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Chains Broken: Matters of the Heart by Flora Samuel 9780615674001
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $36.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615674001Author Flora SamuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint < -
Housing for Hope and Wellbeing by Flora Samuel
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.28Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers firmly in mind)... -
Le Corbusier in Detail Flora Samuel 9780750663540
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.18This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings. It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier's details were expressive of his overall... -
Demystifying Architectural Research: Adding Value to Your Practice by Flora Samuel
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $60.29This practical, hands on introduction guides you through the basics of undertaking research in day-to-day architectural practice helping you to exploit the growing opportunities on offer. It explores... -
Why Architects Matter: Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects Flora Samuel (Professor of Architecture, University of Reading, UK) 9781138783935
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation. It argues that the profession needs to be clear about what it... -
Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture Jo Odgers (Cardiff University, UK) 9780415385398
RRP: $151.18Booksplease Price: $139.31This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive. The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a... -
Social Value in Architecture by F Samuel
RRP: $67.10Booksplease Price: $50.13This groundbreaking edition of AD brings together a range of global expertise on social value, exploring its potential for demonstrating the positive impact of both architecture and architects on... -
After Art by David Joselit 9780691150444
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $52.94Art 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... -
Fit: An Architect's Manifesto by Robert Geddes 9780691155753
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.98Fit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Distinguished architect and urbanist Robert Geddes argues... -
Big House Little City: Architectural Design Through an Urban Lens Benedict Zucchi 9781032259734
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.99***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Combining architectural and urban thinking in an unusual and engaging way, this book presents an integrated approach to architectural theory... -
Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life by Aihwa Ong 9780822362494
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $188.79In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are... -
Case Studies in Architecture and Landscape: Expanding the Legacy of Peter Blundell Jones Jan Woudstra 9781032966311
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35The architect, historian and critic Peter Blundell Jones (1949-2016) considered architecture as an expansive field within the arts and humanities and social sciences that included landscape and urban... -
The Just City by Susan S. Fainstein 9780801446559
RRP: $113.40Booksplease Price: $89.46For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of... -
Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life by Aihwa Ong
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are... -
The Just City by Susan S. Fainstein
Booksplease Price: $37.78For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of... -
Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism Peter Hall 9780415840224
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $116.09This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries, especially our near... -
Architecture and the Mimetic Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives by Lucy Huskinson
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $72.64Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings... -
Where Are the Women Architects? by Despina Stratigakos 9780691170138
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.98For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as... -
The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City by William B. Helmreich 9780691169705
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.61As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood... -
Professionalism for the Built Environment Simon Foxell 9781138900219
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $105.40In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, this new book provides thought provoking commentary on the nature of the relationship between society, the prevailing economic system and...