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Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India

Ruggles D. Fairchild

ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones

Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...

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Architecture

Architecture of Paul Rudolph

Rohan Timothy M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300149395, Yale University Press, July 2014
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 40 colour images, 185 black&white illus.

Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) shaped both late modernist architecture and a generation of architects while chairing Yale's department of architecture from 1958 to 1965. Based on extensiv...

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Architecture

Ham House Four Hundred Years of Collecting and Patronage

Rowell Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300185409, Yale University Press, April 2013
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Built in 1610 during the reign of James I and remodeled in 1637-1639 by the future first Earl of Dysart, "Ham House" and its gardens have endured through centuries of English history while remaining representative of the styles and culture of the ori...

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Architecture

James Stirling Revisionary Modernist

Reeser Lawrence Amanda

ISBN: HB: 9780300170054, Yale University Press, February 2013
248 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 129 black&white illus.

James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation of architects in his native England and throughout the world. "James Stirling: Revision...

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Architecture

James Wyatt, 1746-1813 Architect to George III

Robinson John Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300176902, Yale University Press, July 2012
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 170 black&white illus.

James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognized as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. At the start of his lengthy career, Wyatt worked on designs for the Oxford Street Pantheon's neo-Classical interior as well as Dod...

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Architecture

Insuring the City The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape

Rubin Elihu

ISBN: HB: 9780300170184, Yale University Press, May 2012
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 black&white illus.

The Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall, gray tower. Though unassuming architecturally, it is a historical beacon, representing a midcentury moment when insurance companies such as Prudential were particularly aware of how thei...

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Architecture

Building After Auschwitz Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust

Rosenfeld Gavriel David

ISBN: HB: 9780300169140, Yale University Press, November 2011
440 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 25 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Since the end of World War II, Jewish architects have risen to unprecedented international prominence. Whether as modernists, postmodernists, or deconstructivists, architects such as Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Louis I. Kahn, Daniel Libeskind, Richa...

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Architecture

Bertrand Goldberg Architecture of Invention

Ryan Zoe, Fisher Alison, Smith Elizabeth, Whiting Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300167047, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 140 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Bertrand Goldberg (1913-1997) was a visionary Chicago architect whose designs for housing, urban planning, and industrial design made a distinctive mark in the modern era. This handsome publication, the first to focus indepth on the entirety of Goldb...

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Art Conservation

Architecture

Terra 2008 The 10th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage

Rainer Leslie, Rivera Angelyn Bass, Gandreau David

ISBN: PB: 9781606060438, Getty Publications, May 2011
456 pp., 27.9x22.7 cm, 181 colour illus., 208 black&white illus.

This title explores the issues surrounding the study and conservation of earthen architecture. Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods...

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Architecture

General

Building Globalization Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China

Ren Xuefei

ISBN: PB: 9780226709819, ISBN: HB: 9780226709802, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 maps, 15 tables, 18 halftones

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. Combining ethnographic fieldwork, historical research, and network...

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