Theory & Aesthetics

[Updated 09.01.09]

5 x 2 Research And The Making Of Architecture Donohue M & Mueller B
This book features joint interviews between pairs of leading American and Swiss architecture firms, investigating the role research plays in the building process. These conversations developed from a seminar with the purpose of exposing the similarities and differences in education, design and construction, all to reveal the multiple ways architecture is made. It includes interviews with Angelil / Fougeron, Deplazes / Saitowitz, Devanthery & Lamunier / Tehrani, Olgiati / Jennings, and Hebel & Stollmann / Iwamoto.
William K Stout 2006 176pp PB $A74.80

306090 Decoration Vol. 10 Abruzzo E. & Solomon J. (eds)
This milestone colour edition of 306090 investigates one of the “unmentionables” of contemporary architecture, decoration. Contributors include Jesse Reiser, Kengo Kuma, Ken Bloomer and Meredith Wamer all address the emerging trends in design, planning, landscape, and education PAP USA 2006 190pp$A49.50

306090 Landscape within Architecture
Twenty five essays by professors & students from public and private universities and institutes in the US + Canada address 'landscape within architecture', ''landscape into architecture', 'architecture within landscape' and other variations on this theme. 306090 is an independent architectural journal that publishes work by students, academics and young professionals. PAP USA, 2004, PB 207pp A$24.00
306090  06March 2004 Shifting Infrastructures
Focusing on the influence of communication systems, data & material distribution, & other new technologies on existing physical & cultural infrastructures. The volume includes work from AUDC, Daniella Fabricius, Gnuform, Emily Eastman, Designlab, & others. PAP USA2004 PB 192pp$A24.00

50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International McKenzie Wark
An exploration of the way our contemporary understading of art, politics and culture has been influenced and affected by the ‘Situationist’.
FORuM Project Publication 2008 80pp HB AU$43.00

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History Manuel De Landa
Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics.  Rather, the source of all concrete forms in the West's history are shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy itself. Swerve/Zone Books, USA, 2000, 333pp, PB $A 46.50

Abstracting Craft The Practiced Digital Hand. McCullough, M
In this investigation of the possibility of craft in the digital realm, Malcolm McCullough observes that the emergence of computation as a medium, rather than just a set of tools, suggests a growing correspondence between digital work and traditional craft. MIT, USA, 1996. 309pp PB $A 38.50

The Activist Drawing Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond   de Zegher C, and Wigley M, (Ed)
This is the next step (from Constant's New Babylon) in uncovering and re-examining the Situationist's influence on architecture, especially the propositions of Constant's New Babylon and the concept of unitary urbanism. This book highlights the various people and architectures inspired by this work, and also makes comparisons between Constant's thoughts on architecture and the functions of New Babylon as a precursor to the WWW. Includes drawings, photo's, art, drawings and an interview with Constant himself. An excellent book with much to offer the architect, urban planner and philosopher. MIT, USA, 2001. HB 152pp $A 69.95

AD: Spatial Intelligence, New Futures for Architecture van Schaik L
“Providing an overview of spatial intelligence as a human capability, this book also acknowledges how widespread recognition of it in architectural education and the profession should enable the demystification of the practice of design, forming the basis of a more democratic interface between society and practice.” The second book of the AD Primers series and another must have title for the reference shelf.
Wiley USA 2008 207pp PB $A64.95

After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan Daniell T
Architect Daniell arrived in Japan during the traumatic period of Japanese history when the collapse of the economic bubble, the Kobe earthquake and the terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway occurred. This is a collection of his essays describing what happened not only to the culture but the built environment.
Princeton USA 2008 192pp $A49.95

Ambiguous Spaces Naja & deOstos
Next in the pamphlet architecture series #29.
Princeton Architectural Press Canada 2008 80pp PB AU$32.00

Anaesthetics of Architecture Leach.  N
A short philosophical and cultural polemic on the growing preoccupation with images and image making in contemporary architecture. MIT, USA, 1999. PB $A33.00

And it Came to Pass – Not to Stay R. Buckminster Fuller
A compilations of Fuller’s essays and writings from the 1960s and 70s. 7 essays explore the notion of the present and the impact upon the future, with titles including How Little I Know, What I am Trying to Do, Soft Revolution, and Ethics. Lars Muller Publishers 2008 191pp PB AU$35.00

Androgynus The Male-Female in Art and Architecture. Feuerstein, G
Feuerstein, a figure central to the Austrian post-war avant-garde movement has written a speculative study about the recognition of something specifically androgynous in architecture. Axel Menges, Stuttgart, 1997.  239pp HB $A140.80

Animate Form Lynn. G
"Animation is a term that differs from, but is often confused with, motion. While motion implies movement and action, animation implies the evolution of a form and its shaping forces;  it suggests animalism, animalism, growth, actuation, vitality and virtuality..."  And so begins the journey of  Greg Lyn's traversals through architectural and theoretical speculations. PAP, USA, 1999.  203pp + CD HB $A 85.00

Anxious Modernism: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture Goldhagen S, Legault R. Eds
The two decades after the Second World War are typically viewed as an inchoate interregnum between an expiring modernism & an incipient post-modernism. Yet this tidy narrative tells only half the story, leaving out a second development, an evolving & powerful modernism. The essays here reveal that a wide range of postwar architects & theorists -- including Saarinen & Rudofsky in the United States; ATBAT-Afrique in Morocco; Price & the Smithsons in England; Bakema in Holland; & the Metabolists in Japan -- were determined to renew rather than abandon the legacy of modernism. The book's essays remap the emerging field of postwar architectural studies, refocusing attention on modernist ideas & work that have had a critical, ongoing impact on architectural culture. CCA/MIT USA/CANADA2001HB 335pp$A89.00

Approaches to Interactivity METAWORX - Young Swiss Interactive ed association metaworx
A book that draws an exciting map of a theory of interactivity and its various cultural expressions and concerns. The resulting open, evolving cartography may serve as an adaptive guide to a new field of transdisciplinary research. Birkhauser Germany 2003 PB 172pp $A63.50

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Navado 2005 Italy 88pp PB $A38.50

Architectural Criticism and Journalism: Global Perspectives Asad A & Musa M
A collection of essays bringing together more than thirty architects, critics and editors discussing issues in the field today. The publication was organised by the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Umberto Alemandi Italy 2007 144pp PB $A75.00

Architectural Design Research Vol 2 No. 1 AASA & RMIT
Project-Based Design Research and Discourse on Design.
Brent Allpress opens with an introduction to the changes in Australian architectural research from the existing DEST to RQF, where a qualitative rather than quantative research assessment process is employed. This journal shows four projects that have employed a project-based design research methodology, including works by Richard Goodwin, Pederson, Iredale and Hook, Victoria Watson and Jane Burry in collaboration with Andrew Maher. AASA Australia 2007 151pp PB AU$30.00

