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An illustrated tour through New York's five boroughs and the past 100 years of its modern architecture, told through the charming yet bold drawings of Lukas Novotny. Modern New York:...

The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of architecture's most powerful movements,...

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.

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...

Art Deco burst upon the world for a brief but unforgettable existence during the 1920s and 1930s. It embraced new media, such as the cinema and radio, as well as...

Author: Jared GossBinding: HardbackPublished: Assouline, 2021Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a comprehensive overview of the Art Deco movement. It showcases the distinctive aesthetic principles...

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....

Author: Dan Cruickshank And Peter WyldBinding: HardbackPublished: Architectural Press, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Gifter's inscriptions on half-title page. London: The Art Of Georgian...

Published to mark the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, Fulvio Roiter: High-Rise New York celebrates the city and people of New York. Consisting of over 60 colour photographs taken...

The principal characteristics of the achitectural works presented in this book relate to different types of buildings: infrastructure and urban development, cultural facilities, leisure facilites, inhabitable buildings, corporate buildings and...

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...

"What constitutes good architecture?" is a question Werner Blaser was always asked by friends, readers, companions and students. In this comprehensive work the author sets out on a search for...

Author: Manfredo TafuriBinding: HardbackPublished: The MIT Press, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in very good condition. Clean and bright text. This scholarly work chronicles the...

Author: Mayer Rus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Drawing on examples of their own instantly recognisable Minimalist-inflected designs, often evoking the work of Donald Judd, celebrated architects Messana O'Rorke...

Known for their classic contemporary look, the AD100 interior design/architectural firm Ashe Leandro's debut publication is an inspiring look book of interiors they have created in syncopation with materials that...

For seventy-five years, it's been Manhattan's richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working...

This is a discussion on how modern architecture can lead to alienation and physical, psychological, social and health problems, as well as landscape desecration and ecological damage. The author argues...

ABS Bouwteam is a high-end contractor of exclusive residential projects: villas, country houses and mansions in timeless and contemporary style. This first monograph highlights the most important projects by the...

Presents the work of great international architects from the past three years. Selection for the publication was based not only on project design and the end project, but also its...

A singularly impressive volume featuring 300 examples of the most incredible and inspiring concrete architecture from the early twentieth century to the present day. Organised visually, with one building per...

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Author: Architizer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A celebration of the 100 plus 2017 Architizer A+Award winners as chosen by an international jury of 400 experts. A+ Architecture: The...

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...

Architects have been reformulating the experience of the museum and art itself, transforming the museum's definition: The Louvre Abu Dhabi as a replica of a museum-city, inspired by Paris; the...

Take a tour of the Big Apple and discover both familiar and hidden spots: inside and outside the Statue of Liberty the American Museum of Natural History, the New York...

Author: Jean-Louis CohenBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon Press., 2012Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsFrom one of the most accomplished historians of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism, comes the history of architecture.

This first book to comprehensively consider ODA's range in architecture, from apartment to building to neighborhood. Projects underline a humanistic philosophy seeking community engagement, social connectivity, and above all to...

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,...

Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...

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...

This fascinating lexicon examines the quixotic architectural expressions found on select mid-20th-century modern commercial buildings in South Florida. Showcasing the work of 13 noted architects from Miami Beach to Fort...

Author: David Policoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "Designers League" - Twenty contemporary design luminaries from around the world and at the top of their areas of expertise are...

A challenging and polemical argument about the Autonomia movement in Italy, a group of Italian intellectuals who produced a powerful and rigorous critique of capitalism and work in the 1960s...

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: Joshua Williamson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When a cosmic menace threatens worlds beyond our own in the Ghost Sector, it falls to a new Justice...

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:...

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'...

Discover the harmony between Nordic architecture and the beauty of nature. Picturesque Scandinavian archipelagos and extra-long summer days create the perfect environment for dreamy homes. Summer houses that blend smoothly...

Author: Howard HibbardBinding: HardbackPublished: Harrison House New York, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative volume presents a comprehensive overview of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, chronicling its...

A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of the masterpiece from the late, great Paul Auster. It was a wrong number that started it . . . From its iconic opening, The...