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Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik by Kenneth Frampton 9781941332641
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.05Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik presents seven interviews with the architectural historian reflecting on the long arc of his rich and influential career in the discipline... -
Architecture and the Public World: Kenneth Frampton by Kenneth Frampton 9781350183780
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.13This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical-theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm,... -
Architecture and the Public World: Kenneth Frampton by Kenneth Frampton 9781350183797
Booksplease Price: £87.60This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical-theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm,... -
Le Corbusier by Kenneth Frampton 9780500204887
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93A revised and updated edition of a bestselling introduction on one of the leading architects of the 20th century. Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The... -
Le Corbusier by Kenneth Frampton 9780500203415
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £20.21Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on... -
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.25This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For... -
The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970 by Kenneth Frampton
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.60A revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness "[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement... -
Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton by Karla Cavarra Britton 9780500343630
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.55The evolution of modern architecture has been inextricably entangled in issues of politics, nationalism, and the environment, creating a tension between local context and global development that is... -
Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on 'Modern Architecture', 1980 by Gevork Hartoonian 9781839983498
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839983498Author Gevork HartoonianFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem... -
The Maria and Neoptolemos Michaelides Residence: Intimations for a New Modernity Kenneth Frampton 9783038604112
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £38.28Neoptolemos Michaelides (1920-92) was a pioneer of modern architecture in Cyprus. All of his designs are based on the desire to develop principles that combine modern architecture with traditional... -
SOM: Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1997-2008 by Kenneth Frampton 9781580932240
Booksplease Price: £52.59Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, founded in 1936, is one of the largest and most influential architecture firms in the world. SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence,... -
Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on 'Modern Architecture', 1980 by Gevork Hartoonian 9781839986376
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an... -
The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design by Nikolaus Pevsner 9780500297698
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82An updated edition of this classic title on the origins of 20th-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts. The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in... -
Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture by Kenneth Frampton
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £38.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Honorable Mention, 1995, in the category of Excellence in Design and Production, Professional/Scholarly... -
Wright`s Writings - Reflections on Culture and Politics, 1894-1959 by Kenneth Frampton 9781941332351
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Wright's Writings traces the discursive work of Frank Lloyd Wright through a set of essays by Kenneth Frampton. Originally written as a series of introductions to the five-volume collection of... -
The Depth of The Landscape by Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours
RRP: £36.50Booksplease Price: £31.44Throughout history, the relationship between landscape and architecture has formed the basis of culture and the development of human settlements. The unfolding of a site, its transformation through... -
The Living Tradition of Architecture Jose de Paiva 9781138640504
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89The Living Tradition of Architecture explores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwelling and thinking. This is a timely appraisal of the field by some... -
Architecture's Appeal: How Theory Informs Architectural Praxis by Marc J. Neveu 9781138024229
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98This collection of previously unpublished essays from a diverse range of well-known scholars and architects builds on the architectural tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics as developed by... -
Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories by Patricio Del Real 9780415893466
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied... -
Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader by William Saunders
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.81More than ever, architectural design is seen as a means to promote commercial goals rather than as an end in itself. Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, for example, simply cannot be... -
Richard Meier, Architect Vol 7 by Richard Meier
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £58.65This comprehensive volume documents Meier s work since 2011, featuring thirty residential, commercial, and civic projects in a variety of locales, including Manhattan, Beverly Hills, the Hamptons,... -
What is Architecture? by Andrew Ballantyne 9780415256278
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Architecture 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... -
The Dissolution of Buildings by Angelo Bucci
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Can an architect pass through walls? Can the city permeate a house? In The Dissolution of Buildings, architect Angelo Bucci presents projects in his native Sao Paulo and abroad. Advocating an... -
Meditations in Entropy: The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA in Bangladesh Kashef Chowdhury 9783038603290
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £38.28"The changing climate is no longer debatable here, it is this land's unfeigned, monstrous reality," says Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury. His firm URBANA, established in 1995, has produced an... -
In Extremis - Landscape Into Architecture by Erieta Attali
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.42In Extremis is a cartography of contemporary global architecture, focusing upon the close relationship between different building types and the landscapes in which they are situated, illuminating the... -
Scotland in 100 Buildings Roger Emmerson 9781804251737
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorROGER EMMERSON was born in Edinburgh. He has worked in London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Edinburgh, running... -
Making Architecture: The work of John McAslan + Partners by Kenneth Powell
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £40.20The first survey in nearly two decades of the work of John McAslan + Partners. Making Architecture both provides an up-to-date account of the work of John McAslan + Partners, one of Britain's most... -
Berlin: A City Awaits: The Interplay between Political Ideology, Architecture and Identity by Neil Mair 9783030514488
Booksplease Price: £90.56Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers. The most notable of these include Charles T. Goodsell and Kenneth Frampton. In Goodsell's (1988)... -
Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation of Architecture: Phenomenal Phenomenology M. Reza Shirazi 9781138229259
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position. Starting with a concise... -
Philosophy of Architecture by Christian Illies 9781786941695
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.79This beautifully compact book - the combined discourse of a moral philosopher and an architect - provides us with a parti pris for contemplating the often contradictory interplay of ethics and... -
Merleau-Ponty for Architects Jonathan Hale 9780415480727
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as informing renowned schools of architectural... -
Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics: Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century by Graham Cairns
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and... -
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... -
Earth, Sky & Water: Houses in the Nordic Style by Mette Lange 9780500025246
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Instantly calming houses in remote Scandinavian locations that will make you want to escape into nature. In a world of starchitects competing to design ever taller glass and steel megaliths, there... -
Dayton Eugene Egger: The Paradox of Place in the Line of Sight by Gregory Luhan
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £19.24Dayton Eugene Egger: The Paradox of Place in the Line of Sight, showcases the pedagogical sketches of Dayton Eugene Egger, the Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech School of... -
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 New Architectural Pragmatism: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader by William S. Saunders 9780816652648
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.16In response to the contentious process surrounding the selection of a design for the World Trade Center site, the use of spectacular buildings to brand cities and institutions, and the dizzying... -
Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern by Jorge Otero-Pailos
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31Architecture's Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source... -
Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era by Elie G. Haddad
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £40.13The history of modern architecture has been well covered in the classical surveys of Sigfried Giedion, Kenneth Frampton, William Curtis, Alan Colquhoun, and others who traced the developments of this... -
Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum Zhu Pei 9781864709575
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.30Zhu Pei's Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum recalls a time of glory of the once "Millenium Porcelain Capital" city, Jingdezhen, and extends these memories to the present. Inspired by the perception of...