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Christchurch Architecture: A Walking Guide by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
SIXTY BUILDINGS AND SIX ROUTES AROUND A REBUILDING CITY. The second in the series of guides to New Zealands urban architecture by the wellknown team of writer John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds. This handy pocket-sized book suggests a series of city walks that take in both the historicbuilding ...Show more
Pre-Fab Living by Avi Friedman
$55.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
Efficient and inexpensive to produce, pre-fabricated homes are an ideal solution to the financial and environmental costs facing the modern homeowner. Their extremely versatile format also makes them adaptable to all kinds of locations, be it a secluded off-the-grid setting or a dense urban area.This su ...Show more
Big Ideas for Small Houses by Catherine Foster
$50.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
A look at a range of small houses around New Zealand, and the strategies the owners used to get a toehold in the tight housing market. From building a secondary dwelling on an existing family section, to tiny houses on pocket handkerchief pieces of land, these approaches to housing will give ideas and i ...Show more
Modern Architecture A-Z by Taschen
$46.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Space shapers: An encyclopedia of modern architecture The architecture encyclopedia that puts the architects themselves in the spotlight. With more than 270 entries, this indispensable overview, now in our popular Klotz format, covers key players from the 19th to 21st century. Each architect entry featu ...Show more
England's Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
$87.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
'Inspired . . . encourages us to take a fresh look at the familiar' - The TimesEngland's cathedrals are the nation's glory. They tower over its landscape, outranking palaces, castles and mansions. They attract roughly half the nation's population each year. For a millennium they have been objects of pil ...Show more
A Way Home by Jillian Sullivan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
When life as she knew it ended, with her marriage over and her last child off into the world, writer Jillian Sullivan set out to fulfil a long-held dream of building a strawbale house. She settled in a small community in Central Otago, and A Way Home tells the story of how she eventually managed to buil ...Show more
Timber-Framed Buildings by Richard Hayman
$0.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Shire Library
Timber-framed buildings are a distinctive and treasured part of Britain's heritage, with such noteworthy examples as Little Moreton Hall, Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Lavenham Guildhall. The oldest are medieval but their numbers peaked in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a revival in the nin ...Show more
The Cathedrals of England by Harry Batsford; Charles Fry; Simon Jenkins (Foreword by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
A new edition of Batsford's classic 1930s guide to England's cathedrals. This classic guide from 1934 gives a brief account and pictorial review of every cathedral in England that existed at the time. Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the subject, the book features c ...Show more
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J. E. Gordon
$38.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
"Rich and readable...personal, witty and ironic." -- Scientific American . For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back-or give way under-thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper or a ka ...Show more
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