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The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe Mariusz Sokołowicz 9781032289298
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present... -
Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture by Barbara Miller Lane
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.75Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines... -
The Political Unconscious of Architecture: Re-opening Jameson's Narrative by Nadir Lahiji
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.75Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, in which he insisted that... -
Rebuilding Cities from Medieval to Modern Times by Percy Johnson-Marshall
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.73Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city planning from the ""Ideal City"" of Palmanova in 1593... -
Places Through the Body Heidi Nast 9780415179058
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €65.78This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies. Extensive introductory and concluding sections guide... -
Beyond Description: Singapore Space Historicity by Ryan Bishop
RRP: €94.00Booksplease Price: €86.68This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various... -
City A-Z: Urban Fragments by Steve Pile 9780415207287
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.81Featuring a fantastic line up of contributors, The City A-Z introduces students to a refreshingly new way of thinking about and understanding cities and urban life. Specially comissioned short... -
New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures by Emily Talen 9780415701334
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.73New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners' quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth... -
Hotel Lobbies and Lounges: The Architecture of Professional Hospitality Tom Avermaete (TU Delft, The Netherlands) 9780415496537
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €65.43This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for the practitioner and as a... -
Urban Transformations: Power, People and Urban Design Ian Bentley 9780415128247
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €65.43Cities affect every person's life, yet across the traditional divides of class, age, gender and political affiliation, armies of people are united in their dislike of the transformations that cities... -
Representing Landscapes: Digital Nadia Amoroso (University of Toronto, Canada) 9781138778382
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €67.40Most landscape architectural designs now include some form of digital representation - but there is much more scope for creativity beyond the standard Photoshop montages. In this new book on... -
Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination Sandy Isenstadt (University of Delaware, US) 9781138813922
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and... -
American Buildings by Leland M. Roth
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €51.22Architecture requires a broad definition. It involves more than simply questions of style, esoteric theory, or technical progress; it is the physical record of a culture's relationship to its... -
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Rod Hackney 9781138778948
RRP: €116.61Booksplease Price: €107.91First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British... -
Big House Little City: Architectural Design Through an Urban Lens Benedict Zucchi 9781032259734
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €44.20***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Combining architectural and urban thinking in an unusual and engaging way, this book presents an integrated approach to architectural theory... -
Cities, Citizens, and Technologies: Urban Life and Postmodernity by Paula Geyh 9780415807944
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and... -
Balanchine: A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance Eleni Hofmeister 9783718654291
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography. The book examines Balanchine from diverse perspectives and discusses unexplored aspects of his work, such as... -
Recognising European Modernities: A Montage of the Present by Allan Pred
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45For over a century, Europe has been characterised by a plurality of capitalist modernities. At any moment, each country possesses its own distinctly modern qualities which are partly shaped through... -
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary by Dirk Schubert
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €57.33Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas... -
The Latent World of Architecture: Selected Essays Dalibor Vesely 9781032223261
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015). Vesely was a leading authority on philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology in... -
Julia Kristeva by Joanne Morra
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €136.46First published in 1998. This is Volume 4, Number 3 of Parallax 8, of July-September 1998. It focuses on the intellectual aesthetics, politics and ethics of Julia Kristeva from 1966 to 1996.Book... -
The Complexities of John Hejduk's Work: Exorcising Outlines, Apparitions and Angels J. Kevin Story (University of Houston) 9780367511487
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This book traces the development of John Hejduk's architectural career, using the idea of "exorcism" to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound... -
Beyond Sustainable: Architecture's Evolving Environments of Habitation by Ryan Ludwig
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Beyond Sustainable discusses the relationship between human-beings and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable... -
The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity by Charles Rice
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €65.43Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the... -
Stairs Sylvia Blanc 9780750648462
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.81Stairs are a fundamental and universal feature of buildings. The late Alan Blanc had a lifetime's obsession with stairs and steps and provided a definitive reference source that bridges the aesthetic... -
Lefebvre for Architects by Nathaniel Coleman 9780415639408
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €37.12While the work of Henri Lefebvre has become better known in the English-speaking world since the 1991 translation of his 1974 masterpiece, The Production of Space, his influence on the actual... -
Imagination by E. J. Furlong 9781138871144
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37First published in 2002. This essay has its origin primarily in some of the remarks on imagination made by Professor Ryle in The Concept of Mind. Reflection on arguments used in that book led the... -
The Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and Environment Dean Hawkes 9780367537166
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes' impressive 50-year academic career.The book... -
Images of the American City by Anselm L. Strauss 9781412853828
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Originally published in 1961, Images of the American City examines how Americans dealt with the rapid shock of urbanization as it evolved from an agricultural nation. Working from the framework of a... -
Bibles and Baedekers: Tourism, Travel, Exile and God by Michael Grimshaw 9781845530686
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €107.91Contemporary tourism and travel have become a form of religion, a new opiate of the masses. However, could Church and theology be religious forms of tourism and travel? 'Bibles and Baedekers' offers... -
Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960 Brenda Martin 9780415284493
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a... -
Private Dwelling: Contemplating the Use of Housing Peter King (De Montfort University, UK) 9780415336215
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.39Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy and security and allows us to be intimate with those we are close to. This book considers the nature of privacy but also how... -
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Routledge Revivals) Rod Hackney 9781138781290
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €34.08First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British... -
Dogs and Chairs: Designer Pairs by Cristina Amodeo
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.78What does Alvar Aalto's 1 Paimio have in common with a Doberman Pinscher, Le Corbusier's LC4 with a Spanish Greyhound, or Philippe Starck's Costes Chair with a Fox Terrier? Not a lot, you may think... -
Rem Koolhaas/OMA - The Construction of Merveilles Roberto Gargiani 9782889153121
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €75.26The creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic marvels amid the skylines of America, Europe, and Asia, Rem Koolhaas, along with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is justly... -
Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity by Catherine Ingraham 9780300071191
Booksplease Price: €56.41In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and literal force in architecture. She... -
The Mother Tongue of Architecture: Selected Writing from Kazi Khaleed Ashraf by Kazi Ashraf 9781957183596
RRP: €59.44Booksplease Price: €40.85A collection of critical essays on abiding and compelling topics in architecture and the culture of architecture. Range of topics are diverse: an architectural phenomenology of water, architecture... -
Theo Van Doesburg: Painting into Architecture, Theory into Practice by Mr. Alan Doig 9780521129817
Booksplease Price: €51.57This is a comprehensive study of a major figure of the modern movement, in whose work philosophy, architecture and painting are inextricably entwined. From the founding of the periodical De Stijl in... -
Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century by Marianna Charitonidou 9781032444185
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and... -
The Francophone Bande Dessinée by Charles Forsdick 9789042017764
Booksplease Price: €75.46Known as France’s Ninth Art, the bande dessinée has a status far surpassing that of the equivalent English-language comic strip. This publication, one of the first predominantly in English on the...