Theory & Aesthetics

[Updated 26.11.09]

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

Adventures in Architecture Cruickshank, D
Following his best seller ‘Around the World in 80 Treasures’ Dan Cruickshank takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world’s architectural treasures. From igloos in Greenland to mud skyscrapers in Yemen, he presents buildings which have altered the way in which we see architecture today.
Phoenix Books 2009 356pp PB $27.00 [13.08.09]

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

Anti-Object Kuma, K
Kengo Kuma suggests and illustrates his alternative to objectification through a discussion of the various strategies used in his work.
AA Publications 2008 152 pp PB $35.00 [23.05.09]

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

Architectonic Colour: Polychromy in the Purist Architecture of Le Corbusier de Heer, J
From 1918 onwards, Le Corbusier was engaged in conceiving and generating the idea of Purism, an activity he undertook in conjunction with the painter Ozenfant. These reflections on the relationship between form and colour led to the determination of a specific palette that has been consistently referred to throughout the course of the 20th century.
010 Publishers Netherlands 2009 242pp PB $77.00 [29.10.09]

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

Architecture: Elements, Materials, Form Prina F
Princeton Field Guides to Art are a new series of richly illustrated guide books that explore the formal language of art, architecture and design. By way of more than 2000 years of architectural history, this guide defines and shows all of the major components of the architecture it features- theory, plans and models, structural elements, materials and decorative elements.
Princeton USA 2008 384pp PB $61.00 [03.06.09]

Architecture of Continuity: Essays and Conversations Spuybroek, L
Essays and conversations in which Spuybroek perfects his argument that “the state of contemporary architecture is the product of a 150 year battle between the Polytechnique and Beaux-Arts schools of design, which has forced us into a stalemate between radically opposed positions of high-tech and sculpturism.”
NAi Publishers Netherlands 292pp PB $42.00 [21.07.09]

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 Keywords: 30 Ways to Read East Asian Architecture Roan, C
30 East Asian practices have taken part in this project. It features terms which best describe their architectural principles. Architects include Kengo Kuma, Sou Fujimoto, Yo2 Architects, Seung H-sang, Hun Kim, Moongyu Choi/ Ga. A Architect and Klein Dytham Architecture.
Garden City Publishers 2008 242pp PB $28.05 [03.09.09]

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

Architectural Positions Tom Avermaete
Architectural Positions presents the views of thirty-six international architects who, over the past fifty years, have made their voices heard in the debate on the public sphere. They include Aldo Rossi, Rem Koolhaas, Mathias Ungers, Daniel Libeskind, Luis Barragán, and Peter Eisenman. The essays in this book give an overview of the past fifty years of architectural discourse on this theme.
SUN Publishers 2009 400pp PB $102.30 [23.05.09]

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

Art and Cultural Policy in China
A conversation between Ai Weiwei, Uli Sigg and Yung Ho Chang, moderated by Peter Pakesch.
Springer 2009 132pp PB $62.50 [27.06.09]

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

Architecture Depends Till J
With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.
MIT 2009 254pp HB $A 52.95 [04.04.09]

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

Architecture’s Desire: Reading the Late Avant Garde K. Michael Hays
An account of the "late avant-garde" as an architecture systematically twisting back on itself, pondering its own historical status, and deliberately exploring architecture's representational possibilities right up to their absolute limits through the writings of Rossi, Eisenman, Hejduk and more.
MIT Press USA 2009 192pp PB $33.95 [27.10.09]

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

 
Barcelona: Historical Atlas of Architecture Bahamon A & Losantos A
'Barcelona: Historical Atlas of Architecture’ is a magnificently illustrated volume that takes readers on a captivating tour of the city - as seen through the evolution of its buildings. It is divided into three distinct sections: Chronology - from the 1st Century to 21st; Districts that showcase a selection of the most representative areas of each of Barcelona's districts; and Building Types which focuses on designs and styles that have given the city its singular character.
Parramon Spain 2007 120pp HB $55.00 [03.06.09]

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

 
Becoming Bucky Fuller Lorance, L
Explores the 1920s and early 30s when Buckminster Fuller worked on a project for industrially produced housing that eventually came to be known as the Dymaxion House.
MIT Press 2009 304pp HB $95.00 [28.07.09]

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

BLDGBLOG Book Manaugh, G
Nearly five million readers have visited the BLDGBLOG Web site since its inception in 2004 for stories about the past, news about the present, and speculation about the future of how humans shape their environment. Here, the site’s author Geoff Manaugh presents his insights in book form, combining history, urban exploration, science fiction, design, climate change, and city planning with the view that everything is relevant to the future of architecture.
Chronicle Books USA 2009 272pp PB $49.95 [03.09.09]

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 Happiness: Architecture to Make you Smile Wernick, J
‘Buildings Futures’ was a RIBA think tank proposal set up to promote debate on whether the way we design our built environment in the future can impact the way feel. Can we construct happiness?
Black Dog Publishing  2009 175pp PB $75.00 [25.08.09]

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

Camps: A Guide to 21^st Century Space Hailey, C
A first hand look at the campsite including summer camps, protest camps, drift camps (research stations on Arctic ice floes), and LTVA (Long-Term Visitor Area) Camps, then at strategic camps regulated by power - boot camps, GTMO (the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay), immigrant camps, and others - and finally at transient spaces of relief and assistance, among them refugee camps, FEMA City, work camps, and Gypsy camps. More than 150 diagrams, sketches, building and site plans, photographs, political cartoons, video game screenshots, aerial and satellite images, and maps illustrate camp space in unprecedented complexity and variety. MIT Press UK 2009 542pp PB $66.00 [12.05.09]

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

Coup de Des: Emerging European Architectures: Issue 2 Gray D [ed]
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe organises a series of debates and lectures entitled Coup de Dés that provide an opportunity to discuss some of the most significant architecture being produced today, with the objective of offering a wide panorama of current architectural practice. The debates are generated by the presentation of various projects. Each presentation is followed by a dialogue between the architect and a critic who proposes an interpretation of the project and raises related questions.
Fundacio Mies Van Der Rohe Barcelona 2009 91pp PB $47.00 [03.06.09]

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

Conversations with Frank Gehry Isenberg, B
Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Frank Gehry over the last 20 years, Isenberg provides an intimate and richly illustrated portrait of one of the world's most influential architects. With some illustrations, sketches and colour photography.
Knopf 2009 290pp HB $69.95 [07.10.09]

Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June1957 – August 1960) Guy Debord
English translations of Debord’s letters, tracing the beginnings of the Situationist International, a movement which has inspired multiple generations of artists and their works. His philosophies and writings have been revolutionary in their success at cultural and political change.  
MIT Press 2009 399pp PB $A 44.95

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

DRL Ten: Design Research Compendium AA
AADRL Document 2 is an animated record of the first ten years of the AA's pioneering graduate design program documenting student projects developed by 104 design teams, the work of 25 esteemed graduates, 27 entries to the DRL Ten Pavilion competition, and projects by current DRL staff.
AA London 2009 367pp PB $95.00 [07.10.09]

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

Everything Must Move Lerup, L
15 Years at the Rice School of Architecture 1994-2009. Documenting a decade and a half of propositions about the suburban city in general, and Houston in particular.
Rice School of Architecture 2009 488pp HB $62.00 [23.09.09]

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

Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture Millais M
The Modern movement began in the 1920s when a small group of young architects felt all that had gone before should be rejected and that architectural design should start afresh. This fresh start, they declared, should be based on modern technology and a new, modern approach to life. Their innovations became the 20th century’s dominant movement in architecture, crystallizing into the international style of the 1920s and '30s. In Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, Malcolm Millais explores the forces and factors that led to the emergence of the Modern movement, arguing that it was based on completely false premises. Millais offers a rarely heard perspective on the Modern movement, explaining its failures and how the well-meaning “revolutionaries” behind it gained and maintained power.
Frances Lincoln 296pp PB $50.00 [25.06.09]

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

Five Houses, Ten Details Ford, E
A study by Edward Ford of detail in Architecture. Five houses were designed for one site, with only one project being built. Each house explored a different element of detail in architecture, how a house connects or disconnects from a site, how it expresses structure, material and how it articulates the construction. They were crucial studies for understanding the final built project.
Princeton Architectural Press 2009 254pp HB $79.95 [21.07.09]

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

Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts Edited by Robert Twombly
A selection of Wright’s most influential writings dating from 1900 to the late 1930s, edited an chosen by Robert Twombly. W.W Norton New York 2009 302pp PB $A42.95

From Autos to Architecture Gartman, D
Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century, examining architecture in the context of social history.
Princeton Architectural Press US 2009 398pp HB $115.00 [05.11.09]

From A Cause To A Style: Modern Architecture’s Encounter with the American City Glazer, N
In this remarkable collection of essays, humanist architectural critic Nathan Glazer provides a new all-encompassing range of perspectives involving multiple urban, architectural, technical and social issues that surrounds modernism and its application to the city. Princeton Architectural Press. 2007 300pp. A $39.95

 
From Control to Design: Parametric/ Algorithmic Architecture
The latest Verb Monograph questions how these related but distinct techniques will affect design practice. With contributions from 6 independent studios, research and current applications are explored rather than a compilation of projects shown. Actar Spain 2008 239pp PB $A69.00

From Margin to Centre The Spaces of Installation Art. Reiss, Julie H.
This book looks at the nature of Installation Space - created for and dependent on specific spaces for its meaning and execution. The author attempts to discover the success of installation art's movement from radical and alternative art spaces through to the mainstream more recently. The author examines installation art in New York from the 1950's onwards, and examines pieces from Allan Kaprow's environments to minimalism, process art and performance art. MIT, USA, 2001. PB 180pp $A 45.00

The Function of Ornament Moussavi F, Kubo M & Harvard School of Design (eds)
Ornamentation is discussed here as something that originates from a desired effect which drives architects and designers towards non-linear approaches in design and construction, making the end effect, which is often achieved in completed works of architecture as demonstrated in this publication, more than providing just a decorative aspect. Illustrated in graphical drawings, projects are classified by its building components: form, structure, screen and surface, showing that ornamentation can affect the building to various depths. With more than 40 studies, each example is first shown in its finished form then section cut to reveal the relationship with its construction. Actar 2006 Spain 189pp PB $A50.00

The Fundamentals of Architecture Farrelly L
A comprehensive introduction to the basics of its subject. From the first ideas on a new architectural project, to siting, context, and historical precedent, to development of the structure, materials, and the relationship of design concept to the building process. AVA Switzerland 2007 176pp PB $A59.95 (18/08)

