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Houses An Architectural Guide

O'Brien Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300233421, Yale University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 102 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

An enthusiast's guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book, now in paperback, also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period s...

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Minoru Yamasaki Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World

Gyure Dale Allen

ISBN: HB: 9780300217094, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 70 colour illus., 119 black&white illus.

Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern mat...

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Contemporary Art

Gordon Matta-Clark Anarchitect

Bessa Antonio Sergio, Fiore Jessamyn, Jordan Cara M., Wrona Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9780300230437, Yale University Press, November 2017
184 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour illus.

This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell Universit...

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South-East Marylebone Survey of London: Volumes 51 and 52

Temple Philip, Thom Colin, Saint Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300221978, Yale University Press, October 2017
800 pp., 28.6x22.2 cm, 670 colour illus., maps, plans

Providing essential knowledge about the British capital's built environment, these two volumes cover a large portion of the parish of St. Marylebone, bounded to the south by Oxford Street and to the north by the Marylebone Road, and stretching from j...

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Cottages Ornes The Charms of the Simple Life

White Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780300226775, Yale University Press, September 2017
272 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 193 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

Tracing the history of cottages ornes (ornamental cottages), this copiously illustrated volume offers an engaging survey of an often-overlooked architectural genre. An invention of mid-18th-century England, these cottages were designed to facilitate...

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Robbrecht en Daem An Architectural Anthology

Woodman Ellis, Davidts Wouter, Ockman Joan, Gerrewey Christophe van, Cicek Asli, Pattyn Chantal, Driessche Maarten van den

ISBN: HB: 9780300222470, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2017
800 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 500 colour illus.

Founded in 1975, the Robbrecht en Daem architectural firm has built an extensive and impressive portfolio – architecture and infrastructure projects, interiors and landscapes – in Belgium and across Europe. What links the diverse projects designed by...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South Buildings of England

Harman Ruth, Pevsner Nikolaus, Sharples Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300224689, Yale University Press, September 2017
924 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 118 colour illus., 61 black&white illus.

This authoritative guide, the companion to "Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North", covers a vast area marked by tremendous diversity of both landscape and buildings. The territory is rich in medieval churches and castles, 17th-century...

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Guggenheim Frank Lloyd Wright's Iconoclastic Masterpiece

Dal Co Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780300226058, Yale University Press, July 2017
176 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 63 colour illus., 104 black&white illus.

The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings. Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often...

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Oxfordshire: North and West Buildings of England

Brooks Alan, Sherwood Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780300209303, Yale University Press, May 2017
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood's 1970s account, full of new information and with specially commissioned photography.The vernacular architecture of the vil...

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Baltimore School of Urban Ecology Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities

Grove J. Morgan, Cadenasso Mary, Pickett Steward T., Machlis Gary E., Burch William R., Ogden Laura A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226973, ISBN: HB: 9780300101133, Yale University Press, April 2017
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.

The first "urban century" in history has arrived: a majority of the world's population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse is...

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