Portals: Gates, Stiles, Windows, Bridges and Other Crossings by Philippa LEWIS
$15.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
The Cosmos in Stone - Scared Geometry of a Master Mason by Tom Bree
$69.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
This beautiful and groundbreaking book examines the use of sacred geometry and cosmology in Gothic cathedral design. Renowned geometer and lecturer Tom Bree demonstrates how medieval Master Masons combined their knowledge of the practical building arts with ancient cosmological knowledge to endow their ...Show more
Urgent Moments - Art and Social Change: the Letting Space Projects 2010-2020 by Mark Amery (Editor); Amber Clausner (Editor); Sophie Jerram (Editor)
$69.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
The story of a remarkable art activation. After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist syst ...Show more
Rewi - Ata Haere, Kia Tere by Jade Kake; Jeremy Hansen
$82.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
THE POWER OF ARCHITECTURE TO EXPRESS TE AO MORI AND TRANSFORMA major tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngti Porou, Ngti Raukawa) whose early death robbed Aotearoa New Zealand of one of its greatest thinkers about how our built landscape could best express te ao Maori and be transformative. Wr ...Show more
Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes by Jonathan Horning
$15.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
Horning examines shelters from all over the world, from mud-brick adobe structures, nomad tents, and travellers' quick fixes to timber frame buildings, straw bale designs and geodisic domes.
Architecture at Home - Houses for New Zealanders to live, work and play by Debra Millar
$79.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: near fine
Showcasing a stunning selection of award-winning architect-designed houses from recent years, Architecture at Home explores a broad range of living environments in diverse locations. Permanent homes and occasional retreats, small houses on compact urban sites and larger ones in remote landscapes, new bu ...Show more
Making Space - A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture by Elizabeth Cox (Editor)
$69.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: near fine
Overlooked, underpaid, and often undermined, New Zealand women architects have faced decades of struggle to maintain a position in a male-dominated profession yet their work has been both important and of significance. This groundbreaking new book tells the story of their contribution to the creativity, ...Show more
The Architect and the Artists - Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble - The Collaborative Projects 1965-1979 by Bridget Hackshaw
$69.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member, for a time, of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on 12 New Zealand buildings - from churches to school halls. Drawing ...Show more
Auckland Architecture: A Walking Guide - Revised Edition by John Walsh & Patrick Reynolds
$27.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: near fine
In this handy pocket guide, brought up to date in 2021 with the inclusionof twelve new buildings, well-known architecture writer John Walsh teamsup with architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds to offer a self-guidedwalking tour of 60 significant Auckland buildings, from the Victorian era tothe brand ...Show more
One Year Drawn by Pete Bossely
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: near fine
A Year spent travelling as a young architect tuaght Pete Bossley how to 'read' a building and instilled in him a life-long love of drawing. In One Year Drawn he shares this voyage of discovery - and the places and people he encounters along the way. Now one of New Zealand's most respected architects, Pe ...Show more
Dublin: The Story of a City by Peter Stephen & Harbison Conlin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
A spectacular tour of the evolution of Dublin! Stephen Conlon's meticulous drawings chart the development of Dublin's buildings, history and lifestyle for over 1,000 years. The illustrations reconstruct Dublin through the centuries while new drawings capture contemporary Dublin's key places and building ...Show more