Architectural Elegance in a Diverse World Baker WT
RIBA ONLINE: A landmark book for our generation, Architectural Excellence provides a unifying theory for architectural design with a decidedly non-western, culturally neutral perspective. This work addresses the controversial subject of what constitutes architectural excellence and what if any, should be the guiding principles for buildings design. It provides rational guidelines for practitioners as they seek to create an architecture that is authentic to a society's culture. Architectural Excellence encourages international practitioners and students of architecture to design buildings that will stand the test of time - the ultimate test of architectural excellence. Images Australia 2008 125pp HB $A45.00

Architectural Epicentres: Inventing Architecture, Intervening in Reality Ceferin P & Pozar C [eds]
The production of an architectural lecture series that focused on outlining the circumstances in certain countries which led to local architectures occupying the world’s attention for some time. An analytical presentation of seven Architectural production centres of the 20^th and 21^st century: Mexico, Brazil’s “Irrational Modernism”, “extended realism” in Finland, Super Dutch of the 1980s, Spain’s Barcelona and Bilbao, Switzerland and Slovenia.
Arch Museum of Ljubljana Slovenia 2008 164pp PB $A60.00

Architectural Papers 3: Natural Metaphor. An Anthology of Essays on Architecture and Nature
Written by a cross-disciplinary core of authors from Europe, Asia and America, this anthology comprises articles and images that consider the use of nature for diverse design approaches. The third book in the acclaimed series presents essays by Stan Allen, Olfur Eliasson, Florian Sauter, Peter St. John, Toni Girones and Mai Komura amongst others. ACTAR Barcelona 2007 175pp PB A $55.00

Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism Wittkower R
Wittkower was a leading authority on the art and architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Norton NY 1993 173pp PB $24.50

Architecture a Synoptic Vision Meyer, Kuhlbrodt and Aeberhard
A synopsis of grand developments in the Architectural world and their impact on future design principles. Demonstrated though a flow chart model with accompanying booklet describing the events and designs.
Birkhauser Germany 2008 PB $A47.50

Architecture, Ethics, and the Personhood of Place. Caicco, G
A compendium of new work in the field of phenomenology, hermeneutics and the built environment-representing a variety of cultures and religions from around the globe that protect and nourish the sacred character of place while offering a careful critique of modernist, corporate and techno-enthralled design practices. University Press America 2007 245pp HB A$75.00

Architecture of the Absurd : How “Genius” Disfigured a Practical Art Sibler, John
A theoretical look into the nature of building design. Sibler, a philosopher, takes the reader on a round the world tour of various architectural projects, from Gaudi to Meis, Gehry to Libeskind. He questions and often interprets numerous architectural decisions, with reference to similar projects and with often reoccurring themes.
Quantuck Lane Press, New York, 2007 HB AU $ 37.95

Architecture of the Off – Modern Svetlana Boym
A guide to the history of Tatlin’s Tower, unbuilt but destined to be the Monument to the Third International of 1920. The essays take in to account many other prominent towers built in and around this period, and the way in which Tatlin’s tower could have impacted culturally politically and socially on the Soviet state.
FORuM Project Publication 2008 80pp HB AU$43.00

Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics After Modernism Scott F
Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the post-modern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She examines projects, conceptual work, exhibitions, publications, pedagogical initiatives and agitprop performances.
MIT USA 2007 347pp HB A $46.95

Artificial Light: A narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy, and other architectural fictions Mitnick K
Keith Mitnick, himself an architect and teacher, presents a startling vivid personal memoir, inexorably linked to his highly developed awareness of his surroundings.
Princeton architectural press USA 2008 150pp PB AU$45.00

At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture Young, James E.
Young explores the ethical, aesthetic and historical problems surrounding the attempts to memorialize the holocaust in art and architecture. He investigates issues of remembrance and memory in the creation of contemporary artworks, including  Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum and Peter Eisenman's soon to be built Holocaust Memorial  in Germany. This book is an excellent and timely academic study & is well documented. Yale UP, USA, 2000 248pp PB $A48.00

Anymore  Davidson, Cynthia C.
This is the ninth book in a series that began in 1991 with Anyone Each volume is based on an annual conference in which leading thinkers in architecture and fields such as art, sociology, philosophy, and economics come together for a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural discussion on the condition of architecture at the end of the millennium. Anymore is based on the conference held in June 1999 in Paris. Anymore will be followed by Anything.MIT, USA, 2000. 296pp PB $A85.00

Anytime Davidson, C (ed.)
Volume eight in the series questions how space is bound with time.
Anyone& MIT, USA, 1999.  296pp PB $A 85.00

Anything Cynthia C. Davidson Ed
The end has come - Anything is the tenth and last book in a series of volumes documenting the annual international, cross-disciplinary conferences sponsored by the Anyone Corporation from 1991-2000 to investigate the condition of architecture at the end of the millennium. This last volume (from the last conference at the Guggenheim New York June 1, 2, 3 2000) appropriately asks what are the constraints to thought in action at this time in architecture when "anything goes"? An excellent last volume that points to the future. MIT, USA, 2001. PB 288pp $A 85.00

Apartment Stories Marcus, Sharon
City and Home in nineteenth-century Paris and London. CUP, Los Angeles, 1999, 323pp. PB $A 32.95

AR 100 The recovery of the modern Architectural Review 1980-95: Key Text and Critique. Spens, M. ed
Architecture Review, UK, 1996. 254pp HB $A 115.50

Arcade: Artists and Place-making Warwick R. (ed.)
The Gorbals, a notoriously deprived neighbourhood in Glasgow, drew together a group of artists to initiate the Artworks Programme which involved a collaboration with the local community, architects and other local artists, which aimed to create change in the area. This is a documentation of their attempts to preserve cultural memory, and the relationship between inhabitants and place. Black Dog UK 2006 157pp PB $A65.00

Arcadia Revisited the plane of landscape. Various
Black Dog Publishing, UK, 1997. 207pp PB $A 54.45

Archigram Cook, P (ed.)
In late 1960, in various flats in Hampstead, a loose group of people started to meet: to criticize projects, to concoct letters to the press, to make competition projects, and generally prop one another up against the boredom of working in London architectural offices. This facsimile edition of a book originally published in 1972 is a chronicle of the work of Archigram as told by the members themselves. It includes material published in early issues of the Journal, as well as numerous essays, comics, collages, poems, and fantastical architecture projects. PAP, USA, 1999. 144pp PB $A 66.00

Architectural Design and Composition ed Steenbergen, C Mihl, H & Aerts, F
Basic to the act of designing is the capability to conjecture, to invent, to discover and develop strategies in form-making, in order not only to create solutions but also to force critical questions. The starting point for this sequential elaboration and refutation of hypothetical compositions in search on a new and balanced whole is the Vitruvian coherence of thought and action. Thoth Netherlands, 2002 PB 263pp $A 71.50

