This is Frank Lloyd Wright
R220Frank Lloyd Wright wasn’t just an architect. He was a prophet, a poseur; a beloved teacher, a failed businessman. During his long, eventful life he experienced both incredible misfortune and great success.
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The New Creative Home
R440Designers, stylists and artists from across the country and around the globe make London their home, finding inspiration in its quirky British style and lively cosmopolitanism.
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Out of stockLuxury Collection Hotel Stories
R570Assouline began with an idea and a belief: the first, a notion that beauty, perfected, has meaning that is capable of transforming our lives; and the second, that a book? Artfully crafted and highly considered in its visual content?Can open our eyes and minds.
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Out of stockThe Department Store History · Design · Display
R435This superbly illustrated book goes behind the window displays, eye-catching shopping bags and promotional extravaganzas to reveal the history and design of the department store in marvellous richness and detail.
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Out of stockOscar Niemeyer: The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003
R530The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003, designed by seminal Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, will be his first completed structure in the United Kingdom. Sited on the Gallery’s lawn from June 20th to September 14th of that year, it will offer visitors an opportunity to experience a space designed by one of the founding figures of modern architecture.
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Open Source Architecture
R200Open Source Architecture is a visionary manifesto for the architecture of tomorrow that argues for a paradigm shift from architecture as a means of supporting the ego-fueled grand visions of “starchitects” to a collaborative, inclusive, network-driven process inspired by twenty-first-century trends such as crowd-sourcing, open access, and mass customization.
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Out of stockThomas Heatherwick: Making
R900Covering the studios complete output over twenty years – some 170 projects – Thomas Heatherwick: Making answers what many have asked: How did he do that?. Heatherwick Studio has continued to expand since the original edition was published in 2012.
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Mak Architects
R340Working in architecture is characterised by participating in may processes: from planning to construction, from dream to reality from work to play. Throughout the process many things can influence and shape the intended goal. MAK Architects understand ‘process’ as fluid and open, their body of work cannot be defined as a monograph or a mere representation of process.
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Out of stockLe Corbusier, Le Grand (box set)
R3,600This slip-cased, oversized book, weighing 20 pounds and containsing over 2000 illustrations, summarizes the life and work of the most important modern architect of the 20th century: the legendary, controversial, and confrontational Le Corbusier.
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Out of stockHadid: Complete Works 1979 – Today
Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a new and unique architectural language to cities and structures such as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the Glasgow Riverside Museum, and the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan.
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French Art Deco
R130‘Art Deco’ is epitomized by the French works exhibited at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925.
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Carsten Holler: Test Site
R175A fascinating record of this major project, Carsten Höller is also a detailed survey of the artist?s entire career.
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Art Spaces: The Architecture of Four Tates
R345The diverse and complex development of the art museum is nowhere more richly illustrated than through the architectural evolution of the four Tate galleries.
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Architecture Matters
An illuminating introduction to the influence of architecture on the world, the environment, and human lives
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Out of stockZaha Hadid
R220Discover the audacious futurism of Zaha Hadid. As the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, Hadid broke the rules and re-defined the game, despite some saying her designs were unbuildable. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, she was firmly established as the first great architect of the noughties.
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Out of stockBauhaus
R120Despite being shut down by the Nazis after just fourteen years in existence, the Bauhausart school stands as one of the defining movements of modern history. This book introduces the school’s commitment to creative expression, cutting-edge ideas, and the combination of fine art and technology in a utopian future.