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Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace
ISBN: HB: 9783791358376, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
248 pp., 32x24 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The 2019 opening of the Humboldt Forum heralds a massive achievement in cultural understanding. Bringing together more than 20,000 objects and designed to offer diverse exhibitions, events, and venues, this enormous complex will use state-of-the-art...
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£45,00
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Modern Architecture and Interiors
ISBN: HB: 9783791386096, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
0 pp., 22x14 cm, 1000 colour photographs 
In 2006, architectural designer and curator Adam Stech embarked on a photographic project to document the best Modernist architecture around the globe. Twenty-five countries and more than a decade later, the fruits of that monumental project are gath...
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£29,99
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Berlin Fragments A Heterography of an Architectural Form
ISBN: PB: 9788862423434, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
180 pp., 21x14.8 cm
Every building and every architect has a tale. Bringing these tales together, determining where they overlap, may give us telling urban tales. What can be told is what has the right to remain, to avoid oblivion, allowing words about buildings and cit...
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£17,99
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Drawing Analogies Graphic Manual of Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423311, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
120 pp., 22x22 cm
Drawing analogies proposes an innovative way of drawing by means of which we can go from observing an existing architectural model to a design idea inspired by the same model. Using exclusively free hand drawing, the author presents a series of cases...
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£17,99
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Exlibris 16 Keywords of Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423359, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
160 pp., 22x16.5 cm
Architects write a lot, especially now that conceptual aspects have become central in advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices for an ultimate legitimation. In the growing mass of publications, the...
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Tiny Hotels
ISBN: HB: 9783791386720, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
224 pp., 17x17 cm, 230 colour illus.
These days getting away from it all also means escaping the mundane atmosphere of big resorts and cookie-cutter experiences. Whether you are searching for a truly unique getaway in a beautiful corner of the world or looking for inspiration when desig...
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£19,99
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Ljubljana: A City by Heart Joze Plecnik's Legacy and Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423571, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, June 2020
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
Nowadays there are many studies, researches and publications about Joze Plecnik's work, as well as there are many authors who contributed to the knowledge and divulgation of the great Slovenian master work. The text in here, driven in this track, do...
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£16,99
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Dialogues on Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423724, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, February 2020
352 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 84 colour and black&white illus.
In this book, a number of protagonists of Italian modern architecture provide vivid dialogues – here taken to mean 'the talking of the soul with itself' – on how they perceive the interaction between idea, design and construction. Drawing on these pe...
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£24,99
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Lina Bo Bardi  Habitat
ISBN: PB: 9783791359649, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
352 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 398 illus.
Lina Bo Bardi is regarded as one of the most important architects in Brazil's history. Beginning her career as a Modernist architect in Rome, Bo Bardi and her husband emigrated to Brazil following the end of WWII. Bo Bardi quickly resumed her practic...
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Story of New York's Staircase
ISBN: PB: 9783791384733, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus.
A public space like no other, Vessel was designed by the renowned Heatherwick Studio to give New Yorkers and visitors a unique vertical experience. In this book, readers can witness every part of its development, from initial designs to the finished...
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£18,00
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