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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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Architecture

Architecture in Uniform Designing and Building for the Second World War

Cohen Jean-Louis

ISBN: HB: 9782754105309, Yale University Press, April 2011
448 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm, 300 illus.

This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen contends instead that duri...

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Architecture

Why X Matters

Why Architecture Matters

Goldberger Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300168174, Yale University Press, April 2011
304 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 54 black&white illus.

"Why Architecture Matters" is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of "Why Architecture Matters" is to "come to grips with how things feel t...

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Architecture

History of Art

Eighteenth Century Church in Britain

Friedman Terry

ISBN: HB: 9780300159080, Yale University Press, April 2011
496 pp., 28.6x23 cm, 520 black&white illus., 185 colour illus.

This ambitious and generously illustrated study is an in-depth account of the architectural character of a vast range of ecclesiastical buildings, including the Anglican parish churches, medieval cathedrals repaired and modified during the period, Di...

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Photography

Architecture

Josef Sudek Saint Vitus's Cathedral

ISBN: HB: 9788072153862, DAP, Torst, April 2011
104 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 107 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Saint Vitus's Cathedral" is the sixth volume in Torst's "Josef Sudek: Works" series. This volume is the first to compile Sudek's photos of St. Vitus's Cathedral, the spiritual and cultural heart of the Czech Republic, from...

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Architecture

Interior Design

New Commercial Architecture

ISBN: HB: 9789881961075, Bookport, SendPoints, March 2011
312 pp., 30x23 cm, colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! What is commercial architecture? Commercial architecture is the building for people engaged in various business activities. Include:1) Retail stores shopping malls, wholesale markets for all kinds of daily necessities and...

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Architecture

Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100-1560

Fawcett Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300170498, Yale University Press, March 2011
432 pp., 28.8x22.8 cm, 300 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

This first in-depth survey of Scotland's medieval church architecture covers buildings constructed between the early 12th century and the Reformation in 1560. From majestic cathedrals and abbeys to modest parish churches and chapels, Richard Fawcett...

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Architecture

Dubuffet as Architect

Abadie Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300176612, Yale University Press, March 2011
168 pp., 26x20 cm, 160 illus.

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was one of the major painters of the twentieth century, but his architectural achievements have commanded less attention until now. This oversight is all the more surprising in the light of his being awarded The American Ins...

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Architecture

Kevin Roche Architecture as Environment

Pelkonen Eeva-Liisa

ISBN: HB: 9780300152234, Yale University Press, March 2011
280 pp., 28.6x24.7 cm, 107 black&white illus., 226 colour illus.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche (b. 1922) is best known for the large, bold urban structures he designed in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Oakland Museum of California and the Ford Foundation Headquarters in New York. Roche is also r...

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