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Peter Zumthor Therme Vals by Peter Zumthor 9783858817044
Booksplease Price: $124.90Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa?s majestic... -
Dear to Me: Peter Zumthor in Conversation by Peter Zumthor 9783039420100
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $117.91In summer 2017, celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor curated the exhibition Dear to Me at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, marking the 20th anniversary of one of his most famous designs. Part of the... -
A Feeling of History Peter Zumthor 9783858818058
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42While completing the Almannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian scholar Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project... -
Thinking Architecture: Third, expanded edition Peter Zumthor 9783034605854
RRP: $39.35Booksplease Price: $34.06Architecture that is meant to have a sensuous connection to life calls forthinking that goes far beyond form and construction. In his texts, Peter Zumthor articulates what motivates him to design his... -
Zumthor in Mexico: Swiss Architects in Mexico by Peter Zumthor 9786079489311
RRP: $22.58Booksplease Price: $16.37The first in a new series celebrating the historical and cultural ties between Mexico and Switzerland through architecture In 2017, as part of the MEXTROPOLI Festival, Pritzker Prize-winning... -
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects Peter Zumthor 9783764374952
RRP: $39.35Booksplease Price: $32.24What "really constitutes an architectural atmosphere"? Peter Zumthor says, is "this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty ... under whose spell I experience... -
100 Contemporary Houses by Philip Jodidio
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.69Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an... -
The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781138628984
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.88The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to... -
The Making of Alpine Architecture: Media, Awards, and Exhibitions in Vorarlberg and Grisons Matteo Tempestini 9783986122850
RRP: $39.35Booksplease Price: $34.06What makes some regional architecture more famous than others? The Making of Alpine Architecture investigates the cultural construction behind contemporary Alpine architecture, exploring the events,... -
The Architecture of Persistence: Designing for Future Use David Fannon (Northeastern University, USA) 9780367486372
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $47.91The Architecture of Persistence argues that continued human use is the ultimate measure of sustainability in architecture, and that expanding the discourse about adaptability to include continuity as... -
Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture by Robert Cody
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01In the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is... -
The Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and Environment Dean Hawkes 9780367537166
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes' impressive 50-year academic career.The book... -
Architecture in the 20th Century by Peter Gossel 9783836570909
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $72.34The architecture of the 20th century is distinguished by an astonishing diversity. Just as the clash of aesthetic and commercial ambitions nevertheless produced many a happy symbiosis, so the purist... -
Material Imagination in Architecture by David Dernie 9780415810890
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $57.07Material Imagination in Architecture draws on history and the visual arts, and contemporary architecture to explore this popular theme in architectural practice and education.In the context of a... -
Swiss Sensibility: The Culture of Architecture in Switzerland Anna Roos 9783035611281
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $58.30Contemporary architecture in Switzerland is influenced by Peter Zumthor and Herzog & de Meuron, recipients of the Swiss Pritzker Prize, as well as a number of other prominent architects. The book... -
Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting Nazi Perpetrators' Sites to Documentation Centers by Rumiko Handa
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts. In this comparative... -
Doing Disability Differently: An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life Jos Boys (Northumbria University, UK) 9780415824958
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $55.46This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly... -
Intersections of Space and Ethos by Kyriaki Tsoukala 9781138567368
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36The pressing economic, environmental and social crises emanate the need for a redefinition of the dominant views, perspectives and values in the field of architecture. The intellectual production of... -
What Architecture Means: Connecting Ideas and Design Denise Costanzo 9780415739047
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $67.65What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and... -
Introducing Architectural Tectonics: Exploring the Intersection of Design and Construction Chad Schwartz 9781032784557
RRP: $78.68Booksplease Price: $74.16The second edition of Introducing Architectural Tectonics is an exploration of the poetics of construction. Tectonic theory is an integrative philosophy examining the relationships formed between... -
Aalto, Utzon, Fehn: Three Paradigms of Phenomenological Architecture Roger Tyrrell 9781138961005
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86This book examines the work of three seminal Nordic architects - Alvar Aalto, Jorn Utzon and Sverre Fehn - from a phenomenological perspective, utilising the methodology of 'paradigm' (or 'in the... -
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... -
Darlington Meier: De aedibus by Heinz Wirz 9783037612941
RRP: $47.09Booksplease Price: $32.40Darlington Meier Architekten operate confidently on a variety of scales - from housing to urban-planning interventions. The Zurich office's sense of the effect of classic concepts characterises its... -
Light Line: The Architectural Photographs of Helene Binet by 9781912520855
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $13.31The Franco-Swiss photographer Helene Binet (b. 1959) is renowned for making images that express an intimate experience of architecture. Using a combination of analogue and digital techniques, her... -
Evoking through Design: Contemporary Moods in Architecture by Matias Del Campo 9781119099581
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $33.62Evoking Through Design: Contemporary Moods in Architecture is visually stunning, featuring built work and speculative projects, which highlight how contemporary practices are using devices such as... -
Marcel Chassot: Architecture and Photography: Amazement as Visual Culture Marcel Chassot 9783777430065
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $58.85Assembling buildings designed by modern star architects from Tadao And - o to Peter Zumthor, this photography book is a total - work - of - art: its felicitous interplay of brilliant architectural... -
Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the World by Philip Jodidio
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $59.65Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an... -
Experiencing Art and Architecture: Lessons on Looking by Sanda Iliescu
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.04In this book, Sanda Iliescu brings aesthetics back into the conversation, exploring the subject through compelling examinations of lived experiences of works of art and architecture. Iliescu... -
Architecture Re-assembled: The Use (and Abuse) of History Trevor Garnham 9780415522458
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.75Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of... -
Bare Architecture: A Schizoanalysis by Chris L. Smith 9781350138940
Booksplease Price: $47.01Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural exploration of the interface between architecture and the body. Chris L. Smith skilfully introduces and explains numerous concepts drawn from... -
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... -
Wolfgang Laib: Crossing the River by Wolfgang Laib
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $41.01Wolfgang Laib (born 1950 in Germany) is considered to be one of the most important artists of today. His work is characterized by a profound relationship with nature and a declared belief in... -
Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures: Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors Mayine Yu (Davis Brody Bond Architects, New York, USA) 9780415899796
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $79.00Integrate the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles in your work using this book as a resource to help you...With more than seventy significant... -
Heidegger for Architects by Adam Sharr
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $36.95Informing the designs of architects as diverse as Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun and Colin St. John Wilson, the work of Martin Heidegger has proved of great interest to architects and... -
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... -
Fragile Order - Rolf Muhlethaler by Architekturgalerie Luzern
Booksplease Price: $56.27Rolf Muhlethaler is an award-winning Swiss architect whose approach is characterized by a comprehensive analysis of local and historical contexts in combination with a deep conceptual understanding... -
Intimacy of Making: Three Historical Sites in Korea by Hélène Binet
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $51.47In The Intimacy of Making Swiss French photographer Helene Binet takes us on a visual journey through a world of stone, walls and gardens that define and celebrate the Korean art of making. In pure... -
Merleau-Ponty for Architects Jonathan Hale 9780415480727
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $39.14The 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... -
Architectural Atmospheres: On the Experience and Politics of Architecture by Christian Borch
RRP: $27.74Booksplease Price: $24.07Architecture is increasingly understood to be a sensual, spatial experience, which means that the experience of buildings and spatial constellations is also a perception of atmospheres that are rated... -
Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences: Affective Spaces in Art and Architecture Dr Liana Psarologaki 9781350466715
Booksplease Price: $120.54Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences offers a new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relation to space, site and atmosphere.An interdisciplinary work, interweaving...