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Landscape Detailing Volume 1: Enclosures Michael Littlewood 9780750613040
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £56.98Michael Littlewood's Landscape Detailing is now well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, other professionals and students designing external works.Volume I, Enclosures, covers walls (free-standing, screen... -
Manuelle Gautrand Architecture: Leading Architects Driss Fatih 9781864706772
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.63Manuelle Gautrand Architecture is a Parisian-based architecture firm founded by Manuelle Gautrand in 1991, sited in the Bastille neighbourhood of this exquisite European city. The firm's key aim is to 're-enchant the city' of Paris by evoking emotion,... -
The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town Todd Longstaffe-Gowan 9780300152012
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.99Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. These green enclaves, known as squares, are among the most distinctive and admired features of the... -
How to Build Treehouses, Huts and Forts by David Stiles 9781493036738
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.92A treehouse is a wonderful idea, but how in the name of creation do you actually build one? In this delightfully illustrated handbook, David Stiles, the unofficial world grandmaster of the treehouse, shows how. Not assuming anything about the treehouse... -
Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition by Christopher Tunnard
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.57Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics,... -
Landscape Detailing Volume 4: Water Michael Littlewood 9780750638296
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £57.58Well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, professionals and students designin external works. This volume covers water features and offers drawings detailed to scale, unlike many of the other books on the... -
Architecture: The Whole Story by Denna Jones
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.03From ancient and classical masterpieces to contemporary, cutting-edge buildings, architecture has defined our world throughout history. Drawing its examples from all around the globe, Architecture: The Whole Story is a richly illustrated and... -
Chiswick House Gardens: 300 years of creation and re-creation David Jacques 9781800856219
Booksplease Price: £49.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800856219Author David JacquesFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press -
Visual Delight in Architecture: Daylight, Vision and View by Lisa Heschong
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.09Visual Delight in Architecture examines the many ways that our lives are enriched by the presence of natural daylight and window views within our buildings. It makes a compelling case that daily exposure to the rhythms of daylight is essential to our... -
Erik Gunnar Asplund: Landscapes and Buildings Malcolm Woollen (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 9780815378228
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £33.64Taking an interdisciplinary approach, weaving together art, philosophy, history, and literature, this book investigates the landscapes and buildings of Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund. Through critical essays and beautiful illustrations focusing on... -
High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.75Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy... -
Inclusive Urban Design: Streets For Life Elizabeth Burton 9780750664585
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £40.44This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to... -
Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside by Lisa Le Feuvre
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.02An in-depth exploration of the pathbreaking works of Nancy Holt, a pioneering practitioner of Conceptual and Land Art Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside takes a journey through the artist's key experiments in visual art presenting works never seen before,... -
Urban Food Mapping: Making Visible the Edible City by Katrin Bohn 9781032402819
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £29.77With cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject of how we feed ourselves as an urban species. Urban food mapping becomes the tool to investigate the spatial... -
A Beginner's Guide to Urban Design and Development: The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design by Laura B. Alvarez 9781032154152
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £28.54This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry, illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality,... -
Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as The Athens of the North by Iain Gordon Brown 9781781558928
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.42In the years between about 1810 and 1840, Edinburgh-long and affectionately known as 'Auld Reekie'-came to think of itself and be widely regarded as something else: the city became 'Modern Athens', an epithet later turned to 'the Athens of the North'... -
Humphry Repton by Laura Mayer 9780747812944 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Humphry Repton by Laura Mayer
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.66Humphry Repton (1752-1818) ambitiously styled himself Capability Brown's successor: the century's next great improver of landed property. With his rare combination of skills - he was a talented topographical sketcher with a unique ability to judge the... -
The Depth of The Landscape by Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours
RRP: £36.50Booksplease Price: £30.36Throughout history, the relationship between landscape and architecture has formed the basis of culture and the development of human settlements. The unfolding of a site, its transformation through the construction of buildings or of entire cities,... -
Urban Sensographies Nicolas Whybrow 9780367653118
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £34.22Urban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented to gather usable 'felt data' about the environment of the city as the basis for creating embodied mappings.The... -
Landscape Detailing Volume 3: Structures Michael Littlewood 9780750623209
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £56.98Michael Littlewood's Landscape Detailing is now well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, other professionals and students designing external works. For this third edition it has been split into three... -
Plant User Handbook: A Guide to Effective Specifying by James Hitchmough 9780632058433
