Making Marks: New Architects' Sketchbooks by Will Jones
$60.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Making Marks follows up the highly successful Architects' Sketchbooks, which presented, for the first time, the rich breadth of sketches being created by contemporary architects following the digital revolution. Taking a post-digital perspective, the sixty renowned architects whose work is collected he ...Show more
Lina Bo Bardi by Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima
$79.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
One of the most important architects working in Latin America in the 20th century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil with her husband in 1946. In Brazil, he ...Show more
Masters of OrnamentThe Art of the Stuccatore by Christine Casey
$120.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent d�cor. Their names are no ...Show more
Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design by Esther da Costa Meyer
$105.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
A revealing look at the visionary French furniture designer and architect, highlighting his virtuoso designs and versatile creativity The designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) was a pivotal figure in modernism. His extraordinary Art Deco furniture is avidly collected and his visionary glass ...Show more
Critical Care - Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet by Angelika Fitz; Elke Krasny; Architekturzent Wien
$84.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
How architecture and urbanism can help to care for and repair a broken planet: essays and illustrated case studies. Today, architecture and urbanism are capital-centric, speculation-driven, and investment-dominated. Many cannot afford housing. Austerity measures have taken a disastrous toll on public i ...Show more
The Architecture of Bathing - Body, Landscape, Art by Christie Pearson
$75.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
A celebration of communal bathing--swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more--viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape.We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathi ...Show more
Overgrown - Practices Between Landscape Architecture and Gardening by Julian Raxworthy; Fiona Harrisson (Foreword by)
$69.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden.Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a ...Show more
Cabin Porn: Inside by Zach Klein
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
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 h ...Show more
Big Ideas for Small Houses by Catherine Foster
$44.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
A look at a range of small houses around New Zealand, and the strategies the owners used to get a toehold in the tight housing market. From building a secondary dwelling on an existing family section, to tiny houses on pocket handkerchief pieces of land, these approaches to housing will give ideas and i ...Show more
Cabin Porn: Inside by Zach Klein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Learn to make your own quiet place somewhere with this inspiring journey inside tranquil cabins and handmade homes, from the creators of the wildly popular Cabin Porn phenomenon. Cabin Porn began as an online project created by a group of friends to inspire their own homebuilding. It has grown into a g ...Show more
The Language of Cities by Deyan Sudjic
$26.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape ...Show more
How to Build a Shed by Sally Coulthard; Lee John Philips (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Craft & Hobby
Ever dreamed of having your very own garden retreat? Off-the-shelf sheds aren't always the answer - the cheap ones are badly made and freezing cold, and the better quality ones are really expensive. But what if you could build your own shed from scratch? How to Build a Shedis the ultimate practical guid ...Show more