Art and Architecture: A Place Between Rendell J.
Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Jane Rendell visits projects to demonstrate the blurring of traditional boundaries between the two fields and the recent works by both artists and architects who continue to push existing ideas. Precedents include those by  Tacita Dean, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Rachel Whiteread to architexts such as Rem Koolhaas, Diller + Scofidio and Shigeru Ban are examined, amongst site specific artworks, interventions in buildings and works that redefy the physical limitations of galleries. Also to explore the meanings of place, space and site Rendell draws on writings of thinkers such as Walter Benjamin to Michel de Certeau. Tauris 2006 USA 239pp PB $A54.00

Art becomes Architecture becomes Art: a conversation between Vito Acconci & Kenny Schachter Pfaff L.
Marking out Acconci's path from his studio to the foundation of his office for experimental architecture, Acconci Studio, this book includes a varied overview of his works and projects from designing bridges to skate boards. Schachter is the owner/artist of the multifunctional gallery/event space in New York City called contemporary, where in 2002 Acconci's first architectural project was realised. This title underscores his transition from architect to artist and back again.
Springer Austria 2006 PB 164pp $A54.50

An Architectural Notebook Unwin, Simon
Routledge.London2000 226ppPB $AO/P

Architectural Philosophy Benjamin A.
This text outlines a philosophical account of architecture and attempts to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. The essays touch on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory, the work of Eisenman and the dystopias of science fiction. AthlonePub UK 2003 PB 216pp $A55.00

The Architectural Project Corona-Martinez, Alfonso
Argentinean scholar Alfonso Corona-Martinez emphasizes the distinction between an architectural project, created in the architects mind and materialized as a s et of drawings on paper, and the realized three dimensional  building. Information provided for a deeper understanding of the process of design and its results is the aim of this title. Showing the scope and richness of speculation in architecture. It presents subtle considerations that Corona believes must be mastered if an architect is to properly use typology, the means of representation, and the elements of composition in architecture. Texas A&M, USA, 2003, 199pp $A 89.95

The Architect Reconstructing Her Practice Hughes, Francesca Ed
MIT, USA, 1996. 250pp PB $A 43.95

Architectural Design and Composition Clemens Steenbergen, Henk Miht, Wouter Reh, Ferry Aerts Ed's.
Basic to the act of designing is the the capability to conjecture, to invent, to discover and develop strategies in form-making, in order not only to create solutions but also to force critical questions. Critical Understanding is derived from reference to existing works, cases or discourses and a readiness to theorize and historicize the subject. This book's emphasis is on design research and research by design - two core activities of the faculty of Architecture at Delft University of technology. This great book examines the history and development of theories practices of architectural composition, from Vitruvius to Morphosis, and is an excellent resource for students and practitioners, explaining architectural history as one of intellectual development and refinement through drawing and thinking. Thoth, Holland, 2002. 262pp PB $A 71.50

Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge Alberto Perez-Gomez & Louise Pelletier
"The authors' thinking leads us into the dark opacity of light & through the opal luminosity of the mind's eye, producing architectural joy!" - John Hejduk. Traces the history & meaning of the use of perspective in architectural representation.  MIT, USA, 1997. 505pp PB $A 85.00

Architecturally Speaking Alan Read (ed.)
Practices of art, architecture and the everyday - an international collection by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. Routledge, UK,  2000 338pp. PB $A 58.30

Architecture 2000 and Beyond  Charles Jencks
Wiley-Academy UK  2000 140pp.PB $A 46.95

Architecture as Experience: Radical Change in Spatial Practice Arnold, D. and Ballantyne, A. (Ed.s)
"Architecture as Experience" looks at how many places are perceived and understood across intervals of time and culture. Landscapes, buildings and urban environments are reconfigured in incommensurable ways by different groups, with their own particular identities, concepts and preoccupations. "Architecture as Experience" explores concepts such as heritage, authorial intentions, ethnographic or class viewpoints, literary and scientific analyses as well as instances where one culture has been overtaken by another. Routledge, UK, 2004, 300pp, PB. $A 76.00

Architecture for the Future De Vallee. S
Terrail, France, 1996.  208pp PB $A 43.95

Architecture from the Outside - Writing Architecture Series. Elizabeth Grosz, Peter Eisenman [Intro]
To be outside allows one a fresh perspective on the inside. In these essays, philosopher Elizabeth Grosz explores the ways in which two disciplines that are fundamentally outside each another--architecture and philosophy--can meet in a third space to interact free of their internal constraints. Grosz asks how we can understand space differently in order to structure and inhabit our living arrangements accordingly. Two themes run throughout the book: temporal flow and sexual specificity. All of the essays propose philosophical experiments to render space and building more mobile and dynamic. MIT, USA, 2001. PB 224pp $A 35.95

Architecture Goes Wild: Manifest Writings Kas Oosterhuis
In his writings architect Kas Oosterhuis bridges the gap between theory and practice. His observations are based on the intriguing principle of concrete science fiction. This book contains many examples of essays, work, interviews and speculations making it a challenging read. 010, Holland, 2003. PB 253pp $A 39.60

Architecture in the Age of Printing Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory Mario Carpo, Sarah Benson [Translator]  MIT, USA, 2001. 256pp HB $A O/P

Architecture - the Subject is Matter Hill, Jonathan, (Ed.)
The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. Hill and his contributors acknowledge architecture far beyond the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassess the object at is centre: the building. It is whatever architecture is made of, whether words, bricks, blood cells, sounds, or pixels. The fifteen chapters are divided into three sections--buildings, spaces, and bodies--which each deal with a particular understanding of architecture and architectural matter. Routledge, London, 2001, 254pp, PB $A 66.00

Architecture of the Home Nylander, Ola
Regardless of individual taste, some homes are indisputably more charged, have more atmosphere and are more welcoming than others. But what is it that gives them these qualities - and what steps can those involved in housing design and construction take to ensure that they are creating a positive environment for residents? The Architecture of the Home presents an analysis of non-measurable architectonic attributes that are indispensable to the quality of the home and are particularly important to the resident's perception of their dwelling. Wiley-Academy, London, 2002, 144pp PB $A 59.95

The Architecture of the Jumping Universe 2ed Charles Jencks
Jencks presents the basic ideas of the Sciences of Complexity Theory and shows many examples of buildings by leading architects based on this new language of architecture, along with ecological and organic designs. Wiley Academy, UK, 1997 192pp PB $A 46.95

Architecture and Modernity A Critique Heynen.  H
"Recognising the 'homelessness' of modern man and distinguishing in an exceptionally revealing way between the pastoral and the impastoral aspects of the modern movement, Heynen has written a lucid, critical and absolutely seminal text that should be read not only by every student but also every practicing architect." MIT, USA, 1999.  265pp PB $A 50.00 in paperback

