Individual Architects & Firms

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061558290Author Vernon SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 304g

Craig Ellwood, the Cary Grant of architecture, was one of the most visible faces of California mid-century modernism. He was known as much for his exquisitely designed, minimalist structures as he was for his exuberant lifestyle. This book celebrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977787586Author Eric GroftFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Pointed Leaf PressPublisher Pointed Leaf PressWeight(grams) 1928gDimensions(mm) 310mm *...

Since his first projects in the 1980s, drawings have always accompanied the architectural work of Peter Markli. They are patiently recorded images and thoughts that occasionally have an associative relationship with the designs. Often however they are...

Winner of the Pritzker Prize and the Praemium Imperiale, Norman Foster is one of the most innovative and forwardthinking architects at work today. This volume features more than 1,000 plans, sketches, and photographs of some of Foster's most renowned...

John Carter, the important post-war abstract sculptor, presents his works on paper. Reveals the beauty of his mathematically rigorous explorations. John Carter RA has made some of the most beautiful and lucid artworks of the last fifty years. The...

Arup Associates, a major presence on the British architectural scene for more than half a century, emerged from the famous engineering consultancy founded by Ove Arup in 1946 and reflected Arup's own vision of "total design", formed in the 1930s in his...

The first survey in nearly two decades of the work of John McAslan + Partners. Making Architecture both provides an up-to-date account of the work of John McAslan + Partners, one of Britain's most respected and dynamic architectural practices, and...

Winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011 confirmed Eduardo Souto de Moura (b.1952) as one of the leading figures on the contemporary architecture scene. This definitive monograph is a comprehensive account of the Portuguese architect's 30 year...

Since launching his practice in 2001 with The Lawns, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize, Nick Eldridge has become renowned for his beautiful bespoke houses. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of his key projects up to the present day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857244242Author Ralf BockFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2260g

An Edifice of Ideas Architectural patronage was crucial for the thinking of Aby Warburg and his circle. In Hamburg the purpose-designed Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, completed in 1926, organized Warburg’s remarkable library. From 1927...

Julia Morgan was truly a pioneer of her time among other accomplishments, she was the first woman architect to be licensed in California, in 1904. Through her remarkable life and legacy, this book celebrates the Beaux-Arts architecture of California...

2019 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medal Award winner!2018 Robert & Judi Newman Award for Literature & Journalism!For centuries, men and women have sought to express beauty in architecture and art. But, it is only recently that...

The long-awaited fifth volume on The Complete Works of Herzog & de Meuron presents the sixty projects completed between 2002 and 2004 with characteristic attention to detail. These include buildings that have already become contemporary architectural...

A nuanced portrait of the 20th-century architect whose work defined the built aesthetic of corporate America Gordon Bunshaft's (1909-1990) landmark 1952 design for Lever House reshaped the Manhattan skyline and elevated the reputation of Skidmore, Owings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783803007599Author Barbara HoidnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ernst Wasmuth VerlagPublisher Ernst Wasmuth Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859461655Author Gerald AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint RIBA EnterprisesPublisher RIBA EnterprisesWeight(grams) 690g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246543Author Yael Hameiri SainsauxFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780789300720Author Lynda S. WaggonerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Universe PublishingPublisher Universe PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

The clear and fundamental train of thought that forms the basis for every design by the London architects leads to projects that are characterized to an equal extent by the utilization and the location-specific, constructive requirements. A semi-detached...

Despite being invariably misunderstood by anglophones and often derided in the English-language financial press, the French economy is one of the world's major economies. For many years characterized by a distinctive economic model in which the French...

Building Community is an in-depth, wide-ranging survey of contemporary apartment buildings, not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing...

The Tate Modern in London made Herzog & de Meuron famous all over the world. The projects and structures they have built since then are distinguished by the sensitive treatment of materials for which the architects are renowned. In addition, these...

Well into its fourth decade, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975, remains one of the most influential and successful practices of its kind. OMA describes itself as a firm operating within the traditional...

Shim-Sutcliffe's masterful work at Point William intertwines landscape and architecture with ancient rock and water reshaping and reimagining a site on the Canadian Shield over two decades. Found conditions and new buildings are interwoven and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960985952Author Moises PuenteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

By retracing Frank Lloyd Wright's footsteps on journeys he made beyond his homeland of the USA, this book explores his global ambitions and his lasting legacy and offers an original and contemporary view of Wright and his architecture. While Lloyd Wright...

Our 2006 monograph Tom Kundig: Houses was an instant critical and commercial success. Over the past five years, Seattle-based Kundig has continued his meteoric rise, collecting numerous awards, including the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for...

Classic, refined, and alluring are just some of the ways to describe Sarah Blank Design Studio's timeless kitchen designs. Sarah Blank's vast expertise in the classicist language spanning many decades and her creative vision for contemporary elegance...

Typology 2 follows up on the preceding and successful Typology, published in 2012. Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein together with their teaching staff and students at ETH Zurich expanded their research on building typology to four more...

This highly original and personal exploration of Tadao Ando's work, one of Japan's leading architects, traverses both the physical and spiritual world. In 2012, Philippe Se clier visited Tadao Ando's iconic Church of the Light, and was...

It was not by chance that Louis Kahn's move into his profession's spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture: representing, as his work increasingly did, those aspects of space which modernism had so ambitiously removed from its program...

Bruno Taut (1880-1938) is generally considered the leading housing estate architect of the modern era. Utilizing the latest architectural techniques and concentrating on the needs of the people who were to inhabit his buildings, he made a lasting...

James Stirling (1926-1992) was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation of architects in his native England and throughout the world. James Stirling:...

The Roehampton Lane (Alton West) estate is widely acclaimed as one of the seminal works of the Modern Movement in Britain. Less well known is the identity of its designers, four ambitious young architects in the employ of the London County Council: Bill...

Modern houses that are timeless, thoughtfully detailed, marked by innovative and environmentally friendly design, and inevitably situated close to nature by the sea, on the bluff, upon the dunes are the hallmark of Stelle Lomont Rouhani. From Casa Loma...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999793128Author Ian LathamFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Right Angle Publishing LtdPublisher Right Angle Publishing Ltd

At just over forty, David Adjaye is one of the world's most exciting and accomplished architects, and has built many highly acclaimed houses and public buildings in the UK and USA. Over a ten-year period, the Tanzanian born, London-based architect has...

Architecture influences the way we live and the way we live influences architecture. Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects - Architecture Is a Social Act explores these two ideas at the core of LOHA's work and shows how one informs the other. The book features 25...