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The Kimo Theatre: Fact & Folklore by Southwest Writers 9780998572529
RRP: €29.75€19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998572529Author Southwest WritersFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Southwest WritersPublisher Southwest WritersWeight(grams) 431g -
The Astrodome: Building an American Spectacle by James Gast 9780990528210
RRP: €23.79€18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990528210Author James GastFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Aspinwall PressPublisher Aspinwall PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Killing Vincent: The Man, The Myth, and The Murder by Irving Kaufman Arenberg 9780578496481
RRP: €23.74€14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578496481Author Irving Kaufman ArenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Nostradamus and the 3 Maestros ProductionsPublisher Nostradamus and the 3... -
Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas by Heather Green Wooten 9780876112540
RRP: €18.98€13.88Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic of an era long past. Constructed of red pressed brick, sandstone and ruddy Texas granite, the Ashbel Smith Building, fondly known as Old Red, represents a... -
The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in Gilded Age New York by Suzanne Hinman 9780815611219
€31.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815611219Author Suzanne HinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press -
The Thomas Starr King Dispute: Acceptance and Unveiling of the Statues of Junipero Serra and Thomas Starr King by Paul Rich 9780944285787
RRP: €8.50€7.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944285787Author Paul RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 127g -
Midcentury Houses Today by Cristina A. Ross 9781580936101
RRP: €47.54€37.34Traces 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... -
Vermittlungswege Der Moderne - Neues Bauen in Palastina 1923-1948 / The Transfer of Modernity - Architectural Modernism in Palestine 1923-1948 by Sigal Davidi 9783786127819
€84.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783786127819Author Sigal DavidiFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Gebruder Mann VerlagPublisher Gebruder Mann VerlagWeight(grams) 898g -
Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner 9780295746449
RRP: €36.89€29.70The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle's architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region's built environment. Twenty years later, the second edition... -
Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony by Michelangelo Sabatino 9781517903138
RRP: €117.81€103.22A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy Avant-Garde in the Cornfields is an in-depth study of New Harmony, Indiana, a unique town in the American Midwest... -
Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers' Houses in Early-Twentieth Century Detroit by Michael McCulloch 9781439923917
RRP: €108.29€93.91The dream of the modern worker’s house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped dwellings. Building a Social Contract is a cogent history of the houses those workers dreamed of and... -
Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg: The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe by Nicholas Adams 9780271059846
RRP: €82.05€73.79In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934-36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was... -
The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in Gilded Age New York by Suzanne Hinman 9780815611103
RRP: €40.40€29.49November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan. Thousands filled the streets surrounding Madison Square, fingers pointing, mouths agape. After countless struggles, Stanford White-the country's most celebrated architect was about to dedicate America's... -
Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg: Neo-Moorish Russian Architecture and Interiors 1830-1917 Katrin Kaufmann 9783110710656
RRP: €91.04€82.76Little is known of Russian architects' in-depth engagement with Ibero-Islamic architecture, especially the medieval Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra in Granada, in the so-called Moorish Revival. This study, rich in material, analyzes 19th-century... -
The United Nations and New York City: A Home for the World by Raul Barreneche 9781951541309
RRP: €38.68€26.80Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter, this visually driven book tells the story of the special relationship between the UN and New York City through the interrelated lenses of architecture, real estate, and... -
Wittgenstein's House: Language, Space, and Architecture by Nana Last 9780823228805
RRP: €86.87€74.79Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the... -
John H. Howe, Architect: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design by Jane King Hession 9780816683017
RRP: €46.41€42.51In 1932 nineteen-year-old John H. Howe arrived at Taliesin as a charter member of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship. There he would remain for the next thirty-two years, earning a reputation as "the pencil in Wright's hand" before establishing his... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film by William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: €134.47€109.94There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the... -
Modernity and Durability: Perspectives for the Culture of Design Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani 9783869227009
RRP: €27.37€22.31The orthodox concept of the Modern, as it was passed down from the 1920s to the post-war era, has been in a state of crisis for quite some time. This is particularly visible in the fields of urban planning, architecture, and design. Theorists and... -
