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The Tube: Station to Station on the London Underground by Oliver Green
RRP: $19.48$14.96Mind the gap and jump aboard this fascinating history of the world's oldest and greatest underground railway. On seven guided journeys, travel through time and observe at first hand the influence of great Underground architects, such as Charles Holden... -
Paris Haussmann: A Model's Relevance Benoit Jallon 9783038602194
RRP: $81.90$56.53First published in 2017 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, this widely praised and much sought-after book becomes available again in a new edition. It offers an analytical review from today's perspective of the... -
House in the Country: Where Our Suburbs and Garden Cities Came From and Why it's Time to Leave Them Behind by Simon Matthews
RRP: $38.98$26.03For nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement, the impact it has had in the UK and why, on cost... -
Modern Architecture Since 1900 by William J. R. Curtis
RRP: $97.40$76.71Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and... -
Schindler by James Steele
RRP: $29.25$21.37Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Angeles, Schindler took cues from notions found in Cubism... -
100 20th Century Homes and Houses by Twentieth Century Society
RRP: $48.75$34.57A celebration of Britain's diverse housing styles throughout the twentieth century and beyond. This illuminating book is a fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth century. Redesigned and updated... -
Victorian Pumping Stations by Trevor Yorke
RRP: $17.53$12.58Victorian pumping stations are colourful cathedrals of utility. Their imposing and striking exteriors enclose highly decorative cast-iron frames, built to encage powerful steam engines. They are glorious buildings which display the Victorians'... -
Frank Lloyd Wright by Alan Hess
RRP: $146.25$125.42Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's... -
The Making of Classical Edinburgh by A J Youngson 9781474448017
RRP: $78.00$73.46This famous study of the planning, financing and building of the New Town in Edinburgh brings to life one of the most remarkable urban expansion programmes ever undertaken. A. J. Youngson introduces the modern reader to the vigour of the planning... -
Lost Buildings of Birmingham by Roy Thornton
RRP: $29.23$22.52The 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 -
Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A. T. Smith 9783836510219
RRP: $117.00$87.65The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes,... -
The Last Palace: Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague Norman Eisen 9781472237309
RRP: $29.23$19.11When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. From that discovery unspooled the captivating,... -
Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $29.23$21.35'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies'... -
Arts & Crafts Churches by Alec Hamilton 9781848223219
RRP: $97.48$76.54This comprehensive overview provides the first detailed account of the phenomenon of the Arts & Crafts church, examining 150 of the finest examples, mostly built between 1884 and 1918 in England, Scotland, and Wales. Arts & Crafts studies tend to focus... -
Architecture and Abstraction by Pier Vittorio Aureli 9780262545235
RRP: $62.40$40.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545235Author Pier Vittorio AureliFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London by Andrew Nagorski
RRP: $39.00$27.03'Astonishing... In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBASTIAN FAULKS, Sunday Times'[A] thrilling book, as edge-of-your-seat gripping as any heist movie'Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Book of the Day'A gripping... -
Le Corbusier: The Complete Buildings Cemal Emden 9783791384023
RRP: $77.98$60.02In 2010, photographer Cemal Emden set out to document every building designed by the master architect Le Corbusier. Traveling through three continents, Emden photographed all the 52 buildings that remain standing. Each of these buildings is featured in... -
A History of Western Architecture Seventh Edition Owen Hopkins 9781529420302
RRP: $87.75$57.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529420302Author Owen HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Elements of Modern Architecture: Understanding Contemporary Buildings by Antony Radford
RRP: $78.00$60.04This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Covering six... -
New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age Architecture by Anthony W. Robins
RRP: $42.63$41.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438463964Author Anthony W. RobinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)... -
Albert Frey by Gloria Koenig
RRP: $29.25$27.67Architect Albert Frey (1903–1998) saw a modernist utopia in the desert. Born in Zurich, he studied in Europe with Le Corbusier before moving to the United States in 1930, convinced it was the land of architectural opportunity. On a visit to Palm Springs,... -
London 1870-1914: A City at its Zenith by Andrew Saint
RRP: $68.25$52.81This book conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was arguably at the height of its power, uniqueness and attraction. Balancing the social, the topographical and the visible aspects of the great city, author... -
Aalto by Peter Gossel
RRP: $29.25$22.15Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric... -
Paris Moderne: 1914-1945 Jean-Louis Cohen 9782080421944
RRP: $107.25$71.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080421944Author Jean-Louis CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1400g -
Adolf Loos by August Sarnitz
RRP: $29.25$22.15Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the country's architectural landscape. An early, impassioned advocate of modernism, he all-out rejected the grand Secessionist... -
The Life and Works of Glasgow Architects James Miller and John James Burnet by John Stewart, FRIBA, FRSA 9781849954914
RRP: $35.08$29.78This is the first full biography of two of Scotland's most eminent Architects, James Miller and John James Burnet. While born just three years apart into very different circumstances - Burnet was the son of a wealthy Glasgow architect and Miller a... -
A Guide to Port Sunlight Village: Third edition Edward Hubbard 9781786942128
RRP: $21.43$19.54The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key individuals and an increase in the number of illustrations. The model industrial village of Port Sunlight... -
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture Nicholas Ray (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781032156125
RRP: $66.28$58.50***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins - those philosophical ideas that lay behind modernism and... -
Frank Lloyd Wright by Alan Weintraub
$54.39Frank Lloyd Wright presents a stunning overview of the work of this towering American genius, encompassing the entirety of Wright's long and extraordinarily prolific career. From his earliest work, such as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL, of 1889, to... -
F.L. Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
RRP: $29.25$22.15Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to... -
A New History of Modern Architecture Colin Davies 9781786270573
RRP: $68.25$48.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786270573Author Colin DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing -
Walter Gropius, An Illustrated Biography by Magnus Englund
RRP: $195.00$148.20A stunning visual biography of the life of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and one of the world's most influential architects This illustrated biography tells the story of Gropius's life, beginning with his shattering experiences in World War... -
Garden Cities by Sarah Rutherford
RRP: $17.53$13.57Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and their own influence, in fact there were only ever two true garden cities in... -
X-Ray Architecture by Beatriz Colomina 9783037784433
RRP: $58.50$40.85This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the... -
Machine à Amuser: The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment by Wim van den Bergh 9780262048774
RRP: $115.05$80.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048774Author Wim van den BerghFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Relics of the Reich: The Buildings The Nazis Left Behind by Colin Philpott
RRP: $29.23$21.35Relics 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... -
Lighthouse: An Illuminating History of the World's Coastal Sentinels by R G Grant 9780316414470
RRP: $54.58$40.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316414470Author R G GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersPublisher Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation Dr Charlotte Ashby (Programme Director and Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck University of London, UK) 9781350061149
RRP: $50.68$41.38Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for fundamentally new means of expression. Art Nouveau... -
Arts and Crafts Architecture - History and Heritage in New England by Maureen Meister
RRP: $54.60$46.16This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since... -
An English Farmhouse Geoffrey Grigson 9781908213754
RRP: $29.25$21.37Originally published in 1948, and edited by the artist John Piper, An English Farmhouse is Geoffrey Grigson's careful survey of the old English farmhouse, and its associated buildings, whether made from sarsen, thatch, timber, tile or brick. Grigson...