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Book Cover:  Great Buildings
By Dorling Kindersley

A spectacular visual tour of the world's greatest buildings

Great Buildings takes you an amazing tour of 50 of the world's architectural masterpieces from the Houses of Parliament to the Sydney Opera House. Discover how to 'read' a building, identify key characteristics of architecture and get underneath the bricks and mortar with stunning 3-D cutaways.

Come face-to-face with some of the greatest architects...



A spectacular visual tour of the world's greatest buildings

Great Buildings takes you an amazing tour of 50 of the world's architectural masterpieces from the Houses of Parliament to the Sydney Opera House...

Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405375702
RRP: $39.99
Book Cover:  Architecture: Eyewitness Companions
By Jonathan Glancey
Showing you what others only tell you.

From airports to Ziggurats, explore the world's greatest buildings with fascinating illustrations that take you right to the heart of the world's landmark buildings.

Featuring all major historical styles and covering all parts of the world, discover how building has evolved from extravagant royal palaces to the towering headquarters of today's global corporations...

Showing you what others only tell you.

From airports to Ziggurats, explore the world's greatest buildings with fascinating illustrations that take you right to the heart of the world's landmark buildings...

Published: 05/06/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405310291
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Silent Theatre: The Art of Edward Hopper
By Walter Wells
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is the greatest painter of modern American life. The most up-to-date study of its kind, containing over 200 illustrations and featuring selected pages from his personal notebooks. Includes a detailed discussion of a wide range of Hopper's paintings, watercolours and etchings, such as House by the Railroad (1925) and Nighthawks (1942) Examines the influences that...
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is the greatest painter of modern American life. The most up-to-date study of its kind, containing over 200 illustrations and featuring selected pages from his personal...
Published: 20/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714863092
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Gunna Asplund
By Peter Blundell Jones
Published: 20/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714863153
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles
By Robert McCarter
A scholarly resource on Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), one of the most important figures of 20th-century architecture.  Includes reprints of key historical essays as well as new research. Richly illustrated with archival photographs and drawings. An essential primer on architectural principles for any student of architecture. Edited by an acknowledged expert.
A scholarly resource on Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), one of the most important figures of 20th-century architecture.  Includes reprints of key historical essays as well as new research...
Published: 09/02/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714863160
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Visual Inventory
By John Pawson

John Pawson is well known as a minimalist architect, whose body of work includes a new Cistercian monastery in Bohemia and Calvin Klein's first flagship store in New York. One key to his success is his remarkable sensibility: in a life spent almost constantly on the move, he is always looking for patterns, details, textures, spatial arrangements and coincidental moments that can inform his work as...

John Pawson is well known as a minimalist architect, whose body of work includes a new Cistercian monastery in Bohemia and Calvin Klein's first flagship store in New York. One key to his success is his...

Published: 09/02/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714863504
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Concrete
By Leonard Koren
Concrete presents a visual exploration of the aesthetics of concrete architecture through 180 structures from ancient Rome to the present day Includes innovative and inspirational projects from monuments and churches to stations and cultural spaces, by some of the best architects of the last 100 years Each project features a carefully selected photograph accompanied by an engaging extended caption...
Concrete presents a visual exploration of the aesthetics of concrete architecture through 180 structures from ancient Rome to the present day Includes innovative and inspirational projects from monuments...
Published: 10/09/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714863542
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  10 x 10_3
By Phaidon

10 x 10_3 = the 100 best architects you've never heard of. That's about to change. The work shown in this volume is ambitious, inventive, and ground breaking. These are the architects to watch out for, this is the architecture shaping our cities and towns and changing the way we think about the built environment.

10 x 10_3 = the 100 best architects you've never heard of. That's about to change. The work shown in this volume is ambitious, inventive, and ground breaking. These are the architects to watch out for...

