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Eugenio Miozzi: Modern Venice between Innovation and Tradition 19311969 Clemens F. Kusch 9783869220369
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.26Despite the fact that he shaped Venice and its contemporary form, Eugenio Miozzi remains a little-known figure. Yet both locals and visitors experience his legacy every day, in particular when they... -
Tbilisi: Architectural Guide by Angela Wheeler
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35This guide presents over 120 buildings and projects in the Georgian capital. It serves not only as a helpful guide for tourists but also as a documentation of the city's social history. The selection... -
Spying on Moscow: A Winged Guide to Architecture by Karina Diemer 9783869226088
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.76This collector's album presents Moscow's architectural icons. With photographic precision, Denis Esakov captures the fifth facade of the largest European metropolis: roofs, domes, and cube-like... -
Being a Ukrainian Architect During Wartime: Essays, Articles, Interviews, and Manifestos by Ievgeniia Gubkina 9783869228396
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.07After more than one year of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, thousands of civilians have been killed, and thousands of buildings, heritage sites, and entire cities have been damaged. Along... -
Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Strategies and Practices Carola Neugebauer 9783869227399
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.59With the rise of grassroots initiatives in urban spaces across Eastern Europe and Eurasia in recent decades, Urban Activism in Eurasia addresses three central questions: What are distinctive features... -
Iran: Architectural Guide by Thomas Meyer-Wieser 9783869225708
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Iran has one of the oldest town cultures in the world. It goes back more than 4,000 years. Between the Islamic conquest in the seventh century and the westernisation in the second half of the... -
Lima la Moderna: European Migration and Peruvian Architecture 19371969 Javier Atoche Intili 9783869225951
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.29The participation of foreign intellectuals in the urban development of Peruvian cities, and particularly of Europeans in the introduction of new types of buildings in Lima, remains one of the most... -
A Vision for Mariupol: The Easternmost Gateway of Europe by Fulco Treffers 9783869226309
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.07The City of Mariupol's heroic defence and systematic destruction at the beginning of the Russian invasion have made it an international symbol of senseless brutality and Ukrainian defiance. The... -
Kindergartens and Childcare Facilities: Construction and Design Manual by Natascha Meuser 9783869227313
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £54.50Exploring nursery schools and childcare facilities from an architectural perspective, this publication provides a cultural-historical account of their development, defines design tasks, and... -
Sub-Saharan Africa: Architectural Guide: Volume 4: Eastern Africa. From the Sahel to the Horn of Africa by Philipp Meuser 9783869220840
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.32Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 4 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Eastern Africa, from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa and includes Chad, Sudan,... -
Sub-Saharan Africa: Architectural Guide: Volume 5: Eastern Africa: From the Great Lakes to the Indian Ocean by Philipp Meuser 9783869220857
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.62Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 5 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Eastern Africa, from the Great Lakes to the Indian Ocean and includes Kenya,... -
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Complete Writings 19221969 Vittorio Pizzigoni 9783869223070
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings. This book is a heterogeneous collection of writings, speeches,... -
Echoes of Soviet Urbanism: Exploring Modernist Housing Narratives: Perspectives on Heritage, Transformation, and Community Dynamics in East European and Eurasian Microrayons by Barbara Engel 9783869228921
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869228921Author Barbara EngelFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dom PublishersPublisher Dom... -
Deutsches Architektur Jahrbuch 2024/German Architecture Annual 2024 by Yorck Förster 9783869228846
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.93The German Architecture Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for the past 40 years. This year's edition of the... -
Architectural Guide Helsinki: Buildings and projects from 1917 to the Present Day by Ulf Meyer 9783869229270
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.13Helsinki is considered one of the world's leading centres for good design. In addition to Finnish design, which is highly regarded worldwide, this is mainly due to its modern architecture, which... -
Seismic Modernism by Philipp Meuser 9783869229935
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38Tashkent, the southernmost metropolis of millions in the Soviet Union, is a city redolent with architectural contrasts and paradoxes. Home to the world’s most beautiful prefabricated buildings, it... -
Slavutych: Architectural Guide by Ievgeniia Gubkina 9783869229584
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.07Slavutych, a city in the far north of Ukraine, occupies a strategic position where the borders of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia meet. Built in the aftermath of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster to... -
The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites by Brian Harvey
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.62The machines that orbit our planet live in a void environment - however, space travel itself does not exist in a vacuum. Travelling to space is an immense effort of humans and machines, taking not... -
Treehouses: Small Spaces in Nature Andrea Wenning 9783869221724
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £41.61"Treehouses are special experiences. They offer a primordial spatial and sensual experience, close to nature, while demonstrating their uniqueness, and the individuality of their designers and owners... -
The South of Russia: Buildings of the Soviet Avant-Garde 1922-1936: Architectural Guide Artur Tokarev 9783869223049
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90The Soviet avant-garde architecture of the 1920s to the mid-1930s has increasingly been attracting attention from researchers worldwide. Yet, in spite of this, entire regions remain unstudied. One of... -
