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Hector Guimard Art Nouveau to Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300248364, Yale University Press, April 2021
232 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 184 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
The aesthetic of architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942) has long characterized French Art Nouveau in the popular imagination. This groundbreaking book showcases all aspects of his artistry and recognizes the fundamental modernity of his work. Known for...
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£35,00
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Hector Zamora: Lattice Detour The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396891, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2021
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 50 colour illus.
Mexican artist Hector Zamora (b. 1974) engages with public spaces and the manmade environment, using his work to draw attention to architecture's connections to community and social structure. This compact volume presents images and analyses of Zamor...
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Building a New New World Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
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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£30,00
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Garden at Monceau
ISBN: HB: 9780300254686, Yale University Press, November 2020
196 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 62 colour illus., 18 duotone illus.
Originally published in 1779, "Garden at Monceau" is a richly illustrated presentation of the garden Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, designed on the eve of the French Revolution for Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orleans, duc de Chartres. With its arr...
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£60,00
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Our Days Are Like Full Years A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
ISBN: HB: 9780300223125, Yale University Press, October 2020
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 234 colour illus., 113 black&white illus.
On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974). This chance encounter served as preamble to a fifteen-year...
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Fake Heritage Why We Rebuild Monuments
ISBN: HB: 9780300246766, Yale University Press, October 2020
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 160 illus.
What happens when the past – or, more specifically, a piece of cultural heritage – is fabricated? From 50 replica Eiffel Towers located around the world to Saddam Hussein's reconstructions of ancient cities, examples of forged heritage are widespread...
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£25,00
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Kent Bloomer Nature as Ornament
ISBN: PB: 9780300254716, Yale University Press, October 2020
186 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 25 colour illus.
Best known for New York's Central Park luminaires (1982), the ornamentation at Rice University's Baker Hall in Houston (1997), and his work on Yale University's Bass Library entrance pavilion and Sterling Memorial Library stairwell entrance (2007), t...
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Nottinghamshire Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300247831, Yale University Press, September 2020
864 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 illus.
Full of memorable and surprising buildings, Nottinghamshire is a county that rewards close investigation. Great medieval churches are represented by Newark, Worksop Priory, and Southwell Minster, famous for its exquisite carved "leaves". Of the count...
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£45,00
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Architecture of the Islamic West North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300218701, Yale University Press, June 2020
320 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 276 colour and black&white illus.
Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Cordoba, the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, the Giralda tower in Seville, and the Alhambra Palace in Granada, belong to the Western Islamic tradition. Th...
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£50,00
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Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses
ISBN: HB: 9781913107093, Yale University Press, May 2020
248 pp., 27.1x21.5 cm, 196 colour and black&white illus.
This landmark study of Irish high crosses focuses on the carvings of an unnamed artist, the "Muiredach Master", whose monuments – completed in the early years of the 10th century – deserve a place alongside the Book of Kells as great works of their t...
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£40,00
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