book.id,book.ts,book.title,book.isbn_13,book.contributor,book.description,book.table_of_contents,book.review_quote,book.pages,book.dimensions,book.publication_date,book.publisher,book.publication_city_country,book.language,book.edition_statement,book.illustrations_note,book.isbn_10,book.bestsellers_rank,book.rating_value,book.sale_price,book.list_price,book.about_author,book.format,book.imprint,book.bnid,book.format_2,book.file_size 1,"2018-01-11 00:52:31","Cabin Porn",9781846148804,"Zach Klein","From the creators of the hugely popular tumblr site, 'Cabin Porn', comes this collection of breath-taking photography of rural escapes and inspiring stories of people who've created their dream home.A simple shelter, somewhere peaceful, surrounded by nature . . . wherever you dream of having your quiet place, these rural escapes are for anyone yearning for a different kind of existence.Cabin Porn began as an online project created by a group of friends to inspire their own homebuilding. As they collected more photos, their site attracted thousands of submissions from other cabin builders and a passionate audience of more than ten million people. This book is an invitation to slow down, take a deep breath, and enjoy the beauty and serenity that happens when nature meets simple craft.",,"Addictive . . . a charter for wistfulness. -- Ed Cumming * Observer * Full of drool-inducing boltholes around the world, from treehouses in Austria to fisherman's huts in Ireland and mountain cabins in Morocco -- Talib Choudhry * Telegraph * Opulent . . . the Bible of pared back, natural living. * Der Spiegel *",336,"188 x 232 x 32mm | 1,056g","29 Sep 2015","Penguin Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,1846148804,"47,831",4.26,US$33.60,,"Zach Klein is an entrepreneur who co-founded and designed Vimeo - one of the largest websites in the world with more than twenty million users.Steven Leckart is a correspondent at Wired magazine and a National Magazine Award finalist.Noah Kalina is a photographer living and working in New York.",Hardback,"Particular Books",,, 2,"2018-01-11 00:52:42","Domino: the Book of Decorating",9781416575467,"Deborah Needleman","Domino: The Book of Decorating follows a straightforward, room-by-room chapter structure featuring a run of lusciously photographed, beautiful interiors forming the centrepiece of each chapter. Large double-page images punctuate more densely packed spreads; richly composed full rooms alternate with sensuous details. This sequence of spreads puts the reader inside real, finished rooms from the Domino universe, each annotated to translate how its distinctive beauty and sensibility has been achieved. For a new generation of homeowners and renters, Domino: The Book of Decorating promises to become the decor bible: a constant source of guidance, inspiration, and excitement.",,"`The new decor bible for how we live today.`",272,"197 x 230 x 29mm | 1,192g","14 Oct 2008","SIMON & SCHUSTER","New York, United States",English,,"4-c photographs t-o",1416575464,"26,157",4.09,US$29.01,US$32.00,,Hardback,,,, 3,"2018-01-11 00:52:44","Cabin Porn",9780141982144,"Zach Klein","'Addictive ... a charter for wistfulness' Observer'An enchanting rabbit hole of handmade houses' The New York Times'The Bible of pared back, natural living' Der Spiegel'Take a deep breath and let the inspiration sink in' GQCabin Porn began as an on-line project created by a group of friends to inspire their own home building. As they collected more photos, their site attracted thousands of submissions from other cabin builders and a passionate audience of more than ten million people. This book is an invitation to slow down, take a deep breath, and enjoy the beauty and serenity that happens when nature meets simple craft.",,"Addictive . . . a charter for wistfulness. -- Ed Cumming * Observer * Full of drool-inducing boltholes around the world, from treehouses in Austria to fisherman's huts in Ireland and mountain cabins in Morocco -- Talib Choudhry * Telegraph * Opulent . . . the Bible of pared back, natural living. * Der Spiegel *",336,"153 x 188 x 27mm | 560g","01 Sep 2016","Penguin Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0141982144,"4,600",4.26,US$17.71,,"Zach Klein is an entrepreneur who co-founded and designed Vimeo - one of the largest websites in the world with more than twenty million users.",Paperback,,,, 4,"2018-01-11 00:52:55","A Pattern Language",9780195019193,"Christopher Alexander","You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, ""lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely."" The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain ""languages,"" which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. ""Patterns,"" the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.",,"A Pattern Language by Chris Alexander changed the way I think about the way space is organised in a room, a house, a street and a town ... I keep giving it away to people who feel their homes don't quite work in the way they want them to. Every architect, estage agent and MP should read it. * James Runcie, Daily Mail *",1216,"140 x 196 x 58mm | 1,139.98g","04 Jul 2005","Oxford University Press Inc","New York, United States",English,,"photographs and drawings throughout",0195019199,"10,761",4.37,US$49.64,US$65.00,,Hardback,,,, 5,"2018-01-11 00:53:05","Cradle to Cradle",9780099535478,"William McDonough","'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, this approach only perpetuates the one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, that creates such fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. Why not challenge the belief that human industry must damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model for making things? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we consider its abundance not wasteful but safe, beautiful and highly effective. Waste equals food. Guided by this principle, McDonough and Braungart explain how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new - continually circulating as pure and viable materials within a 'cradle to cradle' model. Drawing on their experience in redesigning everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, McDonough and Braungart make an exciting and viable case for putting eco-effectiveness into practice, and show how anyone involved in making anything can begin to do so as well.",,"""The best argument for good design is that it lasts. The best argument for good science is that it deplores waste. I'm bored with guilty and technologically illiterate environmental Luddites describing a future of guilt and privation led in caves. There's an alternative responsible future persuasively offered by Braungart and McDonough. The survival of the planet can be re-stated in terms of stimulus, opportunity, challenge and reward. Works for me."" -- Stephen Bayley ""Already embraced by far-thinking manufacturers and governments."" * Food Ethics Magazine * ""It's one of the most thought-provoking books I've ever read"" -- Ellen Macarthur * Daily Express * ""Environmentalists too rarely apply the ecological wisdom of life to our problems. Asking how a cherry tree would design an energy efficient building is only one of the creative 'practices' that McDonough and Braungart spread, like a field of wild flowers, before their readers. This book will give you renewed hope that, indeed, 'it is darkest before the dawn'"" -- Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club ""Achieving the great economic transition to more equitable, ecologically sustainable societies requires nothing less than a design revolution - beyond today's fossilized industrialism. This enlightened and enlightening book shows us how - and indeed, that 'God is in the details.' A must for every library and every concerned citizen"" -- Hazel Henderson, author of ""Building a Win-Win World and Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy""",208,"128 x 196 x 16mm | 181.44g","01 Apr 2010","Vintage Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0099535475,"104,743",4.1,US$10.95,US$19.75,"Michael Braungart is a chemist and founder of the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in Hamburg. He has been lecturing at universities, businesses and institutions around the world since 1984 on critical new concepts for ecological chemistry, and is the recipient of numerous awards, honours and fellowships. William McDonough is an architect and founding principal of William McDonough + Parners based in Virginia. In 1999, Time magazine recognised him as a 'Hero for our Planet', and in 1996 he received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the highest environmental honour given by the United States.",Paperback,VINTAGE,,, 6,"2018-01-11 00:56:46","Manual of Section",9781616892555,"Paul Lewis","Manual of Section will articulate for all students and practitioners how the logic of the section is instrumental to architecture, through a series of intricate cross-section perspectives of important buildings of the 20th and 21st centuries.",,".""a must-read for all designers associated with the built environment and should surely be on the library shelves of every architecture, urban design and interior design school...the intricate drawings provided by LTL are sure to inspire all those who have the privilege of cracking the spine of this amazing reference."" - Spacing ""As history shows, section has always been considered as a representational method first, and its input on architectural discourse is still largely undermined. Manual of Section successfully attempts to reintroduce sections within theoretical discourses; a new reference book for architects."" - ArchDaily ""It has been a while since I devoured a book on architecture with as much pleasure.. I love a good section and I love this book. It might be perverse and old fashioned, but the section opens a world in architecture in which I gladly, with this book as my Baedeker Guide, go wandering."" - Aaron Betsky, Architect Magazine -As history shows, section has always been considered as a representational method first, and its input on architectural discourse is still largely undermined. Manual of Section successfully attempts to reintroduce sections within theoretical discourses; a new reference book for architects.- - ArchDaily -It has been a while since I devoured a book on architecture with as much pleasure.. I love a good section and I love this book. It might be perverse and old fashioned, but the section opens a world in architecture in which I gladly, with this book as my Baedeker Guide, go wandering.- - Aaron Betsky, Architect Magazine -.a must-read for all designers associated with the built environment and should surely be on the library shelves of every architecture, urban design and interior design school...the intricate drawings provided by LTL are sure to inspire all those who have the privilege of cracking the spine of this amazing reference.- - Spacing",208,"191 x 279 x 17.78mm | 748.43g","15 Nov 2016","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,,"300 b+w",1616892552,"20,808",4.27,US$26.18,US$29.95,"Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL Architects) is a design intensive architecture firm founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, located in New York City. LTL Architects engages a diverse range of work, from large scale academic and cultural buildings to interiors and speculative research projects.",Paperback,,,, 7,"2018-01-11 00:56:53",White,9783037781838,"Kenya Hara","""White"" is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of ""White,"" which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics - symbolizing simplicity and subtlety. The central concepts discussed by Kenya Hara in this publication are emptiness and the absolute void. Kenya Hara also sees his work as a designer as a form of communication. Good communication has the distinction of being able to listen to each other, rather than to press one's opinion onto the opponent. Kenya Hara compares this form of communication with an ""empty container."" In visual communication, there are equally signals whose signification is limited, as well as signals or symbols such as the cross or the red circle on the Japanese flag, which - like an ""empty container"" - permit every signification and do not limit imagination. Not alone the fact that the Japanese character for white forms a radical of the character for emptiness has prompted him the closely associate the color white with emptiness.","The Discovery of White: White as Sensory Experience, What is Color?- Paper: White as a Sheet of Paper, Paper as Creative catalyst, Ruminating on White, White Square Paper, Folding Language, On Letters, Typeface and Typography.- Emptiness: The Meaning of Emptiness, Emptiness as Limitless Potential, The Receptivness of a Red Circle on a White Background, Emptiness and White, The Tea Ceremony, The Origins of the Japanese-style Room, Through Dwells in Emptiness.- Back to White: Suiko and the Irreversible Text, A Leap toward White, Cleaning, Defamiliarization, White Sand and Moonlight.",,64,"136 x 194 x 16mm | 222.26g","25 Nov 2009","Lars Müller Publishers","Baden, Switzerland",English,,"4 black & white illustrations",3037781831,"39,800",4.2,US$24.80,US$29.00,,Hardback,,,, 8,"2018-01-11 00:57:03",Structures,9780306812835,"J. E. Gordon","For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back-or give way under-thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper or a kangaroo, this book will ease your anxiety and answer your questions. J. E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.",,"""Here we have the conversation in the unbuttoned mood of a learned engineer with wide sympathies about his art, its history, its range, and the silly things which happen. It reads easily and has immense charm.""--Architect's Journal ""Here we have the conversation in unbuttoned mood of a learned engineer with wide sympathies about his art, its history, its range, and the silly things which happen. It reads easily and has immense charm.""--Architect's Journal ""Rich and readable...personal, witty, and ironic.""--Scientific American ""It is really, really good if you want a primer on structural design.""--Elon Musk",424,"154 x 224 x 30mm | 680.39g","07 Oct 2003","INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US","New York, NY, United Kingdom",English,"2nd ed.",Ill.,0306812835,"6,034",4.14,US$20.92,,"J. E. Gordon, a professor at the University of Reading, is renowned for his research in plastics, crystals, and new materials.",Paperback,"Da Capo Press Inc",,, 9,"2018-01-11 00:57:12",Atmospheres,9783764374952,"Peter Zumthor","What ""really constitutes an architectural atmosphere""? Peter Zumthor says, is ""this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty ... under whose spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience in precisely this way."" Zumthor's passion is the creation of buildings that produce this kind of effect, but how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Peter Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his houses. Images of spaces and buildings that affect him are every bit as important as particular pieces of music or books that inspire him. From the composition and ""presence""â of the materials to the handling of proportions and the effect of light, this poetics of architecture enables the reader to recapitulate what really matters in the process of house design.",,,75,"174 x 238 x 12mm | 322.05g","30 Jun 2006",Birkhauser,"Basel, Switzerland",English,"5th Printing.","75 p. 33 illus., 19 in color.",3764374950,"38,080",4.36,US$40.74,US$49.00,,Hardback,"Birkhauser Verlag AG",,, 10,"2018-01-11 00:57:17","Thinking Architecture",9783034605854,"Peter Zumthor","Architecture that is meant to have a sensuous connection to life calls forthinking that goes far beyond form and construction. In his texts, Peter Zumthor articulates what motivates him to design his buildings, which appeal to the visitor's heart and mind in so many different ways and possess a compelling and unmistakable presence and aura. Now in its third edition, this book has been expanded to include two new essays: ""Architecture and Lanscape"" deals with the relationship between the structure and its surroundings, with the secret of the successful placement and topographical integration of architecture. In ""The Leis Houses"", Peter Zumthor describes the genesis of two wooden houses in the town of Leis in the Swiss canton of Graubunden, thus thematizing the special challenge of integrating contemporary architecture into a traditional architectural context.",,,112,"144 x 234 x 20mm | 381.02g","01 Sep 2010",Birkhauser,"Basel, Switzerland",English,"3nd, expanded ed.","20 Illustrations, color",3034605854,"16,421",4.23,,,,Hardback,"Birkhauser Verlag AG",,, 11,"2018-01-11 00:57:27","Conditional Design",9789063693657,"Anthony Di Mari","Conditional design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in a more detailed, intentional, and perhaps functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. It is not a blind result however. Both terms work together to satisfy a formal manipulation through a set of opportunities for elements such as connections and apertures.",,,156,"104.14 x 147.32 x 12.7mm | 113.4g","16 Dec 2014","BIS Publishers B.V.","Amsterdam, Netherlands",English,,"Colour photos throughout",9063693656,"3,837",3.88,US$10.96,US$16.99,"Anthony di Mari: Anthony Di Mari is an adjunct professor at Northeastern University's School of Architecture where he teaches first year architecture studios and advanced representation. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies from Holy Cross before completing a Master's degree in Architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University. Anthony's competition work has been featured online through Inhabitat, Scientific American, CNN, and shiftBoston. His fabrication projects have been featured in exhibitions focused on the design process including Matter: design processes at the Bakery Design Collective in San Diego, California, and furniture featured at GreenHomeNYC's The new New York event. His professional experience in the field of architecture includes collaborations with Peter Eisenman, Rick Joy Architects, RCR Arquitectes, and Studio Luz. His studio is located in Boston, Massachusetts.",Paperback,,,, 12,"2018-01-11 00:57:31","Operative Design",9789063692896,"Anthony Di Mari","The core idea for this project is to use operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective spatial design.",,,152,"104.14 x 149.86 x 12.7mm | 136.08g","06 Nov 2012","BIS Publishers B.V.","Amsterdam, Netherlands",English,,,9063692897,"3,173",4,US$11.25,US$16.99,"Anthony di Mari: Anthony Di Mari received his Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies from Holy Cross before completing a Master's Degree in Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.While attending Harvard, Anthony was awarded two travel grants, one to Pena Blanca, Chile to study fog harvesting, and the other to Japan, to research bamboo harvesting. Anthony has participated and been recognized in several design competitions. Most notably he received first place in his entry 'Urban Field' which converted wind power into electricity. His design for a plug-in community garden placed second in the Common Boston Common Build competition. Anthony's competition work has been featured online through inhabitat, Scientific American, CNN, and shiftBoston. His fabrication projects have been featured in exhibitions focused on the design process including Matter: design processes at the Bakery Design Collective in San Diego, California, and most recently GreeenHomeNYC's The new New York event. His professional experience in the field of Architecture includes collaborations with Peter Eisenman, Rick Joy Architects, RCR Arquitectes, Studio Luz, and Merge Architects.",Paperback,,,, 13,"2018-01-11 00:57:35","Landscape Graphics",9780823073337,"Grant W. Reid","Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! ""Landscape Graphics"" is the architect's ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, section elevations and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises, a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspectives, and a handy appendix of conversions and equivalents.",,,208,"212 x 278 x 16mm | 580.6g","01 Oct 2002","Watson-Guptill Publications","New York, United States",English,"2nd Revised edition","400 b&w illustrations",0823073335,"22,003",4.17,US$25.38,,"Grant W. Reid, ASLA, is a professor in the department of horticulture and landscape architecture at Colorado State University. He also operates his own landscape architectural consulting business called Grant Reid Designs. He lives in Colorado.",Paperback,"Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.",,, 14,"2018-01-11 00:57:45","The Thinking Hand",9780470779293,"Juhani Pallasmaa","In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. The Thinking Hand is a metaphor for the characteristic independence and autonomous activity of all our senses as they constantly scan the physical world. Many of our most crucial skills are internalised as automatic reactions that we are not consciously aware of. Even in the case of learning skills, the sequence of movements in a task is internalised and embodied rather than understood and remembered intellectually. Prevailing educational philosophies continue to emphasise conceptual, intellectual and verbal knowledge over this tacit and non-conceptual wisdom of our embodied processes, which is so essential to our experience and understanding of the physical and the built.","Introduction: Embodied Existence and Sensory Thought. Chapter One: The Mysterious Hand. The Multiple Essences of the Hand. What is the Hand? Hand, Eye, Brain and Language. Hand as Symbol. Gestures of the Hand. Languages of the Hand. Chapter Two: The Working Hand. The Hand and the Tool. The Hand of the Craftsman. Collaborative Craftsmanship. Architecture as Workmanship. Chapter Three: Eye-Hand-Mind Fusion. Experimentation and the Art of Play. Skill and Boredom. Eye, Hand and Mind. Chapter Four: The Drawing Hand. Drawing and the Self. Tactility of Drawing. The Computerised Hand. Primacy of Touch: Hapticity of Self-image. Unconscious Touch in Artistic Experience. Chapter Five: Embodied Thinking. Creative Fusion. The Work of Thinking: The Value of Uncertainty. Resistance, Tradition and Freedom. Thinking Through the Senses. Embodied Memory and Thought. Existential Knowledge. Chapter Six: Body, Self and Mind. The Body as Site. The World and the Self. The World and the Mind. Existential Space in Art. Chapter Seven: Emotion and Imagination. Reality of Imagination. The Gift of Imagination. Reality of Art. Art and Emotion. Artistic Experience as Exchange. Chapter Eight: Theory and Life. Theory and Making. Opposition of Theory and Making. Architecture as Image of Life. The Task of Art. Index. Photo Credits.","""The Thinking Hand is a superb piece of writing. A primer not just for architecture, but for life."" (Blueprint, July 2009) ""...beautifully illustrated sequence of essays...It is philosophical, emotional and, unusually for architectural theory, as clear as a building made of glass."" (The Guardian, August 1st 2009)",160,"164 x 236 x 12mm | 358.34g","11 May 2009","John Wiley and Sons Ltd","Chichester, United Kingdom",English,,"colour illustrations",0470779292,"95,301",4.33,US$43.01,US$54.99,"Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers. His previous positions include: Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki; Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki; and Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology. He has also held visiting professorships in several universities internationally. Pallasmaa is the author/editor of 24 books, including The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Academy, 1995 and John Wiley & Sons, 2005), The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema (Helsinki, 2001) and Encounters (Helsinki, 2005).",Paperback,"John Wiley & Sons Ltd",,, 15,"2018-01-11 00:57:49","Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes",9781592539611,"Gabriel Campanario","Award-winning illustrator Gabriel Campanario first introduced his approach to drawing in The Art of Urban Sketching, a showcase of more than 500 sketches and drawing tips shared by more than 100 urban sketchers around the world. Now, he drills down into specific challenges of making sketches on location, rain or shine, quickly or slowly, and the most suitable techniques for every situation, in The Urban Sketching Handbook series. It's easy to overlook that ample variety of buildings and spaces and the differences from city to city, country to country. From houses, apartments and shopping malls to public buildings and places of worship, the structures humans have created over the centuries, for shelter, commerce, industry, transportation or recreation, are fascinating subjects to study and sketch.In The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes, Gabriel lays out keys to help make the experience of drawing architecture and cityscapes fun and rewarding. Using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity, sketching out buildings and structure has never been more inspirational. This guide will help you to develop your own creative approach, no matter what your skill level may be today. As much as The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes may inspire you to draw more urban spaces, it can also help to increase your appreciation of the built environment. Drawing the places where we live, work and play, is a great way to show appreciation and creativity.",,,112,"128 x 204 x 14mm | 220g","04 Dec 2014","Quarry Books","United States",English,,"100 color illustrations",1592539610,"16,785",4.2,,,"Gabriel Campanario is a staff artist at The Seattle Times and the founder of Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing. Campanario's newspaper column, Seattle Sketcher, was awarded first place for blog writing in ""The Best of the West"" journalism contest. The blog and weekly print column, which combine location sketches and written stories, have quickly become popular in the Seattle area, where Campanario has been featured in TV and radio appearances. A native Spaniard, Campanario moved to the U.S. in 1998 and has lived near Seattle with his wife and two children since 2006. His journalism career spans two decades, working for newspapers in Barcelona, Lisbon, California, and Virginia. Campanario has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.",Paperback,,,, 16,"2018-01-11 00:57:55","The Archidoodle",9781780673219,"Steve Bowkett","This innovative book is the first to provide a fun, interactive way to learn about architecture. Filled with an array of beautiful and elegant drawings, it poses all manner of architectural challenges for the user: from designing your own skyscraper, to drawing an island house or creating a Constructivist monument, plus many others more. Aimed at anyone who loves drawing buildings, it encourages the users to imagine their own creative solutions by sketching, drawing and painting in the pages of the book. In so doing, they will learn about a whole range of significant architectural issues, such as the importance of site and materials, how to furnish a space, how to read plans, how to create sustainable cities and so on. The book also includes numerous examples of works and ideas by major architects to draw inspiration from and will appeal to everyone from children to students to architects.","Some of the challenges set in the book include: The furniture in a room has a big impact on its appearance and its style. Draw a table and chair that suits the interior of this space. In Dubai they have created a series of new islands along the coastline. Design your own new island community. Cities underneath our great oceans may provide a new way of living in the future. Design your own city influenced by the shape of coral. Here are plans of three houses which need to be positioned on site drawing below. Think about what would be a good view and in which direction the Sun comes from. Here are some buildings that have fantastic shapes. Design a couple of your own. Imagine you are James Bond's arch-enemy and you own a secret Island location. Design a new headquarters for your plan to rule the World on to the cut away drawing provided. Here is a cross-section through a bicycle factory. Add the following pieces of machinery and mechanisms to provide the bikes with the following; Frame and handle bars Wheels Chain Packaging Copy this drawing of Fallingwater by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in ink / pen chalk / crayons paint / brushes The Bauhaus: T Many famous Architects have worn glasses. Practice on this face before designing a pair for yourself. 'The architect of the future will build imitating Nature' Antonio Gaudi. Gaudi's architecture was in heavily influenced by natural forms. Design the envelope of a building that is like something in nature. 'Less is More' - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Try designing a minimal building for yourself. 