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City Riffs Urbanism, Ecology, Place
ISBN: PB: 9783037785003, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2017
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 30 illus.
City Riffs traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also considers trans-disciplinary aspects of urbanism; formal and informal growth in Kumasi and Caracas, post-...
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£20,00
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Hard Life
ISBN: HB: 9783037785140, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2017
208 pp., 30x22 cm, 230 illus.
By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial an...
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£35,00
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LAB Building a Home for Scientists
ISBN: HB: 9783037784976, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2017
360 pp., 24x17 cm, 275 illus.
In "LAB: Building a Home for Scientists" Mark C. Fishman describes how to build labs as homes for scientists, to accommodate not just their fancy tools, but also their personalities. Laboratories are both monasteries and space stations, redolent of t...
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£35,00
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Solid Objectives... Order, Edge, Aura
ISBN: PB: 9783037785010, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2017
484 pp., 23x17 cm, 365 illus.
This book introduces an attitude towards the design and realization of architecture in a time of increased instability. It is illustrated with rarely seen images and punctuated with essays on the work of the ?rm SO-IL. Rather than a catalog of works,...
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£35,00
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Unfamiliar Familiarities Outside Views of Switzerland
ISBN: slipcase : 9783037785102, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2017
312 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 200 illus.
Switzerland's image has been significantly shaped by photographs dedicated to tourism. Through spectacular mountain panoramas, snapshots of rural idylls, or portraits of local people, the country could be successfully marketed, and these photographs...
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£40,00
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Our World to Change!
ISBN: PB: 9783037785294, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2017
256 pp., 16x12 cm, 260 illus.
To explain the desperate state of our world, its functioning and malfunctioning, is the ambitious goal of this book by Ruedi and Vera Baur. To achieve this goal they have joined forces with the globalization-critical organization Attac, which has pro...
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£17,00
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True Print
ISBN: HB: 9783037785096, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2017
152 pp., 30x24 cm, 182 illus.
Dafi Ku?hne is a Swiss designer who works with analogue and digital techniques to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Using very different kinds of tools – from a computer to a pantograph – for his compositions, he pushes the bounda...
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£35,00
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Absurd Thinking Between Art and Design
ISBN: HB: 9783037785164, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2017
296 pp., 28x21 cm, 427 illus.
This book features projects, developed during the artist Allan Wexler's forty-five-year career, which mediate the gap between fine and applied art using the mediums of architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing. Wexler's production c...
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£39,00
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Architecture and Plurality Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016
ISBN: PB: 9783037785232, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2017
344 pp., 24x16 cm, 215 illus.
This book brings together a diverse range of exemplary architectural projects from across the globe. Carefully selected and examined by a team of experts, these projects demonstrate innovative approaches that respond to the challenges and potentials...
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£25,00
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Constructed Narratives
ISBN: HB: 9783037785171, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2017
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 361 illus.
"Constructed Narratives" brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private hou...
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£35,00
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