Positive Energy Homes : Creating Passive Houses for Better Living by Robin Brimblecombe; Kara Rosemeier
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
Positive energy homes enable people to live healthy and comfortable lives with energy left over to share. Creating a house you love that produces surplus energy is surprisingly easy with a thorough understanding of how buildings work and careful attention to detail in construction. Positive Energy Homes ...Show more
Landscape as Protagonist by Thomas Doxiadis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Nature is vital to our very being. And yet, our current system continues to neglect it. And we continue to discount it in our conception of cities and the buildings that make up our cities. Nature is out there. We are over here. We are disconnected. Why?How do we change our perspectives on ‘nature’? How ...Show more
Jutaku - Japanese Houses by Naomi Pollock
$29.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
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 400 houses, one house per page, one image per ...Show more
Stone by William Hall
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
A fresh look at the beauty, diversity, and versatility of the world's most extraordinary stone architecture throughout time. A fascinating, visually rich collection, Stone explores the appeal of this essential material through 170 structures from the last 5,000 years. Organized into such themes as Tex ...Show more
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser.
Kenneth Frampton's highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of global ...Show more
Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing People and Place by Leon van Schaik
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Editions: Australian Architecture Monographs
Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing people and place takes readers on an immersive journey into the very heart of this extraordinary body of work, and documents how, over time, the practice has shifted its focus from individual housing to larger-scale public projects created by a collaborative and ...Show more
After The Australian Ugliness by Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin, Megan Patty
$90.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
The New Australian Ugliness is a contemporary response to Robyn Boyd’s iconic text, commemorating 60 years since publication of The Australian Ugliness. Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness was published in 1960 and quickly took its place as a key work of architectural and cultural critique in the nati ...Show more
Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Phaidon Editors, Phaidon Editors
$100.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
A landmark survey of one of architecture's most controversial yet popular styles -- in a great, new, classic edition The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance -- and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of architecture's m ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Modern House: The Evolution of the Way We Live Now by Dominic Bradbury
$45.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
A ground-breaking and engaging explanation of the evolution of the homes we live in today Over the last century the way that we live at home has changed dramatically. Nothing short of a design revolution has transformed our houses and the spaces within them - moving from traditional patterns of living ...Show more
Lo-TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson
$99.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
In an era of high-tech and climate extremes, we are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. Enter Lo--TEK, a design movement rebuilding indigenous philosophy and vernacular architecture to generate sustainable, resilient infrastructure. Traveling from Peru to the Philippines, Tanzania to Iran ...Show more
Scaling Infrastructure by Alan Berger
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
Scaling Infrastructure presents the proceedings of the second and final conference of MIT's Center for Advanced Urbanism biennial theme of infrastructure. The conference brought together political leaders, engineers, designers, and academics to investigate how critical the issues of appropriate infrastr ...Show more
Gaudí. The Complete Works. 40th Ed. by Rainer Zerbst
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: 40th Anniversary Edition Ser.
The life of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of one single spectacular church, La Sagrada Família. ...Show more