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Integrated Strategies in Architecture Joan Zunde 9780415360845
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28This key text presents students with a holistic view of the building design process, bridging the gap between the theory and practice of constructing and assembling buildings. Integrated Strategies... -
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... -
Mapping Urban Spaces: Designing the European City Lamberto Amistadi 9781032041247
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the... -
Livio Vacchini Capolavori - Masterpieces 9782493283283
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £14.01Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces (from Stonehenge, Giza and the Parthenon to Notre-Dame-du-Haut by Le Corbusier and the Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe): pursuing their... -
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... -
Savoir Faire Plus: Le Francais a l'Universite by Geraldine Enjelvin
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13Written by an experienced tutor, Savoir-Faire Plus is specifically designed to meet the requirements of today's generation of language undergraduates. Focusing on the life of an Anglophone first year... -
Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe Neil Leach 9780415139151
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned... -
Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art - The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986 Thomas S. Hines 9781606065815
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.87Arthur Drexler (1921-1987) served as the curator and director of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from 1951 until 1986-the longest curatorship in the museum's... -
The Design Culture Reader by Ben Highmore
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us... -
The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity Kim Tanzer 9780415415002
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89This volume presents the discipline's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by... -
Light Line: The Architectural Photographs of Helene Binet by 9781912520855
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.12The Franco-Swiss photographer Helene Binet (b. 1959) is renowned for making images that express an intimate experience of architecture. Using a combination of analogue and digital techniques, her... -
Building Paradise: Episodes in Paradisiacal Thinking Harry Francis Mallgrave 9781032014029
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that, with our recent ecological and biological insights,... -
International Departures: Art in India After Independence by Devika Singh 9781789147988
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.30In this captivating and richly illustrated account, Devika Singh presents together for the first time the work of Indian and foreign artists active in India after independence in 1947. The book... -
Ontology of Construction: On Nihilism of Technology and Theories of Modern Architecture by Gevork Hartoonian 9780521586450
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Ontology of Construction, first published in 1994, explores theories of construction in modern architecture, with a particular focus on the relationship between nihilism of technology and... -
Three Cultural Ecologies by David Leatherbarrow 9780367207267
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern architecture. It reveals how selected works of two modern architects, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, embraced environmental and... -
William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult by Amandeep Kaur Mann 9781032149080
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in particular. Using detailed analysis of Lethaby's drawings... -
Cosmopolis: Yesterday's Cities of the Future by Howard Mansfield 9781412848596
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The twentieth century saw a grand procession of promises for the city. The great modern architect Le Corbusier dictated cities of glittering white towers planted in green parks, Frank Lloyd proposed... -
Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and contemporary practices Madhavi Desai (Madhavi Desai, Adjunct Faculty, Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India) 9780367177430
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly... -
BRASILIA – CHANDIGARH: Living with Modernity by Iwan Baan 9783037787502
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.12In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising... -
Federico Delrosso Architects: Pushing the Boundaries Porzia Bergamasco 9788857219820
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £25.23The works by the architect and designer Federico Delrosso (1964) constantly reflect a passing of the torch between past and present that, far from being a nostalgic or derivative operation, makes... -
Learning to Look at Modern Art by Mary Acton
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.75This companion volume to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings suggests that the best way to understand modern art is to look closely at it, and to consider the different elements that make up... -
Interior Design Masters Mark Hinchman (University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA) 9781138051720
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £88.84Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people, historical and contemporary, that students and practitioners should... -
The Environmental Tradition: Studies in the architecture of environment Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge, UK) 9780419199007
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £86.74This text brings together a unique collection of writing by a leading researcher and critic which outlines the evolution of the environmental dimension of architectural theory and practice in the... -
Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou by Nadir Lahiji
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the 'naked power' behind its operation. It conforms to the principles of cultural logic of... -
An Architect's Guide to Fame by Paul Davies
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24This lively text provides a candid inquiry into the contemporary means by which architects get work and (for better or worse) become famous. In response to the reciprocal relationship between... -
Modernism and the Mediterranean: The Maeght Foundation by Dr. Jan K. Birksted
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, Jose Luis Sert, and the artists whose work... -
Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo by Miriam Paeslack 9781138271920
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrinking cities' in North America and elsewhere which... -
Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction by Iain Borden
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous... -
The Architecture of Persistence: Designing for Future Use David Fannon (Northeastern University, USA) 9780367486372
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14The Architecture of Persistence argues that continued human use is the ultimate measure of sustainability in architecture, and that expanding the discourse about adaptability to include continuity as... -
Benjamin for Architects by Brian Elliott
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining... -
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence by Christopher Turner 9781838510558
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonization and defiance. Its leading proponents, British architects Jane Drew and... -
The Giedion World: Siegfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in Dialogue by Almut Grunewald 9783858818195
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £57.83Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most distinguished and influential scholars of art and architectural history during the 20th century's earlier... -
Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference Miguel Guitart 9781032077499
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory charged spatial experiences. The book addresses how the... -
Syntax of Cities by Peter F. Smith 9780415853552
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book was first published in 1977.About the AuthorPeter F. Smith (University of Nottingham and Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)Book InformationISBN 9780415853552Author Peter F. Smith< -
Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries Carlos Nunes Silva 9781032924564
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and PrA ncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature... -
Sport and Modernism in the Visual Arts in Europe, <i>c</i>. 1909-39 by Bernard Vere 9781784992507
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.50This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists. Sport emerged as a corollary of the industrial revolution and developed into a prominent... -
Heavenly Mansions: and Other Essays on Architecture by John Summerson 9780393318579
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.46A classic of architectural history and theory, Heavenly Mansions interprets architecture as a reflection of the age in which it flowers, and traces the alternating themes of fantasy and functionalism... -
In Dwelling: Implacability, Exclusion and Acceptance by Peter King
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59A 'dwelling', or the physical space we call a house, is full of meaning for us. It can be implacable, in that it can work for or against us, depending on how we are able to access and use it. This... -
Louis I. Kahn in Rome and Venice: Tangible Forms by Elisabetta Barizza 9781032002422
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project for Venice. It presents an original interpretation of the work of Kahn during one... -
Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture by Hilde Heynen 9780415341394
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84In the home the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. Negotiating Domesticity investigates the many and complex themes evoked by the interconnections...