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Analogical Thinking in Architecture: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment by Dr Jean-Pierre Chupin 9781350343627
Booksplease Price: £98.23This 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... -
Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture by Martin Soberg 9781350244276
Booksplease Price: £37.42Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and... -
Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture by Martin Soberg
Booksplease Price: £91.39Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and... -
Blueprints Marcus du Sautoy 9780008684990
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.05An award-winning mathematician and Oxford professor looks to the arts to uncover the key mathematical structures that underpin both nature and human creativity. ... -
Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity by Marcus du Sautoy 9780008685003
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.98An award-winning mathematician and Oxford professor looks to the arts to uncover the key mathematical structures that underpin both nature and human creativity. ... -
Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space Nicholas Fyfe 9780415154413
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Images of the Street captures the vitality, excitements and tensions of the street. Using examples from the U.K, India, Australia and North America the contributors draw on research in cultural... -
Wittgenstein and Heidegger David Egan 9781138942998
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are arguably the two most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Their work not only reshaped the philosophical landscape, but also left its mark... -
Materiality and Architecture Sandra Loschke (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781138840652
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Once regarded a secondary consideration, in recent years, materiality has emerged as a powerful concept in architectural discourse and practice. Prompted in part by developments in digital... -
Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture by Richard Padovan
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.94This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and... -
Margret Hoppe: The Promise of Modernism Hans-Werner Schmidt 9783858814616
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Leipzig-born photographer Margret Hoppe is a promising new voice in European photographic art. This new book features her series Apres une Architecture, a photographic perspective of Le Corbusier's... -
Psychogeotherapy: Revisioning Therapeutic Space by Martyna Chrzescijanska 9780367681258
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Psychogeotherapy offers a critical exploration of the roles played by ideas of space and containment in psychotherapy. Employing approaches from psychogeography with a focus on the praxis of 'aimless... -
Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism: The Limits of Self-Generation Gary Huafan He 9781032015729
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the... -
From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman Stefano Corbo 9780367738570
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written... -
Rural and Urban: Architecture Between Two Cultures Andrew Ballantyne 9780415552134
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Investigating various ways in which the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture, original essays in this book written by an international range of recognized theorists will... -
Critiquing the Modern in Architecture Jaimini Mehta 9781138690806
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Written over four decades, Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves... -
Beyond Utopia: Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia Agnes Nyilas 9781138056039
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are commonly identified with the concept of utopia. Beyond this partial understanding, Agnes Nyilas suggests that rather than being merely... -
Towards Another Architecture: New Visions for the 21st Century by Owen Hopkins 9781848226777
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.15Published 100 years ago, Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture was conceived as a way of making sense architecturally of a moment of profound social and technological change. Today, we live at another... -
Carlo Scarpa: Classic format by Robert McCarter 9781838662929
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £28.99The acclaimed survey of the life and works of the celebrated Italian modernist master, Carlo Scarpa, from the highly regarded architectural author, Robert McCarter The work of Carlo Scarpa... -
Ludovic Nkoth: What If by Ludovic Nkoth 9788867496204
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.76“It’s important to acknowledge the conversation you’re participating in, a conversation that existed before you and one that will exist after you—and also remembering that this conversation wasn’t... -
Modern Architecture: The Structures that Shaped the Modern World Jonathan Glancey 9781802791013
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Explore over 500 masterpieces of modern architecture in this celebration of the most iconic buildings in the world. Written by acclaimed architecture expert Jonathan Glancey, Modern Architecture is a... -
Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy Shiben Banerji 9781477331408
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.33The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early-twentieth-century global city.Book InformationISBN 9781477331408Author Shiben BanerjiFormat HardbackPage Count 336Impr -
New Orleans: An Intimate Journey Through a City with Soul by Geoffrey H. Baker 9781864707175
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.03New Orleans, like Venice, is built in a location that at first sight seems curious in the extreme. How could it be that these cities, built so precariously in the face of a watery threat, were to... -
Mid-Century Modern: High-End Furniture in Collectors' Interiors Wim Pawels 9782875501042
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £58.45In recent years, there has been a real revival and appraisal of the works of the mid-century modern movement among architects and interior designers: the furniture, lighting and objects designed by... -
Great Windows in Modern Architecture by Kevin Adams 9780367358167
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.58Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere. A window opening is as much an interval... -
Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand: Revised and Expanded Edition Simon Unwin 9781032532356
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.63The underlying theme of Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is the relationship of architecture to the human being, how it frames our lives and orchestrates our experience; how... -
Constructing Place: Mind and the Matter of Place-Making by Sarah Menin
Booksplease Price: £99.72This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape... -
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010 by Elie G. Haddad 9781409439813
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.741960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and... -
Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India Atreyee Gupta 9780300280883
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.95A revelatory look at modernism in India, exploring art's role in decolonization and aesthetic discourse across the Global South Modernism's peak in the interwar and postwar decades coincided with... -
Iannis Xenakis, the Man and His Music: A Conversation with the Composer and a Description of His Works by Mario Bois 9780313224157
Booksplease Price: £95.49A brief, detailed biography of the composer/architect, student and protege of Honegger, Milhaud, Messiaen, Le Corbusier. Xenakis himself is a major proponent of advancing the boundaries of musical... -
Surrealism and Architecture by Thomas Mical
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of... -
Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability Ruth Butler 9780415179034
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Mind and Body Spaces highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia, on bodily impairment, mental health and disabled peoples social worlds. The contributors discuss a... -
Developing Iran: Company Towns, Architecture, and the Global Powers by Hamidreza Mahboubi Soufiani 9781032444239
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built... -
Urban Planning in the Third World: The Chandigarh Experience by Madhu Sarin
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Originally published in 1982 Urban Planning in the Third World is concerned with some of the critical issues underlying urban planning in the Third World. Taking the specific case of Chandigarh,... -
Urban Planning in the Third World: The Chandigarh Experience by Madhu Sarin 9780367360108
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69Originally published in 1982 Urban Planning in the Third World is concerned with some of the critical issues underlying urban planning in the Third World. Taking the specific case of Chandigarh,... -
Renee Green: Pacing Renee Green 9781735230504
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £30.60Legacies of modernism reappraised and reconstructed in an epic project by Renee Green American artist Renee Green (born 1959) spent two years engaged with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts... -
Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works: Volume 2: 1940-1955 by Jacques Barsac 9783858817471
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £67.70Charlotte Perriand (1903-99) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. She was one of the pioneers in introducing the metal tube as building material for... -
The Highway and the City by Lewis Mumford 9780313227479
Booksplease Price: £75.81A collection of essays by the respected social commentator on some problems faced by cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, on the architecture of Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Wright, and... -
The Meaning of Modern Architecture: Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art... -
Architecture Design Notebook A Peter Fawcett 9780750656696
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Architecture Design Notebook focuses on the process of design as pragmatic and non-theoretical. Dealing systematically with the core design curriculum, it clearly demonstrates the skills required for... -
Brutalism Resurgent by Julia Gatley 9780367023850
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Brutalism had its origins in beton brut - concrete in the raw - and thus in the post-war work of Le Corbusier. The British architects Alison and Peter Smithson used the term "New Brutalism" from...