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Higher Knowledge - SANAA`S Rolex Learning Center at EPFL Since 2010 Christophe Van Gerrewey 9782889154227
Booksplease Price: £12.28A unique book about one of the most famous buildings in Switzerland. The Rolex Learning Center at EPFL Lausanne opened in 2010. Designed by Pritzker Prize laureates SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue... -
Structural and Mediator Lipidomics: A Functional View Michel Lagarde 9782940222926
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £61.82Lipidomics forms part of the field of metabolomics, which in turn follows on from genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, in a top-down manner. It is the study of hydrophobic molecules called... -
Teaching the Preservation by Franz Graf 9782889154890
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £59.95A book that brings awareness to preservation in architecture. This third TSAM volume presents content from teaching courses that have been developed at the EPFL for fifteen years. The aim is to... -
Risk Management & Introduction to Insurance Joël Wagner 9782889155569
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.50A guide to both risk management and insurance. Risk management is becoming increasingly important to companies and society in general, and Risk Management & Introduction to Insurance offers an... -
Choosing Architecture - Criticism, History and Theory since the 19th Century by Christophe Van Gerrewey
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.10For as long as there have been buildings, architecture has been a major subject of public discussion, considered and argued about not just by architects or residents, but also by critics,... -
Building Cultures Valparaiso: Pedagogy, practice and poetry at the Valparaiso School of Architecture and Design Sony Devabhaktuni 9782940222902
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £61.82Building Cultures Valparaiso takes a critical look at how pedagogy, practice and poetry are brought together at one of the most influential schools of architecture of the past 50 years: the School of... -
The IBOIS Notebooks-Vol. 1 by Yves Weinand 9782889153909
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.16A thorough and interdisciplinary look at the many aspects of wood construction over the past three hundred years. The IBOIS Notebooks offer a societal, ecological, cultural, and political look at... -
Rem Koolhaas/OMA - The Construction of Merveilles Roberto Gargiani 9782889153121
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £62.76The creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic marvels amid the skylines of America, Europe, and Asia, Rem Koolhaas, along with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is justly... -
New Brutalism: The Invention of a Style by Silvia Groaz 9782889155101
Booksplease Price: £60.87This book reveals the origin, definition, and evolution of New Brutalism in architecture. The New Brutalism movement in architecture addressed a new way of understanding the urban dimension in the... -
Concrete in Switzerland - Histories from the Recent Past Salvatore Aprea 9782889153534
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.50A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss architectural archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. Concrete in Switzerland is a historical... -
Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages by Jacques Sesiano 9782889155125
Booksplease Price: £60.87A whimsical examination of math in the Middle Ages. This book brings together many unusual and entertaining examples of Medieval mathematical exercises. Medieval treatises on arithmetic and algebra... -
Studies on Types: Dormitories Tiago P. Borges 9782889155064
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.94An analysis of dormitories as an architectural type. Concepts of type and typology are not specific to architecture. Rather they represent an interdisciplinary approach to ordering knowledge and... -
The Many Lives of Apartment–Studio Le Corbusier – 1931–2014 by Franz Graf
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £60.34The first book on Le Corbusiers's iconic apartment-studio. Le Corbusier's apartment-studio is an iconic object of the twentieth century, combining the indisputable material values of the building... -
Louis I. Kahn: Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones, 1949-1959 by Roberto Gargiani 9782940222766
Booksplease Price: £116.24Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks. Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete, such as the Yale... -
Drosophila Immunity Handbook Bruno Lemaitre 9782889156467
Booksplease Price: £41.05Explores the genetics of Drosophila, or fruit flies, to further the study of immunity. Animals possess efficient mechanisms for detecting and neutralizing infection. The application of Drosophila... -
Our Space Environment, Opportunities, Stakes and Dangers by Claude Nicollier 9782940222889
Booksplease Price: £102.06The space surrounding our planet is full of opportunities and resources. Ranging from a hundred to a few thousand kilometers around Earth, our space-neighborhood offers an excellent vantage point to... -
Interoperability – An Introduction to IFC and buildingSMART Standards, Integrating Infrastructure Modeling by Bernd Domer 9782889154869
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £54.38The first comprehensive book explaining the backbone for digital construction methods: the Industry Foundation Classes schema. Interoperable data schemas are the prerequisite to advancing the use... -
The Rhetoric of Pier Luigi Nervi: Forms in reinforced concrete and ferro-cement Alberto Bologna 9782940222957
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £109.10During his long career, Pier Luigi Nervi has explored the potential of concrete through the cast-in place and the prefabrication of elements in reinforced concrete or in ferro-cement, the material he... -
German Concrete, 1819-1877: The science of cement from Trass to Portland Salvatore Aprea 9782940222964
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.60This book describes for the first time ever, the rise of the modern art of building with concrete in the different German territories stretching from Friesland to Pomerania and southwards from... -
The Territories of Urbanism: The project as knowledge producer by Paola Vigano 9782940222896
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £65.84The central hypothesis behind the book concerns the capacity of urban as well as territorial design, of the "project" in the sense of design activity on multiple scales, to produce knowledge. The...