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Architecture - A Visual History by Jonathan Glancey
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Explore the world's most incredible buildings, from the magnificent architecture of the ancient world to green buildings of the present day. Discover the beautiful details, principal elements, and decorative features of every architectural style, from the Great Pyramid of Giza, Machu Picchu, and the Co ...Show more
Mass Housing - Modern Architecture and State Power - a Global History by Miles Glendinning
$56.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programmes of mass housing - high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style - became ...Show more
Wasted - When Trash Becomes Treasure by Katie Treggiden
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
We live in the age of the Anthropocene: human activity is the dominant force affecting the climate and man-made and organic materials are becoming irreversibly intertwined. As natural resources dwindle, designers are exploring the potential of increasingly plentiful waste streams to become the raw mater ...Show more
The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900 by Dominic Bradbury; Richard Powers
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The Iconic House features over one hundred of the most important and influential houses designed and built since 1900. With seminal works by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe, as well as modern-day greats like Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, and Herzog & de Meuron, this book brings t ...Show more
Kerb 28 - Decentre: Designing for Coexistence in a Time of Crisis by Charles Anderson ed
$29.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
It feels like we are living in an eco-horror story. We are experiencing a crisis of coexistence. The volatile state of the world prompts the question: how will we weather this storm?Bushfires, drought, mass extinction, global heating, oceanic acidification, superstorms: this is a crisis which forces us ...Show more
The Politics of Public Space, Volume 03: Public Lectures in Contentious Places by Office (Editor); Tony Birch; Andy Fergus; Brighid Sammon; Nicole Kalms; Kate Shaw; Sarah Lynn Rees; Phillip Brophy
$27.00 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
After The Australian Ugliness by Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin and 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
Kerstin Thompson Architects by Leon van Schaik
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
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
Architectural Drawings: Collecting in Australia by Miles Lewis
$80.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
The best trained and most experienced librarian or curator is likely to confront difficulties in dealing with architectural drawings. Even an architect will be unable to understand some aspects of drawings a century old. Professor Miles Lewis, a leading architectural historian, in conjunction with the I ...Show more
Oasis - Modern Desert Homes Around the World by iO Tillett Wright; Casey Dunn (Photographer)
$69.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Welcome to the desert. Welcome home. This visually stunning tour of the world's most amazing desert homes will inspire "desert vibes" wherever you are. Creatives are drawn in by the extreme landscapes and limited resources of the desert; in fact, they're inspired by them, and the homes they've buil ...Show more
Robin Boyd - Late Works by Christine Marie Phillips; Peter Raisbeck
$49.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Robin Boyd: Late Works unveils the urban and public architectural projects designed by Robin Boyd, one of Australia's most iconic mid-century modernists, in the final decade before his untimely death in 1971. One of the few architects in Australia's history to have become a household name, Boyd rose to ...Show more
Building Your Own Home : A Comprehensive Guide for Owner-builders by George Wilkie
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Home builders can contribute in many ways to reduce the use of products and processes that convert solid and liquid carbon containing materials into gaseous carbon. Everyone is now aware of the advantages of correctly oriented, well insulated houses with sensible ventilation and comfort systems. In this ...Show more