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Building the Bank of England Money, Architecture, Society, 1694-1942
ISBN: HB: 9780300109245, Yale University Press, November 2005
352 pp., 31x25 cm, 77 colour images, 180 black&white illus.
The Bank of England symbolizes the economic strength, influence, and potency of Britain. Founded in 1694, its world famous buildings were built and rebuilt four times by different architects, most notably Sir John Soane. The Bank's three-and-a-quarte...
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£70,00
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Riverside Gardens of Thomas More's London
ISBN: HB: 9780300109054, Yale University Press, November 2005
160 pp., 23.4x18.9 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.
All but forgotten today, eight historic gardens that once flourished along the length of the Thames in early Tudor London are here historically recreated and analysed in this richly illustrated book. One of the gardens belonged to Sir Thomas More and...
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£35,00
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Dublin Buildings of Ireland
ISBN: HB: 9780300109238, Yale University Press, October 2005
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
A uniquely comprehensive guide to the buildings of central Dublin, in the great tradition of the Pevsner series. Churches, public buildings and streets are described for every district, each full of new discoveries and lively detail. Illustrations in...
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£60,00
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Leeds City Guides
ISBN: PB: 9780300107364, Yale University Press, June 2005
320 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 30 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.
Leeds is a city with a rich commercial tradition and fine buildings to match. Its prosperity, founded on the wool trade, is reflected in the seventeenth-century church of St John, with its magnificent Jacobean woodcarving and furnishings, while the t...
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£16,99
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Architecture and Society in Normandy, 1120-1270
ISBN: HB: 9780300106862, Yale University Press, May 2005
256 pp., 28x22 cm, 220 black&white illus.
This wide-ranging book explores the architecture, principally ecclesiastical, of Normandy from 1120 to 1270, a period of profound social, cultural, and political change. In 1204, control of the duchy of Normandy passed from the hands of the Anglo-Nor...
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£45,00
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Birmingham City Guides
ISBN: PB: 9780300107319, Yale University Press, May 2005
320 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 30 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.
A detailed, authoritative and easy-to-use guide to the architectural wealth of England's second city, the "workshop of the world". Its major buildings include the splendid English Baroque cathedral, the pioneering Neo-Roman town hall, and the mighty...
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£16,99
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London, Volume 5: East Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300107012, Yale University Press, April 2005
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
The buildings of East London reflect a chequered history of economic change, social need, urban renewal, and conservation. Along the Thames relics of a powerful industrial and maritime past at Wapping, Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs remain among the...
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£60,00
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Symbolic Essence and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300094497, Yale University Press, April 2005
344 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 black&white illus.
Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy's enti...
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£40,00
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Le Corbusier Architect of Books
ISBN: HB: 9783037780343, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2005
128 pp., 28x21 cm, 100 illus.
Le Corbusier's buildings have long been part of the inalienable canon of twentieth-century architecture. But Le Corbusier's work as a book designer and author is scarcely known. He planned and realized over 40 books in his lifetime. Architect of Book...
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£30,00
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Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume One, Books I-V of "Tutte L'opere D'architecttura Et Prospetiva"
ISBN: PB: 9780300113051, Yale University Press, April 2005
528 pp., 28x21 cm
Sebastiano Serlio introduced the principles of classical design to northern Europe and was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century. However, his writings have been inaccessible to English language readers until n...
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£55,00
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