Gas Station in America Jakle & Sculle
Johns Hopkins University, USA, 1994, 272pp, PB $A 52.50

The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini and the Rivalry that Transformed Rome Morrissey J.
An account of the intriguing rivalry between two of the greatest talents in 17th Century Italy, Bernini and Borromini had plotted and schemed against each other, stirring up endless competition and which consequently defined the Baroque style and their works and achievements have grounded the extraordinary city of Rome  today. Duckworth UK 2005 320pp PB $A39.95

Geodesic Math & How To Use It Kenner,Hugh Back in Print
It was 1976--twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their construction. Out of print since 1990, Geodesic Math and How To Use It is now in paperback form. Fully illustrated with complete original appendices. CalUP USA 1976 / RP 2004 PB 169pp $A 35.00

Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism Walker, S
Walker considers the broad range of Matta-Clark’s ephemeral practice, from montage to actual interventions and from performance art and installation to drawing, film and video. Bringing to the fore the consistent themes and issues explored through this broad range of media, and in particular the complex notion of the "discreet violation," he reveals the continued relevance of Matta-Clark’s artistic and theoretical oeuvre to the reception of artistic and architectural work today.
I.B Tauris 2009 206pp PB $55.00 [04.07.09]

The Grammar of Architecture Cole E
A diverse and arresting series of building styles and architectural detailing used to tell the story of architecture from the earliest civilizations to the Industrial Revolution.
Ivy Press 2002 UK 352pp PB $A45.00(09/06)

The Grammar of Ornament Jones O
An inspirational sourcebook of ornamental motifs that inspired and informed designers from William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright. DK NY 2001 504pp PB $A39.95(16/06)

Grand Obsessions: Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin & Marion Mahony Griffin McGregor, A
The definitive new biography of Griffin husband and wife. Alasdair McGregor delineates the role each played in the production of their greatest works - Canberra, Castlecrag, Newman College and the rest - and charts their lives, from their childhoods and meeting in Chicago in the employ of the larger than life Frank Lloyd Wright to their battles in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, and their swansong in India.
Penguin 2009 546pp HB $69.95 [07.10.09]

The Gray Cloth Paul Scheerbart's Novel on Glass Architecture
Introduced, translated and with drawings by John A. Stuart, this is a witty and subtley ironic translation of the work by utopian german visionary, Scheerbart.MIT Press, USA, 2001, 143pp, HB $A 65.00

Greg Lynn Folds, Bodies & Blobs collected essays Lachowsky. M & Benzakin. J (ed.) 
Back in Stock, this publication presents a series of theoretical texts that have  paralleled and influenced his design practice. La Lettre Volee, Belgium, 1998. 233pp PB O/P

Gender & Architecture Durning, L & Wrigley, R ed
This series of articles investigate links between theoretical understanding of architecture and its concrete experience - both in terms of internal spaces, and the presence and effects of buildings within an urban environment. Wiley, London, 2000.  218 pp PB $A 58.25

The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini and the Rivalry that Transformed Rome Morrissey J.
An account of the intriguing rivalry between two of the greatest talents in 17th Century Italy, Bernini and Borromini had plotted and schemed against each other, stirring up endless competition and which consequently defined the Baroque style and their works and achievements have grounded the extraordinary city of Rome  today. Duckworth UK 2005 320pp PB $A39.95(28/10)

Gender Space Architecture An interdisciplinary introducton. Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner, Iain Borden
Essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Routledge, UK 2000 432pp. PB $A 62.70

Geography of  Home Writings on Where we Live Busch. A
The house is home to many things.  Far more than four walls and a roof, it contains our private and public lives, our families, our memories and aspirations, and reflects our attitudes toward society, culture, the environment, and our neighbours.  This is a small book reflecting on the significance our home has within our lives. PAP, USA, 1999.163pp HB $A 46.20

Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation Olkowski, Dorothea
A Post-modern philosophy book exploring the ideas of Deleuze through a feminist perspective. It compares the old school of philosophy with the ideas of Deleuze and draws oppositions between the two platforms of thought. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999 297pp PB $A 45.00

GR(O)UND workshop 2002 Lebbeus Woods & Guy LaFranchi
The RIEAeuropa Concepts Series presents in-depth explorations of ideas & conditions with particular relevance for architecture. Each monograph is devoted to a single topic, it aims at exposing innovation, speculative & experimental work to a wide public, in order to establish constructive discourse & encourage creative thinking & work in architecture & related fields Springer Verlag EU 2003 PB $A36.50

Guy Debord and the Situationist International Texts & Documents McDonough, Tom (Ed.)
This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI's profound engagement with the art and cultural politics of their time (1957–1972), with a strong argument for their primarily political and activist stance by two former members of the group, T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith. MIT Press, USA, 2002, 500pp HB $A 118.00

Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being Sternberg E M
What Sternberg does so skillfully is to stitch together an explanation as to how so many of the things we intuitively find relaxing, like yoga, or sitting by the sea, or in a bright airy room, affect how quickly we heal. She provides the science to back it up and explains it so engagingly that it's hard to resist sharing her conviction. The discoveries this book describes point to possibilities for designing hospitals, communities, and neighbourhoods that promote healing and health for all. Harvard USA 2009 343pp HB $AU 59.95 [23.05.09]

Hieroglyphics of Space Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis Leach, Neil (Ed.)
Based on the ideas of German cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer, this volume addresses the question of how to decipher our built environment, what does it mean to contemporary culture and who constructs it anyway. Highly theoretical from a post-modern platform, this is another edition to add to the shelves alongside Baudrillard and the like. Routledge, 2002, USA, 295pp, PB $A 54.00

Home Blunt A. & Dowling R.
Providing a critical geography of a home, the arguments in this publication stem from the disciplines of  geography, sociology, women’s studies, history and anthropology. A thorough introduction to the vast area of research of the home, a topic of increasing interest for its complex nature which study the ideas of place, spatial imagery. Routledge UK 2006 304pp PB $A53.00

House as a Mirror of Self Clare Cooper Marcus
Through the exploration of previously unchartered territory - the deeper meaning of home and its impact on the psyche and soul from infancy to adulthood - House as a Mirror of Self presents an unprecedented examination of our relationship to where we live, interwoven with compelling stories of the search for a place for the soul. Conari Press, USA, 1995, 280pp. PB $A 32.95

 
Housing and Dwelling: perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture Miller-Lane B.
This collection is the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings on the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Issues on the study of domestic architecture and the evolution of domestic architecture will provide an invaluable addition for students, scholars, and designers alike. Routledge UK 2006 PB 467pp$A80.00

Housing and Domestic Space in the 21^st Century Juan Herreros
The book for a seminar Parallel to the 2007 exhibition, entitled Housing and Domestic Space in the 21st Century coordinated by Juan Herreros (architect and lecturer at the Madrid University School of Architecture). The seminar brought together a group of intellectuals from both Spain and abroad for discussions on this theme. The ultimate aim of the seminar was to raise awareness about architectures potential role in the current and evident transformation of lifestyles.
La Casa Encendida 2009 391pp PB $A57.00 [24.03.09]

A Hut of One's Own Life Outside the Circle of Architecture. Cline, A.
What are the limits of architecture? What ghosts inhabit its edges? What does it mean to dwell outside it? Cline gracefully weaves together two strands of narrative that blend autobiography, historical research and cultural criticism in an imaginative attempt tp rethink architecture by studying its boundary conditions and formative structures. MIT, USA, 1997. 152pp PB $A 38.50

Hyper Architecture Spaces in the Electronic Age Puglisi.L
Part of the IT Revolution in Architecture series, this edition elaborates on the notion that in order to make further progress and gain ground in architecture, we must turn to electronics and, above all, its centre and further interconnections between an electronically stimulated landscape of relations between man and nature. Birkhauser, Switzerland, 1999.  93pp PB $A 24.50

Hybrid Modernities: Architecture & Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris. Morton, P.
This book combines architectural history and postcolonial theory in a complex account of the 1931 French Colonial Exposition. This is an excellent source for those interested in general French history, as well as imperial legacies and architectural expression. MIT, USA, 2000. 380pp HB $A 80.00

Hybrid Zones: art & architecture in Basel & ZurichEdited by Omlin S. & Frei Bernasconi K.
Kunst-und-Bau commissions, awarded by the state or private developers, are an important means of promoting art in public space. They provide artists with the opportunity to realize projects in a concrete architectural space outside the museum. The artists who create a Kunst-und-Bau project are the first interpreters of the constructed space. The hybrid zones that evolve perform a concrete architectural function while merging with the public artistic sphere & museum space via the artwork. Birkhauser Germany2003 PB 160pp$A42.50

Hungry City: How Food Shapes our Lives Steel, C
This original and revolutionary study examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals a centuries-old dilemma that holds the key to a host of current problems, among them obesity, the unstoppable rise of the supermarkets, and the destruction of the natural world. Random House UK 2009 382pp PB $29.95 [12.05.09]

Iconoclastia: News from a Post Iconic World Misc
A collection of papers that discuss the role of the iconic buildings in the recent architecture scene. Contributors include: Josep Lluis Mateo, Krunoslav Ivanisin, Hans Ibelings, Fredy Massad, Alicia Guerrero Jeste, Florian Sauter, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Yannis Aesopos, Daniel Kiss, Naoto Fukosawa, Jasper Morrison, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Peter Sloterdijk.
Actar Spain 2009 148pp PB $57.00 [22.09.09]

Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture A View from the Drafting Room. Venturi, R.
MIT, USA, 1996. 374pp PB  $A 49.50

Ideas for the New Millennium (New 2001 Edition) Ellyard, Peter
A new culture is emerging that Ellyard calls 'Planetism'. It has implications for leadership and management, for education and learning, for health and well-being, for industrial development, for agriculture, environmental management and of course, architecture. In urging the creation of an ecologically, economically, socially and culturally sustainable Planetist society in the 21st century, Ellyard offers a challenging vision for our own future and that of generations to come. This title will be of interest to people who are interested in globalism and it's potentials. Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2002 245pp PB $A 27.45

Ideas That Shaped Buildings Hearn F.
Identifying & codifying into theoretical systems the operative tenets of architectural theory from ancient Rome to the present. With this strikingly original synthesis of architectural history & theory, Hearn constructs an intellectual armature on which virtually any architectural concept, past or present, can be positioned. Dealing mainly with the treatises that have been highly influenced historically, he organises their concepts thematically & analyses their development through time. Straightforward & concise this book is readily accessible to students, practicing architects & the general public- indeed anyone interested in understanding the design rationale of buildings. MIT USA 2003 PB 356pp $A 35.00

