Architecture: public and commercial Books
Skyhorse Publishing Wood Houses
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£22.49
America Through Time Graveyards of the Wild West: Arizona
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£999.99
America Through Time Graveyards of the Wild West: Nevada
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£999.99
America Through Time Bethlehem Steel: Rusting Relic
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£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures
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£17.99
Minnesota Historical Society Press U.S. Bank Stadium: The New Home of the Minnesota
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£26.96
Mango Media A Room of Their Own
Book SynopsisExplore Historic Homes of Famous WomenAdd to your travel bucket list with A Room of Their Own, the history guide to famous ladies and their estates. Experience the impact of these international residents on history through the artifacts that they left behind.#1 Best Seller in Literary TravelExperience the daily lives of feminist icons. Ever wonder what the most famous women in history did in their spare time? From bestselling author Marlene Wagman-Geller comes a women history book and travel memoir about the home museums of women who helped shape history. From female authors, artists, and public figures, A Room of Their Own has something for everyone wanting to know more about who these legendary ladies were.Connect with relics of the past. Full of historical facts and stories from 37 different locations around the world, this travel memoir also shares something that can only be found in these historic homes: the preservation of their personal legacy. Each chapter visualizes the emotional journey these residents lived through the personal items left behind. Featuring unknown stories about Frida Kahlo; Lizzie Borden; Diana, Princess of Wales; and more, history lovers will reconnect with these famous women in history as real people with everyday lives.Explore these home museums of famous women in history. The Betsy Ross Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Jane Austen’s House, Chawton, The United Kingdom; Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City, Mexico; Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Anne of Green Gables House, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Carry A. Nation, Medicine Lodge, Kansas; and more.Inside, you’ll also find: How these home museums came to be Unique furniture, photographs, letters, and other artifacts History trivia about the daily lives of these famous women If you liked books such as All the Beauty in the World, Women in White Coats, or Unabashed Women, you’ll love A Room of Their Own.
£15.29
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Through a Changing Landscape: Photographing Place
Book SynopsisAlthough a regional book, the subject is demolition/gentrification; how cities are changing. This is relevant across North America. Of interest to readers of urban design and urban planning illustrates what is valued, what is destroyed/discarded photographs of commonplace settings rather than celebratory or conventionally beautiful images topical as public opinion shifts with respect to historical buildings and monuments.Trade Review“Philippe Elsworthy’s photographs take us on a brilliant journey through Waterloo Region, but, more importantly, through presence and absence in an urban landscape that feels both immediate and distant. The mystery is of time. There is always a sense that what we see is an illusion. We may recognize a building or a place, but one can never be confident in this collection that what is familiar to us even exists. And then there is the colour. The question of reality always hovers slightly beyond our grasp. Are we looking directly or is there a gauze or filter? How often does the space in the photo wander to an uncertain end? The images are the very stuff of memory, pale and vivid, matter of fact, and full of suggestion. Lost and found.” — Rick Haldenby, Waterloo Architecture“Many books offer guidance on nature and countryside. Few do so for cities. Philippe Elsworthy fills this gap for Waterloo, Kitchener, and Cambridge with photos and observations derived from decades walking this growing urban region. His focus is architecture, culture, community, and how people see and change cities over time. The book emphasizes photos and discussions beyond the opulent generally used to showcase cities, as well as a revealing discussion between Elsworthy and history professor Adam Crerar. This unique book offers insights for Waterloo Region that are applicable to many other cities. And it enriches our appreciation of urban heritage.”—Gordon Nelson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo“For each of us, ‘home’ conjures up a different place. We feel fortunate that Philippe has shared with us this second glimpse into his world even as it gradually disappears. So we trace his familiar walks to work past the handsome homes of Waterloo’s uptown, past reminders of its industrial past—the Seagram barrel pyramid, the lone chimney of Mueller’s cooperage, the button works, the bingo hall. And we take that shortcut to the beer store through the railway yards and grab a burger at Sonny’s. These are history lessons we could learn to love.Waterloo Region, with its distinctive tri-cities, its deep cultural roots, and confusing directionals, has become Phil’s home place. With his books as your guide, it will also become yours.”—Susan Burke, museologist
£30.56
Irish Academic Press Ltd The Dignity of Everyday Life: Celebrating Michael
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£37.42
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Play On: Contemporary Theatre Architecture in
