Architectural & Industrial

An immersive photographic tour of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, whose residents share their stories and reveal the delirious history of this landmark. Jackson Pollock, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Arthur C...

A flaneur and photographer at once, Eugene Atget (1857-1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the native of Libourne turned to photography and moved to Paris. He supplied studies for painters,...

Photographer Frederic Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in 14 former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture. His poetic pictures reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning...

"And Living Roofs is landscape inspiration galore."-Living Magazines(Cheshire, Cotswolds, Essex, Hampshire, Hereford, Oxford and Wiltshire) A green paradise high above the city's rooftops is something so many people dream of, including those living in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783716518632Author Frank HerfortFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Benteli VerlagPublisher Benteli VerlagWeight(grams) 880g

This latest book by Tarquin Blake documents eighty abandoned Church of Ireland churches, preserving a record of fragile religious ruins. Their history, dating back to early Christianity in Ireland, paints a stark portrait of a Protestant aristocracy and...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***We live in a world driven by images, but with so much visual noise, is anyone really looking? How does an architect ensure their portfolio is within view of the right audience? Photographs are still...

"Haunting photographs" - The Wall Street Journal. "Henk van Rensbergen is a hero for urban explorers around the world" - Flanders Today. "As an airline pilot, Belgian-born Henk Van Rensbergen was used to travelling the world. But he found a great way to...

An unsurpassable, visual tour of the greatest pilgrimage sites of Europe, from North to South; East to West. Pilgrimage in Europe is currently thriving on a scale that simply could not have been envisaged just a few decades ago. Not only are greater...

Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the...

The Triple Folly presents the rich collaboration between artist Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and textile makers Kvadrat which produced an astonishing new pavilion for Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus. The basis of the building is three found paper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423647638Author Ben RahnFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203939Author Alexandra CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 2440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782081506572Author Laure VerchereFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1580g

Discover the secrets to mastering street photography-from city streets to country roads and the alleyways in between-from an acclaimed international photographer, teacher, and bestselling author. Street photography offers treasured moments at almost...

The Art of Japanese Architecture presents a complete overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. The book begins with a discussion of early prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a description of works by important modern...

It is fascinating to think that many hundreds of generations of Londoners lie beneath the city without us knowing. Over many centuries burial grounds have been developed, built over and then forgotten, often beneath playgrounds, gardens or car parks...

Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and London; desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains; metro stations in China that terminate in a wasteland; Abandoned Train Stations looks at some of the thousands of disused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566510Author Rob BallFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

The first ever collection of photographs showing in detail the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world's most important urban exploration site. The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was created by the Soviets in the 1950s. It was from Baikonur in 1988 that the...

The decaying remnants of obselete industries and defunct commerce - whether coal mines, shipyards, factories, shopping centres, power plants, warehouses or mills - lie scattered in desolate locations throughout the world. These left-over structures still...

Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he is known as a 20th-century master of architecture. To mark the first centenary of Scarpa's birth, all his works are presented here for the first time. The...

When cricket was democratised and taken up more widely in the nineteenth century, the pavilion became an essential item for every cricket club. Pavilions provide the necessary facilities – changing areas, room to eat, drink and socialise, an external...

Bestselling Van Life author Foster Huntington shares his experiences - as well as others - living by his own rules in this aspirational book filled with awe-inspiring photographs of unique homes in unexpected places.After spending three years on the road...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952620294Author Sarah AllabackFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Library of American Landscape HistoryPublisher Library of American Landscape History

'The Chateau de Versailles is a real photographic challenge because it is so huge: there is an infinite number of possible points of view and they are never the same, depending on the time of day, the weather or the season... There are always new photos...

Join photographer George Munday on a tour around the eccentric, beautiful, bizarre and eye-catching follies that decorate our island. Ireland possesses a wealth of follies - picturesque buildings erected to commemorate loved ones, to enhance a view,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566602Author Joshua BlackburnFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Exploring some of the world's eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American civil war forts, Europe's last leper colony and South Atlantic whaling stations, along with once grand mansions and colonial settlements and churches, and much more...

Discover dozens of underappreciated landmarks and the stories behind them in this unique history on New York City, written and photographed by Landmarks of NY creator, Tommy Silk.New York is a city of landmarks - more than 37,000 of them. Visitors and...

An ancient island with a romantic history and lush green landscape, Ireland's culture stretches back to the time of St Patrick and the first Christian monks and includes the Norman invasion, clan wars, mass emigration and partition in the early 20th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425852Author Calvin TompkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

The new edition of the classic Iconic New York surprises with an even larger format, and previously unpublished photographs of the world-famous metropolis on the Hudson River. Christopher Bliss, is a true New Yorker, and who else could depict this great...

In this famed collection of full-color photographs, Birney Imes reveals a previously unexplored and now nearly vanished domain, the black juke joints of the Mississippi Delta. Imes's work transforms these common gathering places in Delta cultural life...

WHAT IS THERE TO SEE? That was the question the authors of this book, Elke and Niko Rollman, heard all the time when explaining their photographic project. The answer is LOOK AGAIN, this book will encourage its readers to see the London Underground in a...

'Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures' - Don McCullin Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor is driven by an eye...

To earn a living these days, your photography has to rise above a lot of noise, so you need all the advantages you can get. Here, Dan M. Lee gives you back-to-back hard-hitting ideas that are proven to make every shot in your portfolio a stand-out image...

In 2010, photographer Cemal Emden set out to document every building designed by the master architect Le Corbusier. Traveling through three continents, Emden photographed all the 52 buildings that remain standing. Each of these buildings is featured in...

Award winning international photographer Robert Herman elevates the practice of street photography in The Phone Book. With the iPhone (TM), he has created compelling images from his travels around the world. Inspired by the new Hipstamatic App (TM), The...

For the first time ever, Thomas Garnier - official photographer of the Palace of Versailles - reveals a secret the chateau has harboured for centuries: its extraordinary beauty when seen from the air. Versailles seen from the sky is dreamlike. This...