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Bertrand Goldberg Architecture of Invention

Ryan Zoe, Fisher Alison, Smith Elizabeth, Whiting Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300167047, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 140 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Bertrand Goldberg (1913-1997) was a visionary Chicago architect whose designs for housing, urban planning, and industrial design made a distinctive mark in the modern era. This handsome publication, the first to focus indepth on the entirety of Goldb...

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Canterbury Cathedral Priory in Age of Becket

Fergusson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300175691, Yale University Press, October 2011
288 pp., 28x22 cm, 100 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

This fascinating book recounts the extensive building programme that took place at Canterbury Cathedral Priory, England, from 1153 to 1167, during the time when Thomas Becket served as Royal Chancellor and then as archbishop of Canterbury. Mastermind...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Somerset: North and Bristol Buildings of England

Foyle Andrew, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300126587, Yale University Press, October 2011
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This fully revised survey is the essential companion to the architecture of one of England's most rewarding regions. The Georgian spa of Bath and the medieval cathedral city of Wells are deservedly famous, each the finest of its kind in the country....

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Schlepping Through Ambivalence Essays on an American Architectural Condition

Tigerman Stanley, Petit Emmanuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300175417, Yale University Press, October 2011
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour images, 39 black&white illus.

Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake". Though he is at times sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural discourse has opened this insular world to a b...

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Inigo Jones The Architect of Kings

Hart Vaughan

ISBN: HB: 9780300141498, Yale University Press, September 2011
336 pp., 28x22 cm, 100 colour images, 130 black&white illus.

Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He fam...

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Trouble with City Planning What New Orleans Can Teach Us

Ford Kristina

ISBN: PB: 9780300177428, Yale University Press, September 2011
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, with an unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built. As the city's director of planning from 1992 until 2000, Kristina Ford is uniquely placed...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Cheshire Buildings of England

Hartwell Clare, Hyde Matthew, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300170436, Yale University Press, September 2011
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This is a comprehensive guide to the buildings of Cheshire in all their variety, from Pennine villages to coastal plains and seaside resorts. Chester, the regional capital and cathedral city, is famous for its Roman walls and black-and-white timber a...

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Venice Disputed Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550-1600

Howard Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780300176858, Yale University Press, September 2011
320 pp., 28x22 cm, 120 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

In the councils and magistracies of the Venetian Republic, politicians argued intently over civic building projects in a manner curiously reminiscent of a modern democracy, taking advice from architects, engineers, and members of the public. Written...

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Looshaus

Long Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300174533, Yale University Press, July 2011
256 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm, 36 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.

When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and plainness. It represented a stark rejection of the contemporary preference for ornamentation, though i...

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Landscape Architecture

Vauxhall Gardens A History

Coke David E., Borg Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300173826, Yale University Press, May 2011
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 200 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

From their early beginnings in the Restoration until the final closure in Queen Victoria's reign, Vauxhall Gardens developed from a rural tavern and place of assignation into a dream-world filled with visual arts and music, and finally into a commerc...

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