Architecture: The Definitive Visual History by DK
Category: Architecture
The definitive global visual history of architectureFrom ancient dwellings to modern high-tech skyscrapers, discover everything there is to know about the history of architecture around the world.Covering over 6,000 years of human history, Architecture charts the most important developments in building ...Show more
Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing People and Place by Leon van Schaik
Category: Architecture | Series: Editions: Australian Architecture Monographs
Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing people and place takes readers on an immersive journey into the very heart of this extraordinary body of work, and documents how, over time, the practice has shifted its focus from individual housing to larger-scale public projects created by a collaborative and ...Show more
Sydney Brutalism by Heidi Dokulil
Category: Architecture
Big and bold or soft and sculptural, or a mix of the two, it’s not until you get up close that you feel brutalism’s radical roots. Brutalist architecture hit Sydney in the late 1950s when local architects and their international peers experimented with raw concrete and brick and kicked off a revolution ...Show more
Art of Home: A Designer Guide to Creating an Elevated Yet Approachable Home by Shea McGee
Category: Architecture
The long-awaited design book from Shea McGee, beautifully showcasing all that is possible for every room of your home.Whether it's through her thriving design business, Studio McGee, her popular Netflix series, Dream Home Makeover, or her online community of over five million followers, Shea McGee has s ...Show more
Beaumaris Modern 2 by Fiona Austin
Category: Architecture
In reality, the first Beaumaris Modern book, featuring Mid Century Modern houses of Beaumaris just scraped the surface of what was out there. And, fortunately, in the past few years many more of these unique architect-designed houses have been discovered-- thankfully surviving the developer's wrecking b ...Show more
Station - A Whistlestop Tour of 20th- and 21st-Century Railway Architecture by Christopher Beanland
Category: Architecture
A glorious celebration of modern railway architecture in the 20th century and beyond, travelling all over the world. Many railway books are about nostalgia for the steam age, but this one is different: a global study of railway architecture from the 1950s onwards and into the future. In 50 fascinatin ...Show more
Grand Designs Australia Volume II (HB) by Bauer Books
Category: Architecture
From a home created within an old electrical substation to another like a sprawling tent under canvas, from a home inspired by Japanese origami to another designed around a shipping container - these are the intriguing and resourceful design solutions featured in The Best of Grand Designs Volume 2, the ...Show more
Gunyah Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia by Paul Memmott
Category: Architecture
Here is the definitive guide to Australian Indigenous architecture, comprehensively updated to showcase the flourishing Indigenous design practices reshaping Australia's architectural landscape. The award-winning Gunyah Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia is the only continental ...Show more
Tasmania Living: Quiet, Conscious Living in Australia’s South by Joan-Maree Hargreaves, Marita Bullock
Category: Architecture
The presence of nature looms large and city skylines are low on this island... From restored historical residences to contemporary, experimental masterpieces, the Tasmanian landscape is dotted with spectacular and innovative homes. Now, their inhabitants reveal how they stumbled upon their island proper ...Show more
Through the Cellar Door: Australia's Beautiful Wineries and Vineyards, their Design and Architecture by ALISON WEAVERS
Category: Architecture | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Wineries across the globe now regularly engage leading architects to create extraordinary, original constructions that complement the winemaking and tasting experiences. In Europe, world-renowned studios have rejuvenated winery and cellar-door architecture for some of the biggest names in the wine indus ...Show more
The House: The Dramatic Story of the Sydney Opera House and the People Who Made It by Helen Pitt
Category: Architecture
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the worse. Helen Pitt tells the stories of the people behind the magnificent white sails of the Sydney Opera H ...Show more
Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses, Classic format by Dominic Bradbury
Category: Architecture
A groundbreaking global survey of the finest mid-20th-century homes - in a great, new, classic edition A fascinating collection of more than 400 of the world's most glamorous homes from more than 290 architects, the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses showcases work by such icons as Marcel Breuer, Richar ...Show more