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What Architecture Means: Connecting Ideas and Design Denise Costanzo 9780415739047
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and... -
Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.55This is a place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of... -
Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local by Alina Payne 9780691167282
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £51.99This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the... -
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... -
Building Structures: understanding the basics Malcolm Millais 9781138119758
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £52.39This is a one-stop book for knowing everything important about building structures. Self-contained and with no prerequisites needed, it is suitable for both general readers and building professionals... -
The Construction of Drawings and Movies: Models for Architectural Design and Analysis Thomas Forget 9780415898409
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £59.16The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be... -
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... -
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... -
The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture by Juhani Pallasmaa 9780470711910
RRP: £75.95Booksplease Price: £74.22The 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... -
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... -
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... -
The Secret Life of the Modern House: The Evolution of the Way We Live Now by Dominic Bradbury 9781781577615
Booksplease Price: £29.87* * * '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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era by Philip G. Nord
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32France's New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and... -
Architectural Theory of Modernism: Relating Functions and Forms by Ute Poerschke
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Architectural Theory of Modernism presents an overview of the discourse on function-form concepts from the beginnings, in the eighteenth century, to its peak in High Modernism. Functionalist thinking... -
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason by Paul Rabinow 9780691011585
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering project to anthropologize the West. His goal is to exoticize the Western constitution of reality,... -
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the... -
Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space by Martino Stierli
Booksplease Price: £35.42Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately... -
Anni & Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal by Nicholas Fox Weber
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £66.41A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design Josef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and... -
Iris Rombouts: Poetry of the Bee by Iris Rombouts 9789082808025
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £26.20This book celebrates the bee in all its humble glory, and does so in a completely original way. It has long been a dream of art director Iris Rombouts to produce an art book that sheds new light... -
The Ethics of Architecture by Mark Kingwell 9780197558546
Booksplease Price: £36.98A lively and accessible discussion of how architecture functions in a complex world of obligation and responsibility, with a preface offering specific discussion of architecture during and after the... -
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... -
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... -
The Minimum Dwelling Revisited: Ciam's Practical Utopia (1928-31 Aristotle Kallis 9781350346222
Booksplease Price: £30.54This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist "minimum dwelling", exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society... -
Dance Today: Studies-Notes-Portraits Andre Levinson 9780300243840
Booksplease Price: £35.12An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literatureThe French dance criticism of the Russian emigre Andre Levinson (1887-1933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers...