exists in many forms. In Mousa to Mackintosh, Frank Arneil Walker examines the recognisable and recurring features evident in Scotland's buildings across the centuries to build a picture of 'Scottishness' in architecture. ...

With a new introduction for the paperback.London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780677538Author Raymond LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 550g

Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricately carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat-each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story.In Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423652533Author Laura FentonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

The block is no more than the land and building area defined by streets. It is the nature of the interface between the two, which has a critical impact on the quality of the spaces between those buildings. The importance of the block to city life is well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262580021Author Ebenezer HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 10mm

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the world with...

Wolverhampton was granted city status in 2000, but its origins lie in Anglo-Saxon England. During the Middle Ages Wolverhampton was a prosperous Staffordshire market town and a centre for the wool trade. Its coal and iron deposits enabled it to grow...

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This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdolls offers a penetrating analysis of the very ways issues of...