Conversations with Architects: In the Age of Celebrity Vladimir Belogolovsky 9783869222998
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.70The ideas of architects are usually conveyed by their buildings. Vladimir Belogolovsky takes a different approach in his new work. The New York based author gives a detailed picture of contemporary... -
Verona and Lake Garda: Architectural Guide: With an Excursion to Valpolicella by Sergey Nikitin
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.20A city that has existed for over 2,000 years, Verona has a wealth of historic architecture: from Ancient Roman masterworks such as the Arena, through seventeenth-century neoclassical gems like the... -
Constructing the Socialist Way of Life: North Korea's Housing and Urban Planning by Inha Jung
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.26Mass housing and urban planning constitute a key element of the material foundation of North Korea. In the post-war era, the country attempted to socialise all types of living spaces based on... -
Behind the Iron Curtain: Confession of a Soviet Architect by Felix Novikov 9783869223599
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.45Felix Novikov tells the dramatic story of Soviet architecture, portraying the conditions he worked in and how he collaborated with the government and other participants during the creative process... -
Prefabricated Housing: Construction and Design Manual by Philipp Meuser 9783869220215
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £56.90Prefabricated housing, often associated with blighted urban land scapes and monotonous grey boxes, has evolved into an approach to housing with a wealth of aesthetic and structural possibilities... -
Shrinking Cities in Romania: Research and Interventions Ilinca Paun Constantinescu 9783869223728
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.75Gathering a large group of academics, re-searchers, artists, architects, and urban planners, the publication Shrinking Cities in Romania is a pioneering initiative to raise awareness of an acute and... -
New York: Architectural Guide: A Critics Guide to 100 Iconic Buildings in New York from 1999 to 2020 by Vladimir Belogolovsky 9783869224312
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90This architectural guide brings together 100 of the most original structures built in New York City since 1999. Vladimir Belogolovsky pairs them with such nicknames as Guillotine, Peacock, Shark's... -
Cairo: Architectural Guide by Thomas Meyer-Wieser 9783869228136
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.96From the Arab conquest to the Arab Spring: in its capacity for architectural and social transformation and in its tension between religious tradition and modern glitter, Cairo is like no other city... -
German Architecture Annual 2022: Deutsches Architektur Jahrbuch 2022 Yorck Foerster 9783869227863
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.52The German Architecture Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for almost 40 years. This year's edition of the... -
Rural Architecture and Water Urbanism: The Modern Village in Franco's Spain by Jean-Francois Lejeune 9783869225050
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.06Post-Civil War Spain used the countryside as locus and symbol for the reconstruction and modernisation of the state. The Modern Village in Franco's Spain studies the reconstruction of the towns... -
Treehouses and Other Modern Hideaways by Andreas Wenning 9783869227368
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.01The fourth, expanded edition of this successful title presents over 50 contemporary treehouses and various conceptions designed by architect Andreas Wenning. The spectrum ranges from private refuges... -
Radical Normal: Propositions for the Architecture of the City by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani 9783869227016
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.26The cycle of production and consumption, artificially accelerated by advertising and marketing, has characterized our society for decades. This cycle has recently also taken hold of the architecture... -
How to Design Humane Cities: Public Spaces and Urbanity by Karsten Palsson 9783869226149
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.15Taking examples from major European cities, Public Spaces and Urbanity is a practical guide demonstrating what urban development with a human face might look like. This involves renewing and... -
Izmir: Architectural Guide Mehmet elik 9783869229744
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.32With over 8,000 years of history, Izmir is among the world's oldest cities. Founded as Smyrna on the shores of the Aegean Sea, the city has been home to all manner of cultures over the centuries... -
German Architecture Annual 2025/Deutsches Architektur Jahrbuch 2025 by Yorck Frster 9783869229249
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.93The German Architecture Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for the past 40 years. This year´s edition of the... -
Mastblich Op schaal True to Scale: Die Geschichte der C&A-Kaufhuser in Deutschland De geschiedenis van de C&A-winkels in Dutisland The History of C&A Stores in Germany by Draiflessen Collection 9783869229232
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.38Since the opening of the first building in 1911, C&A stores have shaped the image of German city centres - especially with the new buildings after the Second World War. Using selected examples from... -
Moscow: Soviet Mosaics from 1935 to 1990: Art for Architecture by James Hill
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital. While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow... -
Melnikov House: Icon of Modernism, Family Home, Architecture Museum by Pavel Kuznetsov
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £20.65The Melnikov House, a building designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov in Moscow for his family (1927 - 1929), is an icon of the architectural avant-garde. The house was originally built as an... -
The Multiplex Typology: Living in Kuwait's Hybrid Homes by Sharifa Alshalfan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.26After the discovery of oil, the Kuwaiti State estab lished a means of wealth distribution for its citizens through housing programs aimed at improving standards of living. It allocated residential... -
China: Architectural Guide by Evan Chakroff
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65In an era of accelerating population growth, mass urbanization, and increasing pressure on the natural environment, the megacities of China's eastern seaboard have become a focal point of...