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The Story of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski
Booksplease Price: £25.74An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors "Rybczynski's expansive account traces the influence of social, technological, and... -
The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski 9780195156331
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £12.00What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski... -
What Architecture Is Witold Rybczynski 9780300292954
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit by Witold Rybczynski
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534820Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski 9780140105667
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.Book InformationISBN 9780140105667Author Witold Rybczyn -
Mysteries of the Mall and Other Essays by Witold Rybczynski 9780374538095
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538095Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities by Witold Rybczynski 9781416561262
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416561262Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car Witold Rybczynski 9781324123514
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.07In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers and gearheads who created them. Delving into more... -
The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car Witold Rybczynski 9781324075288
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.18In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski-hailed as "one of the best writers on design working today" by Publishers Weekly-tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and... -
Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers by Witold Rybczynski 9780812239515
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.34The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of... -
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederich Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780684865751Author Witold Rybczynski -
One Good Turn: a Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski 9780684867304
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684867304Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint -
The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio by Witold Rybczynski 9780743205870
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.29The award-winning author of A Clearing in the Distance focuses on the designs, constructions, and writings of the Italian Renaissance architect, noting the influence of his works on such structures... -
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski 9780684824635
Booksplease Price: £47.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lukas Prize Project (Nonfiction) 2000 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2000.Book InformationISBN... -
Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History by Witold Rybczynski 9780374537036
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537036Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand by J. Michael Welton
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28Drawing 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... -
When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect by Eva Hagberg 9780691206677
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.81A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim's life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture mediaAline B. Louchheim (1914-1972) was an art critic on assignment... -
The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design by Galen Cranz
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.30Perhaps no other object of our daily environment has had the enduring cultural significance of the ever-present chair, unconsciously yet forcefully shaping the physical and social dimensions of our... -
Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place by E.Fred Carlisle 9781943665815
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.10Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and... -
The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses by James S. Ackerman 9780691252315
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A classic account of the villa-from ancient Rome to the twentieth century-by "the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture" (Architect's Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman... -
Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 (Revised) by Robert M. Fogelson 9780300098273
Booksplease Price: £45.49Written by one of this country's foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown-and... -
Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place by E.Fred Carlisle 9781943665822
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.85Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2014 by Sid Holt
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Max Chafkin's oral history of Apple from Fast Company, Joshua Davis's intimate portrait of tech pioneer... -
Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America by Wilfred M. McClay 9781641771177
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.79Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place; and community. Appreciating place is essential for... -
Planting Fields: A Place on Long Island Gina Wouters 9781580936828
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £28.19A celebration of Planting Fields, one of the few surviving estates of the Gold Coast of Long Island in New York Planting Fields is an English Country House transported to the North Shore of Long... -
Sprawl: A Compact History by Robert Bruegmann
Booksplease Price: £17.69As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to... -
Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America by Wilfred M. McClay 9781594037160
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of "place" and community. Appreciating place is essential... -
New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century Robert A.M. Stern 9781580936941
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £66.41The culmination of Robert A.M. Stern's monumental history of architecture in New York City and a comprehensive record of building over the last twenty-five years A landmark in architectural... -
Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America by Robert P. Inman 9780691131054
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy... -
Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City by Constance Rosenblum 9780814771549
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24There may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but there are also nearly three million dwelling places, ranging from Park Avenue palaces to Dickensian garrets and encompassing much in between... -
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... -
Princess Margaret and the Curse Meryle Secrest 9781510782563
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38A Groundbreaking New Perspective of Princess Margaret by Renowned Biographer Meryle Secrest Meryle Secrest, distinguished biographer in the arts and humanities, and recipient of a White House Medal,... -
The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us by Joel Kotkin 9781572842168
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.68In The Human City, internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, "pack-and-stack" strategies. By exploring the economic,... -
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller by Alec Nevala-Lee 9780062947239
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.14One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine...