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Megastructure by Reyner Banham
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.31A long-sought reprint of this classic of architectural history and criticism, surveying a movement that would inspire architects, fantasists, and filmmakers alike. It is an architectural concept as... -
Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment by Reyner Banham 9780226036984
Booksplease Price: £51.05Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically... -
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies by Reyner Banham
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial... -
Reyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks by Ludovico Centis 9781919624570
Booksplease Price: £17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919624570Author Ludovico CentisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech Todd Gannon 9781606065303
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.27Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham's writing on High Tech... -
Non-Design: Architecture, Liberalism, and the Market by Anthony Fontenot
Booksplease Price: £49.41Anthony Fontenot's staggeringly ambitious book uncovers the surprisingly libertarian heart of the most influential British and American architectural and urbanist discourses of the postwar period,... -
Beyond Sustainable: Architecture's Evolving Environments of Habitation by Ryan Ludwig
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Beyond Sustainable discusses the relationship between human-beings and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable... -
Hans Hollein and Postmodernism: Art and Architecture in Austria, 1958-1985 Eva Branscome (University College London, UK) 9780367502089
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book investigates the art and architecture scene in Vienna... -
The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation and Agency Tahl Kaminer (University of Edinburgh, UK) 9781138909861
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the 'starchitecture' system and the focus on aesthetic... -
An Architect's Guide to Fame by Paul Davies
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24This lively text provides a candid inquiry into the contemporary means by which architects get work and (for better or worse) become famous. In response to the reciprocal relationship between... -
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010 by Elie G. Haddad 9781409439813
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.741960, 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 Science-Fiction Film: Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home David T. Fortin 9781032925240
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF... -
Architecture and Participation by Peter Blundell Jones
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in the field, Architecture... -
The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind Kevin Nute 9781138390751
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and a source of inspiration for Western designers. The... -
Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture by Barbara Miller Lane
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines... -
Los Angeles - The Development, Life and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California Anton Wagner 9781606067550
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.85No book on the emergence of Los Angeles, today a metropolis of more than four million people, has been more influential or elusive than this volume by Anton Wagner. Originally published in German in... -
Pierre Koenig - A View from the Archive Neil Jackson 9781606065778
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.60In this remarkable and gorgeously illustrated book, Neil Jackson presents a vibrant profile of the Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, who Time magazine said lived long enough to become "cool twice... -
Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture Peter Senk 9781138280359
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book investigates the architectural, product design, and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s, broadened the concept of the basic building blocks of architecture to... -
Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning by Daniel A. Barber 9780691170039
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £42.99How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architectsModern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies... -
Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal: Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe by Torsten Schmiedeknecht
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The production of this book stems from two of the editors' longstanding research interests: the representation of architecture in print media, and the complex identity of the second phase of... -
The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha by Hal Foster 9780691160986
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.00Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more... -
Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye by Timothy Hyde
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde... -
Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye by Timothy Hyde 9780691179162
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.12A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde... -
Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning by Daniel A. Barber
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architectsModern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies... -
Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner, Second Edition by Thomas S. Hines 9780226341729
Booksplease Price: £22.29The centennial of the influential Plan of Chicago will be celebrated in 2009. Designed by Daniel Burnham, co-authored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of... -
The Moulton Bicycle: A History of the Innovative Compact Design Bruce D. Epperson 9781476673257
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.37In 1963, British inventor Alex Moulton (1920-2012) introduced an innovative compact bicycle. Architectural Review editor Reyner Banham (1922-1988) predicted it would give rise to "a new class of... -
Brutalism Resurgent by Julia Gatley 9780367023850
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Brutalism had its origins in beton brut - concrete in the raw - and thus in the post-war work of Le Corbusier. The British architects Alison and Peter Smithson used the term "New Brutalism" from... -
American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury by Gabrielle Esperdy 9780813942957
Booksplease Price: £58.50Early to mid-twentieth-century America was the heyday of a car culture that has been called an "automobile utopia." In American Autopia, Gabrielle Esperdy examines how the automobile influenced... -
Avedon's France: Old World, New Look by Robert Rubin 9781419726002
Booksplease Price: £30.63Exploring Richard Avedon's fascination with France, Avedon's France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new... -
Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture Todd Gannon 9781606069264
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel's (1945-1996) innovative residential projects and office interiors made him one of the most talked-about designers of his generation. In this vivid... -
Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World by Daniel Horowitz 9780812243956
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.44How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the... -
Rewriting Alberti Peter Eisenman 9780262553711
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.30A 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... -
Urban Design Ecologies: AD Reader by Brian McGrath 9780470974056
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.83The 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 Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781138628984
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to... -
Pop by Hal Foster
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.84From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word Pop described art, film, photography and architectural design which engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. Unlike books... -
Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin's Revolution from Above, 1928-1938 Dr Danilo Udovicki-Selb (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9781350288423
Booksplease Price: £36.28Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture, in which utopian modernism was practically prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's... -
Design Studies: A Reader 9781350352414
Booksplease Price: £40.27Design Studies: A Reader is the ideal entry point for any student who wants to understand the many complex roles of design - as process, product, function, symbol, and use. Reflecting the diverse... -
The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West by David Haward Bain 9781496230485
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.85In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America's past. Spiritually, their journey began on a Kansas trail where the author's...