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Lateness by Peter Eisenman 9780691147222
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $32.52A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one of the field's leading theoristsConceptions of modernity in architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or... -
Rewriting Alberti Peter Eisenman 9780262553711
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $26.96A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning. Much has been written about... -
The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture by Peter Eisenman
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.26Peter Eisenman-world-famous for his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2005)-confronts historicism with theory and the analysis of form, whose distinguishing features he regards as the foundation of... -
Conversations with Peter Eisenman: The Evolution of Architectural Style by Vladimir Belogolovsky 9783869225319
Booksplease Price: $54.88Peter Eisenman's architecture carries many layers and meanings; one question leads to the next and one conversation provokes another. Vladimir Belogolovsky's new book highlights three separate... -
Notes on Peter Eisenman: The Gradual Vanishing of Architecture by M. Surry Schlabs 9780300282450
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $51.34A celebration of Peter Eisenman's illustrious career as architect, thinker, author, and educator Known for his architecture, writing, and teaching, Peter Eisenman (b. 1932) has shaped the field of... -
From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman Stefano Corbo 9780367738570
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written... -
Why Do Architects Wear Black? Cordula Rau 9783035629484
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $26.32"Why do architects always wear black?" Cordula Rau was asked this question by an automotive industry manager during an architectural competition. Although an architect herself who also wears black,... -
The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe: One Hundred Texts since 1929 by Dietrich Neumann 9783035619850
RRP: $44.51Booksplease Price: $38.48While Mies van der Rohe's pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929 went unnoticed by most of the visitors to the fairgrounds, contemporary critics enthusiastically hailed it as... -
Analogical Thinking in Architecture: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment by Dr Jean-Pierre Chupin 9781350343627
Booksplease Price: $126.72This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, "design thinking" has permeated many... -
Analogical Thinking in Architecture: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment Dr Jean-Pierre Chupin 9781350343665
Booksplease Price: $37.62This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, "design thinking" has permeated many... -
Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form After Modernism by Sean Keller
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $44.23In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be... -
Henry N. Cobb: Words and Works 1948-2018: Scenes from a Life in Architecture by Henry N. Cobb
RRP: $42.51Booksplease Price: $28.74The first book dedicated to the career of the preeminent American architect, Henry N. Cobb. As a builder, teacher, and mentor, Henry N. Cobb has been one of the most eloquent voices in architecture... -
Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality by Michael Jasper 9780367444266
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late-twentieth-century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual... -
Architectural Possibilities in the Work of Eisenman by Michael Jasper 9781032379555
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $45.90This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenman's work through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and arguing for... -
Grounds and Envelopes: Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment Michael U. Hensel 9780415639170
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $59.89Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of ground and envelope as spatial elements that can inform the search for embedded locally specific architectures, this book collects essays and... -
Architecture History and Theory in Reverse: From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning by Jassen Callender 9781138958197
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97This book looks at architecture history in reverse, in order to follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas alter the course of civilization in general and the discipline of... -
The Return of Nature: Sustaining Architecture in the Face of Sustainability Preston Cohen (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) 9780415897891
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $60.36The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the terms mean? Are they de facto design requirements?... -
Authorship - Discourse, A Series on Architecture by Antoine Picon 9780964264106
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.95Authorship critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do... -
Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory by Charles Waldheim
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $32.52A definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanismIt has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another-or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary... -
Architecture's Pretexts: Spaces of Translation Aarati Kanekar 9780415898928
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $75.39The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture's pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories... -
Mark Foster Gage: Projects and Provocations by Mark Foster Gage
RRP: $74.18Booksplease Price: $58.41Architect to Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti, Mark Foster Gage has spent 20 years leading the digital architectural avant-garde, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in architecture and design... -
Writings/Interviews by Richard Serra 9780226748801
Booksplease Price: $42.88Best known for site-specific sculptures in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether urban, natural or architectural, and about the nature of art itself, whether... -
Design by Competition: Making Design Competition Work by Jack L. Nasar 9780521029704
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $50.58What meanings do buildings and places convey to the people who use and visit them? Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. How can... -
100 Buildings by Thom Mayne
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $22.94For this volume, over forty internationally renowned architects and educators from Peter Eisenman and the late Zaha Hadid to Rafael Moneo and Cesar Pelli were asked to list the top 100... -
Design by Competition: Making Design Competition Work by Jack L. Nasar 9780521444491
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $127.12What meanings do buildings and places convey to the people who use and visit them? Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. How can... -
Architectonics of Game Spaces: The Spatial Logic of the Virtual and Its Meaning for the Real by Andri Gerber 9783837648027
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $41.85What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to turn game-worlds into sustainable places - over here,... -
Conditional Design: An introduction to elemental architecture by Anthony Di Mari
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Conditional design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in a more detailed, intentional, and perhaps functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the... -
Wunderkammer by Tod Williams
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $9.57An alluring glimpse into magnificent Cornell-like boxes created by some of the world's leading architects and designers Inspired by the idea of the wunderkammer-"wonder-room" or "cabinet of... -
Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy by Albena Yaneva 9781501751820
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $118.94What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the... -
Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century by Marianna Charitonidou 9781032444185
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and... -
Common Architecture Sunwoo Kim 9781961856974
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $20.77What is the common value of architecture? The first description that comes to mind is: something normal, ordinary, or rational. These keywords are pointing toward the opposite of newness. A brave... -
Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America by Magali Sarfatti Larson 9780520301535
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $40.36Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects-from... -
Architecture and Objects by Graham Harman 9781517908539
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Thinking through object-oriented ontology-and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid-to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function Object-oriented... -
Architecture and Objects by Graham Harman 9781517908522
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $83.71Thinking through object-oriented ontology-and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid-to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function Object-oriented... -
The Iconic American House: Architectural Masterworks since 1900 by Dominic Bradbury
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $46.83Some of the world's greatest architects, including Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, have used their talents to create groundbreaking innovations in American... -
Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation by Brett Kaplan
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.35Portrayals of the Holocaust in literature, paintings, and architecture have aroused many ethical debates. How can we admire, much less enjoy, art that deals with such a horrificevent? Does finding... -
Reckoning with Colin Rowe: Ten Architects Take Position Emmanuel Petit (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, USA) 9780415741552
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $72.03While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades... -
Holocaust Memorial Berlin by Hanno Rauterberg 9783037780565
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $32.30Inescapably controversial, its very existence challenged by German intellectuals like Gunter Grass, the Holocaust Memorial Berlin (or, as it's formally known, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of... -
Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isometric and Oblique Drawings by Ray Lucas 9780367660734
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric,... -
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Charlottenhof, Potsdam-Sanssouci: Opus 12 by Heinz Schonemann
RRP: $10.97Booksplease Price: $10.27Text in German & English. When the small farmstead in the south-western corner of Sanssouci park came up for sale in 1825, Hofmarschall von Maltzahn wrote to the King of Prussia to say that the...