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Architecture as Signs and Systems by Robert Venturi 9780674015715
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.43Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene in 1966 with a radical call to arms in Complexity and Contradiction. Further accolades and outrage ensued in 1972 when Venturi and Denise Scott... -
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Robert Venturi 9780870702822
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870702822Author Robert VenturiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Learning From Las Vegas by Robert Venturi
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £54.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262036962Author Robert VenturiFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint -
Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Robert Venturi
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262720069Author Robert VenturiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas: SuperCrit #2 by Kester Rattenbury
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates... -
Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect by Frida Grahn 9783035626247
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £27.2050 years Learning from Las Vegas From the bustle of Johannesburg to the neon of Las Vegas, Denise Scott Brown's advocacy for "messy vitality" has transformed the way we look at the urban landscape... -
Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archive of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Hilar Stadler 9783858817648
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Since it was first published in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas" has become a classic in the theory of architecture and one of the most influential architecture texts of the twentieth century. The... -
Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archive of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown by Hilar Stadler 9783858817655
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn by Harriet Pattison
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £32.78An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood... -
The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture by Jean La Marche
Booksplease Price: £39.17This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century. In approaching the... -
Non-Design: Architecture, Liberalism, and the Market by Anthony Fontenot
Booksplease Price: £48.41Anthony 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,... -
Princeton: America's Campus by W. Barksdale Maynard 9780271050867
Booksplease Price: £28.90Founded in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest university in the country. It has been called "a national treasure" and is considered by many to be the loveliest campus in America. The very word... -
Princeton: America's Campus by W. Barksdale Maynard 9780271050850
Booksplease Price: £63.34Founded in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest university in the country. It has been called "a national treasure" and is considered by many to be the loveliest campus in America. The very word... -
Architecture Re-assembled: The Use (and Abuse) of History Trevor Garnham 9780415522458
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Beginning 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... -
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... -
Lateness by Peter Eisenman 9780691147222
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one of the field's leading theoristsConceptions of modernity in architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or... -
Architectural Theory of Modernism: Relating Functions and Forms by Ute Poerschke
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Architectural Theory of Modernism presents an overview of the discourse on function-form concepts from the beginnings, in the eighteenth century, to its peak in High Modernism. Functionalist thinking... -
Authorship - Discourse, A Series on Architecture by Antoine Picon 9780964264106
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99Authorship 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... -
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers by Professor Stuart Sim
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern... -
Where Are the Women Architects? by Despina Stratigakos 9780691170138
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as... -
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City by Nathan Glazer 9780691129570
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and... -
Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs by Denise Scott Brown 9783037787946
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.99For Denise Scott Brown, who is among the most important architects of the postwar era, photography has long served as a critical medium through which to perceive, document and think about the world... -
Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas Stanislaus von Moos 9783858818201
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.73At the peak of the 1968/69 students' riots at American Universities, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, pursued their Design and Research Studio on the topic of Las... -
Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror - The City in Thepru, Photography and Film . Stierli 9781606061374
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.17This is an intelligent and superbly illustrated reevaluation of the seminal architectural manifesto Learning from Las Vegas. Learning from Las Vegas - published in 1972 by the American architects... -
Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts David Goldblatt 9781138235885
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.20Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical... -
Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers by Carter Wiseman 9780393320541
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred... -
The Post-Modern Reader by Charles Jencks 9780470748664
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.83Post-Modernism has been debated, attacked and defended for over three decades. It is, however, not just a fashion or style but part of a greater movement in all areas of culture, and one which... -
Relearning from Las Vegas by Aron Vinegar 9780816650613
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Evaluates for the first time one of the foundational works in architecture criticismImmediately on its publication in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven... -
Boredom and the Architectural Imagination: Rudofsky, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steinberg by Andreea Mihalache 9780813951560
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.27Boredom as an impetus for architectural theory and practice Any theorist or practitioner of architecture must confront, and even be compelled by, boredom. Called ennui, Langeweile, or acedia, boredom... -
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture by Jayne Riew 9780977102433
Booksplease Price: £21.39The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture is one of the most prestigious honors awarded in the discipline of architecture and its related fields, arising from the unique environment... -
Boredom and the Architectural Imagination: Rudofsky, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steinberg: Rudofsky, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steinberg by Andreea Mihalache 9780813951577
Booksplease Price: £36.23Boredom as an impetus for architectural theory and practice Any theorist or practitioner of architecture must confront, and even be compelled by, boredom. Called ennui, Langeweile, or acedia, boredom... -
ABC of Architecture by James F. O'Gorman 9780812216318
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47ABC of Architecture is an accessible, nontechnical introduction to architectural structure, history, and criticism. Author James F. O'Gormon moves seamlessly from a discussion of the most basic... -
Postmodernism. What Moment? by Pelagia Goulimari
Booksplease Price: £23.54This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as... -
Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures: Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors Mayine Yu (Davis Brody Bond Architects, New York, USA) 9780415899796
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24Integrate 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... -
John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture Charles Saumarez Smith 9781848227316
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.94Sir John Vanbrugh was one of Britain's greatest architects and the designer of some of the most important and best beloved English country houses, including Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace. This... -
From the Shadows: The Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor by Owen Hopkins 9781780235158
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £33.16Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662-1736) is considered one of Britain's greatest architects. He was involved in the grandest architectural projects of his age and today is best known for his London churches -... -
Conversations with Peter Eisenman: The Evolution of Architectural Style by Vladimir Belogolovsky 9783869225319
Booksplease Price: £42.54Peter Eisenman's architecture carries many layers and meanings; one question leads to the next and one conversation provokes another. Vladimir Belogolovsky's new book highlights three separate... -
Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown: Hintergrund 56 Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum 9783038601272
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30Denise Scott Brown has shaped the course of contemporary architecture since the 1960s. She has chartered a rebellious course across three continents - from childhood in 1930s South Africa to... -
Oberlin Architecture, College Town: A Social History by Geoffrey Blodgett 9780873383097
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12This illustrated guide to the architecture of Oberlin, Ohio, mixes the remarkable social history of college and town with architectural commentary about one hundred thirty-two buildings built 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...