Individual Architects & Firms

While Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903685603Author Andre RenaudoFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Richard DennisPublisher Richard DennisWeight(grams) 826gDimensions(mm) 312mm * 233mm *...

"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...

KHA / Kerry Hill Architects: Works and Projects celebrates the buildings, resorts and spaces designed by the internationally renowned practice founded by the late Kerry Hill in Singapore in 1979. KHA has grown through the decades from a small studio...

A major overview of Singapore's most exciting architecture practice, documenting the complete corpus of WOHA's pioneering sustainable and built work. WOHA is at the vanguard of urban and ecological revitalization in Singapore and a pioneer of...

Tadao Ando is one of the best-known and most influential contemporary architects with a minimalistic aesthetic and love of natural materials like glass and concrete proof that less is more. This volume features ten houses and examines his approach to...

Zaha Hadid's gift to the world was a creative genius that captured the collective imagination and influenced designers to challenge the perceived limits that were once imposed by both aesthetics and engineering. Her sudden death in 2016 shocked the...

Ernoe Goldfinger (1902-1987) is noted for his pre-war Hampstead house, preserved with all its contents by the National Trust, and for his high-rise housing of the late 1960s. These buildings bookend a long and varied career as a modernist who thought...

The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life.Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract...

This is the first publication about Eliot Noyes (1910-77), an important figure in twentieth-century design in America. His influential and successful career stretched from his position as the first Director of Industrial Design at MoMA in the 1940s to...

An exhaustive and resounding masterpiece of architectural publishing, this volume, Rizzoli s seventh on Morphosis and its founder, architect Thom Mayne, features the work of the award-winning interdisciplinary architectural and design practice through a...

In Room Without Roof, the archetypal gabled form of a house takes on a twist to envelop both interior and exterior spaces. In A Tale of Two Courts, a semi-detached house shuts itself from the street but reveals on the inside a thoroughly tropical, open...

Adele Naude: A Form of Practice celebrates the architect's 40 years of practice and teaching. In notable academic leadership positions, Naude taught across many locations globally, and her practice followed to new locations around the world. A Form of...

As in the past, anyone who builds a country house today will want the first sight of it to impress, but they will also have requirements suited to 21st-century life. ADAM Architecture has an international reputation for its diverse portfolio, and its...

Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award-winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, principal of the architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes elegant...

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an...

Jewel Changi Airport documents the creation of a remarkable addition to one of the world's premier airports. The sinuous, faceted glass Jewel serves as Singapore's new gateway to the world, and redefines what an airport can be. Brimming with terraced...

C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941) was an architect-designer who advocated honest and thorough design, and championed high standards of craftsmanship applied only to the finest materials. The resulting objects-simple yet elegant, often enhanced by beautiful and...

Yona Friedman is recognised as one of the most eminent proponents of 1960s avant-garde urbanism. His best-known work is the concept for a Spatial City ("La Ville Spatiale", 1956), in which he aimed to provide maximum flexibility through "megastructures"...

What remains of Horta's Art Nouveau, apart from his style and typical plant-related vocabulary? Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau offers an innovative analysis of the architectural approach of Victor Horta, the Belgian architect whose creations...

It is difficult to imagine the history of modern architecture in Britain being written without reference to the work of Eldred Evans and David Shalev. From 1967, when they won the international competition for Newport High School, Evans and Shalev...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500500699Author Ewan McEoinFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753303109Author Moises PuenteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870708176Author Leah DickermanFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 960g

A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the man who held the reins. Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium-the cutting-edge, insanely successful, and notoriously decadent clubs that dominated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684831480Author T. HovingFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America's renowned architect The story of Louis H. Sullivan is considered one of the great American tragedies. While Sullivan reshaped architectural thought and practice and contributed...

This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of the work of the Metabolic architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928 - 2011) in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea...

Le Corbusier's development was inextricably connected to the rise of the century's most popular visual medium: photography. Marking the 125th anniversary of the architect's birth in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, this remarkable book traces the many...

The architecture of Michael Hopkins' (b.1935) formative years has evolved into something that defies easy stylistic categorization. In buildings such as Glyndebourne Opera House, the Inland Revenue Centre and the New Parliamentary Building, a new...

This celebration of 20 of China's latest generation features detailed profiles of each architect, exploring their routes to success, their inspirations and the challenges posed for those working and designing in this richly diverse and rapidly evolving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999858377Author Philip GumuchdjianFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Eight BooksPublisher Eight BooksWeight(grams) 580g

A deluxe sleeved set that includes a facsimile republication of a classic work on Louis Kahn and an accompanying volume of new writings by colleagues, architects, and the Kahn familyThe Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, originally published in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800581968Author Amy BoxshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Make Believe IdeasPublisher Make Believe IdeasDimensions(mm) 280mm * 215mm * 3mm

Stefan Koepfli is one of the most important landscape architects in Switzerland, with projects including the multi-award winning Eulachpark in Winterthur and the factory extension for Baumgartner AG in Cham-Hagendorn. Often, the inspiration for and...

Today, Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-73) is known chiefly for his furniture designs. He is famous also for his erotic polaroid photography of the 1960s, which has been subject of many exhibitions and has lost nothing of its great...

Part manifesto and part monograph, Radical Practice reflects the ethos and endeavors of Marlon Blackwell, a charismatic architect in the prime of his career, producing extraordinary architecture for everyday places from his studio in the Ozarks of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960988069Author Moises PuenteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

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...

Notable undiscovered architects, like undiscovered composers, are implausible, yet Frances Xavier Velarde OBE, 1897-1960, could be just such a person hiding in plain sight. A stylish architect who took a road less travelled then died as he was getting...