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Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography by Ian Volner
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €75.58A spectacular visual biography of one of the most celebrated architects and cultural icons of the twentieth century With his elegant suits and trademark round black glasses, Philip Johnson - a witty,... -
Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms (New Edition) by William J. R. Curtis 9780714868943
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €79.03An expanded edition on the master of Modernism, Le Corbusier, by award-winning architectural historian William J. R. Curtis.Originally published in 1996 to critical fanfair, scholar William J.R... -
What Moves Us?: Le Corbusier and Asger Jorn in Art and Architecture by Ruth Baumeister
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.73Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one the most influential architects of the 20th century. In the Scandinavian countries, his influence is arguably most pronounced in the writings and art of the Danish... -
Le Corbusier’s Millowners Association Building: Between System and Improvisation Mehrdad Hadighi 9783035628692
RRP: €55.93Booksplease Price: €48.06The Millowners' Association Building in Ahmedabad, designed by Le Corbusier and completed in 1954, has rarely been published, but is nevertheless considered an important milestone in the architect's... -
Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity Lorens Holm 9780415419697
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.66This well-argued, analytic text provides a greater understanding of spatial issues in the field of architecture. Re-interpreting the fifteenth century demonstration of perspective, Lorens Holm puts... -
Le Corbusier: The City of Refuge, Paris 1929/33 by Brian Brace Taylor 9780226791340
Booksplease Price: €74.99The City of Refuge complex-commissioned by the Salvation Army as part of its program to transform social outcasts into spiritually renewed workers-represents a significant confluence of design... -
50 Architects 50 Buildings: The buildings that inspire architects by Twentieth Century Society
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.85The most inspirational buildings in the world, as chosen by well-known contemporary architects. In this book, published in conjunction with the Twentieth Century Society, 50 contemporary architects... -
Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice: Discourses on Architecture and the City by Teresa Stoppani
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product... -
The Painter Le Corbusier: Eileen Gray's Villa E 1027 and Le Cabanon by Tim Benton
RRP: €45.82Booksplease Price: €39.03In 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the elegant house in Roquebrune-Cap-Mar- tin in southern... -
Le Corbusier's Practical Aesthetic of the City: The treatise 'La Construction des villes' of 1910/11 by Christoph Schnoor 9780367528355
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier. This volume makes the important theoretical work... -
Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright by Peter Blake
RRP: €27.97Booksplease Price: €27.01Le Corbusier gave to modern design a sure and brilliant sense of form; Mies brought an almost Gothic discipline of structure; and Wright heralded a new and dramatic concept of space and freedom... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781442253322
Booksplease Price: €42.99When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that... -
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.68* A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings *'A masterpiece.' Edmund de Waal'Commanding, intelligent,... -
Pavillon Le Corbusier Zurich: The Restoration of an Architectural Jewel City of Zurich - Building Surveyor's Office 9783858818522
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.13Situated on the shore of the Lake Zurich, Le Corbusier's exhibition pavilion is his last realised design. Based on his Modulor proportional system and at the scale of a single-family home, it... -
The Le Corbusier Galaxy: František Sammer and a global network of avant-garde architects Martina Hrabová 9781032678580
Booksplease Price: €51.56Drawing on the author's discovery of an unknown, long-forgotten collection of photographs in an Indian ashram, this book offers an exciting, new view of the international community of young... -
Design Strategies in Architecture: An Approach to the Analysis of Form by Geoffrey H. Baker 9780419161301
RRP: €85.67Booksplease Price: €79.54Modern architecture has become extremely complex and its study has been made more difficult by changes in fashion and a proliferation of design modes. In this book, Geoffrey Baker develops a... -
Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global by Goeran Therborn
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.89In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Goeran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that... -
Le Corbusier - OEuvre complete Volume 6: 1952-1957: Volume 6: 1952-1957 by Willy Boesiger 9783764355081
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €77.55This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close... -
Team 10: An Archival History by Annie Pedret 9780415780766
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45This early history of Team 10 and the group's emergence from CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture ) shifts the locus of the group's importance from their better-known projects of the... -
The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design by Nikolaus Pevsner 9780500297698
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.45An updated edition of this classic title on the origins of 20th-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts. The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in... -
Towards a Public Space: Le Corbusier and the Greco-Latin Tradition in the Modern City Marta Sequeira (University of Evora, Portugal) 9780367208530
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature. Towards a Public Space instead offers a unique analysis of Le Corbusier's... -
Le Corbusier - OEuvre complete Volume 7: 1957-1965: Volume 7: 1957-1965 by Willy Boesiger 9783764355098
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €77.55This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close... -
Klip and Corb on the Road: Dual Diaries & Legacies of August Klipstein and Le Corbusier - Eastern Journey Ivan Zaknic 9783858818171
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €36.57In 1911, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and his friend August Klipstein (1885-1951), a scholar of art history and later renowned art dealer, undertook a grand tour of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey,... -
Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during the Trente Glorieuses by Nicholas Bullock 9780367556518
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €44.20This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central... -
This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions by Kester Rattenbury
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €72.88This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the... -
Urban Avant-Gardes: Art, Architecture and Change Malcolm Miles 9780415266888
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.75Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts,... -
Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation Stan Allen 9780415776257
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.81Conversant in contemporary theory and architectural history, Stan Allen argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures... -
The Architecture of the Screen: Essays in Cinematographic Space by Graham Cairns 9781841507118
Booksplease Price: €29.80With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists... -
Envisioning Architecture: An Analysis of Drawing by Iain Fraser 9780471284796
Booksplease Price: €78.60Examples of world-renowned masters of architecture are used in this enlightening book that explores the "why" of architectural drawing, rather than the "how." By emphasizing the value of drawing over... -
White Houses by Philip Jodidio
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €31.00This survey presents the most striking, innovative and unusual white houses by contemporary architects spanning the globe from Asia to the Americas, showcasing inspirational residential projects by... -
Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiography Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia) 9780367501945
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27Time, 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... -
Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination by Dr. Renee Tobe
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and... -
Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin's Revolution from Above, 1928-1938 Dr Danilo Udovicki-Selb (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9781350288423
Booksplease Price: €43.17Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture, in which utopian modernism was practically prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's... -
Drawing the Unbuildable: Seriality and Reproduction in Architecture Nerma Cridge 9781138104228
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37Architecture is conventionally seen as being synonymous with building. In contrast, this book introduces and defines a new category - the unbuildable. The unbuildable involves projects that are not... -
Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes by Danilo Udovicki-Selb 9781474299862
Booksplease Price: €133.43Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes... -
Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being by Donald H Ruggles
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €47.362019 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medal Award winner!2018 Robert & Judi Newman Award for Literature & Journalism!For centuries, men and women have sought to express beauty in... -
Analogical Thinking in Architecture: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment by Dr Jean-Pierre Chupin 9781350343627
Booksplease Price: €116.89This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, "design thinking" has permeated many... -
Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp Pablo Meninato 9780815363958
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects has... -
Marcel Breuer: Shaping Architecture in the Post-War Era by John Poros 9781032058160
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This book tracks the development of Marcel Breuer's aesthetic clash between uniformity and singularity through the detailed examination of his seminal buildings. Each chapter examines a specific... -
Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music: The Reynolds Desert House by Roger Reynolds
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds, musician Karen Reynolds, and musically inspired composer,...