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George Saumarez Smith, a director of ADAM Architecture, is celebrated for the elegance of his work as one of Britain's foremost classical architects. As a student at Edinburgh University, he belonged to the last year group to be taught the skill of...

Antoni Gaudi has a reputation as monastic, mad and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that define Barcelona's cityscape was no mad eccentric. He was a genius inspired by his faith in nature and the divine. Picking up the same...

Renzo Piano is one of the world's greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of...

McClean s second Rizzoli book explores sixteen ultra-modern residences completed over the past five years. Rigorous, elegant, and impeccably detailed, McClean s houses are the embodiment of livable modernism and set the stage for every aspect of...

An examination of the garden plans of eighteenth-century landscape architect Charles Bridgeman, shedding light on his artistic vision and contributions to English garden history. Charles Bridgeman was a popular and highly successful landscape architect...

The meticulously, carefully and solidly developed work by the London architects Daniel Rosbottom and David Howarth has continuously grown since 2000. Recent important buildings include the concert hall in Bodo (Norway), which has an outstandingly elegant...

The first book on the work of a designer whose refined classical interiors are widely desired and emulated as the epitome of French style. Honoured as one of the top designers by all the international design magazines and universally admired by design...

The Bayeaux Tapestry is unique both as a historical document and as a work of art. It was made soon after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and it tells the story of the events that led up to William the Conqueror's invasion of England and the battle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958425282Author Eartha KittFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Chosho PublishingPublisher Chosho PublishingWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...

Five decades of iconic and incisive art from Barbara Kruger Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine visual and written language. In her singular graphic...

Alvar Aalto remains Finland's greatest architect, retains his place among the Modern Masters of twentieth-century architecture and is now recognized internationally as one of the world's greatest architects of all time. For Finland, Aalto, through his...

The name of Robert Adam is today equated, as it was by his contemporaries, with taste, style and elegance. Since his death, the term 'Adamesque' has been used to describe not only ceilings, doorways and fireplaces but objects as various as the City Hall...

Louis I. Kahn is unarguably one of the most eminent and influential figures of 20th-century architecture. He is known as the poet and philosopher among the great modern architects. On 12 February 1969, Kahn gave a lecture at the Swiss Federal Institute...

Historically, women architects were disappointingly absent in the news and at awards ceremonies, but now they are spearheading some of the most exciting and important projects in every corner of the globe. These profiles of fifty female architects bring...

An exclusive look inside world-renowned architect Peter Marino's private, residential projects In this stunning new collection, internationally acclaimed architect Peter Marino shares a look inside his private, residential projects. In contrast to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380045Author Nicholas ThoburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

"The book offers not only gorgeous studies of Kundig's signature details and integration with natural landscapes, but also a record of his refreshingly straightforward voice."-Archinect "The book is beautifully designed and produced: a match for its...

Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britain's built environment was imagined, and in drawing from the evidence provided by those models today, this book considers how...

California Houses brings together thirty-six houses completed over the past ten years that capture the spirit of California in distinctive ways and respond creatively to context and the environment. They engage forests and deserts, the ocean and city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951465032Author Duke TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pearl PressPublisher Pearl PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Santiago Calatrava first made a name for himself in the late 1980s with delicately designed structures in Zurich that seem to grow out of the earth. He went on to create a series of highly innovative, iconic bridges across Europe, and in recent years he...

An essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways.Event-Cities 5 is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434643Author Frank D. PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101902622Author Adam BegleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Ten years ago, Clare Nash was struggling with a common problem: how to be an architect and still have a life. With no job, no savings and no clients in the midst of a recession, Clare set up her own practice with little more than a few postcards in local...

The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887276306Author Matt MarbleFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Cool Grove PressPublisher Cool Grove Press

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of...

After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark book on classical Japanese architecture. His studies of 17th- and 18th-century wooden buildings document minimalist, grid-based structures using stark black-and-white photographs, some...

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...

Jan Kaplicky (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Many of his sketches,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080248503Author Jean-Louis CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 2550g

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 unique appraisal of the famous Swiss architect's major works have now been expanded to include two more buildings. The Villa Shodhan and the Pavilion Suisse round out the coverage of Le Corbusier's significant works. The author critically examines...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911339458Author Sheila O'DonnellFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Artifice PressPublisher Artifice Press

An expanded edition on the master of Modernism, Le Corbusier, by award-winning architectural historian William J. R. Curtis.Originally published in 1996 to critical fanfair, scholar William J.R. Curtis has re-issued his classic text with extensive new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558791Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag