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An Architecture of Ineloquence: A Study in Modern Architecture and Religion by J.K. Birksted
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le Carmel de la Paix, designed by Jose Luis Sert,... -
Twenty-First Century Urbanism: A New Analysis of the City by Rob Sullivan 9780367501907
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, sentient, and the phenomenological with all of them cast... -
Design Monograph: Perriand by Dominic Lutyens 9781838612054
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay... -
Designs on Modernity: Exhibiting the City in 1920s Paris Tag Gronberg 9780719066740
Booksplease Price: £23.54Presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in attempts to update the image of Paris as "capital of the 19th century". At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels... -
Architecture In Minutes by Susie Hodge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In this hyper-compact, fully illustrated guide to architecture, Susie Hodge outlines the history and theory of architecture from the earliest structures to the cutting-edge concepts of the present... -
Balanchine: A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance Eleni Hofmeister 9783718654291
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography. The book examines Balanchine from diverse perspectives and discusses unexplored aspects of his work, such as... -
Recognising European Modernities: A Montage of the Present by Allan Pred
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84For over a century, Europe has been characterised by a plurality of capitalist modernities. At any moment, each country possesses its own distinctly modern qualities which are partly shaped through... -
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary by Dirk Schubert
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas... -
The Latent World of Architecture: Selected Essays Dalibor Vesely 9781032223261
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015). Vesely was a leading authority on philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology in... -
Julia Kristeva by Joanne Morra
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.67First published in 1998. This is Volume 4, Number 3 of Parallax 8, of July-September 1998. It focuses on the intellectual aesthetics, politics and ethics of Julia Kristeva from 1966 to 1996.Book... -
The Complexities of John Hejduk's Work: Exorcising Outlines, Apparitions and Angels J. Kevin Story (University of Houston) 9780367511487
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book traces the development of John Hejduk's architectural career, using the idea of "exorcism" to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound... -
Beyond Sustainable: Architecture's Evolving Environments of Habitation by Ryan Ludwig
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Beyond Sustainable discusses the relationship between human-beings and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable... -
The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity by Charles Rice
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the... -
Stairs Sylvia Blanc 9780750648462
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Stairs are a fundamental and universal feature of buildings. The late Alan Blanc had a lifetime's obsession with stairs and steps and provided a definitive reference source that bridges the aesthetic... -
Lefebvre for Architects by Nathaniel Coleman 9780415639408
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19While the work of Henri Lefebvre has become better known in the English-speaking world since the 1991 translation of his 1974 masterpiece, The Production of Space, his influence on the actual... -
Imagination by E. J. Furlong 9781138871144
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89First published in 2002. This essay has its origin primarily in some of the remarks on imagination made by Professor Ryle in The Concept of Mind. Reflection on arguments used in that book led the... -
The Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and Environment Dean Hawkes 9780367537166
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes' impressive 50-year academic career.The book... -
Images of the American City by Anselm L. Strauss 9781412853828
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Originally published in 1961, Images of the American City examines how Americans dealt with the rapid shock of urbanization as it evolved from an agricultural nation. Working from the framework of a... -
Bibles and Baedekers: Tourism, Travel, Exile and God by Michael Grimshaw 9781845530686
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Contemporary tourism and travel have become a form of religion, a new opiate of the masses. However, could Church and theology be religious forms of tourism and travel? 'Bibles and Baedekers' offers... -
Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960 Brenda Martin 9780415284493
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a... -
Private Dwelling: Contemplating the Use of Housing Peter King (De Montfort University, UK) 9780415336215
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy and security and allows us to be intimate with those we are close to. This book considers the nature of privacy but also how... -
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Routledge Revivals) Rod Hackney 9781138781290
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British... -
Drawing and Experiencing Architecture: The Evolving Significance of City's Inhabitants in the 20th Century by Marianna Charitonidou
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.84How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of... -
Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History by John Docker 9780521465984
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £31.24In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the... -
Narrative Theory in Conservation: Change and Living Buildings Nigel Walter (University of York, UK) 9781032173122
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Narrative Theory in Conservation engages with conservation, heritage studies, and architectural approaches to historic buildings, offering a synthesis of the best of each, and demonstrating that... -
Bhabha for Architects by Felipe Hernandez
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in... -
Design Expertise Bryan Lawson 9781856176705
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Design Expertise explores what it takes to become an expert designer.It examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, skills, attributes and experiences are necessary in... -
Transgender Architectonics: The Shape of Change in Modernist Space by Lucas Crawford
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Combining transgender studies with the 'neomodernist' architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia... -
Daylight, Design and Place-Making Hisham Elkadi 9780367673550
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Daylight, Design and Place-Making examines the role of daylight in creating and revealing the wonders of heritage and contemporary architecture. Shifting from a purely technical approach to... -
Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality by Michael Jasper 9780367444266
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late-twentieth-century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual... -
A Language of Contemporary Architecture: An Index of Topology and Typology Rafael Luna 9781032245386
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.44As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the... -
Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis by Marinos Pourgouris 9781138253735
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and... -
The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities John Macarthur 9781844720118
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque - when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as... -
The Future of Cities by Andrew Blowers 9780415853699
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £45.09This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is concentrated on the areas which seem most relevant... -
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities Jean-Francois Lejeune 9780415776349
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from... -
Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis by Marinos Pourgouris 9781409410003
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.98Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and... -
Modern Architecture by Alan Colquhoun
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £19.52This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement... -
Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture & Identity by Simone Vera Bader 9783966800013
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.69This book presents a curated selection of Balkrishna Doshi's exceptional writings since the 1950s, with some published here for the first time. The collection of 15 lectures, articles and essays is... -
Marking Ground by 9780711234635
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.41A personal account of three major buildings by the famed Israeli architect, Ada Karmi-Melamede: the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem, co-designed by her brother Ram Karmi (1993); the Open... -
Rethinking Architectural Historiography Dana Arnold 9780415360852
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.64Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and...