Product Description: The renowned designer and style guru Ilse Crawford showcases her body of influential, holistic work for the first time, articulating her groundbreaking philosophies for design and living. Studioilse, the award-winning design studio founded by Ilse Crawford, bridges the worlds of interior design, architecture, and product design with the philosophy of putting the human being at the center...read more

Product Description: We are so familiar with the features of our homes, the myriad little decorative details, that we have forgotten how to see them. We might look at a church, read a book or watch a film and attempt to understand its symbolism and its references, but we rarely look at our homes in the same light...read more

Covering buildings across the world, this book covers the development of contemporary church design by looking at how the rational can be reconciled and can inform one another. It also outlines the main trends and approaches: the conflict between self-expression and expression of the sacred, between sculptural signification and functionalism.

Product Description: Where would we be without the traditional London caff?Milk bars, ice-cream parlours and espresso bars are all a feature of the London landscape that were borne out of the 1940s to 1960s. It is a time when floods of immigrants set up their businesses providing frothy coffee to the city’s workers...read more

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Product Description: “Occasionally you come across a book that does everything it claims - and then some. This is one”         (Blueprint) Architects have been responsible for many of the modern furniture classics of the 20th century - Mies's Barcelona Chair, Eileen Gray's side table and Le Corbusier's chaise longue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Cinema Builders" outlines the history of the cinema as a quintessentially modern building type, which embodies fantasy and escape in another realm. It examines the relationship of the development of film to the architecture of the cinema itself; the advent of sound and the replacement of the theatre as an urban attraction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ideal for all theatre-lovers and architects, this guide to London's theatres provides not just an insight into the rich variety of architectural styles but a fascinating history of the theatres themselves and biographies of London's major theatre designers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A thoughtful exploration of modern architectural monuments and memorials Structures built in response to death pose unique architectural challenges-challenges that transcend the physical to encompass symbolism, beliefs, and culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text traces developments in church building through the changes in architecture and theology in the late 19th and 20th centuries, and illustrates the broad spectrum of modern ecclesiastical architecture which has emerged as the synthesis of the pluralism which defined the turn of the century and the purity and clarity of the Modern Movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first book in English exclusively devoted to the startlingly original work of Imre Makovecz, Hungary's most highly acclaimed architect. A household name in his native country for many years, Makovecz first gained international recognition with his extraordinary pavilion at the Seville Expo of 1992...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)