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Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Thomas Barrie 9781138296848
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in... -
An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History Joclyn M. Oats 9780367406561
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.89An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture history from Antiquity to... -
Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices by Paul Emmons 9780367730574
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process. Using 80 black and white images to illustrate the... -
Transforming Barcelona: The Renewal of a European Metropolis by Tim Marshall 9780415288415
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic... -
Tehran: From Sacred to Radical by Asma Mehan 9780367691929
Booksplease Price: £20.99This book is an interdisciplinary research work designed to be of interest to a broad range of academics. The book examines the relationship between democracy and the (trans)formations of urban... -
Monsieur Ozenfant's Academy by Charles Darwent 9781739469412
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62Before the Second World War, an art school stood in a pair of mews houses off Kensington High Street in London. Although the school was small and short-lived, it would be linked to an extraordinary... -
Being Urban: Community, Conflict and Belonging in the Middle East Simon Goldhill 9780367549930
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East. As Goldhill explains in his... -
Introduction to Design Theory: Philosophy, Critique, History and Practice Michalle Gal 9781032106182
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Introduction to Design Theory introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design. Designed both as a course book and a source for research, this textbook... -
Visioning Technologies: The Architectures of Sight by Graham Cairns 9781138616684
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks... -
Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning by Daniel A. Barber
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architectsModern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies... -
OK, Mr Field by Katharine Kilalea 9780571340897
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Shortlisted for the London Magazine and Collyer Bristow Debut Fiction Prize, 2019Mr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, suffers a fractured wrist in a train crash... -
Inside Information: The defining concepts of interior design by Sally Stone
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.32Every built structure has an interior: whether it takes the rough form of a rudimentary shelter, the grey walls of a hospital or the finessed decoration of a one-off residence. We spend most of our... -
Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America by Amy D. Finstein 9781439919170
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.57In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets; they were statements of civic pride, asserting... -
Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User by Professor Jonathan Hill
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24Occupying 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A 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: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The 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: £50.71Art 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: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14First 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: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28Beyond 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: £87.99Booksplease Price: £80.79The 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: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98A 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: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24In 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: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Each 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: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Set 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: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This 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: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Between 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,... -
Something Completely Different: Architecture in Belgium Christophe van Gerrewey 9780262547512
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £23.93How architecture in Belgium, from its very beginnings, has epitomized modernity and singularity.Since the foundation of the country in 1830, architecture in Belgium has been an expression of the key... -
Camera Constructs: Photography, Architecture and the Modern City by Andrew Higgott 9781472445384
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.78Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most compelling imagery, while photography profoundly... -
A Theory of Urbanity: The Economic and Civic Culture of Cities by Anton Zijderveld 9781560003175
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Cities provide for people, not just functionally in terms of jobs, obligations and practical pursuits, but also, and above all, emotionally. We like some cities and detest others. Despite shared... -
Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture by Tim Ingold
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £36.44Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and... -
Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935: The Gender of Ornament Bridget Elliott 9781138721432
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the most part, studies... -
The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design by Peter Dedek
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.29The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design explores the history of interior decorating and design from the late nineteenth century to the present, highlighting the careers and contributions of... -
Women Architects in the Modern Movement Carmen Espegel (Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, Spain) 9781138731028
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Women Architects in the Modern Movement rewrites the history of modern architecture to elevate the often-overlooked female architects who helped build the movement. Starting with a theoretical... -
Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader Jos Boys 9781138676435
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture,... -
Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning by Daniel A. Barber 9780691170039
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £42.99How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architectsModern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies... -
Unbuilt: Radical visions of an architectural future that never arrived by Christopher Beanland
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.09Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism in architecture. Many of these grand projects stayed on the... -
The Architectural Capriccio: Memory, Fantasy and Invention by Lucien Steil
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.94Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic,... -
The English Eliot: Design, Language and Landscape in Four Quartets Steve Ellis 9781138999428
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot's writings of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly Four Quartets, and attempts to disprove the widespread belief... -
Landscapes of Memory and Experience Jan Birksted 9780419250708
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.94It has been argued that the history of landscape and of gardens has been marginalized from the mainstream of art history and visual studies because of a lack of engagement with the theories, methods... -
Third World Modernism: Architecture, Development and Identity Duanfang Lu (University of Sydney University of Sydney University of Sydney, Australia University of Sydney, Australia University of Sydney, Syndey, Australia) 9780415564588
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism's...