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Real and Fake in Architecture: Close to the Original, Far from Authenticity? by Anne Catrin Schultz
RRP: £59.90Booksplease Price: £42.54The condition of "fake" and "real" in architecture is rarely publicly discussed nor has it encountered broad journalistic or scholarly attention. This book explores the realm of truth, authenticity... -
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And the alley she whitewashed in light blue: The secret of all those timeless places where one feels "at home" by Nili Portugali
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £26.37If someone asked me: what is the film about, I would have to say: It is really about the essence of human life! I find it incredibly beautiful! It is really a moving experience ... I think it is... -
The Architecture Of Rome: An Architectural History in 402 Individual Presentations by Stefan Grundmann 9783936681161
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.50Rome is where the history of European architecture was written. The foundations were laid in ancient Roman times when the first attempts were made to design interiors which could be experienced as... -
Time, Space & Material: The Mechanics of Layering in Architecture by Anne-Catrin Schultz 9783936681888
RRP: £39.80Booksplease Price: £29.24This book examines the application of the principle of layering in architecture, its mechanics, possible application and meaning. Layering is widely used in the discussions of the 20th and 21st... -
Peter Kulka, Opus 55: Bosch-Haus Heidehof, Stuttgart Peter Walser 9783930698554
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.00Text in English and German. Early in the 20th century, Robert Bosch, the founder of the Stuttgart electrical business, built a large villa on the hills east of the city. It was half Palladian, half... -
Gardens in Suzhou by Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard 9783932565366
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £33.93Text in English and German. The architect and photographer Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard, who is professor of design principles at the Muthesius-Hochschule in Kiel, has chosen seven of the most... -
California: Impressions from the American West by Hillert Ibbeken 9783936681116
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.75Text in English and German. Perhaps the fascination of American landscapes, particularly the deserts is their featurelessness. In Germany, Brandenburg for example, the much plainer landscape lives on... -
Hascher Jehle Architektur: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart by Kaye Geipel 9783936681062
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.46Text in English and German. The prize-winning design, of which all can be seen from the outside is a glass cube making an impact over a distance and defining the urban situation, solved the enormous... -
Sit in China: An Excursion through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting by Volker Fischer 9783936681369
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £26.67Text in English & German. The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair... -
Towards an Ecology of Tectonics: The Need for Rethinking Construction in Architecture Anne Beim 9783936681864
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £42.73The global resources situation and the climate crisis are amongst the biggest challenges faced by mankind today. In the years to come, these issues will no doubt have an influence on societal... -
Zaha Hadid, Judith Turner: A Dialogue Joseph Giovannini 9783936681918
RRP: £29.90Booksplease Price: £22.55The juxtapositions of Zaha Hadid's architectural models and drawings and Judith Turner's photographs of the architect's buildings in this volume reveal that Hadid and Turner are complicit. There is a... -
Gunnar Birkerts: Metaphoric Modernist by Sven Birkerts 9783936681260
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £57.86Latvian-born architect Gunnar Birkerts belongs to the second wave of modernists who arrived in the United States from abroad, a group that includes Kevin Roche and Cesar Pelli among others. Educated... -
The Architecture of Pica Ciamarra Associati: From Urban Fragments to Ecological Systems by Antonietta Iolanda Lima 9783869050201
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £50.41Since 1970, based in an isolated building situated on the peninsula of Posillipo, Pica Ciamarra Associati (www.pcaint.eu) has acted as a laboratory of architectural and urban design which has... -
Knud Holscher: Architect and Industrial Designer by Poul Erik Tojner 9783930698790
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £38.79Outlines this prominent Danish architect and designer's works.About the AuthorPoul Erik Tojner is a critic and editor on the weekly newspaper Weekendavisen in Copenhagen. He has studied philosophy... -
Healthy Homes in Tropical Zones: A Plea for Improving Rural Domestic Building in Asia & Africa by Jakob Knudsen 9783936681819
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £50.29Early nomadic shelters, including caves, animal skin tents, and igloos, were used for protection against wind, rain, snow, sunlight, and other forces of nature. These basic homes also provided... -
Richard Meier: Stadhaus Ulm by Manfred Sack 9783930698097
RRP: £9.80Booksplease Price: £7.79Richard Meier's architecture in dialogue with the Ulm Munster, the most famous German Gothic cathedral.About the AuthorManfred Sack, who has a doctorate in music, was for almost four decades the... -
Frank O. Gehry, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (Opus 32) by Kurt W. Forster 9783930698325
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.26There is no doubt at all that Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is one of the most spectacular buildings of recent years. As the central element in Bilbao's comprehensive urban renewal programme... -
Lluis Domenech i Montaner, Palau de la Musica Catalana, Barcelona by Manfred Sack 9783930698080
RRP: £8.50Booksplease Price: £6.92Montaner was a Catalonian art nouveau artist and a supporter of Modernism, political freedoms, and cultural renaissance.About the AuthorManfred Sack, who has a doctorate in music, was for almost four... -
Innovative Apartment Buildings: New Directions in Sustainable Design by Avi Friedman 9783869050096
RRP: £59.90Booksplease Price: £42.54Current design of apartment buildings is facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is... -
Carlo Scarpa: Layers by Anne-Catrin Schultz 9783930698141
RRP: £39.90Booksplease Price: £29.81In recent decades, Carlo Scarpa's relevance has been steadily on the rise. At a time when architects have to use existing city and building structures as a point of departure for their work, his... -
