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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... -
Ideal Homes: Uncovering the History and Design of the Interwar House by Deborah Sugg Ryan
RRP: $29.23$21.68Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War. In a period when homeownership was becoming the norm, these communities sought out varieties of architecture and... -
A New History of Modern Architecture by Colin Davies
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$145.74A 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... -
Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present by Irene Cheng
RRP: $67.28$57.39Although 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... -
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... -
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition by Sigfried Giedion
RRP: $89.60$73.36"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... -
An English Farmbouse by Geoffrey Grigson
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... -
Bauhaus Travel Book: Weimar Dessau Berlin by Ingolf Kern
RRP: $38.98$28.63Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the world's most important Modernist movements. Divided into three geographic sections that follow the locations of the school-Weimar (1919-25), Dessau (1925-33), and Berlin... -
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... -
Garden Cities by Sarah Rutherford
RRP: $17.53$13.16Garden 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... -
Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural History by Caroline Dakers 9781787350465
RRP: $117.00$103.94Apologies 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 -
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... -
domus 1928–1939 by Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836594455
RRP: $58.50$40.38Offering an unrivaled record of architecture and design, the “living diary” of domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928. Through the years and decades that followed, the journal charted the major themes and movements of industrial, interior, product, and... -
Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation by Dr Charlotte Ashby
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... -
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... -
Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide by Mohamed Elshahed
RRP: $58.48$47.89The 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... -
Imagining Empire: Designing the Commonwealth Institute by Tom Wilson
RRP: $97.48$73.42This book is the first detailed study of the Commonwealth Institute's architecture and its exhibition galleries. It shows how the strikingly modern building and its dynamic displays inside worked together to create an immersive 'experience' of the... -
Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific: Difficult Heritage and the Tr by Shu-Mei Huang 9789888754144
$159.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888754144Author Shu-Mei HuangFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press -
The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture: Reception and Legacy by Kay Bea Jones
RRP: $85.78$74.96Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini's government constructed thousands of new buildings across the... -
The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design by Lars Spuybroek
$62.60'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. ... -
New York City In 3D In The Gilded Age: A Book Plus Stereoscopic Viewer and 50 3D Photos from the Turn of the Century by Esther Crain
RRP: $58.50$39.78Be transported to New York during the Gilded Age and experience daily life in one of the world's most vibrant cities through mesmerizing, contemporary 3D photography and exciting tales of the time.Black Dog & Leventhal has partnered with the New-York... -
Gio Ponti by Graziella Roccella
RRP: $29.25$28.04Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and groundbreaking in design history. Trained initially in architecture,... -
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain by Dr Sam Wetherell
RRP: $68.25$53.06An 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,... -
The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions by Brandon Clifford
RRP: $38.90$24.57The Cannibal's Cookbook fiercely consumes the body of past cyclopean constructions. It assembles, re-packages, and offers this latent knowledge for your contemporary consumption. It is a manual for the hungry, for those who are not satiated by the... -
Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture by Jane King Hession 9781517908577
RRP: $70.20$57.14An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota's first modern architect Elizabeth "Lisl" Scheu Close (1912-2011) left an indelible mark on Minnesota's built landscape during her six decades as an architect. In 1938, with her husband, Winston... -
Julius Shulman. Modernism Rediscovered by Pierluigi Serraino 9783836592550
RRP: $58.50$38.82The buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of '50s and '60s architectural design, were those whose pictures were widely published in magazines and books; but what about those that got lost in the process, hardly or never... -
Artificial Islands by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $25.33$16.77Great 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... -
Praxis of Collective Building: Narratives of Philosophy and Construction by Andjelka Badnjar-Gojnić
RRP: $59.48$51.23New Belgrade represented a material and social experiment for a new society in post-war Yugoslavia. As the city and the country were being simultaneously built, the philosophy of praxis was developing in both the Yugoslavian and the international scene... -
Gaudi. The Complete Works by Rainer Zerbst 9783836566193
RRP: $48.75$37.34The life of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of... -
The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970 by Kenneth Frampton
RRP: $78.00$67.45A 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... -
Ezra Stoller: A Photographic History of Modern American Architecture by Pierluigi Serraino
RRP: $195.00$145.74A captivating history of 20th-century Modern American architecture, as seen through the eyes of a legendary photographer It is impossible to overstate the importance of photography's role in shaping the world's perception of architecture. And towering... -
Precious Metal: German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology by Peter H. Christensen
RRP: $163.70$142.10With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing... -
Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution by Eszter Steierhoffer
RRP: $29.15$19.07Idealistic visions of the Soviet capital that were never realised.Published at the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution portrays Moscow as it was envisioned by a bold generation of architects in the... -
Skyscraper by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: $39.00$29.21Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it... -
Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture by Sheila Crane 9780816653621
RRP: $46.78$40.58In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous... -
Architecture in the 20th Century by Peter Gossel 9783836570909
RRP: $117.00$87.65The architecture of the 20th century is distinguished by an astonishing diversity. Just as the clash of aesthetic and commercial ambitions nevertheless produced many a happy symbiosis, so the purist and the expressive, the monumental and the picturesque... -
Building the Empire State by Carol Willis 9780393732313
RRP: $38.98$36.70The construction of the Empire State Building was orchestrated by general contractors Starrett Brothers and Eken, premier "skyline builders" of the 1920s. They scheduled the delivery of materials and the construction and recorded daily the number of... -
The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark by John Tauranac
RRP: $42.88$36.64The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world's most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac's book, focused on the inception and construction of the building, has stood as the most comprehensive account of... -
Living In by Andrew Gestalten
RRP: $107.25$75.35Apologies 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