Architecture

Softcover | 16.5 x 1.5 x 21 cm | 176 pp Thames & Hudson | 2003 | 9780500284605 Acclaimed as one of the world's foremost modern architects, Bernard Tschumi achieved early fame by winning the competition to design the Parc de la Villette on the...

Hardcover | 15.3 x 2.1 x 23.4 cm | 304 pp Faber & Faber | 2018 | 9780571348411  For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork...

Avi Friedman Softcover | 20.96 x 1.24 x 26.59 cm | 216 pp Bloomsbury | 2017 | 9781472572905 Innovation in planning is essential to dealing with the challenges society currently faces, from urban sprawl to climate change. In this book, Avi Friedman looks at...

Christopher Wilk Hardcover | 21.84 x 2.79 x 26.16 cm | 240 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500519400 Published in association with the V&A, this is a comprehensive history of plywood, from its use in 18th-century furniture to its popularity in the digital...

Daniel Barter & Daniel Marbaix Hardcover | 24.1 x 2.5 x 24.1 cm | 160 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2013 | 9781908211125 A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the invisible story of the North Eastern USA. From NYC to the...

Timothy J. Brittain-catlin  Hardcover | 23.24 x 16.92 x 1.75 cm | 192 pp MIT Press | 2014 | 9780262026697 PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a  marker pen dot or line on one edge. See images for...

Brigitte Fitoussi & Imogen Fortes Softcover | 15.56 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 112 pp Conran Octopus | 2017 | 9781840917420 With entries on design icons from I.M. Pei's glass pyramid to the humble baguette, Le Monde newspaper to Le Corbusier's striking Maison La Roche, Paris...

George Barnett Johnston Softcover | 15.93 x 1.83 x 23.14 cm | 320 pp Bloomsbury | 2020 | 9781350126862 Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice. It unravels the competing interests that historically have structured the field and cultivates a deeper understanding...

Peter Cachola Schmal  Softcover | 22.23 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm | 200 pp Prestel | 2008 | 9783791340470 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...

Alan Berger & Joel Kotkin Hardcover | 21.3 x 5.1 x 26 cm | 784 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2017 | 9781616895501 Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's year-long study of the future of suburban development....

Michael Fox Softcover | 17.8 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm | 176 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2016 | 9781616894061 As we continue to embrace a world where the lines between the physical and digital are increasingly blurred, we are beginning to see a maturing vision...

Guillaume Bounoure & Chloe Genevaux Hardcover | 19.81 x 2.03 x 27.43 cm | 176 pp Gingko Press | 2020 | 9783943330328 Cork: in Architecture, Design, Fashion, and Art showcases the fascinating ways cork can be incorporated in our lives. With sustainability at the forefront of every designer’s...

Burkhard Meltzer & Tido von Oppeln Softcover | 16.76 x 2.29 x 24.13 cm | 298 pp Thames and Hudson | 2016 | 9780500292358 The modular did not have to be invented: it can be found everywhere. We divide surfaces into grids, spaces into parts, and...

Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.92 x 23.65 cm | 376 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262042918 Essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and a play explore the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if...

Mark Robbins Hardcover | 19.05 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm | 160 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2013 | 9781616891060 Exploring the intersection of architecture, landscape, infrastructure and planning in the redevelopment of the civic realm, American City X looks at the impact of strategic...

Karen Kice  Softcover | 21.6 x 13.7 x 1 cm | 88 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300210637 A bold, theoretical look at an emerging generation of architects, this volume is devoted to five contemporary practices-Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder,...

Christopher Long Hardcover | 21.77 x 2.49 x 26.97 cm | 304 pp Bauer & Dean | 2021 | 9781735600116 Scholar and historian Christopher Long turns his attention to the little-known German-born architect and designer Jock Peters (1889–1934). Long’s engaging study introduces us to...

Softcover | 11.3 x 0.3 x 18.34 cm | 64 pp | 43 illustrations Yale University Press | 2020 | 9781588396891 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....

Peter Cook, John Hejduk & Zvi Hecker Softcover | 16.46 x 0.86 x 22.5 cm | 112 pp Black Dog Publishing | 2005 | 9781901033151 The commission for the Jewish Community School was won in 1991 by the Israeli architect Zvi Hecker, whose other works...

Hardcover | 24.89 x 3.3 x 31.5 cm | 312 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021934  Bauhaus Imaginista is a major international project marking the centenary of this fascinating and popular school, which championed the idea of artists working together as a community....