Hide and Seek - Cabins and Hideouts by Sofia Borges (Editor); Sven Ehmann (Editor); Robert Klanten (Editor)
$95.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Our longing for simplicity, clarity, and relaxation often leads us into nature. Hide and Seek showcases the most beautiful places for satisfying this longing. More and more people are yearning to live in harmony with nature. Yet they don't want to give up their homes in the city or make radical changes ...Show more
Brick by Brick - Architecture and Interiors Built with Bricks by gestalten (Editor)
$115.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Our world has always been built on bricks. A material used by societies as ancient as the Roman empire or Mesopotamia, brick is simple yet versatile, humble yet resilient, recognisable yet local. Its sustainable nature and connection to vernacular architectures have placed brick as one of the most excit ...Show more
Slow Escapes - Rural Retreats for Conscious Travelers by gestalten (Editor); Clara le Fort (Editor)
$105.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Slow Escapes showcases hotels and retreats in countryside locations around the world that are in touch with their natural surroundings and local culture. It illustrates that when slow living meets conscious and connected travel, tourism has the potential for positive impact on communities and culture. ...Show more
Soft Minimal - Norm Architects: a Sensory Approach to Architecture and Design by Norm Architects (Editor)
$135.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Building spaces of equilibrium: Norm Architects' humane simplicity creates environments that feel as good as they look. Guided by ideas of wellbeing, the essence of Norm Architects' style is balance: richness focused by restraint, simplicity imbued with warmth, complexity heightened by order. Be it ar ...Show more
Mid-Century Modern Design - A Complete Sourcebook by Dominic Bradbury
$80.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
A definitive survey of mid-century modern design and architecture in an accessible compact edition, this book offers a rich overview of one of the most popular, collectable, and dynamic periods of design. With rich and diverse examples of everything from furniture and lighting to ceramics and textiles t ...Show more
Uncrating the Japanese House - Junzo Yoshimura, Antonin and Noémi Raymond, and George Nakashima by Edited with text by Yuka Yokoyama et al
$95.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Midcentury modernism meets Japanese design in three revolutionary American buildings—the products of a unique, sustained, cross-cultural collaboration. In 1953, Japanese architect Junzo Yoshimura designed a now-classic Japanese house and garden that he called Shofuso. It was built in Nagoya, Japan, and ...Show more
Clay and Lime Renders, Plasters and Paints - A How-To Guide to Using Natural Finishes by Katy Bryce; Adam Weismann
$56.00 AUD
Category: Practical | Series: Sustainable Building Ser.
This book was previously published under the title Using Natural Finishes. With step-by-step instructions for applying lime- and clay-based plasters, renders, and paints, this manual features information on the benefits of natural finishes for personal health, the environment, and buildings. Drawing on ...Show more
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City by Pablo Richard; Sendra Sennett
$25.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Rethinking the open city planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adap ...Show more
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more
Off the Grid: Houses for Escape by Dominic Bradbury
$70.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
The imperative to reduce our carbon footprint and focus on renewable energy is having a profound impact on our daily lives and the way we think about living spaces. Surveying some of the world's most innovative off-grid homes, Off the Grid reveals the creative architecture and cutting-edge technologies ...Show more
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
$33.00 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
This book presents concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory.This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want ...Show more
Temple and Teahouse in Japan by Werner Blaser
$95.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark book on classical Japanese architecture. His studies of 17th- and 18th-century wooden buildings document minimalist, grid-based structures using stark black-and-white photographs, some color photographs and numerous line drawings. His b ...Show more