Architecture Books
Amberley Publishing Clock Towers of England
Book SynopsisHighly illustrated, exploring the history behind some of Britain's favourite structures - clock towers.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Gates of the City of London
Book SynopsisA fascinating, illustrated account of the history and sites of the former gates of the City of London including some on the River Thames.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Hertford in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisA fascinating illustrated exploration of the architectural heritage of Hertford across the centuries.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Derelict Britain
Book SynopsisA haunting collection of images from photographer Simon Sugden revealing the beauty in decaying buildings around Britain.
£16.19
Amberley Publishing Street Furniture
Book SynopsisA fascinating journey through the history of street furniture in the UK, written by a leading authority on the topic. Milestones, sign posts, benches and lamp posts are all included alongside fascinating obscure examples.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Georgian Liverpool
Book SynopsisThe history of Georgian Liverpool through its buildings. All those interested in the history of Liverpool will find this a fascinating exploration of the Georgian heritage of this city.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Kensington in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of the West London district of Kensington in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Abandoned Britain
Book SynopsisA haunting collection of images from photographer Simon Sugden revealing the beauty to be found in abandoned buildings and structures around Britain.
£16.19
Amberley Publishing Cricket Pavilions
Book SynopsisA celebration of the humble cricket pavilion, an architectural icon of British life. In this lavishly illustrated book, Lynn Pearson explores the history of these often overlooked gems of architectural and social history.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Farnham in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Farnham in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing The Golden Age of Yorkshire Resorts 18001914
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of the history of the select coastal resorts in Yorkshire catering for the well-to-do in their Victorian and Edwardian heyday.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Peterborough in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Peterborough in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Tide Mills of Southern England
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of the lost tide mills and their remains in Englandâs southern counties of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Sussex and Kent.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Derelict Merseyside
Book SynopsisA haunting collection of images from photographers James Lacey and David Gooch revealing the fascination of derelict buildings and structures around Liverpool and Merseyside.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Lighthouses of Wales
Book SynopsisA fascinating illustrated history of the lighthouses around the coast of Wales from their beginnings to the present day.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Chelsea in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Chelsea in West London in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Battersea and Clapham in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of the South London districts of Battersea and Clapham in this guided tour through their most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Boathouses of Britain
Book SynopsisA fascinating lavishly illustrated of these interesting and often overlooked structures - the first history of boathouses in Britain.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Rickmansworth Croxley Green and Chorleywood in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Rickmansworth, Croxley Green and Chorleywood in this guided tour through their most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing St Helens in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of St Helens in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Evesham in 50 Buildings
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£14.39
Amberley Publishing Macclesfield in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Macclesfield in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Gibbs M. Smith Inc Patina Homes
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£31.50
Gibbs M. Smith Inc The Joy of Home
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£32.00
Gibbs M. Smith Inc Surf Style at Home
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£26.40
Gibbs M. Smith Inc Alpine Style
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£26.40
Gibbs M. Smith Inc Design of a Country Estate
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£33.60
Amberley Publishing Roman Building Techniques
Book SynopsisWriting from the view of a building technologist as well as and archaeologist, Tony Rook takes a practical approach in this introductory guide to the building types, techniques and methodology of the Romans.
£22.94
Amberley Publishing Bristol in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisA History of Bristol in 50 Buildings explores the city's past, from its origins to the present day, through its architecture.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Brighton Hove in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplores the rich and fascinating history of the city through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Dream Cities
Book SynopsisThe ideas that became the blueprints for the world we live in.Trade Review‘An ambitious study of the forms and ideas of the contemporary city.’ -- New York Times‘An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces … Mr Graham is as masterly as a novelist … He contends that the seven ideas that he considers are ones that “shape the world” … with a continuing influence on the way our cities look and function today. Urban life may occasionally appear to be chaotic, but it in fact possesses an order that a thoughtful man like Mr Graham can see.’ -- Wall Street Journal
£17.00
Amberley Publishing York in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplores the rich and fascinating history of York through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Seaside Hotels
Book SynopsisThe grand hotel is an icon of the British seaside. Occupying the most favoured spots on the prom, elaborate Victorian and later buildings maintain an air of refinement that harks back to an earlier age. This book tells their story.
£8.54
Amberley Publishing Brutalism
Book SynopsisNo style has divided opinion more than brutalism. But now, fifty years since the heyday of the style, Brutalist buildings are more popular than they have ever been. This is the perfect introduction to Britainâs Brutalist monuments.