'A House is a Machine for Living' - Le Corbusier. Design your own machine house.","""Your architect friends, family members and visually inclined children will all love [Archidoodle]."" - ""The New York Times""",160,"212 x 274 x 18mm | 459.99g","05 Nov 2013","Laurence King Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"200 B&W illustrations",1780673213,"47,671",4.5,US$19.51,US$19.95,"Steve Bowkett has taught and practiced architecture for over 25 years in numerous universities and art colleges and is currently a Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London and the Polytechnic of Central London.",Paperback,,,, 17,"2018-01-11 00:58:02","The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective",9781631591280,"Stephanie Bower","A good sketch starts with good bones. Often challenging and overwhelming to sketchers, the fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses drawings and simple steps to explain the concepts of perspective in practical and useful ways for on-site sketching. Most books are either too abstract or don't provide enough information that relates to what you actually do when you're out in the busy, wide world about to start a drawing. Where do you start? How do you edit what you see to flatten and shrink it onto your paper? How does perspective work? The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective helps you learn to think like an architect, to draw buildings and spaces by reducing what you see to simple, basic shapes, then adding layers in simple steps, and finally finishing your sketch with detail, tone, and color--in accurate perspective. Full of helpful tips, architect and illustrator, Stephanie Bower even de-constructs sketches to show you how to create them! Once you understand perspective, it will change the way you see the world--you'll see perspective everywhere. Some of the key concepts explored in this volume are: * Basic Terms * Basic Spatial Principles * Types of Perspective * Building a Sketch in Layers * Special Conditions",,,112,"135 x 211 x 12.7mm | 272.16g","15 Jun 2016","Quarry Books","United States",English,,,1631591282,"8,968",4.42,US$13.25,US$17.98,"Honored with the 2013 and 2012 KRob Architectural Delineation awards for Best Travel Sketch and the 2013 Gabriel Prize fellowship for 3 months in France, Stephanie Bower is a Seattle-based architectural illustrator, teacher, watercolorist, and traveling Urban Sketcher. Stephanie worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design. In Seattle, she produces pencil and watercolor images for many renowned architecture and design firms. Stephanie continues to learn about architecture through her sketches, pursuing her lifelong dream of seeing the world, sketching, teaching and encouraging others to see their world through the magic of drawing. website: www.stephaniebower.com blog: www.stephaniebower.blogspot.com sketches: www.flickr.com/photos/83075812@N07/ correspondent: www.urbansketchers.org",Paperback,,,, 18,"2018-01-11 00:58:05","Architects' Data",9781405192538,"Ernst Neufert","Neufert's Architects' Data is an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project. It provides, in one concise volume, the core information needed to form the framework for the more detailed design and planning of any building project. Organised largely by building type, it covers the full range of preliminary considerations, and with over 6200 diagrams it provides a mass of data on spatial requirements. Most illustrations are dimensioned and each building type includes plans, sections, site layouts and design details. An extensive bibliography and a detailed set of metric/ imperial conversion tables are included. Since it was first published in Germany in 1936, Ernst Neufert's handbook has been progressively revised and updated through 39 editions and many translations. This fourth English language edition is translated from the 39th German edition, and represents a major new edition for an international, English speaking readership. Reviews of the Previous Edition: ""Neufert's Architects' Data was the first book I bought when I started my studies in architecture. It was invaluable for me then and it is still a useful aid in my designs."" Cesar Pelli ""With this thorough rewrite Neufert has produced yet again an invaluable reference book."" The Architects' Journal","Foreword xii BASICS Abbreviations and symbols 1 Drawings 4 Accessible Building 21 Dimensional Basics and Relationships 26 Building Biology 36 Visual Perception 39 DESIGN PROCESS Design 42 Sustainable Building 46 Facility Management 48 Refurbishment 50 Design and Construction Management 56 BUILDING COMPONENTS Foundations 66 Walls 74 Floor Slabs 80 Roofs 85 Windows 96 Glass 104 Doors 113 Stairs 120 Escalators 126 Moving Walkways 127 Lifts 128 RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS Basics 135 Housing Density 137 Orientation 138 Access 139 Floor Plans 143 Rooms 146 ACCOMMODATION Student Residences 167 Elderly People's Accommodation 168 Hotels 171 Catering 174 Youth Hostels 184 Holiday/Weekend Cabins 185 Motels 186 Camping 187 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Children's Daycare 188 Playgrounds 190 Schools 191 Universities and Colleges 198 CULTURAL VENUES Museums and Art Galleries 207 Theatres 209 Cinemas 222 Circus 227 Zoos 228 ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICES Office Buildings 231 High-Rise Buildings 244 Libraries 247 Basics 247 Banks 253 RETAIL Retail Outlets 254 INDUSTRY AND TRADE Industry 263 Workshops 274 RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS Christian Churches 285 Synagogues 288 Mosques 289 HEALTH Doctors' Practices 290 Hospitals 291 SPORT AND LEISURE Stadiums 318 Sports Facilities 320 Sports Halls 350 Swimming Pools 362 Spa 372 Amusement Arcades 375 TRANSPORT Roads 376 Parking Facilities 387 Public Transport 403 Railways 408 Aviation 418 EXTERNAL WORKS Cemeteries 424 Landscape Architecture 426 Earthworks 428 Garden Enclosures 430 Pergola and Trellis 432 Paths, Paving, Steps 435 Drainage 436 Vegetation Biological Engineering 439 Greenhouses 441 Ponds and Pools 442 External Works Example 445 AGRICULTURE FARMYARDS 446 Animal Husbandry 452 Supply and Disposal 461 BUILDING SERVICES Renewable Energy 466 Building Physics 471 Daylight 488 Lighting 501 Fire Protection 511 Domestic Installation 522 Chimneys and Ventilation Shafts 537 References 540 BS and DIN Standards 548 Conversion of Units 555 INDEX 575","Neufert s Architects Data is an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project. It provides, in one concise volume, the core information needed to form the framework for the more detailed design and planning of any building project. (Building Engineer, 1July 2012)",608,"210 x 296 x 28mm | 1,741.79g","27 Mar 2012","John Wiley and Sons Ltd","Chicester, United Kingdom",English,"4th Edition","black & white line drawings",1405192534,"24,811",4.38,US$105.88,US$113.00,,Paperback,"Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)",,, 19,"2018-01-11 00:58:13","The Hand-Sculpted House",9781890132347,"Ianto Evans","Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage, cobb, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as ""an ecstatic house."" The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest, most available materials imaginable--earth, clay, sand, straw, and water--and blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes from an Old English root, meaning ""lump"") is a mixture of non-toxic, recyclable, and often free materials. Building with cob requires no forms, no cement, and no machinery of any kind. Builders actually sculpt their structures by hand. Building with earth is nothing new to America; the oldest structures on the continent were built with adobe bricks. Adobe, however, has been geographically limited to the Southwest. The limits of cob are defined only by the builder's imagination. Cob offers answers regarding our role in Nature, family and society, about why we feel the ways that we do, about what's missing in our lives. Cob comes as a revelation, a key to a saner world. Cob has been a traditional building process for millennia in Europe, even in rainy and windy climates like the British Isles, where many cob buildings still serve as family homes after hundreds of years. The technique is newly arrived to the Americas, and, as with so many social trends, the early adopters are in the Pacific Northwest. Cob houses (or cottages, since they are always efficiently small by American construction standards) are not only compatible with their surroundings, they ARE their surroundings, literally rising up from the earth. They are full of light, energy-efficient, and cozy, with curved walls and built-in, whimsical touches. They are delightful. They are ecstatic.",,,346,"200.66 x 251.46 x 25.4mm | 884.5g","01 Jun 2002","Chelsea Green Publishing Co","White River Junction, United States",English,,"8 Pages of Illustrations",1890132349,"41,215",4.43,US$37.01,,"Ianto Evans is an applied ecologist, landscape architect, inventor, and teacher with building experience on six continents. Cob is traditional in his homeland, Wales. In addition to teaching ecological building, Ianto has consulted with USAID, the World Bank, the Peace Corps, and several national governments. Linda Smiley teaches workshops on cob, sculpting sacred spaces, intuitive design, and natural plasters and finishes. With a background as a recreational therapist, she specializes in helping people use natural building as a tool for personal transformation and healing. Michael G. Smith teaches practical workshops and consults on cob construction, natural building, and permaculture. He is the author of The Cobber's Companion: How to Build Your Own Earthen Home and co-editor of The Art of Natural Building: Design, Construction, Resources.",Paperback,,,, 20,"2018-01-11 00:58:22",Architecture,9781118745083,"Francis D. K. Ching","The revered architectural reference, updated with contemporary examples and interactive 3D models The Interactive Resource Center is an online learning environment where instructors and students can access the tools they need to make efficient use of their time, while reinforcing and assessing their understanding of key concepts for successful understanding of the course. An access card with redemption code for the online Interactive Resource Center is included with all new, print copies or can be purchased separately. (â â â If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code -ISBN: 9781118986837). The online Interactive Resource Center contains resources tied to the book, such as: Interactive Animations highlighting key conceptsPhoto Gallery of architectural precedents illustrated in the bookFlashcards for focused learning Architecture: Form, Space, and Order, Fourth Edition is the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design, updated with new information on emerging trends and recent developments. This bestselling visual reference helps both students and professionals understand the vocabulary of architectural design by examining how space and form are ordered in the environment. Essential and timeless, the fundamental elements of space and form still present a challenge to those who crave a deeper understanding. Taking a critical look at the evolution of spaces, Architecture distills complex concepts of design into a clear focus that inspires, bringing difficult abstractions to life. The book is illustrated throughout to demonstrate the concepts presented, and show the relationships between fundamental elements of architecture through the ages and across cultures. Topics include: Primary elements and the principles of space designForm and space, including light, view, openings, and enclosuresOrganization of space, and the elements and relationships of circulationProportion and scale, including proportioning systems and anthropometry","Preface vii Introduction ix 1 Primary ElementsPrimary Elements 2 Point 4 Point Elements 5 Two Points 6 Line 8 Linear Elements 10 From Line to Plane 14 Plane 18 Planar Elements 20 Volume 28 Volumetric Elements 30 2 FormProperties of Form 35 Shape 36 Primary Shapes 38 Circle 39 Triangle 40 Square 41 Surfaces 42 Curved Surfaces 43 Primary Solids 46 Regular & Irregular forms 50 Transformation of Form 54 Dimensional Transformation 56 Subtractive Form 58 Subtractive & Additive Forms 61 Additive Form 62 Centralized Form 64 Linear Form 66 Radial Form 70 Clustered Form 72 Grid Form 76 Formal Collisions of Geometry 78 Circle & Square 80 Rotated Grid 82 Articulation of Form 84 Edges & Corners 86 Surface Articulation 92 3 Form & SpaceForm & Space: Unity of Opposites 102 Form Defining Space 110 Horizontal Elements Defining Space 111 Base Plane 112 Elevated Base Plane 114 Depressed Base Plane 120 Overhead Plane 126 Vertical Elements Defining Space 134 Vertical Linear Elements 136 Single Vertical Plane 144 L-Shaped Configuration of Planes 148 Parallel Vertical Planes 154 U-Shaped Planes 160 Four Planes: Closure 166 Four Planes: Enlosure 170 Openings in Space-Defining Elements 174 Openings within Planes 176 Openings at Corners 178 Openings between Planes 180 Qualities of Architectural Space 182 Degree of Enclosure 184 Light 186 View 190 4 OrganizationOrganization of Form & Space 196 Spatial Relationships 197 Space within a Space 198 Interlocking Spaces 200 Adjacent Spaces 202 Spaces Linked by a Common Space 204 Spatial Organizations 206 Centralized Organizations 208 Linear Organizations 218 Radial Organizations 228 Clustered Organizations 234 Grid Organizations 242 5 CirculationCirculation: Movement through Space 252 Circulation Elements 253 Approach 254 Entrance 262 Configuration of the Path 276 Path-Space Relationships 290 Form of the Circulation Space 294 6 Proportion & ScaleProportion & Scale 306 Material Proportions 307 Structural Proportions 308 Manufactured Proportions 310 Proportioning Systems 311 Golden Section 314 Regulating Lines 318 Classical Orders 320 Renaissance Theories 326 Modulor 330 Ken 334 Anthropometry 338 Scale 341 Visual Scale 342 Human Scale 344 A Scalar Comparison 346 7 PrinciplesOrdering Principles 350 Axis 352 Symmetry 360 Hierarchy 370 Datum 380 Rhythm 396 Repetition 397 Transformation 418 Conclusion 422 A Selected Bibliography 425 Glossary 427 Index of Buildings 435 Index of Designers 441 Index to Subject Matter 443",,464,"210.82 x 274.32 x 27.94mm | 1,133.98g","14 Nov 2014","John Wiley & Sons Inc","New York, United States",English,"4th Edition",,1118745086,"36,506",4.21,US$50.49,US$54.99,"FRANCIS D.K. CHING is the bestselling author of numerous books on architecture and design, including A Global History of Architecture, Architectural Graphics, A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, Interior Design Illustrated, and Building Construction Illustrated, all published by Wiley. He is a registered architect and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle.",Paperback,,,, 21,"2018-01-11 00:58:30","Architectural Graphics",9780470399118,"Francis D. K. Ching","Francis D.K. Ching's architectural bestseller, thoroughly updated Since 1975, Architectural Graphics has been a bestselling classic that has introduced countless students of architecture and design to the fundamentals of graphic communication. Featuring Francis D.K. Ching's signature graphic style, it illustrates how to use graphic tools and drafting conventions to translate architectural ideas into effective visual presentation. This Fifth Edition has been updated to reflect the latest drawing techniques helping it remain the leading book on the topic. The latest edition of the classic book on architectural drawing by the master of architectural communication Over 500,000 copies sold of previous editions Revised and expanded to include more information on computer-generated graphics and the latest drawing conventions for architectural representation The author is world-renowned for his numerous architecture and design books, including Architecture: Form, Space, and Order; A Global History of Architecture; Interior Design Illustrated; Building Codes Illustrated; and Building Construction Illustrated, all from Wiley.","Preface. 1 Drawing Tools and Materials. 2 Architectural Drafting. 3 Architectural Drawing Systems. 4 Multiview Drawings. 5 Paraline Drawings. 6 Perspective Drawings. 7 Rendering Tonal Values. 8 Rendering Context. 9 Architectural Presentations. 10 Freehand Drawing. Index.","""One book that has become a trusted source for teaching architects how to do it right is Francis D.K. Ching's Architectural Graphics . Now in its fifth edition, it offers the essential drawing tools, principles, and techniques that architects use to communicate their ideas. It expands upon the wealth of illustrations and instructions that have made this book a classic, and guides readers through the subtleties of translating architectural ideas into vivid visual representations. Readers will learn Ching's renowned methods through: coverage of multiview drawings, paraline drawings, and perspective drawings; techniques for drawing section views of building interiors; strategies for rendering tonal value, enhancing pictorial depth, and conveying the illumination of spatial environments; approaches for developing the layout of architectural presentations; freehand sketching and diagramming; and so much more. This beautiful fifth edition of Architectural Graphics from Francis D.K. Ching clearly represents the complexity of architectural concepts in an intuitive graphic manner that benefits anyone interested in maintaining the highest standard of the profession of architecture."" ( San Francisco Book Review/Sacramento Book Review , March 27, 2010)",256,"212 x 278 x 16mm | 539.99g","14 Dec 2009","John Wiley and Sons Ltd","Chichester, United Kingdom",English,"5th Revised edition",,0470399112,"37,318",4.1,US$76.00,,"Francis D.K. Ching is a registered architect and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the bestselling author of numerous books on architecture and design, all published by Wiley. His works have been translated into over seventeen languages and are regarded as classics for their renowned graphic presentation.",Paperback,"John Wiley & Sons Ltd",,, 22,"2018-01-11 00:58:36","Tiny Houses",9780847832033,"Mimi Zeiger M.A.","With ""McMansions"" increasingly giving way to ""tiny"" houses, the desire to downsize and be more ecologically and economically prudent is a concept many are beginning to embrace. Focusing on dwelling spaces all under 1,000 square feet, TINY HOUSES (Rizzoli, April 2009) by Mimi Zeiger aims to challenge readers to take a look at their own homes and consider how much space they actively use. Ranging from tree houses to floating houses, TINY HOUSES features an international collection of over thirty modular and prefab homes, each one embodying ""microgreen living,"" defined as the creation of tiny homes where people challenge themselves to live ""greener"" lives. By using a thoughtful application of green living principles, renewable resources for construction, and clever ingenuity, these homes exemplify sustainable living at its best.",,"-Tiny Houses measures less than 7 inches square but looks like it will be the new big thing in the carbon footprint conversation.- Architect Magazine -Downsizing can be a good thing...- Metropolitan Home -The houses on display in this handsome volume, all beautifully and vividly photographed, point to more sustainable, less expensive ways to live.- Preservation Magazine -In her adorably scaled-down coffee-table book, Tiny Houses, Mimi Zeiger argues that living small isn't just ecologically sound but aesthetically pleasing.- Time Out New York -...an entertaining exploration into the whimsical designs of small dwellings from around the globe.- Archinect.com -With large-scale living now passe, journalist Mimi Zeiger examines the new -micro-green- housing trend in this collection of prefab and modular homes.- Time",240,"174 x 178 x 30mm | 680.39g","24 Mar 2009","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,,"250 photos",0847832031,"38,809",3.46,US$32.09,,"Mimi Zeiger is the author of Tiny Houses. She founded loud paper, an architecture zine and now blog, in 1997. A Brooklyn-based freelancer, Zeiger writes on art, architecture, and design for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Dwell, Azure, and Architect, where she is a contributing editor. She holds a Masters of Architecture degree from Southern California Institute (SCI-Arc) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and has taught at California College of the Arts and at SCI- Arc.",Hardback,,,, 23,"2018-01-11 00:58:44","150 Best Eco House Ideas",9780061968792,"Ana Canizares","150 BEST ECO HOUSE IDEAS The newest volume in the highly successful ""150 Best"" series-joining 150 Best House Ideas and 150 Best Apartment Ideas-150 Best Eco House Ideas is a comprehensive handbook showcasing the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally-friendly home design. Perfect for architects, designers, interiors decorators, and homeowners alike.",,,600,"200 x 202 x 48mm | 1,877.86g","25 Mar 2011","HarperCollins Publishers Inc","New York, United States",English,,,006196879X,"41,319",3.43,US$46.37,,"Marta Serrats is a design editor for Loft Publications, and an expert in architecture and store displays. She is the author of such highly acclaimed titles as New Shops and Boutiques, Capturing Space, Point of Purchase, and Unique Packaging.",Hardback,"Harper Design International",,, 24,"2018-01-11 00:58:53","Living in the Landscape",9780500500750,"Anna Johnson","From remote cliff tops to the heart of a rainforest, this book features some of Australia and New Zealand's most breathtaking homes. As urban life becomes increasingly more demanding, many people are choosing to build away from the city in a way that acknowledges and connects with the landscape. Living in the Landscape explores new and exciting relationships between landscape and design. It examines how architects increasingly use various nuanced landscape conditions as inspiration and sites for creativity. The complexities of the Australian landscape with its beautiful but often harsh geographical and topological physicality, questions of sustainability and climate change, and an understanding of the Indigenous relationship to landscape are all thoughtfully considered. From the archetypal silhouette of the rural farm shed to Glenn Murcutt-inspired buildings designed with the philosophy of touching the earth lightly, the authors explore how landscape and architecture intersect. In an age where we are increasingly aware of our relationship with the environment, these breathtaking homes exemplify the possibilities of living with the land.",,,272,"238 x 299 x 29mm | 1,750g","01 Oct 2016","Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","Fisherman's Bend, Australia",English,,,0500500754,"91,861",4.2,US$53.65,,,Hardback,,,, 25,"2018-01-11 00:58:56","Design Drawing",9780470533697,"Francis D. K. Ching","Get the completely revised edition to mastering the visual language of architecture. In his distinctive graphic style, world-renowned author and architecture educator Francis D.K. Ching takes us on another exciting journey through the process of creation. In Design Drawing, Second Edition, he unmasks the basic cognitive processes that drive visual perception and expression, incorporating observation, memory, and rendering into a creative whole. This edition unites imaginative vision with fundamental architectural principles to cover the traditional basics of drawing, including line, shape, tone, and space. Guiding the reader step-by-step through the entire drawing process, Design Drawing also examines different types of drawing techniques such as multiview, paraline, and perspective drawings -- and how they can be applied to achieve stunning results. In addition, this edition: Goes beyond basic drawing books Ching not only covers the principles, media, and techniques of drawing, but also places these within the context of what and why designers draw.Features more than 1,500 hand-rendered drawings beautiful illustrations that reinforce the concepts and lessons of each chapter.Includes a supplemental CD-ROM viewers will gain a greater appreciation of the techniques presented in this book through the power of animation, video, and 3D models. Twelve new modules are included, as is a video of the author demonstrating freehand techniques in a step-by-step manner. For professional architects, designers, fine artists, illustrators, teachers and students alike, this all-in-one package is both an effective tool and an outstanding value, demonstrating concepts and techniques in a visually stimulating format that transends comparable works in the field.","Preface. Introduction. Drawing from Observation. 1 Line and Shape. 2 Tone and Texture. 3 Form and Structure. 4 Space and Depth. Drawing Systems. 5 Pictorial Systems. 6 Multiview Drawings. 7 Paraline Drawings. 8 Perspective Drawings. Drawing from the Imagination. 9 Speculative Drawing. 10 Diagraming. 11 Drawing Composition. 12 Presentation Drawing. Index. Preface to CD-ROM.",,416,"213.36 x 271.78 x 27.94mm | 1,020.58g","13 Jan 2011","John Wiley and Sons Ltd","Chichester, United Kingdom",English,"2nd Edition",,0470533692,"42,504",4.15,US$55.55,US$59.99,"Francis D.K. Ching is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is the author or coauthor of numerous architecture and design books, including Architectural Graphics; Architecture: Form, Space, and Order; A Global History of Architecture; Interior Design Illustrated; and Building Construction Illustrated, all from Wiley.",Paperback,"John Wiley & Sons Ltd",,, 26,"2018-01-11 00:59:01","Geometry of Design",9781616890360,"Kimberly Elam","At last, a mathematical explanation of how art works presented in a manner we can all understand. Kimberly Elam takes the reader on a geometrical journey, lending insight and coherence to the design process by exploring the visual relationships that have foundations in mathematics as well as the essential qualities of life. Geometry of Design takes a close look at a broad range of twentieth-century examples of design, architecture, and illustration (from the Barcelona chair to the paintings of Georges Seurat, from the Braun hand blender to the Conico kettle), revealing underlying geometric structures in their compositions. Explanations and techniques of visual analysis make the inherent mathematical relationships evident and a must-have for anyone involved in art, design, or architecture graphic arts. The book focuses not only on the classic systems of proportioning, such as the golden section and root rectangles, but also on less well known proportioning systems such as the Fibonacci Series. Through detailed diagrams these geometric systems are brought to life giving an effective insight into the design process.",,,144,"177.8 x 213.36 x 15.24mm | 430.91g","31 Aug 2011","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,"2nd Revised edition","150 colour and 50 black and white illustrations",1616890363,"34,328",4.06,US$19.92,US$24.95,,Paperback,,,, 27,"2018-01-11 00:59:08",Shelter,9780936070117,"Lloyd Kahn","Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo's tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters from tipis to ""housecars""; and domes, dome cities, sod iglus, and even treehouses. The authors recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment - with fascinating, often surprising results.",,"""How very fine it is to leaf through a 176-page book on architecture -- and find no palaces, no pyramids or temples, no cathedrals, skyscrapers, Kremlins or Pentagons in sight...instead, a book of homes, habitations for human beings in all their infinite variety.""",176,"276 x 364 x 8mm | 938.93g","31 Jan 2006","Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.","Bolinas, United States",English,"2nd Revised edition","colour and b&w illustrations",0936070110,"34,202",4.46,US$30.75,,,Paperback,,,, 28,"2018-01-11 00:59:15","The Language of Things",9780141031170,"Deyan Sudjic","In The Language of Things Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the things around us: their hidden meanings, our relationship with them, how they shape our lives and why we desire them. Design is everywhere. It seduces, pleases and inspires us. It makes us part with our money. It defines who we think we are. An iPhone, an anglepoise lamp, a Picasso, a banknote, an Armani suit, a William Morris textile, a Lucky Strike packet, a spacecraft - every object tells a story. And understanding their stories offers us a whole new way of seeing the world. 'Articulate and wonderfully knowledgeable ... for anyone who takes an interest in the world around us' Time Out 'A nightmare vision of a world drowning in objects ... witty, well observed and wide-ranging' Guardian 'An elegant, witty and free-ranging survey, from Thomas Chippendale's ponderous 18th-century manor-house furnishings to Jonathan Ive's sprightly Macintosh iBooks' Daily Telegraph 'Lively ... engaging' Evening Standard 'Readable, sharp and worthwhile' Financial Times Director of the Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic was born in London of Yugoslav parents. He is a former architecture critic for the Observer, and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art. Sudjic was Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002 and is author of The Edifice Complex, the much-praised 100-Miles City, the best-selling Architecture Pack, The Language of Things and monographs on John Pawson, Ron Arad and Richard Rogers.",,"An elegant, witty and free-ranging survey of industrial product design from Thomas Chippendale's ponderous 18th-century manor-house furnishings to Jonathan Ive's sprightly Macintosh iBooks * Telegraph * Sudjic's book rebukes designers for their arrogance and increasing self-importance ... readable, sharp and worthwhile * FT * The Language of Things is a happy trot through the colourful landscape formed by design's eternal alternation between use and allure * Evening Standard * Deyan Sudjic presents us with a nightmare vision of a world drowning in objects ... witty, well observed and wide-ranging * Guardian * As a confessional, the book is witty and honest, and Deyan Sudjic remains one of our most insightful commentators * Royal Academy magazine * Articulate and wonderfully knowledgeable ... a very nice object in itself ... much in here for anyone who takes an interest in the world around us * Time Out *",224,"110 x 178 x 18mm | 140.61g","28 Aug 2009","Penguin Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0141031174,"106,397",3.63,US$14.18,US$28.74,"Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the Observer and The Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.",Paperback,,,, 29,"2018-01-11 00:59:25","Rendering in Pen and Ink",9780823045297,"Arthur L. Guptill","Arthur J. