As tweeted last week, we're launching a summer promo: 50% off of all architecture titles of a great UK publisher! In collaboration with  Black Dog Publishing, based in London and specialized in illustrated books on art, architecture and culture, we're offering you a great deal on their entire architecture line.

This includes highly acclaimed titles such as Building Happiness, Instant Cities, Alan Colquhoun: Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism, Mapping London, and much much more. We've highlighted 5 recommended titles below, but make sure to go to the entire list, where you can choose from a total of 65 titles, at half the listed price!

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1. The email you registered with at our site. If you haven't yet, register in a flash!
2. Title of the book(s) you want and your delivery address, quoting ‘Arkinet Offer’ as the subject of your email.

Building Happiness: Architecture to Make You Smile by Jane Wernick | £24.95 £12.50 / $45.00 $22.50

This book presents an abundance of views on the nature of happiness within our built environment so as to answer the question whether architectural spaces influence our emotional state and contribute a positive spiritual feeling or are they merely bricks and mortar? Contributig commentators include architect Richard Rogers and artist Anthony Gormely. (2008, 21x15cm, hardback, 192pp.) More

“A bright little book and a serious matter since the reverse—buildings or places that make us unhappy—is a subject on which we all have strong opinions.” - Evening Standard
 

Instant Cities by Herbert Wright  | £35.00 £17.50 / $65.00 $32.50

This new volume xplores and assesses the phenomenon of the contemporary metropolis. Touching on the historical context of humanity's earliest settlements in the ancient world, Instant Cities focuses on the development of the concept of the city and how it has been expanded to include sites from shopping malls to prisons, as well as various 'micro' communities within society, and global megacities such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City or Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley. (2008, 28x23cm, hardback, 240 pp.) More

“The nature and diverse forms of the city are dissected in this wide-reaching study, taking in everything from BedZed to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Dubai to Archigram, utopias to slums.” - Building Design

Alan Colquhoun: Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism | £39.95 £20 / $59.95 $30

An indispensable anthology of writing by one of the most important voices in architectural theory of the last 50 years, book encompasses the clarity of style and rigorous, erudite analysis that Colquhoun has brought to bear on a diverse range of subjects, including Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the Pompidou Centre,
Postmodernism and the design of museums. (2009, hardback, 25.5x22.5cm, 336 pp.) More

“Alan Colquhoun is one of the guardians of the intellectual conscience of his generation.” - Reyner Banham

Mapping London by Simon Foxwell | £39.95 £20 / $59.95 $30

The book is a cartographic journey, charting the influence of Roman city planning, Saxon feudalism, Medieval tumult, imperial hubris, contemporary town planning and more on this great metropolis. It includes over 200 maps, from literary imaginings and utopian prophecies to portrayals of London in contemporary computer games, comics and online—as well as the timeless Monopoly board. (2007, 29x24cm, hardback, 288 pp.) More

“A mesmerising journey through the city.” - The Telegraph

Artists’ Studios by MJ Long | £24.95 £12.50 / US $45.00 $22.50

Architect MJ Long has worked with a remarkable list of artists, designing both their living and working space. Artists’ Studios explores some of these key projects, providing a personal insight into the creative mind behind the working space of some the most respected artists. (2009, 25x19cm, hardback, 192 pp.) More

“An intriguing look at work spaces with some telling insights.” - Royal Academy Magazine

Check out other cool titles like Solutions for a Modern City: Arup in Beijing, Arcade
Artists and Place-Making, LA Climbs: Alternative Uses for Architecture, or Deterritorialisations... Revisioning Landscapes and Politics at the full list!

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