Book SynopsisThis book documents and celebrates Britain’s contemporary theatre architecture. It is about the conception, design, and delivery of spaces for drama between c. 2008 and 2018, a period of economic recession and financial austerity which has nonetheless seen a significant number of well received theatre-building projects. Intended not only for theatre enthusiasts but also individuals and organisations who may be contemplating a capital project of their own, Play On provides detailed ‘contemporary histories’ of ten recent projects. It includes new theatres, like Liverpool’s prize-winning Everyman Theatre and Cast in Doncaster, as well as major refurbishment and restoration schemes such as the National Theatre in London and the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Architects whose work is discussed include Haworth Tompkins, Aedas Arts Team, Bennetts Associates, Richard Murphy Architects, and Page\Park. An extended introductory section sets the case studies in their historical and contemporary contexts, and draws out key themes, including sustainability, accessibility, and the need for theatres to be efficient yet welcoming ‘public’ spaces.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Extended Essay: Historical Introduction: the post-war and 'Lottery' booms; Creative impulse in early twenty-first century music and drama; The place of the theatre in a digital age; Wider agendas: regeneration and identity; Process: building for the Arts in a different economic climate; 3. Case Studies: New Construction and Conversion: Refurbishment; Concert Halls; Future Directions
£999.99
Tate Publishing Art Spaces: The Architecture of Four Tates
Book SynopsisThe diverse and complex development of the art museum is nowhere more richly illustrated than through the architectural evolution of the four Tate galleries. Markedly different in location and appearance, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Modern nevertheless share certain features: their waterside settings, their distance from fashionable centres and their role in the regeneration of their neighbourhoods. In this illustrated book Helen Searing traces the architectural history of each site, not only focusing on the buildings themselves but also illuminating the artistic, political and cultural context of their conception and growth.
£999.99
University of Washington Press Architect of Dreams
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£23.39
Black Dog Press Rick Mather Architects
Book SynopsisRick Mather Architects (RMA) have been working in London since the early 70s. Best known for their award winning museum extensions, such as the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Maritime Museum, RMA's portfolio spans a broad spectrum of projects, including residential and student housing, master plans and urban design for both renovations and new buildings. They are world renowned for their intuitive sense of place and context, as well as their pioneering technologies in structural glass and sustainable design. The book establishes Rick Mather's unique approach to resolving complex design issues on both a large scale and in the fine details; the work of the practice is described in accessible terms through the texts and through a wealth of visual material, including photography and drawings supplied by the practice. Alongside this documentation, the visual aspect is supplemented by reproduced paintings, maps and drawings from a diverse range of sources, which have inspired and informed the work. Over the past 33 years, the practice has undertaken 500 projects. These include the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the student halls of residence in Norfolk; the Ashmolean Museum extension, Oxford; the masterplanning of London's South Bank Centre; as well as Mather's iconic housing of the 1980s and 90s. This book will cover the full range of the projects, exploring Mather's response to the technical and social requirements of the briefs, and the way that a US born architect has re-imagined Britain's culture and made it his own.
£36.53
Graphis US Inc Graphis Archigraphia Redux
Book SynopsisArchigraphia ReduxA beautifully curated collection of the best of environmental graphic design today, Archigraphia Redux is an essential reference for anyone interested in effective communications in the built environment.Graphis is proud to announce the introduction of a new book by Richard Poulin, a renowned multiple Graphis Gold Award-winning designer, educator, and author, which pays homage to Archigraphia: Architectural and Environmental Graphics (Graphis, 1976) by Walter Herdeg (1908–1995), founder and editor of Graphis Magazine. The book is a new international survey of architectural, environmental, and experiential graphic design in the 21st century. Over 150 designers, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and artists from over 40 countries are represented by their groundbreaking work throughout the book.This volume, like the original, is organized into six chapters—Pictograms and Symbols, Vehicular Sign Systems, Visual Guidance and Wayfinding Systems, Building Façades and Storefronts, Supergraphics and Animated Surfaces, and Transportation and Vehicle Graphics. A new seventh chapter covers New Approaches and Digital Technologies. Each chapter includes an introductory essay by authorities on each subject covered—Tom Geismar (United States), Ronald Shakespear (Argentina), Alex Wood (United Kingdom), Masaaki Hiromura (Japan), Paula Scher (United States), Peter Knapp (United Kingdom), and Nik Hafermaas (United States). The high quality of projects assembled along with thoughtful commentaries by the most respected practitioners of the discipline ensures that Archigraphia Redux will be an essential entry in any design library.