Identity by Design Butina G. & Bentley I
Structured around a series of case studies illustrating ways in which designers have attempted to establish identity in both the past and present, including places such as Prague, Mexico, Malaysia and Boston, and examines design ideas and theories in the urban scale, such as that of Aldo Rossi and Jože Plečnik. Aimed at architects, urban designers, planners and landscape architects, this publication presents an increasingly relevant discussion on place-making and local identity in today’s highly global communities.  Elsevier 2007 UK 289pp PB $A125.40

Illegal Architect Hill, J.
Explores the gap between the institution of architecture and an institute of architects. Hill delivers a luminous critique of current architectural institutions and outlines a proposal for the architectural producer, unfettered by convention and responsive to the creativity of the user. An illegal architect questions and subverts the precedents, codes, and laws of architecture. In a project worthy of Marcel Duchamp, The Illegal Architect is serious fun, where architecture can be made of anything, anywhere, anyhow, and by anyone. Black Dog, UK, 1998. 63pp PB $A 44.00

(In)Visible: Learning to Act in the Metaverse Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss
International creative participation by web users has spawned an entirely new global network of culture.
SpringerWienNewYork 2008 168pp PB $AU 47.50 [11.03.09]

Indefensible Space, The Architecture of the National Insecurity State Sorkin (ed)
A prominent cast of writings on one of the central urban issues of our times; the increasing envelopment of public space and public life by an architecture of security. Routledge UK 2007 PB 398pp AU$72.00

Informal Architectures Anthony Kiendl
An alternative experience into the built environment and public space, Informal Architectures looks at the politics and culture of space. Descriptions and analytical writings from often semi-permanent works by Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, David Hoffos and more.
Black Dog Pub. UK 2008 PB 208pp $105.00

In Praise of Shadows Tanizaki, J.
An essay on the Japanese sense of beauty.
Leete's Island Books, USA, 1977, 48pp, PB. $A 15.00

In The Scheme Of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture Fisher T
University of Minnesota 2002 USA 155pp PB $A35.95

Inside the White Cube Ideology of Gallery Space. O'Doherty, B.
O'Doherty's 1976 Artforum essays have been reprinted with illustrations, introduction by Thomas McEvalley, and afterword by the author. UniCalPress, USA, 1999. 113pp PB $A 48.50

Intersections Iain Borden and Jane Rendell (eds.)
Architectural histories and critical theories: is a comprehensive survey on the impact of theories on architectural ideas, projects and events. Essays range from psycho-analysis and interiors; colonialism and modern urbanism; gender and the Renaissance; to heterotopia and Las Vegas. Routledge, UK, 2000 332pp. PB $A 57.20

Innovation: From Experimentation to realisation  Papadakis A & A (Eds)
New technologies & new philosophical concepts have converted what was once wishful thinking & referred to disparagingly as ‘paper ideas’ into a world suddenly full of exciting architectural forms. This book looks not at innovation for the sake of innovation but art & architecture that is based on carefully considered ideas that enhance & add visually to our experience of life today. BIS Pub UK 2003HB 144pp$A70.00

Inter-twining Holl, S.
Princeton Arch Press, USA, 1996. 176pp HB $A 86.90

Ironic Diversion: Mas Yendo RIEAeuropa. Woods, Lebbeus Editor
The RIEAeuropa series documents experimental architectural works by individual architects and practices. This second book looks at the work of Mas Yendo, and his work on reconciling the machine's lost symbolism of power, with nature, the city and architecture. Yendo's work continues a tradition set down by McLuhan, Archigram & Koolhaas. Investigates 9 projects over a 12 year span, including continuing work on mobile architectural units. Springer Verlag, Austria, 2000. 104pp PB $A 65.00

Japan and the West: The Filled Void. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Purity, clarity and the tendency to reduction are fundamental virtues of Japanese tradition and form the basic aesthetic cannon of Western modernism. With unusual juxtapositions, The Filled Void wishes to stage a radical contribution to the dialog of cultures; featuring work by Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Yves Klein, SANAA, Agnes Martin with essays by Bruno Taut, Stephen Addiss and many others that explore the beauty of emptiness. Dumont Buchverlag Germany 2008 295pp. HB A$89.95

Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau The Cathedral of Erotic Misery. Burns-Gamard, E.
Schwitter's Merzbau domestic installation- a combination of collage, sculpture & architecture- is analysed as a way of understanding the complex relationships between several avant-garde movements including Expressionism, Dada & constructivism in 1920's & 30's Germany. PAP, USA, 2000, 196pp PB $A 52.80

Labour Work & Architecture: Collected Works on Architecture & Design. Kenneth Frampton
Labour, Work and Architecture is an anthology of writings by the architectural critic Kenneth Frampton. It brings together a number of influential texts, written over the last 35 years, which focus on twentieth-century architecture, dealing with themes and movements, built works, and the architects responsible for these buildings. The essays are presented in chronological order under the successive rubrics of 'theory', 'history' and 'criticism', and together they serve to position modern architecture in its broader historical and cultural context. The anthology includes early critical reviews from the 1960's and 1970's analysing contemporary buildings, as well as theoretical and historical essays examining the ideological and material circumstances under which buildings are produced. There are 25 essays in all, each section has an introductory essay making this book the definitive critical account of 20th century architecture. Phaidon, UK, 2002. HB 352pp $A 89.95

Land&ScapeSeries: Walkscapes - walking as an aesthetic practice. Careri, Francesco
"Walkscapes deals with strolling as an architecture of landscape. Walking as an autonomous form of art, a primary act in the symbolic transformation of the territory, an aesthetic instrument of knowledge and a physical transformation of the 'negotiated' space, which is converted into an urban intervention. From primitive nomadism to Dada and surrealism, from the Lettrist to the Situationist International, and from minimalism to Land Art, this book narrates the perception of landscape through a history of the traversed city". A wonderful range of written and graphic examples ensue, examining this curious yet powerful practice. This is a great little book. GG, Spain, 2002. PB 203pp $A 55.00

Learning From Las Vegas Revised Edition. Venturi, R. Scott Brown, D. Izenour, S.
MIT, USA, 1977. 192pp PB $A P/A

Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Stadler H & Stierli M [eds]
In 1968, American architects Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour joined together with students from Yale University and took on Las Vegas as a subject of research. The research lead to the 1972 publication of Learning from Las Vegas. Here are images produced during the research period, from the archives of Venturi and Scott Brown. Verlag Switzerland 2008 190pp HB $91.00 [12.06.09]

Le Corbusier: Elements of a Synthesis von Moos S
Organises Le Corbusier's ideas in terms of the basic themes-intellectual, artistic, and ideological. Based on the 1979 MIT edition this updated edition offers a substantially updated body of illustrations.
010 Netherlands 2009 Updated edition 366pp PB $70.00 [13.06.09]

Le Corbusier: A Life Fox Weber, N
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of 'Balthus' and 'Patron Saints', the first full-scale life of Le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded as a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.
Knopf 2008 820pp HB $75.00 [07.10.09]

Lessons for Students in Architecture. Hertzberger, H
The work of Herman Hertzberger is the subject of wide international esteem. Published in Japanese, German, Italian, Portugese, Taiwanese, Dutch, Polish and Chinese, Lessons for Students in Architecture is an elaborated version of lectures given at the Delft Institute of Technology that explores themes relating to the public domain, making and leaving space and inviting form. 010 Publishers Rotterdam 2005 5^th Ed 274pp. PB A $64.35

Light Architecture: New Edge City Ranaulo, Gianni
An addition to the "IT Revolution in Architecture" series, this little book is full of big ideas, big projects and enormous potentials for the future of architecture. Examining in detail how light has and can be manipulated, changed, folded and glorified in contemporary architecture, all the big name architect's are there, as well as many lesser known designers exploring this theme. Birkhauser, Switzerland, 2002, 95pp, PB $A 25.00

Log 2: Spring 2004 Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City Davidson, C. (Ed.)
The Log Lady features prominently again in Log’s second edition of investigative architecture.Giuluana Bruno rediscovers Warhol’s Empire; Cynthia Davidson goes back to look forward; Edward Eigen muses on the Mississippi; Luis Fernández-Galiano eavesdrops on realism’ Frank Fu and Qing Fei bargain in Beijing; Todd Gannon muscles in on a Columbus symposium; John Huddleston revisits American battlefields; Timothy Hyde reads self-help manuals; Bernard Khoury aestheticizes destruction in Beirut; Guillermo Kuita scores an opera; Phyllis Lambert looks for love in architecture; Julie Rose meets Paul Virilio at La Coupole; Chantal Thomas hangs up the phone; Sarah Whiting thinks thin at IIT in Chicago. AnyonePub USA2004 120pp PB $A21.45

Log 9: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, Winter/Spring 2007
The latest edition to the Log series.
Anyone Corporation 2007 USA 128pp PB $S19.80 (25/08)

Log 15 Winter 2009 Log
Observations in architecture and the contemporary city. Contributors include Barry Bergdoll, Mario Carpo, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Hubert Damisch, Peter Eisenman, Kurt W. Forster, Mark Jarzombek, Irving Lavin, Sylvia Lavin, Mark Wigley and Mirko Zardini.
LOG 2009 PB $35.75 [21.07.09]

Log 16 Log
Spring/Summer 2009 Observations on architecture and the contemporary city.
Log 2009 PB $30.00 [30.10.09]

The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture Hersey, G
MIT, USA, 1995.  201pp PB $A 36.25

Lutyens and the Modern Movement Greenberg A
This ‘underground’ publication, with limited circulation, was originally written in 1967 in a student journal.  It is an account of the connections between Lutyens, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier during the modernist movement. Papadakis UK 2007164pp PB A $35.00

Machine Times Deafoo/V2_Organisation
Machine Times investigates the way in which time is built into technological and social systems, and presents artistic approaches to the manipulation, distortion and elimination of time. Time was, for a long time, regarded as objective and continuous. More recently it has become clear that time is built into natural and technological processes and it is malleable through the interaction of machines. The experience of time is a technological concept. Includes interviews/essays by Mark C. Taylor, Douwe Draaisma, Peter Weibel and more. Many projects included. NAI/V2, Holland, 2001. PB 189pp $A 50.00

The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays Rowe, Colin
"This collection of an important architectural theorist's essay's considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier as an argument of contextualism, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia." Nine essays with supporting graphic information. MIT, USA, 1976. 219pp PB $A P/A

