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Why We Build by Rowan Moore
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals... -
Anatomy of a Building Rowan Moore 9781408706220
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that... -
Property: The myth that built the world by Rowan Moore 9780571350094
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you... -
Property: The myth that built the world Rowan Moore 9780571350100
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A rallying cry for a deep rethink of how we build, buy and manage homes.' ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL'A calm analysis of the concept of property ownership, its promises, successes and betrayals.' THE... -
Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century by Rowan Moore
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02With a new introduction for the paperback.London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom,... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow Des Fitzgerald 9780571362226
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Cities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks.So goes the argument. But is it true? What would the city of the future... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald 9780571362219
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . . . We could all use a little more of Fitzgerald's scepticism.' Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times'Like Jon Ronson on town planners . . . Endlessly funny and... -
100 20th-Century Buildings by Twentieth Century Twentieth Century Society 9781849948692
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.80A stylish celebration of some of the greatest buildings in Britain, from the 20th century and beyond, by the country's leading organisation for the protection of 20th century architecture.This... -
The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn: Facsimile Edition and Reader's Guide by Richard Saul Wurman
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £72.02A deluxe sleeved set that includes a facsimile republication of a classic work on Louis Kahn and an accompanying volume of new writings by colleagues, architects, and the Kahn familyThe Notebooks and... -
The English Railway Station Steven Parissien 9781848022362
Booksplease Price: £58.10The railway station is one of England's most distinctive and best-loved building-types. Yet over the past century the nation's stations have often been overlooked or dismissed, and have suffered... -
Living in the Endless City by Ricky Burdett
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £28.99In 2050, over three quarters of the world's population will live in cities. This follow-up to Phaidon's successful The Endless City is a close look at the issues that affect cities, and thus human... -
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.71SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and... -
The View from the Train by Patrick Keiller 9781781687765
Booksplease Price: £22.13In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. This collection explores the surrealist... -
Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City by Bradley Garrett 9781781685570
Booksplease Price: £28.83What does it feel like to find the city's edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a... -
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... -
Staffordshire Christopher Wakeling 9780300218350
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £45.00The newly revised Pevsner guide covering the very best of Staffordshire's buildings and architectural features This expanded and updated guide to the architecture of Staffordshire completes the... -
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics Richard Sennett 9781802062793
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and... -
High-Tech Britain: Buildings of the Space Age Geraint Franklin 9781837330379
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48A showcase of Britain's most astonishing examples of High-Tech buildings from the late twentieth century and beyond. Like the Lotus Esprit, the Atari home computer and the sounds of the Roland TR-808... -
Big Capital: Who Is London For? by Anna Minton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground ControlLondon is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK... -
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good... -
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.42***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023*** 'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of... -
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn... -
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen 9780674599222
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.38Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and environmental... -
Remembering Places: A Memoir Joseph Rykwert 9781041077275
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.24Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert was one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. One of very few writers to be awarded the RIBA's highest honour, the Royal Gold Medal, in... -
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Traversing the nation, Municipal Dreams offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, and in doing so offers an engrossing social history of housing in... -
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an... -
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley
Booksplease Price: £32.83Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the... -
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis by Nick Bano 9781804293874
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason... -
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be... -
Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists by Caroline Maclean
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A spellbinding portrait of the Hampstead Modernists, threading together the lives, loves, rivalries and ambitions of a group of artists at the heart of an international avant-garde. Hampstead in... -
Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain by Otto Saumarez Smith 9780198836407
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than... -
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis Nick Bano 9781804298336
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason... -
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past by Robert Bevan 9781839761881
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68How the past is memorialized can have a dangerous influence on the future. Monumental Lies exposes the truths buried at contested heritage sites and demands that we safeguard the material evidence of... -
Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain by Otto Saumarez Smith
Booksplease Price: £36.55Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities... -
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past Robert Bevan 9781839761874
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.80The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas... -
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession by Reinier de Graaf 9780674241466
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.36A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year"Sharp, revealing, funny."-The Guardian"An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and... -
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency by Barnabas Calder
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energyThe story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest... -
Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms (New Edition) by William J. R. Curtis 9780714868943
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £66.41An expanded edition on the master of Modernism, Le Corbusier, by award-winning architectural historian William J. R. Curtis.Originally published in 1996 to critical fanfair, scholar William J.R... -
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt 9780141984629
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from... -
Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is?As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his...