The Architectural Uncanny Essays in the modern unhomely. Vidler, A.
The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings& projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition. The essays are at once historical & theoretical, opening up the complex and difficult relationships between politics, social thought, and architectural design in an era when the reality of homelessness & the idealism of the neo-avant-garde have never seemed so far apart. MIT, USA, 1996. 257pp PB $A 42.85

Architecture and Cubism Blau, E. Troy, N.
MIT, USA, 1997. 264pp PB $A 65.95

Architecture and Disjunction Tschumi, B.
Architecture and Disjunction, which brings together Tschumi's essays from 1975 to 1990, is a lucid and provocative analysis of many of the key issues that have engaged architectural discourse over the past two decades -- from deconstructive theory to recent concerns with the notions of event and program. The essays develop different themes in contemporary theory as they relate to the actual making of architecture, attempting to realign the discipline with a new world culture characterized by both discontinuity and heterogeneity. Included are a number of seminal essays that incited broad attention when they first appeared in magazines and journals, as well as more recent and topical texts. MIT, USA, 1997. 268pp PB $A 59.95

Architecture and Feminism Coleman, D. Danze, E. Henderson, C. Ed's
Originally conceived as the Yale Journal of Architecture and Feminism, Architecture And Feminism is the result of Debra Coleman, Elizabeth Danze, and Carol Henderson's efforts to create an ongoing forum at the Yale School of Architecture for the discussion of the relationship between architecture and feminism. In order to promote the idea that architecture and feminism is an important area of study, an open call for papers and projects led to over one hundred submissions from a diverse group of authors.PAP, USA, 1996. 255pp PB $A 43.45

Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity  Ingraham, C.
An inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice. Ingraham investigates the line as a conceptual and literal force in architecture, investigating these questions through the work of various architects, philosophers and artists, amongst them are  Le Corbusier, Vitruvius, Alberti, Derrida, Shakespeare and Rilke. YUP, USA, 1998. 196pp HB $A 79.95.

Architecture Culture 1943-1968  A Documentary Anthology. Ockman, J.
Rizzoli, USA, 1996. 464pp PB $A P/A

Architecture Must Burn Betsky, Aaron & Adigard, Erik
"A Manifesto for an architecture beyond building". Inspiring, refreshing text amongst an overload of images and graphics. Very nineties, very fresh, drawing from Situationist and rationalist theories.Thames and Hudson, UK, 2000, PB $A 67.00

Architecture of Oppression Jaskot, P
The SS, forced labour and the Nazi monumental building economy are re-evaluated, shedding new light on Speer's relationship to criminal state policy, and Nazi Germany's architectural history. Routledge, UK, 2000.  207pp PB $A 54.95

Architecture of Science Galison, P (ed.)
A thoughtfully challenging collection of essays by  theorists and practitioners of science, architecture and art, (including Frampton, Gomez-Perez, Venturi et al) addressing areas such as "Of  Secrecy and Openness:  Science and Architecture in Early Modern Europe", "Displaying and Concealing Technics in the Nineteenth Century" and "Centres, Cities, and Colliders." MIT, USA, 1999.  570pp HB $A 165.25

Architecture of the Everyday Berke, D and Harris, S (ed)
"...unmonumental and antiheroic, an architecture rooted in the common-place and the routines of everyday life." Architecture of the Everyday is a plea by a growing number of architects to reject the growing cycles of consumption and fashion that reduce architecture to a stylish fad. Included are writings by H. Lefebre, M.McLeod and E. Pascucci. Interesting and plentiful images, both B+W and colour. PAP, USA, 1997. 229 pp PB $A 47.85

Architectures of Time Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture, Kwinter, Sanford
MIT Press, USA, 2001, 237pp, HB $A 65.95 Now in Paperback $A 45.00

Architecture Theory Since 1968 Hays. M (ed.),
This anthology presents 47 of the primary texts of contemporary architectural theory , introducing each by detailing the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. Included amongst the essayists are Tafuri, Rowe, Tschumi, Koolhaas, Eisenman and Vidler.MIT Press, USA, 1998.  807pp PB $A 98.00

Arquitecturanimciaon (Architecture and Animation)
This quirky little brick book introduces new relationships between the animated and architecture. Blurring the boundaries between the third and fourth dimensions, it is topped up with heavy loaded text as it is a light and unbiased collection of ideas. A series of stills runs throughout the book across the top of the pages and creates a welcome diversion to the dense text as well as offering examples of it's themes. Includes a CDRom. Actar, Spain, 2002, 448pp PB $A 75.00

Art and Architecture; New Affinities Schultz-Dornburg, J.
Parallels are drawn between works by architects and artists. Influences are discerned and connections established between disciplines that are sometimes on the point of merging in the way they extrapolate and interchange their findings. Structured in eight parts , the book takes a look at the latest tendencies in both disciplines, and   finds the end results turn out to be surprisingly similar. GG, Spain, 2000. 144pp PB $A 65.00

Architecture is (as) a gesture
Flemish philosopher Bart Verschaffel quotes "Architecture is a gesture. Not all purposeful movements by the human body are gestures, any more than all purposeful buildings are architecture." Verschaffel explores intentions, connections, functions, virtues in architecture as a gesture. Quart, Switz. 2001 59pp PB $A25.00 

Architecture as Signs & Systems For a Mannerist Time Venturi R. & Scott Brown D.
The views of Venturi & Scott Brown have influenced architects worldwide for nearly half a century. Pluralism & multiculturalism; symbolism & iconography; pop-culture & the everyday landscape; generic building & electronic communication are among the many ideas they have championed. Here, they present both a fascinating retrospective of their life work and a definitive statement of its theoretical underpinnings. Accessible, informative, & beautifully illustrated, it is a must for students of architecture & urban planning, as well as anyone intrigued by these seminal cultural figures. Harvard USA2004 HB 250pp $A120.00

Art in Technological Times: 010101 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
This delightful, informative and beautiful little book is the catalogue from the exhibition of  2001of the same name. Including projects from Karim Rashid, Droog Design and Asymptote Architecture, it is a curious look at the future of aesthetics in a post- digital era. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA 2001PB 152pp$A 49.95

Art of the Accident
NAI, Netherlands, 1998 256pp PB $A O/P 05.2000

Artificial Love: A story of machines and Architecture Shepheard, Paul
Three stories woven together about architecture. The first about machines as architecture, leads to speculations about technology and the human condition and to the assertion that machines are the sculptures of today. The second; the ways that architecture reflects the tribal and personal desires of those who make it. The third, people experiencing their lives in the context of architecture. Shephard believes that technology is our nature, and we cannot but be in harmony with nature. MIT Press, USA 2003 296pp PB $A 38.95

Art Space and the City Public Art and Urban Futures. Miles, M.
. Routledge, UK, 1997. 266pp PB $A 40.65

As Found - The Discovery of the Ordinary British Architecture & Art of the 1950s. Lichtenstein C, Schregenberger T (Ed)
Lars Muller, Swiss, 2001. HB 320pp $A 115.00

At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture. Young, James E.
 Yale UP, USA, 2000 248pp PB $A 48.00

Back from Utopia: the Challenge of the Modern Movement. Hubert-Jan Henket & Hilde Heynen
The Modern Movement in architecture advocated an approach that would keep pace with technological developments, do justice to the needs of the rising masses and convey an image of universality, freedom and openness. Pioneers like Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies van der Rohe created a sober architecture free of ornament whose aesthetic appeal relied upon the play of interpenetrating volumes and effects of transparency. Authors critically discuss the values of the Modern Movement, its multiple manifestations, its connections with colonialism, the promises it did not keep and the paradoxes it gave rise to. In a variety of ways, ranging from cartoons, collages and poems to essays and scholarly texts, they comment upon the significance of the Modern Movement today. 010, Holland, 2002. PB 412pp $A 80.30

Bauhaus Girard,X
 A small book with beautiful photographs, and text. Assouline, US 2003 79pp HB $A 39.95

The Bauhaus and America Kengtens-Craig, Margaret
MIT, USA, 1999, 283pp. HB $A88.00

Behind the Postcolonial Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia. Kusno, A
Routledge, UK 2000 250pp. PB $A 66.00

Berlage Cahiers 5: Fields Studio '95 '96
 010, Netherlands, 1997. 112pp PB $A 37.95

Berlage Cahiers 6: Conflict Studio '96 '97
 010 Netherlands, 1998, 115pp. PB $A 41.80

Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered:Spatial emotion in contemporary art & architecture Munder H & Budak A (Eds)
Accompanying an exhibition from the Migros Museum in Zurich Switzerland, this beautifully bound book features twenty-one artists & architects, with five essays analysing our relationship to space. JRP Editions Swiss 2004 HB 206pp $A64.35

Big Box ReUse Christensen J
Christensen documents community activism, as they attempt to take over giant abandoned pieces of architecture across the American landscape. Where there was once Wallmarts and Kmarts there now stands churches, community centres, schools- public domains.
MIT USA 2008 230pp HB $A62.00

The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture Johnson S.
The Big Idea uses an autobiographical approach to explore issues of how large theoretical ideas influence day-to-day architectural practice. Architect Scott Johnson has, over the last few decades, been privileged to work and study in rarified environments in Berkeley, Boston, New York and Los Angeles, where big ideas of architectural theory were emerging. This is an account of how one architect has made sense of his time and place. Balcony 2006 USA 192pp PB $A69.50

Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness Farrelly E
Leading architecture critic and writer Elizabeth Farrelly asks why Western humanity is richer and safer than ever before yet sadder and more fearful. Blubberland joins the dots between consumerism, sprawl, obesity, depression, McMansionism, insatiability, sustainability and desire and clinches the argument that it’s now or never. UniNSW Press 2007 AUST 219pp PB AU$29.95

Blue Monday: Stories of Absurd Realities and Natural Philosophies Sumrell R & Varnelis K
Actar Spain 2007 176pp PB $A48.00(16/06)

Blur - the making of nothing DIller + Scofidio
Part scrapbook, part anthology of short stories Blur traces the creation, from conception to realization, of a media pavilion for the Swiss Expo.02, whose primary materials are steel and fog. The publication is not only the permanent documentation of a temporary structure; it also documents schemes and ideas abandoned in the course of developing the pavilion. Absolutely packed with information, diagrams, drawings and pictures - an essential book on architecture process. Abrams, USA, 2002. PB 384pp $A 68.00

Biomorphic Architecture Human and Animal Forms in Architecture Feuerstein, Gunther
Edition Axel Menges, Germany, 2002, 188pp, HB $A O/P

The Body in Architecture Hauptmann D. (ed)
A collection of theoretical essays and architecture, urban and film based projects, understanding the “body” through exploring the notion beyond what is traditionally perceived, into that which corresponds with current research and further examining the individual, collective, mystical, corporate, institutional, animal, prosthetic and the ethological. Part one includes contributors for over a dozen essays include M. Christine Boyer, Anthony Vidler and ARie Graafland and part two includes nine projects from contributors such as  Staefano Boeri and video artist Dryden Goodwin. 010 2006 Netherlands 379pp PB $A75.00

Body and Building Essays on the Changing Relations of Body and Architecture Dodds, G. & Tavernor, R. Eds.
Since Greek antiquity the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. An international group of architects, historians & theorists present essays that range from Greek temples to the churches of  Ando as they examine the relationship of the human body& architecture.MIT2002USA427ppHB$A 102.00

Building Ideas Introduction to Architectural Theory.  Hale, J
Wiley, USA, 2000. 241pp PB $A 54.95

Capitalist Realism project Russia 24
Russia's leading publication on architecture and design. Magazine format.  Since it is the only bi-lingual publication on this subject in the former Communist block, it gives foreign readers a unique insight in developments in the built environment in the region after the collapse of Communism. This issue looks at how hunger for authenticity cannot be filled by contemporary buildings, but only nostalgia, and instructs that it is not so important what this nostalgia relates to: a wooden hut . . . A-Fond Publishers. Neth 2003 HB 96pp $A 49.50

Chambers for a Memory Palace Donald Lyndon and Charles W. Moore
MIT, USA, 1994 322pp. PB $A 38.50

The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 Mumford, Eric
MIT, USA, 2000. 375pp. HB $A 95.00

Cities for a Small Planet: Richard Rogers & Gumuchdjian, P
Faber & Faber, UK, 1997. 180pp PB $A 27.45

Cities of Difference Fincher, R.   Jacobs, J.  Eds
Guilford, USA, 1998. PB 322 pp $A 43.95

City of Bits Space, Place, and the Infobahn. Mitchell, W.
MIT, USA, 1997. 225pp PB $A 33.00

The City of Tomorrow and its Planning Le Corbusier
Dover  New York 1987 302pp. PB $A 36.50

City Spaces:  Art & Design Mossop E. & Walton P.
Craftsmen 2001 AUST 136pp PB $A39.95

Competing Visions Moravanszky, Akos
 MIT, USA, 1998. 507pp. HB $A O/P

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Venturi, Robert
MOMA, USA, 1977, 136pp. PB $A 39.95

Constructions Virilio, P (intro) Rajchman, J
  MIT, USA, 1998. 143pp PB $A 43.95

Cradle to Cradle McDonough, William & Braungart, Michael
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do  ore with less in order to minimize damage. But as this  book points out in its provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model, dating to the industrial Revolution, that creates a fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. Drawing on their experience in (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, McDonough and Braungart make an exciting and viable case for putting eco-effectiveness into practice, and show how anyone involved with making anything can begin to do so as well North Point Press, USA, 2002. 193pp PB $A 45.00

