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Daylight, Design and Place-Making Hisham Elkadi 9780367673550
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Daylight, Design and Place-Making examines the role of daylight in creating and revealing the wonders of heritage and contemporary architecture. Shifting from a purely technical approach to... -
Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality by Michael Jasper 9780367444266
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late-twentieth-century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual... -
A Language of Contemporary Architecture: An Index of Topology and Typology Rafael Luna 9781032245386
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.44As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the... -
Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis by Marinos Pourgouris 9781138253735
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and... -
The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities John Macarthur 9781844720118
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque - when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as... -
The Future of Cities by Andrew Blowers 9780415853699
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £45.09This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is concentrated on the areas which seem most relevant... -
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities Jean-Francois Lejeune 9780415776349
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from... -
Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis by Marinos Pourgouris 9781409410003
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.98Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and... -
Architecture In Minutes by Susie Hodge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In this hyper-compact, fully illustrated guide to architecture, Susie Hodge outlines the history and theory of architecture from the earliest structures to the cutting-edge concepts of the present... -
Narrating Architecture: A Retrospective Anthology by James Madge
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.78This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, published together for the first time in a single volume. Covering a wide... -
Walter Benjamin and Architecture Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia) 9780415851992
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin's discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories. Issues such as technology and history... -
Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette Fiona McLachlan 9780415597098
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14How do architects use color? Do they adopt a different strategy or starting point for every project? Do they gradually cultivate individual color palettes, which develop alongside their body of built... -
Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis: Modern Civic Art and International Exchanges by Charles Bohl
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.98These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first... -
Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture by Robert Cody
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is... -
Architecture and Participation by Peter Blundell Jones
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in the field, Architecture... -
Making Space in the Works of James Joyce by Valerie Benejam 9781138378094
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44James Joyce's preoccupation with space-be it urban, geographic, stellar, geometrical or optical-is a central and idiosyncratic feature of his work. In Making Space in the Works of James Joyce, some... -
Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded by Gevork Hartoonian 9781138573376
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of... -
Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick 9780241389799
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.78From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with... -
Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City by Vittoria Di Palma 9780415415071
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £48.80Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private. Rather than focusing purely... -
Encyclopedia of the City by Roger W. Caves 9780415862875
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £52.39The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and practitioners, and... -
Architecture and Science-Fiction Film: Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home David T. Fortin 9781032925240
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF... -
The Groundbreakers: Architects in American History - Their Places and Times Charles E. Dagit, Jr. 9781032923826
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83If there is anything to be learned from the history of American architecture it is that it reflects the American adventure in creativity and inventiveness, and the desire to be unique and expressive... -
Modern Architecture by Alan Colquhoun
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £19.52This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement... -
Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture & Identity by Simone Vera Bader 9783966800013
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.69This book presents a curated selection of Balkrishna Doshi's exceptional writings since the 1950s, with some published here for the first time. The collection of 15 lectures, articles and essays is... -
Marking Ground by 9780711234635
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.41A personal account of three major buildings by the famed Israeli architect, Ada Karmi-Melamede: the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem, co-designed by her brother Ram Karmi (1993); the Open... -
Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture by Barbara Miller Lane
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Housing 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: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Thirty 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: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Unique 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: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28This 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: £78.99Booksplease Price: £72.84This 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: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Featuring 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: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19New 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... -
Balanchine: A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance Eleni Hofmeister 9783718654291
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This 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: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84For 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: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Jane 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: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This 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: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.67First 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: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This 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: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Beyond 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: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Taking 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...