Design Monograph: Perriand by Naomi Stungo
$36.99 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design | Series: Design Monograph Ser.
An illustrated 'greatest hits' of Perriand's work, with a concise explanation of why she is so lauded and the hallmarks that identify her work. A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book conta ...Show more
Design Monograph: Wright by Naomi Stungo
$36.99 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design | Series: Design Monograph Ser.
A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work.The ...Show more
Detroit-Moscow-Detroit - An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917-1945 by Jean-Louis Cohen (Editor); Christina E. Crawford (Editor); Claire Zimmerman (Editor)
$150.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
Ideologically opposed, technologically cooperative--an original account of US and USSR industrialization between the world wars. Between 1927 and 1945, a tide of hyperindustrialization washed over the United States and the Soviet Union. While the two countries remained ideologically opposed, the factor ...Show more
Dig It! by Bjarne Mastenbroek, Iwan Baan (eds.)
$275.50 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
Dig deep into the origins of building. The ground, now often used as a passive foundation for going higher, is rife with possibilities. Bjarne Mastenbroek investigates the relationship architecture has, had, and will have, with site and nature. Through the photography of Iwan Baan and more than 500 anal ...Show more
Electrical Development in New Zealand by H.J. Beeche
$85.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
Hardback with dust jacket. 342 pages. SECONDHAND
Europäisches Besteck-Design, 1945-2000 - Design-Sammlung Bauer by W. O. Bauer
$135.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
After WWII, stainless steel (also known by the abbreviation 18/8) was the working material preferred by cutlery designers. Table culture attained a high profile with this new material. The industrialists Hugo Pott, W. Seibel and Philipp Rosenthal played a paramount role in ensuring that it did. The Baue ...Show more
Fire & Decay: The Destruction of the Large New Zealand House by Terence E.R.Hodgson
$65.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
A pictorial survey of over 70 historic country houses, built by the wealthy which have been destroyed by fire, demolition and decay. An architectural history of New Zealand's lost landmarks.
Frank Lloyd Wright by Goessel Et Al
$42.50 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to structures across the continent, from suburban homes to churches, offices, skyscrapers, and the celebrated Guggenh ...Show more
Futuna - Life of a Building by Bevin Nick
$50.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design | Reading Level: near fine
The book also tells the vexed story of the chapel's sale to a developer in 2001 and its subsequent dereliction and, at the eleventh hour, rescue. Since then, the chapel has been transformed from a place of Catholic worship to a non-denominational centre for spiritual, cultural and artistic expression. W ...Show more
GARRETT ECKBO by TREIB MARC
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrated in ...Show more
HomeWork New Houses Changed Houses Not Houses by M. McInturff; Julia Heine (Photographer)
$135.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A beautifully illustrated volume showcasing residential and commercial/institutional designs across North America, with a special focus on artful interiors, the craftmanship and the dynamics at play within each spaceSpectacularly presented throughout with stunning full-colour photographs, detailed plans ...Show more