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20/20: Twenty Great Houses of the Twentieth Century by John Pardey 9781848223530
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £35.45Ordered chronologically, and global in scope, this book provides an account of modern architecture through the prism of 20 of the most influential houses built over the past century. By telling the... -
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... -
Moholy's Edit: CIAM 1933: The Avant-Garde at Sea by Chris Blencowe
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.55The Greek island sequence montaged by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy into his legendary documentary Architects' Congress can be interpreted, like his provocative photoplastiks, as a "message in a bottle" thrown... -
The Design Book by Phaidon Editors
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £12.81Discover more than 500 of the most innovative, influential, and enduring products from the last five centuries in this fully revised and expanded edition of Phaidon's much-loved companion to the best... -
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... -
Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture by Francois Penz
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture provides architects, planners, designer practitioners, politicians and decision makers with a new awareness of the practice of... -
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £4.67Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side... -
Taste: A cultural history of the home interior by Drew Plunkett
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.76Democratic in intention and approach, the book will argue that the home interior, as independently created by the 'amateur' householder, offers a continuous informal critique of shifting... -
The Lost Architecture of Jean Welz Peter Wyeth 9781954600003
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19A deserted Paris house holds the mystery of a brilliant Viennese modernist who worked alongside Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos before vanishing.Wyeth takes readers on a deeply personal and revelatory... -
City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the City Maria Kaika 9780415947169
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites, cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of water... -
The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture by Jean La Marche
Booksplease Price: £39.17This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century. In approaching the... -
Curve: possibilities and problems with deviating from the straight in architecture Simon Unwin 9781138045958
Booksplease Price: £26.09Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation... -
Cine-scapes: Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities by Richard Koeck
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Cine-scapes explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the way in which architecture is... -
Italian Imprints on Twentieth-Century Architecture by Professor Denise Costanzo 9781350257726
Booksplease Price: £115.28Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy's veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in... -
Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent: Designing and Appreciating Architecture as Nature Rumiko Handa 9780415741491
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a building is 'complete' once construction has finished. Striving to create a perfect building, they wish for it to stay in its original... -
Charlotte Perriand: Volume 1: Complete Works. 1903-1940 by Jacques Barsac 9783858817464
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £67.70Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. Vintage pieces of her furniture designs fetch millions in auctions. Together with Le... -
OK, Mr Field by Katharine Kilalea 9780571340873
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Mr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, fractures his left wrist in a train crash. On a whim, he uses his compensation cheque to buy a house he has seen only in a... -
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OK, Mr Field by Katharine Kilalea 9780571340873 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.87Mr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, fractures his left wrist in a train crash. On a whim, he uses his compensation cheque to buy a house he has seen only in a... -
Under Pressure: Essays on Urban Housing by Hina Jamelle 9780367465032
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.79Under Pressure is about instigation and design in urban housing. Urban housing is a bellwether for economic, social, and political change. It varies widely in quality, typology, and audience and lies... -
The City After The Automobile: An Architect's Vision by Moshe Safdie
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In an age of virtual offices, urban flight, and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? In this passionate manifesto, Moshe Safdie argues that as crucibles for creative, social, and... -
Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space by Francesco Biagi 9783030523664
Booksplease Price: £90.56Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space offers a rigorous analysis and revival of Lefebvre's works and the context in which he produced them. Biagi traces the historical-critical time-frame of... -
The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History: Architecture's Archetypes Simon Unwin (University of Dundee, UK) 9781138898479
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Even the most inventive and revolutionary architects of today owe debts to the past, often to the distant past when architecture really was being invented for the first time. Architects depend on... -
The Architecture of Light: Recent Approaches to Designing with Natural Light by Mary Ann Steane 9780415394796
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Reviewing the use of natural light by architects in the era of electricity, this book aims to show that natural light not only remains a potential source of order in architecture, but that natural... -
Architecture, Animal, Human: The Asymmetrical Condition Catherine T. Ingraham (Pratt Institute, New York, USA) 9780415701075
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19This book looks at specific instances in the Renaissance, Enlightenment and our own time when architectural ideas and ideas of biological life come into close proximity with each other. These... -
The Brutalists: Brutalism's Best Architects by Owen Hopkins
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £35.14As seen in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Forbes, ELLE Decoration, and Design Milk An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet... -
Ambient Intelligence: First European Symposium, EUSAI 2003, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, November 3.-4, 2003, Proceedings by Emile Aarts 9783540204183
Booksplease Price: £46.58No symposium of this size can be organized without the help of many dedicated persons. EUSAI was organized by Philips Research in close cooperation with the ITEA Ambience project. Many people were... -
No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept by Peter Blake 9780393315035
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.59Brings to life the masters of twentieth-century architecture and art, sharing anecdotes and memories of Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, Jackson Pollock, and others.About the... -
Atlas of Brutalist Architecture: Classic format by Phaidon Editors 9781838661908
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £36.97A landmark survey of one of architecture's most controversial yet popular style The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most... -
Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity Marcus du Sautoy 9780008685034
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28*A Financial Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025* Many artists are unaware of the mathematics that bubble beneath their craft, while some consciously use it for... -
Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture Jo Odgers (Cardiff University, UK) 9780415385398
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £66.34This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive. The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a... -
Architecture and Field/Work by Suzanne Ewing
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book... -
Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House, 1925-35 by Edward Dimendberg 9798887120089
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887120089Author Edward DimendbergFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint < -
Hilmer & Sattler: Buildings and Projects by Stanislaus Von Moos 9783930698776
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £38.79Architects who believe that designs should be based on past architecture.About the AuthorStanislaus von Moos is professor of art history at the University of Zurich. He was the "inventor" and first... -
Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture by Kenny Cupers
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people's everyday... -
Decoding Theoryspeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory Enn Ots 9780415778305
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Existentialism; Urbanism; Aporia; Deontic; Tabula Rasa; Hyperspace; Heterotopia; Metareality; Structuralism...What does it all mean?The unique language used in architectural theory - both in speech... -
Deep Skin Architecture: Design Potentials of Multi-Layered Architectural Boundaries by Timo Carl 9783658263324
Booksplease Price: £70.88Timo Carl presents alternatives to curtain wall facades and other flat boundaries creating autonomous spaces. He investigates facade typologies with multiple material layers to strategize the... -
Architecture and Collective Life by Penny Lewis
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It's a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity that both reflects and gives shape to our social... -
Niklas Maak: The Server Manifesto - Architecture for the age of data-driven democracy by 9783775750707
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.19If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible? Niklas Maak, architectural critic... -
Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory by Neil Leach
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century.Issues around the built environment are increasingly...