Architecture Books
Veii Zibaldone
Book SynopsisMoving freely across mediums, disciplines and generations, Zibaldone is a collective portrait of the debate on architecture and the city of the past decade. Half text, half images, diary and anthology, atlas and scrapbook, postcard collection and visual essay, Zibaldone invites the readers to build their paths, drawing constellations from a network of points. As such, the book opens a reflection on the curatorial practice as a means to construct common knowledge about architecture, enlarging horizons and multiplying agencies. Zibaldone records CAMPO's activity as a dynamic platform gathering a multitude of experiments, enquiries and research methods by more than 100 contributors.
£27.00
BIS Publishers B.V. Senses of Architecture
Book SynopsisSenses of Architecture is a groundbreaking book that challenges the traditional approach to design by emphasizing the often overlooked senses. It explores how engaging all our senses-touch, smell, sound, and even taste-can enhance our experience of spaces, sparking a new wave of inspiration and intrigue among architects and designers. The book urges architects and designers to awaken these dormant senses, often neglected in modern design, to unlock a deeper understanding and appreciation of spaces. By moving beyond a purely visual approach, Senses of Architecture offers innovative solutions that make structures more dynamic and captivating. Senses of Architecture is not just a theoretical exploration, but a practical guide that empowers architects and designers. Through insightful guidance and practical examples, the book equips them with valuable tools for incorporating sensory experiences into architectural projects. It encourages a holistic approach to design and invites clients to consider designs that engage all the senses.
£20.69
Park Books Defining Architectural Quality
£28.00
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc The Language of Architecture: 26 Principles Every
Book SynopsisIn order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language; the definitions, function, and usage. The Language of Architecture provides students and professional architects with the basic elements of architectural design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters. This visual reference includes an introduction to architecture design, historical view of the elements, as well as an overview of how these elements can and have been used across multiple design disciplines. Whether you're new to the field or have been an architect for years, you'll want to flip through the pages of this book and use it as your go-to reference for inspiration and ideas. This comprehensive learning tool is the one book you'll want as a staple in your library.
£24.00
Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and
Book SynopsisThis is a major revision and expansion of what has long been recognized as a basic reference in its field. Besides updating the existing text, the authors have broadened the book by including many new entries on landscape architecture as well as by significantly increasing their treatment of American architects and architecture. This is a highly readable work, worldwide in scope, covering architecture from ancient times to the present. Major entries on key individuals, styles, movements, materials, and terms range up to several pages in length and include cross references and bibliographies for further reading. This is an essential addition to the reference shelf of every architectural student and buff.
£14.24
MIT Press Beyond Digital Design and Automation at the End
Book SynopsisRecasting computational design: a new modern agenda for a post-industrial, post-pandemic world.Mass production was the core technical logic of industrial modernity: for the last hundred years, architects and designers have tried to industrialize construction and standardize building materials and processes in the pursuit of economies of scale. But this epochal march of modernity is now over. In Beyond Digital, Mario Carpo reviews the long history of the computational mode of production, showing how the merger of robotic automation and artificial intelligence will stop and reverse the modernist quest for scale. Today’s technologies already allow us to use nonstandard building materials as found, or as made, and assemble them in as many nonstandard, intelligent, adaptive ways as needed: the microfactories of our imminent future will be automated artisan shops.The post-industrial logic of computational manufacturing has been known and theorized for some
£22.95
Thames & Hudson Ltd Kengo Kuma
Book SynopsisA revised and expanded edition of this major monograph on Kengo Kuma, Japan's foremost contemporary architect.Table of ContentsPreface • Introduction by Kenneth Frampton • 1. WATER-GLASS: Water/Glass • River/Filter, Kitakami Canal Museum • Forest/Floor • Z58 • Glass/Wood • 2. WOOD-GRASS-BAMBOO: Noh Stage in the Forest • Great Bamboo Wall • Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum • Takayanagi Community Centre • Ginzan Onsen Bath House • Ginzan Onsen Fujiya Ryokan • Yusuhara Town Hall • Masanari Murai Memorial Museum of Art • GC Prostho Museum • Yusuhara Marche • Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum • Komatsu Seiren Fabric Laboratory fa-bo • Under One Roof project for the EPFL ArtLab • Japan House São Paulo • 3. STONE-EARTH-CERAMIC: Lotus House • Chokkura Plaza • Adobe museum for a Wooden Buddha Museum of Wisdom • Paper Snake • Ondo Civic Centre • Nezu Museum • Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud • China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum • V&A Dundee
£38.40
Gibbs M. Smith Inc Outside In
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£30.40
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Peter Braithwaite Studio
Book Synopsis The first monograph by an innovative young Canadian architecture and construction firm Presents original, stunning responses to the regional vernacular of the Canadian Atlantic Lavishly documented with architectural diagrams, models and images by Canada's leading architectural photographer Features 20 projects in various stages of completion from across the Canadian landscape Includes several introductory texts and essays by leading architectural critics
£52.50
Taschen GmbH Contemporary Japanese Architecture
