Architectural & Industrial

"The oldest things are the newest"-this paradoxical idea is present throughout the oeuvre of contemporary Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 2008, Sugimoto and the architect Tomoyuki Sakakida founded the New Material Research...

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 9783899558586Author Andrew GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Take a photographic journey into Liverpool's often overlooked local, craft and advertising history. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that commissioned the signs that now appear...

Whether ruined or opulent, castles have the power to fire the imagination. For almost a millennium, they have studded the Irish countryside. The concept of using building methods to protect territory was introduced from overseas in the twelfth century,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211163Author Rebecca LitchfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams)...

Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America's abandoned state hospitals, asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916385108Author Revd Len AbramsFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Season ImagesPublisher Season ImagesDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524763503Author New York TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc

'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...

Trope Publishing Company’s new Mobile Edition Series identifies fine art photographers shooting in a new way, using mobile devices as their primary tool to capture images, in a category still defining itself. Among the millions of images posted to social...

Throughout the ages, mankind has been fascinated by the ruins of previous societies. The desire to gain a greater understanding of our past has driven archaeologists, artists, and scholars from across the world to study the vestiges of lifestyles that...

Temples have been places of worship, a focus for spirituality and a place for communities to gather since the earliest days of human civilisation. The first temples date back to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, deriving from the cult of deities and...

The idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is as old as humanity. In this neat TASCHEN edition, take a tour of some of our finest arboreal adventures with 50 of the most beautiful, inventive, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899554663Author Sven EhmannFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899552492Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Sri Lanka Style showcases 30 of the finest traditional and modern dwellings in Sri Lanka.Reflecting its location and status as a hub of Indian Ocean trade from time immemorial, the tropical island of Sri Lanka has always been open to the movements and...

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...

From the granting of borough status in 1614 through to its development as an industrial port and then as a fashionable seaside resort, the west Cornwall town of Penzance has a proud and distinctive history. This is embodied in the many fine buildings...

When Charlotte Horton and her family of British bohemians discovered an abandoned Tuscan castle, little did they know that they would transform it into a vibrant, modern locale. Nestled in the rugged terrain of Mount Amiata, Castello di Potentino was a...

In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the discovery of oil and the mechanical advantage of the internal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211132Author Tong LamFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 1180gDimensions(mm)...

More than twenty years after its initial publication, Michael Kenna's seminal collection of photographs of the Ford River Rouge industrial complex is now available in a new, revised, and expanded edition. One of the world's most acclaimed photographers...

Unique panoramic views in true perspective.Shot entirely with a classic panoramic camera, Mark Denton's distinctive photography reveals some of the finest ever wide views of London. This new, revised and updated edition, offers a unique introductions to...

Visit Los Angeles with a photographer who knows how to get the lighting right to highlight the spectacular architecture of the city. Stylish museums, such as the Broad, and a flourishing Arts District illustrate the explosive art scene, while Hollywood s...

This stunning photographic ode to one of the world's most beloved treasures pays tribute to Notre-Dame--its place in history and in culture, and its rebirth--in the wake of the tragic fire that nearly destroyed it. With its spectacular rose windows,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969001097Author Ara Paolo ZryaFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912165452Author James ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press

Pay homage to the wonders of the world from above. Professional photographer Henry Do redefines how we view the world in a fearless perspective on aerial photography, from lush tropical paradises to the stark patterns of urban landscapes..Henry Do's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211101Author RomanyWGFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 1390gDimensions(mm)...

This well-illustrated journey through 50 magnificent villas and palaces built by the Italian aristocracy covers country retreats in Tuscany and the Veneto, impressive residences in Rome and Siena, and fortress like castles and grand villas in Trieste and...

This is a superbly illustrated look at the evolution of the photographic work of Ed Ruscha - the quintessential Los Angeles artist. Los-Angeles based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's books,...

Villa Albani Torlonia, with its collections, the Italian garden, and the hemicycle of the Kaffeehaus, is a sublime testimony of that particular antiquarian taste which came to the fore in the mid-eighteenth century, that for which Rome became a favourite...

Bandstands of Britain is a historical celebration of one of the best-loved features still found in many of our parks, open spaces, squares and seaside towns. They are a reminder of a forgotten age of outdoor music and theatre, and act as a lingering...

In 2006, architectural designer and curator Adam Stech embarked on a photographic project to document the best Modernist architecture around the globe. Twenty-five countries and more than a decade later, the fruits of that monumental project are gathered...

Questions of privacy, borders, and nationhood are increasingly shaping the way we think about all things digital. Data Centers brings together essays and photographic documentation that analyze recent and ongoing developments. Taking Switzerland as an...

In The Intimacy of Making Swiss French photographer Helene Binet takes us on a visual journey through a world of stone, walls and gardens that define and celebrate the Korean art of making. In pure and calm photographs we discover traditional Korean...

This title presents a pictorial history of the "City of the Future" throughout the 20th century. The celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is one of the few image makers to have documented, as well as witnessed,...

The book is a compendium of homes, including apartments and single-family houses, that have been remodeled to suit contemporary lifestyle needs. Rehabilitations of living spaces are often done to reanimate existing constructions that, over time, have...