ME++  The cyborg self & the networked city  Mitchell W.J.
With ME++ the author of City of Bits & e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturisation, & portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, & our uses of space & time. Describing the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi: the scaling up of networks & the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission & reception. It is, he says, as if "Brobdingnag had been rebooted as Lilliput"; Marconi's massive mechanism of tower & kerosene engine has been replaced by a palm-size cell phone. If the operators of Marconi's invention can be seen as human appendages to an immobile machine, today's hand-held devices can be seen as extensions of the human body. MIT USA2003HB 259pp $A 49.95. Available now in Paperback ! $A 29.95

Memory and Modernity, Kevin D. Murphy
Penn State Press, USA, 2000. HB 200pp $A 104.50

Mobile Landscapes Black R. & Hook M.
The town of Wentworth in NSW was chosen as the site for an RMIT design studio for 3^rd and 4^th year students of architecture, in an attempt to investigate the potential of releasing the restrictions imposed in te to control the regular flooding in the Murray-Darling river system. RMIT was invited to participate in the 1ab.nl, the 1^st Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and this publication catalogues the student projects exhibited, all of which seize the proposal for a new levee for interventions and changes for the town of Wentworth, curiously rejecting the idea of flooding as a disaster. RMIT 2006 Aust 129pp PB  $A33.00

Modern Architecture Colquhoun, Alan
An account of international modernism exploring the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and accesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the period are re-examined, shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Oxford UK 2002 PB 287pp $A 39.95

Modern Architecture Avery, Derek
A phenomenon that evolved less than a century ago, the modern architecture described in this volume dates from the end of the first world war. Rapid rebuilding programmes in Europe and the proliferation of housing estates and tower blocks, availability of new materials and construction methods enabled architects globally to experiment in recording their individual idealised visions with the forces of post-industrial society. Chaucer Press UK 2003 HB 143pp $A 49.95

Modern Architecture Scully, Vincent Jr.
George Braziller, USA, 1992, 158pp PB $A 32.95

Modern Movement through Case Studies Blundell-Jones, Peter
Reappraise the modern movement with this informative, scholarly and insightful text - Learn a new approach to the debates surrounding modern architecture and theory - Case studies illustrate the theory in a clear and accessible style Peter Blundell Jones details the inadequacy of the first histories of the Modern Movement by revealing the existence of suppressed alternative traditions within the movement and shows their great diversity through the use of case studies. Each case is analysed in detail then used as a springboard to explore different theoretical approaches. Sixteen Case studies look at the work of the Weissenhofsiedlung, Bruno Taut, Haring, Gropius, Terragni, Aalto, Nervi, Kahn, Scharoun, Mies, Mendelsohn, Le Corbusier, Asplund, Wright, Lewerentz, and Duiker. Architectural Press, UK, 2002. HB 254pp $A 125.40

Mongrel  Issue 02 Hamann C., Boothroyd D. & McDougell I. (eds)
Subaud 2007 Australia 103pp PB $A25.00

Monografias 04: Issue 5: City 1
This issue of Monografias casts an inquisitive eye on the system that has spurred our imagination; the city. Featuring: MIT Sensable City Lab, Inspirations, Urban Fragments, Web and Searchscapes and much more.
COAG Spain 2007 441pp. PB AU$55.00

Morpho-Ecologies Hensel M & Menges A
Ecology is the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment. This definition also suits the discipline of architecture surprisingly well: in our view one of the central tasks of architecture is to provide habitation through specific material and energetic interventions in the physical environment. Correlating morphogenesis and ecology, we have developed a new framework for architectural design that is firmly rooted within biological paradigm and thus concerned with issue of higher level functionality and performance capacity.
AA 2007 UK 366pp PB $A69.50(27/07)

Most Radical Gesture: the Situationist International in a Postmodern Age  Plant, S.
Routledge, UK.,1992  225pp PB $A 59.00

Motel in America Jakle, Sculle & Rogers
Where is the place of this iconic American architecture in forming and shaping culture and society? Johns Hopkins University, USA, 1996, 387pp, PB $A 52.50

Moved To Design Allan P & C Stutterheim [eds]
The collaborative effort between RMIT and Victoria University of Wellington Landscape departments has culminated in the publication of Moved To Design. With essays and student projects, topics to do with climate change and cities are addressed.
RMIT with VUW Australia 2007 101pp PB AU$25.00

My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition Lovink G.
The Australia-based Dutch media theorist & Internet critic, a co-founder of numerous online projects such as Nettime & Fibreculture, & the author of Dark Fiber & Uncanny Networks has continued with a series of case studies that examine the internal dynamics of virtual communities. Lovink reveals a world that is largely unknown to both the general public & the internet visionaries. Nai Netherlands 2003 Pb 296pp $A50.00

Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World an Investigation Into the Evolutionary
Roots of Form and Order in the Built Environment Crowe, N, MIT, USA, 1997.  270pp PB $A 57.20

The Nature of Order an Essay on The Art of Building and The Nature of The Universe Books 1 - 4 Alexander C. Centre for Environmental Structure USA reprint 2002 HB $A140.00each

Book One - The Phenomenon of Life 476pp
In book one of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and sets this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture. He identifies fifteen geometric properties which tend to accompany the presence if life in nature, and also in the buildings and cities we make.

Book Two - The Process of creating Life 636pp
In book two of this four-volume work, Alexander explains in detail the kinds of process that are capable of generating living structure. The unfolding of living structure in natural systems is compared to the unfolding of buildings and town plans in traditional society, and then contrasted with present-day building processes. The comparison reveals deep and shocking problems which pervade the present day planning and construction of buildings.

Book Four -  The Luminous Ground 356pp
Book four presents a new cosmology that arises from the careful study of architecture and art, and above all from the practice of the arts. It is a cosmology which places the I, our experience of self, as the linking stem that unites each individual with the whole, connecting consciousness and matter.

net_condition: art and global media Peter Weibel & Timothy Druckrey
This is the first book to investigate the social, economic, political and artistic consequences of the networked media enveloping the planet. It brings together scholars, theorists, activists and artists in both an evaluation of the social consequences & the artistic possibilities of net.culture. The second volume in the MIT series, Electronic Culture:History, Theory & the Practise [following Ars Electronica: Facing the Future, 1999], this is an exhaustively researched and graphically challenging publication important to the development of architectural theory in the moment that places us on the brink of nano-technology. MIT press, USA, 2001, 399pp, PB $A 95.00

The New Architecture and the Bauhaus Gropius, Walter
MIT USA 1965, 112pp. PB $A 27.45

The New Consumers Myers & Kent

Examining the environmental impacts of this increased consumption, with particular focus on two commodities - cars and meat - that stand to have the most far-reaching effects. It analyses consumption patterns in a number of different countries, with special emphasis on China and India (whose surging economies, as well as their large populations, are likely to account for exceptional growth in humanity's ecological footprint), and surveys big-picture issues such as the globalization of economies, consumer goods, and lifestyles. Island PressUSA2004HB200pp $A48.00

New Curiosities et al
Musee Gassendi France2003PB 134pp$A71.50

The New Everyday
In The New Everyday, experts in technology, design, social science and business come together to explore these questions, looking ahead to consider not only future benefits, but also potential dangers and social and ethical issues. This overview is richly illustrated with projects conducted at Philips and elsewhere. 010 Publishers Netherlands 2004 PB 356pp $A 63.25

The New Typography Tschichold, J. trans. McLean, R.
The New Typography is recognised as a definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. This is the first English translation of Tschichold’s revolutionary 1928 document. University of California Press, USA, 1998, 236pp, PB. $A 52.00

Non-Places Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity  Auge, M.
Auge distinguishing between place, encrusted with historical monuments and creative of social life, and non-place, to which individuals are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible.  Auge argues that we are in transit through no-place for more and more of our time, concluding that this new form of solitude should become the subject of an anthropology of its own. Verso, UK, 2000. 122pp PB $A 32.95

No-Stop City: Architzoom Associati Branzi A.
In 1969, the Archizoom Group began a research on environment, mass culture and the city that eventually led to the project No-Stop City, a critical Utopia where there has zero quality, making it possible for all individuals to exercise design as a way, and only way to achieve change in living patterns and territories. The study of this model of urban organisation is illustrated in this publication in images and drawings plus all influences and research into this idea.
Editions HYX France 2006 186pp $A84.70

The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters Susanka S
In her groundbreaking bestseller The Not So Big House, architect Sarah Susanka showed us a new way to inhabit out houses by creating homes that were better, not bigger. In this book she takes her philosophy to another dimension by showing us a new way to inhabit our lives. Random House USA 2007 281pp $A40.00

OASE #69: Positions
With contributions from Wim Cuyvers, Dirk Sijmons, and Camiel Van Winkel, to name but a few, this latest issue of OASE investigates the impact of the changes within the two disciplines of architectural historiography and architectural design practice. NAi Neth 2006 PB 144pp $A40.00

OASE #71: Urban Formation & Collective Spaces
Essays such as ‘Designing the Collective Domain’ and ‘Re-inventing Architectural Monumentality’ discuss urban space and what it means to have collective public space. Nai Publishers 2006 Rotterdam 142pp PB $A42.00 (20/10)

OASE #72: Back to School
This May edition of the OASE foundation is focused on Schools. Essays on the learning environment in contemporary society are written. Nai Publishers 2007 Rotterdam 142pp PB $A42.00

OASE # 73 : Gentrification
The Central theme of OASE 73 is the phenomenon of gentrification as a strategy for urban renewal, with essays
such as ‘5 shots of culture’, ‘Networks of Gentrification: Public Art and Post-Industrial Urban Landscape’ and
‘Towards Community-Specific Urban-Renewal’. Nai 2007 Neth. 142pp PB $A42.00

OASE 77: Into the Open. Accommodating the Public OASE
OASE 77 questions whether programmed public space can truly be called public.
NAI Publishers 2009 131pp PB $45.00 [21.07.09]

Object to be Destroyed The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark. Pamela M. Lee
A detailed look the work of Matta-Clark who is probably best known for his site specific projects called "building cuts". In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Lee considers it in the context of the 1970's - particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices - and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space , the "right to the city" and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs. MIT, USA, 1999. 280pp HB $A 76.45 PAPERBACK 2001 $A 59.95

