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The Ordinary - Recordings by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city been has been examined as a repository of... -
Junkspace/Running Room by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.76In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemises in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response... -
Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $22.07Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New... -
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010 by Elie G. Haddad 9781409439813
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $79.641960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and... -
Architecture and Modern Literature by David Spurr 9780472051717
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.14Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing... -
Unbuilt: Radical visions of an architectural future that never arrived by Christopher Beanland
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.34Unbuilt 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... -
After Art by David Joselit 9780691150444
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $32.52Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed... -
New City: Contemporary Architecture in the City of London by Alec Forshaw 9781858945989
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $20.33The last 25 years or so have witnessed redevelopment in the City of London on an unprecedented scale, following the deregulation of the financial markets, the so-called 'Big Bang', in the mid-1980s... -
Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.94From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artistsHans... -
Remember to Dream!: 100 Artists, 100 Notes by Hans Ulrich Obrist 9781912122073
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.40Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, brings his curating expertise to the Instagram feeds of more than 386,000 followers (and counting!), in an endeavour... -
Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture by Judith Paine McBrien 9780393733938
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.01Updated and expanded to chart Chicago's evolving urban landscape, the third edition of this popular handbook is the perfect companion for self-guided walking tours, as well as an excellent source of... -
Future Homes: Domestic Architecture in a Changing World Ellie Stathaki 9781915722645
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.70Close to nature, sustainable, healthy, social, spectacular... We ask a lot of our future homes and the architects that design them. Over time, innovative domestic design has taken many forms... -
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the... -
Urban Design Ecologies: AD Reader by Brian McGrath 9780470974056
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $38.48The discipline of urban design is undergoing a rapid expansion and realignment. It is experiencing a shift from a profession dominated by architects and planners, directed at urban development, to a... -
The Off-Modern by Svetlana Boym
Booksplease Price: $35.98Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the... -
Inson Dubois Wood: Interiors by Inson Wood
Booksplease Price: $59.44Inson Dubois Wood is renowned for designing elegant inte- riors with richness, texture, and impeccable propor- tions. A masterful use of architectural elements in the way he treats and defines space... -
Stuff Theory: Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism by Maurizia Boscagli 9781623562687
Booksplease Price: $135.59Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and...