pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: ARCHITECTURE
A MODERN VIEW
By: Richard Rogers
Format: Hardback

List price: £12.95
Our price: £9.45
Discount:
27% off
You save: £3.50
ISBN 10: 0500342938
ISBN 13: 9780500342930
Availability: Reprinting. This item may be subject to delays or cancellation.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: THAMES & HUDSON LTD
Pub. date: 22 July, 2013
Pages: 64
Description: The crisis of modern architecture is part of a much larger crisis involving the whole question of the way we live and how we use the resources of our planet. This book deals with this topic.
Synopsis: The crisis of modern architecture is part of a much larger crisis involving the whole question of the way we live and how we use the resources of our planet. Poor design, monotony, and inhuman scale are the results not of lack of talent nor the failures of the Modern Movement, but of a surrender to selfish interests and short-sighted economies. Richard Rogers, perhaps the most original and inventive architect at work today, is a frequent commentator on the contemporary scene. In this book, available again after some years out of print, it is especially valuable to have his philosophy of design so succinctly summarized. As a practising architect, he is in the best possible position to appreciate how economic forces can create or frustrate good design. His book is illustrated largely by examples drawn from his own work, making it a professional record as well as a manifesto for the future.
Illustrations: Illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
A GARDEN OF SPIRITUAL FLOWERS IN TWO PARTS / PLANTED BY RI. RO-, WILL PER., RI. GREEN, M.M., AND GEO. WEB. (1687)
A GARDEN OF SPIRITUAL FLOWERS. PLANTED BY RI. RO. WILL PER. RI. GREEN. M.M. AND GEO. WEB. CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. IN TWO PARTS. (1687)
A GARDEN OF SPIRITUALL FLOWERS. 2 PART YEELDING A SWEET SMELLING SAUOUR IN THE NOSTRILS OF EACH TRUE-HEARTED CHRISTIAN. (1620)
A GARDEN OF SPIRITUALL FLOWERS. PLANTED BY RI. RO. WILL. PER. RI. GREE. M.M. AND GEO. WEB (1610)
A GARDEN OF SPIRITUALL FLOWERS. PLANTED BY RI. RO. WILL. PER. RI. GREE. M.M. AND GEO. WEB. CORRECTED AND INLARGED (1625)
A GARDEN OF SPIRITUALL FLOWERS. PLANTED BY RI. RO., WILL. PER., RI. GREE., M.M., AND GEO. WEB. (1616)
A GARDEN OF SPIRITUALL FLOWERS. YEELDING A SWEET SMELLING SAUOUR IN THE NOSTHRILS [SIC] OF EACH TRUE-HEARTED CHRISTIAN. (1617)
A GARDEN OF SPIRITUALL FLOWERS. YEELDING A SWEET SMELLING SAUOUR IN THE NOSTRILS OF EACH TRUE HEARTED CHRISTIAN. (1625)
A PLACE FOR ALL PEOPLE
A PLACE FOR ALL PEOPLE (HB)
ALVAR AALTO: ARCHITECT (HB)
ARCHITECTURE: THE WHOLE STORY (PB)
BLACK DEATH (PB)
CARLOS HERRERA (HB)
CENTRE POMPIDOU (PB)
CHANGING TIMES: QUALITY FOR HUMANS IN A (PB)
CHEMICAL REACTION HAZARDS (HB)
CHEMICAL REACTION HAZARDS (PB)
CITIES FOR A SMALL COUNTRY (PB)
CITIES FOR A SMALL PLANET (PB)
CITIES FOR A SMALL PLANET (PB)
CITIES FOR PEOPLE (HB)
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF MALINGERING AND DECEPTION
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF MALINGERING AND DECEPTION (HB)
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF MALINGERING AND DECEPTION (PB)
