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Berlin Fragments A Heterography of an Architectural Form
ISBN: PB: 9788862423434, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
180 pp., 21x14.8 cm
Every building and every architect has a tale. Bringing these tales together, determining where they overlap, may give us telling urban tales. What can be told is what has the right to remain, to avoid oblivion, allowing words about buildings and cit...
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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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Exlibris 16 Keywords of Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423359, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
160 pp., 22x16.5 cm
Architects write a lot, especially now that conceptual aspects have become central in advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices for an ultimate legitimation. In the growing mass of publications, the...
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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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Dialogues on Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423724, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, February 2020
352 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 84 colour and black&white illus.
In this book, a number of protagonists of Italian modern architecture provide vivid dialogues – here taken to mean 'the talking of the soul with itself' – on how they perceive the interaction between idea, design and construction. Drawing on these pe...
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Platform for Change A Farm Cultural Park Guide
ISBN: HB: 9788862423663, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, August 2019
368 pp., 27x20 cm, 650 colour and black&white illus.
"Platform for Change" is the across-the-boards narrative of a journey through the breathtaking landscapes of global and local urban regeneration, intelligent community building strategies, cities where citizens take charge of their public spaces. Cit...
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£34,99
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Tropical Toolbox Fry and Drew and the Search for an African Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9788862423687, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2019
220 pp., 20x14.5 cm, 140 colour and black&white illus.
Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew are two key figures of British architecture from the second half of the twentieth century. Their most important work was the book ''Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones'', a manual compiled from experience...
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Codes of the Temporary Manifesto of Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9788862422772, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, April 2018
112 pp., 24x16.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
The book opens many questions. Can the architectural research still be eros towards study, the deepening of its principles? Can a temporary, ephemeral, mutant building, a minimal set-up be the privileged place of our attention? And, can we with the e...
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Atlantikwall as Military Archaeological Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788862422635, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2017
188 pp., 22x17.1 cm, illustrations throughout
Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the 'Conflict archaeological landscape' cut...
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Concrete Lines The Model as a Way to See
ISBN: PB: 9788862422284, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, September 2017
72 pp., 22x22 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
The Architect Kuno Mayr has developed a way of working on reality in which the rigorousness of his process manifests itself first in the model. Through a long and laborious procedure, overlooked things are saved from abandonment and neglect so as to...
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