First edition in very good condition with very good+ dust jacket, with original press release laid in. There are some light scratches on the jacket front and a little shelf wear along the lo... read more
From Buddhist, Jain and Hindu temples through to Islamic and European centres of worship and commerce, this two volume set covers two-thousand years of Indian architectural history.
Vol. 1... read more
Orme is back with another piece of medieval social history. Here he traces the development of 62 English cathedrals and describes the life and activities that occurred within their walls.
This posthumous publication is based on the revisionist work Stamp did at the end of his life, arguing that interwar Britain was not just an era of intensifying modernism but saw an emergenc... read more
Charts the influence of the Bauhaus in England and America in the 1930s, expanding on the school's influence on modernist art and architecture. Pairs well with Gavin Stamp's Interwar.
Furniture, objects, designs, textiles and drawings by the great designer of the Viennese Arts & Crafts movement. To accompany the current exhibition at the Brussels Museum of Art and History... read more
The contemporary Belgian decorator/designter on his own houses, photographed by the incomparable Halard. Spare, restrained, and altogether at odds with the burgeoning Maximalism of the last ... read more
Hurrah for the second issue of this thoughtful and hugely entertaining magazine! Contributors this time include Celia Paul, A.N. Wilson, Christopher Woodward of the Garden Museum, Henrietta ... read more
A revised and updated edition in the Buildings of England series. (Please note that Yale will increase the price of this three months after publication.)
A hefty and well-illustrated work of scholarship that engages with all aspects of architecture in the British Isles from towns and villages to military and industrial buildings.
Vol 1 (on country houses) came out in April; this second volume covers gardens, Delhi, Washington; vol 3 will follow next year. These are large, folio-sized and magnificent.
From Arts and Crafts and Art Deco through Modernism, Postmodernism and emerging bright sparks: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edwin Lutyens, Berthold Lubetkin, Richard Rogers, Seth Stein, et ali... read more
To accompany the exhibition at MoMA about the history of enironmental thinking in architecture and focussing on the moving lines between ecology, design and politics.
A wander through the city's various districts by one of Korea's foremost architects: his love of old Seoul, with its low-rise neighbourhoods and narrow streets, is palpable.The Korean taste ... read more
Eye-stretching and ebullient examples of Italian Brutalism - many very beautiful - from the publishing team that brought us Soviet Bus Stops a few years ago and other architectural wonders.
Great houses such as Holkham, Sissinghurst, Chatsworth, Burghley and more modest loveliness such as Kelmscott too. Also images of that elusive idea of 'quintessential' Britishness - fly fish... read more
Innovative and original approach to architecture and urban planning that takes account of the economic as well as the human cost of awful building and proposes a very different solution.
A handsome book of drawings and watercolours by a skilled and sensitive hand that understands the very different way that the mind reads art as opposed to a computer-generated image.
Intelligent and aesthetic responses to climate change, pollution, energy requirements etc, using a handful of contemporary projects in France, Germany and Switzerland as exemplars of good pr... read more
Eight decades of Japanese architecture and design, approached chronologically. More illustrations than there are pages; the author has spent four of these decades based in Japan.
Smalley's architectural work is renowned for its simplicity, clarity and understatement. As well as his own work, he includes here a Palladian villa, Barbara Hepworth's studio, houses in Mex... read more
The authors took Madame de Pompadour's maiden name for their design company, inspired by their restoration projects and their recreation of C18th domino papers. Their work is enchanting and ... read more
Glamorous pictures of the iconic Brazilian hotel, patronised by the author's family since it opened in 1923. Matteoli has included many anecdotes of former days.