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Patterned Panels: Mosaic Facades by the Jarsky Brothers in Soviet and Uzbek Tashkent 19691999 by Philipp Meuser 9783869225760
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $122.91In the wake of Soviet Modernism’s belated renaissance, the monumental façade mosaics of Pyotr, Nikolai, and Alexander Jarsky stand as defiant expressions of individuality within an architecture of... -
Public Aquariums: Construction and Design Manual by Jurgen Lange
RRP: $231.00Booksplease Price: $190.62The task of designing a large aquarium pre sents architects with a multiplicity of challenges: the fundamental elements of interior design - light, colour, and surfaces - must be meshed with special... -
Theorising Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Perspectives, Questions, and Concepts by Philipp Meuser
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $46.75Considering the immense diversity of sub-Saharan Africa's archi tecture and built realities, does it make sense to speak of an African architecture? How does this differ from archi tecture in Africa?... -
Chisinau: Architectural Guide by Stefan Rusu
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.67Chisinau, today the capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova, has undergone tumultuous changes under the successive political regimes that marked the twentieth century. Once part of the... -
Urban Block Cities: 10 Design Principles for Contemporary Planning by Karsten Palsson
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $73.82Dense, organic cities with interconnected building structures and easily accessed common urban spaces. Cities that offer variety, vibrancy and architectural qualities that tempt people to go... -
Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Shores: Architectural Guide by Gianluca Pardelli
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14The Architectural Guide Chechnya and the North Caucasus represents the first pioneering work of its type to shed light on a little-known mountainous region split between Europe and Asia, one of the... -
Zoo Buildings. Construction and Design Manual by Natascha Meuser
RRP: $222.60Booksplease Price: $188.90This is the first ever manual to systemati-cally delve into the zoo as an architectur-al typology. The author Natascha Meuser examines five generations of zoological structures in order to show that... -
Moscow: Architectural Guide by Peter Knoch
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.77For generations, the trilogy of the Kremlin, Red Square, and the GUM department store marked the undis puted centre of Moscow. The last decades brought sweeping changes to the Russian capital... -
Dessau/Wrlitz: Architectural Guide Dessau Stiftung Bauhaus 9783869223711
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $43.37Dessau may be a mere speck on the map, but to this day the city of Bauhaus still occupies the most important place in the development of the New Building - otherwise known as the Neues Bauen -... -
Caracas: Architectural Guide by Ivan Gonzalez Viso 9783869225791
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.59This title illustrates the complexity of a South American city founded in 1567 which forges a coherent identity with El Avila and the coastline, where different scales, geographies, architectural... -
Kyiv: Architectural Guide. 100 Iconic Buildings since 1925 Semen Shyrochyn 9783869228549
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.67Since the Euromaidan, Kyiv has been the place where Europe's future is decided between East and West. Meanwhile, the hybrid war in eastern Ukraine and on the Crimean peninsula has escalated into an... -
Pyongyang Architectural and Cultural Guide by Philipp Meuser 9783869221878
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $59.64"Ambitiously designed community buildings, faceless mass housing developments, and a monumental emptiness are the defining features of Pyongyang - a city of three million inhabitants rising from... -
Mass Housing in the Socialist City: Heritage, Values, and Perspectives by Barbara Engel 9783869225074
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $45.70Mass housing in Germany, Russia, and Ukraine represents an enormous volume of housing today and therefore a huge resource for the future development of cities. But transformation of these districts... -
Hospitals and Medical Facilities: Construction and Design Manual by Philipp Meuser 9783869226743
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $148.26This Construction and Design Manual showcases all aspects of planning hospitals, medical practices, and pharmacies. Around 50 projects are presented in their entirety, accompanied by large... -
Torten Project: Murder and Crime Mysteries From a Bauhaus Estate by Natascha Meuser 9783869227191
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $21.90The Toerten Project: Murder and Crime Mysteries from a Bauhaus Estate takes readers beyond the chaste white facades of the world-renowned Bauhaus Settlement by Walter Gropius. 10 quirky narratives... -
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Villa Wolf in Gubin: History and Reconstruction by Dietrich Neumann 9783869228198
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $46.75Villa Wolf in Guben (now Gubin), built between 1925 and 1927, was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's first decidedly modern building. The residential building was destroyed at the end of the Second World War... -
Dipl.-Ing. Arsitek: German-trained Indonesian Architects from the 1960s by Moritz Henning 9783869228662
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $55.21In 1960 and 1961, a group of young Indonesians completed their studies in Berlin and Hanover with a degree in architecture (Diplom-Ingenieur Architektur; in Indonesian: Dipl.-Ing. Arsitek). Most of... -
Sub-Saharan Africa: Architectural Guide: Volume 6: Central Africa. From the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes by Philipp Meuser 9783869220864
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $62.98Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 6 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Central Africa, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes and includes Central... -
Alexey Shchusev: Architect of Stalin's Empire Style Dmitrij Chmelnizki 9783869224749
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $47.38Alexey Shchusev (1873-1949) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Soviet Union, famous for Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow. Not only a gifted designer of many prominent buildings, his career... -
Dementia-friendly Hospital Buildings: Construction and Design Manual by Kathrin Buter 9783869227788
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.59Dementia-friendly architecture encompasses a host of possibilities that are particularly relevant in hospital design. Implemented in an aesthetically pleasing and non-stigmatising manner, such... -