Occupying Architecture Between the Architect and the User Hill, J (ed.)
"Proposing a complete re-working of the relations between design and experience to transform the practices of the architect, the authors call for the development of architecture within an expanded cultural and social practice. Architecture can be made of anything and by anyone." Routledge, UK, 1998.  253pp PB $A 58.25

Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded Essays on Space and Science. Weibel, Peter Ed.
This is an amazing book, framed with the art of Eliasson whose work unites art and science, and with 55 accompanying essays by Lefebvre, Rajchman, Koolhaas, Diller + Scofidio, UN Studio, Vidler, De Landa, and many more artists, architects, philosophers and writers. An excellent and exciting book. MIT, USA, 2002. PB 720pp $A 85.00

One Place After Another: site specific art and locational identity Miwon Kwon
Site specific art emerged in the late 1960's in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. This book offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960's. Informed by urban theory, postmodern criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. Examines the work of John Ahearn, Donald Judd, Fred Wilson, Richard Serra and more. MIT Press, US, 2002. 214pp HB $A 68.00

Open 6  (In)Security
Thematically arranged, with art & public space as starting points in relation to relevant areas such as architecture/ urban planning, landscape architecture, spatial planning & digital media, Open 6 is devoted to art, public space & security. Examining what lies at the root of the public yearning for security & what new questions are being asked of by artists, designers, theorists clients & policy makers Open 6 presents philosophical articles as well as contributions more directly connected to concrete events, places or (art) projects, providing insight into the current aesthetics & ethics of security. NAi The Netherlands 2004 PB 167pp $A45.00

Open 11: Hybrid Space Open
The public domain is described as ‘hybrid space’, with a mix of concrete and virtual qualities, of static and mobile domains, of public and private spheres & of global and local interests. In addition it is formed by wireless and mobile media. This publication covers a select company of architects, artists and urban designers who are investigating the implications and possibilities of putting these to the test.
NAi Holland 2006 176pp PB $A45.00

On Architecture: Thinking in Action Rush Fred
A philosophical discussion of three architectural topics by Fred Rush: The role of phenomenology in architectural theory and practice, the relation of architecture to other arts and the role of architecture in urban and suburban design.
Routledge USA 2009 178pp PB $AU 35.00 [11.03.09]

Oppositions Reader Hays. M (ed.)
Selected Readings from a Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture 1973 - 1984 Produced by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies under the Direction of  Peter Eisenman, Kurt W. Forster, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas and Anthony Vidler.  Included in this collection, essays by;  Diana Agrest, Denise Scott-Brown, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Le Corbusier, Martin Pawley, Manfredo Tafuri and Bernard Tschumi. An absolute classic. PAP, USA, 1998.  701pp PB $A 97.50

Organic Approach to Architecture (The) Gans, Deborah, Kuz, Zehra
With its promise of environmental symbiosis, the idea of the organic is re-emerging currently across many fields of science, technology and design. This publication captures this movement in architecture, and the attitudes and discourses surrounding it. Drawn from a symposium organised by the editors, the chapters and panel discussions address topical issues of genetic technologies, cyber and geometric morphing, environmentalism, landscape and infrastructure. Wiley, New York, 2003, 190pp PB $A 74.95

The Organizational Complex Martin, R
The Organizational Complex is a historical and theoretical analysis of corporate architecture in the United States after the Second World War. Its title refers to the aesthetic and technological extension of the military-industrial complex, in which architecture, computers, and corporations formed a network of objects, images, and discourses that realigned social relations and transformed the postwar landscape.MIT USA 2003 HB 304pp $A 73.00

Other Plans/Michael Sorkin Studio (University of Chicago Studies) Pamphlet architecture 22
Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 200195pp, PB $A 37.00

The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture: The Uncompleted Project Colin St John Wilson
Drawing upon philosophy, history, art and architectural theory, the story of Modernist Architecture is explored both in theory and through comparative case studies. Rather than positioning Modernism as a completed historic moment that occurred in the past, the author, Professor Wilson, argues for a continuing tradition, an “uncompleted project”. Black Dog UK 2007 189pp PB $A49.00 (26/09)

An Outline of European Architecture Pevsner, N
Penguin, London, 1943, (Reprinted 1990) 496pp PB $A 27.45
 

Perspective as Symbolic Form Panofsky, E.
Zone Books, USA, 1991. 196pp HB $A 52.75

Pamplet Architecture 1-10
The excellent pamphlet architecture series published by Princeton Architectural Press is currently up to number 22 and many of the earlier volumes are were unavailable, until now. Starting with Steven Holl's 1977,"Bridges", this collection of the first ten books also includes works by Mack, Larup, Dimitriu, Lebeus Woods, Hadid and Sartoris. PAP, USA, 1998. HB $A P/A

Pamphlet Architecture # 20 Ray, Mary-Ann
Investigating unusual spaces in Italy, this text covers a honeycombed series of rooms and stairs for midgets, to the dining chambers of a Pompeiian estate, to a half-buried sphere that serves as a place for ice storage. Mary-Ann Ray reveals these quixotic spaces through constructed drawings, collaged photographs, and text. PAP USA 2004 PB 64pp $A 26.00

Paradoxes of Appearing Edited by Anderson and Oxvig
Essays on Art, Architecture and Philosophy. Based on papers given at a symposium in Copenhagen in June 2008, they refer to the following considerations: When spectators confront and designers invent works of art and architecture, vital questions regarding their appearance arise. A discussion follows.
Lars Muller Publishing 2009 208pp PB $79.50 [30.09.09]

The Parallax View Zizek S
“A Lacanian-Hegelian philosopher and pop culture critic who divides his time between America and Slovenia, Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far.Discussing subjects such as Heidegger, neuroscience, the war on terror and The Matrix, he seeks to replace the popular "yin-yang" interpretation (the struggle between opposites that ultimately form a whole) with a theory of the "gap which separates the One from itself”. This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Möbius strip.”
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elselvier. All rights reserved.
MIT 2009 [PB] 434pp PB $A 37.95 [04.04.09]

Pictures of Architecture - Architecture of Pictures Herzog, Jacques and Wall, Jeff
Award-winning photographer Wall's photography of Herzog & de Meuron's Dominus Winery in California (1999) represents the point of departure for a discussion on the relationship between art and photography. Questions arise on topics such as "photogenic architecture," the construction of pictures and buildings, and the question of time. Springer US 2004 PB $A 44.00  

Poetics of Space Bachelard, G
This classic architectural theory book looks at the way intimate spaces are experienced, taking us through our own homes, Bachelard attempts to create an understanding of perceptions of houses and other shelters and how they shape our memories, thoughts and dreams. Beacon Press, Boston, 1958, 241pp, PB $A 29.00
 
Points and Lines; diagrams and projects for the city Allen, Stan
Finding Inspiration in artistic minimalism and post minimalism of the 1970's, Allen uses the city's vitality and infrastructure to support projects that reflect and augment the urban experience. Included in this volume are three essays by Allen along with six projects, including his designs for the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales. Museo del Prado, the Souks, Logistical Activities Zone of Barcelona, the Korean-American Museum of Art in LA and the National Diet Library in Kansai Kan, Japan. Princeton Architectural Press, US, 1999. PB 153pp $A POA

The Possibility of (an) Architecture… Goulthorpe M
Collected essays by Mark Goulthorpe, creator of deCOi, based in Paris and Boston. Articulating a radical agenda for the re-thinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural praxis. Essays and lectures from the past 15 years discuss these changes in relationship to deCOi architects.
Routledge UK 2008 204pp PB AU$81.00

Postcolonial Space's) Nalbantoglu, G.  & Wong, C.
Princeton Arch Press, USA, 1997. 138pp PB $A 47.50

The Power of Contemporary Architecture Cook. P & Spiller. N (ed.)
The result of  the Frank Lowe Lectures at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. This book is a collection of an array of contemporary architects projects and discussions concerning their intellectual and architectural aspirations for the future. The books attempts a dialogue between a  diverse interaction of architects ranging from French Decq and Cornette, Austrian Seifert and Schumacher to Reiser and Umemoto. Academy Editions, UK, 1999.  127pp PB $A 76.95

Primer Peter Cook
As the title suggests, this book is an introduction to some key ideas about architecture through Peter Cook's eyes. Refreshing &straight forward, the chapters are: Architecture as a discussion; Architecture in Context; Buildings as Common Sense; Entering &Identifying; Circulation & Planning; Joining; Structures; Creating the Skin; Key Conditions; Space; A Place to Live & finally, Beyond the Rules. All of these ideas are framed through architectural history. Academy UK, 1996PB 159pp $A 76.95

Privacy and Publicity Modern Architecture as Mass Media    Colomina, B. 
MIT, USA, 1994. 389pp PB $A 55.00

Programs and Manifestoes on 20th - Century Architecture Ulrich Conrads (ed.)early
Every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions in the form of a program or manifesto. The most influential of these are collected here in chronological order from 1903 to 1963.This book is an absolute essential. MIT, USA,1971. 192pp PB $A 35.95

The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries Evans R
MIT 2000 USA 456pp PB $A70.00

The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism P V Aureli
Questions how political events post 1968 and the new Marxist theory may have influenced mainstream Architectural projects and thinking. FORuM Project Publication 2008 80pp HB AU$43.00

Quarterly Essay  # 9. Beautiful Lies: population and environment in Australia Flannery,Tim ed
Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. From the lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the aborigines knowledge of the environment to the Snowy mountains Scheme that damaged our river system for the sake of white immigration, and the myths surrounding multiculturalism. The book concludes with questions of the ways in which we can discharge our responsibility to the refugees who are victims of American policies we collude with. Presenting wide set range of political, intellectual and cultural opinion Black Inc, Aus, 2003.119pp $A 11.95.

