A Modern Way to Live: 5 Design Principles from The Modern House by Matt Gibberd
$50.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
In 2005, childhood friends Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill set out to convince people of the power of good design and its ability to influence our wellbeing. They founded The Modern House - in equal parts an estate agency, a publisher and a lifestyle brand - and went on to inspire a generation to live more ...Show more
Come Back to Mona Vale - Life and death in a Christchurch Mansion by Alexander McKinnon
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Come Back to Mona Vale is a beautifully written, compelling narrative/memoir that sets about unravelling the mysteries and anomalies behind the public history of a wealthy Christchurch business family in the first half of the 20th century. The author-as narrator gradually becomes aware that his family h ...Show more
The Short Story of Architecture - A Pocket Guide to Key Styles, Buildings, Elements & Materials by Susie Hodge
$35.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Architecture is a new and innovative guide to the subject of architecture that explores 50 key buildings, from the Great Pyramids to high-tech, sustainable skyscrapers. Accessible and concise, the book links the 50 key works to the most important architectural materials, elements and ...Show more
Contrasts - Or, a Parallel Between the Noble Edifices of the Middle Ages and Corresponding Buildings of the Present Day by A. W. Pugin
$64.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture Ser.
Among the most influential figures of the Gothic Revival in nineteenth-century Britain, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) distinguished himself as an architect, author and interior designer. He had crafted furniture for George IV at Windsor, but his greatest triumph was the design and fitting out ...Show more
Who Lived There? The Stories Behind Historic New Zealand Buildings by Nicola McCloy; Jane King
$45.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
You can't help but wonder about the stories behind the unusual buildings you see around New Zealand - from cute colonial cottages to abandoned industrial buildings or ghost towns. Nicola McCloy went looking to find out ... who lived there? From basic stone cottages in barren-looking countryside to prett ...Show more
The Architect's Guide to Designing and Constructing Tall Buildings by Guy Marriage (Editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
This is a guide to both the basics and the details of tall building design, delving into the rudimentary aspects of design that an architect of a tall office building must consider, as well as looking at the rationale for why and how a building must be built the way it is. Liberally illustrated with ...Show more
The Architect and the Artists - Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble - The Collaborative Projects 1965-1979 by Bridget Hackshaw
$65.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member, for a time, of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on 12 New Zealand buildings - from churches to school halls. Drawing ...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
Timber-Framed Buildings by Richard Hayman
$20.00 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
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
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
Bunker: Building for the End of Times by Garrett, Bradley L.
$48.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rap ...Show more