New Chinese Architecture - Twenty Women Building the Future by Austin Williams; Zhang Xin; Anon
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Over the past decade, China's new generation of female architects have proven themselves to be talented, confident, innovative, and successful on the world stage. Engaging with traditions and international trends, as well as posing entirely new architectural ideas, their projects reveal China to be a pl ...Show more
Beaumaris Modern: Modernist Homes in Beaumaris by Simon Reeves & Alison Alexander
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
Beaumaris Modern: Modernist Homes in Beaumaris is a collection of mid-century modern Beaumaris houses, beautifully documented by Jack Shelton, a bayside local now living and working as a professional photographer in LA. Some are original in their design and are the architects’ own homes from the 50s and ...Show more
Living in the Mountains: Contemporary Houses in the Mountains by Phaidon Editors
$22.99 AUD
$59.95 (61% off)
Category: Architecture
A breathtaking survey of contemporary homes, each with a deep connection to the landscapes and vistas of the mountains Whether snow-capped, rocky, or covered with verdant forest, the sublime wilderness of mountains has inspired humans for millennia. Offering respite from urban living and a profound con ...Show more
Ando by Masao Furuyama; Peter Gössel (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Modern minimalism with a Japanese touch Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Drew Philip calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the disciplines four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker ...Show more
Conditional Design - An Introduction to Elemental Architecture by Anthony Di Mari
$21.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Conditional Design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in design in a more detailed, intentional, and functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. Both terms work together to satisfy a formal manipulation through a set of oppor ...Show more
Ruralism: The Future of Villages and Small Towns in an Urbanizing World by Vanessa Miriam Carlow
$84.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
What role do villages and smaller towns have in a world in which the majority lives in cities? Rural space is about to change: After mechanization and industrialization, rural space has experienced mass out-migration. It has received waste and unwanted or out-dated infrastructures from cities. It has fe ...Show more
Life Between Buildings - Using Public Space by Jan Gehl
$44.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
The first Danish language version of this book, published in 1971, was very much a protest against the functionalistic principles for planning cities and residential areas that prevailed during that period. The book carried an appeal to show concern for the people who were to move about between building ...Show more
Melbourne Architecture Guide by Philip Goad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Modern Melbourne is an elegant city whose centre has been re- invigorated with energy conserving office and apartment buildings. Its new infrastructure of link roads, freeways and bypasses is enhanced by sculptural screens and overpasses and recent architecture is both thoughtful and inspiring - all goo ...Show more
The Art of the Airport - The World's Most Beautiful Terminals by Alexander Gutzmer, Laura Frommberg and Stefan Eiselin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: General Adult
For most of us, the experience of being in an airport is to be endured rather than appreciated, with little thought for the quality of the architecture. No matter how hard even the world's best architects have tried, it is difficult to make a beautiful airport...And yet such places do exist. Cathedrals ...Show more
The Politics of Public Space, Volume 02 - Public Lectures in Contentious Places by Office (Editor); Tom Muratore (Editor); Jack Self; et al
$26.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The Politics of Public Space is a quarterly publication of transcripts that speak directly to the city and the way we read it. The publication is edited and published by not for profit, design and research practice, OFFICE. Beginning in 2018 at OFFICE curated a series of informal lectures within content ...Show more
Living in the Landscape - Extraordinary Rural Homes in Australia and New Zealand by Anna Johnson; Richard Black
$70.00 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
As urban life becomes increasingly more demanding, many people are choosing to build away from the city in a way the 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 var ...Show more
Gadamer for Architects by Paul Kidder
$44.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Thinkers for Architects
Providing a concise and accessible introduction to the work of the celebrated twentieth century German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer, this book focuses on the aspects of Gadamer's philosophy that have been the most influential among architects, educators in architecture, and architectural theorists. G ...Show more