Architecture & Design

In capturing the spirit of the Beijing 2008 Olympics in a virtual environment, this digital experiment offers readers a fascinating introduction to museums and their architecture in the 21st century.

Leonard Manasseh was one of the leading British architects of the 1960s, designing private houses and offices as well as major public commissions. Lavishly illustrated with images from Manasseh's private archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects,students and ...

McMorran & Whitby are arguably one of the most unsung practices of post-war British architecture. This is the first major publication on their work and contains a combination of contemporary photography and previously unpublished archival material.

Contains an essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of their work.

According to Orham Pamuk, 'Real museums are places where Time is converted into Space.' In this lavishly illustrated title we investigate these spaces. Since Frank Gehry created the phenomenon that is The Guggenheim in Bilbao, thus transforming the city into a popular tourist destination, there has been ...

Shanghai's cool and eclectic aesthetic reflects its long-standing reputation as China's most international city. It's tempting to focus on Shanghai's ultra-modern, futuristic side, but looking behind these shiny exteriors reveals a nuanced and interesting visual language. With stunning imagery, Shanghai: ...

The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In Bleak Houses, Timothy Brittain-Catlin investigates the underside of architecture, ...

For the past 25 years, tangerine has been among the world's leading design consultancies. With past directors including Sir Jonathan Ive (now Senior VP of Design at Apple, Inc.), tangerine has produced some of the most innovative and ground-breaking designs for organizations ranging from British Airways ...

Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is renowned for his architectural achievements on a public and domestic scale, interior designing, and furniture design. This book aims to review his work in context, and consider how his ideas can be interpreted. His handling of colour, use of materials, and graphic approach to form are explored.

Covers the various aspects of contemporary ceramic practice and includes work of all scales from a few centimetres in size to vast room-sized installations. With over 600 illustrations, this comprehensive survey is suitable for ceramists, students and collectors alike.

Rhythm in Architecture is the first ever translation into English of a key early Modernist text, written by the celebrated Soviet Constructivist architect Moisei Ginzburg and first published in Russian as Ritm v Arkhitekture in 1923.

Luxury accommodation and cultural conduit-the history, design, and architecture of a social and cultural phenomenon

Features a wide-ranging selection of projects spanning three decades, which reflect true architectural innovation, and provides an insight into the most current architecture and design discourse directly from a leader in the field.

Essays on architecture, beautifully illustrated with the author's own photographs and drawings. John Melvin, one of the UK's most experienced architects and town planners, reflects on the nature of tradition and the role of memory in the renewal of our cities. With a profound understanding of the history ...

Features selected products that showcase the innovative use of a particular material. This book focuses on specific categories of packaging sustainable packaging, functional forms, dispensing systems, advanced protection, interactive and mass craft. It also contains detailed information on over 100 materials.

Unforgettable Ancient Sites includes mysterious megalithic sites that appear to have been built using geometric principles far in advance of their time, pyramids that once ran with sacrificial blood, vast temple complexes, lost cities and stunning works of ancient architecture, these sites all have one ...

Focusing on Romanesque architecture, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this style.

The colourful and unique MoDA Style Guides offer a fascinating insight into 20the-Century home decoration and furnishings, and are an excellent resource for the enthusiast. Beautifully illustrated and expertly researched, the guides draw from the extensive MoDA collections and other original sources ...

Authentic 19th- and 20th-century royalty-free graphics, crisply rendered in black-and-white: human and animal figures, music and dance, florals, geometrics, much more.

A reprint of a rare architect's catalog of 1923, presenting a full range of typical home designs of the period. Photographs, floor plans, and full descriptions of interior and exterior detailing. 345 black-and-white illustrations.