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Kengo Kuma, one of Japan's leading architects, has been combining professional practice and academia for most of his career. In addition to creating many internationally recognized buildings all over the world, he has written extensively about the...

This book presents Rahul Mehrotra's writings over the last thirty years and illustrates his long-term engagement with and analysis of urbanism in India. This work has given rise to a new conceptualization of the city. Mehrotra calls it the Kinetic City,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902902890Author Detlef MertinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865609465Author Oswald Mathias UngersFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. VerlagPublisher Buchhandlung...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940291994Author Professor Sten GromarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 884Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar Publishers

Fairy Tale Architecture is a ground-breaking book, the first study to bring architects in conversation with fairy tales in breathtaking designs. Little Red Riding Hood, Baba Yaga, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Snow Queen: these and more than 15...

As the location for reception and waiting, the hotel lobby is the most important and prestigious area of a hotel. This is where the first contact is made with the guests, anything that happens here has a strong influence on whether their stay will be...

For long, spatial design has been seen as an action that could be performed by people and for people only. And today, even though some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative researches still struggle to...

Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity surveys the country's most accomplished architectural firms, whose work enhances cities and landscapes across Canada's geographically varied expanse. Author Leslie Jen explores a number of significant...

Urbanism Beyond 2020 explores numerous questions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: Why is city making a health project? How are ecological and human wellbeing interrelated? How can leadership and governance help bridge gaps in our unjust cities? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902902883Author Bernard CacheFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications

Typologies for Big Words is a collection of projects redesigning traditional building and landscape types as openings within the interiority of the current politico-economic global system. Architecture's original project was the invention of...

Winner of the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold MedalGlenn Murcutt is an internationally acclaimed Australian architect who for five years taught a series of master studios for graduate architecture students at the University of Washington. This...

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Architecture has the power to condense within itself many different desires that make the built space an organism that lives and changes with us over time, influencing our lives and visions of the world, as well as the lives of the communities that will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638401162Author Pete SansFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint ActarPublisher Actar

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638401407Author Mohsen MostafaviFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784900212930Author A+u PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint S R AgencyPublisher S R Agency

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784900212947Author A+u PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint S R AgencyPublisher S R Agency

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948765404Author Reza AliabadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945150616Author Vedran MimicaFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar PublishersWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945150623Author Yichen LuFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar PublishersWeight(grams) 609g

This book features the advanced studios of Chris Perry, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, and Liza Fior with Katherine Clarke assisted by Andrei Harwell. The research and projects grapple with the issues of how to insert new pieces of architecture both as...

Based in a historically distinguished town near New York City, the firm of Bentel & Bentel Architects has been led for over 50 years by two generations - men and women - of one family. The interweaving of their experiences, lifestyles, and personal...

Recipient of 2019 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies 2021 On the Brinck Book Award Winner “Burle Marx created a new and modern grammar for international landscape design.” —Lauro Cavalcanti, quoted in the New York...

KNOBS (Knowledge Based System) focuses on architectural design on all scales: furniture, interiors, buildings and urban design. It argues that architectural design is the augmentation of interactive environments shaped by external machinist systems of...

In its considered response to the globalisation of culture, HCMA has consistently achieved an architecture that is expressive of time and place, and uniquely interprets Canadian values of openness and inclusivity. The firm's concentration on civic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782909187174Author Jean ProuveFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Galerie Patrick SeguinPublisher Galerie Patrick SeguinWeight(grams) 522g

Jean Prouve began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouve to design inexpensive, effective housing for the newly homeless, prompting him to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782909187143Author Jean ProuveFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Galerie Patrick SeguinPublisher Galerie Patrick SeguinWeight(grams) 544g

This book presents a curated selection of Balkrishna Doshi's exceptional writings since the 1950s, with some published here for the first time. The collection of 15 lectures, articles and essays is richly illustrated with more than 50 of Doshi's personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732010642Author Florencia RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint NESSPublisher NESSWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942884453Author Henry GrabarFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Distributed Art PublishersPublisher Distributed Art PublishersWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954081314Author Robert SteinbergFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Oro EditionsPublisher Oro EditionsWeight(grams) 218g

For the past decade, the Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan has designed multiunit housing in a city known for its proliferation of single-family residences. Working with the Skid Row Housing Trust, these projects advance new forms of supportive...

Moshe Safdie explains that probably more than half of his lifetime design work is unbuilt, and he considers his unbuilt work to be some of his most significant work. In this richly illustrated book, replete with detailed diagrams, sketches, models and...

Over the past years, Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury has become renowned for a body of work that responds with great sensitivity to places, local circumstances, and the demands of a building's users. At the 2016 International Architecture...

This book arose from two observations: that building design in the first decades of the 21st century accepts and pursues some increasingly odd and disturbing trends; and that there seems to be insufficient architectural criticism that calls these trends...

Can an architect pass through walls? Can the city permeate a house? In The Dissolution of Buildings, architect Angelo Bucci presents projects in his native Sao Paulo and abroad. Advocating an architecture that is "the opposite of global action," his work...

Recipient of 2019 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies 2021 On the Brinck Book Award Winner "Burle Marx created a new and modern grammar for international landscape design." -Lauro Cavalcanti, quoted in the New York...