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Calatrava by Philip Jodidio
Booksplease Price: £15.62Spanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Famed for bridges as much as buildings, he has made his name with neofuturistic structures that combine deft engineering... -
Frank Lloyd Wright by Alan Weintraub
Booksplease Price: £29.16Frank Lloyd Wright presents a stunning overview of the work of this towering American genius, encompassing the entirety of Wright's long and extraordinarily prolific career. From his earliest work, such as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL, of 1889, to... -
Eric Parry Architects 5 by Dagmar Motycka Weston 9781911339533
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911339533Author Dagmar Motycka WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Artifice PressPublisher Artifice Press -
Apotheosis: Life in the Office of Sir Edwin Lutyens by Mark Lutyens 9781912945351
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.18A collection of letters discovered by chance in an old trunk, accompanied by cartoons and news clippings: the great historical interest of this collection gradually became apparent. The letters provide a vivid, first-hand account of life in the office of... -
Cullinan Studio in the 21st Century by Hugh Pearman 9781848223622
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £28.51Cullinan Studio is a highly distinctive architectural practice and a force for good. This book places the work of Cullinan Studio in the context of the early 21st century. Being a progressive co-operative practice that continues to innovate, Cullinan... -
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon by Philip Gefter
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.95"Wise and ebullient." - Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter.In his acclaimed portraits, Richard Avedon... -
Lina Bo Bardi - Material Ideologies by Monica Ponce De Leon
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £33.04Leading 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... -
Mies Van Der Rohe: A Critical Biography by Franz Schulze
Booksplease Price: £31.19Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze's acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. Coauthored with architect Edward Windhorst, this revised... -
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114741Author Michael PollanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm... -
Speaking East: The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou by Andrew Hussey
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.78A vibrant account of both the sensuous cultural scene of postwar Paris and the life of an alluring icon of modern art. Isidore Isou was a young Jew in wartime Bucharest who barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris, where, in... -
If Walls Could Speak by Moshe Safdie
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.41Over 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... -
Arne Jacobsen: Designing Denmark by Katrine Stenum Poulsen 9788775972906
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.98An exploration of the world of Arne Jacobsen, one of the twentieth century's most influential architects and designers The Danish architect Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) is renowned both within and outside Denmark's borders. Celebrated for his iconic... -
Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders by Vaughan Hart 9780300135404
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.95The diverse works of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (?1661-1736) ranged from small architectural details to ambitious urban plans, from new parish churches to work on the monument of his age, St. Paul's Cathedral. As a young man Hawksmoor assisted... -
Peynet Collections by Andre Renaudo 9780903685603
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.67Apologies 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 *... -
And It Came to Pass - Not to Stay by ,R.,Buckminster Fuller 9783037786215
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786215Author R Buckminster FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG -
Ground Truth Brandon Jorgensen 9781957183619
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.60US military slang uses "ground truth" to refer to the facts comprising a tactical situation on the ground - as opposed to intelligence reports, mission plans, and other descriptions reflecting the conative or policy-based projections of the industrial... -
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez 9780547247847
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247847Author Jonathan LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn: Facsimile Edition and Reader's Guide by Richard Saul Wurman
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.56A 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... -
F.L. Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.89Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to... -
Robert Adam and his Brothers: New light on Britain's leading architectural family Colin Thom (UCL Faculty of the Built Environment, The Bartlett School of Architecture / UCL (United Kingdom)) 9781848023598
Booksplease Price: £71.85Robert Adam is perhaps the best known of all British architects, the only one whose name denotes both a style and an era. The new decorative language he introduced at Kedleston and Syon around 1760 put him at the forefront of dynamic changes taking place... -
Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect by Frida Grahn 9783035626247
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £26.1050 years Learning from Las Vegas From the bustle of Johannesburg to the neon of Las Vegas, Denise Scott Brown's advocacy for "messy vitality" has transformed the way we look at the urban landscape. Unconventional, eloquent, and with a profound... -
Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Who 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 City and the Architecture of Change: The Work and Radical Visions of Cedric Price Tanja Herdt 9783038600459
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £26.85For his entire professional life, British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) reflected on the mechanisation of society and its effect on people's lives. In the 1960s and 1970s Price searched for a new language in modern architecture. His multifaceted,... -
Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau by Iwan Strauven 9780300276282
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.63What 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... -
Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms (New Edition) by William J. R. Curtis 9780714868943
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £77.08An 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... -
The Modulor and Modulor 2 Fondation Le Corbusier 9783764361884
RRP: £43.50Booksplease Price: £39.91In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor". Based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, "Modulor" is a sequence of... -
Josef Albers: Life and Work by Charles Darwent
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.95While 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... -
Andrew Martin (Vol. 25): Interior Design Review - The Definitive Guide to the World's Top 100 Designers by Martin Waller 9783961713691
Booksplease Price: £63.88"The best-known and most-collected series of design books in publication." -Anya-Cooklin Lofting, The Independent "Whether you're a traditionalist or a modernist, a minimalist, or a maximalist, you are sure to find a designer to suit your tastes (and... -
Interiors Atelier AM by Alexandra Misczynski
Booksplease Price: £47.86Enter a world of interiors by Atelier AM, where classical proportions, varied finishes, and exquisite furnishings are masterfully combined, resulting in bold yet tranquil environments. A deft hand at creating interiors that mix materials, both... -
KHA / Kerry Hill Architects: Works and Projects by Kerry Hill 9780500343661
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £44.55KHA / 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... -
Hopkins 2: The Work of Michael Hopkins and Partners by Colin Davies
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £35.25The 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... -
Peter Moro and Partners by Alistair Fair
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £30.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800856516Author Alistair FairFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press -
Vertical Living: Compact Architecture for Urban Spaces by gestalten
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558715Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Mies van der Rohe by Peter Gossel
Booksplease Price: £15.51Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and urban experience. Mies van der Rohe's philosophy was one... -
Herzog & de Meuron 2002-2004 Gerhard Mack 9783035610079
RRP: £108.50Booksplease Price: £95.79The long-awaited fifth volume on The Complete Works of Herzog & de Meuron presents the sixty projects completed between 2002 and 2004 with characteristic attention to detail. These include buildings that have already become contemporary architectural... -
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Revised and Expanded by Rachel Kent 9783791348728
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.97Born in London and raised in Nigeria, Shonibare employs a diverse range of media - from sculpture, painting and installation to photography and film - to probe matters of race, class, cultural identity and history. He is perhaps best known for his... -
Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives by Shayari De Silva 9783037787052
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.50The Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003) fused sensitivity for local context with the technological discoveries and design principles of modernism in his work. Accordingly, Bawa often incorporated materials (local stone and timber) and layouts... -
Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's Architect by Joachim C. Fest 9780745639185
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.59Albert 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... -
Renzo Piano by Lorenzo Ciccarelli 9780711288966
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £29.48Renzo 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... -
F. X. Velarde by Dominic Wilkinson
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £29.99Notable 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...