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Cavity and Limit

Iodice Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9788862421560, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, May 2015
120 pp., 22x16.7 cm, black&white illus., language: English / Italian

Cavity and limit is a book that shows a clear determination to investigate architecture through a specific area of research, that of the limit and its corrosion, of cavity. The book analyzes the built form through two different ideas of making archit...

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Architecture

City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Bussard Katherine A., Fisher Alison, Foster-Rice Greg

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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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Cambridgeshire Buildings of England

Bradley Simon, Pevsner Nikolaus

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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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Cornwall Buildings of England

Beacham Peter, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300126686, Yale University Press, May 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Cornwall is a land apart, one which has had a strong sense of its separate identity throughout history. Here are some of the richest and best preserved prehistoric and medieval landscapes in Britain, medieval castles and later coastal defences, and a...

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Architecture

Collecting Architecture Territories

Buckley Craig, Wasiuta Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781883584788, DAP, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, May 2014
112 pp., 18.4x18.4 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! "Collecting Architecture Territories" presents a research exhibition developed by Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, (GSAPP) in collaboration with the Deste Foundation. The exhibition examined the relationship betw...

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Architecture

Confederacy of Heretics

Gannon Todd, Branda Ewan

ISBN: PB: 9781606062630, Getty Publications, November 2013
214 pp., 25.3x22 cm

"A Confederacy of Heretics" examines the explosion of activity associated with the Architecture Gallery, the first gallery in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to architecture. Instigated by Thom Mayne in the fall of 1979, the Architecture Gallery st...

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Architecture

Europe

City and the King Architecture and Politics in Restoration London

Stevenson Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300190229, Yale University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 23 colour images, 115 black&white illus.

The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This fascinating book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both parties in the wake of two...

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Architecture

Chicago's Historic Hyde Park

O'Connor Davis Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780226138145, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
528 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 343 halftones, 11 line illus.

Stretching south from 47th Street to the Midway Plaisance and east from Washington Park to the lake's shore, the historic neighborhood of Hyde Park – Kenwood covers nearly two square miles of Chicago's south side. At one time a wealthy township outsi...

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Architecture

Culture:City

Wang Wilfried

ISBN: HB: 9783037783351, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2013
232 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 406 illus.

Since the late 1990s cultural icons have been built in numerous cities throughout the world in order to court the attention of potential visitors in a globally competitive market. The book "Culture:City" analyzes this phenomenon from the point of vie...

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Architecture

Chicago Makes Modern How Creative Minds Changed Society

Jacob Mary Jane, Baas Jacquelynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226389561, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
304 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 30 halftones, 72 colour illus.

Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern – from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooke...

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