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Walls of Suzhou Gardens A Photographic Journey
ISBN: HB: 9783037786604, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
64 pp., 25x20 cm, 31 illus.
At the Classical Gardens of Suzhou in China, surface transforms into space; walls become landscapes. In her journey through this UNESCO World Heritage Site, Swiss French photographer Helene Binet captures the traces of environmental influences on bui...
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£33,00
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Westminster Abbey A Church in History
ISBN: HB: 9781913107024, Yale University Press, October 2019
456 pp., 24.1x18.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Westminster Abbey was one of the most powerful churches in Catholic Christendom before transforming into a Protestant icon of British national and imperial identity. Celebrating the 750th anniversary of the consecration of the current Abbey church bu...
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£35,00
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Wright and New York The Making of America's Architect
ISBN: HB: 9780300238853, Yale University Press, June 2019
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 65 black&white illus.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as...
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£25,00
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Wooden Houses in Pure Nature
ISBN: HB: 9788417557003, GMC Group, Monsa, March 2019
144 pp., 17x23 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! The new criteria for sustainable housing planning benefit from an inexhaustible source of ideas, based on wood due to its versatility. The variety of finishes and the fact that it is easy to recycle, facilitate t...
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£19,99
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What is Landscape?
ISBN: PB: 9788898774999, Bookport, ListLab, December 2018
158 pp., 21x14.5 cm, colour illus.
The contemporary debate on landscape is no longer expressed through the exclusie idiolect of a social class. We are instead confronted with a relentless landscape chatter, which invades every domain of daily life. Human sciences have participated in...
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£20,95
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Wang Shu Amateur Architecture Studio
ISBN: HB: 9783037785317, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2017
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 239 illus.
Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, this publication examines the recent work of the Chinese architect Wang Shu, Pritzker Prize winner in 2012. At a time when China's explosive urbanization is making inr...
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£40,00
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Why Preservation Matters
ISBN: HB: 9780300218589, Yale University Press, January 2017
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 31 black&white illus.
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement – and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes una...
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£18,99
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Wall as Living Place Hollow Structural Forms in Louis Kahn's Work
ISBN: PB: 9788862422031, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2016
120 pp., 21x15 cm, black&white illus.
There is ample evidence as to how the modern masters, in their shared pursuit of formal inventions and constructional inventions, variously referred to past examples they had freely chosen as guides that could inspire and support them in their strenu...
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£14,99
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Warwickshire The Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300215601, Yale University Press, May 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
Highlights of this fully revised and updated guide are the magnificent medieval fortresses of Warwick and Kenilworth Castles, but this county is also home to some of the most significant developments of England's postwar modern architecture, notably...
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£60,00
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Writings of Josep Lluis Sert
ISBN: HB: 9780300207392, Yale University Press, February 2015
184 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 75 black&white illus.
Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983) was the last president of CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, where he founded the discipline of urban design. His writings offer a n...
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£45,00
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