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Building Additions in Steel: The Architecture of Vertical Extensions Daniel Stockhammer 9783038601463
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Since the introduction of steel as a building material in the early twentieth century, its superior performance has challenged conventional wisdom about construction, enabling designs of surprising... -
Marshall Brown: The Architecture of Collage by Santa Barbara Museum of Art
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.23Despite its consistent presence in architectural practice throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, collage has never been considered a standard form of architectural representation like drafting,... -
ARTEC Architekten by Bettina Gotz
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18In their concepts, buildings and designs submitted for competitions, as well as in the theory of their teaching, Bettina Goetz and Richard Manahl investigate the relationship between architecture and... -
Buchner Bründler – Buildings II by Ludvic Balland
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £55.43Basel-based architects Daniel Buchner and Andreas Brundler established their studio in 1997 and soon gained wide recognition for their designs. Today, Buchner Brundler Architects ranks among the... -
Stadium: A Building That Renders the Image of a City Alejandro Celedon 9783038601081
Booksplease Price: £35.29On 29 September 1979, 250,000 filled the seats of Chile's National Stadium in Santiago. The event that was meant to transform the attendants from mere dwellers into proprietors. Prior to it, a... -
The Songyang Story: Architectural Acupuncture as Driver for Progress in Rural China. Projects by Xu Tiantian, DnA_Beijing Kirsten Feireiss 9783038601869
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.58In 2014, Xu Tiantian, founder of Beijing-based studio Design and Architecture (DnA) began to work in Songyang County, in China's Zhejiang Province. Her exemplary holistic planning concept of... -
African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia Manuel Herz 9783038602941
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £52.08When African Modernism was first published in 2015, it was showered with international praise and has been sought after ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books' 10th anniversary,... -
Information and Formation: About Landscape, Architecture and Cities by Kathrin Aste 9783038603276
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98This book features the work of Innsbruck-based architecture studio LAAC. Since 2012, this leading Austrian firm has been developing and exploring innovative architectural responses to contemporary... -
Looking for the Voids: Learning from Asia's Liminal Urban Spaces as a Foundation to Expand an Architectural Practice Geraldine Borio 9783038602972
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £20.30In Looking for the Voids, Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Geraldine Borio presents findings from 15 years of experimental urban research in Asia, proposing new ways to interpret and design urban... -
Thinking: Visions for Architectural Design. Towards 2050 Marilyne Andersen 9783038601319
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.43Product of a research cooperation between three Swiss universities - the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's School of Architecture, the School of Architecture and Technology in Fribourg, and... -
Hans Scharoun and the Development of Small Apartment Floor Plans: The Residential High-Rises Romeo and Julia, 1954-1959 Markus Peter 9783038601579
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Romeo and Julia, two residential high-rises in Stuttgart, built 1954-59 and designed by Hans Scharoun (1893-1972), constitute the most original and far-reaching of the various attempts to re-design... -
Brick 20: Outstanding International Brick Architecture Wienerberger AG 9783038601746
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.83From hand-made brick to high-tech product: building with blocks of fired clay today draws from a heritage of nine millennia and remains innovative, sustainable, and highly appreciated for its... -
All Under One Roof: Revolutionising Basel’s Military Barracks by Focketyn del Rio Studio
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.43In a complex transformation, the Basel-based architecture firm Focketyn del Rio Studio converted the main building of Berlin's former military barracks into a vibrant cultural and creative hub... -
Immediate Spaces 16-19 Leopold Banchin 9783038601937
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50The Studio for Immediate Spaces (SIS) is a two-year MA programme at Amsterdam's renowned Sandberg Instituut. It aims to explore and shape spatial practices on the genesis and production of... -
Modern Modern: The Rehabilitation of the Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris by h2o architectes h2o architectes 9783038601777
Booksplease Price: £30.90The Palais de Tokyo, built for the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Technology, is an icon of French Art Deco architecture. Located prominently on the northern bank of the Seine near... -
Stefan Forster Architekten: Housing 1989-2019 Stefan Forster 9783038601807
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.43Ever since the firm's establishment in 1989, Frankfurt-based Stefan Forster Architekten (SFA) had a special focus on housing. A starting point for this was the urgent necessity of refurbishment... -
Agadir: Building the Modern Afropolis by 9783038602767
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked and very... -
Building a Mosque: Djamaa al-Djazair - The Grand Mosque of Algiers by KSP Engel by 9783038602743
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.43Symbol of Islam, monument of superlatives, and the heart of an entirely new metropolitan district: the Djamaa al-Djazair is an edifice with many different facets. In 2008, KSP Engel's design won the... -
Ritual / Original: driendl*architects by Georg Driendl
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Since its establishment in 1996, Vienna-based firm driendl*architects have pursued their search for prototype solutions in furniture and building design, infrastructure, and urban planning. The... -
Unfinished Atlas: 19 Projects by Manuel Herz Architects Ludovic Balland 9783038604181
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £50.78This first monograph on the widely acclaimed Basel-based firm Manuel Herz Architects features 19 built and unrealised projects from their portfolio since 2004. Developed for highly diverse locations... -
Faces and Spaces: 40 Years Aedes Architecture Forum Kristin Feireiss 9783038602163
