Architectural & Industrial

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...

A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sunday Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. He left an archive of photographs, chronicling mid-twentieth century American life, of people doing...

Tower Bridge is one of the most famous bridges in the world. Designed by Sir Horace Jones (1819-1887) and engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry (1836-1918) over a period of eight years, it was the largest and most advanced bascule bridge ever completed when it...

Architect to Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti, Mark Foster Gage has spent 20 years leading the digital architectural avant-garde, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in architecture and design and exploding expectations. This volume features built...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2010 Ken Book Award presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Metro (NAMI-NYC Metro) 2010.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587354Author Gabriele BasilicoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1627g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783741274Author Professor Lionel GossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams)...

"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...

Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what are we looking at in an archaeological photograph? Archaeological photography is often largely deserted, to be scanned with a forensic gaze,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865217028Author Robert PolidoriFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 7600g

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,...

While much has been written about how photography serves architecture, this book looks at how fine-art photographers frame constructed space - from cities to single anonymous rooms. It analyses various techniques used and reveals resonances and rhythms...

The intellectual adventure of developing the atomic bomb at Los Alamos has been well documented, but the fact is that 90% of the Manhattan Project expenditures went to produce the exotic nuclear explosive materials required. That is the story told here,...

Follow the Sun will guide you through all aspects of architectural photography, from the genre's rich history to the exciting new approaches brought by the advent of the digital age. It explains how to use the powerful tools of digital photography while...

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...

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)...

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...

When exploring the remains of forgotten buildings and abandoned lots in Eastern and Western Europe, a sign with "Trespassers will be prosecuted!" is usually what you'll find outside. Imposing, seemingly lifeless structures-some abandoned for more than 25...

Despite its consistent presence in architectural practice throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, collage has never been considered a standard form of architectural representation like drafting, model making, or sketching. The work of Marshall Brown, an...

With a life and career spanning nearly a century, Julius Shulman is credited with furthering the midcentury modernist movement through his flawless photographs of the pioneering architecture of Richard Neutra and Charles Eames, among others. While...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912894192Author Robert StephensonFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

Ancoats, in Manchester, was once unimaginably different. One of the world's earliest industrial suburbs, it was dark and dense, noisy, frenetic, violent and unhealthy. It was also vibrant and creative. It had a striking vapour, sound and feel. The area...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517535834Author Barbara GlebskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934211383Author Dick DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 284g

Through a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city's origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site's recent transformation - Makkah, until recently, embodied a unique urban tapestry, layered with histories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756250001Author Yuto YamadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455615841Author Kerri McCaffetyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966438833Author Laura Paresky GouldFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Key PressPublisher Key Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921383885Author Kara RosenlundFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint LanternPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 1666gDimensions(mm) 296mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735600123Author Jeffrey I RichmanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bauer and Dean PublishersPublisher Bauer and Dean PublishersWeight(grams)...

One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the WeekFrom Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the...

The first monograph of photographer Wayne Thom, whose documentation of Late Modern architecture constitutes an architectural/visual archive unlike any other. A key primer to late-twentieth century Modernism, this monograph devoted to Wayne Thom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793604445Author John FalconerFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Strandberg PublishingPublisher Strandberg PublishingWeight(grams) 910g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997825114Author Christina RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Photo Friends PublicationsPublisher Photo Friends PublicationsWeight(grams) 386g

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991541836Author Richard NickelFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint CityFiles PressPublisher CityFiles PressWeight(grams) 2070g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637604960Author David KahlerFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Primedia eLaunch LLCPublisher Primedia eLaunch LLCWeight(grams) 2799gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905792306Author David AppsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Foruli CodexPublisher Foruli LimitedWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 7mm