Critical Architecture. Rendell, J, Hill, J, Fraser, M & Dorrain, M
Critical Architecture examines the relationship between design and criticism in architecture by situating architecture in an interdisciplinary context with fields such as art, cultural and literary criticism. It goes on to consider how critical practise in design operates through a number of different modes: buildings, drawings and texts relayed through thirty-six essays by an international cast of leading academics and designers. Routledge New York 2007 348pp. PB A$88.00

Critical Modernism, Where is Post Modernism Going? Jencks C
JWiley 2007 UK 160pp PB $A55.95

Critical Regionalism: Architecture & Identity in a Globalised World  Lefaivre L. & Tzonis A.
The latest book in the Architecture in Focus series, this beautifully illustrated & designed book reconsiders critical regionalism & brilliantly demonstrates the global viability of one of the most visible trends in contemporary architecture. As globalisation increasingly enters every facet of our lives, its homogenizing effects on architecture, urban spaces, & the landscape have compelled architects to embrace the principles of critical regionalism, an alternative theory that respects local culture, geography & climate. In this important re-examination of critical regionalism, two prominent architectural critics argue for a truce between the seemingly antithetical philosophies of critical regionalism & globalisation. PrestelGermany2003PB159pp$A112.99

Crossed Lines: New Territories of Design
The frontiers between the traditional disciplines of design are blurring. This interdisciplinary space, at times vague, at times unclassifiable, engendering all sorts of exchanges, blends, transactions, frictions & superimpositions, sketches a map of the territory with new points of convergence & new crossings of information & action.  This publication seeks to identify this new cartography of design & in doing so, fixes its gaze on the “playing field” (processes, movements, strategies, alliances) as well as the results (objects) and their protagonists (authors). Thirty-nine pieces of diverse conception, format & creators. Works by: Actar Arquitectura, Atelier Bow-wow, Dunne & Raby, Do+Droog Design=Do Create, Hilde de Decker, El Perro, LOT-EK, Lucy Orta, Michael Lin, Neasden Control Centre, NO.MAD, Sixis Motiongraphics, Tord Boontje, etc. Actar Spain 2004 PB 165 double pages $A85.00

Crucial Words, Conditions for Contemporary Architecture Wingårdh G & Wærn R
Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn, Sweden's most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, give a list of crucial words to consider in regards to contemporary architecture. With terms and concepts such as: branding, collaborators, desire, future, everyday, ornament, wheelchair and why, the book becomes a dictionary of articles written by a range of interesting protagonists. Such as Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa and Wilfried Wang.
Birkhauser Germany 2007 206pp HB AU $58.50

CTRL [Space] - Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Levin,  Frohne & Weibel
Traditional imaging and tracking systems have given way to infinitely more powerful dataveillance technologies, as an evolving arsenal of surrogate eyes and ears in our society shifts its focus from military to domestic space. Taking as its point of departure an architectural drawing by Jeremy Bentham that became the model for an entire social regime, CTRL [SPACE] looks at the shifting relationships between design and power, imaging and oppression, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The artists whose panoptical preoccupations are featured include, among others, Sophie Calle, Diller + Scofidio, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Michael Klier, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Thomas Ruff, Julia Scher, Andy Warhol, and Peter Weibel. This book, along with the exhibition it accompanies, is the first state-of-the-art survey of panopticism - in digital culture, architecture, television, video, cinema, painting, photography, conceptual art, installation work, robotics, and satellite imaging. MIT Press, USA, 2002, 656pp HB $A 120.95

Cuba Theme Issue: Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts
A series of theoretical and partly politicised essays on the role of art and architecture in the Cuban dictatorship. MIT Press, Massachusetts, 2002, PB $A 55.00

Cyber_Reader Critical Writings on the Digital Era Spiller, Neil, (Ed.)
From a broad cross-section of writers and periods (beginning in 1864) it is an essential source book and ideal text for students and lecturers of critical thought. Approaching the subject from a variety of fields, such as science, complexity theory, philosophy and metaphysics, sexual politics, art and architecture, and including works of science fiction, this book reflects the multi-disciplinary basis of cyberspace and illustrates how these different disciplines can inform one another. Phaidon, UK, 2002, 320pp, HB 190PP $A 69.95

De-, Dis-, Ex-.
Vol 1: Ex-cavating Modernism
Coles, A & Bentley, R $A 33.00

Vol 2: The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity
Coles, A & Defert, A editors  Contributors include Kristeva, Krauss, and Colomina
Backless, UK,1998. 170pp PB $A O/P

Vol 3: The Optic of Walter Benjamin Coles. A ed.
Volume 3 de-, dis-, ex-.  Black Dog, UK, 1999.  227pp PB $A O/P

Vol 4: Site Specificity: The Ethnographic Turn
 Black Dog, UK, 2000. 195pp PB $A 48.50

Deconstruction - A Student Guide Glusberg J Ed, Broadbent, G Introduction
 AD, UK, 1991. PB 96pp $A 59.95

Décosterd & Rahm: Physiological Architecture
The publication documents Décosterd & Rahm´s contribution to the Biennale, and also investigates their work, their motivation, and philosophy; it also includes essays and critical appraisals of the work of these young architects from Lausanne. A stunning book with a tactile cover you can't help but touch. Birkhauser, Swiss, 2002. HB 416pp $A 57.00

The Deleuze Connections Rajchman, John  
MIT Press, USA, 2000. 166pp PB $A 39.00

The Delirious Museum: a journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas Turk G.
Giving a new explanation of the relationship between the museum and the city in the twenty-first century, this beautiful book refers to some of the greatest exhibition spaces and the numerous interpretations from Baudelaire to the surrealists. This is a perfect book for those of you interested in urban culture, design, as well as professional architects. I.B Tauris USA 2006 HB 246pp $A75.00

Delirious New York Koolhaas, R.
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA.), both analyses and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for an infinite variety of human activities and events--both real and imagined--the essence of the metropolitan lifestyle, its "culture of congestion" and its architecture are revealed in a brilliant new light.  Anyone who loves New York will want to own this book. 010, Holland, 315pp PB $A 85.00

Design and Feminism Rothschild, J. (ed)
Rutgers, USA, 1999. 202pp PB $A 54.45

Design and the Elastic Mind The Museum of Modern Art, New York
An engaging look into the  intertwined worlds of science and design, and the way in which nature has influenced design since the time of Leonardo Da Vinci. Design and the Elastic Mind also questions the way in which designers replicate patterns occurring in nature, both in the past, and into the future.
MOMA, New York, 2008 PB AU $ 55.00

Designing for People Dreyfuss H.
A cult read among designers for more than half a century, the famous manifesto of America's greatest industrial designer is finally back in print! From the first answering machine ("the electronic brain") & the Hoover vacuum cleaner to the SS Independence & the Bell telephone, the creations of Henry S. Dreyfuss have shaped the cultural landscape of the 20th century. Written in a robust, fresh style, this book offers an inviting mix of professional advice, case studies, & design history along with historical black-&-white photos & the author's whimsical drawings. In addition, the author's uncompromising commitment to public service, ethics, & design responsibility makes this masterful guide a timely read for today's designers. Allworth Press USA 2004 PB 285pp $A45.00