Questions of Perception Phenomenology of Architecture Holl. S, Pallasmaa. J and Perez-Gomez. A
The three individual essays attempt to explain the role of man's perception on architecture, as well as its phenomenal accounts.  A + U, Japan, 1995192pp PB $A 85.00

Questions of Space - Bernard Tschumi
This book is a series of lectures, some delivered at the AA in London, others formulated at Princeton or Cooper Union, which forms the core of Tschumi's architectural philosophy from 1975 through to the 1990's. Architectural Association, UK, 1995. Trade Cloth 107pp $A 62.50

Re-Learning from Las Vegas Vinegar and Golec
Going beyond analyzing the original text, the essays provide insights into the issues surrounding architecture, culture, and philosophy that have been influenced by Learning from Las Vegas. For the contributors, as for scholars in an array of fields, the pioneering book is as relevant to architectural debates today as it was when it was first published.
University of Minnesota Press 2009 222pp PB $44.95 [18.08.09]

Realising Design Kawakami, N
The work of young designers who have now established themselves as innovators in their fields of product &furniture design. Investigations into making & production, development of materials for larger scale design . . an interesting book for both design specialists & for those wishing to think creatively. TotoJapan 2004 230pp $A 90.75

Refabricating ARCHITECTURE: How manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building Construction Kieran S. & Timberlake J.
Preoccupation with image & a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook transfer technologies & transfer processes. Kieran & Timberlake argue that the time has come to re-evaluate & update the basic design & construction methods that have constrained the building industry throughout history. McGraw-Hill USA 2004PB175pp $A43.95

Research and Practice in Architecture Laaksonen, E., Simons, T. and Vartola, A. (Ed.s)
In this book, six internationally renowned experts professors of architecture - Stanford Anderson, Peter Carolin, Cartsen Juel-Christiansen, Joseph Rykwert, Patrik Schumacher and Dietmar Steiner - discuss the study of architecture and its relationship to practical work.Building Information, Finland, 2001, 124pp, PB, $A 50.00

Rem Koolhaas: Conversations With Students
PAP, USA, 1996 94pp PB $A 35.75

Renovation Nation: Our Obsession with Home  Allon F
This novel discusses our obsession in Australia with home ownership. With angles on economics, real estate and politics, Allon takes us on a journey into why we are so wrapped up in property investment and home.
New South NSW 2008 232pp PB $A34.95

Repressed Spaces: the Poetics of Agoraphobia. Paul Carter
Paul Carter tours the cultural history of agoraphobia, the fear of open space. There have been many attempts to explain & treat the condition.: critics of modernization have linked it to bad city planning; psychoanalysts, calling it ‘street panic’, have blamed it on the Oedipus complex; psychiatrists have tied it to existential insecurity & describe it as the fear of places or situations that have triggered panic attacks.  He concludes by proposing a new way of regarding open space, a new ‘poetics of agoraphobia’, one that is sensitive to the agoraphobe’s point of view and provides lessons for architects& urban planners today. Reaktion UK, 2002. PB 252pp $A 49.95

Residue: Architecture as a condition of loss Chapman, M Ostwald, M J & Tucker, C
The collaborative architectural works of Ostwald, Tucker and Chapman have been included in several major exhibitions internationally. Residue is a collection of texts and designs that investigate the role architecture fulfils as a catalyst for theoretical, cultural and political resistance. This work is not a celebration of the grand sweep of the architect’s hand in the face of adversity or the rarefied protestations of poetic regionalism. Instead, it relies on the nature and passage of time along with a modicum of irony, humour and mythmaking in activating architecture’s apotropaic functions. RMIT 2007 285pp HB $A45.00

Rethinking Architecture a Reader in Cultural Theory.  Leach, N, (ed.)
Routledge, UK, 1997. 407pp PB $A 66.00

RIEA: Prisoners of Museum Lafranchi, Guy (RIEAeuropa Concept Series Book 2)
Springer, USA, 2001, 60pp, PB $A 35.00

RIEA: Sequences [Saw Only the Moon] Kordetzky, Lars (RIEAeuropa Concept Series Book 3)
This book takes an architectural approach to the psyche. An intervention in the isolation room of the psychiatric clinic in 1997 was the point of departure for a confrontation between architecture and the psyche. Collapsing edges, dislocated perception, an enclosed world and liberated space, ...a network of thoughts and illusions, "sequences" describes the development of architectural structures in a precariously balanced in-between world. Introduced by Lebbeus Woods it is a post-modern anti-institutional work focussed on the works of Lars Kordetzky. Springer-Wien, New York, 2001, PB $A 60.00

The Rise of the Creative Class   Florida R.
Based on extensive research, Florida shows how the Creative Class- scientists, architects, engineers & artists- are transforming everyday life in cities that attract them: building community spirit, attracting new investment & transforming the local economy. To attract these creative people local authorities must focus on the three T’s of economic development- technological infrastructure, diversity of talent, & tolerance. PlutoPressAus 2003 PB 404pp $A34.95

"Sanctuaries" the Last Words of John Hejduk Hays,KM
The works in this book display a stylistic range from basic geometric forms and elemental biomorphism to typological variations on theatres , periscopes , traps chapels and labyrinths. These works explore themes of falls from grace, itinerancy, passage and transformation, and above all, architecture as sanctuary - for art, for culture, for enduring rituals, for the human spirit. Whitney US 2002  120pp HB $A 50.00

A Sense Of Place, A Sense Of Time Jackson J B
J. B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Arguing that our urban environment makes us increasingly concerned with time and movement rather than place and permanence, Jackson examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, roads, and shopping malls, and traces the development of dwellings in New Mexico from prehistoric pueblo villages to mobile homes.
Yale Uni Press USA 1994 212pp PB $A39.95 (07/09)

The Sensuous Intellect McLeod R. (ed)
In 2004 the RMIT Interior Design Program hosted the Sensoria Festival of Design Education program. The intense programs and exhibitions organised were curated around three themes, ‘phenomena, media and materia’. This publication is a reflection of the event that brought together local and international practitioners, designers, artists and students, their discussions on design and their works. RMIT 2006 Aust 172pp PB $A33.00(05/03)

The Secret Code: The Mysterious Formula that Rules Art, Nature and Science Priya Hemenway
A presentation of the use of the Golden Section though architecture art and, music and science over time.
Evergreen Koln 2008 203pp HB $A34.99

Sex of Architecture Agrest, D. Conway, P. Weisman, L. Ed's.
Abrams, USA, 1996. 310pp PB $A 46.00

Sexuality & Space Colomina, B. ed
PAP, USA, 1992. 387 pp PB $A 44.00

Shape: Talking about seeing and doing Stiny, G
Shape is an important and insightful analysis of the computation, art, cognition and philosophy of shapes. It takes the idea of design as a calculation from mere heuristic or metaphor to a rigorous relationship in which design and calculation each inform and enhance the other. Punctuated with many drawings, you have to see it in order to read it. MIT Press 2006 423pp. HB A$64.00

Sidewalk Critic Wojtowicz, Robert
Lewis Mumford's writings on New York Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1998, 280pp HB $A 63.25

Sidewalks Loukaitou-Sideris, A and Ehrenfeucht, R
A history of the political, social and economic life of the sidewalk.
MIT Press 2009 330pp HB $51.95 [28.07.09]

Simulation: Presentation Technique and Cognitive Method Humanity Edited by A Gleiniger and G Vrachliotis
An exploration of the development of the notion of simulation, and the implications of contemporary culture and society. Birkhauser 2008 128pp PB AU$42.00

The Singular Objects of Architecture Baudrillard J & Nouvel J
A wide ranging conversation bridging architecture and philosophy, discussing the city as a topic of tomorrow and the ideal of transparency, the gentrification of New York. With striking and novel formulation - and new ways of understanding the connections between the practitioner and the philosopher, the object and the idea. University of Minnesota Press, US 2003 81pp HB $ 45.00

Situationists Art, politics, urbanism. Andreotti & Costas Eds
MAC Barcelona, Spain, 1996. 167pp PB O/P

Situationist City Sadler, S
Sadler investigates the artistic, architectural, and cultural theories that were once the foundations of Situationist thought, particularly as they applied to the form of the modern city. MIT, USA, 1998. 232pp PB $A 55.00

The Situationist International: a user’s guide  Ford, S.
One of the most notorious & radical art movements of the twentieth century, the author offers all the information one will need to bring themselves up to speed on not only the history & the people that played major parts in this movement, but also analyses the painting, architecture, cinema & psychogeography. Black Dog, UK, 2005, 175pp, PB. $A 55.00 (12/03)

Socrates' Ancestor McEwen, Indra Kagis
An essay on architectural beginnings..MIT, USA, 1994. 194pp PB $A 58.95

Sorry Out of Gas: Architecture’s response to the 1973 Oil Crisis. Borasi, G & Zardini, M
Architects, engineers, craftsman and thinkers invested their skills and ingenuity in finding answers to the problems the oil crisis presented. Sorry Out of Gas offers a closer look at their solutions, projects and experiments and reveals much that can be applied to the challenges of today’s world.
Canadian Centre for Architecture 2008 236.pp A$87.50

Space Between People: How the Virtual changes Physical Architecture Doesinger S
Along with twelve critical contributions on the virtualisation of the physical realm, this book presents more than 40 selected and award-winning projects from the first architecture competition held within Second Life.
Prestel 2008 155pp PB AU$59.95

Space is the Machine A Configurational Theory of Architecture Hillier, B
Notions of 'Spatial Configuration' is the thesis of Hillier's new title, which explores how these relations may lead to a new type of theory and understanding of design and urbanism. Cambridge University Press, UK, 1996.  463pp PB $A 69.45

Spaces speak, are you listening? : Experiencing aural architecture. Blesser, B & Salter, L.R
Every environment has an aural architecture, and its attributes have always contributed to the fabric of human culture. Integrating contributions from a wide range of disciplines including architecture, cognitive psychology, anthropology, acoustics and audio engineering- Spaces speak, are you listening ? establishes the concepts and language of aural architecture. MIT Press Boston 2007 438pp. HB A $ 65.00

Space, Time and Architecture  The Growth of a New Tradition. Giedion, S.
A milestone in modern thought, this is the fifth edition  of Space, Time and Architecture since its first publication in 1941. Gropius wrote its success was due to Giedion's "deep investigation into the philosophical and technical background of our modern civilization...will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture." Harvard UP, USA, 1981 897pp HB $A P/A

Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level. Von Borries, F, Walz,S & Bottger, M
Computer games are part and parcel of our present; both in their audiovisual language and the spatiotemporal processes associated with them. The digital spaces so often frequented by gamers have evolved and are re-configuring our notion of space and time, just as film and television have done in the 20^th Century. Space Time Play asks why architects should care about computer games and what can a game designer take from architecture? Birkhauser Switzerland 2007 496pp. A $70.00

Strange Details Cadwell M
Cadwell looks at the work of four canonical architects and four of the buildings pivotal to their careers: Carlo Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Louis Kahn. Each of these architects, he finds, reconfigures the rudimentary facts of construction, creating a subtle but undeniable shift in a buildings physicality. He explores their use of material and construction detailing. MIT USA 2007183pp PB AU $29.95

Straight Lines Christl, M
"Type isn't merely a medium of communication, it expresses a personality or style." This new style reveals the exciting process of the graffiti artist's craft, from the rudimentary fusion of letter to final impact. German graffiti writers ECB and RESO have been carefully documenting their collaborative works since they started painting in the 1980's. Ginko Press Germany 2004 HB $A 57.95