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF MALINGERING AND DECEPTION, FOURTH EDITION
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF MALINGERING AND DECEPTION, FOURTH EDITION (HB)
CONDUCTING INSANITY EVALUATIONS (HB)
CONDUCTING MIRANDA EVALUATIONS
CONDUCTING MIRANDA EVALUATIONS (HB)
DIGITAL METHODS
DIGITAL METHODS (HB)
DIGITAL METHODS (PB)
DOING DIGITAL METHODS
DOING DIGITAL METHODS
DOING DIGITAL METHODS
DOING DIGITAL METHODS (HB)
DOING DIGITAL METHODS (HB)
DOING DIGITAL METHODS (PB)
FLOWER DRUM SONG (PB)
FUNDAMENTALS OF FORENSIC PRACTICE (HB)
FUNDAMENTALS OF FORENSIC PRACTICE (PB)
GENERATIONAL GENEROSITY
GUMUCHDJIAN ARCHITECTS (HB)
HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL FORM TUTOR (PB)
INFORMATION POLITICS ON THE WEB
INFORMATION POLITICS ON THE WEB (PB)
IRISH WALK GUIDES (PB)
ISSUE MAPPING FOR AN AGEING EUROPE (PB)
JAN KAPLICKY DRAWINGS (HB)
LEGORETTA + LEGORETTA (HB)
LORD CROFT'S FALL FROM GRACE
LOST AND FOUND
LOVE LIFE! (PB)
OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY: LEVEL 6: OLIVER TWIST
OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY: LEVEL 6:: OLIVER TWIST (PB)
PLUS MINUS BOX (HB)
POND KIDS
PREFERRED PLACEMENT (PB)
RICHARD ROGERS COMPLETE WORKS (3 VOLUME SET) (PB)
RICHARD ROGERS COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME 1 (HB)
RICHARD ROGERS COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME 3 (HB)
RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN S THE KING AND I (PB)
RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CAROUSEL (PB)
SEAUEN TREATISES CONTAINING SUCH DIRECTION AS IS GATHERED OUT OF THE HOLIE SCRIPTURES, LEADING AND GUIDING TO TRUE HAPPINESSE, BOTH IN THIS LIFE, AND IN THE LIFE TO COME. ORRECTED AND ENLARGED BY RICHARD ROGERS, PREACHER OF THE WORD OF GOD. (1610)
SEAVEN TREATISES CONTAINING SUCH DIRECTION AS IS GATHERED OUT OF THE HOLIE SCRIPTURES, LEADING AND GUIDING TO TRUE HAPPINES, BOTH IN THIS LIFE, AND IN THE LIFE TO COME, AND MAY BE CALLED THE PRACTISE OF CHRISTIANITIE (1604)
STATE FAIR (PB)
TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES (PB)
THE CROFT'S IN THE AMERICA'S
THE E-GIVING GUIDE FOR EVERY CHURCH (PB)
THE EAGLE OF ULTIMATE POWER (PB)
THE END OF THE VIRTUAL
THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO DYSLEXIA AND ITS AMAZING PEOPLE (HB)
THERMAL HAZARDS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS (HB)
TITANIC (PB)
WHAT LIES UNDERNEATH (PB)
YOUR LOVE (PB)

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Zaha Hadid. Complete Works 1979-Today. 40th Ed. (Hardback)
By: Philip Jodidio
Taschen GmbH
Our Price : £18.25
more details
Gaudi (Hardback)
By: Maria Antonietta Crippa, Peter Gossel
Taschen GmbH
Our Price : £10.95
more details
PARIS HAUSSMANN (Hardback)
By: BENOIT JALLON
ACC ART BOOKS
Our Price : £34.65
more details
Mirao (Hardback)
By: Janis Mink
Taschen GmbH
Our Price : £10.95
more details
Bauhaus (Hardback)
By: Magdalena Droste, Peter Gossel
Taschen GmbH
Our Price : £10.95
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 THE ARTS
 architecture


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
By: SARA KHAN
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C...
By: ADAM POWER-ANNAND
The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket