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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

In an interview with Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith remarked: "I didn't write the rules-why should I follow them?" Famously unabashed, Smith is photography's most celebrated humanist. During his reign as a photo-essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s...

This is the story of William Mitchell's life - his career and body of work from an early age to a life of art with international commissions offered 80 years later. Bill's zest for life, his love of London, his determination to cover the world with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908967473Author Sheila O'DonnellFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Artifice PressPublisher Artifice Press

Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa?s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp...

Bridges as Structural Art features 25 bridges designed by Miguel Rosales and his firm Rosales + Partners, Inc. The firm is characterised by a unique combination of architectural sensitivity, engineering knowledge, and communication skills that allows it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769629Author Benjamin WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802077544Author Neil BinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press

Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a stonemason. He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1792, he moved to London where he was involved in building additions to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080242266Author Jonathan RachmanFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 2140g

An unsung prophet of today's green movement in architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an innovator of eco-sensitive design generations ahead of his time. An architect and designer of far-reaching vision, it is not surprising that Frank Lloyd Wright...

Spencer Fung is never without a sketchbook or a pencil. Inspiration and ideas can strike at any moment, and often the smallest thing that catches his eye impels him to capture it on paper. Whether it is designing private houses, restaurants, hotels,...

The African continent contains some of the world's most vibrant culture and creativity, and yet its buildings - vernacular, colonial or contemporary - have rarely engaged the interest of Western architects. David Adjaye, the first black architect to...

A gorgeous color depiction of every remaining structure designed by Louis Sullivan Louis Henry Sullivan (1856-1924) is a foundational figure in American architecture. Long considered the father of the skyscraper, he first came to wide attention in 1889...

Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an...

The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. It has often been said that he was ahead of his...

It is well known that children are naturally drawn to an engaging and fun environment for them to play, learn, and grow. This book showcases 30 creative, immersive, and interactive spaces from around the globe, where designers focus on spectacular...

Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) is one of the most admired architects of the 20th century. Even today, some 75 years after Gaudi's death, his fanciful, exuberant buildings define Barcelona's cityscape and continue to influence architects, sculptors, and...

This biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures and colourful friends and family. The author had unprecedented access to an archive of over 100,000 of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books, and she also interviewed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788484789956Author Freixa MireiaFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Triangle Postals , S.LPublisher Triangle Postals , S.L

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711221Author Duncan HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Washington State Book Award (Biography/Memoir) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780544102767Author Timothy EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton...

Ahrends, Burton and Koralek (ABK) was established in London in 1961 by three young AA graduates, Peter Ahrends, Richard Burton and Paul Koralek. By the 1970s, ABK was known as one of the most creative and versatile of Britain's younger practices, its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012921Author Adrian ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 24mm

In 2016, Dario Franchini and Diego Calderon founded two offices, one in Lugano and one in London. Since then, they have completed a number of small conversions and buildings with an experimental character. For the Palazzo del Cinema in Locarno, ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372846Author Eric KarpelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid...

This second volume in Caruso St John's Collected Works traces an interlacing set of themes through the celebrated practice's work over the first twelve years of the twenty-first century. Their unique approach to history is revealed as a rejection of the...

Starting with the Renaissance, this accessible and lively survey takes readers around the world and through history, from Filippo Brunelleschi through Antoni Gaudi to Frank Gehry. Double-page spreads feature full-color illustrations, informative...

The objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material-they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies (whether political, social, or environmental) in equally complex ways. Exploring these forms of architectural agency...

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...

The Masters of Concrete Shells Concrete shell construction started to become popular in the mid-20th century. Technically advanced designs with conspicuous expressiveness began to appear all over the world. With three typical protagonists - Felix...

Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures - from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as Habitat to the Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061558290Author Vernon SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 304g

A visual biography of Aino and Alvar Aalto, who designed some of the most iconic objects of the twentieth century Aino and Alvar Aalto together founded Artek and created some of the most celebrated objects and buildings of the twentieth century. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915081Author Matthew SpenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth