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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... -
Cities and Design Paul L. Knox (Virginia Tech, USA) 9780415492898
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of... -
Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader by Douglas Kelbaugh
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour. Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of... -
The Deck Access Housing Design Guide: A Return to Streets in the Sky Andrew Beharrell 9781032218953
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.15***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***The Deck Access Housing Design Guide is the first practical design guide to deck access housing. It focuses on the contemporary use of deck... -
Rethinking Modernity: Between the local and the International by Antigoni Katsakou
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.74This book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity. Bringing into view the work of lesser-known architects from across the globe, alongside... -
Children's Spaces Mark Dudek 9780750654265
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.74This collection of essays is concerned with the experiences children have within the supervised worlds they inhabit, as well as with architecture and landscape architecture.International examples of... -
Urban Design: Green Dimensions Peter Shirley 9780750662079
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19In Green Dimensions, Cliff Moughtin relates sustainable development and green design to the realm of urban design and development. Examining regional and local frameworks for design and planning,... -
The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement Colin Porteous 9780415256254
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £73.14The New Eco-Architecture builds a historical bridge between architectural science and design. It seeks to address neglected aspects of the Modern Movement as a prelude to supporting a diversity of... -
Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture by William M. Taylor
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, this book encourages philosophers and architects, scholars and designers alike, to reconsider what they do as well as... -
Theatres of Architectural Imagination Lisa Landrum 9781032286112
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces.Imagination is arguably the architect's most crucial... -
Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan Zhongjie Lin (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) 9781032149387
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Amid Japan's political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzo Tange's Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban... -
Structure and Architecture Angus J. Macdonald 9781138629240
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.69This thoroughly updated edition of Angus J. Macdonald's insightful book Structure and Architecture offers an in depth analysis of structural design and its relationship with architecture. It draws on... -
Doing Disability Differently: An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life Jos Boys (Northumbria University, UK) 9780415824958
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £42.99This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly... -
Scale: Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture Gerald Adler 9780415687126
Booksplease Price: £66.14Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in... -
Pathologies of Modern Space: Empty Space, Urban Anxiety, and the Recovery of the Public Self by Kathryn Milun 9780415952743
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. In contrast to traditional medical conceptions of the disorder, Kathryn... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style by Daniel Finamore 9781851779062
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90The Great age of ocean travel has long since passed, but ocean liners remain one of the most powerful and admired symbols of modernity. No form of transport was as romantic, remarkable, or contested,... -
Decorative and Innovative Use of Concrete by Graham F. True 9781904445487
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.52This is a broadly chronological account of the decorative and innovative use of Portland cement-based concrete. Contrary to the oft-held belief that concrete is a dull material that is used... -
Light in Architecture: The Intangible Material by Elisa Valero Ramos
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.71Light in Architecture explores the role of light in buildings throughout history and the many disparate ways in which architects have approached the phenomenon around the world. Translated and... -
Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, Modernity Sarah Edwards 9780415591515
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of... -
The Dissolution of Place: Architecture, Identity, and the Body by Shelton Waldrep
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist... -
Making Mobilities Matter Malene Freudendal-Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) 9780367607890
Booksplease Price: £20.99Making Mobilities Matter explores the interconnection between everyday practice and policy and planning in urban mobilities. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding everyday life and... -
Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design by Professor Geoffrey Broadbent 9780419161509
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £73.64This important work, now available in paperback, from Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history 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... -
Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miro to Man Ray Cindy Kang 9780300251319
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.80One woman's influential contribution to modernism, achieved through a fascinating revival of tapestry Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973) lived in Algeria and Paris in the 1920s and collected the work of... -
The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections by Charles Hind
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38A Victorian club house in a castle in the West End of London, complete with battlements and turrets. A design for the post-war reconstruction of the capital in 1945. A fantasy landscape featuring Le... -
domus 1928-1939 Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836594455
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Offering an unrivaled record of architecture and design, the “living diary” of domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928. Through the years and decades that followed, the journal charted the major... -
Dali's Mustache Salvador Dali 9782080304667
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Cult classic and collector's item, Dali's Mustache is the result of the astonishing artistic collaboration between surrealist Salvador Dali and experimental photography pioneer Philippe Halsman. Dali... -
Maison de la Chine: A Building by Atelier FCJZ Yung Ho Chang 9783038603641
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38In 2023, the new Maison de la Chine was opened as part of the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP), the French capital's famous campus of student residencies founded in 1925. Designed by... -
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...