Published: 01/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714862521
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Vitamin Green
Published: 11/05/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714862293
RRP: $89.95
Book Cover:  Diener & Diener
By Roger Diener

Diener & Diener is an international architecture office located in Basel, Switzerland. They are known for their sophisticated, subtle take on Modernism, which combines intellectually rigorous thinking about urbanism, history and materiality with an unpretentious, practical approach to design. Diener & Diener are well-known in particular for their simple yet sophisticated residential complexes...

Diener & Diener is an international architecture office located in Basel, Switzerland. They are known for their sophisticated, subtle take on Modernism, which combines intellectually rigorous thinking...

Published: 18/05/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714859194
RRP: $99.95
Book Cover:  John Pawson Plain Space
By Alison Morris

John Pawson (b.1949) is an architect and designer whose exceptional work combines an essential simplicity with a keen attention to the details of everyday life and human experience. In the last decade, the scope of his designs has broadened from objects and interiors to include houses, monasteries, pavilions and boats. This change in scale has given his office the opportunity to refine its minimalist...

John Pawson (b.1949) is an architect and designer whose exceptional work combines an essential simplicity with a keen attention to the details of everyday life and human experience. In the last decade...

Published: 15/09/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714857480
RRP: $89.95
Book Cover:  20th-Century World Architecture
Published: 01/10/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714857060
RRP: $225.00
Book Cover:  Land and Environmental Art: Themes & Movements
By Jeffrey Kastner & Brian Wallis

The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by vast, uncultivated spaces of desert and mountain as well as by post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson moved earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others punctuated...

The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by vast, uncultivated...

Published: 18/05/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714856438
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Gerrit Rietveld
By Ida van Zijl

From his first great design masterpiece, the Red-Blue Chair, to his final design for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) created a significant body of work and left a remarkable legacy. His simple yet dynamic design style has greatly affected international furniture design and has made a significant contribution to the history of architecture.

From his first great design masterpiece, the Red-Blue Chair, to his final design for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) created a significant body of work and left a remarkable...

Published: 15/11/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714849430
RRP: $89.95
Book Cover: The Modernist House
By editors Phaidon

An accessible and affordable overview of 100 iconic Modernist houses from around the world, ranging from the early twentieth century to the present day

An accessible and affordable overview of 100 iconic Modernist houses from around the world, ranging from the early twentieth century to the present day

Published: 30/03/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714849683
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Louis I Khan
By Robert McCarter
An in-depth and scholarly monograph on the mid-20th century architect.
An in-depth and scholarly monograph on the mid-20th century architect.
Published: 01/02/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714849713
RRP: $69.95
Book Cover:  Living in the New Millenium: Houses at the Start of the 21st Century
Published: 29/10/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714855998
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Building the New Millenium: Architecture at the Start of the 21st
Published: 29/10/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714856001
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover: The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
By editors Phaidon

Explore the best architecture of the 21st century in this collection of 1037 exemplary buildings sited all over the world in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture . Divided into six world regions, the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture provides an important overview of global and local trends in architecture. This truly unparalleled resource presents easily accessible world...

Explore the best architecture of the 21st century in this collection of 1037 exemplary buildings sited all over the world in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture . Divided into six world...

Published: 01/11/2008
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714848747
RRP: $200.00
Book Cover:  Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture: Travel Edition
By Phaidon

A condensed version of the information contained in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, this travel edition is pocket sized and portable, ideal for the holiday or business traveller. Organized geographically and illustrated with global, sub-regional and city maps, the buildings are easily located. The book contains over 1,000 buildings including 50 new projects, each of which is illustrated...

A condensed version of the information contained in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, this travel edition is pocket sized and portable, ideal for the holiday or business traveller...

Published: 06/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714848785
RRP: $29.95

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16 May 2012
2012 John Button Prize - longlisted

The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis.

The prize winner will be announced at the John Button Oration to be held with the Melbourne Writers' Festival in August.

For more information please visit: http://johnbuttonprize.org.au

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