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Inigo Jones by John Summerson 9780300082449
£19.17Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the eighteenth century. This authoritative and elegantly written book, first published in 1966, reassessed Jones's... -
Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural History by Caroline Dakers 9781787350465
RRP: £60.00£53.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350465Author Caroline DakersFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1130g -
Japan and the West: An Architectural Dialogue: 2019 by Neil Jackson 9781848222960
RRP: £60.00£42.16This book discusses the architectural influence that Japan and the West have had on each other during the last 150 years. While the recent histories of Western and Japanese architecture have been well recorded, they have rarely been interwoven. Based on... -
Edward Prior: Arts and Crafts Architect by Martin Godfrey Cook
RRP: £29.95£24.53Edward Schroder Prior designed the cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement (St Andrew's Church, Roker), perfected the popular butterfly plan in his houses, and published what is still the seminal work on medieval gothic art in England in 1900. Highly... -
Houses: An Architectural Guide by Charles O'Brien
RRP: £14.99£13.03An enthusiast's guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book, now in paperback, also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period... -
Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik by Kenneth Frampton 9781941332641
RRP: £16.99£14.05Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik presents seven interviews with the architectural historian reflecting on the long arc of his rich and influential career in the discipline. Spanning Frampton's early years as an architecture student at... -
The Stage of Time: Secrets of the Past, The Nature of Reality, and the Ancient Gods of History by Matthew R LaCroix 9780578554938
RRP: £12.99£8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578554938Author Matthew R LaCroixFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Stage of TimePublisher Stage of TimeWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Scottish Medieval Churches: Architecture & Furnishings by Richard Fawcett 9780752425276
RRP: £25.00£18.94A major difficulty for those who wish to understand and enjoy Scottish medieval churches is the ecclesiological groundwork was not carried out in the nineteenth century in the way that was done for England and other parts of Europe. In an effort to... -
The Evolution of Scotland's Towns: Creation, Growth and Fragmentation by Pat Dennison 9781474432979
RRP: £31.00£26.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474432979Author Patricia DennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Relics of the Reich: The Buildings The Nazis Left Behind by Colin Philpott
RRP: £14.99£10.95Relics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behind. Hitler's Reich may have been defeated in 1945 but many buildings, military installations and other sites remained. At the end of the War, some were obliterated by... -
Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space by Michael Sorkin 9780374523145
RRP: £20.00£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523145Author Michael SorkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams) 363g -
England: An Archaeological Guide to Sites from earliest Times to AD 1600 by Timothy Darvill 9780192841018
£34.63Travelling around England is in many senses a journey back in time. On all sides, and sometimes even under the road or footpath itself, there are fragments of the ancient past side by side with the clutter of the modern world. Medieval villages, castles,... -
Palladian Design: the Good, the Bad and the Unexpected by RIBA
RRP: £17.00£14.51More than 400 years after his death, Andrea Palladio (1508-80) remains one of the most influential architects of all time. This catalogue explores how the design principles of Palladio have been interpreted, copied and re-imagined across time and... -
Esherick, Maloof, and Nakashima: Homes of the Master Wood Artisans by Steven Paul Whitsitt 9780764332029
RRP: £45.99£32.67A rich collection of imagery explores the actual homes of three of the most esteemed wood artist/craftsmen of the modern era: Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof, and George Nakashima. Tour the private homes of these masters and compare their innovations and... -
Defensive Northumberland by Colin Alexander
RRP: £15.99£10.85Thousands of years before the Romans and the Venerable Bede, Northumberland was a landscape of hilltop forts, many of which can be traced today. Military order was imposed on the region by Hadrian's legionaries, who built the 73-mile northern... -
Poetics of Underground Space: Architecture, Literature, Cinema Antonello Boschi (University of Pisa, Italy) 9781032103624
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, and critical reflection on, ideas pertaining to the creation and occupation of underground space. It... -
Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Fabio Barry
RRP: £35.00£31.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300248173Author Fabio BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Studies in English Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Architecture: v. 2 by Richard Gem 9781904597100
RRP: £95.00£89.96Trained as both an archaeologist and an art historian, Richard Gem established his specialist interest in pre-Romanesque and Romanesque architecture with his doctoral research at Cambridge University. Since then he has researched, published and lectured... -
Don McCullin: Journeys across Roman Asia Minor by Don McCullin 9780995756670
£102.51'Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures' - Don McCullin Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor is driven by an eye... -
Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki (English language edition) by Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou
