Architecture

Bernard Tschumi Softcover | 16.84 x 4.95 x 23.01 cm | 640 pp MIT Press | 2010 | 9780262512411 In Event-Cities 4 Tschumi introduces the "concept-form": a concept generating a form, or a form generating a concept.  The book documents recently built and theoretical...

Mark Burry & Jane Burry Softcover | 23.5 x 21.7 cm | 272 pp Thanks & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500292495 Prototyping for Architects has four sections: an introduction that charts the rise of prototyping in design history, more specifically in architecture; an overview of techniques; a survey...

Tod Williams & Billie Tsien Hardcover | 19 x 2.5 x 15.9 cm | 240 pp Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300197983 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...

Ian Ritchie Hardcover | 16.8 x 1.1 x 14.5 cm | 64 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397755 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...

Witold Rybczynski Hardcover | 14.7 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm | 336 pp Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2015 | 9780374269937 In Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski casts a seasoned critical eye on the modern scene. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting...

Thomas E. Rinaldi Softcover | 20.57 x 1.78 x 20.32 cm | 160 pp W.W.Norton | 2012 | 9780393733419 Thomas E. Rinaldi captures the brilliant glow of surviving early- and mid-twentieth century neon signs, those iconic elements of the cityscape now in danger of disappearing....

Hardcover | 37 x 2.2 x 27.6 cm | 164 pp Yale University Press | 2017 | 9780300226812 This stunning photographic essay traces the development of Renzo Piano’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a multifunctional complex for arts, education, and entertainment opening in 2017 in...

Stephen Bayley & Robert Bargery  Hardcover | 20.98 x 0.58 x 20.98 cm | 112 pp Unicorn | 2022 | 9781914414862 We all consume architecture – it’s the one art-form we can’t avoid. So it’s hardly surprising that the finest writers have applied their minds to...

Hardcover | 19.63 x 2.01 x 25.15 cm | 208 pp Batsford | 2017 | 9781849944373  A fascinating insight into Britain’s built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This book showcases 100 houses – one from each year from...

Peter Testa Hardcover | 20.6 x 3 x 25.1 cm | 336 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500343159 The next generation of architectural design is moving outside the box. Robotic arms are beginning to replace and advance now common digital fabrication technologies. Six-axis robots...

Dr Maria Fullaondo Softcover | 20.96 x 1.91 x 28.58 cm | 240 pp ORO Editions | 2022 | 9781954081307 Rhetoric provides a repertoire of different methods for original and innovative creation by introducing notions of surprise, the unexpected, and conflict. The myths of "inspiration"...

Softcover | 11.18 x 1.52 x 17.53 cm | 128 pp Hatje Cantz | 2016 | 9783775740968 The French original from 1950, published here for the first time in English and German. Poésie sur Alger, written in 1942 and published for the first time...

Tim Benton Hardcover | 22.23 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm | 136 pp Birkhäuser | 2023 | 9783035626537 In 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the elegant house...

Hardcover | 17.1 x 1.1 x 22.7 cm | 80 pp teNeues | 2002 | 9783823855842  Text in English, French, German & Italian This book is from the Archipocket series from teNeues which provide introductions to the worlds leading architects. Here there are 10...

Softcover | 23.77 x 3.84 x 33.1 cm | 376 pp Steidl | 2012 | 9783869301105 Lewis Baltz (1945-2014) was an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s. His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial...

Angelo Maggi Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm | 272 pp ORO Editions | 2022 | 9781954081536 This is the first comprehensive overview about a talented 20th-century writer, photographer, and “builder” of books who greatly impacted architecture appreciation in America and beyond. George...

Giuseppe Bono Softcover | 14.61 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm | 156 pp ORO Editions | 2022 | 9781951541910 This book analyses the current digital evolution of architecture through a series of considerations related to several aspects of the ongoing digital era, ranging from the...

Wendy W. Fok Softcover | 12.07 x 1.91 x 19.69 cm | 240 pp ORO Editions | 2023 | 9781954081819 digitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future engages with digital property and data infrastructures, and explores new modes and impacts of data collection...

Todd Gannon Softcover | 14.61 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm | 284 pp ORO Editions | 2022 | 9781954081970 Gathering twenty essays written over twenty years, Figments of the Architectural Imagination explores the frontiers of speculative architectural design, theory, and pedagogy to offer clear-eyed and...

Patrizia Mello Softcover | 13.34 x 1.27 x 19.05 cm | 200 pp ORO Editions | 2022 | 9781954081901 The theme of “modernity” was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionising our way of life. By causing...