The Book Company: New Products - Reference

The Essence of Good Design (Responsive Cohesion)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:54:43 +0000

Written by a designer and two philosophers, this short, highly illustrated book explores the idea that responsive cohesion is the essence of good design.

Price: $233.99

Architectural Education (Through History to Novelty)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:15:09 +0000

This book presents thoughtful insights into architectural education while highlighting its journey from past to present times. It describes the contents and methodology and signifies the role of culture in architectural education, especially with reference to communication models.

Price: $233.99

Lying in the Dark Room (Architectures of British Maternity)

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:32:04 +0000

Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, both through a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.

Price: $233.99

Energy Designs for Tomorrow

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:12:44 +0000

The challenges facing the 21st century are staggering: rapidly increasing population, mounting social instability due to global imbalances of wealth and welfare, resource scarcity and resulting conflicts related to their exploitation and distribution, and certainly the ongoing distress of the envi..

Price: $109.00

Kinder (!) Garten

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:04:20 +0000

For decades municipalities in Lower Austria have cooperated with the provincial government to provide families with - mostly free - kindergarten places near their homes. In December 2007 regulations came into force that allow children from the age of two-and-a-half to enter kindergarten, as oppose..

Price: $120.00

Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures (Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors)

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:35:17 +0000

With more than seventy significant case studies located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia from prehistory to the present, this book illuminates the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors.

Price: $233.99

Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:08:24 +0000

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in the classical surveys of Sigfried Giedion, Kenneth Frampton, William Curtis, Alan Colquhoun, and others who traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until the beginning ..

Price: $109.99

Housing Atlas (Europe - 20th Century)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:08:05 +0000

In Housing Atlas, beautifully drawn plans, sections and elevations illustrate nearly a hundred of the most important European housing schemes of the 20th century, a period when architects addressed the multiple challenges of modern urban living and responded with an array of innovative s..

Price: $129.99

Remote Practices (Architecture at a Distance)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:06:54 +0000

Explore the evolving landscape of architecture in the digital age. This book examines how technology and globalization are reshaping architectural practice, education, and critique. Leading scholars and designers reflect on the challenges and opportunities of remote work, offering..

Price: $109.99

Architecture through Drawing

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:04:49 +0000

Architecture through Drawing examines how drawing – as both action and object – encapsulates complex ideas relating to culture, technology, space and the built environment. Bringing together an array of beautiful and rarely seen drawings dating from the sixteenth century to the present day,..

Price: $109.99