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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence by Christopher Turner 9781838510558
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $26.70Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonization and defiance. Its leading proponents, British architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry, adapted a utopian Bauhaus-derived Modernist... -
Church Going: A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British Isles Andrew Ziminski 9781800818682
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.29A joyous and illuminating exploration of our glorious heritage of old churches. A must for anyone who's ever stared at an apse or a misericord with no idea what they're looking at - Sir Tony Robinson Andrew Ziminski's books are treasure troves of... -
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39 by Gavin Stamp 9781800817395
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $36.89'Majestic ... [an] excitable, illuminating and sure to be enduring work' Financial Times 'Brilliant, authoritative and engaging' Country Life British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean... -
Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.18In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which... -
Houses of the National Trust: The history and heritage of homes and buildings from the National Trust Lydia Greeves 9781911657118
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.59Fully revised and updated edition of the classic, stunningly illustrated guide to the cream of Britain's historic country houses cared for by the National Trust, encompassing both interior and exterior design. This captivating... -
Art Deco Britain: Buildings of the interwar years by Elain Harwood
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $22.45The definitive guide to Art Deco buildings in Britain. The perennially popular style of Art Deco influenced architecture and design all over the world in the 1920s and 1930s - from elegant Parisian theatres to glamorous Manhattan skyscrapers. The style... -
Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches by Matthew Champion
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.49A fascinating guide to decoding the secret language of the churches of England through the medieval carved markings and personal etchings found on our church walls from archaeologist Matthew Champion.'Rare, lovely glimmers of everyday life in the Middle... -
Chimneys, Gables And Gargoyles: A Guide To Britain's Rooftops by Trevor Yorke 9781846743542
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.02The roof lines of our towns and cities are places seldom looked at from below. Yet they contain a world of architectural delights. This easy to follow guide includes hundreds of photos and drawings of rooftops and their features from around the... -
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard by Simon Jenkins 9780241674956
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $26.12'Provocative, elegant, intriguing - Jenkins is a bold, imaginative writer, brilliant at challenging old assumptions and encouraging you to look at British architecture in a new light' Rory Stewart'Clear and admirably concise...a brilliant, blistering... -
Art and Architecture of Sicily by Julian Treuherz
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $34.78Art and Architecture of Sicily is the first book to cover the rich artistic heritage of Sicily from prehistory up to the late 20th century. Sicily's strategic position in the centre of the Mediterranean led to settlement or conquest by a succession of... -
British Architectural Styles: An Easy Reference Guide by Trevor Yorke
RRP: $7.68Booksplease Price: $7.06Here is a compact and useful guide, filled with detailed drawings, to help put a date to the variety of buildings we see around us. It covers an immense range of structures and styles from 1500 to 1950. In addition, there is a glossary of architectural... -
Architecture: The Definitive Visual History by DK 9780241566213
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $36.21From ancient dwellings to modern high-tech skyscrapers, discover everything there is to know about the history of architecture worldwide.Covering over 6,000 years of human history, Architecture charts the most important developments in building... -
Bridges (New edition): A History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans by Judith Dupre
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $26.79This visual history of the world 's landmark bridges is thoroughly revised and updated since its initial publication with all-new photographs and features cutting edge work by today's international superstars of architecture and engineering. Spanning... -
Aegean Art and Architecture by Donald Preziosi
RRP: $31.59Booksplease Price: $19.79The amazing discovery of the 'first European civilization' in Crete, Greece and the Aegean islands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was beyond what anyone had imagined. Beginning with the Neolithic period, before 3000 BCE, and... -
A Brief History of the Great Moghuls by Bamber Gascoigne
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.13'Entertainingly written history . . . ravishingly beautiful photographs.'The Times Bamber Gascoigne's classic book tells of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country was ruled by the... -
The 1930s House Explained by Trevor Yorke 9781846740022
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.12This is a guide to the style of houses built in the 1930s. Tradition continued to dominate the outside while inside art deco was all the rage. It contains many photographs and detailed drawings.About the AuthorTrevor Yorke is an experienced author and... -
Lost Futures: The Disappearing Architecture of Post-War Britain Owen Hopkins 9781910350621
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.58Lost Futures looks in detail at the wide range of buildings constructed in Britain between 1945 and 1979. Although their bold architectural aspirations reflected the forward-looking social ethos of the postwar era, many have since been either demolished... -
Gaudi Maria Antonietta Crippa 9783836560283
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.46From the towering Sagrada Familia to the shimmering, textured facade of Casa Batllo and the enchanting landscape of Park Guell, it's easy to see why Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) gained the epithet "God's architect." With fluid forms and mathematical... -
New Nordic Gardens: Scandinavian Landscape Design by Annika Zetterman
