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Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
RRP: €26.39Booksplease Price: €25.16Published 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: €18.00Booksplease Price: €16.63Born 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: €18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486250236Author Le CorbusierFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint < -
Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier 9781420981728
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Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.81* 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: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.06From 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: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.98In 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: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.80An 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: €30.00Booksplease Price: €11.86Explore 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: €21.54Booksplease Price: €17.70Discover 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: €30.00Booksplease Price: €5.60Could 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... -
A Question of the Arts: Can a Building Fry an Egg? (and other questions about architecture) by Mary Auld 9781526329769
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14Uncover 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... -
The Brutalists: Brutalism's Best Architects by Owen Hopkins
RRP: €59.94Booksplease Price: €46.58As 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 9781526329752
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Uncover 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: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.24Mr 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: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74Mr 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: €59.94Booksplease Price: €42.17The 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: €21.60Booksplease Price: €15.83If 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... -
An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities Martin Fuller 9781912128594
Booksplease Price: €8.02Despite 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... -
Livio Vacchini Capolavori - Masterpieces 9782493283283
RRP: €20.40Booksplease Price: €19.32Twelve 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... -
The Little(r) Museums of Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Hidden Gems by Emma Jacobs
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.86A 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... -
Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture by Tim Ingold
RRP: €53.99Booksplease Price: €43.73Making 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... -
Design Monograph: Perriand by Dominic Lutyens 9781838612054
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60A 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... -
Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life Justin McGuirk 9781872005522
Booksplease Price: €33.85Charlotte 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: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.14From 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: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.66Designers 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... -
Lefebvre for Architects by Nathaniel Coleman 9780415639408
RRP: €38.39Booksplease Price: €37.43While 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: €22.80Booksplease Price: €21.44Initially 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... -
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence by Christopher Turner 9781838510558
RRP: €36.00Booksplease Price: €25.62Emerging 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... -
Light in Architecture: The Intangible Material by Elisa Valero Ramos
RRP: €39.60Booksplease Price: €34.45Light 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... -
Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley 9781917991322
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60This 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... -
Chromophobia by David Batchelor
RRP: €20.34Booksplease Price: €15.54The 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: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11In 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: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.89A 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... -
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Design History: A Students' Handbook by Hazel Conway 9780415084734 [USED COPY]
RRP: €49.19Booksplease Price: €2.36Hazel 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: €11.94Booksplease Price: €8.86What 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: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.00Modernism 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... -
Unbuilt: Radical visions of an architectural future that never arrived by Christopher Beanland
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.71Unbuilt 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... -
Concrete, Mini Format William Hall 9780714875156
RRP: €20.34Booksplease Price: €14.63'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... -
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Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues 9781848311169 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €2.00Modernism 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...