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Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $28.10Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease... -
Le Corbusier by Jean-Louis Cohen
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $18.57Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical... -
Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier 9780486250236
Booksplease Price: $20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486250236Author Le CorbusierFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint < -
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.54* A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings *'A masterpiece.' Edmund de Waal'Commanding, intelligent,... -
Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow by Anthony Flint 9781477801314
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00From the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect of the twentieth century. Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le... -
Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global by Goeran Therborn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Goeran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that... -
Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity by Marcus du Sautoy 9780008685003
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.76An award-winning mathematician and Oxford professor looks to the arts to uncover the key mathematical structures that underpin both nature and human creativity. ... -
Modern Architecture: The Structures that Shaped the Modern World Jonathan Glancey 9781802791013
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $13.24Explore over 500 masterpieces of modern architecture in this celebration of the most iconic buildings in the world. Written by acclaimed architecture expert Jonathan Glancey, Modern Architecture is a... -
The Design Book by Phaidon Editors
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $19.77Discover more than 500 of the most innovative, influential, and enduring products from the last five centuries in this fully revised and expanded edition of Phaidon's much-loved companion to the best... -
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $6.26Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side... -
The Brutalists: Brutalism's Best Architects by Owen Hopkins
RRP: $66.93Booksplease Price: $47.09As seen in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Forbes, ELLE Decoration, and Design Milk An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet... -
A Question of the Arts: Can a Building Fry an Egg? (and other questions about architecture) by Mary Auld 9781526329769
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Uncover the mysteries of architecture in this fun question-based book for kidsWhy don't buildings fall down? Can you make a home out of poo? And just HOW can an onion be a roof? Find out the answers... -
A Question of the Arts: Can a Building Fry an Egg? (and other questions about architecture) by Mary Auld 9781526329752
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.94Uncover the mysteries of architecture in this fun question-based book for kidsWhy don't buildings fall down? Can you make a home out of poo? And just HOW can an onion be a roof? Find out the answers... -
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OK, Mr Field by Katharine Kilalea 9780571340873 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.51Mr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, fractures his left wrist in a train crash. On a whim, he uses his compensation cheque to buy a house he has seen only in a... -
OK, Mr Field by Katharine Kilalea 9780571340873
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Mr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, fractures his left wrist in a train crash. On a whim, he uses his compensation cheque to buy a house he has seen only in a... -
Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses, Classic format by Dominic Bradbury 9781838663391
RRP: $66.93Booksplease Price: $47.09The most complete in-depth survey of global Mid-Century Modern homes ever published - more than 400 stunning homes from 40 countries, designed by more than 290 of the world's greatest architects The... -
Niklas Maak: The Server Manifesto - Architecture for the age of data-driven democracy by 9783775750707
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.67If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible? Niklas Maak, architectural critic... -
Livio Vacchini Capolavori - Masterpieces 9782493283283
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $21.57Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces (from Stonehenge, Giza and the Parthenon to Notre-Dame-du-Haut by Le Corbusier and the Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe): pursuing their... -
An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities Martin Fuller 9781912128594
Booksplease Price: $8.95Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II... -
Design Monograph: Perriand by Dominic Lutyens 9781838612054
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay... -
Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture by Tim Ingold
RRP: $60.29Booksplease Price: $48.83Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and... -
The Little(r) Museums of Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Hidden Gems by Emma Jacobs
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59A visit to Paris can often seen like a highlight reel -- the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, the Eiffel Tower. But Paris isn't only about the big attractions; in fact, some might say it's the off-beat... -
Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life Justin McGuirk 9781872005522
Booksplease Price: $37.83Charlotte Perriand was one of great designers of the twentieth century. A pioneer of modernism, her work was often overshadowed by her more famous male collaborators, who included Le Corbusier,... -
Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick 9780241389799
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.97From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with... -
50 Designers You Should Know by Claudia Hellmann
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.02Designers have shaped our modern age, whether it's the chair we're sitting in, the computer we're reading on, or the house we're living in. Design is everywhere, and this volume profiles fifty of the... -
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence by Christopher Turner 9781838510558
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.61Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonization and defiance. Its leading proponents, British architects Jane Drew and... -
Lefebvre for Architects by Nathaniel Coleman 9780415639408
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $41.79While the work of Henri Lefebvre has become better known in the English-speaking world since the 1991 translation of his 1974 masterpiece, The Production of Space, his influence on the actual... -
The International Style by Henry-Russell Hitchcock 9780393315189
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $23.95Initially produced as the catalog to accompany a controversial and groundbreaking 1932 Museum of Modern Art show of the then new architecture emerging in Europe and America, The International Style... -
Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley 9781917991322
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, it attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption... -
Light in Architecture: The Intangible Material by Elisa Valero Ramos
RRP: $44.22Booksplease Price: $38.47Light in Architecture explores the role of light in buildings throughout history and the many disparate ways in which architects have approached the phenomenon around the world. Translated and... -
Chromophobia by David Batchelor
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $17.35The central argument of "Chromophobia" is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through colour - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is... -
Architecture In Minutes by Susie Hodge
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In this hyper-compact, fully illustrated guide to architecture, Susie Hodge outlines the history and theory of architecture from the earliest structures to the cutting-edge concepts of the present... -
Marking Ground by 9780711234635
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.63A personal account of three major buildings by the famed Israeli architect, Ada Karmi-Melamede: the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem, co-designed by her brother Ram Karmi (1993); the Open... -
Unbuilt: Radical visions of an architectural future that never arrived by Christopher Beanland
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.24Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism in architecture. Many of these grand projects stayed on the... -
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Design History: A Students' Handbook by Hazel Conway 9780415084734 [USED COPY]
RRP: $54.93Booksplease Price: $2.64Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties. No... -
Dogs and Chairs: Designer Pairs by Cristina Amodeo
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89What does Alvar Aalto's 1 Paimio have in common with a Doberman Pinscher, Le Corbusier's LC4 with a Spanish Greyhound, or Philippe Starck's Costes Chair with a Fox Terrier? Not a lot, you may think... -
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the... -
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Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues 9781848311169 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.24Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the... -
Concrete, Mini Format William Hall 9780714875156
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $16.33'A beautifully designed book ... and a thought-provoking exploration of an important subject.' - John Pawson A century-spanning celebration of one of the world's most versatile and abundant building... -
Imagine Moscow: Architecture Propaganda Revolution Eszter Steierhoffer 9781872005348
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $14.04Idealistic visions of the Soviet capital that were never realised.Published at the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution portrays Moscow as it was...