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Mies van der Rohe by Peter Gossel
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.46Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and urban experience. Mies van der Rohe's philosophy was one... -
A New History of Modern Architecture Colin Davies 9781786270573
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.39Apologies 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 -
Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions Owen Hatherley 9781914420863
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.67Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisive posturing. But what if the island's future lies in another Union altogether, with some of its former colonial "kith and kin" across the seas? Why be in a Union with your... -
Frank Lloyd Wright by Alan Weintraub
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $21.35Frank 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... -
Room for Diplomacy: The History of Britain's Diplomatic Buildings 1800-2000 by Mark Bertram 9781904965541
Booksplease Price: $59.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904965541Author Mark BertramFormat HardbackImprint Fleming H. Revell CompanyPublisher Fleming H. Revell CompanyWeight(grams) 831g -
A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis by Sam Roberts
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620409800Author Sam RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 578g -
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London by Andrew Nagorski
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03'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... -
The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History by John Connell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.97'Sensational! John Connell has done it again' - Dean KarnazesFrom the award-winning, No.1 bestselling author of The Cow BookIn The Running Book, John Connell vividly describes a marathon through County Longford, Ireland, where he lives and farms. Because... -
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos 9780691198217
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.96The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable... -
The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970 by Kenneth Frampton
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.80A revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness "[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement offers an opportunity to re-examine the Western canon... -
Midcentury Houses Today by Cristina A. Ross 9781580936101
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $36.29Traces the evolution of midcentury houses and demonstrates how they are experienced and lived in today This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted... -
Prussian Socialism and Other Essays by Oswald Spengler 9781912759019
Booksplease Price: $27.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912759019Author Oswald SpenglerFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Black House PublishingPublisher Black House PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Design Monograph: Gaudi Judith Carmel-Arthur 9781838611163
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.22A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an... -
Adolf Loos by August Sarnitz
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.46Adolf 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... -
Architecture and Abstraction by Pier Vittorio Aureli 9780262545235
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $27.39Apologies 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 -
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland: A History by Annette Carruthers
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $68.45This authoritative book is the most detailed account to date of the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the 1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles and rise to popularity among the... -
Bauhaus Graphic Novel by Valentina Grande
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.79The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an idea-the school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, and emerged as the fundamental reference point for virtually every avant-garde artistic movement that... -
A Guide to Port Sunlight Village: Third edition Edward Hubbard 9781786942128
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.52The 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... -
Trading Places: A photographic journey through Chinas former Treaty Ports by Nicholas Kitto
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $52.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963929Author Nicholas KittoFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 2775g -
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain by Dr Sam Wetherell
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $39.19An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate,... -
20/20: Twenty Great Houses of the Twentieth Century by John Pardey 9781848223530
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $44.94Ordered chronologically, and global in scope, this book provides an account of modern architecture through the prism of 20 of the most influential houses built over the past century. By telling the stories of these houses, it offers a fascinating... -
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner by 9783791359342
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $43.54Throughout his career, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner employed a highly inventive and original use of colour. He favoured novel applications of paint in unusual matte finishes. For Kirchner, colour was of primary importance, coupled with technique and style. He... -
British and Commonwealth War Cemeteries by Julie Summers 9780747807896
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.47In 1917 a remarkable organisation came into being. Its brief was vastly ambitious: to commemorate the 1,100,00 men of the British Empire who lost their lives in the First World War. The Imperial War Graves Commission was the creation of one man, Sir... -
On Arrows: Essays in British Architecture and Its Environments Laurent Stalder 9780262548991
RRP: $55.47Booksplease Price: $47.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548991Author Laurent StalderFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
An English Farmhouse Geoffrey Grigson 9781908213754
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.07Originally 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... -
Modern Brussels Map / Carte Bruxelles Moderne: Guide to Modern Architecture in Brussels by Jacinthe Gigou 9781912018178
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018178Author Jacinthe GigouPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 2mm -
Carroll Quigley: Life, Lectures and Collected Writings by Carroll Quigley 9781788949552
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $26.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788949552Author Carroll QuigleyFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Discovery PublisherPublisher Discovery PublisherWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm)... -
Le Corbusier by Jean-Louis Cohen
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.07Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ideas, designs, and writings presented a whole-scale... -
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain by Dr Sam Wetherell 9780691241760
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $22.33An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate,... -
Living In by Andrew Gestalten
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $46.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558586Author Andrew GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Walter Gropius, An Illustrated Biography by Magnus Englund
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $86.04A 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... -
Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier 9780486250236
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486250236Author Le CorbusierFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 408g -
Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present by Irene Cheng
RRP: $44.51Booksplease Price: $38.96Although race - a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination - has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline... -
Rebuilding Babel by Mark Crinson 9781784537128
Booksplease Price: $64.55Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel - built, so... -
New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age Architecture by Anthony W. Robins
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $22.99Apologies 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)... -
Studio Lives: Architect, Art and Artist in 20th-Century Britain by Louise Campbell 9781848223134
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $35.73By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architecture - occupying and adapting Victorian studios and commissioning new ones. In doing so, it shows them... -
The Secret Terrorists: (the responsables of the Assassination of Lincoln, the Sinking of Titanic, the world trade center and more with good content information) by Bill Hughes
Booksplease Price: $19.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087931364Author Bill HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 5mm -
Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide by Mohamed Elshahed
Booksplease Price: $40.78The 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... -
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition by Sigfried Giedion
RRP: $59.28Booksplease Price: $49.79"This new edition ensures that the book will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture." -Walter Gropius"A remarkable accomplishment. . . one of the most valuable reference books for... -
Detroit–Moscow–Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945 by Jean-Louis Cohen
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $53.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047982Author Jean-Louis CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd