Individual Architects & Firms

Peter Markli has been one of the most striking protagonists of German-Swiss architecture since the founding of the movement in the early 1980s. However, his impressive buildings resist classification; they do not fit any particular scheme or style, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671880750Author Thomas HovingFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 682gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic access to political power. Her forceful paintings with their vigorous female...

Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5, MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the 'redbrick' universities and the Medical Research Council? This book...

One of Sweden's most renowned contemporary architects, Johan Celsing has created a diverse body of work that spans from housing to public institutions such as museums, libraries, and churches - all of it united by an intense and realistic engagement with...

For over three decades, Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen has created a body of work that is at once sublime and rich, minimal yet tactile. This monograph presents his complete works from 1989 to 2009, including his domestic architecture, office and...

The Triple Folly presents the rich collaboration between artist Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and textile makers Kvadrat which produced an astonishing new pavilion for Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus. The basis of the building is three found paper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907896972Author Robin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications

An authoritative and insightful study, surveying the life and work of "the greatest of the English artist-craftsmen" This study of the renowned designer-maker Ernest Gimson (1864-1919) combines biography with analysis of his work as an architect and...

Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662-1736) is considered one of Britain's greatest architects. He was involved in the grandest architectural projects of his age and today is best known for his London churches - six idiosyncratic edifices of white Portland stone that...

Due to popular demand we are delighted to offer this new paperback edition of Eric Lyons and Span.Lavishly illustrated and deeply researched, this book celebrates the work of the architect Eric Lyons OBE (1912-1980), whose famous post-war housing - that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788861307162Author Maria Cristina BanderaFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2450g

The Ashmolean's collection of European stringed instruments is not large but it is very famous. Several of the instruments in the Ashmolean are among the rarest and most beautiful of their kind and most are, in some way, exceptional. The collection was...

Design for a Radically Changing World brings to light the impact of design on our everyday lives and offers innovative ways that design can help address some of the world’s most pressing issues and urgent crises. From rethinking the future of work and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027336258Author Gertrude SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 183gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany - the artist and court insider whose flower collages, in particular, continue to inspire widespread admiration Mrs Delany is best remembered for her captivating paper collages of flowers, but...

The dream space, writes Sheldon Annis, is the reflective experience of encountering yourself within a museum. In Memory and the Museum, Gaynor Kavanaugh argues that dream spaces are the point at which our inner and outer experiences meld. During the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198545Author Joshua RivkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

The quintessential Japanese architect of today, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines the country's traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials. From his iconic Glass House (1995) to Dundee's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786444Author Louis KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG

A jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. Published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the building's construction, this...

Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he is known as a 20th-century master of architecture. To mark the first centenary of Scarpa's birth, all his works are presented here for the first time. The...

'Pattern-Thinking' reassesses the work of Buckminster Fuller - unique hybrid between theoretician, architect, designer, educator, inventor, and author - as advancing contemporary models of design-research, practice, and pedagogy. Drawing extensively on...

A monograph on leading South African architecture studio SAOTA. Light Space Life is the first monograph from internationally recognised South African architecture studio SAOTA, known for crafting exceptional modern buildings that forge powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316247757Author Sally MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Lafayette Park, a middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, it remained one of Detroit's most racially integrated...

This is the first full biography of two of Scotland's most eminent Architects, James Miller and John James Burnet. While born just three years apart into very different circumstances - Burnet was the son of a wealthy Glasgow architect and Miller a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786215Author R Buckminster FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG

Despite being one of the oldest building materials, wood is revolutionising the way we design and construct buildings today. Criteria such as a changing work-life balance and working for a carbon-neutral future allow us to better account for the...

This beautiful, comprehensive volume documents Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret's massive Chandigarh project-the buildings and the furniture (today considered masterpieces of twentieth-century architecture and design), the plans, sketches and maquettes...

Celebrating the one-hundredth birthday of Brazil's most important female architect and designer. The Italo-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) forged a unique path with her bold designs. Spanning architecture, stage sets, fashion, and...

Olajumoke Adenowo is a renowned Nigerian architect who heads her own architecture and interior design firm, AD Consulting, which she founded in Lagos in 1994. A gifted student, at the age of 14 she enrolled at Obafemi Awolowo University and graduated...

An invitation into the evocative, human-scaled, and artful interiors designed by Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms presents the warm interior spaces and exceptional design work of this beloved American master. Wright was an early proponent of total...

For their tenth anniversary, the design studio Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors presents projects that blend the spirit of our collective history with a modernist edge. Roman and Williams's style honors craftsmanship, the use of natural...

In his new book Absolute Beginners, acclaimed Spanish architect Inaki Abalos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse materials elaborated during the 20 years since the publication of his best-known book, The Good Life, Abalos...

The pioneering British modernist architect Richard Seifert was one of the most successful and influential architects of his generation. During the 1960s and '70s he changed the face and fabric of London with a powerful series of highly visible and...

Swiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill (1908-94) was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in the history of 20th-century European applied arts and design. Educated by such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425852Author Calvin TompkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

This is the first full biography from childhood of the eminent British Architect Sir Herbert Baker. Written with the full cooperation of his family and with access to his archive and private papers, it gives an account of his remarkable life as the...

Originally from Chicago, Ryan W. Kennihan has been working in Dublin since 2007 and has taught at various universities. His architecture is reserved, peaceful and elegant. Each building is a little gem, where every detail reflects the architecture. For...