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Breuer Robert McCarter 9781838668167
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $85.02‘The most complete monograph on the pioneering modernist.' – Fast Company This acclaimed book is the most comprehensive published on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), looking in... -
Aldo van Eyck by Robert McCarter 9780300153965
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $56.41A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the 20th century's most influential architects Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) was a Dutch architect, writer, and teacher who helped redefine Modern... -
Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert McCarter 9781838668723
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $94.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Carlo Scarpa: Classic format by Robert McCarter 9781838662929
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $41.19The acclaimed survey of the life and works of the celebrated Italian modernist master, Carlo Scarpa, from the highly regarded architectural author, Robert McCarter The work of Carlo Scarpa... -
Louis I Kahn: Revised and Expanded by Robert McCarter 9781838663049
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $100.89The esteemed monograph on the globally-revered modern master - includes Roosevelt Island, Four Freedoms Park, which was completed after Kahn's death The significance of the work of Louis I Kahn, one... -
The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture by Robert McCarter
Booksplease Price: $32.62The architect Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in architecture was not what a building 'looks like' on the day it opens, but what it 'is like' to live in thirty years later. In this book... -
The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic by Robert McCarter
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $54.95MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, the influential and award-winning firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have an international reputation. Producing a wide range of projects both in Canada and... -
A Moment in the Sun: Robert Ernest's Brief but Brilliant Life in Architecture Robert McCarter 9781954081437
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42Robert Ernest was an architect of rare promise and remarkable early success, whose award-winning career was cut short by cancer at age 28 in 1962. Despite the brevity of Ernest's life, his education... -
Highland Park: Alterstudio(Masterpiece Series Limited Edition in Slipcase) Robert McCarter 9781946226877
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $60.35The book provides a detailed insight into the entire design and construction process, featuring essays by Marlon Blackwell, Robert McCarter and Carlos Jimenez, as well as lavish photography,... -
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... -
Meditations in Entropy: The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA in Bangladesh Kashef Chowdhury 9783038603290
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $49.38"The changing climate is no longer debatable here, it is this land's unfeigned, monstrous reality," says Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury. His firm URBANA, established in 1995, has produced an... -
Key Thinkers on the Environment Joy A. Palmer Cooper (University of Durham, UK) 9781138684737
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $42.43Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have... -
Shadow Patterns: Reflections on Fay Jones and His Architecture by Jeff Shannon 9781682260227
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $43.34Shadow Patterns: Reflections on Fay Jones and His Architecture is a collection of critical essays and personal accounts of the man the American Institute of Architects honored with its highest award,... -
Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton by Karla Cavarra Britton 9780500343630
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $40.70The evolution of modern architecture has been inextricably entangled in issues of politics, nationalism, and the environment, creating a tension between local context and global development that is... -
The Architecture of Will Bruder Will Bruder 9781961856769
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $34.87In celebration of his 50 plus years in practice, architect Will Bruder is pleased to share this selection of his most-exemplary projects, presented through hundreds of gorgeous photographs, drawings,... -
A Glass Labyrinth in Venice Kashef Chowdhury 9783038600831
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $31.19Over the past years, Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury has become renowned for a body of work that responds with great sensitivity to places, local circumstances, and the demands of a building's... -
Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space: Architecture's Fourth Dimension by Gail Satler 9780875805863
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95This sociological analysis of Wright's architecture examines the interaction between people and the spaces they create. Satler shows how Wright explored a new architectural dimension, the space in... -
Three Cultural Ecologies by David Leatherbarrow 9780367207267
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern architecture. It reveals how selected works of two modern architects, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, embraced environmental and... -
Practice with Purpose: A Guide to Mission-Driven Design Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects 9781957183046
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $31.58"In the history of architecture, there has never been a more important time to be an architect." - Common Edge Practice with Purpose is about designing buildings beyond their property lines to... -
The Architecture of Use: Aesthetics and Function in Architectural Design Stephen Grabow (University of Kansas, USA) 9780415843027
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $78.61By analyzing ten examples of buildings that embody the human experience at an extraordinary level, this book clarifies the central importance of the role of function in architecture as a generative... -
Louis Kahn: The Philosophy of Architecture by John Lobell
Booksplease Price: $55.47For everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will reveal a deeply felt philosophy. Louis I. Kahn is... -
Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand by J. Michael Welton
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $71.31Drawing from Practice explores and illuminates the ways that 26 diverse and reputable architects use freehand drawing to shape our built environment. Author J. Michael Welton traces the tactile... -
Architecture Beyond Experience by Michael Benedikt 9781943532896
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $27.52Architecture Beyond Experience is an interdisciplinary work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, 'posthuman' and yet humanist strain in architecture. It argues...