Private Shelters: Teaching Architecture During a Pandemic by Natascha Meuser 9783869227801
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $46.75During the Covid-19 pandemic we have been forced to retreat into private shelters and to question the limits of residential typologies. The villa is an obvious example of such a shelter. It has... -
Almaty: Architectural Guide by Edda Schlager 9783869227276
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $65.37For many centuries horse-riding peoples populated the steppes to the north of today’s Almaty and the green hills to the south, but the city itself – formerly known as ‘Alma-Ata’ – is not even 180... -
Honolulu Oahu: Architectural Guide: Buildings in Hawaii's Capital by Martin Despang 9783869228457
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $64.66When Hawaii became the 50th state of the USA in 1959, a period of intense construction and a growing tourism industry followed. Luckily, this coincided with the most creative phase of the mid-century... -
East Polynesia: Architectural and Cultural Guide by Natascha Meuser 9783869228464
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $80.60This Architectural and Cultural Guide East Polynesia challenges the romanticised visions of the South Pacific by critically examining the built environment through the lens of architecture, history,... -
Art for Architecture: Ukraine: Soviet Modernist Mosaics 1960 to 1990 by Yevgen Nikiforov
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.59In the times when the Ukrainian art sphere was regulated by the Soviet institutions, local monumental and decorative arts existed at the frontier of the Party's propaganda and the artistic thirst to... -
Ecuador: Gua de arquitectura/Architectural Guide Maria Daniela Hidalgo Molina 9783869227702
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.67This guide offers an urban overview of three major Ecuadorian cities - Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca - as well as a detailed description of their most representative architecture. A selection of 120... -
The City as a Political Pawn: Urban Identities in Chiinu, ernivci, Lviv and Wrocaw Bo Larsson 9783869228228
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14This is a book about four cities which were several times, and especially in connection with World War II, forcedly, put into completely new national contexts. This was affected by coercion from... -
Moon: Architectural Guide by Paul Meuser 9783869226705
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $59.22In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first man on the moon, this book for the first time ever looks at the artefacts left behind on the moon from the perspective of architecture. The book... -
Monterrey: Architectural Guide by Carsten Krohn 9783869226200
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $45.07Monterrey means mountain king, a name befitting its location surrounded by the Sierra Madre in north-eastern Mexico. It was founded in 1596 near the natural springs of Santa Lucia, a luscious oasis... -
Boris Iofan: Architect behind the Palace of the Soviets by Maria Kostyuk 9783869223124
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $44.00Boris Iofan is best known as the architect behind the Palace of the Soviets. Yet his style was not limited to the Socialist Clas-sicism that flourished under Stalin. Rath-er, Iofan's architectural... -
Berlin Urban Strategy: The Genius of Improvisation Ariella Masboungi 9783869223025
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $55.21This book aims to explore Berlin's ability not to trivialise new ideas and thus remain a leader in innovation. Berlin is a city that continues to fascinate. It has a tormented history, is the... -
Modernity and Durability: Perspectives for the Culture of Design Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani 9783869227009
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $43.37The orthodox concept of the Modern, as it was passed down from the 1920s to the post-war era, has been in a state of crisis for quite some time. This is particularly visible in the fields of urban... -
Container and Modular Buildings: Construction and Design Manual by Cornelia Dorries 9783869223018
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $73.82Prefabricated housing is a pressing issue - for those looking for affordable homes as well as for refugees fleeing wars or natural disasters. In common with politicians, architects were caught... -
Astana: Architectural Guide by Philipp Meuser 9783869224060
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.59Amid the endless plains of Kazakhstan, an extraordinary architectural experiment has arisen: Astana. Formerly an outpost of the Tsarist Empire in the barren steppe, the location had developed into a... -
German Architecture Annual 2018 Yorck Frster 9783869226507
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.59The German Architecture Annual, published by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main, has been documenting the architectural events taking place in Germany for almost 40 years... -
Accessibility and Wayfinding by Philipp Meuser 9783869226750
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $143.22Accessible architecture is about much more than wide doorways and low-placed light switches. Accessibility means independent and self-reliant living and mobility for people of all ages and in any... -
Chicago: A Critic's Guide to 100 Post-Modern Buildings in Chicago from 1978 to 2025: Architectural Guide by Vladimir Belogolovsky 9783869224183
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $44.52Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched collection... -
Imprint of the Future. Destiny of Piranesi's City by Anna Martovitskaya 9783869226071
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14Russian architect and draughtsman Sergei Tchoban has always striven to understand the laws which govern the development of cities such as his native St Petersburg and the great prototypes in whose... -
Rational Design of Structural Building Systems: Construction and Engineering Manual by Volodymyr Babaev 9783869227337
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14This monograph presents the results of theoretical and experi mental studies as well as the design and construction features of structural systems with rational parameters. It starts by outlining... -
Eastern Block Stories: Visualising Housing Estates from Post-Socialist Cities Tinatin Gurgenidze 9783869221182
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $46.75The title Eastern Block Stories features a dozen of articles and over 60 unique hand-picked images about mass housing estates in former communist states. This book aims to address the blind spots to...