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Berlin's Aedes Architecture Forum is one of the best-known centres for architecture and architectural culture in the world. Founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss und Helga Retzer, Aedes has since put... -
Out of the Box: 13 Spatial Configurations Manuel Scholl 9783038602644
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55A truly unique perspective on their own work: Swiss-American architectural studio agps, with offices in Zurich and Los Angeles, has delved deep into their archive and woven a visual thread of some... -
Antifascist Architecture Andrew Santa Lucia 9783038604068
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30Architects, historians, and theorists have had a weird obsession with fascist architecture since postmodernism. Why? And who are the antifascist architects? What does antifascist architecture look... -
Experimental Zone: An Interdisciplinary Investigation on the Spaces and Practices of Collaborative Research Severine Marguin 9783038601487
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Experimental Zone documents a remarkable experiment in spatial research at the interdisciplinary laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Every two months, for four... -
Critical Neighbourhoods: The Architecture of Contested Communities Paulo Moreira 9783038602729
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18At a time when architectural and urban studies are moving towards seeking to accept and understand informal neighbourhoods rather than ignoring or eradicating them, the need for experiments on the... -
Blanking: The Architecture of Schaum/Shieh Troy Schaum 9783038604006
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48In this first book on the work and vision of Houston-based architecture firm Schaum/Shieh, founders Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh invite their readers into the studio. It is a real and conceptual... -
Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller Michelangelo Sabatino 9783038601333
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £54.70Today, Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-73) is known chiefly for his furniture designs. He is famous also for his erotic polaroid photography of the 1960s, which has been subject of... -
The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbooks Boxed Set: The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook, The Unofficial Disney Parks EPCOT Cookbook, The Unofficial Disney Parks Restaurants Cookbook by Ashley Craft 9781507220948
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.58Enjoy all the magic of Disney cooking in one complete set containing The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook, The Unofficial Disney Parks EPCOT Cookbook, and The Unofficial Disney Parks Restaurants... -
Ripped in Time Prehistoric Animals Break into US Parks Book 2: Herrerasaurus in High Schells Wilderness by Aj Griffith 9781638609209
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638609209Author Aj GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint -
Plans and Images: An Archive of Projects on Typology in Architecture 2013-2018 Martin Frohlich 9783038601388
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £43.73Learning to construct is the objective of the architecture student, who seeks to bring sketches, sophisticated visualisations, material and component choices, and detailed plans and diagrams together... -
Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life Kieran Long 9783038602323
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £67.70"This gorgeous doorstop of a book ... Seductive and serious - for the most discerning coffee tables." - Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times. Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is one of the most highly... -
Crafting the Facade: Stone, Brick, Wood by Urs Meister 9783038601012
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Crafting the Facade presents the results of this productive co-operative study, which cut across disciplines to look at historical developments in the design and building of facades, the theoretical... -
House Tour: Views of the Unfurnished Interior Adam Jasper 9783038601142
Booksplease Price: £38.56240cm is the standard distance between floor and ceiling in residential buildings: the height of the void we inhabit. In its precision, and its emptiness, the number reflects contemporary interior... -
Visiting: Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89 Urban Fragment Observatory 9783038604280
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.03Between 1966 and 1989, Inken and Hinrich Baller realised 25 buildings in (then West) Berlin and a private residence in Switzerland. Although most of these structures were designed and built within... -
Konrad Wachsmann and the Grapevine Structure by Christian Sumi 9783038601104
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.73This book sheds new light on the work of German-born modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann (1901-1980) and his legendary knotted joints. It is based on years of research on Wachsmann's work by Swiss... -
Pichler & Traupmann Architekten: Tension in Space by Eva Guttman
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.43On the occasion of their 30th anniversary, Vienna-based Pichler & Traupmann Architekten review their body of work to date. This lavishly illustrated monograph documents in great detail their most... -
Robotic Landscapes: Designing the Unfinished Ilmar Hurkxkens 9783038602545
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48The Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich has been researching the integration of robots into the architectural practice, both in design and the fabrication process, for some time. This... -
We Günther Domenig: Reevaluation of a Legend Wolfdieter Dreibholz 9783038604556
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18We Gunther Domenig is an attempt to correct traditional biographies on architects. The case at hand is Gunther Domenig (1934-2012), a towering figure of 20th-century Austrian architecture. This book... -
Josef Frank-Spaces - Case Studies of Six Single-Family Houses by Mikael Bergquist 9783038600183
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35Josef Frank, born 1885 in Baden near Vienna, ranks among Europe's most significant architects of the twentieth century. His designs for furniture and textiles also make him one of the eminent figures... -
On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism: Proceeds of the International Conference on Architectural Criticism 2021 by Wilfried Wang
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Should architectural criticism be enlightening? Should it help in the creation of a better built environment? Is there a factual basis to it? Does it have a duty to present evidence in the evaluation...