Metropolis: A Cinematic Laboratory for Modern Architecture by Wolfgang Jacobsen 9783930698851
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £33.93Text in English and German. What links film and architecture? Above all it is 'Metropolis', the film that Fritz Lang made in the Babelsberg studios in 1925/26. Its extravagance created enormous... -
Hans Dieter Schaal--Stage Designs: Introduction by Gottfried Knapp; interview with Schaal by Frank Werner by Gottfried Knapp 9783930698868
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £35.96Text in English and German. Hans Dieter Schaal worked on opera with Ruth Berghaus for ten years, he also created unforgettable stage architecture for the operas of Heinz Werner Henze. Almost all the... -
Hans Dieter Schaal. Festung Koenigstein. Ausstellungsdesign/ Exhibition Design Hans Dieter Schaal 9783869050249
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £26.37The Koenigstein Fortress, located not far from Dresden on a rocky plateau high above the Elbe River, is considered one of the most interesting and best preserved fortifications in Europe. It has a... -
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Charlottenhof, Potsdam-Sanssouci: Opus 12 by Heinz Schonemann
RRP: £8.50Booksplease Price: £7.96Text in German & English. When the small farmstead in the south-western corner of Sanssouci park came up for sale in 1825, Hofmarschall von Maltzahn wrote to the King of Prussia to say that the... -
Penthauser fur alle /Penthouses for All by Gerald Marx 9783869050348
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £29.20The dream of owning your own home in the countryside has led to that Cities are expanding more and more, growing together and the destroy untouched nature. In addition, however, the demand is... -
Technology-Driven Design Approaches to Utopia by Marios C. Phocas 9783869050027
RRP: £29.90Booksplease Price: £22.55Together with his colleagues and students at the University of Cyprus, Phocas challenges traditional definitions of utopia by presenting us with analytical research and clearly delineated visions of... -
Home of Ones Own / Emigrierte Architekten und ihre Hauser: Emigre Architects and Their Houses. 19201960 Burcu Dogramaci 9783869050089
RRP: £59.90Booksplease Price: £43.34Text in English & German. When architects design a house for themselves, the often tense relationship between clients and builders is usually absent. That is why in many such buildings the... -
Hans Dieter Schaal: Exhibition Architecture by Frank R. Werner 9783930698714
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £37.99Hans Dieter Schaal is already something of a cultural institution in Germany. Trained as an architect, he always operates outside the "main stream", designing and realizing stage sets, sculptures,... -
Brunnert und Partners, Flughafen Leipzig/Halle: Opus 52 by Martina Duttmann 9783930698523
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Text in English and German. The new Leipzig/Halle airport has not just one, but two predecessors. One was Leipzig-Mockau airport, opened in 1923 and often still used after the Second World War in the... -
Blossoming Gap by Martin Rendel 9783932565359
RRP: £12.90Booksplease Price: £9.57A yawning gap between two 1960s buildings is not at all unusual in Cologne. A gap scarcely wide enough to park a few bicycles has been used as an office by the Rendel and Spitz Advertising Agency... -
Gypsy Architecture: Houses of the Roma in Eastern Europe by Renata Calzi 9783936681123
RRP: £39.90Booksplease Price: £29.81The fact that there is Gypsy architecture may surprise quite a few people, for Gypsies are regarded as nomads who roam through the world and settle now here, now there, never stay long in one place,... -
Global Museum: Global Museum by Hans Dieter Schaal 9783936681147
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £7.75All the world's knowledge is stored and collected here. The place serves as an assembly point and information centre and is all things in one: laboratory, workshop, building site, university,... -
Weissenhofsiedlung: Experimental Housing Built for the Deutscher Werkbund, Stuttgart, 1927 by Karin Kirsch 9783936681604
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £49.49First published in 1989 by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. The fundamental significance of the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart for the history of early modern architecture should not be... -
Heinz Tesar Architecture of Layers: Ten Recent Buildings by Friedrich Achleitner 9783936681215
RRP: £36.90Booksplease Price: £27.78Heinz Tesar's architecture is associated with holistic ideas, and is 'value-conservative' in this sense. But at the same time, this architecture relates to its time, is modern, frank and open to... -
Figures: A Project in St. Petersburg 2010-2012 by Rob Krier 9783936681666
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £42.73The architect is at all times also an artist. How otherwise would he be able to tame the three-dimensionality of space and subdue the urges of physics and structural mechanics with the creations of... -
John Fowler, Benjamin Baker, Forth Bridge: Opus 18 by Iain Boyd Whyte 9783930698189
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £23.23When the Forth Bridge opened on 4 March 1890, it was the longest railway bridge in the world and the first large structure made of steel. Crossing the wide Firth of Forth west of Edinburgh in... -
From Doodlebug to Oppenheimer: An Analysis of Christopher Nolan's Film Work Konrad Kirsch 9783869050379
RRP: £39.90Booksplease Price: £29.01The analysis of the corpus formed by Christopher Nolan's works allows us to derive its poetics. The key to this is provided by the magic tricks script in The Prestige. All of Nolan's films from... -
Otto Ernst Schweizer: Milchhof Nurnberg, Opus 59 by Immo Boyken 9783932565595
RRP: £24.90Booksplease Price: £18.61Text in English and German. Otto Ernst Schweizer (1890-1965), architect, philosopher and teacher, had a crucial effect on the path of Modern architecture. When the central dairy in Nuremberg was... -
BRAUN--Fifty Years of Design and Innovation: Fifty Years of Design and Innovation by Bernd Polster 9783936681352
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £31.90Braun products have been shown more frequently at exhibitions than those of any other comparable company. Some people find that they reflect basic human values such as authenticity and integrity. For... -
Peter Hubner: Building as a Social Process by Peter Blundell Jones 9783932565021
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £37.56Text in English and German. Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s he became a successful designer of...