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Author: Oliver GreenBinding: HardbackPublished: WHITE LION, 2019Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsOliver Green's London's Underground: The Story Of The Tube chronicles the fascinating evolution of one of the world's...

Author: Wendy HitchmoughBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon Press Limited, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsC.F.A. Voysey presents a comprehensive examination of the influential British architect and designer, C.F.A. Voysey. This...

Author: Julian Bowsher And Pat MillerBinding: HardbackPublished: Museum of London Archaeology, 2009Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUnearth the vibrant world of Shakespearean theatre through the discoveries of the Rose and...

"Fusion gardening embraces an exciting mix of different styles, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts". - Erik van Gelder "My ambition is to extend the living...

A curated collection of the finest international architectural studios and their projects. This book showcases how innovative architectural designs seamlessly integrate with and complement the natural landscape, creating harmonious and...

From Berlin to Beirut, David Chipperfield (born 1953) aspires to an architecture founded on collaboration, ideas, and excellence. His buildings are intended as physically immediate spaces in which "a sort...

The book titled Will Alsop: 1968-1990 by the author Kenneth Powell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The mastermind behind what he termed beautiful and functional "machines for living" Le Corbusier has long been recognised as one of the foremost figures in the international style of architecture....

This volume juxtaposes the dynamic, sweeping planes and angles of the buildings of Zaha Hadid (born 1950) with the equally dynamic art of the Russian Suprematist and Constructivist avant garde--as...

This volume traces the development of the British architectural practice ABK (Ahrends, Burton and Koralek), from early landmark projects like the Berkeley Library at Trinity College, Dublin to the British...

British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) had a lifelong fascination with the mechanization of society and its effect on people's lives. In the 1960s and '70s, Price began to look for...

Simon Velez is renowned for brilliantly utilizing bamboo as a permanent structural element in both residential and commercial structures. Velez was born in Manizales, Colombia, in 1949, and began his...

Archigram comprised Warren Chalk (1927-88), Peter Cook (1936-), Dennis Crompton (1935-), David Greene (1937-), Ron Herron (1930-94), and Michael Webb (1937-). Together they envisioned the future of architecture in ways...

This two-volume book combines the memoirs and selected writings of Ian Ritchie CBE RA (b.1947), one of Britain's most original contemporary architects. As his essays chart his development from a...

For more than 600 years livery companies have played a leading role in commercial activities and social and political life in the City of London. These trade associations, each representing...

An American, who received his training at the University of Oregon, Mather moved to England at a time when American urban fabric was dissolving in a sea of business parks...

This volume comprises tributes to Sir Leslie Martin, together with detailed historical descriptions of his major works in the UK and Portugal. Architect and urbanist, Sir Leslie Martin was Professor...

This study of Alsop and Stoermers building features the international award-winning competition scheme for the regional government offices in Marseilles. The building, completed in Spring 1994, has been acclaimed in...

For Terry Farrell urban design should be based on a number of principles: a notion of continuum with the history and traditions of a specific area, a priority given to...

Five centuries of private collecting are represented in this publication of some of the finest art treasures preserved in Britain's historic houses. In addition to paintings by Canaletto, Van Dyck,...

This, the newest title in the highly acclaimed Design Series focuses on the work of John Piper (1903 - 1992). Piper remains something of an enigma: an antiquarian who was...

An illuminating look at a controversial architectural style - and its finest examples. Post-modernism was the 1980s' counter to Brutalism but fell out of fashion until its best buildings began...

A celebration of Britain's diverse housing styles from the twentieth and twenty-first century. A fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first...

The first of three new volumes, Evolution: Volume 4 showcases Grimshaw s best projects completed in the first decade of the millennium. It celebrates works ranging in scale and geography:...

The third volume in the best-selling "LogoLounge" series provides 2000 totally new logos from designers worldwide. This book, like the previous titles in the series, is compiled in association with...

With this exquisite illustrative masterpiece, Zack Scott explores in stunning detail the majestic constructions that humans have created on the surface of our own planet. This is SCRAPERS , a...

The book titled Adam Style by the author Steven Parissien. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Grass Seed in June by the author John Martin Robinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the seventh volume of The Public Sculpture of Britain, a series intended to cover eventually the whole of the country and produced by the Public Monuments and Sculpture...

Quinlan Terry is Prince Charles' favourite architect, and his many designs include: Queen Mother Square at Poundbury in Dorset & State rooms at 10 Downing Street The author is lecturer...

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...

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 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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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....

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...

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...