Graphic Design & Architecture

With her most recent commission, Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center, architect Zaha Hadid becomes the first woman ever to design an American museum. This long awaited first monograph on one of...

The book titled The International Style: Exhibition 15 at the Museum of Modern Art by the author Terence Riley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Ian Ritchie's distinctive architectural career, marked by experimentation, technological innovation and attention to ecological resources, is explored in this volume. After early years in Norman Foster's London office, Ritchie opened...

This series profiles the designers who mattered in the 90s -- those who have already changed our perceptions and those poised to define the next century. Concise text and a...

Excavations at Pompeii have been going on for more than two centuries, since 1748, and discoveries there have regularly produced new and important information about ancient Roman life. The site...

The first and greatest of the English Renaissance architects, Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British style and design. Yet this self-taught son of a...

This is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation of the Classical Orders. The new edition of this successful title now includes the proportions in both metric and imperial...

This illustrated book provides a complete assessment of the architecture of Cromwell's England. Key to the puritan minimalist classicism of the time was the work of Inigo Jones, and this...

This book captures the awe-inspiring drama of abandoned, forgotten, and ruined spaces, as well as the extraordinary designs that can bring them back to life - demonstrating that reimagined, repurposed,...

This monograph, the latest volume in Phaidon s documentation of John Pawson s stellar career, hones in on the essential details that mark his distinctive architectural and aesthetic style. It...

John Pawson (b.1949) is an architect and designer whose exceptional work combines an essential simplicity with a keen attention to the details of everyday life and human experience. In the...

Nicholas Grimshaw is ranked alongside Sir Norman Foster and Sir Richard Rogers as a leading figure of the high-tech movement in British architecture in the last decade. The period 1965-1988...

Denys Lasdun (1914-2001) was one of Britain's most eminent architects, whose career spans the entire period of Modernism in British architecture. His notable buildings include the Royal College of Physicians...

A celebration of the work of architect, Nicholas Grimshaw. It includes his plans for the new Stock Exchange in Berlin, and the new railway terminus at Waterloo in London. It...

The book titled William Alsop: Buildings and Projects 1989-1992 by the author Mel Gooding. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A fully illustrated guide which examines the interiors of London houses of differing periods, types and styles. Each interior is represented by a colour photograph and text which explains its...

Peter Dazeley has gained access to the hidden interiors of some of London's most iconic buildings, from Tower Bridge to Battersea Power Station, Big Ben to the Old Bailey. His...

'This lavishly illustrated compendium suggest that the age of elegance endures' Mail on Sunday The great houses of London represent one of the marvels of English architecture and yet they...

When Europeans first reached Australian shores, an expedient and long-held belief developed that Australian Aboriginal people did not have houses or towns. Instead it was believed that they occupied temporary...

The Urban Image of Augustan Rome examines the idea and experience of the ancient city at a critical moment, when Rome became an Imperial capital. Lacking dignity, unity, and a...

This is a comprehensive study of a major figure of the modern movement, in whose work philosophy, architecture and painting are inextricably entwined. From the founding of the periodical De...

'Heatherwick is a Leonardo da Vinci of our times' Sir Terence Conran. Still just two decades into his career, British designer Thomas Heatherwick has been heralded as one of the...

As global focus turns towards the growing influence and power of the Far East, the architects of Australia are perfectly placed to respond with their own forward-looking visions. This book...

Sir David Chipperfield is of one of Britain's leading architects. Renowned for his quiet and thoughtful style, he has a huge international reputation and has created works in China, Japan,...

At the beginning of the 20th century, a new artistic movement spread throughout Europe and America: Art Nouveau. Today, artists, designers, and typographers avidly search out authentic specimens of the...

This is a unique critical appraisal of the work of Foster and Partners from their early years through to projects completed in the 1990s. Their award-winning buildings have become symbols...

This groundbreaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It is innovative in showing the role of...

Focusing on the refreshing process of design with which Will Alsop engages, Tom Porter reveals and traces the process, from public consultation to the privacy of Alsop's painting studio, from...

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and...

While the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s resulted in the destruction of much of England's built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emerged....

In this engaging and handsome book, Cammy Brothers takes an unusual approach to Michelangelo's architectural designs, arguing that they are best understood in terms of his experience as a painter...

Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city's most important patron of art and...

How do countries acquire their distinctive features and appearance, their look or style? In this stimulating book, Jules Lubbock answers this question by focusing on Britain, with its characteristic terraced...

This authoritative book is the first comprehensive study of domestic buildings in London from about 1200 to the Great Fire in 1666. The generously illustrated text is accompanied by a...

This work offers an account of the forms and functions of interior decoration in Parisian domestic architecture during the first half of the 18th century - the period generally known...

Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends-on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess- the...

How architectural drawings emerged as aesthetic objects, promoted by a network of galleries, collectors, and institutions, and how this changed the understanding of architecture.Prior to the 1970s, buildings were commonly...

The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture Modernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments. Its place in...

Stephanie Williams is an architectural journalist who has written for many newspapers and journals, from "The Sunday Times" to the "Architectural Review".

Author: Gavin StampBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurum Press, 2015Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, Gothic For The Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography Of George Gilbert Scott, chronicles the...

Author: Alejandro Bahamón, Agata LosantosBinding: HardbackPublished: pad (Paragon Arquitectura y Diseño), 2007Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: minor wear of...

Author: John Wardle ArchitectsBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson, 2016Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: signed on inside cover by previous owner; in overall very good conditionThis compelling volume,...

Author: Philip GoadBinding: HardbackPublished: Lothian Custom Publishing, 2014Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: minor wear to external dust cover; pages in good conditionThis academic work chronicles the...

Author: T.P. BolandBinding: HardbackPublished: THE PULLING PRESS, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the enduring legacy of one of Ireland's most iconic religious structures. It presents...

Author: Ken Woolley And Ancher Mortlock & WoolleyBinding: HardbackPublished: The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd; Craftsman House, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: significant wear to external...

Author: Robert GambeeBinding: HardbackPublished: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: significant yellowing to first internal page; minor wear and fraying of...

Author: Fernando LizziBinding: HardbackPublished: SAGEP PUBLISHER, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: minor fraying to external dust cover; pages in very good condition; signed by previous owner on...

Author: Alan HessBinding: PaperbackPublished: CHRONICLE, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: no dust jacketPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis architectural history chronicles the vibrant and distinctive Googie style that defined American coffee shops and...