New Architecture in the Emerging World
R285This is a monograph on nearly a decade’s worth of work by Andrew Bromberg, chief designer at the worlds largest privately owned architecture firm, AEDAS.
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Out of stockThe Living, Breathing, Thinking, Responsive Buildings of the Future
R290One of the more exciting realities of 21st-century life is that objects are now able with the help of embedded technology to sense, think, act and communicate. Very soon, every building, city and landscape component will be equipped with communicative and computational capacities: we shall be surrounded by sentient architecture.
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SHoP Architects: Out of Practice
R530An insider’s look into one of contemporary architecture’s most cutting-edge firms. SHoP’s striking projects and unique business model are captured in this thoughtful and inventively organized monograph.
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Rogue Urbanism: Emergent African Cities
R650The unique ambition of Rogue Urbanism is to produce new and relevant theoretical work on African urbanism in a way that works within the border zone between inherited theoretical resources and artistic representations of everyday practices and phenomenology in African cities.
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Out of stockHidden Cape Town
R400A unique look inside 30 of Cape Town’s most notable buildings. If you have ever wondered what lies behind an interesting facade, or wished you could peek behind a closed door, Hidden Cape Town is the book for you.
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Out of stockStellenberg
R650Stellenberg, the story of a garden This superbly elegant book tells the story of one of South Africa’s most loved and admired gardens. It’s also the story of a historic and beautiful house, a uniquely preserved example of Cape Dutch architecture.
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Out of stockFrank O.Gehry – Since 1997
R430The only complete monograph on the past twelve years of the great architect’s career. Published in conjunction with the major exhibition curated by Germano Celant at the Milan Triennial, this volume brings together all the projects realized by Frank O. Gehry since his pivotal stylistic metamorphosis of 1997, embodied by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, until today.
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Out of stockWorld of Art: American Art and Architecture
R145This new survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work
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Out of stock101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
R165101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the design studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language the things they tend to…
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Johannesburg: Eenhonderd Jaar 1886 -1986
R500Johannesburg, die enigste stad ter wereld wat op goud gebou is, het in 1986 honderd jaar geword. Â Heirdie boek gedenk die geleentheid. Al die groot persoonlikhede en gebeurtenisse wat bygedra het om die geskiedenis van die Goudstad te rig, al die seges en terugslae, word in woord en beeld in herinnering geroep.
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Out of stockAfroPolis: City, Media, Art
R260Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Afropolis is the product of an exhibition developed by the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany. The book focuses on the Big Five of African cities: Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa and Johannesburg, and brings together positions of artistic and cultural studies, as well as detailed histories and the specific dynamics of these African cities, in order to expand our understanding of the concept of urbanity and the phenomenon of the City from an African perspective.
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Out of stockThe Shard: The Official Guidebook
R140The Shard is the tallest building in western Europe. From February 2013, the public will be able to visit floors 68 to 72, where they will experience an amazing 35-mile vista over London and beyond.
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Out of stockM.C Escher Pop-Up | Christmas Gifts
R440These marvelous paper constructions allow us to appreciate in new ways the artist’s impossible geometry and his themes of infinity and paradox. The book also features quotes from Escher on the original pieces of art as well as reproductions of a number of his other works.
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Out of stockJohannesburg: Architecture and Heritage
R595In this landmark photographic book Patrick de Mervelec takes us through the old CBD of Johannesburg, the heart and soul of the city, with a selection of over 150 images accompanied by texts by architect and acclaimed author, Clive Chipkin. The introductions have been contributed by architect Fanuel Motsepe and urban consultant Neil Fraser, author of the celebrated column, Citichat.
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Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
R600Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa documents and celebrates the artworks integrated into and collected for the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The book pays tribute to the extraordinary vision of the architects and judges of the Court who sought to bring together, in the most inspiring, innovative and dignified way possible, art and the workings of justice, and to give a public soul to the new Court building.
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Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa
R250Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa celebrates one of the most important buildings of a young democracy, a building that seeks to reflect the values and principles enshrined in South Africa’s progressive Constitution.