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Dr. Corbellini's Pills Tips for Architecture Beginners

Corbellini Giovanni

ISBN: PB: 9788862422086, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, January 2017
80 pp., 18x12 cm, illus

Architecture is doomed to a permanent process of reinvention, which produces constitutionally partial, transient and questionable truths. Much of its charm lies precisely in its instability, which insists we explore it and, at the same time, makes it...

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Wall as Living Place Hollow Structural Forms in Louis Kahn's Work

Cacciatore Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9788862422031, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2016
120 pp., 21x15 cm, black&white illus.

There is ample evidence as to how the modern masters, in their shared pursuit of formal inventions and constructional inventions, variously referred to past examples they had freely chosen as guides that could inspire and support them in their strenu...

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100 Years, 100 Buildings

Hill John

ISBN: HB: 9783791382128, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
224 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

The founder of the blog A Daily Dose of Architecture, John Hill, is obsessed with his subject and determined to expose his fellow citizens to the glorious structures that shape our environment. In this beautifully designed compendium Hill presents hi...

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Design

Bauhaus

Friedewald Boris

ISBN: PB: 9783791382104, Prestel Publishing, March 2016
128 pp., 23.5x19.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

Now available in an updated edition, this book examines the tumultuous history of Bauhaus art and design. This lively introduction to the Bauhaus tells the story of a radical concept of artistic expression that would transcend the boundaries among t...

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Architecture_Factory

Caruso Giuseppe, Torricella Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788862421607, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2015
192 pp., 30x23 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

The Economic Crisis has refocused attention on the central nature of the real economy. Industry is once more seen as an opportunity for the future, naturally according to new patterns of production, distribution and consumption. This entails a new fa...

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Cavity and Limit

Iodice Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9788862421560, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, May 2015
120 pp., 22x16.7 cm, black&white illus., language: English / Italian

Cavity and limit is a book that shows a clear determination to investigate architecture through a specific area of research, that of the limit and its corrosion, of cavity. The book analyzes the built form through two different ideas of making archit...

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Banteay Chhmar Garrison Temple of the Khmer Empire

Sharrock Peter D., Jacques Claude, Cunin Olivier

ISBN: PB: 9786167339207, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2015
192 pp., 23.6x17.2 cm, illustrations throughout

Banteay Chhmar is the second monument of ancient Cambodia's greatest king, Jayavarman VII. This temple, built in the late 12th-Century by one of Cambodia's most original stone carving and architectural workshops, lay in ruins for almost a thousand ye...

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Frank Gehry

ISBN: HB: 9783791354422, Prestel Publishing, February 2015
256 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 300 colour illus.

Featuring fifty of Frank Gehry's most important projects, this lavish monograph presents the full range of the architect's work from the past six decades. Arranged chronologically, this book follows the arc of Gehry's career, from his early resident...

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Imre Makovecz and the Hungarian Organic Architecture

Giustra Martina

ISBN: PB: 9788862421423, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2014
160 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

The first time I met Makovecz, he drew me a map of Hungary, marking the most significant places through which I could get closer to his work. With the promise that I would return, we said goodbye. From this map, my research began.

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Norman Foster Works 6

Jenkins David

ISBN: HB: 9783791332598, Prestel Publishing, February 2014
580 pp., 30x24 cm, 1000 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.

The sixth volume in a monumental survey of the works of Norman Foster focuses on the years 1996-2009 – and projects towards an exciting future of continued architectural excellence. Winner of the Pritzker Prize and the Praemium Imperiale, Norman Fos...

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