Spaces of Serenity - Small Projects for Meditation & Contemplation by Jeffery S. Poss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Spaces of Serenity showcases the small structures from Jeffery S. Poss, built for contemplation, meditation, and peace. These buildings are exquisite examples of architecture that promotes harmony between the occupant and the outside environment.
Zen Spaces & Neon Places: Reflections on Japanese Architecture and Urbanism by Vinayak Bharne
$54.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
This book shifts the emphasis on how we choose to read Japanese architecture and urbanism: It focuses on phenomena and meanings rather than objects, and prioritizes intentions and legacies over the mechanics of design. It rereads Japanese architecture and urbanism as a creative cultural document of mult ...Show more
Sticks and Stones: The Designs of Lew French by Lew French
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: General Adult
Lew French is a master stonemason who finds and gathers hundreds of individual stones to create a single fireplace or an outdoor stone wall that looks like it had been there for hundreds of years. Rather than use a chisel, his stones have to fit together naturally; he remembers and fits them together in ...Show more
Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House by Anne Watson; Anne Savage (Editor); Clive Jones (Designed by); Fiona Sim (Index by); Peter Webber (Foreword by)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
Since the announcement of Jorn Utzon's winning Sydney Opera House competition entry in early 1957 the project has excited controversy. Testing the very boundaries of technology, the gestation of this sublime building was long and fraught with problems, none more so than the departure of its architect in ...Show more
Zaha Hadid Architects - Redefining Architecture and Design by The Images Publishing Group
$99.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Zaha Hadid's creative genius captured the collective imagination, influencing designers to challenge the perceived limits of aesthetics and engineering. Her sudden death in 2016 shocked the global architectural community and the public alike, inspiring a commitment to uphold her passion to create unique ...Show more
Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture by Donald Hoffmann
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Dover Architecture Ser.
"May be the best book on Wright ever written, with the exception of the master's own incomparable autobiography." -- New York Times Book ReviewDespite the vast literature about Frank Lloyd Wright, noted Wright scholar Donald Hoffmann contends that observations about Wright commonly fail to reach any und ...Show more
The Modern A-frame by Ben Rahn (Photographer); Chad Randl (Introduction by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Midcentury spaces made new: A-Frame homes from rustic to ultra-modern, mountain retreats to seaside getaways. The A-Frame home surged in popularity in the 1950s, and has captured the public's imagination with its playfully modern, steep-sloping roofline ever since. The Modern A-Frame celebrates sevente ...Show more
Exceptional Homes by Ralf Schmitz
$110.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
As good as living can get: real estate with a rare combination of outstanding location, stylish architecture, and high-quality materials With an eye for architectural tradition, as well as an instinct for the finer details, Ralf Schmitz homes are outstandingly unique Redefining comfort zones--for design ...Show more
Bauhaus Architecture 1919 -1933 by Hans Engles (Photographer); Axel Tilch
$69.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Now available in an expanded and revised edition, this book contains an outstanding collection of photographs by the renowned architectural photographer Hans Engels and provides a detailed survey of surviving Bauhaus architecture in Europe. Focusing on buildings designed by Bauhaus members from 1919 to ...Show more
Making Dystopia - The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism by James Stevens Curl
$50.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectura ...Show more
On the Road Architectural Guide New York by Aurora Maria Riviezzo
$42.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The latest in a series of handy and informative pocket guides to modern and contemporary architecture in cities around the world Includes entries for 85 noteworthy buildings in New York City The cover incorporates a clever folding map with thumbnail photographs which correspond to marked locations New Y ...Show more
Architect and Developer - A Guide to Self-Initiating Projects by James Petty
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The traditional role of the architect is far too passive and uncertain. The profession has positioned itself to sit by the phone until we are called upon and commissioned to do work. Architects have long been charged with creating a better-built environment, but it is the developers who dictate what is ...Show more