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The New Acropolis Museum by Bernard Tschumi Architects 9780847834198
Booksplease Price: £35.14A comprehensive look at the eagerly anticipated New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, and the celebrated collection it houses. Marking the opening of the New Acropolis Museum, this book examines... -
Event-Cities 5: Poetics Bernard Tschumi 9780262549370
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £23.74An essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways.Event-Cities 5 is the fifth... -
Architecture and Spectacle: A Critique by Gevork Hartoonian
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of... -
Grounds and Envelopes: Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment Michael U. Hensel 9780415639170
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £46.43Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of ground and envelope as spatial elements that can inform the search for embedded locally specific architectures, this book collects essays and... -
Architecture Filmmaking by Igea Troiani
Booksplease Price: £102.00Unlike other books on architecture and film, Architecture Filmmaking investigates how the now-expanded field of architecture utilizes the practice of filmmaking (feature/short film, stop motion... -
Archispeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms by Tom Porter 9780415300124
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Widely 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... -
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... -
NATO: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London Claire Jamieson 9781138674844
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century - NATO (Narrative Architecture Today) - who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book... -
What is Architecture? by Andrew Ballantyne 9780415256278
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things. The essays collected here challenge, and help to define a... -
Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users by Professor Jonathan Hill 9780415290432
Booksplease Price: £99.72Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and... -
Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice: Discourses on Architecture and the City by Teresa Stoppani
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product... -
Derrida for Architects by Richard Coyne
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida's treatment of key philosophical texts has been... -
After Art by David Joselit 9780691150444
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed... -
Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory by Charles Waldheim
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanismIt has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another-or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary... -
Architecture's Pretexts: Spaces of Translation Aarati Kanekar 9780415898928
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £58.44The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture's pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories... -
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... -
After the Manifesto by Craig Buckley
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Does the recent explosion of the architectural manifesto signal a new urgency of the form, or does it represent a hopeless effort to resuscitate something that has outlived its useful lifespan? After... -
Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature by Laura Chiesa
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project suggests that space can become a storyteller: if so, plenty of fleeting stories can be read in the space of modernity, where repetition and the unexpected... -
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... -
Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century by Marianna Charitonidou 9781032444185
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and... -
Openings: h2o Architects h2o architectes 9783038601982
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48This book brings together 29 projects from the past ten years, completed and ongoing, designed by Paris-based h2o Architects. The presentation is arranged by thematic categories that stem from... -
Derrida Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts by K. Malcolm Richards 9781845115463
Booksplease Price: £21.68Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'... -
New York Geologics: Representations of Manhattan from the Anthropocene Tiago Torres-Campos 9781961856394
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £27.28Manhattan is commonly regarded as an iconic island-territory of the 20th century. Conventional representations reinforce its reading as an urban condition resulting from neoliberal capitalism. These... -
Reckoning with Colin Rowe: Ten Architects Take Position Emmanuel Petit (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, USA) 9780415741552
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades... -
Yona Friedman. The Dilution of Architecture Yona Friedman 9783906027685
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.78Yona Friedman is recognised as one of the most eminent proponents of 1960s avant-garde urbanism. His best-known work is the concept for a Spatial City ("La Ville Spatiale", 1956), in which he aimed... -
Archigram: The Magazine by Peter Cook 9781933045856
RRP: £170.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Architecture's most influential, innovative and beloved underground magazine, reissued for the first time in a handsome clamshell box Published with Designers & Books. Inspired by comic-book... -
The Architecture of Transgression Rachel Sara 9781118361795
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.36Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The... -
Imagine Buildings Floating like Clouds: Thoughts and Visions on Contemporary Architecture from 101 Key Creatives Vladimir Belogolovsky 9781864709087
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38In this invaluable and thought-provoking book, Vladimir Belogolovsky reflects on nearly 20 years of conversations with leading creatives from around the world whose focus is on art, photography,... -
Urban Design Ecologies: AD Reader by Brian McGrath 9780470974056
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.83The discipline of urban design is undergoing a rapid expansion and realignment. It is experiencing a shift from a profession dominated by architects and planners, directed at urban development, to a... -
The Architecture of Art Museums: A Decade of Design: 2000 - 2010 Ronnie Self 9780415506526
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.74As a building type, art museums are unparalleled for the opportunities they provide for architectural investigation and experimentation. They are frequently key components of urban revitalization and... -
Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture Sir Peter Cook (University College London) 9781118700648
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.24Drawing The Motive Force of Architecture Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents, Peter Cook, is an established... -
Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded by Gevork Hartoonian 9781138573376
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of... -
Megastructure by Reyner Banham
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.31A long-sought reprint of this classic of architectural history and criticism, surveying a movement that would inspire architects, fantasists, and filmmakers alike. It is an architectural concept as...