Designs and Their Consequences Hill, R
Yale, USA, 1999. 274pp HB $A 60.50

Designing for Diversity Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession. Kathryn H. Anthony
University of Illinois Press, USA, 2001, 256pp, HB $A 83.85

Designing for a Digital World Leach, Neil (Ed)
Leach has brought together the most recent debates, discussions and projects on the theme of designing in this post digital - pre nano era we have found ourselves in. A selection of examples dealing and exemplifying these issues have been explores in depth by the editor with essays and imagery. Also including the work of other leading theorists and architect's, this book marks the turning point in architecture few of us can barely grasp. Wiley UK, 2002, 144pp, PB $A 76.95

Deviations Designing Architecture: A Manual Marc Angelil, Dirk Hebel
Documents process and thought building in design. It documents the architectural design curriculum at Zurich’s ETH, focussing on collaboration and effective typologies used throughout the design process. With a multitude of examples from modeling to sketching and drawing, photography, analysis and mapping.
Birkhauser Germany 2008 689pp PB $A95.00

Differences:  Topographies of Contemporary Architecture, de Sola-Morales, I
Writing Architecture Series, MIT, USA, 1996.  161pp PB $A 40.65

Digital Culture Gere, Charlie Gere
Charlie Gere maps the set of cultural symptoms that gave rise to digital culture-among then the information needs of industrial capitalism in the 19th century, and of warfare in the 20th, as well as counter cultural experimentation and neo liberalism in the post war era - and the responses that they in turn produced: the arrival of cybernetics, artificial intelligence, the personal computer, Arpanet and the Internet, but also Feminism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Punk and the culture that has grown up around Silicon Valley. Reaktion Books, UK, 2002. PB $A 49.95

Digital Dreams Architecture and the New Alchemic Technologies. Spiller, N, 
Ellipsis, London, 1998. 163pp PB $A 69.85

Do Android Crows Fly Over the Skies of an Electronic Tokyo? Akira Suzuki
 AA, UK, 2001. PB 72pp $A 49.95

The Domestic and the Foreign in Architecture Baumeister R & Lee S
For centuries the exchanges between the domestic and the foreign have altered and transformed architecture.
Today these exchanges have become highly intensified. This book attempts to expand the issues in architecture beyond its traditional practice by focusing on the opportunities and limitations in architecture as a cultural and political enterprise. The central theme is how these exchanges manifest themselves in contemporary architecture in terms of its aesthetic potential and its practice, which, in turn, are impacted by broad economic, cultural and political issues.
010 Netherlands 400pp PB AU$75.35

Domesticity at War Colomina B.
Beatriz Colomina examines the power of the domestic in post-war America through this volume consisting of cross referencing units of images and text. More peaceful times saw America utilise wartime technology, techniques and materials and adapted for the home, the Americans have created for themselves a modernity and new accessible aesthetics that led to an ownership of post-war architecture by middle-class consumers. Images of the delightful domestic lifestyle in suburbia were projected to the rest of the world demonstrating the power of the domestic through architecture and design, newspaper and magazine articles and advertisements, concealing even the anxieties present during the Cold War amongst other conflicts. MIT 2007 USA  320pp & 448pp HB $A85.00

The Dominion of the Dead Harrison R.P.
University of Chicago Press US 2003 200pp HB $A 40.00

Dream Home Wakely, Mark
A book that asks what our homes mean to us. But not from the rarefied view of the architects drafting table not from the set of the TV renovation show. It takes as its starting point everyday people and their everyday houses. Filled with personal anecdotes and insight and many question that are answered by Wakely, this book is an exploration of a universal subject - our homes. Allen & Unwin, AUS, 2003, PB 227pp $A 29.95

Drifting: Architecture & Migrancy
In an era of globalisation, there is an unprecedented scale and nature of contemporary migrant flows, as well as the flow of goods, capital, ideas, images and technology. This book is concerned with the modes of dwelling that emerge through migrancy; it is also concerned with the effects these modes of dwelling have for dominant conceptions of space and place; and finally, it is interested in the kinds of architectures that become possible if those effects are taken seriously. Routledge USA 2003 300pp PB $A 71.00

Earth Moves The Furnishing of Territories Cache. B. Boyman. A Trans. & Speakes. M ed., Writing Architecture Series.
MIT, US, 1995. 161pp PB $A 45.00

Eco-Tec: Architecture of the In-Between Marras, A editor
 PAP, USA, 1999. 142pp PB $A 36.50

Edgeless Cities: Exploring the elusive metropolis Lang, Robert.E
Americas new metropolitan form is the basis of this book. Examining Growth and spatial structure of suburban office space across the nation. Data, Illustrations, maps, and photos are used to distinguish between two types of suburban office development - bounded and edgeless. Langs conceptual approach reframes the current thinking on suburban sprawl. Brookings, USA, 2003. 149pp PB $A 42.00

Eisenman Inside Out: selected writings 1963-1988  Eisenman P.
An innovative presence in the field of architecture & architectural theory for more than thirty years, Peter Eisenman, architect, educator, founder & director of the Institute for Architecture & Urbanism, has given definition to the principal debates on the architecture of our past, present, & future. In this new publication he has compiled nineteen of his most important essays for the first time. With a comprehensive theoretical analysis of readings of Eisenman's own work & that of architects such as Palladio, van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, the Smithsons & Johnson. These writings assemble the ideas that both set & provoked contemporary architectural practice & theory. YUP USA2004PB247pp $A59.95 (10/03)

Emerald City and Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination Willis. D
PAP, USA,  1999. 300pp PB $AO/P

The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity Rice C
The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior has been formed from the beginning of the 19^th century. It considers the interiors emergence  in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, and, through case studies, in architectures trajectories toward modernism.
Routledge Oxon 2007 161pp PB AU$88.00

Engineering Architecture Kahn, F.
The engineer of Chicago's John Hancock Center and Sears Tower, Fazlur Khan (1929-1982) pioneered structural systems for high-rise buildings that broadened the palette of forms and expressions available to design professionals today. Examining a number of projects, this study of Khan's career provides insight into architectural and engineering practice. Norton USA 2004 HB 417pp $A 84.95

Entry Paradise: new worlds of design Seltmann G & Lippert W. (Ed’s)
Asking the question “Is it possible that we stand on the threshold of a new era of B.A.N.G. design, which directly intervenes at the level of bits, atoms, neurons, and genes?” This title aims to highlight the new perspectives and visions of industrial design by putting together the ideas of prominent philosophers, sociologists, and media theorists and designers. Birkhauser Switzerland 2006 PB251pp $A70.00

