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Defining Urban Design CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937-69

Mumford Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780300138887, Yale University Press, March 2009
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 14 colour images, 86 black&white illus.

In this meticulously researched book, Eric Mumford traces how members of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), such as Walter Gropius, Josep Lluis Sert, and their American associates, developed the discipline of urban design from...

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Architecture

Josep Lluis Sert The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969

Mumford Eric, Sarkis Hashim, Bacon Mardges, Campbell Robert, Hyde Timothy, Marshall Richard, McAtee Cammie, Mendelson Jordana, Passanti Francesco, Pearlman Jill

ISBN: HB: 9780300120653, Yale University Press, June 2008
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 94 black&white illus., 26 colour illus.

This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert came to international attention in the 1930s and '40s as...

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Architecture

Ruins of Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece

Middleton Robin, Le Roy Julien-David, Britt David

ISBN: PB: 9780892366699, Getty Publications, March 2006
576 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 101 illus.

Julien-David Le Roy's "Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece", initially issued in 1758, first revealed to European eyes the wonders of Greek classical architecture. Overnight, Greece became the rage, much to the chagrin of Giovanni Battist...

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Architecture

Style-Architecture and Building-Art Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition

Muthesius Hermann, Anderson Stanford

ISBN: PB: 9780892362837, Getty Publications, March 2006
208 pp., 26x19.2 cm, 7 illus.

This text attempts to define the elements of early modernist architecture according to notions of realism and simplicity. Although the author, Hermann Muthesius, is perhaps most well-known in Anglo-American architectural literature for his studies of...

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Architecture

Circa 1700 Architecture in Europe and the Americas

Millon Henry A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300114751, Yale University Press, January 2006
248 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 6 colour images, 195 black&white illus.

The years around 1700 were marked by transformations in European and colonial capital cities. This era saw the creation not only of palatial complexes and urban spaces appropriate to autocratic power, but also of essential infrastructure such as road...

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English Shops and Shopping An Architectural History

Morrison Kathryn A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300102192, Yale University Press, November 2003
336 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 150 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

Shoppers in England from medieval times to the 21st century have experienced the multifarious delights of open market places, high-street shops, department stores and covered markets. Beguiled by attractive merchandise, these shoppers have rarely hee...

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Design

How to Design a Successful Petrol Station

Minale Marcello

ISBN: HB: 9781861541352, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2002
224 pp., 26x20.5 cm, full-colour illus.

We enter petrol stations, make our purchases and leave, without stopping to consider the creative and technical skill that has gone into the genesis of these modern-day icons. Minale's latest book not only provides us with a compendium of recent petr...

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Public Architecture in Ireland, 1680-1760

McParland Edward, Davison David

ISBN: HB: 9780300090642, Yale University Press, October 2001
272 pp., 33x25 cm, 220 black&white illus., 28 colour illus.

This innovative book examines the public architecture of Ireland from 1680 to 1760, a crucial period during which the country undertook the combined tasks of recovering from war and constructing a new and stable society. New buildings, and new types...

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Design

Design Discourse History, Theory, Criticism

Margolin Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780226505145, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
302 pp., 25.2x17.7 cm, 71 halftones, 30 line drawings

Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In "Design Discourse", Victor Margolin gathers together a b...

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