The Great Builders by Kenneth Powell Ed.
$22.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of spectacular scope and depth: from churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrape ...Show more
Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide by Fletcher Margaret
$40.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Gothic, Romanesque, Modernist, Metabolist... The variety of styles through architectural history can be bewildering. Whether it be a Gothic crocket or a simple Modernist join, this book illustrates all the key architectural styles from around the world using beautiful, specially commissioned drawings to ...Show more
MAD Rhapsody - Past, Present, and Future by Ma Yansong; Paul Goldberger (Introduction by)
$210.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
A sensuous and seductive vision of the future from the most promising firm in China led by Ma Yansong, an important voice in the new generation of architects. Conceived and designed by architect Ma Yansong, founder of MAD Architects, Rhapsody documents the buildings of this avant-garde architecture fi ...Show more
Radical Architecture of the Future by Beatrice Galilee
$79.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
An important and fascinating collection of original projects by unique thinkers in the world of architecture and spatial design Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings -- the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, a ...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
Pre-Fab Living by Avi Friedman
$50.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Efficient and inexpensive to produce, pre-fabricated homes are an ideal solution to the financial and environmental costs facing the modern homeowner. Their extremely versatile format also makes them adaptable to all kinds of locations, be it a secluded off-the-grid setting or a dense urban area. This ...Show more
LIGHT AND EMOTIONS EXPLORING LIGHTING CU by LAGANIER
$55.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Neben den praktischen Funktionen, wie etwa Optimierung der Sicherheit, ist eine der Hauptaufgaben der Beleuchtung die Schaffung von Emotionen. Mit Licht und Farbe lassen sich die vielf ltigsten und erstaunlichsten Wirkungen erzielen. Diese h ngen vom spezifischen Projekt, von der r umlichen Umgebung und ...Show more
Living in the Mountains: Contemporary Houses in the Mountains by Phaidon Editors
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
A breathtaking survey of contemporary homes, each with a deep connection to the landscapes and vistas of the mountains Whether snow-capped, rocky, or covered with verdant forest, the sublime wilderness of mountains has inspired humans for millennia. Offering respite from urban living and a profound con ...Show more
Palace of Palms - Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew by Kate Teltscher
$50.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
'Teltscher is a remarkable new historian . . . wholly original.' William DalrympleDaringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most beautiful glass buildings in the world today. Seemingly weightless, vast and yet light, the Palm House floats free from arch ...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
A Little House by Foundation Le Corbusier
$72.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Villa le Lac, which was designated a World Heritage in 2016, was designed and built by Le Corbusier as Geneva lakeside home for his parents in 1925. Because of its spare arrangement of spaces, he referred to it as a "dwelling machine." Even today it remains the modern prototype of the "small house" that ...Show more