Essays on Architecture
A broad brushstroke, irrespective of stylistic differences on themes of architecture from the past decade by the ‘whose who’ in architecture, i.e Daniel Libeskind, Tadao Ando, Hans Hollein, Leon Krier, Bernard Tschumi, Lebbeus Woods ... Pocket size format. Papadakis Publisher London 2007 226pp. PB A $35.00

The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture Pfeiffer B
At the height of his career Wright’s writings were just as prolific and visionary as his architecture. This is a collection of the most important essays of Wright’s, with writings on every conceivable aspect of his craft.
Princeton USA 2008 453pp HB AU $78.00

Ethical Function of Architecture Harries, K.
MIT, USA, 1997. 403pp HB 75.00375pp, PB, $A 60.50

E-topia Mitchell, J. William
 MIT, USA, 1999, 184pp. HB $A 43.95   NOW IN PAPERBACK  $A 35.00

Ethical Architect (the): The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice Spector, Tom
PAP, USA, 2001, 252pp PB $A 61.50

Exit – Architecture: Design between War and Peace Stephen Truby
“First we shape things, then they shape us” Winston Churchill. Explores longstanding and prominent architecture of the world, and the impact it has on politics and society. The architecture is simply not something looming in the background but plays an integral role into the development of culture, religion, even empires.
Springer Wien New York 2008 113pp PB AU$46.50

Explorations in Architecture: Teaching Design Research fur Kultur and Geiser
Fundamental design of the past is ever evolving in our fast paced society, it is not what we once knew it to be. Explorations in Architecture presents a discussion of applied research and practice from a selection of internationally recognised authors in architectural research.  
Birkhauser Germany 2008 218pp PB $A75.00

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy Timothy Benson
 LACMA, USA, 2001, 340pp, PB $A 101.50

Event Cities Tschumi, B.
Event-Cities explores contemporary architecture through its confrontation with the major programs defining the edge of the twenty-first century - airports, business centres, multipurpose railroad "cities," downtown areas, and multimedia art centres, as well as video installations and domestic environments. Event-Cities unfolds a new type of architectural documentation, far removed from the glossy picture books that have become the major means of presenting architectural projects - a "project discourse" that may be as extensive and precise as any theoretical or critical text. The selection of Tschumi's main recent projects includes the National Center for Contemporary Arts (Le Fresnoy) in Tourcoing, France; the "inhabited bridges" for the city of Lausanne, Switzerland; the mile-long "airport city" for Osaka, Japan; and a new business and entertainment centre in Chartres, France. MIT, USA, 1996. 621pp PB Out of Print

Event Cities 2 Tschumi, B
In Event-Cities , Bernard Tschumi expanded his architectural concerns to address the issue of cities and their making. Event-Cities 2 continues this project through new selections from his recent architectural projects. The book includes the first comprehensive documentation of the drawings for the award-winning Parc de la Villette (including many previously unpublished drawings), his project for the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, two architectural schools, a concert and exhibition hall, a student centre, a railway station, a department store, and other urban projects. MIT, USA, 2001. 621pp PB $A 94.00

The Evolution of 20^th Century Architecture: A Synoptic Account. Frampton, K
Kenneth Frampton's approach is impressively clear: he traces four lines that are recognizable as the powers that propel renewal in architecture. He structures his observations by focusing on the relevant periods in the following order: the Avant-Garde (1887–1986);organic architecture (1910–1998); modern and national styles (1935–1998), and, industrialization and prefabrication (1927–1990). His overview is not a lexical collection of chronological sequences. Instead, his insights stem from his confident eye for the history, theory and motives behind architecture. Springer-Verlag Wein, New York 2007 160pp. PB A$70.00

Far from Equilibrium : Essays on Technology and Design Culture Sanford Kwinter
A series of essays provide a close look at contradictions and complexities of Architecture, Culture and Design.
Actar Spain 2008 180pp PB AU$60.00

FARMAX Excursions on Density MVRDV Maas, W & van Rijs, J
010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 1998. 731pp PB $A O/P    Reprint due soon 2006

Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age Sculle & Jakle
Johns Hopkins University Press, USA, 1999, 394pp, PB $A o/p

Fate of Place A Philosophical History Casey, E
CUP, USA, 1997. 488pp PB $A 59.95

Film Architecture Set Designs From Metropolis to Blade Runner, Neumann, D (ed)
Prestel, Munich/New York, 1996 HB $A 165.00 PB $A 69.95

The Final Testament of Pere Corbu Le Corbusier
Yale University Press, USA, 1966, 180pp. HB $A 51.65

Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy. Fernandez-Galliano L
Borrowing from the disciplines of anthropology, economics, ecology and thermodynamics, Fernandez-Galliano sets forth a comprehensive body of knowledge which will inform designers theoretically and pragmatically. An excellent and timely resource. MIT, USA, 2000. PB 320pp $A 61.50

First House Myth, Paradigm, and the Task of Architecture. Dripps.  R
MIT, USA, 1998. 154pp PB $A 28.60

Fluctuating Borders: Speculations about Memory and Emergence Monacella R & SA Ware [eds]
A collaboration of students, designers and theorists from multiple disciplines, re-consider the possibilities for international borders. With reflections and critiques on memory, fluctuation, temporality and emergence Fluctuating Borders begins with an examination of Mexico, American and Australian situations and later includes Israel. RMIT Melbourne 2007 128pp PB AU$33.00

The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture Eisenman P
Lars Muller Publishers Switzerland HB 528pp $A115.00

Formless a users guide. Bois, Y. Krauss, R
 Zone , USA, 1997. 296pp HB $A 72.00

Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture
This publication is based on the argument that, by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the projection of more erotic, affective environments. In various essays, Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. Contains black and white drawings and photography. MIT USA 182pp HB $A54.00

Frame & Generic Space: A study into the changeable dwelling proceeding from the permanent Leupen B.
Buildings are supposed to last around 100 years, despite the fact that changes in ways of inhabitation are most likely to occur during the period. Flexibility and changeability are usually the solutions to accommodate change, where the idea is embodied in the movable parts of the house. A study from a different perspective through analyses of over 30 projects where flexibility is seen in the frame, or the permanent component of the building that defines the generic space in which change can occur. 010 Netherlands 2006 254pp PB $A66.00(14/11)Sarah Whiting and Guido Zuiliani. T&H UK 2006 HB 400pp$A120.00

Framing Places Mediating Powers in Built Form.  Dovey, K
Kim Dovey, Associate Professor of Architecture & Urban Design at the University of Melbourne explores and discusses the built and  urban environment, and the relationships between contemporary practices of power and politics and ensuing potential effects on everyday life.  Kim Dovey 'contends that the nature of architecture and urban design, their silent framings of everyday life, lend them to practices of coercion, seduction and authorisation.'  Routledge, UK, 1999.  218pp PB $A 60.50

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