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Trilogy of Stone and Time
ISBN: HB: 9783037782736, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2012
376 pp., 31.5x25 cm, illus.
All three publications by Klaus Merkel – "The Reading of Time in the Text of Nature", "Album of Stones" and "Trees like Stones" – are available in the exclusive Trilogy of Stones and Time. Presented in a premium cardboard slipcase, this limited editi...
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£80,00
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Sketchbook
ISBN: HB: 9783037783276, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
240 pp., 21x13 cm
The works of Sou Fujimoto resist any form of conventional categorization. This young Japanese architect stands for unconventional buildings that cannot be described by standard criteria and definitions such as inside/outside or public/private. Clear...
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£25,00
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Torre David Informal Vertical Communities
ISBN: PB: 9783037782989, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
416 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 406 illus.
Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a "ve...
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£38,00
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Dan Graham. Video – Architecture – Television Writings on Video and Video Works 1970-1978
ISBN: PB: 9783037783009, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
96 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 113 illus.
This title, published in 1979 and long since out of print, now appears as a reprint from Lars Muller Publishers. The original book was released in the series of publications Source Materials of the Contemporary Arts initiated by Kasper Konig and prod...
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£35,00
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Kenzo Tange Architecture for the World
ISBN: HB: 9783037783108, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
192 pp., 25x20.7 cm, 186 illus.
Kenzo Tange (1913-2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent, influence, and versatility. A leading force of the Metabolist movement, he was the first non-Western architect whose works would be emb...
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£37,00
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Poster Collection 24 The Magic of Things
ISBN: PB: 9783037782583, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
96 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 127 illus.
"The Magic of Things" explores a former advertising strategy of Swiss product posters in which banal, everyday objects – butter, a sewing machine, or shoes – are presented as desirable objects enticing us to buy. Free from any further contextualizati...
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£25,00
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Private Palladio
ISBN: HB: 9783037782996, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
120 pp., 20.4x10.8 cm, 50 illus.
Andrea Palladio's Renaissance villa architecture is still admired for its elegance and harmony, but little is known about the person behind the buildings. Experienced Palladio researcher Guido Beltramini has worked meticulously on material from histo...
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£25,00
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Sketchbook No. 76
ISBN: HB: 9783037783122, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
200 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 200 illus.
"Sketchbook No. 76 "is the reproduction of a sketchbook of the renowned Portuguese architect and last year's Pritzker Prize laureate, Eduardo Souto de Moura. The sketchbook was in use between September 2011 and January 2012 and records first ideas, f...
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£22,00
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Tumult and Order La Malcontenta 1924-1939
ISBN: HB: 9783037782972, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
248 pp., 24x15 cm, 211 illus.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the Villa Foscari in Venice, better known as La Malcontenta, became a meeting place for intellectuals, artists, and members of the nobility such as Serge Diaghilev, Boris Kochno, Serge Lifar, Winston Churchill, Robert Byron, D...
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£35,00
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Floating Images Eduardo Souto de Moura's Wall Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9783037783016, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
160 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 202 illus.
Photographs, newspaper cuttings, postcards, drawings, and slides: on entering the studio of Eduardo Souto de Moura, winner of the Pritzker Prize 2011, one is confronted with a variety of images on the walls that engage in a dialogue. How do these pho...
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£22,00
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