Beaumaris Modern 2 by Fiona Austin
$65.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
In reality, the first Beaumaris Modern book, featuring Mid Century Modern houses of Beaumaris just scraped the surface of what was out there. And, fortunately, in the past few years many more of these unique architect-designed houses have been discovered-- thankfully surviving the developer's wrecking b ...Show more
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency by Barnabas Calder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy. Reducing energy use is the single biggest challenge facing architecture today. From the humblest prehistoric hut to the imposing monuments of Rome or Egypt to super-connected modern airports, buildings i ...Show more
Frédéric Chaubin. CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th Ed by édéric Chaubin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Elected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Frédéric Chaubin's Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics. Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the fourth age of ...Show more
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City by Pablo Richard; Sendra Sennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Rethinking the open city planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adap ...Show more
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | 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
Typological Drift - Emerging Cities in China by Shiqiao Li; Esther Lorenz
$54.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Next Cities Ser.
Neither derivatives of Western cities nor isolated from them, Chinese cities in the past four decades are perhaps best captured in their characteristic complexity through a concept in biological evolution: drift. Unlike mutation, adaptation, and migration, drift of phenotypes takes place when chance eve ...Show more
The Politics of Public Space, Volume 02 - Public Lectures in Contentious Places by Office (Editor); Tom Muratore (Editor); Jack Self; et al
$27.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
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
Seven Palms: the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles by Francis Nenik + Sebastian Stumpf
$69.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Seven Palms tells the story of the Thomas Mann House in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles--the house in which the legendary German writer and his family passed their period of wartime exile between 1942 and 1952. Author Francis Nenik presents a detailed history of the house based on exte ...Show more
After The Australian Ugliness by Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin, Megan Patty
$90.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
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
Low Life - Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante
$45.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons ...Show more
Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and describes in rich detail, the idea of an open city, one in which people learn to manage complexity. He sho ...Show more
A Vertical Forest by Stefano Boeri
$60.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
A Vertical Forest is the book in which Stefano Boeri speaks about the project that has since become, even before it was finished, one of Milan's most emblematic buildings. An attempt to introduce a concept to architecture that, until now, has been completely disconnected: biodiversity. The Vertical Fore ...Show more