Strangely Familiar: Design & Everyday Life Walker Art Center/Blauvelt A.
Design is a paradox in our lives, both anonymous & conspicuous, familiar & strange. It surrounds us while fading from view, becoming second nature yet standing apart from the world in which it exists, an alien presence the grain of everyday life. This fully illustrated catalogue includes essays on the tactics of formlessness & it's impact on everyday consumption, the potential of an endlessly transformable environment to extend product life cycles, & ruminations on the strange & familiar worlds of design. Cantz Germany2003 HB 344pp$A74.25

Strategies of Display: Museum Presentation in Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Visual Culture Noordegraaf J.
As a point of departure this book takes a remarkable look at display history as well as reflecting on the history of presentation in museums in Western Europe & North America. Its numerous illustrations present a parallel history of museum presentation in pictures, whilst comparison with other realms of presentation, in particular commercial presentation in department stores & shopping malls, offers new insights into the relationship between the museum & its audience, both now & in the past. As such it seeks to contribute to the international discussion about the role & function of the museum in contemporary society. NAi NL2004 PB 287pp$A63.00

Studies in Design Research: ten epistemological pavilions  Downton, P.
A handbook on stories, idea, explorations and. Rockport, USA, 2005, 192pp, HB. $A 85.00

Style and Scale, or: Do you have anxiety? Moderated by Bice Curiger
A conversation with Ken Adam, Katharina Fritsch and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Springer New York 2009 192pp PB $64.95 [22.09.09]

Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments Gissen, D
Examines experimental work by today's leading designers, scholars, philosophers, and biologists that rejects the idea that humans can somehow recreate a purely natural world, free of the untidy elements that actually constitute nature. Each chapter provides an examination of a particular form of subnature and its actualization in contemporary design practice.
Princeton Architectural Press US 2009 224pp PB $68.00 [04.11.09]

SuperStudio The Middleburg Lectures Byvanck, V
With essays by Adolfo Natalini, Peter Lang, Hans Ibelings and Hilde Heynen.
De Vleeshal and Zeeuws Museum 2009 96pp PB $37.40 [29.10.09]

Supercrit#2: Learning from Las Vegas
In Supercrit#2 Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown revisit their infamous book which first introduced the commercial architecture of the strip. The Supercrit is supported by the architect’s original drawings, photographs and descriptions. Supercrit#2 is an invaluable resource. Routledge USA A$85.00

Tamass Contemporary Arab Representations: Beirut/Lebanon 1
Contemporary Arab Representations is a long term project which includes seminars, presentations of works by different authors – visual artists, architects, writers and poets-, performances and publications, with the aim of encouraging production, circulation and exchange between the different cultural centres of the Arab world and the rest of the world. This first volume examines Lebanon, ‘no longer as a “model” or “exception” within the Arab world’, but as a nation where ‘the concern of many Lebanese intellectuals – immediately after the war – [is] with the development and promotion of an experimental, critical contemporary Arab culture’. Work includes text, art, photography and architectural and urban work and propositions. Tamass, Spain, 2002. PB 164pp $A 57.75

Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical Guillen MF
Guillen recovers history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management- one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture.
Princeton USA 2009 186pp PB $A48.95

Terragni’s Danteum Schumacher T.L.
In 1938, Mussolini's Fascist government commissioned the team of Giuseppe Terragni & Pietro Lingeri to design the Danteum, a "temple to the greatest of Italian poets." In this acclaimed book, the author traces Terragni's fanatical, often mystical, pursuit of the poet & explains how this unbuilt project succeeds as an architectural translation of the Divine Comedy -- one that mirrors the poem in structure, theme, & rhythm. PAP USA 2004 PB 163pp $A45.00  (02/03)

The Sphere and the Labyrinth Avant-gardes and the Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s Tafuri, M.
MIT, USA, 1995. 383pp PB Out of Print

The Structure of the Ordinary Form and Control in the Built Environment. Habraken, N.
The culmination of decades of observation and research, the Structure of the Ordinary is a recognition and analysis of everyday environment as the wellspring of urban design and formal architecture."...historically, 'ordinary' environment was the background against which architects built the 'extraordinary'..."  Exploring notions of inhabitation and territory, Habraken passes through historical and contemporary sites, both from the west and the third world to discuss different methodological approaches to the built environment. MIT, USA, 1998. 359pp HB $ 108.90 or PB $A 66.00

Studies in Tectonic Culture The Poetics of Construction in 19th & 20th Century Architecture. Frampton, K
In ten essays and epilogues, Frampton traces the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction. Analysing the changes in technology and how they affected the work of particular architects such as Perret, Wright, Scarpa and Mies. AN illuminating book that discusses and uncovers the effects and forces of technology on modernism. MIT, USA, 1995. 430pp NEW TO PAPERBACK 2001 $A 85.00

Supermodernism Architecture in the Age of Globalisation. Ibelings. H
A small publication broaching expansive issues.  Considering the nature and impact of globalisation in architecture, which  is usually seen as a negative force leading to homogenisation and uniformity.  In recent years however, under the influence of globalisation, an intriguing new architecture has started to emerge where an architecture in which superficiality and neutrality have acquired a special significance.  NAI The Netherlands, 1999. 144pp PB an extended, updated version now reprinting as at 03.2003

Surface Architecture Leatherbarrow, David and Mostafavi, Mohsen
Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book the authors explore ways design can take advantage of production methods so that architecture neither ignores nor is dominated by technology. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. MIT, USA, 2002. HB 264pp $A 96.00

Tellmewhy - The First 24 Months of a New York Design Company  Jacobson, Clare & Sagmeister, Stefan
A book as iconoclastic as their designs, tellmewhy features fresh stories of karlssonwilker’s ordinary office live and its less-than-romantic tales about rooftop parties, battles with immigration, language obstacles, missed meetings, and money problems. It presents a few unrealized designs. The book explores the designers’ creative and humorous take on design.  PAP US 2003 PB 224pp $A 63.50

Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius  (Edited by Ingrid D Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe in1999)
Cambridge University Press, UK, 1999, 330pp, PB, $A54.95

Terminal Architecture Pawley, M
"...Pawley argues that nearly all modern architecture is misconceived.  Focusing as they do on form, not function, the buildings we appreciate in an art-historical context no longer possess any cultural significance in this electronic age." A demanding and futuristic vision describing the end of the city and architecture as know them. A book bound to stimulate debate. Reaktion Books, UK,1998.  223pp PB $A 43.95

Thinking Architecture: Theory in the Work of Australian Architecture  Metcalf, A
RAIA, Australia, 1995. 105pp PB $A19.80

Third Skin Drake Scott
Provides an introduction to the principles of environmental performance in architecture.
UNSW Press 2007 NSW 189pp PB $A63.70 (29/09)
 

Theories & Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture Charles Jencks & Karl Kropf
This compilation of writings picks up from Programs & Manifestoes on 20thC Architecture (Conrads MIT 1995) to bring into light the thoughts of many of the key figures of post modern architecture. This is a fantastic read and an invaluable overview of the ideas behind the last 40 years (1955 to 1995). Featuring writings from James Stirling, Piano & Rogers, Robert AM Stern, Jane Jacobs, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Steven Holl, Frank O Gehry& Rem Koolhaas. Academy, UK, 1997. 312 pp PB $A 44.95

Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture  An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995Nesbitt, K. ed. 
An excellent collection of key texts organised into principle topics and streams. Princeton Arch Press, USA, 1996. 606pp PB $A 79.00

Theory of the Dérive and other Situationist writings on the city. Andreotti, L. Costa, X. eds
Actar, Spain, 1996. 171pp PB $A 45.00

Topography Black R & Hook M
An exploration into architectures relationship to the inhabited and natural landscape. Charting a different path to the usual urban/rural design strategies, research and teaching practice is worked through alternative ways of reading the landscape as a generator for architectural projects. By investigating mapping, drawing, diagramming and photography alternative readings of place are constructed, to make familiar places strange, and strange places familiar.  RMIT Uni Press Aust 2004 112pp $A 27.50

Towards a New Architecture Le Corbusier
Dover, USA, 1931/1986/2002. 289pp PB $A 32.00

Towards and Architecture of Today Di Battista, N
A book from a small series "Panta rhei", described as a vessel in which architects explore their ideas, convictions, thoughts, dreams and questions. Essay in format. Quart Switzerland 2004 PB 101pp $ 41.95

Towards an Ethical Architecture Green J & So M
This book houses a collection of essays (both written and photographic) exploring the nature of the architectural profession. Featuring the work of Gregory Henriquez and exploring the issues faced by todays architect and the need to re-examine the role of ethics and activism within architectural practice.
BlueimPrint Canada PB AU$39.95
 

Tower & Office - From Modernist Theory to Contemporary Practice Abalos,I & Herreros, J
In the first part of this book, Abalos and Herreros focus on the work of Le Corbusier and his followers, identifying the degree of complexity achieved in their interpretations of the modern skyscraper. In the second part, they look at the technological, typological and urban evolution of high-rise construction and the contemporary office building. Among the issues they consider are the evolution of the load-bearing structure, the impact of high-tech systems in buildings, and the transparent building skin. In the third part, they address developments in the planimetric concept of the office and the repetitive and homogeneous office skyscraper, as well as present-day mixed-use structures. MIT Press, US 2003, 295pp $A85.00

Tracing Modernity - Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City  Hvattum,M & Hermansen,C
The essays in this new anthology trace the 'modern' project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand contemporary culture in a deeper sense than discussions of 'modernism' and 'post-modernism' usually offer. Drawing on architectural and urban history as well as philosophy and sociology, the book outlines the complex and conflicting roots of modernity by tracing its manifestations in architecture and the city. Routledge UK 2004 PB 288pp $A 80.00

Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays. Evans, R
The late Robin Evans (1944-1993) was a highly original historian of architecture whose writings covered a wide range of concerns: society's role in the evolution and development of building types, aspects of geometry, modes of projection, military architecture, representation of all kinds. No matter what the topic, however, he always drew on firsthand experience, arriving at his insights from direct observation. This book brings together eight of Evans's most significant essays. Written over a period of twenty years, from 1970, when he graduated from the Architectural Association, to 1990, they represent the diverse interests of an agile and sceptical mind. The book includes an introduction by Mohsen Mostafavi, a chronological account of the development of Evans's writing by Robin Middleton, and a bibliography by Richard Difford.MIT, USA, 1997. 294pp PB $A 72.00

