Perspecta 48 - Amnesia by Aaron Dresben
$58.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Perspecta
Architecture, the most durable of the arts, is inextricably linked to issues of memory, nostalgia, and history. Yet, in this impatient century, the discipline's relationship to the past has become increasingly fraught. The stream of readily accessible information has trapped us in a perpetual present, a ...Show more
2G Essays: Smiljan Radic - Every So Often a Talking Dog Appears and Other Essays by Moisés Puente; Patricio Mardones
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: 2g Ser.
Essays by renowned Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) are compiled in this volume. Written over the span of 20 years, these essays were composed for various reasons: on the occasion of the publication of a book, as lectures or to accompany an exhibition.
The Short Story of Architecture - A Pocket Guide to Key Styles, Buildings, Elements & Materials by Susie Hodge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Architecture is a new and innovative guide to the subject of architecture that explores 50 key buildings, from the Great Pyramids to high-tech, sustainable skyscrapers. Accessible and concise, the book links the 50 key works to the most important architectural materials, elements and ...Show more
Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne, 1985- by Kim Dovey, Rob Adams, Ron Jones
$44.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The transformation of central Melbourne since the since the 1980s is a global success story-or rather, many success stories. Public space has been incrementally reclaimed from cars and railyards, and street-life volumes have increased dramatically. From turning its back on the water, Melbourne has becom ...Show more
MMXX: Two decades of architecture in Australia by Cameron Bruhn
$80.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
MMXX tells the story of architecture in Australia in the first two decades of the 21st century. Shaped by unprecedented prosperity, urbanisation, uncertainty and internationalisation, the past two decades have produced some of the most significant and diverse architecture in this country. This richly il ...Show more
Hadid by Philip Jodidio
$24.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Audacious futurism: The forward-thinking work of a singular architect Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said her work was unbuildable. Yet over the past decade she has completed nume ...Show more
Make Sense by White Arkitekter
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
White Arkitekter, Scandinavia's leading interdisciplinary architecture practice, create environments that inspire sustainable ways of living. An employee-owned company founded by Sidney White in 1951, White is a collective of people interested in people. They are architects, anthropologists, planners, e ...Show more
The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (5th revised edition 1998) by John Fleming
$35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
This reference of architecture and landscape architecture terminology has been expanded to include developments in the field of landscape architecture. It includes the huge range of building traditions around the world and all the illustrations have been redrawn. The work includes: biographies of archit ...Show more
Living on Vacation by Phaidon Editors
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
Escape and unwind with this breathtaking collection of contemporary homes - each designed with relaxation in mind Packed with the spirit of sanctuary, Living on Vacation is an inspiring showcase of spaces used exclusively for retreat and rejuvenation; from sun-drenched private islands and peaceful lake ...Show more
Skyscraper by Dan Cruickshank
$34.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high- ...Show more
30-Second Architecture: The 50 Most Signicant Principles and Styles in Architecture, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Edward Denison; Jonathan Glancey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: 30 Second Ser.
The 50 most significant principles and styles in architecture, each explained in half a minute. The bestselling 30-Second series offers a new approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Every title takes a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant id ...Show more
An Engineer Imagines by Peter Rice
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The long-awaited reissue of the autobiography of Peter Rice, acclaimed as one of the greatest structural engineers of the twentieth century. An Engineer Imagines gives a rare glimpse into the mind and philosophy of Peter Rice, a man who, in Renzo Piano's words, could design structures “like a pianist wh ...Show more