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The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis by Mantha Zarmakoupi 9783037787625
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037787625Author Mantha ZarmakoupiFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint -
Mini Cigarillos: Working with Oscar Niemeyer for Two Months by Martino Pedrozzi 9783037788080
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.26Working at Oscar Niemeyer’s studio in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro – for two months, Swiss architect Martino Pedrozzi was able to realize his dream. Over twenty years later, he presents his memories of... -
Designing Japan by Kenya Hara 9783037786116
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £17.21'Designing Japan' presents renowned designer Kenya Hara's vision of how his industry can support Japan in crafting a future founded on a unique philosophy of beauty as well as crowd-sourced wisdom... -
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing by Louis Kahn 9783037786444
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786444Author Louis KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint -
You are the City: Observation, Organization and Transformation of Urban Settings by Petra Kempf 9783037781593
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.24Cities are hybrid entities based on multilayered and sometimes contradictory organizing principles. As complex networks of geographic, economic, political and cultural segments, they are caught up in... -
Holocaust Memorial Berlin by Hanno Rauterberg 9783037780565
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.04Inescapably controversial, its very existence challenged by German intellectuals like Gunter Grass, the Holocaust Memorial Berlin (or, as it's formally known, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of... -
Ladislav Sutnar - Visual Design in Action by Reto Caduff 9783037784242
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £48.05Sutnar's brilliant structural systems for clarifying otherwise dense industrial data placed him in the pantheon of Modernist pioneers and made him one of the visionaries of what is today called... -
Desert of Pharan by Ahmed Mater 9783037784853
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.43Through a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city's origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site's recent transformation - Makkah, until recently,... -
100 Years of Swiss Design by Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich 9783037784419
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.39100 Years of Swiss Design offers a new perspective of Switzerland's achievements in furniture and product design. The book presents the essential historical designs in chronological sequence, from... -
Good Life by Jasper Morrison 9783037784235
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this... -
Futebol: Urban Euphoria in Brazil Leonardo Finotti 9783037784310
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.86In Brazil soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit or cans;... -
OfficeUS Atlas by Eva Franch i Gilabert 9783037784389
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.95The OfficeUS Atlas collects the exhibition research in an archive of nearly 1000 architectural projects. Organized according to individual firm histories, the Atlas documents the development of U.S... -
Sauerbruch Hutton: Archive 2 by Louisa Hutton 9783037783894
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.33"The current compendium traces the development of the office's architectural practice and thinking through a series of completed buildings, works in progress and projects that, as yet, remain... -
Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli 9783037782255
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £9.99The famous Italian designer Massimo Vignelli allows us a glimpse of his understanding of good design in this book, its rules and criteria. He uses numerous examples to convey applications in practice... -
OfficeUS Agenda by Ana Miljacki 9783037784372
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.48The OfficeUS Agenda, the catalogue for the U.S. Pavilion, serves simultaneously as a guide and counterpoint to the exhibition. Organized into stories of expertise, exchange, and export, the Agenda... -
Place and Displacement Exhibiting Architecture by Thordis Arrhenius 9783037784167
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.04Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been... -
Loose Ends by Maria Giuseppina G. Canniz 9783037784518
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.16Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2004 and 2008, and was honored by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2012. That same year she won a gold medal... -
Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions by Barry Bergdoll 9783037785195
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £26.81Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) is celebrated as a furniture designer, teacher, and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hungary to the U.S.A. in 1937. More recently... -
Hard Life by Jasper Morrison 9783037785140
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.36By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appears in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This... -
City Riffs Ubanism, Ecology, Place by Richard Plunz 9783037785003
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.24'City Riffs' traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also considers trans-disciplinary aspects of urbanism;... -
Experimental Preservation by Thordis Arrhenius 9783037784921
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.86Old things, historic things, smelly dirty things, all the things that were considered the very opposite of "contemporary," have suddenly irrupted forcefully into architecture and art, blurring their... -
Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary by James Graham 9783037784945
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £27.61This book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural... -
Ideas and Integrities: a Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure by R.Buckminster Fuller 9783037781982
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £19.99In "Ideas and Integrities" Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered - among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the... -
Landscape of Faith: Interventions Along the Mexican Pilgrimage Route by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio 9783037784990
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.00La Ruta del Peregrino (the pilgrimage route) stretches a distance of 117 kilometers through the vast and imposing mountain range of Jalisco, Mexico. Approximately two million people participate each... -
Future Cities Laboratory: Indicia 01 by Stephen Cairns 9783037785454
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.41This book, the rst in a planned series, reports on the Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious mission to shape sustainable future cities through science, by design, in place. It offers a global... -
X-Ray Architecture by Beatriz Colomina 9783037784433
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £26.81This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern... -
Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture Between Metrics and Narratives by David Benjamin 9783037785256
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £27.01Architecture is increasingly understood as a field of practice that is inextricably embedded in ecologies and energy systems, and yet embodied energy-the various forms of energy required to ex- tract... -
Ruder Typography-Ruder Philosophy: Idea No.333 by Helmut Schmid 9783037785416
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.75The celebrated and much sought-after issue of the magazine idea focusing on a towering gure in Swiss graphic design is now in print again.idea is a renowned Japanese magazine on international graphic... -
Kazuo Shinohara: On the Threshold of Space-Making by Seng Kuan 9783037785331
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £30.94One of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation, Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) has remained virtually unknown outside the small community of devoted followers. As one... -
Analog Algorithm: Source-Related Grid Systems by ,Christoph Grunberger 9783037785935
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.31This book is a tool kit to create new forms. It deals with grid-based design and gives the reader techniques to develop new forms, fonts, logos, and patterns. The concept represents a design process... -
Sketchbook by Sou Fujimoto 9783037783276
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.35The works of Sou Fujimoto resist any form of conventional categorization. This young Japanese architect stands for unconventional buildings that cannot be described by standard criteria and... -
The Albanian Files: Architecture in Albania Anneke Abhelakh 9783037788004
Booksplease Price: £51.05Albania is a young democracy, home to three million people. The country sits at the heart of the Mediterranean; its geographic location has long shaped the country's cultural exchanges and built... -
Passenger Information System: Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways Josef Muller-Brockmann 9783037787847
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93In 1980, Josef Muller-Brockmann laid the cornerstone for a uniform visual identity for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with his legendary Visual Information System at Train Stations and Stops. In... -
Kenzo Tange: Architecture for the World by Seng Kuan 9783037783108
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £37.23Kenzo Tange (1913 - 2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent, influence, and versatility. This collection of essays represents a new generation... -
Macao: Parallel Worlds by Iwan Baan 9783037787960
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62For Denise Scott Brown, who is among the most important architects of the postwar era, photography has long served as a critical medium through which to perceive, document and think about the world... -
Portman's America and Other Speculations by Mohsen Mostafavi 9783037785324
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £26.81Combining the talents of an architect, artist, and developer, John Portman was able to embark on a series of large-scale building projects-megastructures-that radically redefined the relationship of... -
Resonances: Klanghaus Toggenburg by Erol Doguoglu 9783037787861
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.01The Klanghaus Toggenburg, located in the northeast of Switzerland and host to musical rehearsals, courses and concerts alike, is a place that enables visitors to experience a unique interplay of... -
Office: US Manual by Eva Franch i Gilabert 9783037784396
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.56The Office US Manual is a guide to day-to-day architectural practice that documents and interrogates the protocols and procedures of architecture offices over the last hundred years. Thoroughly... -
Resist!: Poster Collection 37 Bettina Richter 9783037787953
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Peace appeals, reminders of human rights, calls to protect nature - posters have proven an effective medium in accompanying social and political struggles worldwide since the 1920s. Through the... -
In Praise of Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture Beatriz Colomina 9783037787830
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.86The sequel to the authors' Are We Human?, this provocative book is an urgent manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers,...