Container and Prefab Housing: Sustainable and Affordable Architecture by ANNA MINGUET
$54.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
The making of architectural projects made partly or totally from recycled freight containers is getting more and more common, and added to this, the need for a more sustainable construction is also becoming increasingly necessary. Lots of architects and designers have reinvented the prefabricated house ...Show more
Le Corbusier Public Architecture 80 by Yu Fei
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- Includes detailed technical drawings of 80 architectural projects by Le Corbusier - Offers a new insight into the master architect, Le Corbusier, and his work - Provides a firm basis for the understanding of modernist architecture in the 20th century - Characteristics and design details of important L ...Show more
100 20th Century Homes and Houses by Twentieth Century Society
$45.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
This illuminating book, redesigned and updated for this brand-new edition, is a fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth century. It showcases 100 houses, from throughout the 20th century and stretching into the 21st, that represent the range of a ...Show more
Practical Poetics in Architecture by Leon Van Schaik
$62.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Design Primer
Integrate poetics into real-world spaces by bringing theory down to earth Practical Poetics in Architecture takes poetics out of the theory class and into the design studio, showing architects how the atmospheric and experiential qualities of built structures can be intentionally considered and planned. ...Show more
Homespace: Changing the Space You Have into the Home You Love by Darren Palmer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Through a selection of family homes, Darren Palmer gives us an insight into their occupants' relationship to their living spaces, providing information as well as solutions to questions we may have about what some of our own design challenges may currently be, or may be in the future. Whether single par ...Show more
This Brutal World by Peter Chadwick (Artist)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
A curated collection of some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever built This Brutal World is a global survey of this compelling and much-admired style of architecture. It brings to light virtually unknown Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former eastern blo ...Show more
Shelter - How Australians Live by Kara Rosenlund
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Driving down a dirt track one day photographer, stylist and adventurer Kara Rosenlund came across a beautiful but dilapidated farmhouse. Its lonely, worn loveliness kindled a passion in Kara to photograph and celebrate Australia's authentic, intriguing rural homes and the people who live in them. As she ...Show more
Reclaimed: New homes from old materials by Penny Craswell
$65.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Bricks can be cleaned, timber hardens with age and metal develops a pleasing patina without deteriorating, making them all perfect for reuse. Yet every day more building materials are being manufactured from virgin resources. This inspiring book focuses on contemporary homes made with reused components ...Show more
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander; Sara Ishikawa; Murray Silverstein; Max Jacobson; Ingrid Fiksdahl-King; Shlomo Angel
$108.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Center for Environmental Structure Ser.
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. Aft ...Show more
Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures by Derek "Deek" Diedricksen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Created by an assembly of leading designers, architects, and bloggers, these 57 unique and innovative designs will show you the limits of what is possible. All of the designs include beautiful full-colour photos along with floor plans and building tips; 15 of them include flushed-out concept sketches; a ...Show more
Cabin Porn by Zach Klein; Steven Leckart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
'Addictive ... a charter for wistfulness' Observer'... 'An enchanting rabbit hole of handmade houses' The New York Times'.... The Bible of pared back, natural living' Der Spiegel .... 'Take a deep breath and let the inspiration sink in' GQ Cabin Porn began as an on-line project created by a group of fri ...Show more
The Room Outside: Designing Outdoor Living for Older People and People with Dementia by Annie Pollock; Colm Cunningham
$32.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
Being outside adds to everyone¿s quality of life but too often this simple joy of living is beyond the reach of older people and people with dementia. It¿s time to rethink the buildings we use for providing care, and even our own homes, to ensure there is a readily accessible `room outside¿. The benefit ...Show more