Twentieth Century Architecture Doordan, Dennis P.
Destined to be a classic and found on the booklist of architecture students, this long overdue publication looks in depth at the last century of architecture from around the world. With chapter titles such as the house, trends in postwar architecture, architecture and politics, the architecture of transportation and industry and modernist hegemony, Doordan manages to discuss almost every significant style and building of the architectural environment as we understand it. Exhaustively documented with drawings and photographs, it is a clear, unbiased and comprehensive journey through twentieth century architecture.L King Publishing, UK, 2001, 304pp, PB $A 66.00

Uncommon Ground David Leatherbarrow
MIT, USA, 2000. 335pp $A O/P

 
Utopia Deferred: Writings for Utopie (1967-1978) Baudrillard J.
The Utopie group began in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The journal, Utopie was edited by Hubert Tonka, and was a product of these meetings with sociologists Jean Baudrillard, Rene Lourau, and Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste. This is a collection of all of the essays Jean Baudrillard published in Utopie as well as recent interviews with Jean Baudrillard and Hubert Tonka.  MIT USA 2006 PB 328pp $A31.95

Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity R. Buckminster Fuller
A compilations of Fuller’s essays and writings from the 1960s. He proposes a worlds where our needs are fulfilled for 100 percent of the population – a utopian existence, using sources of energy from the land: sun, water, tides and wind. The alternative to this proposal he claims, is “oblivion”.
Lars Muller Publishers 2008 447pp PB AU$58.50

A View From the Interior: Women and Design Attfield, Judy & Kirkham, Pat
The second edition of this book with a new introduction looks at what design can tell us about our society and women's place in it. It looks at both women as designers and those who are designed for from a design/art  history & theory perspective. The Women's Press, London, 1995, 246pp. $A 43.95

The Virtual Dimension Architecture Representation and Crash Culture
 PAP, USA, 1998.  356pp PB $A O/P

Visionary Architecture: Blueprints of the Modern Imagination Spiller N.
Defining the term “visionary” in periods during and beyond the 20^th century, Spiller identifies, captures and documents the utmost imaginations and aspirations of 20^th and 21^st century architects dissatisfied with the mundane. Documented and explained in sections including post war attitudes of freedom, to the 80s where the house was to accommodate new technologies, the age where Modernist ideals were questioned and answered in an era of deconstruction and through works by all relevant architects and artists. In over 450 illustrations T&H UK 2006 271pp HB $A105.00

Vitruvius on Architecture Smith,Thomas Gordon
"Vitruvius on Architecture" presents not only a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture but also new drawings and watercolors that illustrate, for the first time since ancient days, Vitruvis's methods of proportion and composition. Architect and educator Thomas Gordon Smith re-created these finely detailed illustrations directly from the text. Also included are many photographs of historic architecture from Greece, Italy, Turkey, and throughout the Mediterranean region. This new edition is intended for practical application, as a reference for classical studies, and as an incontrovertible example of the enduring value of the architecture of antiquity for contemporary education and practice. Monacelli Press US 2004 288pp PB $A 72.50

Vitruvius - Writing the Body of Architecture McEwan, Indra Kagis
Each of the book's four chapters treats a different Vitruvian "body". Chapter 1, "The Angelic Body", deals with the book as a book, in terms of contemporary events and thought, particularly Stoicism and Stoic theories of language. Chapter 2, "The Herculean Body", addresses the book's and its author's relation to Augustus, whose double Vitruvius means the architect to be. Chapter 3, "The Body Beautiful", discusses the relation of proportion and geometry to architectural beauty and the role of beauty in forging the new world order. Finally, chapter 4, "The Body of the King", explores the nature and unprecedented extent of Augustan building programmes. MIT, US 2003 495pp HB $A 80.00

Walls Have Feelings Architecture, Film and the City. Shonfield, Katherine
Every day films are made in cities, buildings and rooms, and every day architects and urbanists make decisions about cities, buildings and rooms. Their skills are addressed to the same subject but they inhabit different worlds. Now, for the first time, this book brings the insights, methodologies and visions of film to the practice of architecture. Routledge, UK 2000 204pp PB $A 56.10

Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project Hanssen, B
Walter Benjamin’s unfinished Arcades Project has had a remarkable impact on present day cultural theory, urban and cultural studies and literary interpretation. Originally designed as a panoramic study chronicling the rise and decline of the Parisian shopping arcades, Benjamin’s work combines imaginative peregrinations through the changing city-scapes of nineteenth-century with passages that read like a blueprint for a new cultural theory of modernity.
Continuum UK 2006 306pp PB $A49.95

Warped Space: Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture. Vidler, Anthony
Anthony Vidler is concerned in this book with two forms of warped space. The first, a psychological space, is the repository of neuroses and phobias; it is not empty but full of disturbing forms, including those of architecture and the city. The second kind of warping is produced when artists break the boundaries of genre to depict space in new ways. Vidler looks at the architectural experiments of Coop Himmelblau, Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Morphosis and Eric Owen Moss in the light of new digital techniques that, while relying on traditional perspective, have radically transformed the composition, production, and experience - perhaps even the subject itself - of architecture. MIT, USA, 2000. 301pp. HB $A 87.30 Now Available in Paperback for only $A 49.95

Weimar Surfaces - Urban Visual Culture in 1920's Germany. Ward, J
'Germany of the 1920's offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture. Both as flaneur and scholar, she analyses the power that 1920's Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism, and she documents the era's transition from the modern to the postmodernism.' Uni of California Press, USA, 2001.PB 358pp $A 45.00

Welcome to The Hotel Architecture Connah, R.
In a  five-part "anti-epic" poem, Connah presents a wry reflection on the fickle but exciting role that language, semantics, and philosophy have played this century in relation to architecture.MIT, USA, 1998. 162pp PB $A 39.60

The Women T.C Boyle
Boyle’s latest novel takes on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright by examining his notoriously tumultuous relationships with four women, each unique in her own histrionic way.
Bloomsbury UK 2009 452pp PB $32.95 [23.05.09]

Women and the Making of the Modern House Friedman,A
This is a study of houses designed by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Robert Venturi for independent women who headed their own households. It explores the challenges that unconventional attitudes and ways of life presented to architectural thinking - and to the architects themselves. Abrams USA 2004 HB 240pp $A 75.00.

What is Appropriation? An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art in the 1980s & 1990s Butler, R.
IMA, Australia, 2004, 315pp, PB. $A 49.90

What Designers Know Lawson B.
Exploring whether or not design knowledge is special, this book attempts to get to the root of where design knowledge comes from. Importantly, it focuses on how designers use drawings in communicating their ideas & how they converse with them as their designs develop. Overall, this book builds a layout of the kinds of skill, knowledge & understanding that make up what we call designing. Architectural Press UK 2005 PB 127pp$A58.30 (02/03)

Where the Other Half Lives: Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World Glynn S
Housing has become a hot topic. The media is filled with stories of individual housing hardship and of major property-related financial crises: of crippling personal debts, rundown social housing, homelessness, mass demolitions, spiralling prices, un-affordability and the ‘credit crunch’. This book links all these together through a radical analysis that puts housing at the heart of critical economic and political debate.   The author shows that these problems arise from the fact that houses are no longer seen primarily as homes for living in, but rather as a source of profit. Case studies from the UK, the US and other western countries are set into a theoretical and historical overview of how housing has changed over several decades. The book also examines campaigns for better housing and explores possibilities for a different approach to this most fundamental of human needs. Pluto US 2009 340pp PB $51.00 [27.06.09]

White Walls,Designer Dresses The Fashioning of Modern Architecture. Wigley, Mark
MIT, USA, 1995. 424pp New Paperback Edition 2001  $A 59.00

Without and Within Pimlott M
A collection of essays on territory and the interior, Without and Within discusses the ever growing generic spaces of shopping malls, airports and offices looking at the interiors created within the urbanisation of America. Episode Netherlands 2008 330pp PB $A 99.50

Words and Buildings Vocabulary of Modern Architecture. Forty, A.
An original study on the way we talk and write about architecture grounded in an examination of the language of Modernism.  Included is a vocabulary of key terms, listing their modern meaning and their historical and theoretical  framework. Thames, London, 2000.  335pp HB $A 99.00

World’s Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning and Network Culture William J. Mitchell
Mitchell offers a series of snap-shots, short essays and analyses, that examine the systems of function and meaning currently operating in our buildings, cities and global networks. MIT Press US 2008 PB 145pp $25.95

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp: Paintings/Postcards/ Objects/ Games Basar S & Truby S [eds]
This publication reveals for the first time a significant- and near secret- corpus of work notable for its wild diversity. Though Vriesendorp is best known for her seminal cycle of anthropomorphic architectural paintings, her extensive ‘art of generosity’ embraces bad taste, pop, ‘playground surrealism’ and the touching beauty of culture’s failed objects. Here, enlightenment emerges from distraction, whilst seriousness must surrender to the non-serious. AA UK 2008 275pp PB AU$85.00

Wrapper - 40 Possible City Surfaces for the Museum of Jurassic Technology Mangurian R, Ray M
This intriguing book documents the work commissioned to Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray (Studio Works) by the Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA, to provide a reworking of the front facade of their modest building. The result was 40 possible suggestions for a facade treatment based on the ideas of wonder and fascination that the museum is intended to foster. William Stout & Rice School of Architecture, USA, 2000. Soft Cover 112pp $A 63.25

Written Into The Void Eisenman P
Yale University Press UK PB 224pp $A69.95

Writings on Architecture Rudolph, P
Featured texts include a selection of Paul Rudolph’s published critical writings, which cover such topics as Rudolph’s views about the architecture and city planning of his time and the proper way to educate an architectural student. Recent controversies about the preservation of many of Rudolph’s buildings, including the landmark Art and Architecture Building at Yale, which celebrated its 45th anniversary and grand reopening in November 2008 make this a timely publication.
Yale University Press 2009 163pp PB $39.95 [04.07.09]

World Architects In Their Twenties Ito T
In 1999 over a period of eight months, the Tadao Ando Laboratory, part of the Department of Architecture from the University of Tokyo, invited a number of guest speakers to talk about their experiences as young architects. The architects were Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Ricardo Legorreta, Frank O. Gehry, I.M. Pei and Dominique Perrault.
Garden City Japan 2006 222pp PB $A24.75 (01/09)

Questions of Space Tschumi B
Architecture Association UK 1995 107pp PB $A49.60(16/06)