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Landscape Architecture

Hector Zamora: Lattice Detour The Roof Garden Commission

Candela Iria, Santoscoy Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9781588396891, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2021
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 50 colour illus.

Mexican artist Hector Zamora (b. 1974) engages with public spaces and the manmade environment, using his work to draw attention to architecture's connections to community and social structure. This compact volume presents images and analyses of Zamor...

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Architecture

Brief History of the Bodleian Library Revised Edition

Clapinson Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781851245444, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did a library founded over 400 years ago grow to become the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen million items? From its foundation by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 to the opening of the Weston Library in 2015, this illustra...

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Architecture

Building a New New World Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

Cohen Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300248159, Yale University Press, November 2020
450 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 450 colour and black&white illus.

Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful...

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Architecture

Berlin Fragments A Heterography of an Architectural Form

conrad-bercah

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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Architecture

Exlibris 16 Keywords of Contemporary Architecture

Corbellini Giovanni

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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Architecture

Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets

Clarke Albright Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9781947602663, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2020
180 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 75 colour illus., 23 line drawings and figures

"Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets" draws attention to the simple but elusive architectural space of public and farmers markets. It discusses three seminal types of markets – heritage building, open-air pavil...

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Architecture

Westminster Abbey A Church in History

Cannadine David

ISBN: HB: 9781913107024, Yale University Press, October 2019
456 pp., 24.1x18.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Westminster Abbey was one of the most powerful churches in Catholic Christendom before transforming into a Protestant icon of British national and imperial identity. Celebrating the 750th anniversary of the consecration of the current Abbey church bu...

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Decorative Arts

Architecture

Ernest Gimson Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect

Carruthers Annette, Greensted Mary, Roscoe Barley

ISBN: HB: 9780300246261, Yale University Press, October 2019
372 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 320 colour and black&white illus.

This study of the renowned designer-maker Ernest Gimson (1864-1919) combines biography with analysis of his work as an architect and designer of furniture, metalwork, plaster decoration, embroidery, and more. It also examines Gimson's significance wi...

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Architecture

London's Great Theatres

Callow Simon, Moore Derry

ISBN: HB: 9783791383866, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 143 colour and black&white illus.

This richly illustrated exploration of the most remarkable London theatres features witty and engaging texts by actor Simon Callow, whose knowledge of the city's dramatic venues is intimate and wide-ranging. One of the most prominent photographers of...

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Art Conservation

Architecture

Historic Cities Issues in Urban Conservation

Cody Jeff, Siravo Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9781606065938, Getty Publications, July 2019
632 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.

This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning, and des...

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