Individual Architects & Firms

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197159Author Mike LankfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form. Piano rose to...

To respond to the unique opportunities of each client and site, Bates Masi + Architects has developed an approach rather than a devotion to a particular style. Careful study of the needs of the site and owners uncovers a guiding concept particular to...

David Adjaye, the son of a Tanzanian diplomat, spent his childhood moving between international cities before settling in London, where he was educated. Fresh out of the Royal Academy of Art, his early commissions reflected an influential generation of...

This is the first biography of John Francis Bentley (1839-1902), best known as architect of Westminster Cathedral, since his daughter Winefride de l'Hopital's Westminster Cathedral and its Architect (1919). Bentley was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and...

Leading art historians, architects, designers, artists, and urbanists share new perspectives on this visionary architect's material legacyLina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) is renowned for her boldly modernist designs like the Sao Paulo Museum of Art and the...

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...

English expatriate Cecil Ross Pinsent was responsible for the design and construction of new villas and gardens such as the elegant rural estate La Foce, and the renovation of many historically sensitive ones, including Villa I Tatti, Villa Le Balze, 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...

In the face of the radical convergence of a health crisis and an ecological crisis, it is not possible to return to the investigative trajectories on inhabitation and dwelling that yielded good results in the past. What is it that now defines...

The first major presentation in decades of the visionary drawings of the artist-architect and master designer. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of vast and unprecedented vision, whose work is not only still admired by the critics and carefully studied...

Albert Speer remains the most mysterious character of the leadership of the Nazi regime. He was the chief architect of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler's confidant. Speer built the "Reichskanzlei" (official offices), discovered the "Lightdome" and was...

Only few architecture firms in Europe have addressed the villa as a building type as consistently and with such formal rigor as Stuttgart-based Alexander Brenner Architects. The firm is widely known for designs characterised by plastic-geometric facades...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

This accessible and useful book will be an invaluable guide for all those interested in printmaking - from obtaining an understanding of different prints to buying for investment. The author covers areas such as collecting, explaining what constitutes an...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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 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 9780865651593Author Edmonde Charles-RouxFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vendome PressPublisher Vendome PressWeight(grams) 1814gDimensions(mm) 267mm *...

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...

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...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262035514Author M. Christine BoyerFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 35mm

The first major study of one of the most important architects of the postwar era Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) shaped both late modernist architecture and a generation of architects while...

A beautifully illustrated retrospective of Art Nouveau architect and designer Hector Guimard, positioning him at the forefront of the modernist movement The aesthetic of architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942) has long characterized French Art Nouveau in...