RIBA Bookshop

The RIBA Bookshop (Portland Place) is located in the heart of London’s Bloomsbury, nestled between the busy Oxford street and the quietness of Regent’s Park. We are inside an Art Deco building, that has served as the RIBA’s headquarters since its doors were first open to the public in 1934.

The bookshop stocks all kinds of technical, historical, theoretical, legal and graphic books for architects, designers, and landscape architecture professionals, and those book lovers that have a passion for these subjects.

www.ribabookshops.com

RIBA Bookshop/Portland Place
Royal Institute of British Architects
66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD
United Kingdom
+44.20.7307.3753

Best-Selling Design Books (January)

The Environmental Design Pocketbook Add to My Reading List

Sophie Pelsmaker

The Environmental Design Pocketbook places the information you need for sustainable, low-energy building design at your fingertips.

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Park Hill Sheffield Add to My Reading List

Keith Collie

Park Hill, a huge concrete-framed modernist social-housing scheme, was completed in 1961 when Sheffield had near full employment and young architects were developing new ways to satisfy the need for affordable flats for rent.

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Ian Nairn: Words in Place Add to My Reading List

Gillian Darley
David McKie

Ian Nairn lit up the pages of the architectural press, broadsheets and TV screens with his incandescent reports on the uglification of Britain. There is reading accross the country, he warned, a blight of anonymous, soulless development, which he called Subtopia.

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Concretopia Add to My Reading List

John Grindrod

Find out how a blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling 'austerity Britain' became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass.

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Cut and Shut Add to My Reading List

Gareth Williams

Illustrated by a huge archive of previously unpublished images, with a cover by Ben Kelly, and including interviews with Tom Dixon, Ron Arad, Joe Rush and more, this is the account of some of the most anarchic design ever produced.

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By Debbie Millman
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Published: February 22, 2022

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Published: March 2023

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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

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Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition) by Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller

Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition)

By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
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Published: October 2023

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