Filter By
Books (42)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
On the Street: In-Between Architecture by Edwin Heathcote
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £23.76There is a layer of the public architecture that has become so familiar that we barely notice it. Street furniture has the capacity to define a city, to locate it and to anchor us within it. Benches,... -
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... -
Inside Pompeii by Luigi Spina 9780500027301
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £68.30'Not just the best book of photographs of one of the greatest - and most photographed - places on earth but, amazingly (and appropriately), a book one can live in' Geoff Dyer 'Spina's seductive... -
Making Ethical Architecture: Henley Halebrown Built 2010–2022 Simon Henley 9781848227477
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.75Henley Halebrown are multi-award-winning architects based in London, producing architecture that takes account of the way people actually use buildings and how they affect our sense of well-being... -
Seaside Shelters by Will Scott 9781912122042
Booksplease Price: £15.74In Seaside Shelters, Will Scott documents and celebrates the wide variety of shelters adorning the British seasides. A testament to the heyday of British summer holidays and the country's notorious... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald 9780571362219
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . . . We could all use a little more of Fitzgerald's scepticism.' Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times'Like Jon Ronson on town planners . . . Endlessly funny and... -
Cars: Accelerating The Modern World Brendan Cormier 9781851779673
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35A world without cars would be unrecognizable. They have altered the shape of our cities, transformed our nations and landscapes, revolutionised the way we make and buy things, and profoundly... -
The Language of Cities by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first... -
100 20th-Century Shops by Twentieth Century Society 9781849947701
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.95A showcase of Britain's most architecturally significant shops throughout the twentieth century and beyond.100 20th-Century Shops is a fascinating insight into the heritage of Britain's changing high... -
Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing Mark Swenarton 9781848222045
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.63The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. Cook... -
Assemble: Building, Community and Collaboration Aaron Betsky 9780500027004
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.35The long-awaited monograph on the Turner Prize-winning multidisciplinary architecture collective Assemble, gathering more than a decade of their groundbreaking collaborative work. Architecture... -
Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings by Emiliano Bugatti 9783791377148
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85Featuring exquisite photographs of every structure the architect designed from scratch or incorporated into a historical building, this elegant volume is as sumptuous and inviting as a Scarpa... -
Sacred Spaces: Contemporary Religious Architecture by James Pallister
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £28.99A ground-breaking and enlightening exploration of the structures which elevate architecture to spirituality.Sacred Spaces showcases 30 of the most breath-taking, innovative, iconic and undiscovered... -
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.10Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political... -
Brutalist Britain: The Rise of Concrete by Elain Harwood
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.09Introducing Britain's finest examples of brutalist architecture. Brutalist architecture is more popular now than it has ever been. Imposing and dramatic, with monolithic concrete exteriors, it forms... -
Architects + Engineers = Structures Ivan Margolius 9780471498254
RRP: £53.95Booksplease Price: £48.47This book applauds the union of architecture and engineering both today and throughout the history of building and construction. The relationship between the two fields is multifaceted. Some... -
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Provocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's The Craftsman is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living. Most of us have to work... -
White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa by Sharon Rotbard 9780745335117
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.71This is the history of colonialism as seen through the architecture of Israel/Palestine. Tel Aviv is the 'White City', said to have risen from the sands of the desert, acclaimed worldwide for its... -
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.60The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously unseen sketchbooks and photographs from private... -
The View from the Train by Patrick Keiller 9781781687765
Booksplease Price: £22.13In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. This collection explores the surrealist... -
White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa Sharon Rotbard 9780745350936
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.88'Gripping' - Economist 'A fascinating expose' - Raja Shehadeh, author of Palestinian Walks 'Path-breaking and brilliant' - Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture and author of Hollow... -
Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect by Despina Stratigakos 9780691263953
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern designElla Briggs (1880-1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose... -
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk
Booksplease Price: £22.08What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and... -
Museum Without Walls by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of... -
High-Tech Britain: Buildings of the Space Age Geraint Franklin 9781837330379
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48A showcase of Britain's most astonishing examples of High-Tech buildings from the late twentieth century and beyond. Like the Lotus Esprit, the Atari home computer and the sounds of the Roland TR-808... -
Chernobyl: A Stalkers' Guide Darmon Richter 9781916218420
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.88'An eerie record of disaster, absence, the power of nature and frozen time.' - Edwin Heathcote, in 'Best Books of 2020' Financial Times This photography-led book reveals the story of Chernobyl... -
Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with... -
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn... -
architect, verb.: The New Language of Building by Reinier De Graaf 9781839761928
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it must be measured and certified. When architects talk about 'Excellence', 'Sustainability', 'Well-being', 'Liveability',... -
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism by Stephen Graham 9781844677627
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.81Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political... -
Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation Eyal Weizman 9781804297100
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.54How does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how... -
A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration by Eric Hazan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, leads us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou... -
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and... -
Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects by Glenn Adamson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Things matter. So why are we losing touch with them? From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York comes a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed... -
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space by Fred Scharmen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources -... -
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past by Robert Bevan 9781839761881
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68How the past is memorialized can have a dangerous influence on the future. Monumental Lies exposes the truths buried at contested heritage sites and demands that we safeguard the material evidence of... -
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past Robert Bevan 9781839761874
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.80The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas... -
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession by Reinier de Graaf 9780674241466
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.36A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year"Sharp, revealing, funny."-The Guardian"An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and... -
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark
Booksplease Price: £18.06Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that... -
The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson
Booksplease Price: £111.65Glenn Adamson's last book, Thinking Through Craft, offered an influential account of craft's position within modern and contemporary art. Now, in his engaging sequel, The Invention of Craft, his...