Architectural & Industrial

We live in a visual age where everyone considers him- or herself to be a photographer, and 1.8 billion images are posted online each day. User-generated content has been used in a myriad of high-profile advertisements. Like a lottery winner, the amateur...

Lovingly crafted photo book of San Miguel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site consistently voted one of the most beautiful cities in the world. San Miguel de Allende is an exquisitely beautiful, well-preserved Spanish colonial town. This charming 480-year-old...

Fauxliage documents the proliferation of disguised cell phone towers in the American West. By attempting to conceal an unsightly yet essential technology of the modern world, our landscapes now contain a quirky mosaic of masquerading palms, evergreens,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783716518694Author Gabriel MauronFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Benteli VerlagPublisher Benteli VerlagWeight(grams) 780g

In an expanded and updated edition, photographer Eric Hubolow captures the melancholy, haunting beauty of decaying structures across the US. Across the United States, decaying ruins of once-thriving structures lie dormant and forgotten as time and...

Chester County, Pennsylvania, is arguably one of the more historic and naturally beautiful places in the United States. This photographic exploration of the region includes memorable images of scenes such as the Devon Horse Show, the Kennett Square...

A ghostly portrait of an untenanted Venice In these stark black-and-white photographs, gallerist and photographer Mario Peliti (born 1958) transforms our perceptions of Venice. All the pictures were taken under the same lighting conditions, with no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895488180Author Thaddeus HolowniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Anchorage PressPublisher Anchorage PressWeight(grams) 398g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895488319Author Thaddeus HolowniaFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Anchorage PressPublisher Anchorage PressWeight(grams) 618g

Although a regional book, the subject is demolition/gentrification; how cities are changing. This is relevant across North America. Of interest to readers of urban design and urban planning illustrates what is valued, what is destroyed/discarded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692132067Author Thaddeus HolowniaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Anchorage PressPublisher Anchorage PressWeight(grams) 1548g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772033076Author George J MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

City Hall is the first book to feature striking contemporary images of the most architecturally significant city halls in the United States. This diverse collection includes New York, the oldest; Philadelphia, once the tallest building in the world; and...

Andrea Botto, a photographer and visual artist specializing in large works, uses his shots to describe the stages involved in the demolition of the old Ponte Morandi and the construction of the new infrastructure designed by Renzo Piano. His lens follows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878804Author Peter SteinhauerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

As Paris and its shopping arcades were to the 19th Century, Dubai and its wondrous malls may be to the new millennium. The Baudelarian flaneur, is replaced by the phoneur, a wired wanderer who uses the cell phone to text and call and access the internet,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838861650Author Dominic ConnollyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Amber BooksPublisher Amber BooksWeight(grams) 1338gDimensions(mm) 301mm * 233mm *...

Hans Danuser is among the foremost contemporary Swiss photographic artists. He has gained particular recognition for his art projects in collaboration with architects and for his architectural photography. His work has been shown internationally in solo...

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...

How do we engage with places that once played a pivotal role in our communities? Memories of Australia explores this question by documenting abandoned buildings across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Witness how nature is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551521350Author Stan DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 257g

Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York Times In the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with a powerful first-person narrative. She takes...

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...

Since it was first published in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas" has become a classic in the theory of architecture and one of the most influential architecture texts of the twentieth century. The treatise by Robert Venturi (*1925), Denise Scott Brown...

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...

"Design writers Thijs Demeulemeester and Bert Voet's book Carchitecture explores the historical parallels between trends in architectural styles and car design." - Financial Times A book like a road trip along iconic American homes and the unique cars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955773693Author Jean ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint SimplymePublisher SimplymeWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 6mm

For most people locations that hold a particular importance for the development of our society and for the advancement of science and technology often remain hidden from view. They are separate and protected, such as CERN, the European Organization for...

Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architecture in...

In good times and bad, our best friends are there for support, therapy, and unconditional love. Especially now-where would we be without our dogs? Although the so-called modernists of Palm Springs embrace the serenity of life in post-WWII America, the...

Evocative, entertaining, nostalgic and informative; "Trams" is a fascinating anthology of some of the best stories and descriptive articles written about a vehicle that was once queen of the road. The book covers many aspects of the tramcar, in the days...

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The Salt Shed chronicles the compelling work of reimagining and transforming Chicago's impressive and iconic Morton Salt Warehouse while honoring its history and its working-class roots.Originally constructed in 1929, the Morton Salt Shed and Warehouse...