Australia - Modern Architectures in History by Harry Margalit
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Modern Architectures in History Ser.
This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for better city forms and buildings to accommodate the changing realities of Austra ...Show more
(The Best of) Grand Designs Australia by Grand Designs
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The Best of Grand Designs Australia is a selection of inspiring homes from Australia's best loved home design show, showcasing some of the most innovative and inspirational homes to feature through series 1-5. Featuring 27 homes from all corners of the continent, the book includes 6 homes from New South ...Show more
Bauhaus 100 Sites of Modernism by Wolfgang Pehnt, Werner Durth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Can the Bauhaus only be found in Berlin, Dessau, or Weimar? No way! There are outstanding Bauhaus and modernist sites all over Germany-trailblazing architecture that has left a lasting mark on our understanding of life, work, education, and living. Through more than 100 structures, most of which are ope ...Show more
Architecture: A History in 100 Buildings by Dan Cruickshank
$22.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned archit ...Show more
Destination Architecture: The Essential Guide to 1000 Contemporary Buildings by Phaidon Press Editors
$39.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
The definitive architecture travel guide that lets you visit 1,000 of today's most must-see contemporary buildings - whether at home or on the road Featuring 1,000 of today's most compelling buildings by the world's finest architects, Destination: Architectureis an unparalleled and comprehensive resour ...Show more
The Terrace House: Reimagined for the Australian Way of Life by Cameron Bruhn, Katelin Butler
$45.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
With British precedents and working-class origins, the terrace house has a story of remarkable resilience.Today it is highly sought-after for its nostalgic charm and inner-city locale. A new generation of homeowners is making their mark by working with architects and designers to reimagine the terrace h ...Show more
Australia Modern: Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925–1975 by Hannah Lewi, Philip Goad
$80.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to sought-after homes across the country, the pervasive presence of modernism is inescapable in Australia. Led by the likes of Robin Boyd, Harry Seidler and Walter Burley Griffin, modernist architects and designers set out to rebuild at al ...Show more
A Singular Vision: Harry Seidler by Helen O'Neill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The power, passions and private life of the architect who shaped modern Australia - shortlisted for the 2015 National Biography Awards Harry Seidler, a stylish, decisive and highly opinionated man, was a key figure in international modern architecture and in the establishment of post-war modern design i ...Show more
Postmodern Architecture - Less Is a Bore by Owen Hopkins
$19.99 AUD
$59.95 (66% off)
Category: Architecture
A curated collection of Postmodern architecture in all its glorious array of vivid non-conformityThis unprecedented book takes its subtitle from Postmodernist icon Robert Venturi's spirited response to Mies van der Rohe's dictum that 'less is more'. One of the 20th century's most controversial styles, P ...Show more
Architect: The Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words by Ruth Peltason
$70.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
For more than thirty years, the Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded annually to a living architect who has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. This book presents all 33 recipients of the prize, and captures, in ...Show more
The Architecture of Bathing - Body, Landscape, Art by Christie Pearson
$75.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
A celebration of communal bathing--swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more--viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape.We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathi ...Show more
Architecture at the Heart of the Home by Jan Henderson, Dianna Snape
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Increasingly, domestic architecture has sought to enhance everyday life by providing resonant settings that reflect the human need for comfort, safety and connection. A house has walls and ceilings, and perhaps a garden, but beyond that, there is always that one part of a home that becomes a place of be ...Show more