£9.49
Amberley Publishing Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplores the rich and fascinating history of Huddersfield through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Loughborough in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Loughborough in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£12.79
Amberley Publishing Town Halls
Book SynopsisThis book traces Town Halls historical development from their early beginnings to the present day, at a time when many are being repurposed as they became redundant, while others have opened themselves up for more secular use.
£9.49
Amberley Publishing Swindon in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Swindon in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Frome in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisDiscover the history and character of the Somerset town of Frome in this enriching tour of fifty of its buildings and landmarks.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Tithe Barns
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at an interesting and important part of Britain's heritage and its landscape with Tithe Barns.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Lost Bournemouth
Book SynopsisA fully illustrated, evocative look back in time at the town and seaside resort of Bournemouth, its people and their way of life over the last century.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Lost Villages of Sussex
Book SynopsisA fascinating illustrated exploration of the lost and deserted villages of Sussex over the centuries.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Lost Portsmouth
Book SynopsisA fully illustrated look back in time at Portsmouth, its people and how life has changed in the city over the last century.Trade Review'A fascinating read, well illustrated.' -- Westender
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Whitehaven in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of the Cumbrian town of Whitehaven in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Chiswick in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of Chiswickâs architectural treasures and notable landmarks from across the centuries.
£14.39
Little, Brown Book Group The Shaping of Us
Book SynopsisYou are going to be transported by what Bernheimer has to say. You''ll make different decisions and figure out how your brain is working and what should be prioritized in your life Jo Good, BBC LondonWhat makes everyday spaces work, how do they shape us, and what do they say about us?The spaces we live in - whether public areas, housing, offices, hospitals, or cities - mediate community, creativity, and our very identity, making us who we are. Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us reveals the often imperceptible ways in which our surroundings influence our behaviour.Wide-ranging and global examples cover the differences between personalities and nationalities, explore grass-roots and mainstream efforts to build environments promoting well-being, and look ahead to what will become of us if we don''t listen closely to what we know is good for us.You will learn whether you arTrade Review'An analysis of how we could design the whole of our environment to be better... She sets out to entertainingly chart the 20th-century history of research into how where we are shapes who we are. It's a timely volume given the current level of interest in the relationship between buildings and health' Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs magazine'You are going to be transported by what Bernheimer has to say. You'll make different decisions and figure out how your brain is working and what should be prioritized in your life' Jo Good, BBC London'Just a great book. Few things matter more than the spaces we inhabit, and Bernheimer convincingly states the case for design that accepts humanity as we actually are. You will never look at your neighbour, home or office quite the same way ever again' Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants and The Curse of Bigness'Environmental psychologist Bernheimer provides a fascinating introduction to her field in this far-reaching look at how the spaces in which humans live, work, and play affect their behaviour ... Readers will finish this feeling better educated about the role of design and more alert to its impact on everyone's lives' Publishers Weekly'How do our environments - built, natural, and biological - fit or fail to fit our needs as human beings? Lily Bernheimer takes us on a tour, a tour de force, of illuminating cases, with sage advice for those who design spaces for human beings to live humane lives' George Lakoff, author of Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being'We have built an urban environment for ourselves, and it shapes us in return. In order to become happier and more effective humans, Bernheimer shows us how we must modify our cities, workplaces, and homes. Her book is an ideal introduction to this essential task' Max Jacobson, co-author of A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction'In this exceptionally readable book, Bernheimer has translated research findings and design practice into a highly engaging account of how we interact with and mold the spaces around us. She shows us that with more thought and imagination, our buildings and cities could provide us with more stimulating, rewarding, and livable environments' David Uzzell, professor of environmental psychology, University of Surrey
£10.44
Smithsonian Books A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture
Book SynopsisThe buildings of the Smithsonian Institution not only contain impressive collections; they are themselves icons of great cultural significance, many of them part of the historic National Mall. A GUIDE TO SMITHSONIAN ARCHITECTURE is a gorgeous and intimate look at the striking buildings across the Smithsonian, providing engaging historical background and focusing on small details you might otherwise miss. The Smithsonian''s unique buildings illustrate the changing styles and sensibilities of America as an evolving nation. Representing the work of major architects, each building evokes a specific time in history: the mid-19th-century turreted Castle, the sky-reflecting mid-century modern National Air and Space Museum, the golden, undulating, 21st-century National Museum of the American Indian, and the shimmering, triple-tiered National Museum of African and American History and Culture, whose innovative design incorporated architectural sustainability that earned it the coveted LEED Gold rating. This guide is a perfect read for architecture buffs, history lovers, and Smithsonian devotees.
£12.34
Shambhala Publications Inc The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in
Book SynopsisOne of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend? The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns—ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made—by the dynamic union of opposites—as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant. The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well.
£25.60
