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Author: Rowan Moore (Architecture Critic) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also...

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires: hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception...

Author: Alistair RowanBinding: HardbackPublished: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly volume presents a meticulous catalog of the architectural drawings by Robert Adam housed...

'Thames & Hudson's new, affordable, covetable 'Pocket Perspectives': beautifully illustrated essays by canonical writers' Financial Times A manifesto for the future of architectural practice and the necessity of good design...

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Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction is an anthology of essays by noted critic Joseph Masheck. Considering topics in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture, its theory and practice, as well...

Beautiful, bespoke, environmentally sensitive houses by the award-winning architecture firm known for clean, modern, soulful design for such leading proponents of contemporary modernism as Calvin Klein and Hugh Jackman. This...

Author: Frank RussellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageArchitectural Monographs: Terry Farrell presents a comprehensive overview of...

Architecture and design specialist Dominic Bradbury draws back the curtain on the iconic South Bank, providing an unrivalled insight into the buildings that populate one of London's epicentres of art...

Author: Lorcan O'Herlihy ArchitectsFormat: Hardback, 200mm x 265mm, 1020g, 256 pagesPublished: Frame Publishers BV, Netherlands, 2020Architecture influences the way we live and the way we live influences architecture. Lorcan O'Herlihy...

The book titled Architectural Outsiders by the author Roderick L. Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first section of the book consists of six rigorously argued essays that investigate the language of modernism, language and drawing, "masculine and feminine" architecture, language metaphors, science in architecture,...

Architecture and design specialist Dominic Bradbury draws back the curtain on the iconic South Bank, providing an unrivalled insight into the buildings that populate one of London's epicentres of art...

Author: Richard A. FellowsBinding: PaperbackPublished: A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageArchitects In Perspective: Sir Reginald Blomfield; An Edwardian Architect...

The modern world's greatest structures capture the imagination and inspire wonder, whether they are places of worship, palaces of power or pleasure, skyscrapers, bridges, tunnels, canals, dams or colossal statues....

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhat shaped the skylines, streetscapes, and domestic spaces of an evolving nation? The Walls Around Us...

Beautiful, bespoke, environmentally sensitive houses by the award-winning architecture firm known for clean, modern, soulful design for such leading proponents of contemporary modernism as Calvin Klein and Hugh Jackman. This...

Mies van der Rohe's 1941-45 Farnsworth House & Garden and Philip Johnson's 1947 Glass House in New Caanan, CT are two haikus of glass and concrete that rewrote the history...

Explores the origins and evolution of Georgian landscape architecture, a period of innovative and diverse garden structures in which some of the era's greatest architects experimented with different forms, styles,...

This volume offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects'...

Author: John RuskinBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen, 1893Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Rebound copy. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges....

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ex-library. Few books have so thoroughly reshaped...

The book titled The Theory of Architecture: Concepts, Themes and Practices by the author Paul-Alan Johnson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What is the secret of beauty in architecture Critics have puzzled over that conundrum for centuries, not least the architectural writers of the Victorian period. This book focuses on four...

Author: Philip Goad, Anna Johnson, Geoffrey London, Shane Murray, Leon Van Schaik, Anna TweeddaleBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Miegunyah Press, The Office of Victorian Government Architect, 2012Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No...

Author: James GowanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Academy Editions., 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some bumps to edges of cover.This architectural study presents a comprehensive overview of...

"If architecture fails, if it is pedestrian and lacks imagination and power, it tells only one story, that of its own making: how it was built, detailed, financed. But a...

This is a monograph on nearly a decade's worth of work by Andrew Bromberg, chief designer at the worlds largest privately owned architecture firm, AEDAS. Bromberg has become one of...

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...

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...

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 authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practiced in England, Scotland, and Wales from the...

The book titled John Ruskin and Victorian Architecture by the author Michael W. Brooks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Karla Cavarra BrittonFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 1160g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020The evolution of modern architecture has been inextricably entangled in issues of politics,...

Author: Bobby Mcalpine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A celebration of the recent work of McALPINE, the award-winning architectural and interior design firm, with a collection of residences embracing...

In this polemical work, journalist Martin Pawley argues that the British obsession with the architectural past is a cultural dead end with no relevance to the technological age. He describes...

In this comprehensive, accessible and beautifully illustrated book, Frank Sear traces the evolution of Roman architecture during the four centuries from the late Republic to AD 330, when Constantine moved...

Author: Robert BrannerBinding: HardbackPublished: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear, tanning and chipping of dust jacket; plastic dust jacket...

"Richard Manion Architecture creates distinctive residences and estates with a respect for traditional forms and historic imagery adapted to modern living. The curated selection of rarely published projects in this...

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:...