Architecture and Design

ISBN: 9780714874722
Title: BLACK
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

A stunning exploration of the beauty and drama of 150 black structures built by the world's leading architects over 1,000 years.

A visually rich book, Black: Architecture in Monochrome casts a new eye on the beauty - and the drama - of black in the built world. Spotlighting more than 150 structures from the last 1,000 years, Black pairs engaging text with fascinating photographs of houses, churches, libraries, skyscrapers, and other buildings from some of the world's leading architects, including Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, and Eero Saarinen, David Adjaye, Jean Nouvel, Peter Marino, and Steven Holl.

Imprint: PHAIDON
RRP: $59.95

ISBN: 9781788792868
Title: BOHEMIAN MODERN
Author: HENSON EMILY
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: September 2020 New Releas



Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
RRP: $49.99

ISBN: 9780714879277
Title: BREAKING GROUND : Architecture By Women
Author: HALL JANE
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: BACK IN STOCK SOON

Would you still call me a diva if I were a man?' asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so, more than 100 years of stereotypes about female architects. A century in which women were refused entry to architecture schools, were denied degrees when they had completed courses, a century in which even now, women occupy just ten per cent of the highest-ranking jobs in architecture firms. In contrast, BREAKING GROUND is a pioneering, even essential, celebration of incredible architecture designed by women. Featuring more than 150 architects and buildings, and spanning the last 100 years, BREAKING GROUND is both a glorious visual manifesto and a timely record of the extraordinary contribution female architects have made to the profession.

Imprint: PHAIDON
RRP: $59.95

ISBN: 9780141022116
Title: BUILDING AND DWELLING : Ethics for the City
Author: SENNETT RICHARD
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

The third in a series of three books about the ways in which we can reform society by reconnecting with different forms of self-expression.

In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. Richard Sennett shows how Paris, Barcelona and New York City assumed their modern forms; rethinks the reputations of Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford and others; and takes us on a tour of emblematic contemporary locations, from the backstreets of MedellYn, Colombia, to the Google headquarters in Manhattan. Through it all, he shows how the 'closed city' - segregated, regimented, and controlled - has spread from the global North to the exploding urban agglomerations of the global South. As an alternative, he argues for the 'open city,' where citizens actively hash out their differences and planners experiment with urban forms that make it easier for residents to cope.

Rich with arguments that speak directly to our moment - a time when more humans live in urban spaces than ever before - Building and Dwelling draws on Sennett's deep learning and intimate engagement with city life to form a bold and original vision for the future of cities.

Imprint: Penguin Books
RRP: $22.99

ISBN: 9780500343302
Title: BUILDING COMMUNITY : New Apartment Architecture
Author: WEBB MICHAEL
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A survey that explores contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. It features 38 recent and ongoing projects, designed by leading international studios and rising talents. Each project is considered for the way in which it enriches the lives of residents and the city.

Imprint: THAMES & HUDSON
RRP: $80.00

ISBN: 9780241388549
Title: CABIN PORN : Inside
Author: KLEIN ZACH [ED]
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Initially created by a group of friends as an online scrapbook, Cabin Porn became an international sensation following the publication of the first volume of photographs of hand-made homes in breath-taking natural landscapes around the world. In this book, its creators delve deeper into the best-loved homes featured on the blog over the last ten years, offering close-ups of the stunning architecture and interior design that make them truly remarkable. With more timeless photography and new design stories, Cabin Porn- Inside brings fresh inspiration for your quiet place somewhere.

Imprint: PARTICULAR BOOKS
RRP: $49.99

ISBN: 9780500343562
Title: CHRONOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURE : A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers
Author: ZUKOWSKY JOHN
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A Chronology of Architecture presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between structural innovations, social changes, and artistic interventions. Organized around a central timeline that charts the development of architecture from the earliest structures to the present-day skyscrapers and global cities, it features key buildings, together with commentaries and contextual information about the social, political and cultural events of the period in which they were built. Special feature spreads highlight important movements, construction methods and key practitioners. Covering a wide selection of genres, styles and architects, it is invaluable as a comprehensive guide to architecture in all its different forms.

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Publishing
RRP: $49.99

ISBN: 9788499360911
Title: CITY HOUSES
Author: GOMEZ LOLA
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED NO DTE

Recent projects from architects and builders showcase city houses addressing the principles of density, efficiency and flexibility to meet the needs of urban inhabitants.

Imprint: LOFT PUBLICATIONS
RRP: $59.99

ISBN: 9780500343357
Title: COMPLETE ZAHA HADID : Expanded and Updated
Author: BETSKY AARON
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

Imprint: THAMES & HUDSON
RRP: $50.00

ISBN: 9780714875156
Title: CONCRETE
Author: HALL WILLIAM
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

A visual exploration of the world's most extraordinary and inspiring concrete architecture - now in a cool, compact format.

In this new, reimagined, and easy-to-use stylish size, Concrete takes a fresh look at the world's most versatile and abundant building material. Collating fascinating and beautiful concrete buildings by some of the most celebrated architects of the last century, it features familiar projects from Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright alongside work from some of the leading lights of contemporary architecture including Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and many lesser-known newcomers.

Imprint: PHAIDON
RRP: $29.95

ISBN: 9780711237643
Title: CONCRETE CONCEPT
Author: BEANLAND CHRISTOPHER
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

Featuring 50 existing international examples (built between the 1950s to 1970s), it skips from one country to the next to illustrate why concrete buildings grew to become both the most hotly contested and fashionable architectural style in history. Building descriptions cover key details about the building as well as a context for its original use, public reception and current status.

Imprint: FRANCES LINCOLN
RRP: $45.00

ISBN: 9781760760410
Title: CONCRETE HOUSES : The Poetics of Form: The Poetics of Form
Author: ROLLO JOE
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Concrete has conviction, strength and directness. It has plasticity, too, which makes the possibilities for form-making almost endless.

Concrete Houses explores the sculptural possibilities of concrete as the material of choice in landmark contemporary houses across Australia, Brazil, Portugal, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands and the USA, from the hands of major international architects including Sou Fujimoto, Tom Kundig, Valerio Olgiati and Marcio Kogan, and Australians such as Peter Stutchbury, Alex Popov, Ian McDougall and Neil Durbach.

Illustrated throughout with exceptional colour photography, and selected plans and drawings, Concrete Houses celebrates the incontrovertible fusion of concrete’s versatility and brute force to make timeless architecture of lyric beauty.

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Publishing
RRP: $75.00