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional artist to the amateur and hobbyist. It is of particular interest to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, industrial designers, illustrators, and renderers.",,,256,"228 x 304 x 18mm | 939.99g","28 Aug 1997","Watson-Guptill Publications","New York, United States",English,"New edition","300 b&w illustrations",0823045293,"77,106",4.22,US$30.60,,"Arthur L. Guptill (1891-1956) who co-founded Watson-Guptill Publications and was co-editor of American Artist magazine, was an architect, a painter, an art director, an author, and a teacher. Born in Gorham, Maine, he graduated with a degree in architecture from Pratt Institute in 1912, and then studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A partner in Bearse & Guptill, architectural designers and illustrators, from 1919 to 1925, Mr. Guptill was a freelance specialist in design, freelance advertising artist, and advertising agency consultant from 1916 to 1937. The founder, president, and director of activities of the Amateur Artists Association of America, Mr. Guptill wrote numerous art instruction books. He taught at Pratt and the Brooklyn Museum and was a member of the Art Directors Club of New York and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England. Susan E. Meyer was born and raised in New York City. She was graduated from the University of Wisconsin and attended the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy. Ms. Meyer has had a long history of involvement with Arthur Guptill's work. For over seven years, as managing editor of Watson-Guptill Publications, the company he co-founded, she compiled and edited his books. In that capacity, she also compiled, edited, and collaborated on a number of other books on watercolorists and their techniques, painting portraits, and designing with type. In addition, Ms. Meyer was editor of American Artist magazine, where Guptill himself was once co-editor. She is the author of over a dozen books and is currently the director of Roundtable Press, Inc. in New York City.",Paperback,"Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.",,, 30,"2018-01-11 00:59:33","The Australian Ugliness",9781921922442,"Robin Boyd","Introduced by Christos Tsiolkas There can be few other nations which are less certain than Australia as to what they are and where they are. Brilliant, witty, scathing, The Australian Ugliness is the classic postwar account of Australian society, how we live in the environments we create, and the consequences of our failure to think about how we live. www.textclassics.com.au",,,292,"128 x 196 x 20mm | 220g","08 Aug 2013","Text Publishing Co","Melbourne, Australia",English,"UK ed.",,1921922443,"41,128",3.87,US$10.99,US$15.50,"William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana in 1952. He is the author of five other novels and a collection of short stories that have been published around the world in over two dozen languages. In addition, eight of his screenplays have been filmed, the most recent of which is A Good Man in Africa, based on his first novel. He is married and lives in London.",Paperback,"Text Classics",,, 32,"2018-01-11 00:59:36","Structural Engineer's Pocket Book",9780080971216,"Fiona Cobb","Functions as a Day-to-Day Resource for Practicing Engineers...The hugely useful Structural Engineer's Pocket Book is now overhauled and revised in line with the Eurocodes. It forms a comprehensive pocket reference guide for professional and student structural engineers, especially those taking the IStructE Part 3 exam. With stripped-down basic material-tables, data, facts, formulae, and rules of thumb-it is directly usable for scheme design by structural engineers in the office, in transit, or on site...And a Core Reference for Students It brings together data from many different sources, and delivers a compact source of job-simplifying and time-saving information at an affordable price. It acts as a reliable first point of reference for information that is needed on a daily basis. This third edition is referenced throughout to the structural Eurocodes. After giving general information and details on actions on structures, it runs through reinforced concrete, steel, timber, and masonry. * Provides essential data on steel, concrete, masonry, timber, and other main materials * Pulls together material from a variety of sources for everyday work * Serves as a first point of reference for structural and civil engineers A core structural engineering book, Structural Engineer's Pocket Book: Eurocodes, Third Edition benefits both students and industry professionals.","General Information Metric system Typical metric units for UK structural engineering Imperial units Conversion factors Measurement of angles Construction documentation and procurement Drawing conventions Common arrangement of work sections Summary of association of consulting engineers conditions of engagement Statutory Authorities and Permissions Planning Building regulations and standards Scotland Northern Ireland Technical booklets Listed buildings Conservation areas Tree preservation orders Archaeology and ancient monuments Party Wall etc. Act Construction design & management Building information modelling Design Data Design data checklist Structural form Structural movement joints Fire resistance periods for structural elements Typical building tolerances Historical use of building materials Selection of materials Selection of floor construction Transportation Temporary/auxiliary works toolkit Soldiers Slimshor compression capacity Slimshor moment capacity Ladder beams Unit beams Basic and Shortcut Tools for Structural Analysis Load factors and limit states Geometric section properties Parallel axis theorem Composite sections Material properties Coefficients of linear thermal expansion Coefficients of friction Sign Conventions Beam bending theory Beam bending and deflection formulae Clapeyron's equations of three moments Continuous beam bending formulae Struts Euler Rigid frames under lateral loads Plates Torsion Taut wires, cables and chains Vibration Eurocodes Eurocode background Eurocodes and European public procurement rules Limit state philosophy and Eurocode partial safety factors Design values of actions-partial load factor combinations Combination factors Summary of combined factors: Persistent situations Comparison of BS and Eurocode partial load factors Design life Actions on Structures Permanent actions Variable actions: Imposed floor loads Typical unit floor and roof loadings Typical 'all up' loads Variable actions: Wind loading Variable actions: Horizontal barrier loads Minimum barrier heights Eurocode combinations of actions for serviceability limit states Typical deflection limits Stability, robustness and disproportionate collapse Stability Robustness, accidental damage and disproportionate collapse Disproportionate collapse requirements with British Standard clause References Reinforced Concrete Summary of material properties Concrete mixes Reinforcement Durability and fire resistance concrete durability Preliminary sizing of concrete elements Reinforced concrete design to BS EN 1992 Punching shear Reinforced concrete column design charts Reinforcement bar bending to BS 8666 Summary of differences with BS BS 8110: Concrete strength Reinforcement Estimates Structural Steel Types of steel products Mild steel section sizes and tolerances Hot rolled section tables Member axes and dimension notation Slenderness Effective length Elastic properties of stainless-steel alloys for design Durability and fire resistances Fire resistance Stainless-Steel design to BS EN 1993-1 Steel design to BS 449 Composite Steel and Concrete Composite flooring elements Summary of material properties Preliminary sizing of composite elements Preliminary sizing Approximate limits on holes in rolled steel beams Timber and Plywood Timber products Summary of material properties Sizes and processing of timber Timber section sizes Laminated timber products Durability and fire resistance Preliminary sizing of timber elements Timber design to BS EN 1995 Modification factors Deflections Timber joints Summary of differences with BS 5268: Structural timber Masonry Summary of material properties Geometry and arrangement brick and block sizes Durability and fire resistance Preliminary sizing of masonry elements Geotechnics Selection of foundations and retaining walls Site investigation Soil classification Typical soil properties Drained conditions, phi' Undrained conditions, phiu = Preliminary sizing Quick estimate design methods for shallow foundations Simplified equations for allowable bearing capacity after Brinch Hansen Quick estimate design methods for deep foundations Introduction to geotechnical design to BS EN 1997 Structural Glass Types of glass products Typical glass section sizes and thicknesses Durability and fire resistance Typical glass sizes for common applications Structural glass design Connections Friction grip connections Holes Bolted connections Non-silicon adhesives Structural silicones Building Elements, Materials, Fixings and Fastenings Waterproofing Basement waterproofing to BS 8102 Screeds Precast concrete hollowcore slabs Bi-metallic corrosion Fixings and fastenings Cold weather working Effect of fire on construction materials Sustainability Environmental indicators Climate change predictions for the United Kingdom Sustainability scenarios and targets Sustainable building design priorities Exposed slabs and thermal mass Embodied energy Construction waste Reclaimed materials Recycled materials Design for demountability Green materials specification Toxicity, health and air quality Sustainable timber Cement substitutes Sustainable aggregates Useful Mathematics Trigonometric relationships Special triangles Equations of curves Standard differentials and integrals Useful Addresses Further Reading Sources Index",""" ... this excellent little book should remain an important first reference tool for practising engineers and students alike."" -Civil Engineering Journal, October 2015 ""All in all, the reviewer would wholeheartedly like to commend this concise and yet informative pocket book as an essential reference for all current practitioners as well as for the next generation of engineers."" -ICE Proceedings-Structures-Buildings Journal, 2015 ""The book, in its previous editions, has been an essential companion of practising engineers, as well as of students of structural design. The new edition fills a great need to provide the essential data for anyone who may be required to use Eurocodes. This applies to practising engineers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of structural design."" -Kuldeep S Virdi, Professor Emeritus, City University, London, UK",464,"134 x 204 x 24mm | 539.99g","01 Mar 2015","Taylor & Francis Ltd","Oxford, United Kingdom",English,"3rd Revised edition","213 black & white illustrations, 149 black & white tables",0080971210,"31,685",4.25,US$39.54,,,Paperback,"CIMA Publishing",,, 33,"2018-01-11 00:59:48","Human Dimension and Interior Space",9780823072712,"Julius Panero","Human Dimension and Interior Space is the first major anthropometrically based reference book of design standards for use by all those involved with the physical planning and detailing of interiors, including interior designers, architects, furniture designers, builders, industrial designers, and students of design. The use of anthropometric data, although no substitute for good design or sound professional judgment should be viewed as one of the many tools required in the design process. This comprehensive overview of anthropometrics consists of three parts. The first part deals with the theory and application of anthropometrics and includes a special section dealing with physically disabled and elderly people. It provides the designer with the fundamentals of anthropometrics and a basic understanding of how interior design standards are established. The second part contains easy-to-read, illustrated anthropometric tables, which provide the most current data available on human body size, organized by age and percentile groupings. Also included is data relative to the range of joint motion and body sizes of children. The third part contains hundreds of dim",,,320,"236.22 x 309.88 x 27.94mm | 1,519.53g","01 Mar 1992","Watson-Guptill Publications","New York, United States",English,"New edition","300 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index",0823072711,"36,071",4.2,US$37.84,US$39.95,"Julius Panero, AIA, ASID, is a practicing architect, interior designer, and an associate professor of interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York. He has taught interior design for the last twenty years and was the former chairperson of the Interior Design department at FIT. A graduate of Pratt Institute, where he received a bachelor of architecture's degree, and Columbia University, where he received a master of science degree in urban planning, Panero is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of Interior Designers, and a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, London. Licensed to practice architecture in New York, Panero is a principal in the consulting firm of Panero Zelnik Associates, Architects/Interior Designers. He is also the author of Anatomy for Interior Designers and a contributing author to Time-Saver Standards. Martin Zelnik, AIA, ASID, NCARB, is a practicing architect, interior designer, and an assistant professor of interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, where he has taught interior design for the last ten years. A graduate of Brandeis University, where he received a bachelor of fine arts degree, and Columbia University, where he earned a master of architecture degree, Zelnik is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the New York Society of Architects, the Interior Design Educators Council, and the American Society of Interior Designers. A special consultant to the National Council of Interior Design Qualification, Zelnick is a principal in the New York consulting firm of Panero Zelnik Associates, Architects/Interior Designers.",Hardback,"Whitney Library of Design",,, 34,"2018-01-11 00:59:52","Architect's Pocket Book",9780080969596,"Charlotte Baden-Powell","This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis - on site or in the studio. It provides guidance on a range of tasks, from complying with the Building Regulations, including the recent revisions to Part L, to helping with planning, use of materials and detailing. Compact and easy to use, the Architect's Pocket Book has sold well over 65,000 copies to the nation's architects, architecture students, designers and construction professionals who do not have an architectural background but need to understand the basics, fast. This is the famous little blue book that you can't afford to be without.","General Information; Planning; Structures; Services; Building Elements; Materials",,368,"122 x 186 x 22mm | 379.99g","11 Mar 2011","Taylor & Francis Ltd","Oxford, United Kingdom",English,"New edition",,0080969593,"68,511",4.3,,,,Paperback,"Architectural Press",,, 35,"2018-01-11 00:59:59","Metric Handbook",9780415725422,"Pamela Buxton","* Significantly updated in reference to the latest construction standards and evolving building types * Many chapters revised including housing, transport, offices, libraries and hotels * New chapter on flood-aware design * Sustainable design integrated into chapters throughout * Over 100,000 copies sold to successive generations of architects and designers - this book belongs in every design studio and architecture school library The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design information for architects and architecture students. Covering basic design data for all the major building types, it is the ideal starting point for any project. For each building type, the book gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data, and succinct guidance on how to use the information and what regulations the designer needs to be aware of. As well as building types, the Metric Handbook deals with broader aspects of design such as materials, acoustics and lighting, and general design data on human dimensions and space requirements. The Metric Handbook provides an invaluable resource for solving everyday design and planning problems.","Preface Acknowledgements Design Basics 1. Design Information and Dimensional Coordination 2. People and Space 3. People and Movement 4. Access and Inclusion 5. Capital and Whole Life Costs of Buildings Essentials 6. Structure 7. Materials 8. Thermal Environment 9. Light 10. Sound 11. Fire 12. Flood-aware Design 13. Crime Prevention Design Building Types 14. Agricultural Buildings 15. Auditoria 16. Civic Buildings 17. Community Centres 18. Emergency Services Buildings 19. Hospitals 20. Hotels 21. Houses and Flats 22. Housing for Older People 23. Housing for Students and Young People 24. Industrial Facilities 25. Industrial Storage Buildings 26. Laboratories 27. Libraries 28. Masterplanning and Landscaping 29. Offices 30. Museums, Art Galleries and Temporary Exhibition Spaces 31. Payment and Counselling Offices 32. Places of Worship 33. Primary Health Care 34. Restaurants and Foodservice Facilities 35. Retail Shops and Stores 36. Schools 37. Security and Counter-terrorism 38. Sports Facilities: Indoor and Outdoor 39. Streets and Spaces for People and Vehicles 40. Studios for Sound and Vision 41. Terminals and Transport Interchanges 42. Tropical design 43. Universities Appendix A - SI System Appendix B - Conversion Factors and Tables Index","'Faced with the complexity of design as a student, the Metric Handbook gave me the ingredients so that I could work out how, and what size things should be, to make a building - this remains just as relevant and invaluable now in practice. An essential reference for everyone involved in the building industry.' - John Pardey RIBA, Director John Pardey Architects Praise for the 4th edition 'This book is a great investment as you will use it throughout your career as an architect.' 'I have found that this book is the Bible for all planners, contains so much information that no designer or planner should be without a copy.' 'An essential reference book that should be on the shelf in any design studio.'",858,"210 x 294 x 40mm | 2,419.96g","30 Apr 2015","Taylor & Francis Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"5th Revised edition","1533 black & white illustrations, 350 black & white tables",0415725429,"44,490",4.5,US$76.31,US$85.00,"Pamela Buxton is a freelance architecture and design journalist. She has contributed to many national newspapers, consumer magazines and trade publications including the architecture publications Building Design and RIBA Journal. .",Paperback,ROUTLEDGE,,, 36,"2018-01-11 01:00:02","Architectural Graphics",9781119035664,"Francis D. K. Ching","The bestselling guide to architectural drawing, with new information, examples, and resources Architectural Graphics is the classic bestselling reference by one of the leading global authorities on architectural design drawing, Francis D.K. Ching. Now in its sixth edition, this essential guide offers a comprehensive introduction to using graphic tools and drafting conventions to translate architectural ideas into effective visual presentations, using hundreds of the author's distinctive drawings to illustrate the topic effectively. This updated edition includes new information on orthographic projection in relation to 3D models, and revised explanations of line weights, scale and dimensioning, and perspective drawing to clarify some of the most difficult concepts. New examples of modern furniture, APA facilities, and presentation layout provide more up-to-date visuals, and the Reference Center features all new animations, videos, and practice exercises. Architectural graphics are key tools for conveying design through representation on paper or on screen, and this book is the ultimate guide to mastering the skill, then applying your talent to create more effective design communication. * Understand multiview, paraline, and perspective drawing * Master interior sections using a variety of techniques * Render tonal value, enhance depth, and convey illumination * Develop professional-quality layouts for presentations Architectural graphics both inform the design process and serve as the means by which a design is interpreted and built. Complete mastery of the tools and conventions is essential to the successful outcome of any project, and mistakes can cause confusion, time delays, increased costs, and possible catastrophe. Architectural Graphics is the comprehensive guide to professional architectural drawing, with insight from a leading authority in the field.","Preface v 1 Drawing Tools and Materials 1 2 Architectural Drafting 17 3 Architectural Drawing Systems 29 4 Multiview Drawings 49 5 Paraline Drawings 91 6 Perspective Drawings 107 7 Rendering Tonal Values 147 8 Rendering Context 185 9 Architectural Presentations 201 10 Freehand Drawing 217 Index 259",,272,"213.36 x 271.78 x 20.32mm | 793.78g","06 Apr 2015","John Wiley & Sons Inc","New York, United States",English,"6th Revised ed.",,111903566X,"76,885",4.1,US$45.20,US$54.99,"FRANCIS D.K. CHING is one of the leading authorities on architectural design drawing around the world. His numerous bestselling works have been translated into over seventeen languages and are regarded as classics for their renowned graphic presentation. He is a registered architect and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle.",Paperback,,,, 37,"2018-01-11 01:00:10","Cafe! Best of Coffee Shop Design",9783037680452,Braun,"The design of coffee shops is increasingly on the move. Where cafs have traditionally been viewed as places principally to enjoy a coffee, they have evolved to show a broad range of multifunctional purposes and amenities: They can, for instance, exist as cozy lunch-time meeting spots before abruptly transforming into vibrant late-night bars after sundown. Caf! Best of Coffee Shop Design shows the wide scope of different caf concepts, including coffee bars as integral parts of cutting-edge multipurpose buildings, flagship stores and traditional shops with a contemporary twist. The 40 projects featured comprise an extensive variety of designs and styles, ranging from minimalist, strict and reduced, to opulent and extravagant.",,,400,"136 x 192 x 32mm | 780.17g","16 Apr 2010","Braun Publishing AG","Salenstein, Switzerland",English,,"400 farbige Abbildungen",3037680458,"87,553",4.23,,,,Paperback,,,, 38,"2018-01-11 01:00:20","The Box",9783037681732,"Sibylle Kramer","Shipping containers are the most conspicuous symbol of the globalized world economy 20 or 40 feet of pure steel reduced to the essentials. They are robust, standardized, inexpensive, universally available, and quickly assembled. Whether as single units, piled on top of each other, or placed in a row, covered or cut open contemporary architecture uses containers as extremely versatile elements for a great variety of contexts. Their aesthetic of practicality accommodates minimalistic temporary solutions, experimental design concepts, as well as highly demanding and complex building structures. The contemporary projects presented in this volume showcase the many functional and creative faces of the utilization of containers. Almost everything seems possible in the developing field of container architecture.",,,192,"242 x 290 x 24mm | 1,379.98g","07 Nov 2014","Braun Publishing AG","Salenstein, Switzerland",English,"1st ed.","Mit farbigen Abbildungen",303768173X,"91,240",5,US$53.87,US$59.95,,Hardback,,,, 39,"2018-01-11 01:00:22","Future Practice",9780415533546,"Rory Hyde","Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history, community engagement and more, each representing an emergent role for designers to occupy. Whether the ""civic entrepreneur,"" the ""double agent,"" or the ""strategic designer,"" this book offers a diverse spectrum of approaches to design, each offering a potential future for architectural practice. With a foreword by Dan Hill and interviews with Steve Ashton, ARM; Bryan Boyer, Helsinki Design Lab; Camila Bustamante; Mel Dodd, muf_aus; DUS Architects; Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang; Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird, AMO; Conrad Hamann; Natalie Jeremijenko, xClinic; Indy Johar, 00:/;Bruce Mau; Arjen Oosterman and Lilet Breddels, Volume; Todd Reisz; Wouter Vanstiphout, Crimson; Matt Webb, BERG; Marcus Westbury, Renew Newcastle; and Liam Young, Unknown Fields","Foreword Dan Hill. Introduction. Conversations 1. The Massive Changer: Bruce Mau 2. The Civic Entrepreneur: Indy Johar, 00:/ 3. The Whole Earth Architect: Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird, AMO 4. The Double Agent: Mel Dodd, muf_aus 5. The Historian of the Present: Wouter Vanstiphout, Crimson 6. The Urban Activist: Camila Bustamante 7. The Contractual Innovator: Steve Ashton, ARM 8. The Near Future Inventor: Matt Webb, BERG 9. The Strategic Designer: Bryan Boyer, Helsinki Design Lab 10. The Management Thinkers: Todd Reisz on Consultants 11. The Community Enabler: Marcus Westbury, Renew Newcastle 12. The New Amsterdam Schoolt: DUS Architects 13. The Professional Generalist: Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang 14. The Architect as Public Intellectual: Conrad Hamann on Robin Boyd 15. The Educator of Excess: Liam Young, Unknown Fields 16. The Editor of the Beyond: Arjen Oosterman and Lilet Breddels, Volume 17. The Environmental Medic: Natalie Jeremijenko, xClinic. Endnotes. Index. Colophon.","""That is exactly where the strength of Future Practice is: the book combines a moment of reflection on a wide range of proactive solutions."" - Gebiedsontwikkeling ""The dialogue format of the texts in Future Practice is pleasant to read and the structure also serves the hurried reader - among the 17 dialogues it's easy for readers to pick those that interest them the most."" - Finnish Architectural Review",280,"122 x 184 x 34mm | 299.37g","09 Oct 2012","Taylor & Francis Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"63 black & white illustrations",0415533546,"83,304",4.34,US$39.88,US$39.95,"Rory Hyde is a practicing architect working across design, research, broadcasting and building. He is contributing editor of Architecture Australia, and co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which will be presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Based in Amsterdam since 2009, Rory has worked with Volume magazine, MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf, and Mediamatic.",Paperback,ROUTLEDGE,,, 40,"2018-01-11 01:00:34","Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture",9780415571937,"Nishat Awan","This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future. Particularly pertinent in the current economic climate, this book offers the reader new approaches to architectural practice in a changing world. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practicing.","1. Introduction 2. The Motivations of Spatial Agency 3. The Sites of Spatial Agency 4. The Operations of Spatial Agency 5. Other Ways of Doing Architecture","""Spatial Agency is a timely and uplifting treatise on the successful ways that architects have addressed some of society's most vexing global problems. With compelling analysis, richly illustrated by inspiring examples of transformative spatial solutions, the authors argue persuasively that the consequences of architecture are as important as the objects of architecture. This accessibly written book is a must read for anyone seeking an ethical understanding of the role of spatial production in the human struggle to create a democratic and sustainable existence."" - Leslie Kanes Weisman, Emerita Professor of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and author of Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment (University of Illinois Press) ""Spatial Agency's lively entry into the discourse around spatial practice, subjectivity and alterity, inspired by the introduction of Henri Lefebvre and feminist theory into architecture in the mid 1990s, asserts the importance of the concept of agency for understanding architecture's counter-culture over the past 30 years. This succinct and stylish handbook provides the reader with an essential resource for grasping the extraordinarily diverse range of ethical architectural practice. Here is a truly global map of inspiring 'spatial agents' who collectively define architecture - against the grain."" - Jane Rendell, Vice Dean of Research at the Bartlett, UCL, and author of Art and Architecture (2006), Site-Writing (2010) and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007) ""Ultimately this is a valuable book for those interested in pursuing alternatives to traditional architecture, those searching for ideas about how to make positive change when other means are not available, and for those gauging the state of architecture today."" - Archidose ""The book presents, from an easy and open approach, different ways of understanding the new ways of doing architecture. In all cases it is evident that the spatial production does not imply exclusively to architects and development possibilities are endless. An optimistic crisis for architecture."" - Arquilecturas ""'A timely study that raises vital issues for the future'. Such were the words recently used by the Royal Institute of British Architects in announcing its decision to award the 2011 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University-located Research to Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture, the book edited by Nishat Awan and Tatjana Schneider of the University of Sheffield, and Jeremy Till of the University of Westminster... Amid the rhetoric that often surrounds these events, the succinct description does indeed do justice to the work compiled by the three academics and the intellectual platform supporting it. A reflective analysis of the various ways of contributing to change in the built environment outside the canonical plots of professional practice, Spatial Agency tackles some of the central tenets of architecture as a discipline, asking whether these in fact maintain currency for both the profession and the built environment."" - Paolo Tombesi, Construction Management and Economics, September 2012",224,"186 x 242 x 22mm | 639.56g","21 Jul 2011","Taylor & Francis Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"202 colour illustrations",0415571936,"82,215",4.28,US$49.52,US$49.95,"Tatjana Schneider (Lecturer, University of Sheffield) and Jeremy Till (Dean, University of Westminster and author of the award winning book Architecture Depends) collaborated before on their book Flexible Housing (which won the 2007 RIBA President's Award for Research). This time they are joined by Nishat Awan (Researcher).",Paperback,ROUTLEDGE,,, 41,"2018-01-11 01:00:39","Architecture Depends",9780262518789,"Jeremy Till","Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends -- on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans -- at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.",,"Till's book is about the world he knows and how one conveys ideas behind architecture. It is a superbly written, frequently fascinating set of arguments that will support architects who wish to use the messy stuff of life for their own advantage. -- Tim Abrahams * Blueprint * Thought-provoking and important... Architecture Depends raises the question of the relationship of architecture and life to a new level. -- Anni Vartola * Arkkitehti (Finland) * The book performs a wonderful contextualizing function, making architectural intervention, from idea to event, depend on the wide range of human habits and spheres of influence that we normally sum up as 'the world'. -- Lucas Freeman * Scapegoat * Architecture Depends is an attempt to save the profession from itself and a manifesto for an architecture that acknowledges its relationship with the world and its duty to others...This is a brave, enjoyable, affirming and important book and I actually felt sad to have finished it. -- Flora Samuel * Times Higher Education (Book of the Week) * Boldly and elegantly, Architecture Depends asserts that architecture is absolutely dependent upon the 'contingent', difficult and perverse factors that architects have long tried to ignore in an effort to be pure, self-important and professional...What Till's book achieves is to set out with great clarity the territory in which the debate around future action must take place. -- Robert Mull * Architects' Journal *",272,"144.78 x 218.44 x 20.32mm | 430.91g","08 Feb 2013","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,,"23 b&w illus.",0262518783,"96,467",4.15,US$18.78,,"Jeremy Till is Dean of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster and a partner at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. Their projects include the pioneering 9 Stock Orchard Street (The Strawbale House and Quilted Office), winner of multiple awards. He represented Britain at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,, 42,"2018-01-11 01:00:45","The Passivhaus Designer's Manual",9780415522694,"Christina J. Hopfe","Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world, with almost 50,000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types, the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards, Passivhaus provides a robust 'fabric first' approach from which to make the next step. The Passivhaus Designers Manual is the most comprehensive technical guide available to those wishing to design and build Passivhaus and Zero Energy Buildings. As a technical reference for architects, engineers and construction professionals The Passivhaus Designers Manual provides: * State of the art guidance for anyone designing or working on a Passivhaus project; * In depth information on building services, including high performance ventilation systems and ultra-low energy heating and cooling systems; * Holistic design guidance encompassing: daylight design, ecological materials, thermal comfort, indoor air quality and economics; * Practical advice on procurement methods, project management and quality assurance; * Renewable energy systems suitable for Passivhaus and Zero Energy Buildings; * Practical case studies from the UK, USA, and Germany amongst others; * Detailed worked examples to show you how it's done and what to look out for; * Expert advice from 20 world renowned Passivhaus designers, architects, building physicists and engineers. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 full colour illustrations, and presented by two highly experienced specialists, this is your one-stop shop for comprehensive practical information on Passivhaus and Zero Energy buildings.","About the Book. Contributor Biographies. Foreword by Amory Lovins. Preface Christina J. Hopfe and Robert S. McLeod 1. Introduction: Climate Change and the Built Environment Robert S. McLeod and Christina J. Hopfe 2. Thermal Comfort Louise Wille and Darren Woolf 3. Building Envelope: Construction Types and Window Design Niall Crosson, Christina J. Hopfe and Robert S. McLeod 4. Lighting and Daylighting Myriam Aries and Jan Wienold 5. Heat and Moisture Assessment Florian Antretter et al. 6. Heat and Hot Water Generation for Domestic Buildings Marek Miara 7. Heating and Cooling of Non-Residential Buildings Doreen Kalz 8. Ventilation Concepts: Planning and Implementation Michael Swainson 9. Renewable Energy Technologies Andrew Peel 10. Site Management and Quality Assurance John Morehead 11. PH Economics Nick Newman and Richard Whidborne 12. Passivhaus Refurbishment (EnerPHit) - a case study Ludwig Rongen Bibliography Index","'The Passivhaus Designer's Manual is an excellent guide to the many facets of Passivhaus design. And it will become the reference book of choice for many Passivhaus Designers.' - Elrond Burrell 'There's a mystique around the whole idea of Passivhaus, and there really shouldn't be. As this amazing manual so powerfully reveals, it's a simple, elegant set of design principles, in which lies the promise of a truly sustainable built environment for everyone, anywhere in the world.' - Jonathon Porritt, Founder and Director, Forum for the Future, UK 'Much more than a design guide for Passivhaus, this manual provides an excellent holistic view of good, low energy and sustainable design practice with contributions from a range of international experts. Principles, theory, and practice are clearly explained without recourse to detailed mathematical analysis making this guide accessible to a wide range of professionals; an impressive level of detail and scope.' - Michael Holmes, consultant to Arup and principal author of CIBSE Guide A (Section 5 -Thermal Design), UK 'The Passivhaus Designer's Manual perfectly illustrates that energy doesn't have to be associated with something dirty or negative. It can be innovative, techy, clean, some would even say sexy. There is great room for creativity when it comes to energy efficiency, and this book is the proof of that.' - Maros Sefcovic, Vice President of the European Commission for Energy Union, Belgium 'A very useful reference which adds to the knowledge and understanding of the Passivhaus standard as a potential solution to the need to reduce energy consumption.' - Andrew McFarlane, Building Engineer",346,"189 x 246 x 20.32mm | 929g","09 Dec 2015","Taylor & Francis Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"146 colour illustrations, 27 colour tables",0415522692,"90,983",4.33,US$56.85,US$56.95,"Christina J. Hopfe is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Sustainable Building Design at Loughborough University. She is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of CIBSE. She has a Dipl-Ing in Civil Engineering from TU Darmstadt, Germany, and a PhD in Building Performance Simulation from TU/e, the Netherlands. Robert S. McLeod is an Associate of the Building Research Establishment and a freelance building performance consultant. He is one of the UK's leading Passivhaus designers and experts in low carbon design. He has a PhD in Building Physics from Cardiff University and is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of IMeche.",Paperback,,,, 43,"2018-01-11 01:00:55","High Line",9780374532994,"Joshua David","How two New Yorkers led the transformation of a derelict elevated railway into a grand--and beloved--open space The High Line, a new park atop an ele-vated rail structure on Manhattan's West Side, is among the most innovative urban reclamation projects in memory. The story of how it came to be is a remarkable one: two young citizens with no prior experience in planning and development collaborated with their neighbors, elected officials, artists, local business owners, and leaders of burgeoning movements in horticulture and landscape architecture to create a park celebrated worldwide as a model for creatively designed, socially vibrant, ecologically sound public space. Joshua David and Robert Hammond met in 1999 at a community board meeting to consider the fate of the High Line. Built in the 1930s, it carried freight trains to the West Side when the area was defined by factories and warehouses. But when trains were replaced by truck transport, the High Line became obsolete. By century's end it was a rusty, forbidding ruin. Plants grew between the tracks, giving it a wild and striking beauty. David and Hammond loved the ruin and saw in it an opportunity to create a new way to experience their city. Over ten years, they did so. In this candid and inspiring book-- lavishly illustrated--they tell how they relied on skill, luck, and good timing: a crucial court ruling, an inspiring design contest, the enthusiasm of Mayor Bloomberg, the concern for urban planning issues following 9/11. Now the High Line--a half-mile expanse of plants, paths, staircases, and framed vistas--runs through a transformed West Side and reminds us that extraordinary things are possible when creative people work together for the common good.",,"""This lushly illustrated volume showcases the range of imaginative designs [Joshua David and Robert Hammond] explored and, in some cases, rejected. In recounting their decade-long experiment, they provide an inspiring primer for grass-roots urban planning."" --Sam Roberts, The New York Times""This account by the founders of the nonprofit responsible for the groundbreaking reclamation project chronicles the struggles and successes that led to the realization of what was deemed a far-fetched dream--and resulted in a new Manhattan landmark."" --Travel + Leisure""A fascinating first-person tale."" --The New York Observer""The High Line is not only a great work of design--surely the most important addition to the public realm of New York in this century; it is also a great saga. In this book Robert Hammond and Joshua David, who led the grass-roots movement to rescue the High Line from demolition, tell with energy, passion, and refreshing candor the story of how this industrial artifact became, against all odds, a magnificent park."" --Paul Goldberger""This book is the record of a bright and in fact heroic part of New York City's history. The story of the struggle, against very long odds, by two young men to create the High Line is a story of perseverance, determination and courage, and the photographs which accompany it show the brilliance of their achievement."" --Robert A. Caro""This is a fundamentally uplifting story of two young men with a dream who scythed through red tape and skepticism, summoning a village to help reimagine what a park could be in the twenty-first century. Thanks to their vision, and to the dedication, enthusiasm, and brilliance of their collaborators, a walk in the park has been transformed into an exhilarating urban experience that helps all of us to see our extraordinary city with new eyes."" --Anna Wintour""If God is in the details, then few projects can be more divine than the High Line. Christo, the man who wraps bridges and the Reichstag, once said that for him the creative part of his work is not the finished product but the seemingly frustrating process of getting all those permits and raising funds and convincing ecologists and city planners. This careful account of how the High Line came to exist despite all the odds proves just how creative and suspenseful realizing a plan can be; it's a real cliff-hanger."" --Edmund White""The story of the High Line is one of the great encouraging improbable stories of New York life in the past few decades. This book should read by anyone who cares about New York, or green and urban life."" --Adam Gopnik""There is no more miraculous and important and gratifying piece of new American urban design than the High Line. What's more, how it was conjured into existence is a compelling story, and here's that story--with pictures!--told lucidly and charmingly by the two extraordinary ordinary guys who pulled it off."" --Kurt Andersen This lushly illustrated volume showcases the range of imaginative designs [Joshua David and Robert Hammond] explored and, in some cases, rejected. In recounting their decade-long experiment, they provide an inspiring primer for grass-roots urban planning. ""Sam Roberts, The New York Times"" This account by the founders of the nonprofit responsible for the groundbreaking reclamation project chronicles the struggles and successes that led to the realization of what was deemed a far-fetched dream--and resulted in a new Manhattan landmark. ""Travel + Leisure"" A fascinating first-person tale. ""The New York Observer"" The High Line is not only a great work of design--surely the most important addition to the public realm of New York in this century; it is also a great saga. In this book Robert Hammond and Joshua David, who led the grass-roots movement to rescue the High Line from demolition, tell with energy, passion, and refreshing candor the story of how this industrial artifact became, against all odds, a magnificent park. ""Paul Goldberger"" This book is the record of a bright and in fact heroic part of New York City's history. The story of the struggle, against very long odds, by two young men to create the High Line is a story of perseverance, determination and courage, and the photographs which accompany it show the brilliance of their achievement. ""Robert A. Caro"" This is a fundamentally uplifting story of two young men with a dream who scythed through red tape and skepticism, summoning a village to help reimagine what a park could be in the twenty-first century. Thanks to their vision, and to the dedication, enthusiasm, and brilliance of their collaborators, a walk in the park has been transformed into an exhilarating urban experience that helps all of us to see our extraordinary city with new eyes. ""Anna Wintour"" If God is in the details, then few projects can be more divine than the High Line. Christo, the man who wraps bridges and the Reichstag, once said that for him the creative part of his work is not the finished product but the seemingly frustrating process of getting all those permits and raising funds and convincing ecologists and city planners. This careful account of how the High Line came to exist despite all the odds proves just how creative and suspenseful realizing a plan can be; it's a real cliff-hanger. ""Edmund White"" The story of the High Line is one of the great encouraging improbable stories of New York life in the past few decades. This book should read by anyone who cares about New York, or green and urban life. ""Adam Gopnik"" There is no more miraculous and important and gratifying piece of new American urban design than the High Line. What's more, how it was conjured into existence is a compelling story, and here's that story--with pictures!--told lucidly and charmingly by the two extraordinary ordinary guys who pulled it off. ""Kurt Andersen"""" ""This lushly illustrated volume showcases the range of imaginative designs [Joshua David and Robert Hammond] explored and, in some cases, rejected. In recounting their decade-long experiment, they provide an inspiring primer for grass-roots urban planning."" --Sam Roberts, ""The New York Times""""This account by the founders of the nonprofit responsible for the groundbreaking reclamation project chronicles the struggles and successes that led to the realization of what was deemed a far-fetched dream--and resulted in a new Manhattan landmark."" --""Travel + Leisure""""A fascinating first-person tale."" --""The New York Observer""""The High Line is not only a great work of design--surely the most important addition to the public realm of New York in this century; it is also a great saga. In this book Robert Hammond and Joshua David, who led the grass-roots movement to rescue the High Line from demolition, tell with energy, passion, and refreshing candor the story of how this industrial artifact became, against all odds, a magnificent park."" --Paul Goldberger""This book is the record of a bright and in fact heroic part of New York City's history. The story of the struggle, against very long odds, by two young men to create the High Line is a story of perseverance, determination and courage, and the photographs which accompany it show the brilliance of their achievement."" --Robert A. Caro""This is a fundamentally uplifting story of two young men with a dream who scythed through red tape and skepticism, summoning a village to help reimagine what a park could be in the twenty-first century. Thanks to their vision, and to the dedication, enthusiasm, and brilliance of their collaborators, a walk in the park has been transformed into an exhilarating urban experience that helps all of us to see our extraordinary city with new eyes."" --Anna Wintour ""If God is in the details, then few projects can be more divine than the High Line. Christo, the man who wraps bridges and the Reichstag, once said that for him the creative part of his work is not the finished product but the seemingly frustrating process of getting all those permits and raising funds and convincing ecologists and city planners. This careful account of how the High Line came to exist despite all the odds proves just how creative and suspenseful realizing a plan can be; it's a real cliff-hanger."" --Edmund White""The story of the High Line is one of the great encouraging improbable stories of New York life in the past few decades. This book should read by anyone who cares about New York, or green and urban life."" --Adam Gopnik ""There is no more miraculous and important and gratifying piece of new American urban design than the High Line. What's more, how it was conjured into existence is a compelling story, and here's that story--with pictures!--told lucidly and charmingly by the two extraordinary ordinary guys who pulled it off."" --Kurt Andersen ""The High Line is not only a great work of design--surely the most important addition to the public realm of New York in this century; it is also a great saga. In this book Robert Hammond and Joshua David, who led the grass-roots movement to rescue the High Line from demolition, tell with energy, passion, and refreshing candor the story of how this industrial artifact became, against all odds, a magnificent park."" --Paul Goldberger""This book is the record of a bright and in fact heroic part of New York City's history. The story of the struggle, against very long odds, by two young men to create the High Line is a story of perseverance, determination and courage, and the photographs which accompany it show the brilliance of their achievement."" --Robert A. Caro""This is a fundamentally uplifting story of two young men with a dream who scythed through red tape and skepticism, summoning a village to help reimagine what a park could be in the twenty-first century. Thanks to their vi",339,"160 x 240 x 30mm | 821g","11 Oct 2011","Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc","New York, United States",English,,"Maps; Line drawings, black and white; Illustrations, color; Illustrations, black and white",0374532990,"128,028",3.96,US$32.27,,"Joshua David and Robert Hammond cofounded Friends of the High Line in 1999. David has written for Gourmet, Fortune, Travel + Leisure, Wallpaper, and other magazines. Hammond was awarded a Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2009. In 2010 they were awarded the Jane Jacobs Medal for their work on the High Line.",Paperback,,,, 44,"2018-01-11 01:01:06","Mongrel Rapture",9780987228161,"Mark Raggatt","Mongrel Rapture is the first major monograph on Ashton Raggatt McDougall, one of the most significant architectural practices in Australia. ARM's architecture draws from a diverse territory of inspiration, including Michelangelo and Robert Venturi, computer programming and biblical verse. It has been celebrated--and occasionally execrated--by critics and the public alike, yet, despite the work's capacity to polarise, the practice has produced some of Australia's most significant buildings. These include the National Museum of Australia, Canberra (2001), Melbourne Recital Centre and Melbourne Theatre Company Southbank Theatre (2008), Perth Arena (2012) and the Barak Building at Swanston Square (2015), which puts the portrait of Wurundjeri Elder William Barak at the northern tip of Melbourne's civic axis. Mongrel Rapture is a book of many parts, including an extensive selection of architectural drawings, a rich photographic portfolio of key projects, and invited contributions from writers, critics and architects from around the world.It also includes a substantial body of texts on the practice itself, most importantly through a series of compelling texts by ARM directors Ian McDougall and Howard Raggatt. These are revealing and, at times, confronting. Independent contributors include Charles Jencks, Mark C Taylor, Leon van Schaik, Harriet Edquist, Conrad Hamann, Vivian Mitsogianni, John Macarthur and Naomi Stead. This exquisite volume, designed by renowned Australian graphic artist Stuart Geddes, is an illuminated manuscript every bit as provocative and puzzling as ARM's buildings. It contains dynamic QR codes that point to a wealth of exclusive digital material beyond the book's pages, including drawings of all of ARM's major public buildings, conceptual animations and audio material. Ranting, funny, and reflective in turn, Mongrel Rapture is many books in one binding. It radically rethinks what an architecture publication can be.",,,1616,"175.01 x 249.94 x 59.94mm | 1,891.47g","15 Aug 2015","Uro Publications","Collingwood, VIC, Australia",English,,"600 colour, 550 b&w",0987228161,"107,169",5,US$76.00,,,Hardback,,,, 45,"2018-01-11 01:01:10","How to Architect",9780262516990,"Doug Patt","The basics of the profession and practice of architecture, presented in illustrated A-Z form.The word ""architect"" is a noun, but Doug Patt uses it as a verb--coining a term and making a point about using parts of speech and parts of buildings in new ways. Changing the function of a word, or a room, can produce surprise and meaning. In How to Architect, Patt--an architect and the creator of a series of wildly popular online videos about architecture--presents the basics of architecture in A-Z form, starting with ""A is for Asymmetry"" (as seen in Chartres Cathedral and Frank Gehry), detouring through ""N is for Narrative,"" and ending with ""Z is for Zeal"" (a quality that successful architects tend to have, even in fiction--see T he Fountainhead's architect-hero Howard Roark.) How to Architect is a book to guide you on the road to architecture. If you are just starting on that journey or thinking about becoming an architect, it is a place to begin. If you are already an architect and want to remind yourself of what drew you to the profession, it is a book of affirmation. And if you are just curious about what goes into the design and construction of buildings, this book tells you how architects think. Patt introduces each entry with a hand-drawn letter, and accompanies the text with illustrations that illuminate the concept discussed: a fallen Humpty Dumpty illustrates the perils of fragile egos; photographs of an X-Acto knife and other hand tools remind us of architecture's nondigital origins. How to Architect offers encouragement to aspiring architects but also mounts a defense of architecture as a profession--by calling out a defiant verb: architect!",,,144,"124.46 x 200.66 x 15.24mm | 181.44g","24 May 2012","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,,"65 b&w illus.",0262516993,"150,461",3.72,US$14.92,US$16.95,"Doug Patt is a registered licensed architect in Pennsylvania and has taught architecture at Pennsylvania State University and Northampton Community College. He has a popular Web site and a widely viewed YouTube channel, both also called ""How to Architect.""",Paperback,"MIT Press",,, 46,"2018-01-11 01:01:21","Design Brooklyn",9781617690525,"Anne Hellman","Design Brooklyn shows us the architecture, interiors and design trends of New York's hottest borough. The book takes us inside restored brownstones, renovated townhouses and private gardens, and shows us the latest in public space design and architecture. With a forward by the Beastie Boys' Mike D and introduction by a Brooklyn historian, the book makes clear why a Brooklyn identity is so trend-setting in today's design world and why the design solutions found here are so distinctive. Illustrated with more than 150 original photos, the book is organized by themes found throughout the borough's private and public spaces: vintage innovation, counterculture, modern concepts, historical renovation, green living and Brooklyn industry. The selections represent a variety of different Brooklyn neighborhoods, each with its own history, architecture, and interior design trends, reflecting the personal styles of the people who live there. From BAM's Richard B Fisher Building, to Fort Greene Park, to Flavor Paper's Boerum Hill building (housing both its industrial space and a private residence), Design Brooklyn will appeal to anyone interested in urban living and design and trend-setting Brooklyn style.",,,256,"208.28 x 279.4 x 27.94mm | 1,406.13g","01 Nov 2013","Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc","New York, United States",English,,"150 colour photographs",161769052X,"153,637",3.84,US$35.78,US$40.01,"Anne Hellman is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She is the co-author most recently of LogoLounge 7 and of Designers on Design. She is a regular contributor to the LogoLounge.com blog. Michel Arnaud is an acclaimed photographer of interiors and fashion. His work has appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Architectural Digest, Oprah, The New York Times and InStyle. His work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the U.S.",Hardback,,,, 47,"2018-01-11 01:01:24","The Business of Design",9781616890186,"Keith Granet","For thirty years, consultant Keith Granet has enjoyed helping design professionals turn their passion into profit. In his new book, The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability, Granet debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive. The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability provides all of the necessary tools to create and run a thriving design business - from billing and human resources to branding and project management to marketing and licensing- in one easy-to-use guide. Inspired by Granet's own course on running a successful design practice as well as his experience guiding over four hundred design firms, The Business of Design is organized into six clear chapters interwoven with stories, the author's own experiences and life lessons. The Business of Design guides the reader through the steps of creating a successful firm, from the initial foundation of a design practice, to financial management, marketing and public relations, human resources, and project management. The last chapter, on product development, explores the growing trend in the design profession to develop products and bring them to the marketplace, allowing designers to share their voice with a larger audience. The Business of Design includes a foreword by M. Arthur Gensler and interviews with individual architects and designers who have made their mark on the profession, including Michael Graves, John Merrill, A. Eugene Kohn, Victoria Hagan, and Richard Meier. These esteemed architects and designers share the benefits of their experience as well as their own take on the business of design. A vibrant and enticing look at the business side of design practice, this graphically beautiful book is neither dry nor intimidating. ""Think it's impossible to make a business using your creativity? Think again! Keith Granet shows you how to make your design business a success. This book is a must-read for every designer.""