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Rem Koolhaas/OMA The Construction of Merveilles
ISBN: PB: 9782889153121, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic marvels amid the skylines of America, Europe, and Asia, Rem Koolhaas, along with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is justly considered as one of the leaders of contemporary archit...
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£65,00
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Robert Irwin: Getty Garden Revised Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781606066560, Getty Publications, June 2020
144 pp., 22.7x19.1 cm, 75 colour illus.
Among the most beloved sites at the Getty Center, the Central Garden has aroused intense interest from the moment artist Robert Irwin was awarded the commission. First published in 2002, "Robert Irwin: Getty Garden" is comprised of a series of discus...
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£16,99
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Return to the Source New Energy Landscapes from the Land Art Generator Initiative Abu Dhabi
ISBN: HB: 9783791359380, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 300 colour illus.
The Land Art Generator Initiative is one of the world's most exciting design competitions and for its 2019 challenge, entrants from around the world were asked to create a renewable energy-producing artwork for the UAE's Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. The...
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£45,00
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Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leadi
ISBN: HB: 9781606066249, Getty Publications, January 2020
368 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Baron Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzuglichsten Voelker in...
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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures Landscape as Art and Urbanism
ISBN: PB: 9783037786253, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2020
288 pp., 20x15 cm, 73 illus.
Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx's own words have...
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£28,00
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Restoring Williamsburg
ISBN: HB: 9780300248357, Yale University Press, November 2019
296 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus., 210 black&white illus.
Today best known as the world's largest "living history" museum, Williamsburg was the capital of the colony of Virginia in the 1700s and the setting for key debates leading to the American Revolution. Inspired by growing interest in America's colonia...
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Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown & Steven Izenour at Acadia Summer Arts Program
ISBN: HB: 9780979764226, DAP, Acadia Summer Arts Program, October 2019
124 pp., 23.4x17.8 cm, 75 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The founder of the Acadia Summer Arts Program, Marion Boulton Stroud, asked Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour to design and construct houses and other structures for the camp. The architects took as insp...
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R. Buckminster Fuller Pattern-Thinking
ISBN: PB: 9783037786093, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2019
350 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
"Pattern-Thinking" reassesses the work of Buckminster Fuller – unique hybrid between theoretician, architect, designer, educator, inventor, and author – as advancing contemporary models of design-research, practice, and pedagogy. Drawing extensively...
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£33,00
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Reassessing Rudolph
ISBN: PB: 9780300225860, Yale University Press, February 2018
240 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 25 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
American architect Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) was internationally known in the 1950s and early 1960s for his powerful, large-scale concrete buildings. Hugely influential during his lifetime, Rudolph was one of the most significant American architects o...
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£25,00
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Re-Cyclical Urbanism Visions, Paradigms and Projects for the Circular Metamorphosis
ISBN: PB: 9788899854188, Bookport, ListLab, September 2017
380 pp., 21.9x15.6 cm, colour illus.
Taken from a research project entitled Re-Loaded City: Strategies of ReCycle to Restart the City, based in the city of Palermo, this book tests means of reinvigorating abandoned and wasted urban space. Reclaiming polluted or destitute land is a diffi...
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£23,50
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