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Transformations in Classical Architecture: New Directions in Research and Practice
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Hip Hotels: Orient
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Robot House
Robotics is the fastest-growing and most exciting area of development in architecture and architectural education for a generation, offering new paradigms for design and fabrication. Schools and practices around the...
Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Vol. 25.: The Definitive Guide to
Vintage or modern? Sleek minimalism or splendid opulence? Scandinavian hygge or Neon Art? For all that is emerging and on trend in the world of interiors, look no further than...
50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Philip Wilkinson introduces architectural movements and styles throughout history, as well as describing some of the greatest architects' most important and representative works.From...
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris
William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still...
100 Years, 100 Landscape Designs
Following up on 100 Years, 100 Buildings, author John Hill steps outside to present a century's worth of the most breathtaking and significant landscape designs around the globe. Beginning with...
Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North
Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely...
Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture
Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author, available in June 2015 The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine,...
Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's
Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India's Mughal monuments-including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal-are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the...
My House, My Paradise
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Coughing Up The Moon: With Apologies to Josef K.
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Author: Eric Owen MossBinding: HardbackPublished: SCI-Arc Press + AADCU, 2015Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the intersection of architecture and literature, providing a unique...
The Cosmic Turtle: Batujimbar Bali
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Author: Donald FriendBinding: SoftbackPublished: Carroll's Pty Ltd; Pt Bap Bali, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Cosmic Turtle: Batujimbar Bali is a captivating exploration of Bali through...
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch. In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In...
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field
The titles in our best-selling Design Brief series are highly praised by graphic design students, educators, and professionals worldwide as invaluable resources. Each beautifully designed, affordable volume offers a concise...
The Little Guide to Christian Dior: Style to Live By
Though his life was relatively short, Christian Ernest Dior's seismic influence on the fashion world ensures his name lives on as one of the most successful and celebrated designers of...
One Kensington: Tales from the Frontline of the Most Unequal Borough
Kensington and Chelsea - one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth - is also one of the most unequal. A short walk from Harrods, families cannot buy enough food...
Adjaye: Works 2007-2015: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings
The second volume in Thames & Hudson's monographic series on global architect Sir David Adjaye, winner of the 2021 RIBA royal gold medal. Following on from Adjaye - Works: Houses,...
The Joining of the Arts: Danish Art and Design 1880-1910
When Danish artists from the 1880's onwards started working with all kinds of artistic media and materials, this became the making of Danish art. It laid down the foundations for...
Hybrid Food Retail: Redesigning Supermarkets for the Experiential Turn
Online shopping and changing consumer demands radically transform the food retail industry for the first time since the introduction of the supermarket in the 1930s. After decades of stagnation, food...
2G Essays: Smiljan Radic: Every So Often a Talking Dog Appears and
A new series from the creators of 2G showcasing essays by leading architects This compilation of essays by the Chilean architect Smiljan Radic covers twenty years of written production. The...
Little Book of Balmain: The story of the iconic fashion house
'Good fashion is evolution, not revolution.' - Pierre BalmainOne of the original big Parisian couture houses, alongside the likes of Dior and Chanel, Pierre Balmain reigned supreme over the 1950s...
One Kensington: Tales from the Frontline of the Most Unequal Borough
Kensington and Chelsea - one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth - is also one of the most unequal. A short walk from Harrods, families cannot buy enough food...
Florentine Painting and Its Social Background: The Bourgeois Republic before Cosimo de Medici's Advent to Power: XIV and Early XV Centuries
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Author: Frederick AntalBinding: HardbackPublished: Kegan Paul, [1947]; 1948 Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the intersection of art and society in Florence during the late medieval period....
The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist / Hindu / Jain
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Author: Benjamin RowlandBinding: HardbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1967, Third EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the rich artistic traditions and architectural styles...
Neeson Murcutt Neille
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Author: Anna JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2022Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsNeeson Murcutt Neille showcases the remarkable work of the acclaimed architectural...
Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage in Renaissance Venice
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Author: Deborah HowardBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the life and work of Jacopo Sansovino, a prominent architect of the...
Borobudur Golden Tales of the Buddhas
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Author: John Miksic, Marcello TranchiniBinding: HardbackPublished: Periplus Editions, 1990Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the rich history and cultural significance of Borobudur, one of the most...
Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area
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Author: David King GleasonBinding: HardbackPublished: Louisiana State University Press, 1988, Sixth PrintingCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the rich history and architectural beauty of plantation homes...
One Kensington: Tales from the Frontline of the Most Unequal Borough
Kensington and Chelsea - one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth - is also one of the most unequal. A short walk from Harrods, families cannot buy enough food...
The Conservatory: A Celebration of Architecture, Nature, and Light
2021 GardenComm Media Awards Gold Medal Winner, Publishing categoryElegant and magnificent, conservatories reveal fascinating social, cultural, botanical, and engineering advances as they have evolved across history. First appearing in the...
Feng Shui (The Elements of...)
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Industrial Interiors: Iron & Wood
Industrial style or "industrial chic" refers to an aesthetic trend in interior design that has been popular since the start of the 21st century and which takes inspiration from old...
Design Monograph: Foster
A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's
'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs saying "hilarious" on them. This is infinitely funnier than...
To The One I Love The Best
Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was firmly established as a...
The North Light
A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the YearTranslated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino...
Fashion Icon: The Power and Influence of Graphic Design
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The Fountain & the Mountain: The University of Washington Campus 1895-1995
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Author: Norman J. JohnstonBinding: HardbackPublished: Documentary Book Publishers, 1995Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive history of the University of Washington from 1895 to...
The Little Guide to Christian Dior: Style to Live By
Though his life was relatively short, Christian Ernest Dior's seismic influence on the fashion world ensures his name lives on as one of the most successful and celebrated designers of...
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin...
100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design
"A feast for the eyes...100 Ideas is an entertaining, often insightful read." - Geoff Hart, STC Technical Communication Journal"The scope is broad but intelligently refined, connecting all aspects of graphic...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE. Using an innovative 'dual narrative' structure you sometimes see in films, Big Beacon tells...
Symbol: The Reference Guide to Abstract and Figurative Trademarks
Symbols play an integral role in almost all branding programmes. This book explores the visual language of symbols according to their most basic element: form. Over 1,300 symbols from all...
Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types...
Chanel in 55 Objects: The Iconic Designer Through Her Finest Creations
The elegance of the Little Black Dress. The simplicity of the Breton shirt. The luxury of the fragrance. These signatures exemplify the image of Chanel. Bringing to life the story...
Horace Jones: Architect of Tower Bridge
Sir Horace Jones (1819-1887) was the architect of Tower Bridge, designed in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry. But while some of his surviving buildings are world famous, Jones himself is...
Horace Jones: Architect of Tower Bridge
Sir Horace Jones (1819-1887) was the architect of Tower Bridge, designed in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry. But while some of his surviving buildings are world famous, Jones himself is...