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Modernist Architecture and Interiors by ,Adam Stech 9783791386096
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.94In 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... -
Nietzsche and Architecture: The Grand Style for Modern Living Dr Lucy Huskinson 9781350412903
Booksplease Price: £88.38Nietzsche and Architecture explores Nietzsche's relationship to the architects, buildings, and modern architectural movements he went on to inspire, and situates his philosophy more appropriately and... -
Architectural Theory. Pioneering Texts on Architecture from the Renaissance to Today Bernd Evers 9783836599627
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.00If you've ever wondered what goes through architects' minds when they design buildings, you'll be happy to know that there's no shortage of brilliant reading material to satisfy your curiosity... -
Urbanism and Transport: Building Blocks for Architects and City and Transport Planners Helmut Holzapfel (University of Kassel, Germany) 9781138798182
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities... -
The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda Un-Habitat 9780815379294
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In... -
Contemporary Art and the Home Colin Painter 9781859736616
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The home is, for many people, the location for their most intense relationships with visual things. Because they are constructed through the objects we choose, domestic spaces are deeply revealing of... -
Instabilities and Potentialities: Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture Chandler Ahrens 9781138583993
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, Instabilities and Potentialities explores our post-digital culture to better understand its impact on theoretical... -
New Architecture and Technology Gyula Sebestyen 9780750651646
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £57.53Many books have covered the topics of architecture, materials and technology. 'New Architecture and Technology' is the first to explore the interrelation between these three subjects. It illustrates... -
Utopias and Architecture Nathaniel Coleman 9780415700856
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £73.14Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work... -
Reckoning with Colin Rowe: Ten Architects Take Position Emmanuel Petit (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, USA) 9780415741552
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades... -
Towards a New Architect by Yasmin Shariff
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69After three years of education, architecture students have to start out on their first year of practical training as the initial step in a career in the professional world - all too often without... -
Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950 Arturo Almandoz 9780415553087
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe, and... -
European Film Theory Temenuga Trifonova (York University, Canada) 9780415960441
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14European Film Theory explores the 'Europeanness' of European film theory, its philosophical origins, the 'culture wars' between 'Continental' and 'Analytical' film theory and philosophy, the major... -
Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time: Reflections around Anachronistic Drawings by Anne Bordeleau 9780367739966
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and sometimes even centuries, how can architecture... -
The Death of Drawing: Architecture in the Age of Simulation David Scheer 9780415834964
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The Death of Drawing explores the causes and effects of the epochal shift from drawing to computation as the chief design and communication medium in architecture. Drawing both framed the thinking of... -
Understanding Architecture: An Introduction to Architecture and Architectural History by Hazel Conway
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to... -
Facadism Jonathan Richards 9780415756020
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Facadism - the preservation of historic facades, the creation of facsimiles in front of new buildings and the decorative exercises of postmodernism - is accused of destroying architectural... -
Urban Design: Street and Square Cliff Moughtin 9780750657174
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14This book, part of a series of four, offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It outlines the theory... -
What an Architecture Student Should Know by Jadwiga Krupinska
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48It's not just you. Every architecture student is initially confused by architecture school - an education so different that it doesn't compare to anything else. A student's joy at being chosen in... -
Gender Studies in Architecture: Space, Power and Difference by Dorte Kuhlmann 9780415623001
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Analyzing a range of ideas from biological, evolutionary and anthropological theories to a variety of feminist, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and constructivist discourses, this book provides a... -
The Government of Space: Town Planning in Modern Society by Alison Ravetz 9780415844451
RRP: £97.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Britain's planning system began as 'town and country planning' to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and... -
Building Fascism, Communism, Liberal Democracy: Gaetano Ciocca-Architect, Inventor, Farmer, Writer, Engineer by Jeffrey T. Schnapp
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £51.90This book tells the tale of the prolific Italian architect, inventor, farmer, writer, and engineer Gaetano Ciocca, whose career took him from the battlefronts of World War I to Stalin's Russia,... -
Retro Revival: Living with Mid-Century Design by Andrew Weaving 9781788795777
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.02Now that the vibrant colours and bold shapes of mid-century design are more popular than ever, Retro Revival offers a privileged glimpse into fabulous retro-inspired homes around the world. Our... -
domus 1950-1959 Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836593847
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and... -
The Government of Space: Town Planning in Modern Society by Alison Ravetz
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64Britain's planning system began as 'town and country planning' to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and... -
The Buildings Around Us by Thom Gorst
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Buildings surround and affect us all. In this clear and concise introduction to buildings Thom Gorst demystifies the culture of architecture and shows how an interest in our environment - whatever... -
Reading Architecture and Culture: Researching Buildings, Spaces and Documents by Adam Sharr 9780415601436
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who have participated in it, their relationships, and... -
What is Architecture? by Andrew Ballantyne 9780415256278
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things. The essays collected here challenge, and help to define a... -
Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning by Sophia Psarra 9780415343763
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Architecture is often seen as the art of a thinking mind that arranges, organizes and establishes relationships between the parts and the whole. It is also seen as the art of designing spaces, which... -
Jørn Utzon and Transcultural Essentialism by Adrian Carter 9780367555894
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book introduces and defines the burgeoning concepts of transculturalism and essentialism and how they relate to one another, as articulated with reference to the work of Jorn Utzon. It... -
Accessible Housing: Quality, Disability and Design by Rob Imrie
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £72.84Considering the interrelationships between disability and housing design with a focus on the role of policy in addressing the housing needs of disabled people, this book sets out some of the broader... -
Mapping the Global Architect of Alterity: Practice, Representation and Education by Michael Jenson
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Due to globalization, cultural spaces are now developing with no tangible connection to geographical place. The territorial logic traditionally used to underpin architecture and envision our built... -
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City Simon Parker (University of York, UK) 9780415520706
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £73.99Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged... -
Shadow: the architectural power of withholding light by Simon Unwin
Booksplease Price: £26.09Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation... -
The Street: A Quintessential Social Public Space Vikas Mehta 9780415737296
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.64Received the Environmental Design Research Association's 2014 Place Book AwardShortlisted for the UDG Francis Tibbalds Book Award 2014Good cities are places of social encounter. Creating public... -
The Cultural Role of Architecture: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives Paul Emmons (Virginia Tech, USA) 9780415783415
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word 'culture' in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It examines the historical role of the cultural in... -
The Urban Design Reader by Michael Larice 9780415668088
RRP: £87.99Booksplease Price: £77.89The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous... -
The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture: Air, Comfort and Climate C. Alan Short 9781138651463
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £57.83The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are... -
Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing by Mark Fox
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.24A new pictorial reference book for artists and designers, with over 400 images from sources ranging from Greco-Roman art to Benjamin Franklin and Wes Anderson - Symbols offers a fresh approach to... -
The Ideal City: Its Architectural Evolution in Europe Helen Rosenau 9780415864756
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04The concept of the 'ideal city' is, perhaps, more important today - when planners and architects are so firmly confined by considerations of our immediate environment - than ever before. Yet it is a...