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Kengo Kuma
Kenneth Frampton
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342830
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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The quintessential Japanese architect of today, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines his country’s traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials.
From his iconic Glass House to Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum, this complete record of Kuma....MORE
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The Architecture of Natural Light
Henry Plummer
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500290369
RRP Price: £22.50 Paperback
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Now available in paperback this is the first publication to consider the many effects of natural illumination in contemporary buildings. The Architecture of Natural Light is a powerful, poetic yet practical survey that provides an original and timeless approach to contemporary architecture.
A com....MORE
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Gaudí Pop-Ups
Courtney Watson McCarthy
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500516502
RRP Price: £19.95 Hardback
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For over a century the fantastical works of the Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudí have enraptured visitors to the city of Barcelona. Gaudí’s creations reflected his abiding passion for nature and religion, as well as his meticulous attention to detail. Perhaps no other architect has become....MORE
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Architects' Sketchbooks
Will Jones, Narinder Sagoo
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342687
RRP Price: £29.95 Hardback
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A privileged view of the sketchbooks of over eighty architects and studios, showing how they use drawing to express their spatial ideas while revealing their individual methods
Architects' Sketchbooks shows what goes on in architects' minds as they envisage the built World and recast it through t....MORE
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Handmade Houses & Other Buildings
John May, Consultant Editor Anthony Reid
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050034258X
RRP Price: £14.95 Hardback
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Architects of the world's great buildings are celebrated, but makers of the more humble ‘vernacular architecture’ are too often anonymous.
This information-packed, visual guide introduces the wealth of local structures worldwide, accompanied by an expert narrative exploring cultural approaches an....MORE
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Asia Beyond Growth
Edited by AECOM
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500288607
RRP Price: £19.95 Paperback
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For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and most of these cities are in Asia.
Here are the challenges – population explosion, pollution, destruction of eco-systems, water shortages, sanitation, inhuman social environments – and here are some of the....MORE
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Architect
Ruth Peltason , Grace Ong-Yan
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342652
RRP Price: £28.00 Paperback
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27.80 x 24.10 cm
PLC (with jacket)
376pp
706 Illustrations, 603 in colour
First published 2010
£28.00
The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for architecture. Awarded annually to a living architect by an independent jury of experts, its purpose i....MORE
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Glass House
Nicky Adams
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500288232
RRP Price: £16.95 Paperback
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This book is filled with some of the glittering highlights of modern domestic architecture from around the globe.
The most versatile, practical and beautiful of all the materials at architects' disposal, glass has the power to re-energize tired and dismal buildings and to breathe life into the de....MORE
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The Complete Zaha Hadid
Aaron Betsky
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 7805006008
RRP Price: £24.95 Paperback
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Zaha Hadid is one of the most important and influential architects in the world. Educated in mathematics in Baghdad and architecture at London’s Architectural Association, Hadid is the first female recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize.
This is a complete monograph of Zaha Hadid’s early, un....MORE
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Wonders of World Architecture
Neil Parkyn
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500600368
RRP Price: £14.95 Paperback
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The modern world’s greatest buildings capture the imagination and inspire wonder, whether they are places of worship, palaces of power or pleasure, skyscrapers, bridges, tunnels, canals, dams or colossal statues.
In Wonders of World Architecture, an international team of professional architects, ....MORE
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Vertiginous Moscow
Gabriele Basilico
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050054378X
RRP Price: £36.00 Hardback
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Over the last fifteen years, Moscow has undergone vast and radical transformations, which have turned it into an extraordinary urban laboratory.
This photographic project by Gabriele Basilico, in association with the architect Umberto Zanetti, was inspired by a desire to document this metamorphos....MORE
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XS Extreme
Phyllis Richardson
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342512
RRP Price: £14.95 Paperback
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XS and XS Green are two of the most successful design books published in recent years, with worldwide sales exceeding 150,000 copies
The third book in the XS series, XS Extreme considers buildings at the edge of possibility. Sited in remote locations, built to withstand wild climatic conditions, ....MORE
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The Architecture of Parking
Simon Henley
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500287961
RRP Price: £16.95 Paperback
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Housing the maximum number of cars in a well-designed space is one of the most challenging aspects of twentieth-century architecture, which has attracted a stellar array of architects.
This is the first major international survey of parking garages ever published. Multi-levelled like a car park i....MORE
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The Complete Zaha Hadid
Aaron Betsky
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342504
RRP Price: £24.95 Paperback
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Zaha Hadid is one of the most important and influential architects in the world. Educated in mathematics in Baghdad and architecture at London’s Architectural Association, Hadid is the first female recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize.
This is a complete monograph of Zaha Hadid’s early, un....MORE
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Unbuilt Masterworks of the 21st Century
Will Jones
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342547
RRP Price: £32.00 Paperback
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100 of the best projects to have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. Includes projects by by the world’s greatest architects, from UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid to such up-and-coming stars as J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote.
The boo....MORE
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An Outline of European Architecture
Nikolaus Pevsner , Michael Forsyth
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342415
RRP Price: £28.00 Hardback
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For over sixty years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students of architecture. In this updated larger format edition with elegant and accessible design, an extra dimension is provided through the integration of ov....MORE
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The Eco-Design Handbook
Alastair Fuad-Luke
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500288399
RRP Price: £16.95 Paperback
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The Eco-Design Handbook is the most comprehensive publication to catalogue and represent the vast array of ingenious green products available to the consumer. A complete sourcebook of beautifully designed, ecologically sensitive and consumer-friendly objects for everyday use at home and in the offic....MORE
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The Great Cities in History
Edited by John Julius Norwich
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500251541
RRP Price: £24.95 Hardback
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The Great Cities in History is nothing less than a portrait of world civilization.
A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to li....MORE
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Casa Mediterranea
Massimo Listri , Nicoletta del Buono
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500514941
RRP Price: £27.50 Paperback
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• A mouthwatering tour of over 50 of the Mediterranean’s most luxurious and finely appointed houses.
• Includes through-the-keyhole looks into the houses of many stellar talents old and new, including Dolce & Gabbana, Alberta Ferretti and Salvador Dalí.
This book showcases a sumptuous selection ....MORE
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The Architecture of Natural Light
Henry Plummer
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342520
RRP Price: £29.95 Hardback
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Seen through the eyes of an architect-photographer, this comprehensive and thoughtful survey is the first publication to consider the many effects of natural illumination in contemporary buildings.
For all those interested in creating space that transcends the physical, The Architecture of Natura....MORE
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