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Frank Lloyd Wright by Alan Hess
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £56.57Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of... -
Campo Baeza: Selected Works by Alberto Campo Baeza
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £70.89A comprehensive survey of the work of a master of modernist design today. Alberto Campo Baeza, one of contemporary architecture s most distinguished voices, is renowned for a body of work that... -
The American Idea of Home: Conversations about Architecture and Design by Bernard Friedman 9781477312865
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32"Home is an idea," Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, "a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst." In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker... -
Judging Architectural Value: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader by William S. Saunders
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and... -
The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years by Patrick Zamarian
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £14.91In the period following the Second World War, the Architectural Association (AA) became the only British school of architecture of truly global renown. It was one of only two schools in the world... -
Sverre Fehn and the City: Rethinking Architecture’s Urban Premises Stephen M. Anderson 9781032381336
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924-2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn's approach to the city, the... -
Ernesto Nathan Rogers: The Modern Architect as Public Intellectual by Maurizio Sabini
Booksplease Price: £36.66Architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level. Through the work of his collaborative... -
Professional Practice: A Guide to Turning Designs into Buildings by Paul Segal 9780393731804
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.84Who are the parties in architecture, engineering, and construction?How do you market architectural services (get the project)?What are the basic project delivery methods?What are the forms of... -
The Craft Reader by Glenn Adamson 9781350092648
Booksplease Price: £42.16From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's "DIY" movement, from theoretical writings on the position of craft in distinction to Art and Design to... -
A History of Design Institutes in China: From Mao to Market by Charlie Q. L. Xue
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94A History of Design Institutes in China examines the intricate relationship between design institutes, the state, and, in later periods, the market economy through a carefully situated discussion of... -
Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture by Joseph Masheck 9781780764238
Booksplease Price: £27.88Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a star in his own time. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn... -
Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiography Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia) 9780367501945
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures Walter Benjamin and... -
The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian Perspective by Petra Ceferin 9780367625139
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Architecture's role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of... -
Designing in Dark Times by Virginia Tassinari 9781350070257
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.99The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her... -
Russia: Modern Architectures in History by Richard Anderson 9781780235035
Booksplease Price: £41.98From one of the largest empires in world history to the dominant republic of the Soviet Union and ultimately to the Russian Federation as we know it today, this book offers a comprehensive account of... -
Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book... -
China Dialogues Vladimir Belogolovsky 9781951541620
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.23Since the mid-1990s, when China allowed its architects to practice independently from government-run design institutes, a new kind of architecture, distinguished by unique regional characteristics,... -
Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate by Korydon Smith 9780367335229
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Building on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate, broadens the range of themes,... -
Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid Hilton Judin 9781041193074
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Set against a social and political urban landscape of segregation and forced removals, Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid unpacks postmodernism in the 1970s and 1980s as it... -
Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House by Esra Akcan
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members... -
Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO Roberto Podda 9781032357423
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906-1973). It does so selectively, focusing on the editorials he published between 1950... -
The Kinetic City and Other Essays by 9783966800136
RRP: £47.50Booksplease Price: £46.29This book presents Rahul Mehrotra's writings over the last thirty years and illustrates his long-term engagement with and analysis of urbanism in India. This work has given rise to a new...