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.10Few people have difficulty conjuring images of modern Scandinavian design, whose influence over the past century has reached around the world. More difficult for many is imagining the quiet landscapes of the Nordic countries, which range from the... -
Atlas of Brutalist Architecture: Classic format by Phaidon Editors 9781838661908
RRP: $64.44Booksplease Price: $45.25A landmark survey of one of architecture's most controversial yet popular style The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of... -
A Highland Legacy: The Maitlands of Tain; Their Work and Their World by Hamish Mackenzie 9781839753466
RRP: $27.74Booksplease Price: $25.63An important part of the built heritage of the Northern Highlands is Victorian and Edwardian. Andrew Maitland, two sons and a grandson, architects based in Tain, made significant contributions across the region - including farm buildings, churches,... -
Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals by Emma J. Wells 9781788541954
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.60A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the people who built them. 'An impeccable guide to the golden age of ecclesiastical architecture' The Times 'Vivid, colourful... -
Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome: Power and Space in Roman Houses by Hannah Platts 9781350194496
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $35.77Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their homes to... -
From Brycgstow to Bristol in 45 Bridges by Jeff Lucas 9781909446182
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909446182Author Jeff LucasFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Bristol Books CICPublisher Bristol Books CIC -
Europe's 100 Greatest Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.40READERS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY WILL LOVE THIS BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED BOOK!"Simon Jenkins has provided a feast for both eyes and mind in this sumptuously illustrated guide to Europe's greatest cathedrals" John Barton, author of A History of the Bible"As ever,... -
Islamic Architecture: A World History by Eric Broug 9780500343784
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $45.28A richly informative and visually packed sourcebook demonstrating and explaining the function and worldwide appeal of Islamic architecture. Islamic architecture dates back 1,400 years and continues to reinvent itself up to the present day. The enormous... -
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.60TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation... -
Leeds in 50 Buildings by Paul Chrystal
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $13.93Buildings are among the crucial features that define a city. They create the cityscape and form the horizon while, at a more personal level, they provide the homes for its citizens, their places of education, worship, entertainment, arts and commerce. ... -
Abandoned London: Discover the hidden secrets of the city in photographs by Katie Wignall
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $15.80It seems bizarre that in a place as crowded, noisy and expensive as London there are still wasted unused spaces. The relentless drive for regeneration across Britain's capital deceives us into thinking that every spare building and patch of ground is... -
Medieval Church Architecture by Jon Cannon
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.15Britain is a treasure trove of medieval architecture. Almost every village and town in the land has a church that was built during the period, whose history is legible - to those who know how to look - in every arch, capital, roof vault, and detail of... -
Abandoned Ireland by Rebecca Brownlie
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $26.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Best Irish-Published Book 2022 (Ireland).Book InformationISBN 9781785374326Author Rebecca BrownlieFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion... -
Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details: v. 1 by William T. Comstock 9780486254425
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486254425Author William T. ComstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $21.41Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first... -
Rood Screens by Richard Hayman
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.92The rood screen was the visual focus of the medieval parish church, dividing the nave from the chancel. Most were built of wood and were adorned with intricate carved decoration painted in bright colours, often with images of saints. Defaced and often... -
The Livery Halls of the City of London Anya Lucas 9781858946702
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.38For more than 600 years the Livery Companies have played a leading role in commercial activities and social and political life in the City of London. These trade associations, each representing a particular craft or profession, were originally... -
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: The House and Its History by Donald Hoffmann 9780486274300
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486274300Author Donald HoffmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Contemporary Japanese Architecture. 40th Ed. by Philip Jodidio 9783836595728
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.98Japan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize.Since Osaka World Expo '70 highlighted... -
Blueprints for the Soul: Why we need emotion in architecture Nick Moss 9781915722386
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.15You know that something is wrong, even if you can't quite put your finger on it. This book tells you why, and how to solve it. There is a lack of beauty and emotion in our built environment. The visual patterns in nature that instinctively satisfy us are... -
Brussels Art Deco: Walks in the City Center by Cecile Dubois
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $21.03Brussels is well known for its wide variety of buildings in the Art Deco style, which were built in the aftermath of the Great War in the 1920s and 1930s. In this book, the authors have created seven walking (or biking) itineraries that explore Art Deco... -
The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton: Volume 4: The Architectural Drawings by Robert Willis 9780521147217
Booksplease Price: $35.86Robert Willis' monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge, first published in 1886 in a revised and extended edition by his nephew J. W. Clark, was hailed as 'one of the most important contributions to the social and intellectual...