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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... -
Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Robert Venturi
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262720069Author Robert VenturiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas: SuperCrit #2 by Kester Rattenbury
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10The 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... -
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
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This 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: £49.56Anthony 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,... -
Architecture Re-assembled: The Use (and Abuse) of History Trevor Garnham 9780415522458
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Beginning 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... -
Architectural Theory of Modernism: Relating Functions and Forms by Ute Poerschke
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Architectural 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... -
Lateness by Peter Eisenman 9780691147222
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69A 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... -
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... -
Where Are the Women Architects? by Despina Stratigakos 9780691170138
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.05For 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... -
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers by Professor Stuart Sim
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.95Postmodernism 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... -
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... -
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: £25.56Carter 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... -
ABC of Architecture by James F. O'Gorman 9780812216318
Booksplease Price: £19.94ABC 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures: Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors Mayine Yu (Davis Brody Bond Architects, New York, USA) 9780415899796
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £59.24Integrate 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 -... -
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: £59.191960, 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... -
Postmodern Design Complete by Judith Gura 9780500519141
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £46.25Postmodernism was the defining look of the 1980s. Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, and spearheaded by Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro... -
The American Idea of Home: Conversations about Architecture and Design by Bernard Friedman 9781477312865
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32"Home is an idea," Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, "a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst." In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker... -
Architect Knows Best: Environmental Determinism in Architecture Culture from 1956 to the Present Simon Richards 9781138249073
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of people like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Jose... -
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... -
The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture by John Lobell 9781032015248
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Flourishing from 1951 to 1965, the Philadelphia School was an architectural golden age that saw a unique convergence of city, practice, and education, all in renewal. And it was a bringing together... -
Moderne, Postmoderne - Und Nun Barock? Entwicklungslinien Der Architektur Des 20. Jahrhunderts by Stefan Grundmann 9783930698639
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.46"This book is an attempt at architectural criticism" that is how Robert Venturi opened the discussion on Post-Modernism in architecture in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecturea generation... -
Design First David Walters 9780750659345
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £54.10Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping... -
Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design Roger Trancik 9780471289562
RRP: £93.95Booksplease Price: £81.61The problem of "lost space," or the inadequate use of space, afflicts most urban centers today. The automobile, the effects of the Modern Movement in architectural design, urban-renewal and zoning...