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Literary Criticism
Architecture
Unpacking My Library Architects and Their Books
Steffens Jo
ISBN: HB: 9780300158939, Yale University Press, November 2009
208 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 284 colour images, 24 black&white illus.
What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? "Unpacking...
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Contemporary Art
Modern Wing Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago
Cuno James, Goldberger Paul, Rosa Joseph
ISBN: HB: 9780300141122, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
160 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour images, 20 duotone illus.
This handsome book examines the remarkable new addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano and scheduled to open in May 2009. This expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, wil...
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Automatic Cities The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art
Clark Robin
ISBN: HB: 9780934418713, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, November 2009
160 pp., 23.5x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The "architectural imaginary" describes architecture in its broadest sense: images of cities drawn from collective experience and imagination. Hailing from 11 countries, each of the 14 artists who have contributed to "Autom...
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Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism Collected Essays, 1964-1988
Stern Robert A. M., Davidson Cynthia
ISBN: HB: 9780300153972, Yale University Press, October 2009
208 pp., 26x19.9 cm, 89 black&white illus.
Robert A. M. Stern is one of contemporary architecture's most influential figures, with a career encompassing every facet of the profession: he has a flourishing private practice; he is a noted authority on New York architectural history; his own arc...
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Pevsner Architectural Guides
Newcastle and Gateshead City Guides
McCombie Grace
ISBN: PB: 9780300126648, Yale University Press, October 2009
320 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
This book offers a lively and authoritative survey of the buildings of Tyneside, from the medieval castle and cathedral at Newcastle to the spectacular buildings spearheading the renaissance of Gateshead on the river's south bank. Both urban centres...
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Ideas and Integrities A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
Fuller Buckminster R.
ISBN: PB: 9783037781982, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2009
416 pp., 18x12 cm, 50 black&white illus.
In "Ideas and Integrities" Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered – among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the Dymaxion 4-D automobile, and the countless other struc...
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Elizabethan Architecture Its Rise and Fall, 1540-1640
Girouard Mark
ISBN: HB: 9780300093865, Yale University Press, September 2009
288 pp., 30.3x25.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture – not the friendly unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the great and powerful, ranging from huge houses to gem-like pavilions and lodges designed fo...
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Chicago 1890 The Skyscraper and the Modern City
Merwood-Salisbury Joanna
ISBN: HB: 9780226520780, University of Chicago Press, July 2009
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 89 halftones
Chicago's first skyscrapers are famous for projecting the city's modernity around the world. But what did they mean at home, to the Chicagoans who designed and built them, worked inside their walls, and gazed up at their facades? Answering this multi...
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Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art
Prown Jules David, Meyers Amy R. W., Brown Thomas A.
ISBN: HB: 9780300149647, Yale University Press, June 2009
72 pp., 21.6x27.9 cm, 32 duotone illus., 16 black&white illus.
The Yale Center for British Art stands as the final architectural masterpiece of the great twentieth-century American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974). It received the 2005 American Institute of Architects Twenty-Five Year Award honoring "signific...
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Compass and Rule Architecture as Mathematical Practice
Gerbino Anthony, Johnston Stephen
ISBN: HB: 9780300150933, Yale University Press, June 2009
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus.
The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders in social standing and perceived intellectual prowess. This stimulating book, which f...
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