RRP: £21.50£17.60Thessaloniki, the most important city in the Byzantine empire after Constaninople, experienced periods of great economic prosperity and cultural and artistic flowering that created monuments of great importance in the development of Byzantine... -
St Pancras Station Simon Bradley 9781846684609
RRP: £9.99£7.11Simon Bradley traces the history of the station, introducing us to the men behind the architecture and looks at its new international status. This fine new edition includes a fascinating chapter on the new hotel and some timely revisions bringing it... -
The Friaries of Medieval London: From Foundation to Dissolution Nick Holder 9781783274314
RRP: £25.99£22.09A lavishly illustrated account of the buildings of the friars in the Middle Ages, bringing them vividly to life. with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Jens Roehrkasten, Mark Samuel, and Christian Steer. Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book... -
Herculaneum - Italy's Buried Treasure by Joseph Jay Deiss 9780892361649
RRP: £21.99£18.55A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.Book InformationISBN 9780892361649Author . DeissFormat PaperbackPage... -
Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning Leland M. Roth 9780367724658
RRP: £81.99£71.30The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that... -
Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings by Zeuler Lima 9780691191195
RRP: £42.00£30.33The first authoritative collection of drawings by legendary modern architect Lina Bo BardiLina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth century. Raised in Italy under Mussolini's Fascist regime and... -
Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide by Mohamed Elshahed
RRP: £29.99£24.56The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete expressionism, and modernist design. Yet while much has been published on Cairo's ancient, medieval, and... -
Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630-1730 by David Jacques
RRP: £45.00£40.03Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that became fashionable later in the 18th century, English formal... -
Abandoned America: Age of Consequences Christopher Matthew 9782361950941
RRP: £25.99£17.98Throughout the ages, mankind has been fascinated by the ruins of previous societies. The desire to gain a greater understanding of our past has driven archaeologists, artists, and scholars from across the world to study the vestiges of lifestyles that... -
Reading in 50 Buildings by Stuart Hylton
RRP: £15.99£10.85From Victorian manufacturing town, famous for the 'three Bs' - beer, bulbs and biscuits - to its current status as a major centre for service industries and cutting-edge technology, Reading has a proud and distinctive identity. This extraordinary... -
Amazing Temples of the World by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£14.65Temples have been places of worship, a focus for spirituality and a place for communities to gather since the earliest days of human civilisation. The first temples date back to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, deriving from the cult of deities and... -
Studies in English Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Architecture Volumes I and II by Richard Gem 9781904597094
RRP: £30.00£29.51Trained as both an archaeologist and an art historian, Richard Gem established his specialist interest in pre-Romanesque and Romanesque architecture with his doctoral research at Cambridge University. Since then he has researched, published and lectured... -
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe 9780312429140
RRP: £16.00£8.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429140Author Tom WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
How Structures Work: Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings David Yeomans (formerly University of Liverpool) 9781119012276
RRP: £41.95£36.73Structural engineering is central to the design of a building. How the building behaves when subjected to various forces - the weight of the materials used to build it, the weight of the occupants or the traffic it carries, the force of the wind etc - is... -
Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West Richard Pollard 9780300109108
RRP: £60.00£50.11This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian... -
Book of Ruins by John Dixon Hunt
RRP: £49.99£37.65Book of Ruins offers a survey - not encyclopedic, but substantial - of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers, landscape architects, and architects. Gathering together short... -
Isle of Wight by David Lloyd 9780300107333
RRP: £45.00£37.63This comprehensive and generously illustrated guide explores the beguiling buildings of the Isle of Wight. The island's many towns, villages, and resorts are included in a detailed gazetteer, as are the charming villas and cottages ornes dotted around... -
Heidegger's Hut by Adam Sharr
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533669Author Adam SharrFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 191mm * 191mm * 8mm -
Herbert Simms: An Architect for the People by Lindie Naughton 9781848409101
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848409101Author Lindie NaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Architecture of Defeat Kengo Kuma (Kengo Kuma Architects and Associates, Japan) 9781138390843
RRP: £35.99£31.69Kengo Kuma, one of Japan's leading architects, has been combining professional practice and academia for most of his career. In addition to creating many internationally recognized buildings all over the world, he has written extensively about the... -
Powys by Robert Scourfield
RRP: £60.00£50.11The historic counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, and Breconshire are described in this final volume of the Buildings of Wales series, expanded and revised from the first edition of 1979. Prehistoric hill-forts and standing stones, Roman...