Architecture & Design

Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice. It unravels the competing interests that historically have structured the field and cultivates a deeper understanding of the contemporary profession.

Focusing on the period 1870 to 1920 when the foundations were being ...

The first illustrated account of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception at Farm Street in Mayfair. Written by leading authorities in their fields.

Move aside, Martha. Out of the way, Oprah. Pack your bags, Amy Sedaris. There's a new lifestyle guru in town!

The inside stories of Emma Bridgewater's beloved pottery and homeware designs.

A guide to the multifarious talents of international furniture designers and manufacturers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With over 240 classics of modern design, it features the work of the world's most influential and talented designers, including Philippe Starck, Henry van der Velde, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, and more.

A guide to the multifarious talents of international furniture designers and manufacturers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With over 240 classics of modern design, it features the work of the world's most influential and talented designers, including Philippe Starck, Henry van der Velde, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, and more.

Scandinavian style is something so familiar and so pervasive that you may not even realize how much of the world we live in has been shaped by its influence. Young Scandinavian designers continue to find new variations on the themes of simplicity, clean lines and respect for natural materials. In all ...

This visually stunning and lavishly produced guide to the great buildings and structures of the modern age from around the world is divided into nine clear sections, and each movement in architecture from 1900 to the present day is represented: Arts and Crafts, Classicism, Organic, Modernism, Postmodernism, Robotic, Cities, and Futures.

An overview of the work of architect Eliezer Armon, featuring a range of his projects, written from his personal viewpoint.

This beautifully presented monograph on the Luxembourg-based studio, Architectes Paczowski et Fritsch is a significant addition to the collection for IMAGES' renowned Leading Architects Series.

Monograph on Chicago architect-developer-contractor Thomas Roszak, known for sculptural residential towers, as well as technologically advanced 'specialty projects', including his own Glass House.

Coinciding with the iconic magazine's fiftieth anniversary, Time Out: 50 years, 50 covers draws on Time Out's incredible archive of front pages and the stories behind them.
Via 50 stunning, arresting, beautiful and bizarre magazine covers, from its first issue in 1968
to the present day, this book charts ...

Across a range of settings - from dry river valleys of Yemen to tropical high-rise fabric of Singapore - projects selected for 10th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture match the design with a deep commitment to place. This text explores issues raised by the projects, from ecological urbanism to cosmopolitanism in architecture.

PAUL GOLDBERGER ON THE AGE OF ARCHITECTURE The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger’s tenure atThe New Yorkerhas documented a captivating ...

An examination of the standard reference book for architects as both practical sourcebook and window on changes in the profession. Architectural Graphics Standards by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper, first published in 1932 (and now in its eleventh edition), is a definitive technical reference ...

Showcasing one of the world's leading architects, Cesar Pelli, this book features retail and mixed-use projects with insightful commentary from Michael J Crosbie, Ph.D., FAIA.

Projects from all around the United States are featured as spaces designed to enhance the performing arts.

Documents and analyses the architecture and material artefacts from the Nizam Shahs, one of the early modern Deccan sultanates.

This book looks at the development and influence of buildings and why they are designed in a particular way.

A revisionist history of the modernist architectural movement, which encapsulated internationalist politics and ideals in the inter-war years and beyond.