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Architecture and Modern Literature by David Spurr 9780472051717
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing... -
Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History Okwui Enwezor 9781478028222
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82Okwui Enwezor's 2016 exhibition, "Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965," redefined the history of art produced in those two decades. Nearly a decade later, Postwar Revisited... -
Building Community: New Apartment Architecture by Michael Webb
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.30Building Community is an in-depth, wide-ranging survey of contemporary apartment buildings, not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction... -
On Power in Architecture: From a Materialistic, Phenomenological, and Post-Structuralist Perspective by Mateja Kurir 9781032717579
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. This volume represents an attempt to question and reflect on the relationship between power and architecture from three philosophical... -
France: Modern Architectures in History by Jean-Louis Cohen 9781780233543
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92France, arguably more than any other Western nation, played a central role in the emergence and development of modernism across a variety of disciplines, with its architects in particular creating... -
Living with Matisse, Picasso and the New Decade: Theodor Ahrenberg and His Collections Monte Packham 9780500970607
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.50Living with Matisse, Picasso, and the New Decade explores one of the most ambitious and idiosyncratic - yet largely unknown - private collections of 20th-century Western art, and its complex,... -
Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon by Peter Scriver 9780415399098
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.94A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved - both the colonizer and the colonized... -
Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley 9781783788651
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with... -
Robert L. Thompson: TVA Architects by Robert L. Thompson FAIA
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.43Robert L. Thompson, FAIA, is the founder and lead design principal of the Portland-based firm TVA Architects, a firm that has built a foundation of collaboration, innovation, and conservation through... -
MGM Style: Cedric Gibbons and the Art of the Golden Age of Hollywood Howard Gutner 9781493090891
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54MGM Style is an overview of the career and achievements of Hollywood's most famous art director. Cedric Gibbons was the supervisor in charge of the art department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios... -
Between Garden and City: Jean Canneel-Claes and Landscape Modernism by Dorothee Imbert 9780822943709
Booksplease Price: £60.60In Between Garden and City, Dorothee Imbert examines the career of Belgian landscape architect Jean Canneel-Claes (1909-1989), firmly establishing his place in the modernist movement. Canneel's... -
Sourcebook of Modern Furniture by Jerryll Habegger 9780393731705
RRP: £70.99Booksplease Price: £62.37Works by hundreds of prominent designers, including Alvar Aalto, Vignelli Associates, Aldo Rossi, Le Corbusier, and Paolo Nava, pack the pages. Over 2,000 important pieces arranged by type of... -
Diaries, Letters and Recollections by Lynette Roberts 9781857548563
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57In 1939, following her marriage, the poet Lynette Roberts went to live in a small village in Wales. This experience, both enriching and isolating, became the source of some of her extraordinary... -
Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History Okwui Enwezor 9781478031451
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Okwui Enwezor's 2016 exhibition, "Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965," redefined the history of art produced in those two decades. Nearly a decade later, Postwar Revisited... -
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History Duanfang Lu 9780367760427
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research. Divided into... -
Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 by Frank Lloyd Wright
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of... -
Multimodality and Identity by Theo van Leeuwen
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on typography, colour, texture, sound and movement, and shows how they are used to communicate identity, both corporate and... -
The Geometry of Environment: An Introduction to Spatial Organization in Design by Lionel March
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Originally published in 1971 The Geometry of Environment is a fusion of art and mathematics introducing stimulating ideas from modern geometry, using illustrations from architecture and design. The... -
Architecture of Defeat Kengo Kuma (Kengo Kuma Architects and Associates, Japan) 9781138390843
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Kengo Kuma, one of Japan's leading architects, has been combining professional practice and academia for most of his career. In addition to creating many internationally recognized buildings all over... -
The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture by Juhani Pallasmaa
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.53The Embodied Image The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa All artistic and architectural effects are evoked, mediated and experienced through poeticised images... -
The Identity of the Architect: Culture and Communication Laura Iloniemi 9781119546214
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £30.61Today there are more tools for communication than ever before, yet very little in the way of reflection on how these are being used and even less on what exactly is being conveyed. This issue of AD... -
Designing Tito's Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade by Brigitte Le Normand 9780822962991
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.88The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportunity to recreate the city through his own vision... -
The New York Times. Cultured Traveler. 100 Trips for Curious Minds Barbara Ireland 9783836571739
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.16Some travelers dig deep, with a sharp appetite for knowledge and minds wide open to what's old and what's new. In Cultured Traveler, the latest in the travel book collaborations between The New York... -
The Secret Life of the Modern House: The Evolution of the Way We Live Now by Dominic Bradbury 9781781577615
Booksplease Price: £29.65* * * 'Informative and entertaining, this publication is a feast for the eyes, while also thought provoking, and offers excellent inspiration for daydreaming about what makes the perfect, modern... -
Judith Turner: Seeing Ambiguity: Phototgraphs of Architecture by Judith Turner 9783936681505
RRP: £42.90Booksplease Price: £31.84In 1980 the book Judith Turner Photographs Five Architects was internationally recognized by architects who admired and valued Turner's unique way of seeing and photographing architecture. This new... -
150 Houses You Need to Visit Before You Die Thijs Demeulemeester 9789401462044
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do." - Charles Eames on architecture. "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can... -
Key Modern Architects: 50 Short Histories of Modern Architecture by Andrew Higgott
Booksplease Price: £28.87Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects,... -
Rene Burri: Explosions of Sight Melanie Betrisey 9783858818454
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.23Swiss photographer Rene Burri (1933-2014) has been wherever history had been played out. A member of the famous Magnum Photos cooperative since 1955, he photographed in the Middle East in the 1950s... -
Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility by Michael D. Gordin 9780691146980
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that... -
The Danish Avant-Garde and World War II: The Helhesten Collective by Kerry Greaves 9781032475738
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists' collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical... -
From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th- and 21st-Century Music Makis Solomos (University of Paris, France) 9781032087160
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun... -
Introduction to Modern Design by George H. Marcus
Booksplease Price: £46.65With some 280 colour illustrations, Introduction to Modern Design takes us on a visual survey of design from the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century to the Maker Movement of today. It... -
Is Landscape... ?: Essays on the Identity of Landscape Gareth Doherty (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) 9781138018471
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be... -
Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Gide, Sylvia Beach, Leon Blum, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121795
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.96Paris on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s, from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to war and German Occupation. This was a dangerous and turbulent decade, during... -
Moderne, Postmoderne - Und Nun Barock? Entwicklungslinien Der Architektur Des 20. Jahrhunderts by Stefan Grundmann 9783930698639
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.46"This book is an attempt at architectural criticism" that is how Robert Venturi opened the discussion on Post-Modernism in architecture in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecturea generation... -
Modern Housing Prototypes by Roger Sherwood 9780674579422
RRP: £65.95Booksplease Price: £54.33The design of housing has commanded the attention of the greatest architects of the twentieth century. In this stunning volume, Roger Sherwood presents thirty-two notable examples of multi-family... -
Anni Albers: A Life Nicholas Fox Weber 9780300269376
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53The first major biography on Anni Albers traces the complex personality and influential artistic career of the groundbreaking modern artist Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a pioneer of twentieth-century... -
Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure by Alastair Gordon
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.44Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the... -
25 Concepts in Modern Architecture: A Guide for Visual Thinkers by Stephanie Travis
Booksplease Price: £34.16Designed to appeal to visual thinkers, 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture explores the fundamental ideas behind architectural design, through easy-to-follow sketches, drawings and succinct... -
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World by Wade Graham
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Dream Cities is a lively, unique and accessible cultural history of modern cities which allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects and movements that inspired and built them. It...