The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture by Phaidon Editors
$350.00 NZD
Category: architecture
The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture is a comprehensive portrayal of the finest built architecture from around the world completed since the year 2000. Divided into six world regions, The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture provides an important overview of global and local ...Show more
The Philip Johnson Glass House - An Architect in the Garden by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger; Charles A. Birnbaum (Foreword by); Peter Aaron (Photographer)
$119.00 NZD
Category: architecture
The first authoritative book on the history of the Glass House property--Philip Johnson's fifty-year project of iconic modernist design, encompassing the remarkable buildings, landscape, and follies. From its completion in 1949 to the present day, Philip Johnson's Glass House has drawn cognoscenti and t ...Show more
The Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Heaven on Earth by Gijs van Hensbergen
$33.00 NZD
Category: architecture
A definitive and illuminating biography of one of the most famous - and most famously unfinished - buildings in the world, the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona. Its scaffolding-cloaked spires reach up to the heavens, dominating the Barcelona skyline and drawing in millions of visitors every year. What seduc ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories by Edward Hollis
$33.00 NZD
Category: architecture
The plans are drawn up, a site is chosen, foundations are dug: a building comes into being with the expectation that it will stay put and stay for ever. But a building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation. In this radical ...Show more
The Seventy Architectural Wonders of Our World by N. Parkyn
$97.00 NZD
Category: architecture
In this volume, an international team of architectures, engineers and architectural historians chart the progress of human ingenuity and creativity in erecting buildings, from AD500 to the 21st century. Hardback
The Smaller Home: Smart Designs for Your Home by Dan F. Sater II
$15.00 NZD
Category: architecture
The Smaller Home introduces readers to new ways of thinking about their home. It demonstrates how efficient use of space makes their lives easier, more economical, and more enjoyable. Conserving space means more options for details, upgraded features, better materials and quality construction.
The Sub/Urban Idea - From Terraced Houses to Residential Estates by Lisa Baker
$95.00 NZD
Category: architecture
As the Pet Shop Boys already said: Where the suburbs met utopia. Since 2008, for the first time in human history, more people reside in cities than in the countryside. As a result, suburban housing development is one of the most important construction tasks of our times. Architects and urban planners fa ...Show more
The Superhouse by Karen McCartney
$95.00 NZD
Category: architecture
To Karen, the super house has nothing to do with size; instead, it is one that has a strong connection with nature, that goes well beyond the everyday, and that, through the sensitivity of both architect and client, is imbued with mindfulness. From Australia to Ireland, Italy to Morocco, she's found suc ...Show more
Thermal Design of Buildings - Understanding Heating, Cooling and Decarbonisation by Phillip Jones
$79.99 NZD
Category: architecture
The way we heat, cool and ventilate our buildings is central to many of today's concerns, including providing comfortable, healthy and productive environments, using energy and materials efficiently, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As we drive towards a zero-carbon society, design solutions that ...Show more
This Brutal World by Peter Chadwick (Artist)
$70.00 NZD
Category: architecture
A curated collection of some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever built This Brutal World is a global survey of this compelling and much-admired style of architecture. It brings to light virtually unknown Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former eastern blo ...Show more
This is Frank Lloyd Wright by Ian Volner
$27.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Series: This is
Frank Lloyd Wright wasn't just an architect. He was a prophet, a poseur; a beloved teacher, a failed businessman. During his long, eventful life he experienced both incredible misfortune and great success. This Is Frank Lloyd Wright brings his projects and persona into vivid focus. Wit and visual punch ...Show more