-Jonathan Adler ""The Business of Design is the essential guide about the design business. It's filled with invaluable information that covers all aspects of this often complicated and challenging business. Keith's straightforward, no-nonsense approach to finding success makes this a must-read for established designers or anyone just starting out. I've made this mandatory reading for everyone at Thom Filicia Incorporated!"" - Thom Filicia ""Down to earth, common sense advice drawn from good old fashioned experience, Keith Granet gives the industry what it has been waiting for, THE book on just that. Concise, clearly written, this is NO textbook boilerplate. Trust me, you will underline. . . and feel good about what you do know and aspire to all the rest. READ ON. You will be referring to it often."" - Charlotte Moss ""Architecture may be an art, but it's also a service profession. To become a good architect requires a passionate dedication to the creative design process. To become a successful one means also understanding that it's a business, a unique one perhaps, but still a business. Keith Granet's The Business of Design will help get you there faster, creative talent intact."" - Marc Appleton",,"""In an industry perceived more for its beauty than its money-making ability, Granet's book offers the first steps for designers and architects to start, as the title suggests, balancing creativity and profitability... The business advice he imparts could be applicable to any small-business owner."" --USA Today",208,"208.28 x 259.08 x 25.4mm | 839.14g","24 Aug 2011","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,,"75 colour illustrations",1616890185,"150,008",3.82,US$35.86,US$40.01,,Hardback,,,, 48,"2018-01-11 01:01:34","An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture",9781477258002,"Scott A Bernard","An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture is the culmination of several decades of experience that I have gained through work initially as an information technology manager and then as a consultant to executives in the public and private sectors. I wrote this book for three major reasons: (1) to help move business and technology planning from a systems and process-level view to a more strategy-driven enterprise-level view, (2) to promote and explain the emerging profession of EA, and (3) to provide the first textbook on the subject of EA, which is suitable for graduate and undergraduate levels of study. To date, other books on EA have been practitioner books not specifically oriented toward a student who may be learning the subject with little to no previous exposure. Therefore, this book contains references to related academic research and industry best practices, as well as my own observations about potential future practices and the direction of this emerging profession.",,,340,"152 x 226 x 30mm | 539.77g","10 Aug 2012",AUTHORHOUSE,"Bloomington IN, United States",English,,"black & white illustrations",1477258000,"204,864",3.6,US$28.13,,,Paperback,,,, 49,"2018-01-11 01:01:36","Architecture Depends",9780262012539,"Jeremy Till","Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends -- on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans -- at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.",,"Till's book is about the world he knows and how one conveys ideas behind architecture. It is a superbly written, frequently fascinating set of arguments that will support architects who wish to use the messy stuff of life for their own advantage. -- Tim Abrahams * Blueprint * Thought-provoking and important... Architecture Depends raises the question of the relationship of architecture and life to a new level. -- Anni Vartola * Arkkitehti (Finland) * The book performs a wonderful contextualizing function, making architectural intervention, from idea to event, depend on the wide range of human habits and spheres of influence that we normally sum up as 'the world'. -- Lucas Freeman * Scapegoat * Architecture Depends is an attempt to save the profession from itself and a manifesto for an architecture that acknowledges its relationship with the world and its duty to others...This is a brave, enjoyable, affirming and important book and I actually felt sad to have finished it. -- Flora Samuel * Times Higher Education (Book of the Week) * Boldly and elegantly, Architecture Depends asserts that architecture is absolutely dependent upon the 'contingent', difficult and perverse factors that architects have long tried to ignore in an effort to be pure, self-important and professional...What Till's book achieves is to set out with great clarity the territory in which the debate around future action must take place. -- Robert Mull * Architects' Journal *",272,"156 x 232 x 26mm | 621.42g","07 Apr 2010","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,,"23 b&w illus.",0262012537,"101,916",4.15,US$40.64,,"Jeremy Till is Dean of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster and a partner at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. Their projects include the pioneering 9 Stock Orchard Street (The Strawbale House and Quilted Office), winner of multiple awards. He represented Britain at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.",Hardback,"MIT Press",,, 50,"2018-01-11 01:01:42","The Great American House",9780847838721,"Gil Schafer III","Architect Gil Schafer illustrates how he blends classical architecture, interior decoration, and landscapes to create homes with a feeling of history. Schafer specialises in building new 'old' houses, as well as renovating historic homes.",,".""..a stunning testimony to a life well-lived. His work melds the best of the past, present and future, with each home beautifully thought out, romantic and dreamy. Each of the 256 pages in this tome is an inspiration to build one perfect home in your lifetime."" ""Papercity.com""""These pages document Schafer's love...and illustrate how thoughtful architecture can infuse the spaces in which we live with meaning."""" Veranda Magazine""""I opened the book, and before I knew it, a few hours had passed. And really, I can't imagine a better way to spend a few hours than to read Gil's engaging text and pore over the big, beautiful photos of his work."" ""The Peak of Chic""""Anyone that has loved a house--or wants to fall in love all over again with their old one should get this book. Better yet-if you don't believe in Love- get the book, Schafer will convince you it can be found at Home."" ""Littleaugury.com""""This is a remarkably good book, """"The Great American House,"""" should be on your list."" ""mrsblandings.blogspot.com""",256,"261.62 x 312.42 x 27.94mm | 2,086.51g","28 Nov 2017","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,,"250 Colour Photographs",0847838722,"143,862",4.12,US$69.12,,"Award-winning architect and AD 100 member Gil Schafer is consistently recognized as one of the world's experts on contemporary classical architecture. From 1999 to 2006, Schafer served as president and then chairman of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America. His work has been featured in many publications, including Elle Decor and the New York Times. Bunny Williams is an acclaimed interior designer and the author of four books, including An Affair with a House.",Hardback,,,, 51,"2018-01-11 01:01:52","Graphic Design for Architects",9780415522618,"Karen Lewis","Graphic Design for Architects is a handbook of techniques, explanations and examples of graphic design most relevant to architects. The book covers a variety of scales of graphic design, everything from portfolio design and competition boards, to signage and building super-graphics - to address every phase of architectural production. This book combines and expands on information typically found in graphic design, information design, and architectural graphics books. As architectural communication increases to include more territory and components of a project, it is important for designers to be knowledgeable about the various ways in which to communicate visually. For instance, signage should be designed as part of the process - not something added at the end of a project; and the portfolio is a manifestation of how the designer works, not just an application to sell a design sensibility. In thinking about architecture as a systematic and visual project, the graphic design techniques outlined in this book will help architects process, organize and structure their work through the lens of visual communication. Each chapter is titled and organized by common architectural modes of communication and production. The chapters speak to architects by directly addressing projects and topics relevant to their work, while the information inside each chapter presents graphic design methods to achieve the architects' work. In this way, readers don't have to search through graphic design books to figure out what's relevant to them - this book provides a complete reference of graphic techniques and methods most useful to architects in getting their work done.","Introduction: Architects for Graphic Design Part 1: Presenting Yourself 1. Portfolios 2. Resumes Part 2: Presenting to an Audience 3. Competitions 4. Presentations 5. Books Part 3: Architectural Communication 6. Diagrams 7. Information Graphics 8. Maps Part 4: Communication as Architecture 8. Signage and Wayfinding 9. Super Graphics","'By clearly demonstrating, both as an example itself as well as through explaining its procedures, the numerous formats and techniques within architecture's extended field of production and reproduction (Portfolios, RFQs, Proposal Books - the extensive combinations of images, texts, diagrams, and spreadsheets that are, in total, and in various permutations, the architect's mode d'emploi) Graphic Design for Architects is not only a useful subject, but also a required skill, and now a necessary volume for any architect's studio bookshelf.' - John McMorrough, Associate Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, USA 'Graphic Design for Architects - A Manual for Visual Communication is a comprehensive overview that is compelling for both written content and the wide-ranging use of graphic examples in the book. The combination of interviews together with numerous contributors adds a wealth of experience and knowledge into this work. I'm fairly certain that most readers will learn something from this book as it is filled with examples and alternative approaches. For the non-architect, this book will reveal some the architectural secret-sauce that is commonly seen on project sights - thereby helping the reader to appreciate what the architect was trying to do with his presentation.' - Jeff Thurston, 3D Visualization World Magazine",224,"192 x 242 x 22mm | 657.71g","11 Aug 2015","Taylor & Francis Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"10 colour tables, 258 colour illustrations, 133 colour line drawings",0415522617,"210,566",4.11,US$41.32,,"Karen Lewis is an architect, educator and designer who works at the intersection of information, architecture and landscape. Her design work and research in infrastructural systems, data visualization and graphic techniques have been recognized internationally. Currently Karen Lewis is a tenured professor on the architecture faculty at the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, USA.",Paperback,ROUTLEDGE,,, 52,"2018-01-11 01:01:58","Quantity Surveyor's Pocket Book",9780415501101,"Duncan Cartlidge","This second edition of the Quantity Surveyor's Pocket Book is fully updated in line with NRM1, NRM2 and JCT(11), and remains a must-have guide for students and qualified practitioners. Its focussed coverage of the data, techniques, and skills essential to the quantity surveying role make it an invaluable companion for everything from initial cost advice to the final account stage. Key features include: * the structure of the construction industry * cost forecasting and feasibility studies * measurement and quantification, with NRM2 and SMM7 examples * estimating and bidding * whole life costs * contract selection * final account procedure. This text includes recommended formats for cost plans, developer's budgets, financial reports, financial statements and final accounts. This is the ideal concise reference for quantity surveyors, project and commercial managers, and students of any of the above.","Preface 1. The Quantity Surveyor and the Construction Industry (The construction industry, The building team, Regulations and Controls, Sustainability, Site Waste Management Plans) 2. Forecasting Costs and Values (RIBA outline Plan of Work 2007, Cost Planning, Approximate Estimating, Elemental Cost Planning, Elemental Cost Control, The Property Market, Taxation, Sources of Finance, Risk Analysis, Whole Life Costs, Value Management) 3. Measurement and Quantification (Methods of Measurement, Measurement Conventions, Specifications) 4. Procurement (Guidelines, Single Stage Selective Tendering, Tender Evaluation, Two Stage Tendering, Design and Build, Package Deals, Management Contracting, Partnering / Alliancing, Prime Contracting, Frameworks, Public Private Partnerships, European Union Procurement) 5. Pricing and Tendering (Subcontractors, Domestic Subcontractors, Nominated/Named Subcontractors, The Nomination Process, Collateral Warranties, Named Subcontractors, Unit Rate and Operational Estimating, Estimating, Managing the Pricing Process, E-tendering, E-Auctions, Reverse Auctions) 6. Contract Procedure (Contract Procedure, Contract Administration, Site Organisation) 7. Final Account (Final Account, Variation Account, Pro-rate Pricing) Useful Links and Contacts. Further Reading. Useful measurement rules and conventions. Index",,440,"122 x 184 x 26mm | 399.99g","28 Sep 2012","Taylor & Francis Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"2nd Revised edition","70 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white tables",0415501105,"229,621",4.14,,,"Duncan Cartlidge is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with more than twenty-five years involvement in construction. His experience includes private practice in both the UK and Europe, commercial management for leading European contractors, and managing and delivering graduate and postgraduate programmes in surveying and related topics. He is an Associate Tutor at the College of Estate Management, Reading, and a Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, and sits on the Quantity Surveying and Construction Professional Group Board of the RICS. www.duncancartlidge.co.uk",Paperback,ROUTLEDGE,,, 53,"2018-01-11 01:02:02","Estimating and Tendering for Construction Work",9780750686167,"Martin Brook","Estimators need to understand the consequences of entering into a contract, often defined by complex conditions and documents, as well as to appreciate the technical requirements of the project. Estimating and Tendering for Construction Work explains the job of the estimator through every key stage, from early cost studies to the creation of budgets for successful tenders. This new edition reflects recent developments in the field such as new tendering and procurement methods; the move from basic estimating to cost-planning and the greater emphasis placed on partnering and collaborative working. It also includes changes to pricing, rates, terminology and technology to bring the book completely up-to date. Clearly-written and illustrated with examples, notes and technical documentation the book is ideal for students on construction-related courses needing to understand these essential processes or professionals beginning in industry.","Preface. Acknowledgements. List of figures. Abbreviations used in the text. 1. Organisation of the estimating function 2. Procurement paths 3. Forms of contract 4. Tender documentation 5. Estimating methods 6. Contractor selection and decision to tender 7. Project appreciation 8. Enquiries to suppliers and sub-contractors 9. Tender planning and method statements 10. Resource costs ? labour, materials and plant 11. Unit rate pricing 12. Sub-contractors and nominated suppliers 13. Fluctuations 14. Provisional sums and dayworks 15. Project overheads 16. Cashflow forecasts 17. Completing the estimate and final tender review 18. Tender submission and results 19. Action with the successful tender 20. Computer-aided estimating Further reading. Index",,380,"188 x 246 x 20mm | 839.14g","18 Aug 2008","Taylor & Francis Ltd","Oxford, United Kingdom",English,"4th Revised edition","1, black & white illustrations",0750686162,"169,179",3.5,US$44.67,US$47.95,"By Martin Brook, Carillion UK, FCIOB, Chairman of CIOB Procurement Committee, UK",Paperback,"Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd",,, 54,"2018-01-11 01:02:12","The Electricians Guide to the Building Regulations",9781849198899,"The Institution of Engineering and Technology","The Electrician's Guide to the Building Regulations will ensure domestic installers not only comply with the requirements for electrical safety, but also with other relevant parts, including Fire Safety, Ventilation and Conservation of Energy. Many of the changes in Amendment 3 of BS 7671:2008 (the IET Wiring Regulations) are reflected in this essential guide to the Building Regulations. These include (but are not limited to): * Changes to definitions throughout the Regulations * Changes to earth fault loop impedances for all protective devices * Consumer units (to come into effect January 2016) * Circuit-breakers used as functional switches * Isolation of outdoor lighting * Cables in bathrooms * Outdoor lighting * ELV lighting Ensure that your work meets the new standards and improves your safety and that of homeowners by following the new guidance. Amendment 3 published on 5 January 2015 and comes into effect on 1 July 2015. All new installations from this point must comply with Amendment 3 to BS 7671:2008.","* Section 1: Legislation * Section 2: Design, selection and erection of electrical installations * Section 3: Mains position * Section 4: Circuit specifications * Section 5: Kitchens, special installations, special locations, etc. * Section 6: Inspection and testing * Section 7: Safe working * Section 8: Maintenance * Section 9: Three-phase supplies * Section 10: Other Building Regulations * Section 11: Identification of conductors * Section 12: Scottish Building Regulations * Section 13: Welsh Building Regulations * Appendix A: The Electrotechnical Assessment Specification * Appendix B: Electrical installation competent person schemes * Appendix C: Building Regulations: Third Party Certification Schemes - Conditions of Authorisation * Appendix D: Approved Document B: Fire safety, Volume 1 - Dwellinghouses * Appendix E: Safety instructions",,240,"148 x 210 x 17.78mm | 476.27g","19 Aug 2015","Institution of Engineering and Technology","Stevenage, United Kingdom",English,"4th Revised edition",,1849198896,"261,710",5,US$37.06,US$40.01,,"Spiral bound",,,, 55,"2018-01-11 01:02:17","Structural Engineering Formulas",9780071794282,"Ilya Mikhelson","PRACTICAL, PORTABLE, AND PACKED WITH UP-TO-DATE STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FORMULAS Thoroughly revised with more than 300 new formulas, this compact yet comprehensive compilation puts essential data related to the design and analysis of engineering structures at your fingertips. Structural Engineering Formulas, Second Edition covers a wide range of topics, including statics, soils, foundations, retaining structures, pipes, and tunnels, and explains the use and application of each ready-to-use formula. This time-saving reference for civil engineers is also invaluable to students and those studying for licensing exams. COVERAGE INCLUDES: Stress and strain-methods of analysis | Properties of geometric sections | Beams--diagrams and formulas for various loading conditions | Frames--diagrams and formulas for various static loading conditions | Arches--diagrams and formulas for various loading conditions | Trusses--method of joints and method of section analysis | Plates--bending moments for various support and loading conditions | Soils | Foundations | Retaining structures | Pipes and tunnels--bending moments for various static loading conditions","Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Basis of Structural Analysis Chapter 1: Stress and Strain: Methods of Analysis Chapter 2: Properties of Geometric Sections Part II: Statics Chapter 3: Beams Chapter 4: Frames Chapter 5: Arches Chapter 6: Trusses Chapter 7: Plates Part III: Soils and Foundations Chapter 8: Soils Chapter 9: Foundations Part IV: Retaining Structures Chapter 10: Retaining Structures Chapter 11: Retaining Structures Part V: Pipes and Tunnels Chapter 12: Pipes and Tunnels Chapter 13: Pipes and Tunnels (part 2) Appendix",,272,"156 x 232 x 22mm | 519.99g","06 Dec 2013","McGraw-Hill Education - Europe","United States",English,"2nd edition",,007179428X,"208,136",4.14,US$45.21,,"Ilya Mikhelson had more than 30 years of experience in design, research, and teaching design of bridges, tunnels, subway stations, and buildings. He wrote numerous publications, including Precast Concrete for Underground Construction, Tunnels, and Subways and Building Structures. Tyler G. Hicks, PE, is a consulting engineer and a successful engineering book author. He has worked in plant design and operation in a variety of industries, taught at several engineering schools, and lectured both in the United States and abroad. Mr. Hicks holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cooper Union School of Engineering in New York. He is the author of more than 20 books in engineering and related fields, including Civil Engineering Formulas, Handbook of Mechanical Engineering Calculations, and Handbook of Energy Engineering Calculations.",Hardback,"MCGRAW-HILL Professional",,, 56,"2018-01-11 01:02:19","Constructed Narratives",9783037785171,"David Adjaye","Constructed Narratives brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private houses, and installations at the 2015 Venice Biennale feeds into his designs for public buildings. Other essays discuss his engagement with geography, the urban environment, his approach to materiality, and architectural types. The presented projects include two public libraries and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, all in Washington D.C., a residential mixed-use building in New York, and a hybrid art-retail building in Beirut. Two of Adjaye's current projects are also included.",,,300,"165 x 240 x 27.94mm | 975.22g","25 Jan 2017","Lars Müller Publishers","Baden, Switzerland",English,,"Aprrox 350",3037785179,"456,345",,US$39.96,US$49.00,"DAVID ADJAYE (*1966) is a Ghanaian-British architect. In 2009 he was selected to design the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.PETER ALLISON is an architectural writer. He has contributed widely to exhibition catalogs and international publications on architecture, and has edited several publications on David Adjaye.",Hardback,,,, 57,"2018-01-11 01:02:29","The E-Myth Architect",9780983500193,"Michael E Gerber",,,,218,"144 x 220 x 24mm | 439.98g","03 Mar 2014","Michael E. Gerber Companies","Carlsbad, Calif, United Kingdom",English,,"Illustrations, black and white",0983500193,"215,724",4.46,US$31.58,,,Hardback,,,, 58,"2018-01-11 01:02:30","Piranesi: The Complete Etchings",9783836559409,"Luigi Ficacci","Archaeology and imagination: Impossible staircases and startling ruins from Italy s master engraverThe most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued the city s archaeological ruins with drama and romance and became favorite souvenirs for the Grand Tourists who travelled Italy in pursuit of classical culture and education.Today, Piranesi is renowned not just for shaping the European imagination of Rome but also for his elaborate series of fanciful prisons Carceri d Invenzione, which have influenced generations of creatives since, from the Surrealists to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe, Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka.Loosely based on contemporary stage sets rather than the actual dingy dungeons of Piranesi s day, these intricate images defy architectural reality to play instead with perspective, lighting, and scale. Staircases exist on two planes simultaneously; vast, vaulted ceilings seem to soar up to the heavens; interior and exterior distinctions collapse. With a low viewpoint and small, fragile figures, the prison scenes become monstrous mega-cities of incarceration, celebrated to this day as masterworks of existentialist drama.About the series: Bibliotheca Universalis Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, the name TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.Bookworm s delight never bore, always excite!Text in English, French, and German""",,,856,"147 x 198 x 46mm | 1,315g","01 Jun 2016","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany",English,,,3836559404,"164,485",4.3,US$26.59,,,Hardback,,,, 59,"2018-01-11 01:02:33","Xs - Small Houses Big Time",9783037682029,"Lisa Baker","Rising rents, the desire for a simpler life, the aim for sustainability, or the wish to posses a relocatable home: These are just a few reasons why the market for small houses has become increasingly popular in recent years. The ""Tiny House Movement"" lifestyle trend, which began in the Unites States, has spread throughout the entire world driven by the construction and financial crisis. Even though there are many regional variations, all residences of this type share a major feature - on an area of up to 60 square meters (500 square feet) they provide all necessities of life. Nowadays, they are no longer designed by individual solo fighters but also by renowned architects who take on the simple yet challenging task and develop the enthralling room concepts and spatial solutions that are presented in this volume.",,,304,"241 x 242 x 41mm | 1,530g","07 Jan 2016","Braun Publishing AG","Salenstein, Switzerland",English,,"Mit farbigen Abbildungen",3037682027,"279,838",3.5,US$42.26,US$49.95,,Hardback,,,, 60,"2018-01-11 01:02:45","Artificial Love",9780262692854,"Paul Shepheard","A vision of architecture that includes sculpture, machines, and technology and encapsulates the history of the human species.According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture-every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him. Artificial Love weaves together three stories about architecture into one. The first, about machines as architecture, leads to speculations about technology and the human condition and to the assertion that machines are the sculptures of today. The second story is about the ways that architecture reflects the tribal and personal desires of those who make it. In the West, ideas of community, multiculturalism, and globalization compete furiously, leaving architecture to exist as it always has, as the past in the present. The third story features individual people experiencing their lives in the context of architecture. Here, Shepheard borrows the rhetorical device of Shakespeare's seven ages of man to propose that each person's life imitates the accumulating history of the human species. Shepheard's version of the history of humans is a technological one, in which machines become sculpture and sculpture becomes architecture. For Shepheard, our machines do not separate us from nature. Rather, our technology is our nature, and we cannot but be in harmony with nature. The change that we have wrought in the world, he says, is a wonderful and powerful thing.",,"Unlike many such books on design, Shepheard's is accessible and entertaining. -- Will Yandik * Architectural Record * Shepheard seamlessly meshes Shakespeare, Greek mythology, the tale of the origins of Islam and stories from his own life. -- Liz Bailey * The Architects' Journal * Shepheard is that very rare thing - an architect who can write, beautifully. -- Tom Dyckhoff * London Times * A book that challenges the reader to reconsider deeply his relationship to the built world. * Azure *",310,"138 x 214 x 20mm | 359.99g","08 Jun 2003","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,,"11 illus.",0262692856,"341,604",3.31,US$24.96,,"Paul Shepheard is an architect living in London.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,, 61,"2018-01-11 01:02:53","Delirious New York",9781885254009,"Rem Koolhaas","Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- ""the culture of congestion"" -- and its architecture. ""Manhattan,"" he writes, ""is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)."" Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York's history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps. The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city itself.","Delirious New YorkIntroduction Prehistory Coney Island: The Technology of the Fantastic The Double Life of Utopia: The Skyscraper The Frontier in the Sky The Skyscraper Theorists The Lives of a Block: The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Empire State Building Definitive Instability: The Downtown Athletic Club How Perfect Perfection Can Be: The Creation of Rockefeller Center The Talents of Raymond Hood All the Rockefeller Centers Radio City Music Hall: The Fun Never Sets Kremlin on Fifth Avenue 2 Postscripts Europeans: Biuer! Dali and Le Corbusier Conquer New York Postmortem Appendix: A Fictional Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Credits","""Seduces and entices through Koolhaas' witty travelogue and ultimately persuades the reader through the book in just one sitting.""",320,"184 x 238 x 20mm | 939.99g","11 Aug 2011","Monacelli Press","New York, United States",English,Reprint,"200 illustrations, 25 in colour",1885254008,"12,198",4.26,US$34.64,US$35.00,"Rem Koolhaas is the internationally known architect, a founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) in Rotterdam, and author of the critically acclaimed S, M, L, XL.",Paperback,,,, 62,"2018-01-11 01:02:57","Modern Architecture",9780500203958,"Kenneth Frampton","This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For this fourth edition, Kenneth Frampton has added a major new chapter that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent years, the rise annd rise of the celebrity architect, and the way in which practices worldwide have addressed such issues as sustainability and habitat. The bibliography has also been updated and expanded, making this volume more complete and indispensable than ever.","Introduction; Part I: Cultural Developments and Predisposing Techniques 1750 - 1939; Part II: A Critical History 1836 - 1967; Part III: Critical Assessment and Extension into the Present 1925 - 2007.","A useful and wide-ranging work of superior architectural scholarship, this ambitious publication contains many chapters that stand on their own as perceptive essays; it is marked throughout by a consistently mature critical intelligence.",424,"149.86 x 208.28 x 30.48mm | 879.96g","30 Sep 2007","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"4th edition",,0500203954,"31,137",3.99,US$27.48,US$28.95,"Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, New York.",Paperback,,,, 64,"2018-01-11 01:03:02","Modern Architecture Since 1900",9780714833569,"William J. R. Curtis","Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a comprehensive narrative which provides a setting for the detailed examination of buildings. Throughout the book the author's focus is on the individual architect, and on the qualities that give outstanding buildings their lasting value. For the third edition, the text has been radically revised and expanded, incorporating much new material and a fresh appreciation of regional identity and variety. Seven chapters are entirely new, including expanded coverage of recent world architecture. Described by James Ackerman of Harvard University as 'immeasurably the finest work covering this field in existence', this book presents a penetrating analysis of the modern tradition and its origins, tracing the creative interaction between old and new that has generated such an astonishing richness of architectural forms across the world and throughout the century.","Part 1 The formative strands of Modern architecture: the idea of a Modern architecture in the 19th century; industrialization and the city - the skyscraper as type and symbol; the search for new forms and the problem of ornament; rationalism, the engineering tradition, and reinforced concrete; arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the USA; responses to mechanization - the Deutscher Werkbund and futurism; the architectural system of Frank Lloyd Wright; national romanticism and classical transformations; cubism and new conceptions of space. Part 2 The crystallization of Modern architecture between the wars: Le Corbusier's quest for ideal form; Walter Gropius, German expressionism, and the Bauhaus; architecture and revolution in Russia; skyscraper and suburb - the USA between the wars; the ideal community - alternatives to the industrial city; the international style, the individual talent, and the myth of functionalism; the image and idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy; the continuity of older traditions; nature and the machine - Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s; totalitarian critiques of the Modern movement; the spread of modern architecture to Britain and Finland; universal models, national inflections and regional accents. Part 3 Transformation and dissemination after 1940: modern architecture in the USA - immigration and consolidation; form and meaning in the late works of Le Corbusier; the Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles as a collective housing prototype; Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian developments; disjunctions and continuities in the Europe of the 1950s; the process of absorption - Latin America, Australia, Japan; Louis I. Kahn and the challenge of monumentality; architecture and anti-architecture in Britain; crises and critiques in the 1960s; modernity and tradition in the Third World; architectural types and urban fragments - new directions in the 1970s. Part 4 Changing ideals in the late 20th century: modern architecture and the historical sense; world cultures and local identities; traditions of the modern; towards architecture, beyond style.","'the book is excellent value.' Architects' Journal 'as close to a definitive guide to the architecture of our century as we yet have.' Sunday Times 'A book of this length and depth is an unimaginable achievement...' Building Design 'comprehensive, up-to-date and very readable.' Sunday Telegraph 'This should be a standard volume in all architecture collections.' Library Journal '... the clearest and most authentic survey to appear in English. ... Essential reading, indeed breath-taking reading' Architecture New Zealand",736,"148.6 x 214.1 x 18.5mm | 2,086.51g","27 Jun 1996","Phaidon Press Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"3rd Revised edition","310 colour, 367 b&w illustrations, bibliography, notes, index",0714833568,"89,433",4.07,US$55.47,,"William Curtis has won worldwide acclaim for his architectural writing. His books include Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms and Denys Lasdun, both published by Phaidon.",Paperback,,,, 65,"2018-01-11 01:03:07","The LEGO Architect",9781593276133,"Tom Aphin","Travel through the history of architecture in The LEGO Architect. You'll learn about styles like Art Deco, Modernism, and High-Tech, and find inspiration in galleries of LEGO models. Then take your turn building 12 models in a variety of styles. Snap together some bricks and learn architecture the fun way!","Preface A Brief History of Architecture Chapter 1: Neoclassical Chapter 2: Prairie Chapter 3: Art Deco Chapter 4: Modernism Chapter 5: Brutalism Chapter 6: Postmodern Chapter 7: High-Tech Chapter 8: Builder's Guide Photo Credits Bibliography Index","""Stunning...be the Corbusier of LEGO.""--Wall Street Journal ""As educational as it is fun, The LEGO Architect is full of bite-sized portions of architectural history, beginning with the first use of columns in ancient Egypt, back when they weren't tiny and plastic.""--The Huffington Post",192,"230 x 236 x 17.78mm | 884.51g","01 Feb 2016","No Starch Press,US","San Francisco, United States",English,"6th print.","komplett in Farbe",1593276133,"9,138",4.21,US$26.60,,"Tom Alphin is a UX Program Manager at Microsoft and a passionate LEGO fan. He maintains a blog about LEGO and other things at tomalphin.com",Hardback,,,, 66,"2018-01-11 01:03:17","Case Study Houses",9783836510219,"Elizabeth A.T. Smith","This is the Taschen 25 - Special edition! The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program's chief motivating force was ""Arts & Architecture"" editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture's greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to re-define the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture - American and international - both during the program's existence and even to this day. Taschen brings you a monumental retrospective of the entire program with comprehensive documentation, brilliant photographs from the period and, for the houses still in existence, contemporary photos, as well as extensive floor plans and sketches.",,,440,"264 x 344 x 46mm | 3,619.65g","09 May 2016","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany","English, French, German","Taschen 25th anniversary ed","Zahlr., tls. farb. Fotos, Abb. u. Pl.",3836510219,"17,251",4.29,,,"Peter Gossel runs a practice for the design of museums and exhibitions. He is the editor of TASCHEN's monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M. Schindler, John Lautner and Richard Neutra, as well as the editor of the Basic Architecture series. Elizabeth A. T. Smith is Chief Curator and Deputy Director for programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Formerly she was curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles where she organized the exhibition ""Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses."" Smith has taught at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She has curated numerous exhibitions and published and lectured widely on a variety of topics in contemporary art and architecture.",Hardback,,,, 67,"2018-01-11 01:03:27","Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large",9781885254863,"Rem Koolhaas","""S, M, L, XL"" presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society. The book's title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls ""the architecture of Bigness."" Extra-Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the important essay ""What Ever Happened to Urbanism?"" and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a ""dictionary"" of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language -- definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural sources.",,"""A brick of a book ... This book tells a tale, a great contemporary architectural odyssey-the story of how this architect came to think big.""",1355,"190 x 238 x 66mm | 2,739.96g","01 Oct 2002","Monacelli Press","New York, United States",English,"2nd edition","4-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT",1885254865,"44,547",4.2,US$85.85,,"Rem Koolhaas is founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.); the firm's most important projects include the Lille Grand Palais in Lille; the Kunsthal in Rotterdam; Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague; Nexus Housing in Fukuoka; the Dutch House in Holland; and Villa dall'Ava in Paris, all of which are included in S,M,L,XL. Koolhaas is author of the seminal Delirious New York and professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Bruce Mau founded the critically acclaimed firm Bruce Mau Design in 1985. He is the author of Life Style and Massive Change.",Hardback,,,, 68,"2018-01-11 01:03:31","LEGO Architecture the Visual Guide",9781409355724,"Philip Wilkinson","Iconic buildings re-imagined in LEGO (R) bricksLEGO (R) Architecture: The Visual Guide is a stunning guide to the LEGO Architecture series and to the iconic buildings that inspired it. These amazing LEGO Architecture sets showcase incredible buildings from around the world. From the Empire State Building and the Guggenheim, to Farnsworth House, LEGO (R) Architecture: The Visual Guide reveals amazing exploded images of the LEGO Architecture models, showing every LEGO brick involved in the build. You'll explore the profiles of the LEGO artists and builders who created the LEGO Architecture sets in new amazing levels of detail, getting to know everything about their creative processes and their designing and building techniques. You'll also be taken on an in-depth exploration of the real buildings from around the world on which the LEGO Architecture series is based and learn why the LEGO team chose each inspiring building and how they recreated it in LEGO bricks. LEGO (R) Architecture: The Visual Guide is perfect for architects, designers and architecture enthusiasts of all ages.",,,232,"275 x 277 x 38mm | 2,161g","14 Dec 2015","Dorling Kindersley Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"w. numerous col. figs.",1409355721,"27,678",4.12,US$67.76,,,Hardback,DK,,, 69,"2018-01-11 01:03:34","Modern Architecture",9781847960566,"Jonathan Glancey","This visually stunning and lavishly produced guide to the great buildings and structures of the modern age from around the world is divided into nine clear sections, and each movement in architecture from 1900 to the present day is represented: Arts and Crafts, Classicism, Organic, Modernism, Postmodernism, Robotic, Cities, and Futures. Focusing on one building per page, Jonathan Glancey, former Architecture and Design editor at the ""Guardian"", discusses over 470 landmark structures from those now regarded as classics of modern architecture such as L'Institut du Monde Arab in Paris and the Sydney Opera House, to recent buildings such as the Swiss Re building in London and the Parliamentary Library in New Delhi. With over 470 superbly reproduced colour and black and white photographs, and every essential building, structure and architect featured, this is a must-have book for anyone interested in modern architecture.",,"""Highly readable... Glancey, without doubt one of the finest architectural writers in contemporary Britain, outlines with enviable clarity the theories and realities which have shaped the world we live in today"", (Scotland on Sunday) ""Always informative, unashamedly partisan and often enjoyably tart"", (the Sunday Telegraph) ""A fascinating compendium... worldwide in its scope, erudite and well-observed... it is a must for anyone interested in architecture"", (Irish Times)""",480,"124.46 x 175.26 x 40.64mm | 899.99g","04 Jun 2013","Carlton Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"3rd ed.",,1847960561,"136,125",3.5,,,"Jonathan Glancey is an architectural critic and writer who was architecture and design editor for the Guardian for 15 years. Widely regarded as one of the leading experts in his field, he is a frequent commentator on radio and television. His previous publications include The Story of Architecture and Carlton's Lost Buildings, The Car and The Train. He lives in Suffolk, England.",Paperback,"Goodman Books",,, 70,"2018-01-11 01:03:40","Project Japan",9783836525084,"Hans Ulrich Obrist","This is a new architecture for postwar Japan. Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs...then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think - although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state...after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture - Metabolism - that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land...Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men. Through sheer hard work, discipline, and the integration of all forms of creativity, their country, Japan, became a shining example...when the oil crisis initiated the end of the West, the architects of Japan spread out over the world to define the contours of a post-Western aesthetic. Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism, together with dozens of their mentors, collaborators, rivals, critics, proteges, and families. The result is a vivid documentary of the last avant-garde movement and the last moment that architecture was a public rather than a private affair.",,,684,"172.72 x 233.68 x 43.18mm | 1,315.41g","28 Oct 2011","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany",English,,"zahlreiche Abbildungen",3836525089,"8,265",4.44,US$48.11,US$59.99,"Rem Koolhaas is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Having worked as a journalist and script writer before becoming an architect, in 1978 he published Delirious New York. In 1995, his book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections of contemporary society and architecture. Amongst many international awards and exhibitions he received the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Praemium Imperiale (2003). Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a curator, critic and historian. He is currently Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Obrist is the author of The Interview Project, an extensive ongoing project of interviews.",Paperback,,,, 71,"2018-01-11 01:03:48","The Battle for Home",9780500343173,"Marwa Al-Sabouni","Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it. From Syria's tolerant past, with churches and mosques built alongside one another in Old Homs and members of different religions living harmoniously together, the book chronicles the recent breakdown of social cohesion in Syria's cities, with the lack of shared public spaces intensifying divisions within the community and corrupt officials interfering in town planning for their own gain, actions symptomatic of wider abuses of power. With first-hand accounts of mortar attacks and stories of refugees struggling to find a home, this compelling and original book explores the personal impact of the conflict and offers hope for how architecture can play a role in rebuilding a sense of identity within a damaged society.",,"Absolutely compelling A singular perspective on the ongoing conflict in Syria [that] describes the destruction it has visited on the built environment and the high human toll Syrians have suffered, [and] also considers the more nuanced roles architecture and planning have played amid the chaos."" The Battle for Home is Sabouni's elegy to her devastated town, a memoir about survival, and a kind of manifesto, stressing the importance of architecture and urbanism for our understanding of the deeper roots of Syria's conflict and the seeds of civil war. Sabouni contends that Syria's built environment helped create the conditions for a popular uprising-turned-civil war. Her hope is that better, fairer urban development, policy, and architecture can aid eventual reconciliation. The Battle for Home is Sabouni s elegy to her devastated town, a memoir about survival, and a kind of manifesto, stressing the importance of architecture and urbanism for our understanding of the deeper roots of Syria s conflict and the seeds of civil war. Sabouni contends that Syria s built environment helped create the conditions for a popular uprising-turned-civil war. Her hope is that better, fairer urban development, policy, and architecture can aid eventual reconciliation. """,184,"162 x 242 x 23mm | 450g","23 May 2016","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0500343179,"86,289",4.13,US$20.82,US$25.95,,Hardback,,,, 72,"2018-01-11 01:03:55","Encyclopedia of Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture",9781856696920,"Virginia McLeod","This comprehensive reference work contains scale drawings of every type of detailing used in contemporary residential architecture. Each section contains at least 50 drawings drawn to a set range of scales: 1:5, 1:10 or 1:50, with detailed keys explaining construction and material. Each drawing is cross-referenced to other details from the same house. The opening section of the book forms a directory that shows interior and exterior images of the source houses, together with credits, a brief descriptive text and information as to which details from that house are included. The houses in this section are organized by main construction material (wood, concrete, glass etc). The book will be an invaluable reference work for all architects showing the best examples of residential detailing from around the world.","Drawn from one hundred of the best recent houses, the details are organized by type of detail, as follows: 1. Doors 2. Windows 3. Staircases 4. Walls (internal) 5. Walls (external) 6. Floors (internal) 7. Floors (external) 8. Ceilings & roofs 9. Kitchens 10. Bathrooms 11. Joinery 12. Landscape",,352,"256 x 296 x 34mm | 2,181.77g","01 Sep 2010","Laurence King Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"1000 illustrations, 200 in colour",1856696928,"29,455",4.09,US$67.01,,"Virginia McLeod has worked for a number of private practices in London and was also the editor of The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. She currently works as a freelance writer and editor, specializing in contemporary architecture. She is the author of Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture, Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Detail in Contemporary Kitchen Design and Detail in Contemporary Bathroom Design.",Hardback,,,, 73,"2018-01-11 01:04:01",Cabins,9783836550260,"Philip Jodidio","Life in the woods. Creative cabin architecture. Ever since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade, as our material existence and environmental footprint has grown exponentially, architects around the globe have become particularly interested in the possibilities of the minimal, low-impact, and isolated abode. This new TASCHEN title, combining insightful text, rich photography and bright, contemporary illustrations by Marie-Laurc Cruschi, explores how this particular architectural type presents special opportunities for creative thinking. In eschewing excess, the cabin limits actual spatial intrusion to the bare essentials of living requirements, while in responding to its typically rustic setting, it foregrounds eco-friendly solutions. As such, the cabin comes to showcase some of the most inventive and forward-looking practice of contemporary architecture, with Renzo Piano, Terunobu Fujimori, Tom Kundig and many fresh young professionals all embracing such distilled sanctuary spaces. The cabins selected for this publication emphasize the variety of the genre, both in terms of usage and geography. From an artist studio on the Suffolk coast in England to eco-home huts in the Western Ghats region of India, this survey is as exciting in its international reach as it is in its array of briefs, clients, and situations. Constant throughout, however, is architectural innovation, and an inspiring sense of contemplation and coexistence as people return to nature and to a less destructive model of being in the world.",,,352,"248 x 322 x 50mm | 2,839.96g","20 Nov 2014","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany","English, French, German",Multilingual,"m. zahlr. farb. Ill. u. Fotos",3836550261,"36,286",4.38,US$69.26,US$70.00,,Hardback,,,, 74,"2018-01-11 01:04:05","The on Architecture: Books I-X",9780486206455,Vitruvius,"Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of years, the specific instructions he gave in his ""Ten Books on Architecture"" were followed faithfully, and major buildings in all parts of the world reveal the widespread influence of his precepts. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, he was ""the chief authority studied by architects, and in every point his precepts were accepted as final. Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, Vignola, and earlier were careful students of the work of Vitruvius."" His book is thus one of those rare works that have been supremely important in the creation of the greatest art masterpieces. Vitruvius describes the classic principles of symmetry, harmony, and proportion in architecture; the design of the treasury, prison, senate house, baths, forum, and temples; the construction of the theater: its site, foundations, and acoustics; the proper style and proportion for private dwellings; the differences between the Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian styles; methods of giving durability and beauty to polished finishings; and many other topics that help us understand the methods and beliefs of the Roman architect. It is a direct, authoritative, and detailed introduction to the ancients' methods of construction, the materials of the architect, and the prevailing aesthetic beliefs of the times; but it is also a work of art. Vitruvius wrote in such a fascinating manner, and digressed from his subject so often (as, for instance, when he wrote about the winds, Archimedes in his bath, and why authors should receive awards and honors at least as often as athletes), that his book has had a continuing appeal to the general reader for many centuries. Besides being an instructive treatise on nearly everything connected with Roman and Greek architecture, it is an entertaining description of some aspects of the life and beliefs of the times. This edition is the standard English translation, prepared over a period of several years by Professor M. H. Morgan of Harvard University.",,,331,"134.62 x 200.66 x 20.32mm | 385.55g","01 Jun 1960","Dover Publications Inc.","New York, United States",English,,"Illustrations, unspecified",0486206459,"89,000",3.99,US$16.47,,,Paperback,,,, 75,"2018-01-11 01:04:11","Aegean Art and Architecture",9780192842084,"Donald Preziosi","The amazing discovery of the 'first European civilization' in Crete, Greece and the Aegean islands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was beyond what anyone had imagined. Beginning with the Neolithic period, before 3000 BCE, and ending at the close of the Bronze Age and the transition to the Iron Age of Hellenic Greece (c.1000 BCE), this is the first comprehensive introduction to the visual arts and architecture of this extraordinary era. This book introduces the reader to the historical and social contexts within which the arts - pottery, gold, silver, and ivory objects, gravestone reliefs, frescoes, and architecture - of the Aegean area developed. It examines the functions they served, and the ways in which they can be read as evidence for the interactions of many different peoples and societies in the eastern Mediterranean. It also provides an up-to-date critical historiography of the field in its relationship to the growth of ancient art history, archaeology, and museology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, giving a contemporary audience a clear appreciation of what has been at stake in the uncovering and reconstruction of this ancient society.","1. Introduction: Aegean Art and Architecture ; The environment; Discovering the Aegean World; Art and art history; Objectives; Organization. ; 2. The Neolithic Period and the Prepalatial Early Bronze Age ; Settlements; Burial practices. ; 3. The First Palace Period ; Middle Bronze Age palaces and villas; The vernacular tradition in Greece and Crete; Ritual practices; Summary. ; 4. The Second Palace Period ; Public art, private art, and the palatial architectural style; The Second Palaces: Knossos, Phaistos, Gournia, and Kato Zakro; Minoan villas: function and design; The terminology and typology of Minoan palatial buildings; The Minoan and Mycenaean spheres of influence; Religious practices; Burial practices. ; 5. Mycenaean Domination and the Minoan Tradition ; The Mycenaean palace at Pylos; The Mycenaean palace at Knossos; Haghia Triadha and Kommos; The continuation of Minoan building techniques in the Third Palace Period; Burial practices; The Mycenaean shrine at Phylakopi; The circuit walls at Mycenae and Tiryns. ; 6. Conclusion: Disruptions, (Dis)Continuities, and the Bronze Age ; The eastward migration of Aegean traditions; The international style; Cyprus, Palestine, and the Peoples of the Sea; Tradition and transformation; What goes around comes around: Daedalus returns to Crete. ; Notes; List of Illustrations; Bibliographic Essay; Timeline; Index","This powerful account of 2,000 years of Aegean culture is a must for pilgrims and sun-worshippers * The Observer, 24.10.99 * a compact and attractive introduction to the subject * John Bennet, THES, 9/6/00 *",272,"165.1 x 236.22 x 15.24mm | 635.03g","24 Feb 2000","Oxford University Press","Oxford, United Kingdom",English,,"numerous colour plates, halftones, and line illustrations",0192842080,"79,494",3.84,US$22.50,US$23.50,"Donald Preziosi is Professor of Art History, UCLA, where he developed and directs the art history critical theory programme, as well as the UCLA museum studies programme. Dr Louise Hitchcock is a Research Associate of the Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. She received the prestigious Edward A. Dickson Fellowship on several occasions prior to completing her Ph.D., and was a Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens.",Paperback,,,, 76,"2018-01-11 01:04:17","Lost Buildings",9781847960917,"Jonathan Glancey","Have you ever wished that you could have seen King Solomon's mighty Temple in Jerusalem or climbed to the top of the legendary Tower of Babel? What must it have been like to have paraded up and down the great glass galleries of the Crystal Palace in London in 1851? Why is the Euston Arch, demolished in 1961, still missed? What would buildings described in much loved books have been like if these had existed outside their author's imaginations? Imagine walking through the labyrinthine corridors of Mervyn Peake's mythical Gothic fortress Gormenghast, or visiting Toad Hall. And what of the current trend for reconstructing buildings which were destroyed in wartime or for political reasons? Lost Buildings is an invitation to visit buildings long vanished or those demolished within living history, some by dim politicians, others by war or ""acts of God"", that we would pay good money and travel a long way to see, if only they existed, today. It looks, too, at buildings from literature, myth and children's stories, and some lost opportunities - fantastic, ambitious designs that were never built.There are countless buildings that remain vivid in the collective memory, whether they were once real or were only ever imagined. Lost Buildings brings these together for the reader's curiosity and delight.",,,256,"236 x 286 x 30mm | 1,388g","10 Sep 2015","Carlton Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,184796091X,"100,935",,US$24.75,US$33.88,"Jonathan Glancey is an architectural critic and writer who was the architecture and design editor of the Guardian,a position held from 1997 to 2012. He previousy held the same position at The Independent. He is a frequent commentator on radio and television. His previous publications include Carlton's Modern Architecture, The Car and The Train, and Spitfire (Atlantic).",Hardback,"Goodman Books",,, 77,"2018-01-11 01:04:29","Container Atlas",9783899552867,"H. Slawik","This book presents a wide range of projects in container architecture - a contemporary architectural phenomenon. It features container structures used as pop-up stores and temporary exhibits as well as sophisticated housing and office spaces that provoke and inspire while setting new standards in functionality and aesthetics. But the book is not only visually inspiring. Because it documents plans, describes associated costs, and suggests concrete solutions for common problems, it is a practical reference for architects, planners, and cultural activists as well as event and marketing managers, to guide them in deciding what types of containers are best suited to their upcoming projects.",,,256,"252 x 308 x 28mm | 1,759.93g","03 Sep 2010","Die Gestalten Verlag","Berlin, Germany",English,"2. Aufl.","many Illustrations (chiefly col.), plans",3899552865,"35,197",4.42,US$62.95,US$78.01,,Hardback,,,, 78,"2018-01-11 01:04:32","A World History of Architecture",9781780671116,"Michael Fazio","Updated with expanded coverage of twenty-first century architecture, this new edition uniquely comprises a detailed survey of Western architecture as well as architecture from the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America, India, Russia, China and Japan. Significant revision also includes photographs and textual discussion of around 50 new buildings. Written in a clear and engaging style, the text encourages readers to examine the pragmatic, innovative and aesthetic attributes of buildings. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social and technological contexts are discussed. The global reach of the text is matched by a rich assortment of photographs from around the world and a greater array of detailed line drawings than in any architectural survey. The authors have created a formidable body of work that ranges over much of the world's architectural heritage and testifies to some of the greatest achievements of the human spirit.","CHAPTER 1 THE BEGINNINGS OF ARCHITECTURE - - CHAPTER 2 THE GREEK WORLD - - CHAPTER 3 THE ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA - - CHAPTER 4 THE TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF CHINA AND JAPAN - - CHAPTER 5 THE ROMAN WORLD - - CHAPTER 6 EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE - - CHAPTER 7 ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE - - CHAPTER 8 EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE - - CHAPTER 9 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE - CHAPTER 10 INDIGENOUS ARCHITECTURE IN THE AMERICAS AND AFRICA - - CHAPTER 11 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE - - CHAPTER 12 BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE - - CHAPTER 13 NEO-CLASSICISM, ROMANTICISM, AND THE ROCOCO - - CHAPTER 14 ECLECTICISM, INDUSTRIALIZATION, AND NEWNESS - - CHAPTER 15 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND MODERNISM - - CHAPTER 16 MODERNISMS IN THE MID- AND LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND - -",,624,"218 x 290 x 42mm | 2,621.75g","01 Feb 2013","Laurence King Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,"3rd Revised edition","596 illustrations, 369 in colour",1780671113,"79,309",4.2,US$82.22,,"Michael Fazio is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Mississippi State University. His most recent book is titled The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (2006). The late Marian Moffett taught architectural history at the University of Tennessee and was co-author of A History of Western Architecture (1989) with Lawrence Wodehouse. Lawrence Wodehouse, also deceased, taught architectural history at the University of Dundee and various American universities. His many books included British Architects 1840 to 1976 (1978) and White of McKim, Mead, and White (1988).",Paperback,,,, 79,"2018-01-11 01:04:36","Modern Architecture",9780192842268,"Alan Colquhoun","This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the often contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition.","1. Art Nouveau 1890-1910 ; 2. Organicism versus Classicism: Chicago 1890-1910 ; 3. Culture and Industry: Germany 1907-14 ; 4. 