Thoroughly Modern - The Life and Times of Moir and Sutherland Architects by Peter Freeman
$75.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
For a brief period between the end of the Depression and the beginning of WWII, Canberra, one of the twentieth century's handful of new, planned cities, looked set to be defined by the distinctive precepts and forms of functionalism. It represented a clear break with the architectural conventions of the ...Show more
Building Community: New Apartment Architecture by Michael Webb
$60.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Building Community is an in-depth, wide-ranging survey of contemporary apartment buildings, not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, f ...Show more
Vaux-Le-Vicomte: a Private Invitation by Guillaume Picon; Bruno Ehrs (Photographer); Alexandre de Vogüé (Foreword by); Christian Lacroix (Introduction by)
$130.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
This comprehensive monograph is an exclusive look inside the ch teau that inspired the design of Versailles and today continues to enchant visitors and film directors alike. Vaux-le-Vicomte's rich history began in 1641 when infamous French finance minister Nicolas Fouquet, the original owner, surrounded ...Show more
Designing Hollywood Homes - Movie Houses by Stephen Shadley; Diane Keaton (Foreword by); Patrick Pacheco
$130.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Designer extraordinare, Stephen Shadley began his working life as a scenic artist at 20th Century Fox. Throughout a celebrated career (landing a coveted spot on the AD100 list of today's top designers), his work has been marked continually by the glamor of Hollywood as well as by a personal urge to a ki ...Show more
PAUL R WILLIAMS CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD STYLE by HUDSON KAREN E
$120.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Over a career spanning six decades, architect Paul Revere Williams came to define what gracious living looked like for the Hollywood elite. Williams mastered an array of architectural idioms--including American Colonial, Spanish Mediterranean, English Tudor, French Normandy, Art Deco, and, of course, th ...Show more
MELMO: Modernist Architecture in Melbourne by Robin Grow
$35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
MELMO - Modernist Architecture in Melbourne is a comprehensive description of the development of Modernism in Melbourne and tells the story of the effects of the massive changes that occurred in rapidly growing post-war Melbourne. Fully illustrated, this book targets a broad audience of readers seeking ...Show more
Surrounded by Wood - Contemporary Living Styles by Agata Toromanoff
$80.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Wood has undergone quite an image change - as future and trend researcher Matthias Horx puts in a nutshell: "Wood is Style". It has come out of the corner of the traditional and rustic and moved to the top of high-tech building materials. In addition to the well-known ecological and building biology asp ...Show more
Neri & Hu: Thresholds: Space, Time and Practice by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
$90.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Founded in 2004 by partners Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office is an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China. Neri&Hu works internationally providing architecture, interior, master planning, graphic, and product design services. Curre ...Show more
Lo-TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson
$99.50 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
Evergreen Architecture - Overgrown Buldings and Greener Living by gestalten (Editor)
$95.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Nature and architecture have never been more intertwined. As more of the earth's surface is swallowed up by the built environment, architects are increasingly up to the task of integrating flora and greenery into their creations. There are many ways to express this: green roofs, living walls, indoor cou ...Show more
Life's a Beach - Homes, Retreats and Respite by the Sea by Gestalten
$95.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
There's no two ways about it: life is better by the beach. The salty air, the sound of the waves and, above all, the relaxed way of life. This low-key attitude to living manifests itself in how we decorate our homes by the sea. Life's A Beach takes readers into beach homes around the world - from the hi ...Show more
Beauty and the East - New Chinese Architecture by gestalten (Editor)
$115.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
The transformation of China in the past three decades has been nothing short of spectacular. Now a cultural and economic player on the world stage, its rise has also given air to a new generation of architects and interior designers. China previously looked to the West for architectural references, toda ...Show more