Regency Style by Steven Parissien
$55.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
The Regency period (c.1780-1837) saw the development of what is today one of the most popular styles in architecture and design. The combined influences of the antique and the exotic, together with the technological innovations of the day, produced a sophisticated style that was eclectic but also quinte ...Show more
Next Wave - Emerging Talents in Australian Architecture by Davina Jackson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
As global focus turns towards the growing influence and power of the Far East, the architects of Australia are perfectly placed to respond with their own forward-looking visions. This book explores the sixteen most exciting young architectural studios in Australia, and the progressive projects built in ...Show more
Norman Foster - Reflections by Norman Foster
$65.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Architecture is not a luxury, insists Norman Foster, but a necessity generated by people's social, spiritual, and material needs. In a series of essays Foster looks back on four decades of work in which he has provided humanity with places to hope and dream, find solace in a crowded world, and establish ...Show more
Castles and Palaces of Europe by Ulrike Schober
$40.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
In the Neoclassic Style - Empire, Biedermeier and the Contemporary Home by Melanie Fleischmann
$16.00 NZD
Category: Interior design | Reading Level: very good
An examination of the Empire style, as seen in couches, cabinets, wall hangings, silverwork and porcelain from the Napoleonic era. Demonstrates how such forms can be applied to today's homes, and looks at the work of a variety of designers who have used the neoclassical style. First published in 1988. ...Show more
Gehry's Vertigo by Ila Beka; Louise Lemoine
$15.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Kaleidoscope Dakar & Kinshasa by Jean Michel Massing
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Gimcracks, Greenstone & Gold - Collecting and Imagining the New Zealand International Exhibition Christchurch 1906-07 by Barry Hancox
$160.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Spanish Mission Hastings - Styles of Five Decades by Peter Shaw; Peter Hallett
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Farm - The Vernacular Tradition of Working Buildings by David Larkin; Paul Rocheleau (Photographer)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: good
The Sun in the Church - Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by J L Heilbron
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they also housed instruments that threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system, and so, within sight of the altar, subverted Church doctrine about the ...Show more
A World History of Architecture by Michael Fazio; Marian Moffett; Lawrence Wodehouse
$25.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: good