£77.39
Acc Publishing Group Ltd Humayuns Tomb World Heritage Site Rethinking
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£25.65
Smithsonian Books Horatio Grennough and the Form Majestic: The
Book SynopsisArt, history, and political drama all meld together in this one dramatic story about one dramatic sculpture.The nation's first federally-commissioned monument, Horatio Greenough's huge marble statue of George Washington, sits near the entrance of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Meant to be the symbolic focus of the whole continent--at the very center of the US Capitol--the monument instead seems a sadly curious relic. This book tells the tale of its demotion from stardom to obscurity: the story is stranger than fiction, including an attempted murder; fights in the USA, Britain, and Italy; and political maneuvering. Horatio Greenough and the Form Majestic: The Biography of the Nation's First Washington Monument presents new research into the complicated tale. It translates and explains the monument's Latin inscription and offers the story of how the work was brought to America by a sea captain subsequently immortalized by Herman Melville. The book also untangles and decodes the monument's symbolism for the average spectator and art lovers alike. This is the story of the commissioning, conception, execution, transportation, installation and re-location, the public's bemused and often fond reception, subsequently frequent re-positionings, and so much more of the nation's first monument to George Washington. Horatio Greenough's statue rests at the heart of an amazing tale, never told before this book.
£999.99
ActarD Inc Passages: Transitional Spaces for the
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£22.80
Actar Publishers XPositions: Pavilion Dialogues
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£28.80
ActarD Inc Xpositions: The Pavilion Dialogues
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£28.80
Actar Publishers Crossings: Dominique Coulon & Associes
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£42.75
Canterbury University Press The Christchurch Town Hall 1965-2019: A dream
Book SynopsisThe 2019 re-opening of the Christchurch Town Hall is celebrated in this richly illustrated volume. Threatened with demolition following earthquake damage in 2011, the building has been renewed through seismic strengthening, restoration and repair. With contributions from those who shaped its original design, along with accounts of the renewal project and the story of the hall’s Rieger organ, this book explains why the Christchurch Town Hall is of both national and international significance. It will appeal to a diverse range of readers, from architects and acousticians, to musicians and those who seek a better understanding of what makes it such an outstanding performance venue, as well as to citizens who take pride in their town hall. Opened in 1972, the Christchurch Town Hall was acclaimed for its architectural excellence and established the national reputation of its designers, Warren & Mahoney. Harold Marshall’s acoustic design brought international recognition and helped to transform the way concert halls were designed around the world. Serving as the city’s leading concert venue for almost forty years, the Christchurch Town Hall has been acclaimed by performers as diverse as Leonard Bernstein, Kiri Te Kanawa and Carlos Santana. Yet it was always more than just a performance venue, becoming the focus for many of the city’s civic, social, cultural and educational rituals. In 2019 the renewed town hall became, once more, Christchurch’s `public living room’.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Introduction. Towards a Christchurch Town Hall, Ian Lochhead 1. The Search for a Design, Ian Lochhead Drawings and Perspectives 2. From Conception to Completion, Sir Miles Warren 3. The Acoustical Design of the Christchurch Town Hall, Sir Harold Marshall The Completed Building, 1972 4. Christchurch’s Public Living Room, Ian Lochhead 5. The Architectural Challenges of Restoration, Peter Marshall Reconstruction 6. Re-engineering the Town Hall, John Hare 7. The Town Hall Organ, Martin Setchell The Renewed Town Hall 8. Afterword, Ian Lochhead Appendices Appendix 1. The Christchurch Town Hall, as Built in 1972 Appendix 2. The 2015–19 Reconstruction: Facts and Figures Appendix 3. The Rieger Organ Specifications: 1997–2018 Select Bibliography Contributors Image Credits Index
£35.10
Brepols N.V. Palimpsests: Buildings, Sites, Time
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£999.99
Seguin, Galerie Patrick Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret Chandigarh India
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£142.50
Braun Publishing AG Architecture for Health
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£33.20
Lars Muller Publishers Form of Form: Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Book SynopsisDespite the historical significance of form in architecture, the subject is frequently undervalued in debate. This book relates a variety of ideas regarding form, not only through aesthetic and techno- logical approaches, but also from social and political positions. The contents underline the cultural and technical relevance of architecture to society. The Form of Form condenses the debate occa- sioned by the 4th Lisbon Architectural Triennale (2016), presenting to a wider international audience the idea that form is an autonomous subject in ongoing architectural debates. It aims to foster new thoughts in architectural approach as we reach the dawn of a rapidly changing society driven by fast access to information.
