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Our Days Are Like Full Years A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
ISBN: HB: 9780300223125, Yale University Press, October 2020
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 234 colour illus., 113 black&white illus.
On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974). This chance encounter served as preamble to a fifteen-year...
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£35,00
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Drawing Analogies Graphic Manual of Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423311, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
120 pp., 22x22 cm
Drawing analogies proposes an innovative way of drawing by means of which we can go from observing an existing architectural model to a design idea inspired by the same model. Using exclusively free hand drawing, the author presents a series of cases...
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£17,99
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Ljubljana: A City by Heart Joze Plecnik's Legacy and Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423571, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, June 2020
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
Nowadays there are many studies, researches and publications about Joze Plecnik's work, as well as there are many authors who contributed to the knowledge and divulgation of the great Slovenian master work. The text in here, driven in this track, do...
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Eileen Gray, Designer and Architect
ISBN: HB: 9780300251067, Yale University Press, February 2020
430 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome volume chronicles Gray's career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The bo...
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£45,00
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Building the Caliphate Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9780300246827, Yale University Press, February 2020
216 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 71 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi'i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered a golden age of multicultural and interfa...
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£50,00
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Science for the Sustainable City Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9780300246285, ISBN: HB: 9780300238327, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.
In a world of more than seven billion people – who mostly reside in cities and towns – the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagem...
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£22,00
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£50,00
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City
ISBN: PB: 9780226636504, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
First published in 1925, "The City" is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Pa...
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£19,00
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Hertfordshire Buildings of England (New Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9780300223903, Yale University Press, March 2019
804 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
This fully revised and up-to-date guide to the architecture of Hertfordshire is an eye-opening introduction to the wealth of fine buildings that can be found right on London's doorstep. Hertfordshire is one of the smallest English counties, largely r...
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Not twins, but one tower split in two
ISBN: HB: 9783954762095, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, November 2017
156 pp., 33x26.5 cm, 56 colour illus., language: English / German
Dominique Perrault (born 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand, lives and works in Paris) is one of France's star architects. He became internationally known through the construction of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, which was completed in 1995. I...
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£39,90
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Prague Gardens and Parks
ISBN: PB: 9788024634227, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
260 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 145 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The design of Prague's gardens and parks – especially the green spaces of its palaces, castles, and monastery complexes, both private and public – is inseparable from the millennium-long e...
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