Decorative Cast Iron in Australia by E. Graeme Robertson
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A twenty year collection of photographs of the best examples of ornamental cast iron in Austalian cities. Many of the Perth and Brisbane photographs not previously published. Accompanied by an authoritative text to make this the definitive work on Australia's cast iron.
Architecture: The Definitive Visual History by DK
$75.00 AUD
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
Corrugated Iron : Building on the Frontier by Adam Mornement and Simon Holloway
$90.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Corrugated Iron describes the history and recent revival of a building material once revered as a miracle of the industrial age. Corrugated iron is much more than a cheap roofing material. It is a durable, biodegradable and environmentally-sound cladding system, sufficiently versatile to create one-off ...Show more
Australian Country Houses - Homesteads, Farmsteads and Rural Retreats by Clive Lucas; Ray Joyce (Photographer)
$20.00 AUD
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Cathedral : The Great English Cathedrals and the World that Made Them by Jon Cannon
$40.00 AUD
$79.95 (49% off)
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The English medieval cathedrals are one of the wonders of the world. But who made them, and why? This fascinating new history of England's cathedrals explores a previously unconsidered view of these extraordinary creations: as constantly-changing structures created by a rich brew of ancient rituals, bel ...Show more
Building in Cob, Pise, and Stabilized Earth by Clough Williams-Ellis and John and Elizabeth Eastwick-Field
$85.00 AUD
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God's Architect : Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill
$40.00 AUD
$69.95 (42% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widow ...Show more
Australian Country Houses : Homesteads, Farmsteads and Rural Retreats by Clive Lucas and Ray Joyce
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Monasteries of Western Europe - The Architecture of the Orders by Wolfgang Braunfels
$20.00 AUD
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The description for this book, Monasteries of Western Europe: The Architecture of the Orders, will be forthcoming.
Rose Windows by Painton Cowen
$35.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Focuses on the symbolic import of the rose windows and the Gothic cathedrals housing them, discussing their role as monuments of faith created in a time plague and famine.
William Kent - Architect, Designer, Opportunist by Timothy Mowl
$80.00 AUD
$86.95 (7% off)
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William Kent (1685-1748) was great without a hint of gravitas, a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his age. He was a high camp Yorkshire bachelor, brought back by Lord Burlington from an artistic apprenticeship in Rome where he had painted for a cardinal and won prizes from a pope. In L ...Show more
70/80/90 : Iconic Australian Houses - Three Decades of Domestic Architecture by Karen McCartney
$95.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
In this follow-up to the design classic "50/60/70 Iconic Australian Houses", Karen McCartney, founding editor of interiors magazine "Inside Out", has compiled a selection of significant examples of Australian houses of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, each brilliantly photographed and with a depth of coverage ra ...Show more