'The Urn and the Chamberpot': Adolf Loos 1900-30 ; 5. Expressionism and Futurism ; 6. The Avant-Gardes in Holland and Russia ; 7. Return to Order: Le Corbusier and Modern Architecture in France 1920-35 ; 8. Weimar Germany: the Dialectic of the Modern 1920-33 ; 9. From Rationalism to Revisionism: Architecture in Italy 1920-65 ; 10. Neoclassicism, Organicism and the Welfare State: Architecture in Scandinavia 1910-65 ; 11. From Le Corbusier to Megastructures: Urban Visions 1930-65 ; 12. Pax Americana: Architecture in America 1945-65 ; Notes ; Timeline ; Further Reading ; List of Illustrations ; Index","The elegance of Colquhoun's writing, reinforced witha full apparatus of notes and bibliography and supported by well-chosen illustrations, makes the book something of a bargain. * Building Design *",288,"170.18 x 246.38 x 20.32mm | 385.55g","18 Jul 2002","Oxford University Press","Oxford, United Kingdom",English,,"numerous colour; halftones; and line drawings",0192842269,"51,670",3.74,US$18.58,US$27.94,"Alan Colquhoun was born in 1921, and studied architecture in Edinburgh and London. He was in partnership with J. H. Miller from 1961 until 1988. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. His other publications include 'Essays in Architecture: Modern Architecture and Historical Change' and 'Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987'.",Paperback,,,, 80,"2018-01-11 01:04:45","Neutra, Complete Works",9783836512442,"Barbara Lamprecht","Originally from Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style. Neutra had a keen appreciation for the relationship between people and nature; his trademark plate glass walls and ceilings which turn into deep overhangs have the effect of connecting the indoors with the outdoors. His ability to incorporate technology, aesthetic, science, and nature into his designs brought him to the forefront of Modernist architecture. For the first time, all of Richard Neutra's works (nearly 300 private homes, schools, and public buildings) are gathered together in one volume, illustrated by over 1000 photographs, including those of Julius Shulman and other prominent photographers.",,"""It's worth its weight in wood.... This is a truly beautiful book."" - LA Weekly, Los Angeles""",464,"281.94 x 342.9 x 48.26mm | 3,900.87g","01 Apr 2017","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany","English, French, German","Tachen 25 - special ed","Illustrations (some col.), col. maps, ports.",3836512440,"38,636",4.45,US$76.09,,"Barbara Lamprecht writes on and teaches architectural history, concentrating on Modernism, and practices architecture, specializing in sustainability and small spaces. She contributes to Dwell, The Architectural Review, Architecture, Architectural Record and Fine Homebuilding. She is also the author of TASCHEN's Neutra: Complete Works. Peter Gossel runs a practice for the design of museums and exhibitions. He is the editor of TASCHEN's monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M. Schindler, John Lautner and Richard Neutra, as well as the editor of the Basic Architecture Series.",Hardback,,,, 81,"2018-01-11 01:04:50",Elements,9788831720199,"Rem Koolhaas","Architecture is a strange mixture of persistence and flux, an amalgamation of elements -- some that have been around for over 5,000 years and others that were (re)invented yesterday. The fact that these elements change independently of each other, according to different cycles and economies, and for different reasons, turns each building into a complex collage of the archaic and the current, the site-specific and the standard, mechanical smoothness and the spontaneous. Only by looking at the elements under a wide lens can we recognize thecultural preferences, forgotten symbolism, technological advances, mutations triggered by intensifying global exchange, climatic adaptions, political calculations, regulatory requirements, new digital regimes, and, somewhere in the mix -- the ideas of the architect that constitute the practice of architecture today. A collection of these essential elements into 15 books in a package launched at the 2014 Venice Biennale that allows us to look through a microscope at the real fundamentals of our buildings and see again the essential design techniques used by any architect, anywhere, anytime.",,,2336,"152 x 204 x 138mm | 2,699.99g","17 Jun 2016",MARSILIO,"Milan, Italy",English,,"colour and black and white illustrations",8831720198,"8,249",4.75,US$120.03,US$190.00,"Rem Koolhaas, winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale Architettura 2010, and the Pritzker Prize in 2000, founded OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. Recently completed OMA buildings led by Koolhaas include the new headquarters for China Central Television in Beijing, a new headquarters for Rothschild Bank in London, the Wyly Theatre, Dallas, and Milstein Hall, an extension to Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.",Paperback,,,, 82,"2018-01-11 01:04:55",Bauhaus,9783836560146,"Magdalena Droste","Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school developed a revolutionary approach that fused fine art with craftsmanship and engineering in everything from architecture to furniture, typography, and even theater. Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer. In 1930, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took over as the leader, but soon after, in 1933, the Nazi government shut down the school. During its fourteen years of existence, Bauhaus managed to change the faces of art, architecture, and industrial design forever and is still hugely influential today.",,,96,"210 x 260 x 12.7mm | 544.31g","01 Sep 2015","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany",English,,,3836560143,"17,204",3.33,US$16.51,,,Hardback,,,, 83,"2018-01-11 01:05:04","A Global History of Architecture",9780470402573,"Mark M. Jarzombek","The award-winning First Edition of A Global History of Architecture was a publishing event that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed and studied. This Second Edition surpasses the first with a lavish new design, illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs in full color, and even more maps and diagrams detailing global interconnections. The signature drawings of Francis D.K. Ching are more informative than ever, updated with scale, annotation, and function added where needed. This revision is sure to remain the most relevant book on the topic.","Preface. Early Cultures. Ritual Centers. 3500 BCE. Beginnings of China's Civilization. Niuheliang Ritual Center. Mesopotamia. Khirokitia. Grain and Metal. Catal Huyuk. Early Indus Settlements. Eridu and Uruk. Pre- and Early-Dynastic Egypt. European Developments. 2500 BCE. The Indus Ghaggar-Hakra Civilization. Mohenjo-Daro. Early Empires of Mesopotamia. Ziggurat at Ur. Margiana. Domestic Architecture. Egypt: The Old Kingdom. Pyramids at Giza. Valley Temple of Khafre. Architecture and Food. Stonehenge. Megalithic Temples of Malta. First Civilizations of the Americas. Caral. El Paraiso. 1500 BCE. Shang Dynasty China. The Minoans and Knossos. Egypt: The New Kingdom. Karnak. Abu Simbel. Egyptian Columns. Egyptian Design Methods. Hittite Empire. Hattusas. Mycenaean Civilization. Treasury of Atreus. Ugarit and Mari. Poverty Point. Civilization of the High Andes. Salinas de Chao. 800 BCE. Olmecs. San Lorenzo. La Venta. Chavin de Huantar. Zhou Dynasty China. The Ritual Complex. The Aryan Invasion and Varanasi. The Iron Age. The Etruscans. Etruscan Religion. Etruscan Temples. Greece: The Geometric Period. Emergence of the Greek Temple Form. Temple of Poseidon. Saba/Sa'abia. Temple of Solomon. Kingdom of Kush. Neo-Assyrian Empire. Babylon. 400 BCE. Achaemenid Dynasty. Pasargadae. Greece and the Mediterranean. The Greek Temple. Greek Architecture and Language. Telesterion at Eleusis. Delphi. Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Ionic Order. The Parthenon. Erectheum. Athenian Propylaea. The Hellenistic Age. Delos. Priene. Pergamon. Sanctuary of Athena at Lindos. Ptolemies. Temple of Horus. Temple of Apollo at Didyma. Mauryan Dynasty. Asokan Pillars. Barabar Hills Caves. Late Olmec Centers. The Early Mayas. China: The Warring States Period. Xianyang Palace. Tomb of Zeng Hou Yi. The Founding of Rome. Pompeii. Temple of Fortuna at Praeneste. The Roman Urban Villa. Republican Tombs. Tholoi Tombs. Bribacte. Augustan Rome. Forum of Augustus. Vitruvius. Corinthian Capitals. Post-Augustan Rome. Northern Palace at Masada. Palace of Domitian. The Colosseum. Imperial Rome. Rock-Cut Tombs. Petra. Development of Mahayana Buddhism. Sanchi Complex. Abhayagiri Vihara. Junnar Caves. Caitya Hall at Kondivte. Taxila: The Gandharan Cosmopolis. Qin Dynasty China. Tomb of the First Emperor. Great Wall of China. Shaft Tombs of Teuchitlan. Nakbe. El Mirador. 200 CE. Roman Empire. The Roman Theater. The Pantheon. Hadrian's Villa. Roman Vertical Surface. Roman Baths. Diocletian's Palace. Baalbek. The Parthian Empire. Aksum. Amaravati Stupa. Caitya Hall at Karli. Kushan. Takht-i-Bahi. Anuradhapura. Han Dynasty China. Han Tombs. Mingtang-Biyong Ritual Complex. Moche and Nazca Civilizations. North Amazon Societies. Nazca Lines. Teotihuacan. Temple of the Feathered Serpent. Ohio's Hopewell Mounds. 400 CE. The Sassanian Empire. Zoroastrian Fire Temples. Ajanta Caves. Establishment of Chinese and Central Asian Buddhism. Yungang Caves. Mogao Caves. Mahabodhi Temple. Sigiriya. Hindu Renaissance. The Pyu, Mon, and Funan. Oc Eo. Mithraism. Emergence of Christianity. Martyria. St. Peter's in Rome. First Baptisteries. Post-Constantinian Age. Alahan Monastery. Tomb of King Theodoric. Zapotecs of Oaxaca. Monte Alban. Kofun Period: Japan. 600 CE. Tikal. Tiwanaku. Age of Justinian. St. Vitale, Ravenna. Hagia Sophia. Byzantine Capitals. Armenian Architecture. St. Hripsime. Vishnu Deogarh and Elephanta. Durga Temple and the Five Rathas. Shore Temple at Mamallapuram. Southeast Asia. My Son. Sui and T'ang Dynasties. Daming Palace. Songyue Temple Ta (Pagoda). Nara Period: Japan. Buddhism's Arrival in Korea and Japan. Horyu-ji. 800 CE. Chang'an. Nanchan and Foguang Monasteries. Korean Buddhism. Rise of Islam. Dome of the Rock. Umayyad Mosque. Baghdad. Great Mosque of Samarra. Great Mosque of Cordoba. Rajasimhesvara and Virupaksha Temples. Kailasnath at Ellora. Mahaviharas at Nalanda and Somapura. Indonesia at a Crossroads. Borobudur. Candi Prambanam. Samye, Tibet. Hindu Kingdoms of Cambodia. Bakong. Ghana. Byzantine Empire. Theotokos Tou Libos. Europe and the Carolingians. Plan of St. Gall. The Palatine Chapel. Mayan City-States. Copan. Quirigua. Guayabo. 1000 CE. Mayan Uxmal. Cahokia. Serpent Mound. Pueblo Bonito. Rise of the Rajput Kingdoms. Sun Temple at Modhera. Chandellas. Khandariya Mahadeva Temple. Tantrism. Vastu-Shastras. Orissa and Lingaraja Temple. Jains. Jain Temples at Mt. Abu. Cholamandalam. Rajarajeshwara Temple (Dakshinameru). Polonnaruwa. Song Dynasty China. Sage Mother Hall. Iron Pagoda. Mu-Ta. Dulesi Monastery. Pure Land Buddhism. Byzantine Revival. Kievan Russia. Armenia. Sanahin Complex. Ottonian Germany. Speyer Cathedral. The Normans. Durham Cathedral. Canterbury Cathedral. Cefalu Cathedral. Pilgrimage Churches. Dover Castle. Tuscany. Cathedral of Pisa. Baptistery of Parma. Seljuk Turks. Sultan Han. First Madrasas. Great Mosque of Isfahan. The Fatimids. Muqarnas. Mosque at Qayrawan. Almoravid Dynasty. Medieval Scandinavia. 1200 CE. Vrah Vishnulok (Angkor Wat). Angkor Tom and Preah Khan. Kingdom of Pagan. Sanju-sangen-do. Itsukushima Shrine. Southern Song Dynasty. Yingzhao Fashi. The Mongolian Empire. Yuan Dynasty China. Delhi. Tughlaqabad. Quwwat-ul-Islam. Tomb of Ghias-ud-Din Tughlaq. Qutb Minar. Sun Temple at Konarak. Hoysalas. Vadakkunnathan Temple. Africa. The Mamluk Sultanate. Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela. The Great Zimbabwe. Mosques of Mali. Europe: The High Middle Ages. Fontenay Abbey. Cathedral Design. Amiens Cathedral. Notre-Dame of Reims. Mendicant Orders. Castel del Monte. Exeter Cathedral. Italian Town Halls. Siena. Republic of Novgorod. Nasrid Sultanate. Toltec Empire. Chichen Itza. 1400 CE. End of the Steppe Invasions. Ming Dynasty China. The Forbidden City. Mount Wudang. Temple of Heaven. Joseon Dynasty, Korea. Muromachi Japan. Kinkakuji. Ginkakuji. Ottoman Empire. Beyazit Medical Complex. Topkapi Palace. Timurid Dynasty. Deccan Sultanates. Friday Mosque of Gulbarga. Pandua. Jami Masjid of Ahmedabad. Chittor Fort. Ayutthaya. The Republic of Venice. Mamluk Sultanate. Mausoleum Complex of Sultan Qaitbay. Cathedral of Florence. Florentine Loggias. Italian Renaissance. San Lorenzo. Rucellai Palace. Pienza. Sant'Andrea at Mantua. Villa Medici. Miracle Churches. Santa Maria della Consolazione. St. Peter's Basilica. Vatican Belvedere. The French Chateaux. The Americas. The Hopis. New England Societies. Tenochtitlan. The Incas. Machu Picchu. 1600 CE. Tokugawa Shogunate. Nikko Toshogu. Nijo-jo. Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Imperial Villa). Ryoanji. Ming Tombs. Potala Palace. Voyages of Zheng He. The Mughals. Humanyun's Tomb. Fatehpur Sikri. Buland Darwaza. Diwan-i-Khas. Rauza-I-Munavvara (Taj Mahal). Vijayanagara. Bijapur. Palace of Thanjavur. Isfahan. Suleymaniye Complex. The Dogon of Mali. Italian High Renaissance. Campidoglio. Il Redentore (Church of the Savior). Palladian Villas. Villa Rotonda. Spanish Conquest of America. Atrios. Santo Domingo. Il Gesu. El Escorial. Uffizi Gallery. Villa Farnese. St. Peter's Basilica. Baroque Italy. Sant'Andrea al Quirinale. St. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. St. Peter's Square. San Filippo Neri. Place Royale. Kremlin's New Churches. Church of the Ascension. Amsterdam. Amsterdam Town Hall. Elizabethan England. Hardwick Hall. Banqueting House. 1700 CE. Colonialism. Colonial Forts. Haciendas. Brazilian Haciendas. Italian Masserie. Coffeehouses. French Culture of Empire. Hotels. Place Vendome. East Facade of the Louvre. Chateau de Versailles. Hotel des Invalides. Basilica of the Invalides. L'Observatoire de Paris. England: House of Stuart. St. Paul s Cathedral. Blenheim Palace. St. Mary Woolnoth. Spread of the Baroque. Facade of Santiago de Compostela. St. Petersburg. Bavarian Baroque. Neresheim. Sans Souci. Georgian Architecture. Chiswick House. King's Chapel, Boston. Stowe Gardens. Nurosmaniye Mosque. Qing Dynasty China. Yuanmingyuan. Qingyi Garden. Edo, Kyoto's Odoi, and Shimabara. Joseon Dynasty, Korea. Mallas of Nepal. Nayaks of Madurai. Constantia. 1800 CE. Japan: Edo Period. Kanamaru-za. Emperor Qianlong. Chengde. European Architecture: An Introduction. Neoclassicism. Robert Adam. Syon House. Piranesi and Romanticism. Strawberry Hill. Marc-Antoine Laugier. St. Genevieve. Le Petit Trianon. Salt Works of Chaux. The French Revolution. Bibliotheque Nationale. Napoleonic Cemeteries. Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand. Bank of England. Neoclassicism in the United States. Washington, DC. Royal Pavilion. Romantic Nationalism. Altes Museum. Jaipur and the End of the Mughal Empire. Darbar Sahib. Dakhma. Colonial Calcutta: The Esplanade. Writers' Building. St. John's Church. Government House. Metcalfe Hall. Khorezm. Wat Pra Kaew. The Industrial Revolution. Lowell, Massachusetts. Albert Dock. Panoptic Prisons. Workhouses. The Shakers. August Welby Pugin. Greek Revival. Tennessee State Capitol. Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Architectural Preservation. Bibliotheque St. Genevieve. Synagogues. John Ruskin. 1900 CE. Victorian England. The Reform Club. The Athenaeum. Public Sector Architecture. London Law Courts. Railroad Stations. National Museums. World Fairs. The Passage. Victorian Domestic Architecture. Central Park. Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Paris and Georges-Eugene Haussmann. Colonial Bombay. The Chettinad Mansions. Henry Hobson Richardson. Al-Rifa i Mosque. Arts and Crafts Movement. William Morris and William R. Lethaby. Indo-Saracenic Style. Shingle Style. Arts and Crafts in California. The Bungalow. Campus Architecture in the United States. Art Nouveau. Maison Tassel. City Beautiful Movement. Rise of Professionalism. European Ports. Garden City Movement. Changing Global Economy. Skyscrapers. Wrigley Building. Casa Batllo. Frank Lloyd Wright. Taliesin East. Walter Burley Griffin. Colonial Africa. International Beaux-Arts. Kyoto National Museum. Myongdong Cathedral. Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Company Building. 25b, rue Franklin. Adolf Loos. The Factory Aesthetic. Deutsche Werkbund. Concrete. Garnisonskirche. Expressionism. Czech Cubists. New Delhi. Gunnar Asplund. Hollyhock House. Dutch Kampung. De Stijl Movement. Friedrichstrasse Office Building. Russian Constructivism. Tatlin's Tower. Soviet Pavilion. The Bauhaus. Le Corbusier. Villa Savoye. Lovell House. 1950 CE. Modernism. Weissenhof Siedlung. Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne. Pavilion Suisse. Barcelona Pavilion. Buckminster Fuller. Palace of the Soviets. Mombasa. Rockefeller Center. Czechoslovakia. Ankara. Israeli Modernism. Japanese Pavilion. Villa Mairea. Usonian Houses. Fallingwater. Brazilian Modernism. Italian Fascist Architecture. Casa del Fascio. German Fascist Architecture. Saynatsalo Town Hall. Illinois Institute of Technology Library Building. Farnsworth House. Eames House. Yale University Art Gallery. Brasilia. Chandigarh. Secretariat and High Court. Assembly Building. Ahmedabad. Chapel at Ronchamp. Guggenheim Museum. Touba. Ekistics. Architecture of Prestige. Sydney Opera House. Eero Saarinen. Caribbean Modernism. Seagram Building. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Uruguayan Modernism. National Schools of Art, Havana. Salk Institute. Sher-e-Banglanagar. Metabolism. Brutalism. Archigram. Alternative Architecture. Post-Corbusier India. University of Ibadan. Postmodernism. Postmodern Museums. The Preservation Movement. The Postmodern, Non-Western World. Magney House. Globalization Takes Command. Afterword. Glossary. Bibliography. Photo Credits. Index.",,864,"218.44 x 276.86 x 43.18mm | 2,494.75g","26 Jan 2011","John Wiley and Sons Ltd","Chichester, United Kingdom",English,"2nd ed.",,0470402571,"75,199",4.28,,,"Francis D.K. Ching is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous architecture and design books, including Architectural Graphics; Architecture: Form, Space, and Order; A Visual Dictionary of Architecture; Interior Design Illustrated; and Building Construction Illustrated, all from Wiley. Mark Jarzombek is Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT, as well as author of several books. Vikramaditya Prakash is Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington and the author of several academic publications.",Hardback,"John Wiley & Sons Ltd",,, 84,"2018-01-11 01:05:10","Jutaku: Japanese Houses",9780714869629,"Naomi Pollock","Quirky, surprising and entertaining - with more than 400 houses, Jutaku is architecture at the speed of Japan.Frenetic. Pulsating. Disorienting. Japan's contemporary culture is constantly in flux. In stark contrast to the centuries old imperial architecture of Kyoto, recent Japanese architectural practices have ushered in an era of continuous experimentation.With 500 houses, one house per page, one image per house, Jutaku: Japanese Houses is a fast-paced, ""quick hit"" shock to the system that shines a Harajuku-bright neon light on the sheer volume, variety and novelty of contemporary Japanese residential architecture.Featuring the work of many of Japan's most famous architects including Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Jun Igarishi, Shuhei Endo and dozens of up and coming and completely unknown young architects, Jutaku is organized geographically taking readers on a bullet train journey across Japan's architectural landscape. Essential reading for architects, designers and fans of contemporary Japanese culture.",,"""Another winner from Phaidon... A must for those interested in architecture and design."" -selectism.com ""This lively survey of over 400 wild and whimsical houses... Shows the depth of talent and spirited adventurousness in Japanese architecture today."" -Architectural Record ""Jutaku may be the conventional Japanese word meaning house, but the new generation of homes being built there are anything but conventional. Preconceptions of what a house should look like have been discarded in favour of designs which challenge our ideas. This eclectic assembly of the weird and wonderful will provide plenty of thought for those contemplating building a home that is really out of the ordinary."" -Self Build and Design ""The collection exposes continual experimentation from Japan's renowned architects supplemented with works from up-and-coming talents."" -Metropolis ""There's a surfeit of unorthodox, wildly creative Japanese houses out there, and 400 of them are packed into Jutaku: Japanese Houses, a new tome from Phaidon."" -Fastcodesign.com ""[A collection] of domiciles [that] eschew conventional forms for daring contortions and feats of structural engineering."" -Dwell ""an array of weird and wonderful houses in all shapes and sizes."" -Blueprint ""Illustrates an era of continuous experimentation... Homes the likes of which would not be found elsewhere."" -ADF (Architects Datafile) ""Showcasing the best, strangest and most daring of contemporary Japanese architecture with full-color images, [this] is a hardcover tome that will surprise and inspire readers to think outside the 'duplex'."" -Coolhunting ""The Japanese have a distinctive approach to building houses... A penchant for surprisingly angled walls, clever use of windows plus an ability to build successful living spaces on extremely small plots of land. ...Enjoy these houses while they last, because they will be replaced by new, no doubt equally eccentric and elegant, designs before too long."" -Creative Review ""Japanese contemporary residential architecture is beautifully explored... Full of remarkable buildings."" -Sphere ""Jutaku gems that the put the boring old A-frame to shame."" -The Guardian ""Japan surprises us again and again... Eye-catching mini-houses spring up like mushrooms... Hardly a noteworthy house of the last fifteen years is missing, and almost all of Japan's renowned architects are represented."" -Details (Germany) ""Phaidon's irresistible book."" -Architizer ""Jutaku: Japanese Houses is essential reading for architects, designers and fans of contemporary Japanese culture."" -Midwest Book Review ""A seemingly endless procession of remarkable facades... There are myriad lessons that architects could learn from these houses... It is impossible not to be thrilled by their invention and sheer originality."" -Financial Times",512,"124 x 184 x 44mm | 816.47g","12 Oct 2015","Phaidon Press Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0714869627,"27,577",3.77,US$24.75,US$24.95,"Naomi Pollock is an American architect who lives in Tokyo where she writes about design in Japan. Her work has appeared in numerous publications on both sides of the Pacific, including A+U, Dwell, Jutakutokushu, Wallpaper* and Architectural Record for whom she is the Special International Correspondent. In addition, she is the author of Modern Japanese House and Hitoshi Abe (both published by Phaidon Press), Made in Japan: 100 New Products, as well as the co-author of New Architecture in Japan.",Hardback,,,, 85,"2018-01-11 01:05:19","The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning",9780486253329,"Le Corbusier","In this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thrilled a world already deep in the throes of the modern age. Today it is revered as a work that, quite literally, helped shape our world. Le Corbusier articulates concepts and ideas he would put to work in his city planning schemes for Algiers, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Geneva, Stockholm and Antwerp, as well as schemes for a variety of structures from a museum in Tokyo to the United Nations buildings. The influence it exerted on a new generation of architects is now legendary.",,,301,"154.94 x 231.14 x 25.4mm | 612.35g","01 Apr 1987","Dover Publications Inc.","New York, United States",English,"8th ed.",,0486253325,"70,475",3.92,US$22.17,,,Paperback,,,, 86,"2018-01-11 01:05:20","The Classical Language of Architecture",9780500201770,"John Summerson",,,,144,"148 x 208 x 12mm | 280g","01 Jun 1980","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"Enlarged edition",,0500201773,"72,560",3.95,,,,Paperback,,,, 87,"2018-01-11 01:05:24","Wonderful Houses Around the World",9780936070346,"Yoshio Komatsu","A picture is worth a thousand words; the 10 photos in this book, along with the accompanying descriptive detailed drawings, make this a very informative book for children. There has never been a photographer of buildings like Yoshio Komatsu. He has travelled extensively around the world for 25 years, photographing hand-built homes. Photos from Mongolia, China, Indonesia, India, Romania, Tunisia, Spain, Togo, Senegal, and Bolivia. Each structure is beautifully photographed, and then colorfully rendered in pen and wash, with many descriptive captions explaining the everyday life of children and families in these homes.",,,48,"187.96 x 248.92 x 15.24mm | 113.4g","01 Dec 2004","Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.","Bolinas, United States",English,,,093607034X,"59,226",4.43,US$11.32,US$12.96,,Paperback,,,, 88,"2018-01-11 01:05:34","Palm Springs Mid-Century Modern",9780764334610,"Dolly Faibyshev","178 stunning color and b/w photos present mid-century modern architecture clustered, perhaps in its highest concentration, in Palm Springs, California. The desert environment and Hollywood stars inspired architects of the day to creative heights, including Donald Wexler, E. Stewart Williams, William Krisel, Albert Frey, William F. Cody, and Richard Neutra. See the Frey House II, Kaufmann House, ""House of Tomorrow,"" and many more. Distinctive architectural features include carports, stone and perforated walls, chalet entrances, extra large driveways, walls of glass, indoor/outdoor spaces, deep overhangs and peaked, butterfly, and L-shaped roofs. For all who are passionate about architecture, this book will be a treasure.",,,112,"218.44 x 281.94 x 17.78mm | 839.14g","20 Jul 2010","Schiffer Publishing Ltd","Atglen, United States",English,,"178 photos",0764334611,"83,521",4.11,US$30.15,,"Dolly Faibyshev is a photographer who explores themes of suburbia, isolation, and the conquest of the American Dream.",Hardback,,,, 89,"2018-01-11 01:05:46","The Complete Zaha Hadid",9780500342893,"Aaron Betsky","Zaha Hadid is the leading architect in the world, and is the first female recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize (2004). This is the complete monograph of Hadid's works, from her early, unbuilt projects and ideas from her student years to her very latest projects around the world, including the Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Guangzhou Opera House in China, and the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan, USA. The book also includes her furniture, product and exhibition designs.",,"Essential for anyone interested in this world-renowned architect.",288,"216 x 240 x 30.48mm | 1,440g","14 Jun 2016","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"Revised edition","w. 600 col. ill.",050034289X,"98,729",4,,,,Hardback,,,, 90,"2018-01-11 01:05:56","Handcrafted Modern",9780847834181,"Leslie Williamson","An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated yet underpublished as the homes created by architects and interior designers for themselves. This collection of newly commissioned photographs presents the most compelling homes by influential mid-century designers, such as Russel Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eva Zeisel, among others. Intimate as well as revelatory, Williamson's photographs show these creative homes as they were lived in by their designers: Walter Gropius's historic Bauhaus home in Massachusetts; Albert Frey's floating modernist aerie on a Palm Springs rock outcropping; Wharton Esherick's completely handmade Pennsylvania house, from the organic handcarved staircase to the iconic furniture. Personal and breathtaking by turn--these homes are exemplary studies of domestic modernism at its warmest and most creative.","Introduction Wharton Esherick George Nakashima Harry Bertoia Russel Wright Jens Risom Eva Zeisel Vladimir Kagan Irving Harper Walter Gropius Jerome & Evelyn Ackerman Charles & Ray Eames J.B. Blunk John Kapel ALbert Frey","""Handcrafted Modern gives a fascinating glimpse into the homes that significant architects and designers - Harry Bertoia, Eva Zeisel, and Charles and Ray Eames, to name a few - built for themselves"" C""A revealing photo essay"" Elle Decor ""Every now and then, a book arrives which is not just a handsome presentation of information, but also a completely satisfying aesthetic object. This is the case with Handcrafted Modern by Leslie Williamson. Her photographs inside designers' (mostly) midcentury modernist homes capture something of the inhabitant and his or her pattern of living. But they