£999.99
Lars Muller Publishers Snohetta: Making the San Francisco Museum of
Book SynopsisWhat is the role of a museum in contemporary society? Recognising that a museum is a mediator between art and life, Snohetta's expansion to Mario Botta's 1995 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reimagines SFMOMA both as a new art experience and as a gateway into the city of San Fran- cisco itself. No longer an inward-looking shrine to the art object, a museum today must engage with its local conditions in a proactive way. This book presents Snohetta's most recent investigation into how architecture can nurture social engagement, foster relationships between art and people, and support the museum's mission to remain vital and magnetic. Accompanied by behind-the-scenes sketches, drawings, and photographs that detail the design and construction process, this book is in itself an intimate engagement with the building, its directors and curators, its inhabitants, and its creators.
£999.99
Walter de Gruyter Adolf Rading in Breslau: Neues Bauen in Der
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£72.89
Bohlau Verlag Palais Ephrussi
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£999.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Albert Speer (1905-1981)
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£999.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Sites of Knowledge: The University of Vienna and
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£999.99
Harrassowitz Der Palast Im Antiken Und Islamischen Orient: 9.
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£999.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Deutschen Konigspfalzen. Band 5: Bayern:
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£999.99
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Antike Theaterbauten: Ein Handbuch
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£999.99
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Das Wiener Konzerthaus 1913 - 2013: Im
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£999.99
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments:
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£999.99
Birkhauser Night Fever: Interior Design for Bars and Clubs
Book Synopsisthe book features some twenty portraits of distinguished and selected design firms from all over the world. Their spectacular designs for bars, nightclubs, discos and dance clubs are presented, revealing the wide spectrum of creativity. A ten-page profile is dedicated to each design firm and full business details are included. The graphic design is by the well-known Dutch studio Staat Amsterdam. Among the firms featured are: Concrete, Amsterdam Ronald Hooft, Amsterdam Binc, Amsterdam Plajer/Franz, Berlin Mack and Partner, Frankfurt Geomim, Istanbul Mueller Kneer, London Stephen Macdonald Assoc., London Turbo 2000, Copenhagen Bushe Assoc., London Orbit, Paris Graven Images, Glasgow.
£16.62
Gebruder Mann Verlag Hanseatisch Modern: Texte Zu Architektur Und
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£999.99
Gebruder Mann Verlag Die Konigliche Hofbibliothek in Berlin 1774-1970:
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£999.99
Gebruder Mann Verlag Advertising Architecture: Kommunikation,
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£999.99
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Digiarch 2021: Kulturerbe Im Digitalen Zeitalter
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£50.35
Ernst Wasmuth Verlag A New View Architecture Photography from the
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£49.95
Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Museumsinsel Berlin
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£31.95
Ernst Wasmuth Verlag SEPRA and Clorindo Testa Banco De Londres Y
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£41.95
Wasmuth O'Neil Ford & Arch Swank: The Little Chapel in
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£36.00
Wasmuth Osram Munich: Residual Light
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£48.60
Taschen Calatrava
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£15.00
JOVIS Verlag Wingårdhs
Book SynopsisBilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Gert Wingårdh is already recognised as the most successful Swedish architect of all time, but he is not representative of a genuinely Swedish architecture. The outgoing architect’s work on the national and international stage is too cosmopolitan and his architectural solutions are too varied for that, demonstrating a wealth of ideas and frequent surprises. Because he is untrammelled by a predefined style or a fixed theoretical or conceptual orientation, with every new design he succeeds in finding the most suitable architectural language and the ideal expression for the task in hand. In the interests of its users, he places great emphasis not only on the functional but also on the aesthetic and atmospheric qualities of architecture—and regards the ecological sustainability of his buildings as quite indispensable.
£24.70
JOVIS Verlag Auer+Weber+Assoziierte
Book SynopsisBilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Fritz Auer and Carlo Weber founded the practice Auer + Weber in 1980, after having worked as partners of Günter Behnisch, successfully continuing the work in the sense of an open, undogmatic architecture. The transition to a next generation of architects in their practice is now complete. Five partners and five associates in Stuttgart and Munich apply themselves to a whole spectrum of construction projects from monument protection to infrastructure, residential and office complexes in Germany, Europe, South America, and Asia. Attention to the idiosyncrasies of places is always a priority, appropriateness and sustainability remain top concerns. Falk Jaeger provides an insight into the mindscape of this multifaceted practice, primarily renowned for its high standards of quality.
£24.70
