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Landscape Architecture

Gardens of Court and Country English Design 1630-1730

Jacques David

ISBN: HB: 9780300222012, Yale University Press, April 2017
416 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

"Gardens of Court and Country" provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that became fashionable later in the 18th century, English...

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Travel

Sansovino's Venice

Hart Vaughan, Hicks Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300175066, Yale University Press, April 2017
392 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 60 colour illus., 90 black&white illus.

This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's (1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was w...

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Architecture

Landscapes of Modern Architecture Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragan

Treib Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780300208412, Yale University Press, February 2017
272 pp., 24.1x26.7 cm, 126 colour illus., 76 black&white illus.

An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the work of five prominent architects Modern architects are often condemned for a seeming disregard of site considerations suc...

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Orthographs The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Yerolymbos Yiorgis, Piano Renzo, Storr Katharine, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300226812, Yale University Press, February 2017
164 pp., 26.7x36.4 cm, 64 colour illus., 119 black&white illus.

This stunning photographic essay traces the development of Renzo Piano's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a multifunctional complex for arts, education, and entertainment opening in 2017 in Athens. Photographer Yiorgis Yerolymbos finds in...

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Why X Matters

Why Preservation Matters

Page Max

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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New Space Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture

Long Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300218282, Yale University Press, January 2017
264 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 130 colour illus., 114 black&white illus.

Scholars have long stressed the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese modernism. By the first decade of the 20th century, however, the avant-garde had shifted its focus from the surface to the interior. Adolf Loos (1870-1933),...

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Architecture

Centre Pompidou Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument

Dal Co Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780300221299, Yale University Press, January 2017
168 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 43 colour illus., 89 black&white illus.

A lively intellectual biography of one of the 20th century's most iconic buildings The Centre Georges Pompidou, also called Beaubourg, is today considered an icon of contemporary Paris, the quintessence of a modern building, and a model for what a mu...

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Architecture

Hardwick Hall A Great Old Castle of Romance

Adshead David, Taylor David, Cooper Nicholas, Cowell Ben, Garnett Oliver, Henderson Paula, Jervis Simon, Rowell Christopher, Wells-Cole Anthony, Hirst Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300218909, Yale University Press, November 2016
384 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 320 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among the National Trust's greatest architectural landmarks, with much of its original interior and ornamentation still i...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Buildings of Scotland

Close Rob, Gifford John, Walker Frank Arneil

ISBN: HB: 9780300215588, Yale University Press, November 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the north-...

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Developing Expertise Architecture and Real Estate in Metropolitan America

Stevens Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780300209938, Yale University Press, November 2016
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 163 black&white illus.

Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decline of downtowns and the rise of suburbs into separate tales, Sara Stevens uses the figure of the real e...

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