Book SynopsisThe contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than seven Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize. Since Osaka World Expo ’70 brought contemporary forms center stage, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. With his intentionally limited vocabulary of geometric forms, Tadao Ando has since then put Japanese building on the world’s cultural map, establishing a bridge between East and West. In the wake of Ando’s mostly concrete buildings, figures like Kengo Kuma (Japan National Stadium intended for the Olympic Games), Shigeru Ban (Mount Fuji World Heritage Center), and Kazuyo Sejima (Kanazawa Museum of 21st Century Art of Contemporary Art) pioneered a more sustainable approach. Younger generations have successfully developed new directions in Japanese architecture that are in harmony with nature and connected to traditional building. Rather than planning on the drawing board, the architects presented in this collection stand out for their endless search for forms, truly reacting on their environment. Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book reveals how this unique creativity is a fruit of Japan’s very particular situation that includes high population density, a modern, efficient economy, a long history, and the continual risk of disasters in the form of earthquakes. Accepting ambiguity, as seen in the evanescent reflections of Sejima’s Kanazawa Museum, or constant change and the threat of catastrophe is a key to understanding what makes Japanese architecture different from that of Europe or America. This XL-sized book highlights 39 architects and 55 exceptional projects by Japanese masters—from Tadao Ando’s Shanghai Poly Theater, Shigeru Ban’s concert hall La Seine Musical, SANAA’S Grace Farms, Fumihiko Maki’s 4 World Trade Center, to Takashi Suo’s much smaller sustainable dental clinic. Each project is introduced with photos, original floor plans and technical drawings, as well as insightful descriptions and brief biographies. An elaborate essay traces the country’s building scene from the Metabolists to today and shows how the interaction of past, present, and future has earned contemporary Japanese architecture worldwide recognition.Trade Review“The book hops around Japan and around the globe introducing readers to some of the more spectacular recent buildings from Japanese architects.” * dailybeast.com *“A bible of the most beautiful contemporary Japanese monuments.” * Architectures à Vivre *“…a comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of the field.” * The Japan Times *“A survey of the most innovative projects from the country’s recent past.” * Architect Magazine *“Delving into ancient traditions and open to the most contemporary thought and technical capacities, the Japanese are a force to be reckoned within contemporary architecture.” * Philip Jodidio *
£57.00
Zupagrafika Brutal Posters
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£23.99
MIT Press On Bramante
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£27.00
Yale University Press Birmingham and the Black Country
Book SynopsisThe latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black CountryTrade Review“Each revision of the Pevsner architectural guides — with their copious additional details and superb colour photography — opens readers' eyes to what should have been obvious...Seldom has this been more evident than with the latest volume, Birmingham and the Black Country.”—Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph“A tirelessly comprehensive book…[This is] a city of rich oddities and pleasingly bewildering contrasts.”—Jonathan Meades, The Oldie "The updated Buildings of England series get better and better, but Andy Foster's Birmingham and the Black Country is especially worthy of celebration...It is fair to say that it is a region that has rarely been the focus of sustained admiration, so much of the contents are revelatory...The book is a triumph."—Otto Saumarez Smith, Friends of Friendless Churches
£54.00
Amberley Publishing Lost Shrewsbury
The Shropshire market town of Shrewsbury, lying on the River Severn, was an important centre of the wool trade in medieval England and its prosperity continued up until the Industrial Revolution, with a wealth of ancient and historical buildings still standing in the town centre. Although Shrewsbury was not heavily industrialised, it was the home of the railway locomotive and lorry manufacturer Sentinel. Shrewsbury and its suburbs lost many of their buildings during the 1950s and 1960s, and life in the town has significantly changed over the decades, with the rise of new retail developments and the evolution of work and leisure. Lost Shrewsbury presents a portrait of a town and a way of life that has radically changed or disappeared today, showing not just the industries, buildings, people and street scenes that have gone, but also many of the popular places of entertainment and much more. This fascinating photographic history of lost Shrewsbury will appeal to all those who live in the town or know it well, as well as those who remember it from previous decades.
£14.39
Hoxton Mini Press Work From Shed: Inspirational garden offices from
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£21.25
Massey University Press Te WhanganuiaTara Wellington Architecture
£26.09
Birkhauser Verlag AG Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring:
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£31.50
Transcript Verlag Dimensions: Journal of Architectural Knowledge:
Book Synopsis"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge" is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution, and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures, and results of knowledge creation and practice are esteemed coequally, with particular attention to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research. Issue 3, "Species of Theses an Other Pieces", is concerned with the form of the doctoral thesis in practice-oriented research. In reference to George Perec's "Species of Spaces and Other Pieces", this issue takes the love for playing with forms, genres, and arrangements as its program.
£37.39
Zupagrafika Monotowns: Soviet Landscapes of Post-Industrial
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£20.69
Zupagrafika Brutal Britain (second Edition): Build Your Own
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£21.24
Zupagrafika Kiosk
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£25.49
Zupagrafika Concrete Siberia: Soviet Landscapes of the Far
Book SynopsisA photographic exploration of Soviet-era architecture in Siberia.
£19.79
Zupagrafika Brutal East Vol. II: Build Your Own Concrete
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£22.49
Creative Media Partners, LLC Rabelais et larchitecture de la renaissance. Restitution de labbaye de ThÃclème
£22.75
Creative Media Partners, LLC Architectural Record
£23.70
Creative Media Partners, LLC Rabelais et larchitecture de la renaissance. Restitution de labbaye de ThÃclème
£14.09