reveal something more--something of the life of the designer of the space."" Architects Newspaper ""Bottom line--This book is simply superb! ...this is a must have for any design enthusiast, especially anyone who appreciates the handcrafted... this publication will not disappoint"" Design Therapy blog """"Handcrafted Modern"" gives a fascinating glimpse into the homes that significant architects and designers - Harry Bertoia, Eva Zeisel, and Charles and Ray Eames, to name a few - built for themselves"" ""C""""A revealing photo essay"" ""Elle Decor """"Every now and then, a book arrives which is not just a handsome presentation of information, but also a completely satisfying aesthetic object. This is the case with ""Handcrafted Modern"" by Leslie Williamson. Her photographs inside designers' (mostly) midcentury modernist homes capture something of the inhabitant and his or her pattern of living. But they reveal something more--something of the life of the designer of the space."" ""Architects Newspaper """"Bottom line--This book is simply superb! ...this is a must have for any design enthusiast, especially anyone who appreciates the handcrafted... this publication will not disappoint"" Design Therapy blog """"Handcrafted Modern"" (Rizzoli, $45) gives a fascinating glimpse into the homes that significant architects and designers - Harry Bertoia, Eva Zeisel, and Charles and Ray Eames, to name a few - built for themselves"" ""C""""A revealing photo essay"" ""Elle Decor""""Every now and then, a book arrives which is not just a handsome presentation of information, but also a completely satisfying aesthetic object. This is the case with ""Handcrafted Modern"" by Leslie Williamson. Her photographs inside designers' (mostly) midcentury modernist homes capture something of the inhabitant and his or her pattern of living. But they reveal something more--something of the life of the designer of the space."" ""Architects Newspaper""""Bottom line--This book is simply superb! ...this is a must have for any design enthusiast, especially anyone who appreciates the handcrafted... this publication will not disappoint"" Design Therapy blog",224,"208 x 262 x 30mm | 1,292.73g","13 Oct 2011","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,,,0847834182,"74,213",4.33,US$43.49,US$45.01,"Leslie Williamson is a photographer based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Dwell, Surface, and Travel + Leisure magazines.",Hardback,,,, 91,"2018-01-11 01:05:59","The Hare with Amber Eyes",9780312569372,"Edmund de Waal","A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots--which are then sold, collected, and handed on--he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire.",,"A family memoir written with a grace and modesty that almost belie the sweep of its contents: Proust, Rilke, Japanese art, the rue de Monceau, Vienna during the Second World War. The most enchanting history lesson imaginable. ""The New Yorker"" An extraordinary history...A wondrous book, as lustrous and exquisitely crafted as the netsuke at its heart. ""The Christian Science Monitor"" A lovely, gripping book. ""The Wall Street Journal"" Enthralling . . . [de Waal's] essayistic exploration of his family's past pointedly avoids any sentimentality . . . ""The Hare with Amber Eyes ""belongs on the same shelf with Vladimir Nabokov's ""Speak, Memory."" ""Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World"" This is a book Sebald would have loved. ""The Irish Times"" At one level [Edmund de Waal] writes in vivid detail of how the fortunes were used to establish the Ephrussis' lavish lives and high positions in Paris and Vienna society. And, as Jews, of their vulnerability: the Paris family shaken by turn-of-the century anti-Semitism surging out of the Dreyfus affair; the Vienna branch utterly destroyed in Hitler's 1937 Anschluss . . . At a deeper level, though, ""Hare"" is about something more, just as Marcel Proust's masterpiece was about something more than the trappings of high society. As with ""Remembrance of Things Past,"" it uses the grandeur to light up interior matters: aspirations, passions, their passing; all in a duel, and a duet, of elegy and irony. ""Richard Eder, The Boston Globe"" Absorbing . . . In this book about people who defined themselves by the objects they owned, de Waal demonstrates that human stories are more powerful than even the greatest works of art. ""Adam Kirsch, The New Republic"" Delicately constructed and wonderfully nuanced . . . There are many family memoirs whose stories are as enticing as Edmund de Waal's. There are few, though, whose raw material has been crafted into quite such an engrossing and exquisitely written book as ""The Hare with Amber Eyes"" . . . One of the great triumphs of ""The Hare with Amber Eyes"" . . . is not just the assiduous way in which de Waal interrogates his raw evidence--scattered articles and newspaper cuttings, old paintings, forgotten buildings--but the way he summons up different eras so evocatively . . . [De Waal] is, too, as you would expect of a potter, wonderfully tactile in his investigations, interrogating the physical feel of the Ephrussis' different buildings, touching surfaces, assessing materials. This sensuality transmits itself also to his prose, which is beautiful to read--lithe and precise, crisp and delicate. The result is a memoir of the very first rank, one full of grace, economy, and extraordinary emotion. ""Andrew Holgate, The Barnes & Noble Review"" Remarkable . . . To be handed a story as durable and exquisitely crafted as this is a rare pleasure . . . Like the netsuke themselves, this book is impossible to put down. You have in your hands a masterpiece. ""Frances Wilson, The Sunday Times (London)"" From a hard and vast archival mass of journals, memoirs, newspaper clippings and art-history books, Mr. de Waal has fashioned, stroke by minuscule stroke, a book as fresh with detail as if it had been written from life, and as full of beauty and whimsy as a netsuke from the hands of a master carver. Buy two copies of his book; keep one and give the other to your closest bookish friend. ""The Economist"" What a treat of a book! It projects an iridescent mirage that once was real, a pageant of exquisite fragility, an aesthetic passion somehow surviving the brutalities of history. Mr. de Waal's nostalgia is tart, tactile, marvelously nuanced. ""Frederic Morton, author of A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888/1889 and The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty"" A self-questioning, witty, sharply perceptive book . . . ""The Hare with Amber Eyes ""is rich in epiphanic moments . . . By writing objects into his family story [de Waal] has achieved something remarkable. ""Tanya Harrod, The Times Literary Supplement"" A beautiful and unusual book . . . [A] unique memoir of [de Waal's] family . . . De Waal has a mystical ability to so inhabit the long-gone moment as to seem to suspend inexorable history, personal and impersonal . . . A work that succeeds in several known genres: as family memoir, travel literature (de Waal's Japan is the nearest thing to being there, and over decades), essays on migration and exile, on cultural misperceptions, and on de Waal's attempt to define his relationship with his own kaolin creations. His book is also a new genre, unnamed and maybe unnameable. ""Veronica Horwell, The Guardian"" Part family memoir, part Proustian confession, subtle, spare and elegant. ""Hilary Spurling, The Independent"" A marvelously absorbing synthesis of art history, detective story and memoir . . . A nimble history of one of the richest European families at the turn of the century . . . Remarkable. ""Kirkus Reviews""""",354,"137.16 x 205.74 x 27.94mm | 204.12g","02 Aug 2011","St Martin's Press","New York, United States",English,Reprint,"Halftones, black and white",0312569378,"11,628",3.85,US$15.48,US$16.99,"Edmund de Waal's porcelain has been displayed in many museum collections around the world, and he has recently made an installation for the dome of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was apprenticed as a potter, studied in Japan, and studied English at Cambridge. He is Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster and lives in London with his family.",Paperback,,,, 94,"2018-01-11 01:06:03","Towards a New Architecture",9780486250236,"Le Corbusier","For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887 1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond ""style,"" to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established ""emotional relationships by means of raw materials."" The first major exposition of his ideas appeared in Vers une Architecture (1923), a compilation of articles originally written by Le Corbusier for his own avant-garde magazine, L'Esprit Nouveau. The present volume is an unabridged English translation of the 13th French edition of that historic manifesto, in which Le Corbusier expounded his technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, relation of form to function, the ""mass-production spirit,"" and much else. A principal prophet of the ""modern"" movement in architecture, and a near-legendary figure of the ""International School,"" he designed some of the twentieth century's most memorable buildings: Chapel at Ronchamp; Swiss dormitory at the Cite Universitaire, Paris; Unite d'Habitation, Marseilles; and many more. Le Corbusier brought great passion and intelligence to these essays, which present his ideas in a concise, pithy style, studded with epigrammatic, often provocative, observations: ""American engineers overwhelm with their calculations our expiring architecture."" ""Architecture is stifled by custom. It is the only profession in which progress is not considered necessary."" ""A cathedral is not very beautiful . . ."" and ""Rome is the damnation of the half-educated. To send architectural students to Rome is to cripple them for life."" Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of his own works and other structures he considered important, Towards a New Architecture is indispensable reading for architects, city planners, and cultural historians but will intrigue anyone fascinated by the wide-ranging ideas, unvarnished opinions, and innovative theories of one of this century's master builders. """,,,289,"157.48 x 236.22 x 17.78mm | 272.15g","01 Feb 1985","Dover Publications Inc.","New York, United States",English,,"Illustrations, unspecified",0486250237,"10,792",3.93,US$16.75,US$16.95,,Paperback,,,, 95,"2018-01-11 01:06:05","Daily Rituals",9780307273604,"Mason Currey","Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, ""time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers."" Kafka is one of 161 inspired--and inspiring--minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his ""male configurations."" . . Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day . . . Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced ""every pleasure imaginable."" Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books . . . Karl Marx . . . Woody Allen . . . Agatha Christie . . . George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing . . . Leo Tolstoy . . . Charles Dickens . . . Pablo Picasso . . . George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers . . . Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to ""clear the brain""). Brilliantly compiled and edited, and filled with detail and anecdote, Daily Rituals is irresistible, addictive, magically inspiring.",,,278,"132.08 x 187.96 x 25.4mm | 294.83g","23 Apr 2013","Knopf Publishing Group","United States",English,,"Illustrations, black and white",0307273601,"95,103",3.65,US$22.58,US$24.95,"Mason Currey was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Currey's writing has appeared in Slate, Metropolis, and Print. He lives in Brooklyn.",Hardback,,,, 96,"2018-01-11 01:06:15","The Hare With Amber Eyes",9780701187163,"Edmund de Waal","The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection, and sumptuous full-colour images hand-picked by Edmund de Waal from his family archive 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to post-war Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.",,"""You have in your hands a masterpiece"" -- Frances Wilson * Sunday Times * ""The book not only of the year, but of the decade... A quite enchanting book, to be kept and reread by as many generations as it describes"" -- Michael Howard * TLS * ""Elegant. Modest. Tragic. Homeric."" -- Stephen Frears * Guardian, Books of the Year * ""The most brilliant book I've read for years... A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human"" -- Bettany Hughes * Daily Telegraph Books of the Year * ""A complex and beautiful book"" -- Diana Athill * Literary Review *",432,"164 x 226 x 38mm | 1,020.58g","17 Nov 2011","Vintage Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,"Illustrated edition","120 full colour illustrations",0701187166,"24,094",3.85,US$37.48,US$54.25,"Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists, and his porcelain is held in many major museum collections. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, the PEN/Ackerley Prize and the Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature. It was longlisted for the Orwell Prize and BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. Edmund was named New Writer of the Year at the 2010 Galaxy National Book Awards. www.edmunddewaal.com",Hardback,"CHATTO & WINDUS",,, 97,"2018-01-11 01:06:24","Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture",9780870702822,"Vincent Scully","First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A ""gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,"" Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards.",,,144,"213.36 x 276.86 x 10.16mm | 566.99g","02 Jul 2002","MUSEUM OF MODERN ART","New York, United States",English,"2nd Revised edition",,0870702823,"26,615",4.03,US$22.51,US$24.95,,Paperback,,,, 98,"2018-01-11 01:06:25","Peter Zumthor",9783858817235,"Peter Zumthor","Peter Zumthor, Pritzker laureate 2009, unarguably ranks among the most important contemporary architects. He is revered worldwide for the stringency of his architectural concepts, the clarity of his designs, his sensitiveness for location and context, and for his conscious and careful use of materials. He is celebrated for the pure and atmospheric spaces he has created, such as Kunsthaus Bregenz (Bregenz, Austria), Therme Vals (Vals, Switzerland), Kolumba Art Museum (Cologne, Germany), or in 2011 the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, Hortus Conclusus. Yet his lesser known residential buildings in Switzerland or the Field Chapel for Brother Klaus (near Mechernich, Germany) have also won great acclaim from architectural critics. Zumthor is much admired by students and teachers of architecture alike also for his philosophical approach to the task of building and for his writings on architectural thought. The new five-volume set is the first comprehensive monograph on Zumthor's work in more than fifteen years. Around 40 of his buildings and unrealised projects are presented in detail with brief descriptive texts by Zumthor himself, with photographs, sketches, drawings and plans. A complete list of works 1975-2013 rounds out the book. Photographs are contributed by Helene Binet, Hans Danuser and others.",,,800,"312.42 x 370.84 x 147.32mm | 7,098.68g","15 May 2014","Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag","Zurich, Switzerland",English,"1st ed.","350 Colour, 150 B&W, 200 Plans",3858817236,"38,258",4.72,US$213.85,US$250.01,"Thomas Durisch, born 1963 in Minneapolis, graduated as an architect from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 1990. He has been working at Peter Zumthor's studio from 1990-94 and runs his own practice in Zurich since 1995. He was curator of the exhibition Peter Zumthor: Bauten und Projekte 1986 2007 at Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2007. Peter Zumthor, born 1943 in Basel (Switzerland), trained as a cabinet maker and was educated as designer and architect at the College of Applied Arts in Basel and the Pratt Institute in New York. He runs his own architectural studio in Haldenstein (Switzerland) since 1979. He is also been lecturing at the Academy of Architecture of the Universita della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio (Switzerland) and various universities and colleges in Europe and the US. Zumthor has also been awarded many prizes for his work, including the highest honours in international architecture: the Praemium Imperiale (Japan, 2008), the Pritzker Prize (USA, 2009), and the Royal Institute of British Architects Royal Gold Medal (UK, 2012).",Hardback,,,, 99,"2018-01-11 01:06:30","The Louvre: All the Paintings",9781579128869,"Anja Grebe","An historic publishing event! Endorsed by the Louvre and for the first time ever, every painting from the world's most popular museum is available in one stunning book. All 3,022 paintings on display in the permanent painting collection of the Louvre are presented in full color in this striking, slipcased book. Comes with an enclosed, supportive DVD-ROM.The Louvre is the world's most visited art museum, with 8.5 million visitors annually, and houses the most celebrated and important paintings of all time. For the first time ever, The Louvre: All the Paintings collects all 3,022 paintings currently on display in the permanent collection in one beautifully curated volume.Organized and divided into the four main painting collections of the museum- the Italian School, the Northern School, the Spanish School, and the French School- the paintings are then presented chronologically by the artist's date of birth.Four hundred of the most iconic and significant paintings are illuminated with 300-word discussions by art historians Anja Grebe and Vincent Pomarede on the key attributes of the work, what to look for when viewing the painting, the artist's inspirations and techniques, biographical information on the artist, the artist's impact on the history of art, and more.All 3,022 paintings are fully annotated with the name of the painting and artist, the date of the work, the birth and death dates of the artist, the medium that was used, the size of the painting, the Louvre catalog number, and the room in the Louvre in which the painting is found.The DVD-ROM is easily browsable by artist, date, school, art historical genre, or location in the Louvre. This last feature allows readers to tour the Louvre and its contents room by room, as if they were actually walking through the building.DVD-ROM System Requirements: DVD-ROM runs on a PC (Windows 2000/XP or later) and MAC (OSX 10.4.8 or later) running the following browser software Internet Explorer 7 or 8; Firefox 3.6 and above; or Safari 5.0 and above.",,"The images are rich and sharp, the descriptions thoughtful and clear... Altogether, this is a fascinating overview for anyone looking to learn more about the grand old European masters.--USA Today This volume belongs on bookshelves. A major contribution to the literature of catalogs of great museum collections.--Bookpage With its stunning content and high-quality reproduction (and its accompanying DVD, providing a virtual tour of the galleries), The Louvre: All the Paintings is a choice gift for art lovers.--Library Journal Bring the entire museum collection to your bookshelf.--NJ Star-Ledger Can't get to Paris? Walk through the Louvre's epic collection with your fingertips. The images are rich and sharp, the descriptions thoughtful and clear... Altogether, this is a fascinating overview for anyone looking to learn more about the grand old European masters. ""USA Today"""" This volume belongs on bookshelves. A major contribution to the literature of catalogs of great museum collections. ""Bookpage"""" With its stunning content and high-quality reproduction (and its accompanying DVD, providing a virtual tour of the galleries), The Louvre: All the Paintings is a choice gift for art lovers. ""Library Journal"""" Bring the entire museum collection to your bookshelf. ""NJ Star-Ledger"""" Can't get to Paris? Walk through the Louvre's epic collection with your fingertips.",784,"307.34 x 381 x 99.06mm | 4,399.82g","19 Jan 2012","Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc","New York, United States",English,"annotated ed","colour illustrations",1579128866,"55,775",4.48,US$81.88,,"Anja Grebe (Author) Anja Grebe teaches art history at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg/Germany. She is taking part in numerous international research projects and exhibitions and has published extensively on medieval and modern art history. Grebe is the author of The Louvre: All the Paintings and The Vatican: All the Paintings. She lives in Erlangen, Germany.Erich Lessing (Author) Erich Lessing has been documenting the culture and fine arts of Europe and the Near East for more than fifty years. He is arguably today's leading independent photographer of the arts in the Western World. He created the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive which is an extensive image library featuring over 40,000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and private collections throughout the world, including a thorough coverage of such institutions as: The Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Uffizi in Florence, the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, the Prado in Madrid, and many more. Having worked as a photographer all over the world for more than six decades, he has published more than 40 books with his art photography. He lives in Vienna and travels regularly to Paris and other art capitals of the world.",Hardback,,,, 100,"2018-01-11 01:06:37","Barefoot Architect",9780936070421,"Johan Van Lengen","A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a ""greener"" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, includingdesign (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what is inexpensive and sustainable. Included are sections discussing urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, and dealing with septic waste, and all information is applied to three distinct tropical regions: humid areas, temporate areas, and desert climates. Hundreds of explanatory drawings by van Lengen allow even novice builders to get started.""",,,704,"139.7 x 213.36 x 50.8mm | 975.22g","28 Oct 2007","Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.","Bolinas, United States",English,,"Illustrations, maps",0936070420,"79,831",4.35,US$23.16,,,Paperback,,,, 101,"2018-01-11 01:06:46","This Building Likes Me: The Work of John Wardle Architects",9780500500774,"John Wardle Architects","This Building Likes Me offers an engaging account of the recent work of one of Australia's most significant architectural practices, John Wardle Architects (JWA). The practice is fascinated by those who experience their buildings and spaces - by those who live or work in them, or simply walk past. These are the people the buildings like! This monograph captures the practice's commitment to people, cities and places; the collaborations with makers, builders and artists and the continual; and their continual inventive exploration of scale, site, landscape and narratives of memory.",,,440,"237 x 300 x 44mm | 1,580g","01 Aug 2016","Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","Fisherman's Bend, Australia",English,,,0500500770,"59,167",4,US$50.25,US$67.76,,Hardback,,,, 102,"2018-01-11 01:06:52","The Tailored Interior",9781743790298,"Greg Natale","Multi award-winning interior designer Greg Natale is renowned for doing things differently - his is a bold, fresh and modern Antipodean style that brings the best of classic interiors into the 21st Century. His bold signature style juxtaposes clean lines with repeating geometric patterns, unadorned walls with highly embellished feature pieces, empty space with vivid splashes of color. At once contemporary, restrained, sophisticated and playful, Greg's spectacular interiors integrate architecture, design and decoration to create visually breathtaking masterpieces. In this stunning, photographic collection, Greg guides us through finding the perfect hook, building a concept from the ground up, layering different elements for cohesion, embracing empty space, using colour and pattern to add the magical finishing touches, and giving an interior space that elusive je ne sais quoi.",,"""A compendium of Natale's bold yet buttoned-up projects and the checklists and tips he uses to create them, The Tailored Interioroffers an inside look at the designer's enigmatic design process.""-ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST ""A must have for designers, design-loving homeowners and casual enthusiasts alike.""-FrankiDurbin.com ""A beautifully curated book that is both guide as well as visual inspiration. This beautiful manual filled with over 200 vibrant photographs of 18 of Natale's projects will delight the most accomplished designer as well the novice who may be intimidated by the whole process of designing a home.""-THE ENTERTAINING HOUSE BLOG ""Natale, one of Australia's top designers, embraces a vivid expression of personal style. From classic to contemporary, he captures the balance and comfort that make for extraordinary homes.""-AT HOME IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY ""[The Tailored Interior] is all about ways to transform spaces into bold rushes of color and pattern while maintaining the comfort of the space. . . Greg gives a step-by-step guide and expert advice for crafting sophisticated living rooms, bathrooms, entryways, dining spaces, kitchens and more as he showcases 18 impeccable homes that he's given his master touch. . . This book is a must have for any design lover's library if only for the eye-catching and thought-provoking visuals, thick pages, and the beauty it presents as it sits on your coffee table.""-CALIFORNIA HOME + DESIGN""",256,"250 x 302 x 30.48mm | 1,800g","15 Sep 2015","HARDIE GRANT BOOKS","South Yarra, Australia",English,,"full colour photography",1743790295,"69,085",3,US$41.13,US$54.99,"Since 2001, interior designer Greg Natale has been pioneering the integration of design and decoration; focusing on residential, retail and commercial design. With his bold signature style, Greg Natale has been feted as one of Australia's top designers. His work has won numerous awards, including Interior Designer of the Year (2011) and Best Residential Interior (2013) at the Belle/Coco Republic Interior Design Awards. Greg Natale's work has been featured in local and international magazines - including Wallpaper, Vogue Living, Time, Harper's Bazaar and Elle - and his interiors have been published in a host of design books. He is also soon to be published in Architectural Digest in Russia, Elle Decor in Germany and Home Journal Magazine in Hong Kong so continues to have a strong profile internationally.",Hardback,,,, 103,"2018-01-11 01:06:59","BIG. Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation",9783836557399,"Bjarke Ingels","After the global success of Yes Is More, one of the best-selling architecture books of its generation, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group presents Hot to Cold, an odyssey of architectural adaptation. The book coincides with the Hot to Cold Show at the National Building Museum in Washington DC and presents 60 case Studies in harsh climate conditions in order to examine where and how we live on our planet. As we travel from one end of the spectrum to its opposite we will see that the more harsh the climate gets, the more intense its impact on the architecture. The central challenge is to mitigate the climatic extremes for hospitable human life, while finding solutions that can be both economically and environmentally profitable. Architecture is the art and science of accommodating the lives we want to live. Our cities and buildings aren't givens; they are the way they are because that is as far as we have gotten to date. They are the best efforts of our ancestors and fellow planetizens, and if they have shortcomings, it is up to us to continue that effort, pick up where they left off. Hot to Cold stays true to BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group's grand mission to find a pragmatic utopia, shaping not only a particular structural entity, but the kind of world we wish to inhabit.",,,712,"166 x 250 x 42mm | 1,959.97g","30 Mar 2015","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany",English,,,3836557398,"46,489",4.23,US$57.75,,,Paperback,,,, 104,"2018-01-11 01:07:09","Hold Still",9780316247764,"Sally Mann","NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: ""deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder."" In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.",,"""One would not need to know Sally Mann's remarkable work as a photographer to be swept up in her memoir Hold Still, which draws upon a family history so rife with jaw-dropping drama that it could provide the grist for a dozen novels. With prodigious intellect and a telling instinct for the exact detail that will reveal character or throw it into question, Mann delves into the treacherous territory of memory, mesmerized by the relentless dance of beauty and decay. In doing so, she manifests in prose the acuity of seeing that has propelled her to the top rank of contemporary artists.""--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree and The Noonday Demon",482,"152.4 x 233.68 x 43.18mm | 907.18g","03 Jun 2015","Little, Brown & Company","New York, United States",English,,"418 b/w & 4/c photographs, letters, drawings, and illustrations",0316247766,"41,126",4.01,US$29.56,US$32.00,"Sally Mann (born in Lexington, Virginia, 1951) is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally. Her many books include What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), and the Aperture titles At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), Proud Flesh (2009), and The Flesh and the Spirit (2010). A feature film about her work, What Remains, debuted to critical acclaim in 2006. Mann is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York. She lives in Virginia.",Hardback,,,,