Architecture as Peacework: The First Goetheanum, Dornach, 1914 Rudolf Steiner 9781621480990
RRP: €26.78€21.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621480990Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age by Zachary J. Violette 9781517904128
RRP: €117.81€102.51A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America As the multifamily building type that often symbolized urban squalor, tenements are familiar but poorly understood, frequently recognized only in terms of the housing... -
Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis by Miriam Paeslack 9781517902957
RRP: €30.93€24.80How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image-and one another-in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once visually epitomized a divided Europe has thrived in the... -
Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis by Miriam Paeslack 9781517902940
RRP: €117.81€102.03How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image-and one another-in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once visually epitomized a divided Europe has thrived in the... -
Modernism's Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America by Michael Osman 9781517900977
RRP: €117.81€102.03A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of "room temperature"? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things... -
Tourist Modernist/Toerist Modernist: Walking Along Modernist Architecture in Belgium by Gerlin Heestermans 9789460583438
RRP: €26.18€17.33Tourist Modernist is a tribute to Belgium's lesser-known modernist heritage. In 2019 Gerlin Heestermans started the online heritage platform toeristmodernist.be to share her passion for beautiful modernist houses and buildings and draw attention to their... -
Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers' Houses in Early-Twentieth Century Detroit by Michael McCulloch 9781439923924
RRP: €33.31€28.73The dream of the modern worker’s house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped dwellings. Building a Social Contract is a cogent history of the houses those workers dreamed of and... -
Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences by Alla Vronskaya 9781517912277
RRP: €33.31€28.73Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to... -
Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories by Patricio Del Real 9780415893466
RRP: €64.25€56.25Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that... -
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: American Architecture in the Depression Era by Catherine W. Zipf 9781138644359
RRP: €45.21€39.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138644359Author Catherine W. ZipfFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
Update! 90 Years of Bauhaus, What Now? by Annett Zinsmeiste 9783868591026
RRP: €29.16€26.18After its foundation in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus developed into an exemplary and internationally known teaching model. Despite its brief existence and a changeable profile, it acquired worldwide influence. It is still possible to discern the basic... -
Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art - The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986 Thomas S. Hines 9781606065815
RRP: €53.55€44.78Arthur Drexler (1921-1987) served as the curator and director of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from 1951 until 1986-the longest curatorship in the museum's history. Over four decades he conceived and oversaw... -
The Los Angeles Central Library by Kenneth Breisch 9781606064900
RRP: €47.60€41.16In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library's early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution's first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in... -
Making the Arctic City: The History and Future of Urbanism in the Circumpolar North by Dr Peter Hemmersam 9781350235854
€135.55Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly... -
PAGON: Scandinavian Avant-Garde Architecture 1945-1956 by Espen Johnsen 9781350067981
€111.19Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects. As a group, PAGON went on to become largely overlooked in the history... -
American Architects and the Single-Family Home: Lessons Learned from the Architects' Small House Service Bureau by Lisa M. Tucker 9781138837843
RRP: €64.25€55.78American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects' Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they... -
Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House by Esra Akcan 9780822352945
RRP: €113.05€98.45In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned... -
Ideal Homes, 1918-39: Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism by Deborah Sugg Ryan 9780719068843
RRP: €95.20€67.94This book focuses on the housebuilding boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners. It investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of... -
Home of Ones Own / Emigrierte Architekten und ihre Hauser: Emigre Architects and Their Houses. 19201960 Burcu Dogramaci 9783869050089
RRP: €71.28€50.29Text in English & German. When architects design a house for themselves, the often tense relationship between clients and builders is usually absent. That is why in many such buildings the architect-designers artistic stance and political position,... -
Heiner Thofern: Beautiful Games: Roman Entrances by Ute Eskildsen 9783969990605
RRP: €41.65€26.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969990605Author Ute EskildsenFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 500g -
Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Heather Laird 9781802078787
€119.73What did it mean to have an ‘Irish’ dwelling in the nineteenth century? How did Irish people write about, think about, visually represent or imagine what constituted home? Showcasing research from scholars based in Ireland, the United Kingdom and further...