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Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces Dominic Bradbury 9781838666934
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $128.52An innovative and original survey of the best Mid-Century Modern architecture from around the world Featuring 450 of the very best works of Mid-Century Modern architecture from every continent,... -
Iannis Xenakis' Persepolis by Dr. Aram Yardumian 9781501381515
Booksplease Price: $128.64Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis stood as witness to one of the most important events in modern human history, the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Its existence is owed to an invitation to participate in the... -
Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema by Amanda Holmes 9783319855912
Booksplease Price: $147.81This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk... -
Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema by Amanda Holmes 9783319551906
Booksplease Price: $147.81This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk... -
The Faith of an Artist John Wilson 9781032270890
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $60.82First published in 1962, The Faith of an Artist presents assembled personal statements of more than twenty men of creative genius in the present generation- poets, painters, architects and... -
The Antimodern Condition: An Argument Against Progress Peter King 9781138255463
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Much of social and political thought over the last three centuries has been concerned with transgression and change, with progress and a focus on creating something 'better' than we have now. But... -
German Architecture for a Mass Audience Kathleen James-Chakraborty 9780415236546
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $118.83This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of... -
Cities of God by Graham Ward
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Cities of God traces urban culture of north America and Western Europe during the 1970s, to ask how theology can respond to the postmodern city. Since Harvey Cox published his famous theological... -
An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson Sarah Menin 9781138312975
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $67.45First published in 2005, An Architecture of invitation: Colin St John Wilson is a distinctive study of the life and architectural career of one of the most significant makers, theorists and teachers... -
Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial by Vikramaditya Prakash
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.67This anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks. By both... -
An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities Martin Fuller 9781912128594
Booksplease Price: $13.03Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II... -
The Globalization of Space: Foucault and Heterotopia by John Miller 9780367599515
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37The work of Michel Foucault has been influential in the analysis of space in a variety of disciplines, most notably in geography and politics. This collection of essays is the first to focus on what... -
The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory by 9781032274720
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $72.42This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice.Offering critical assessment... -
Xenakis: His Life in Music James Harley 9780415885386
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $100.60Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis's compositional development, James Harley, who studied... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Martin Fuller 9781912303786
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $36.54Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II... -
Archispeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms by Tom Porter 9780415300124
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural... -
The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts Philip Steadman 9780415447539
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $119.42This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these... -
Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment Sybille Frank 9780415549042
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.56Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary... -
Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth Century Urbanism by David Pinder 9780415953115
Booksplease Price: $164.50Visions of the City is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning,... -
The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781138628984
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.95The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to... -
Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History by Tamara Metz
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $72.42Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History is an essential introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual... -
Geographies of Modernism by Peter Brooker
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40One of the most pivotal developments in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies... -
The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City Libero Andreotti (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) 9781138601512
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively 'mediated' city. Today, more than ever before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is... -
Chromophobia by David Batchelor
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $24.39The central argument of "Chromophobia" is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through colour - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is... -
Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley 9781917991322
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, it attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption... -
Louis I. Kahn: Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones, 1949-1959 by Roberto Gargiani 9782940222766
Booksplease Price: $221.56Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks. Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete, such as the Yale... -
Nietzsche and Architecture: The Grand Style for Modern Living Dr Lucy Huskinson 9781350412910
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $50.41Nietzsche and Architecture explores Nietzsche’s relationship to the architects, buildings, and modern architectural movements he went on to inspire, and situates his philosophy more appropriately and... -
Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User by Professor Jonathan Hill
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $119.42Occupying Architecture focuses on the importance of the user of architecture. It emphasises the cross-currents between design, theory and use, and the need for a wider cross-cultural approach to... -
The Little(r) Museums of Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Hidden Gems by Emma Jacobs
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14A visit to Paris can often seen like a highlight reel -- the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, the Eiffel Tower. But Paris isn't only about the big attractions; in fact, some might say it's the off-beat... -
Exhibitions and the Development of Modern Planning Culture Robert Freestone 9781138247741
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $100.60The evolution of city planning theory and practice in the first half of the twentieth century was captured and driven by a range of exhibitionary practices in a variety of settings globally, from... -
Art In Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics Paul Mattick 9780415239219
Booksplease Price: $98.88Art In Its Time takes a close look at the way in which art has become integral to the everyday 'ordinary' life of modern society. It explores the prevalent notion of art as transcending its... -
Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City Mari Hvattum 9780415305129
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $109.47First published in 2004. Walter Benjamin famously defined modernity as "the world dominated by its phantasmagorias". The chapters in this book focus on one such phantasmagoria, namely that of... -
Beyond Archigram: The Structure of Circulation Hadas A. Steiner (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA) 9780415394772
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.80Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the magazine published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name of... -
Modern City Revisited Thomas Deckker 9780419256403
RRP: $171.58Booksplease Price: $157.54The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis,... -
Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics Christopher Hight 9780415384827
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture... -
Architecture and Politics in Nigeria: The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016 by Nnamdi Elleh
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to... -
What Designers Know Bryan Lawson 9780750664486
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08Each chapter deals with a different technique from which we can best represent and make explicit the forms of knowledge used by designers. The book explores whether design knowledge is special, and... -
Hans Hollein and Postmodernism: Art and Architecture in Austria, 1958-1985 Eva Branscome (University College London, UK) 9780367502089
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book investigates the art and architecture scene in Vienna... -
Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture Liedeke Plate 9781138642249
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that... -
Modernist Semis and Terraces in England Finn Jensen 9781138253704
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $100.60Between the two World Wars, there was an unprecedented need for new houses in Britain which resulted in a building boom. While only a small percentage of this building took the form of Modernism,...