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Baroque Prague

Vlnas Vit

ISBN: PB: 9788024643762, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2021
330 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 200 colour plates, 20 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Baroque Prague" is a lavish excursion through Prague's important baroque period, beginning with the defeat of Czech Protestants at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and ending with the...

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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them

Bagley Joseph M.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates

As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...

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Architecture

Brief History of the Bodleian Library Revised Edition

Clapinson Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781851245444, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did a library founded over 400 years ago grow to become the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen million items? From its foundation by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 to the opening of the Weston Library in 2015, this illustra...

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Building a New New World Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

Cohen Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300248159, Yale University Press, November 2020
450 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 450 colour and black&white illus.

Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful...

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Architecture

Berlin Fragments A Heterography of an Architectural Form

conrad-bercah

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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Architecture

Best Modular Micro Apartments

ISBN: HB: 9788417557164, GMC Group, Monsa, May 2020
144 pp., 17x23 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! Can we get a feeling of spaciousness and well-being in an apartment when the available space is very limited? This book shows that not only is it possible, but often the solutions turn the house itself into a uni...

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Building the Caliphate Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture

Pruitt Jennifer A.

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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Architecture

Best Highrises 2018/19 The International Highrise Award 2018

Cachola Schmal Peter, Korner Peter, Liesner Maximilian

ISBN: PB: 9783791358314, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
144 pp., 27x21 cm, 230 colour illus.

The International Highrise Award celebrates architectural excellence in buildings that integrate sustainability, design, and community interaction. Bestowed biennially by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), DekaBank, and the City of Frankfurt, the...

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Architecture

Bauhaus Architecture 1919-1933

Engels Hans, Tilch Axel

ISBN: HB: 9783791384818, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
152 pp., 28x24 cm, 120 colour illus.

Now available in an expanded and revised edition, this book contains an outstanding collection of photographs by the renowned architectural photographer Hans Engels and provides a detailed survey of surviving Bauhaus architecture in Europe. Focusing...

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Architecture

Design

Bauhaus Travel Book

Kern Ingolf, Knorr Susanne, Welzbacher Christian

ISBN: HB: 9783791382531, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
304 pp., 23x13.5 cm, 122 black&white illus.

A comprehensive travel guide dedicated to Germany's Bauhaus architecture, this book takes an in-depth look at over 100 locations that can still be visited today. Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the wor...

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