Monographs

Lake|Flato Architects of San Antonio, Texas, is nationally and internationally acclaimed for buildings that respond organically to the natural environment. The firm uses local materials and workmanship, as well as a deep knowledge of vernacular...

Miroslav Sik coined the term Analogue Architecture in the late 1980s. It stands for an architectural approach that is oriented towards the existing environment, its atmosphere and the construction tradition in a subtly radical way. It has made Miroslav...

George Suyama began his architectural practice in Seattle in 1971. His early career is marked by a number of notable designs in the contemporaneous wood idiom of the region. Over time, however, Suyama developed an architecture characterized by a search...

Facades: Beauty. Utility. Performance illustrates the depth and breadth of the many innovative exterior wall facades that were designed from 2007-2020 at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG). The featured projects, both built and unbuilt, are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863352202Author Julia Peyton-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

The award-winning architectural practice Hawkins/Brown, founded in 1988, is well-known for its thoughtful, innovative and sustainable new buildings and refurbishments of all types. The practice prides itself on bringing a fresh and collaborative...

The Kingdome, John ("Jack") Christiansen's best-known work, was the largest freestanding concrete dome in the world. Built amid public controversy, the multipurpose arena was designed to stand for a thousand years but was demolished in a great cloud of...

Famously labelled the father, poet, and prophet of green architecture and a vocal proponent of the idea that any project in architecture or design must present new or better ways of living or be deemed immoral, Emilio Ambasz is an award-winning...

Tadao Ando is one of the best-known and most influential architects of the contemporary age. His work is unmistakably spiritual, even for a nonbeliever. Heavily influenced by Japanese traditions and primarily interested in using concrete as a building...

A comprehensive introduction to the work and vision of one of Mexico's most acclaimed contemporary architects Mexican architect Alberto Kalach (born 1960) founded Taller de Arquitectura X (TAX) in 1981, and for more than 35 years the firm's work has...

The philosophy of CLB Architects, Inspired by Place, permeates all the firms design work, from public projects to bespoke homes. Their portfolio projects - timeless, thoughtful, distinct and beautiful - are examples of how to tread softly on the land in...

A pioneer of architectural history Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky (1897-2000) entered the modernist canon with her "Frankfurt Kitchen." She is also considered a pioneer of social architecture, a women's rights activist, and, last but not least, a heroine of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246543Author Yael Hameiri SainsauxFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906155704Author Kenneth FramptonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog Press

In the 90s a group of architects formed in London that moved towards a matter-of-fact, unspectacular architecture inspired by the location. A key work and model in this style was Tony Fretton's Lisson Gallery from 1992 with its unembellished facade and...

In Designs for Living, Roger H. Seifter, Randy M. Correll, Grant F. Marani, and Gary L. Brewer, who lead the residential practice at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, present fifteen houses the firm has completed over the past ten years. From...

Throughout their twenty-five-year commitment to modern design, Barnes Coy Architects have specialized in one-of-a-kind dream houses designed for those who prefer to live in highly spatial and modern ways. Assembled in Light is the first exclusive look at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462082045Author O.M.A.Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908967039Author Heathcote EdwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Artifice Books on ArchitecturePublisher Artifice Press

To survey the work of Mexican architect Javier Senosiain (born 1948) requires a journey through a particular trajectory in the history of architecture, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruno Zevi to Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen and Jorn Utzon. These pioneers of...

Public and residential works from the acclaimed Mexican firm This book is a compilation of the work of the renowned Mexican architect Augusto Quijano (born 1955), whose work has been developed mainly in the rainforests of the Yucatan peninsula. This...

Natural, upcycled and economical materials in buildings by Ecuadorian firm Al Borde "Less Is All" is the motto of Ecuadorian architecture firm Al Borde-founded in 2007 by Pascual Gangotena, David Barragan, Marialuisa Borja and Estevan Benavides...

Stefan Koepfli is one of the most important landscape architects in Switzerland, with projects including the multi-award winning Eulachpark in Winterthur and the factory extension for Baumgartner AG in Cham-Hagendorn. Often, the inspiration for and...

The first in-depth analysis of the stunning designs of one of the world's most captivating and prominent architects Born in Tanzania, David Adjaye (b. 1966) is rapidly emerging as a major international figure in architecture and design-and this stunning...

Yung Ho Chang is not only renowned in China but throughout the world, and here he brings together a collection of his impressive architecture projects in an English edition for the first time. At Yung Ho Chang's practice FCJZ, besides space and its...

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...

Founded in 2004 by David Montalba, Montalba Architects is an international architecture firm with offices in both Los Angeles and Lausanne. Raised between Switzerland and California, David has cultivated a design philosophy that balances precision and...

This debut monograph of the visionary landscape architecture firm OJB uncovers the philosophy that guides the practice and reveals the transformative power of landscape through a selection of case studies drawn from the firm's thirty-year history. ...

An engaging, playfully designed survey of the small- and large-scale projects that define WORKac as one of the most progressive and optimistic architecture firms in practice today. This book surveys the projects that define WORKac (WORK Architecture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783803021076Author Peter BehrensFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint WasmuthPublisher Wasmuth

Hernan Diaz Alonso is one of the most influential and innovative architects working today. Director of one of the leading architecture schools in the USA, his visionary schemes span all scales, from silverware to master plans. Founded by Alonso in 2001,...

Featuring an introduction by the renowned architecture critic Aaron Betsky as well as in-depth analysis, sumptuous photographic documentation and detailed plans and diagrams, this volume explores every stage of the design and building process, from its...

Despite the fact that he shaped Venice and its contemporary form, Eugenio Miozzi remains a little-known figure. Yet both locals and visitors experience his legacy every day, in particular when they cross his bridges: from the Ponte della Liberta, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189995683Author Vikramaditya PrakashFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd

"My own use of the camera began in 1954 as I started to think about what a new building in New York - the Seagram building - could be. While in Rome during Easter, through the lens of a camera I had hardly used, I began to observe the quality of...

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...

WOW: Experiential Design for a Changing World explores the work of the multi-disciplinary design firms Warner Wong Design and WOW Architects. Through the selection of twelve breathtaking hotel, restaurant and custom home projects located across five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999230909Author Michael D AlcornFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint Crd PublicationsPublisher Crd PublicationsWeight(grams) 1656g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578837857Author Neal Lucas HitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint I/TheePublisher I/TheeWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 10mm