Architecture (£5 or Less)

An alluring glimpse into magnificent Cornell-like boxes created by some of the world's leading architects and designers Inspired by the idea of the wunderkammer - "wonder-room" or "cabinet of curiosities" - that originated during the Renaissance. World-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited...

This book is from the Archipocket series from teNeues which provide introductions to the worlds leading architects. Here there are 10 projects covered from the 1980s through to the early 2000s. Renzo Piano (b. 1937) studied architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan and completed...

Light is the material of Architecture. Ian Ritchie is one of the UK’s most visionary architects, and remarkable for synthesising multiple creative disciplines to bring the essence of his architectural projects into focus. A poet and artist as well as an architect, Ritchie distills...

Rare & Collectible If Cars Could Talk examines urban environments, how they are born, change, and die, and offers fresh approaches to unlocking our cities great potential. More than half of the world's population lives in a city and that number stands to increase. Crafted...

This is Dennis Toff's second book of portraits of the members of the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Academicians. Together with the first book, The Painter RAs, it completed his project to produce a record of the membership in 2008. At the time there...

German company Resopal have been pioneers in the manufacture and design of plastic laminates since their invention in the early twentieth century. Like Formica in the U.S., the brand name Resopal is practically synonymous with the entire field of laminates in Germany.  This study...

In Nothing Less than Literal, Mark Linder shows how minimalist art of the 1960s was infiltrated by architecture, resulting in a reconfiguration of the disciplines of both art and architecture. Linder traces the exchange of concepts and techniques between architecture and art through a...

Rare & Collectible In The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between 1915 and the mid-1980s. Case studies highlight landscapes in the public realm rather than the private garden,...

Rare & Collectible Christian Hauvette (b. 1944) studied under the philosopher Roland Barthes before going on to train as an architect. Since 1980 he became one of France's leading architects. His architecture is characterised by a clear, constructive purpose which is at the same...

Since 1980, DAM, or German Architecture Museum, has been publishing its prestigious yearbook on German architecture. This volume features twenty projects by German architects, three projects outside Germany, and two illuminating essays that examine Germany's contemporary architecture scene.

The commission for the Jewish Community School was won in 1991 by the Israeli architect Zvi Hecker, whose other works include, "Sunflower" (at Ramat-Hasharon) and "Spiral" (at Ramat-Gan). This volume documents the architectural, cultural and spiritual issues involved in the building of the school....

Rare & Collectible Challenging European cultural conventions, the work of Swiss-Bolivian artist Carmen Perrin (b.1953) is infused with fine undertones and references to her Latin American roots. In her preference for industrial mass-produced materials she transposes electric wire, cables and building materials into a...

The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography, and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham has examined the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants, particularly in his pavilions made of glass and mirrors. His...

The work of Mexican artist Héctor Zamora engages with urban or built environments, both disrupting and re-articulating the viewer’s interaction with the site. Lattice Detour is fabricated from terracotta bricks produced in Mexico and transported to New York. This compact volume, the first book...