Patterns of Portugal: A Journey Through Colors, History, Tiles, and Architecture by Christine Chitnis
$54.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
A vibrant tour of Portugal, featuring more than 200 photographs that bring to life one of the most beautiful countries in the world. In this gorgeous book, writer and photographer Christine Chitnis invites you to celebrate the unique, timeless beauty of Portugal through the stunning designs and hues th ...Show more
In Focus: The Nietzsche Archive in Weimar by Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Ed.)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Im Fokus Ser.
English edition Villa Silberblick where a mentally deranged Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life, was originally a middle-class home. Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche not only looked after her ill brother but also exploited the cult-like admiration the philosopher enjoyed ...Show more
Dacha: The Soviet Country Cottage by Fyodor Savintsev
$55.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
A dacha is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for a rural idyll. Widespread in the countries of the former USSR, this important cultural and architectural form has been largely ignored academically. In Dacha, Fyodor Savintsev documents this particular ...Show more
Concrete Melbourne Map - Guide Map to Melbourne's Concrete and Brutalist Architecture by Glenn Harper & Clinton Weaver
$19.95 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Two-sided guide featuring a map of Melbourne's finest concrete and Brutalist buildings. The reverse includes details for fifty buildings, an introduction by Glenn Harper, the editor of Blue Crow Media's Brutalist Sydney Map, and original photography by Clinton Weaver.
Architecture and Abstraction by Pier Vittorio Aureli
$66.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Writing Architecture Ser.
A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms. In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture--the first of its kind--Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meani ...Show more
Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg
$115.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Wiley Series in Sustainable Design
This is a new paperback version of a text, originally published in 1969, that outlined the principles of urban design from an environmental perspective. It should benefit architects, urban and regional planners, and environmentalists.
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson
$41.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson. There are essays -- many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries -- on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberr ...Show more
Never Too Small: Vol. 2: Reinventing small space living by Camilla Janse van Vuuren, Joel Beath
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Small footprint design that proves living better doesn't have to mean living larger. Following the success of their first book, the second volume of Never Too Small showcases 30 new and outstanding homes from around the world that explore small space living. Framed by five small-footprint design princ ...Show more
Project UrbEx - Adventures in Ghost Towns, Wastelands and Other Forgotten Worlds by Ikumi Nakamura
$79.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Fusing urban exploration with her trademark sense of wonder, famed videogame creator Ikumi Nakamura has spent over a decade infiltrating top-secret locations worldwide. Her daring escapades tap into a lost spirit of true adventure, proving that the world is still full of secrets and mystery, just waitin ...Show more
Forensic Architecture - Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal Weizman
$62.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Zone Bks.
In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnest ...Show more
Architecture after Revolution by Alessandro Petti; Sandi Hilal; Eyal Weizman
$75.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment- to rethink today's struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonization; consequentl ...Show more
BANHAM IN BUFFALO by Gilabert, Eva Franch
$44.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Peter Reyner Banham, the renowned architectural historian and cultural critic, taught in the newly-founded architecture program at the State University of New York at Buffalo between 1976 and 1980. During his tenure at Buffalo, inspired by the daylight factories and the grain silos of the region, he con ...Show more