Individual Architects & Firms

Zaha Hadid: Heydar Aliyev Centre is devoted to the new cultural center designed by Zaha Hadid in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. As one of the most important cultural centers in the country, the building houses a variety of institutions under one roof...

For Zurich architect Stefan Wulser, architecture is not reduced to the craft of designing and implementing the design, but also involves thinking about its socio-cultural significance in contemporary society. With the house in Bassersdorf, for example,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780357501160Imprint Cengage ELTPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

for SATB and piano. An upbeat setting of words by Charles Bennett celebrating the arrival of spring, Opening features changing metres, a compelling verse-refrain structure, and catchy melodies. A darker middle section mirrors the text's reflection on...

This volume introduces 'postgenocide' as a novel approach to study genocide and its effects after mass killing has ended. It investigates how the material violence of genocide translates into contests over memory, remembrance, and laws, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787846661Author Kate AlizadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Mantra LinguaPublisher Mantra Lingua

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787849211Author Anneke ForzaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Mantra LinguaPublisher Mantra LinguaWeight(grams) 245g

What is the secret of successful collective action that enables communities to maintain common-pool resources, withstand disasters and make effective decisions? How can this secret be reproduced in algorithmic form and so enable intelligent software...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037785904Author Carl PruschaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503506494Author Z GulacsiFormat HardbackPage Count 638Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, founded in 1936, is one of the largest and most influential architecture firms in the world. SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the...

History is the lens through which Robert A.M. Stern and his fifteen design partners envision an architecture for today. Robert A.M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010-2014 is the seventh volume in a series that encompasses the breadth of the...

As one of the leading architectural practices in the UK, Wilkinson Eyre Architects have designed buildings and bridges that have caught the imagination of people throughout the world. Their work shows an innovative approach to design which challenges new...

Three of the best-known modern British artists working today, who also happen to be old friends, come together in an exhibition of their work and ideas, as well as their personal communications with each other, providing a unique insight into their...

The 2017 Pritzker Prize was awarded to RCR Arquitectes, the firm founded in Olot, Spain in 1987 by Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta. Their work is known for its understated elegance and use of different rhythms, weights and materials to...

Public and residential works from the acclaimed Mexican firm This book is a compilation of the work of the renowned Mexican architect Augusto Quijano (born 1955), whose work has been developed mainly in the rainforests of the Yucatan peninsula. This...

The third monograph by the firm KieranTimberlake, demonstrating its exacting, sophisticated, and elegant projects of the past decade. KieranTimberlake: Fullness demonstrates the holistic impact of the work of the Philadelphia-based architecture firm. ...

Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904-1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa architectural firm took him on as an apprentice. Throughout his career he defied expectations, not only as a...

Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don't think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing - and a lot of it. With "Collections of Nothing", he takes a hard look at this...

This reprint of the notebook Album Punjab Simla. Chandigarh, Mars 1951 kept by Le Corbusier from his two-week visit in the area that would become Chandigarh, the new capital city of the Indian state of Punjab, presents his written or sketched memos and...

The publication explores the different yet corresponding architectural concepts of Umberto Riva and Bijoy Jain. On the basis of building visits and ongoing conversations, the author Mirko Zardini interprets Umberto Riva's and Bijoy Jain's motivations and...

Named to the 2022 Architectural Digest AD100 list Named to the 2022 Elle Decor A-List A deluxe new monograph that presents a selection of elegantly sumptuous houses by renowned architect Thomas Kligerman Over the past forty years, Thomas Kligerman has...

An essential look at the Italian architect, writer, and designer whose work paved the way for the postmodern movement Now available in paper, this crucial reassessment of Aldo Rossi’s (1931–1997) architecture examines his writings, drawings, and product...

This vast and dazzling book provides an authoritative retrospective of the oeuvre of Dutch designer and architect Petra Blaisse, encompassing landscapes, interiors, buildings, and exhibition designs across the globe.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788488386892Format PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint El CroquisPublisher El Croquis

Breuer's Bohemia explores a vibrant period of midcentury modern design and culture as seen through the influential New England houses designed by Marcel Breuer for his circle of clients and friends. The iconic twentieth-century architect Marcel Breuer...

Basel-based architects Daniel Buchner and Andreas Brundler established their studio in 1997 and soon gained wide recognition for their designs. Today, Buchner Brundler Architects ranks among the leading Swiss firm of the younger generation. This book,...

A landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern architect "A balanced look at the architect in the context of his reception and impact, complete with photographs of Mies's realized works...

"Alongside the detailed studies, there are plenty of beautiful photographs as well as diagrams and plans." - Homes & Gardens "Over the years I have watched the physical and emotional evolution of JDDA's work and it is truly evident in this monograph. I...

A trailblazing original, Predock is his own tour de force. In his work, steel, glass, and concrete are combined with natural materials to celebrate modern life. Initially considered a regionalist architect one who had captured the power of the desert he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461617569Author Marc DuboisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Snoeck PublishersPublisher Snoeck PublishersWeight(grams) 1364g

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

This book offers the first critical account of Studio Aalto’s religious modern architecture. Aalto’s ecclesiastical oeuvre is viewed as an evocative subgenre of the practice's portfolio, but its relationship to religion has eluded enquiry. Where...

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...

Architect Tom Kundig is known worldwide for the originality of his work. This paperback edition of Tom Kundig: Houses, first published in 2006, collects five of his most prominent early residential projects, which remain touchstones for him today. In a...

Architect to Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti, Mark Foster Gage has spent 20 years leading the digital architectural avant-garde, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in architecture and design and exploding expectations. This volume features built...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786222Author R Buckminster FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG

Juan Grimm is considered the father of landscape architecture in Chile. His designs persistently underscore the sublimities of nature and incorporate the environments surrounding them. Although he works mainly with local flora, he creates breathtakingly...

We recognise Mario Botta's buildings for their strong presence. His architecture is not ephemeral. It shapes the mass firmly and precisely. It touches the ground with self-reliance. A building by Mario Botta is an autonomous object. It comprises an...

As founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) is one of the icons of 20the century architecture. While his early buildings in Pomerania were still strongly marked by his teacher Peter Behrens, after an expressionistic phase focused on...