RRP: £103.95Booksplease Price: £99.27Professional landscapers and all those involved in creating green spaces have long been in need of a book that is a guide to plant specification, but also makes sense of plants and their cultivation. Plant User Handbook is for practitioners who are... -
Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice Tania Allen 9780367025847
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.84Solving Critical Design Problems demonstrates both how design is increasingly used to solve large, complex, modern-day problems and, as a result, how the role of the designer continues to develop in response. With 13 case studies from various fields,... -
An Infinity of Graces: Cecil Ross Pinsent, An English Architect in the Italian Landscape by Ethne Clarke 9780393732214
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.76English expatriate Cecil Ross Pinsent was responsible for the design and construction of new villas and gardens such as the elegant rural estate La Foce, and the renovation of many historically sensitive ones, including Villa I Tatti, Villa Le Balze, and... -
Rurality Re-imagined: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers and Wild Things by Ben Stringer 9781940743349
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.35urality Re-imagined is divided into four loosely-themed sections: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers, and Wild Things. Each comprises five or six diverse chapters of varied length. In the Villagers section rural communities are considered as assemblages... -
Designing Small Gardens by Ian Cooke
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.67Small gardens can be as versatile as their gardeners - personal, peaceful havens, sophisticated spaces for entertaining or bold showcases for plant displays.Features and reviews in BBC Gardener's World, Garden Answers, Amateur Gardening and More From... -
Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries Thomas Hall 9780415511889
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £38.84**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 1991. The paperback released in 2011 is a reprint of the original**Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Emphasis... -
Garden as Art - Beatrix Farrand at Dumbarton Oaks by Thaisa Way
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £33.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024910Author Thaisa WayFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &... -
BIM for Landscape by Landscape Institute
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £47.34BIM (Building Information Modelling) is transforming working practices across the built environment sector, as clients, professionals, contractors and manufacturers throughout the supply chain grasp the opportunities that BIM presents. The first book... -
The Language of Landscape by Anne Whiston Spirn 9780300082944
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.65This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn, author of the award-winning The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, argues that the language of landscape exists with its... -
Housing Boom and Bust: Owner Occupation, Government Regulation and the Credit Crunch Peter King 9780415553148
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £41.81Housing bubbles burst, creating economic misery for millions. Over the past thirty years, the culture of property ownership has become so ingrained that policy makers, bankers and households have taken for granted that housing is a good investment and... -
Pruning Simplified: A Step-by-Step Guide to 50 Popular Trees and Shrubs by ,Steve Bradley 9781604698886
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.49"One of the most practical and helpful how-to gardening books I have ever read." -The Oregonian Are you intimidated by pruning? Or tired of paying a professional to tackle the task? You can prune most trees and shrubs on your own, and Pruning Simplified... -
Nature by Design: The Practice of Biophilic Design by Stephen R. Kellert
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £32.14Biophilia is the theory that people possess an inherent affinity for nature, which developed during the long course of human evolution. In recent years, studies have revealed that this inclination continues to be a vital component to human health and... -
Erik Dhont: Landscape Architects. Works 1999-2020 Erik Dhont 9783775748155
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £30.87Landscape architecture is a form of high art for Erik Dhont, who has brought both nuance and sensitivity to various sites. Playing with flowers, grasses, shrubs or trees, he creates unique spaces, structures and textures. His timeless green paradises... -
Therapeutic Landscapes: An Evidence-Based Approach to Designing Healing Gardens and Restorative Outdoor Spaces Clare Cooper Marcus (University of California, Berkeley) 9781118231913
RRP: £76.95Booksplease Price: £66.80This comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation. It provides general guidelines for designers and other stakeholders in a variety of... -
Walking Cities: London by Jaspar Joseph-Lester
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.32Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking,... -
Designing London: Understanding the Character of the City by Ike Ijeh
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £30.37Urban character is frequently cited by planners, developers and architects as something they wish to protect and enhance. But little or no effort is ever made to define urban character in specific or quantitative terms.In Designing London, architect and... -
Garden Ornaments: Pots, Pergolas, Pedestals, and More E. Ashley Rooney 9780764319563
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £20.96Statues, fountains, sundials, and obelisks--don't most of us want to live with beauty in a garden? Garden ornaments can breathe life into a garden, no matter its size. When art is placed in a garden, we are invited to explore and enjoy the experience... -
The Art of Earth Architecture: Past, Present, Future by Jean Dethier 9780500343579
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £61.82For almost 10,000 years man has built in unbaked earth, not only simple dwellings but also palaces, temples and fortresses of the utmost grandeur and durability. This encyclopedic work shows the extreme diversity of this type of architecture from a... -
Foundations of Landscape Architecture: Integrating Form and Space Using the Language of Site Design by Norman Booth
RRP: £51.95Booksplease Price: £45.56A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural design Landscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users' varying lifestyles and needs, incorporate cultural heritage, promote sustainability, and integrate...