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Rediscovering Architecture Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory
ISBN: HB: 9780300195750, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 100 colour images, 185 black&white illus.
The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous limestone temples with rough, heavy columns were entirely unlike the classical...
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£50,00
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Imre Makovecz and the Hungarian Organic Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862421423, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2014
160 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
The first time I met Makovecz, he drew me a map of Hungary, marking the most significant places through which I could get closer to his work. With the promise that I would return, we said goodbye. From this map, my research began.
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£17,99
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Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities In Search of a Position
ISBN: HB: 9783037783047, Lars Muller Publishers, December 2014
228 pp., 19x12 cm, 64 illus.
Picking up on architecture's tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Gunther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape a...
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£20,00
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Somerset: South and West Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300207408, Yale University Press, November 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 70 black&white illus.
This expertly revised and enlarged survey is the perfect architectural companion to one of England's most beautiful regions. From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor and the Mendips, the Somerset landscape in enriched by buildings of outstandin...
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£60,00
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Rich Spot of Earth Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello
ISBN: PB: 9780300208627, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 201 illus.
Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favoured are thriving. Extensively and painstakingly restored under...
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£20,00
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City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780300207859, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...
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£35,00
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Durham Cathedral History, Fabric and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300208184, Yale University Press, October 2014
544 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
For over a millennium Durham has occupied a central place in English religious history, with its Norman rebuilding (1093-1133) marking it as an internationally significant masterpiece in the history of architecture. Its setting, perched on a peninsul...
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£75,00
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SQM: The Quantified Home
ISBN: PB: 9783037784532, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
304 pp., 24x17 cm, 140 illus.
The way we live is rapidly changing under pressure from multiple forces – financial, environmental, technological, geopolitical. What we used to call home may not even exist anymore, having transmuted into a financial commodity of which the square me...
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£28,00
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Cambridgeshire Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300205961, Yale University Press, October 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 80 black&white illus.
This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years. Half of the book is devoted to the famous University city, with its astonishingly rich and varied inheritance of college buildings...
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£60,00
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Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones
Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...
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£30,00
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