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Citygami London Build Your Own Paper Skyline
ISBN: HB: 9783791384221, Prestel Publishing, May 2018
16 pp., 28.8x26.8 cm, photos
London's skyline springs to life in this ingeniously crafted book that lets you build your own paper city. Citygami London is a craft project, a diorama, a study in architecture, and, when it's finished, a stand-alone piece of art. Inspired by one o...
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£16,66
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Codes of the Temporary Manifesto of Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9788862422772, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, April 2018
112 pp., 24x16.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
The book opens many questions. Can the architectural research still be eros towards study, the deepening of its principles? Can a temporary, ephemeral, mutant building, a minimal set-up be the privileged place of our attention? And, can we with the e...
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£16,99
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Year in the Garden 365 Inspirational Gardens and Garden Tips
ISBN: HB: 9783791384245, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
744 pp., 20x20 cm, 370 colour illus.
Whether you're planting your first flowers or perfecting your master garden, this luminous daybook takes you around the world of gardens for a daily dose of inspiration. Anyone who loves their garden knows that there's something happening in nature...
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£22,50
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Cairo Renewing the Historic City
ISBN: HB: 9783791356419, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
304 pp., 28x22 cm, 250 colour illus.
Once a city of verdant gardens and parks, Cairo in the 1980s was severely overcrowded, economically struggling, and many of its inhabitants lived in unsanitary conditions. Historic Cairo, a World Heritage Site centered on the original Fatimid settlem...
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£55,00
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Masterworks of Architectural Drawing from the Albertina Museum
ISBN: HB: 9783791357218, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
328 pp., 29x25 cm, 187 colour illus.
Since the medium began, artists have used architectural drawings to document the urban and rural past and to envision the future. Covering a period that runs from the 16th-century to today, this collection of 140 architectural drawings presents a pan...
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£45,00
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Atlantikwall as Military Archaeological Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788862422635, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2017
188 pp., 22x17.1 cm, illustrations throughout
Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the 'Conflict archaeological landscape' cut...
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£25,00
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New Architecture New York
ISBN: HB: 9783791383682, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
216 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
From Bjarke Ingels Group's VIA West 57 to SHoP Architects' Barclays Center, and from Diller Scofidio + Renfro's High Line to SOM's One World Trade Center, New York City has been home to some of this century's most exciting new architecture. Profiling...
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£35,00
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New Premises of the European Central Bank
ISBN: HB: 9783791354187, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
320 pp., 28x22 cm, 500 colour illus.
An in-depth look at the innovative design and processes that went into the planning and construction of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt – one of the city's most striking buildings. Designed by the renowned architecture firm COOP HIMMELB(L)AU,...
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£49,99
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Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi A Search For Living Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9783791356754, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 150 colour illus.
This book proposes a dialogue between two key 20th-century architects, Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi. Frey moved from Switzerland to the US in the early 1930s and Bo Bardi emigrated from Italy to Brazil after the end of World War II. While they never...
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£39,99
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Le Corbusier The Complete Buildings
ISBN: HB: 9783791384023, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
320 pp., 32.4x21.6 cm, 280 colour illus.
In 2010, photographer Cemal Emden set out to document every building designed by the master architect Le Corbusier. Traveling through three continents, Emden photographed all the 52 buildings that remain standing. Each of these buildings is featured...
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£39,99
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