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Peaceful Journey Original Ecology Hotel
ISBN: HB: 9789881683410, Bookport, SendPoints, October 2012
320 pp., 29x24 cm, colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! Original ecology hotels are devoted to be green, ecological and comfortable and bring concrete jungle inhabitants back to the peace of nature, through the composition of space, architectural shapes and the color of the déc...
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£34,95
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Sketchbook
ISBN: HB: 9783037783276, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
240 pp., 21x13 cm
The works of Sou Fujimoto resist any form of conventional categorization. This young Japanese architect stands for unconventional buildings that cannot be described by standard criteria and definitions such as inside/outside or public/private. Clear...
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£25,00
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Torre David Informal Vertical Communities
ISBN: PB: 9783037782989, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
416 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 406 illus.
Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a "ve...
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£38,00
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Carscapes The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England
ISBN: HB: 9780300187045, Yale University Press, October 2012
400 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose – drivers couldn't travel very far or very quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that has affected the archit...
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£40,00
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Ayrshire and Arran The Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300141702, Yale University Press, October 2012
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
Ayrshire and Arran is an area of striking contrasts. Its landscape ranges from dune-backed sands to rolling pastures to moors. The local architecture is similarly diverse, marrying natural beauty with industry and modernity. It is the county of Rober...
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£60,00
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Kenzo Tange Architecture for the World
ISBN: HB: 9783037783108, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
192 pp., 25x20.7 cm, 186 illus.
Kenzo Tange (1913-2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent, influence, and versatility. A leading force of the Metabolist movement, he was the first non-Western architect whose works would be emb...
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£37,00
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Private Palladio
ISBN: HB: 9783037782996, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
120 pp., 20.4x10.8 cm, 50 illus.
Andrea Palladio's Renaissance villa architecture is still admired for its elegance and harmony, but little is known about the person behind the buildings. Experienced Palladio researcher Guido Beltramini has worked meticulously on material from histo...
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£25,00
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Sketchbook No. 76
ISBN: HB: 9783037783122, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
200 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 200 illus.
"Sketchbook No. 76 "is the reproduction of a sketchbook of the renowned Portuguese architect and last year's Pritzker Prize laureate, Eduardo Souto de Moura. The sketchbook was in use between September 2011 and January 2012 and records first ideas, f...
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£22,00
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From Camp to City Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara
ISBN: HB: 9783037782910, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
512 pp., 24x17.6 cm, 1172 illus.
"From Camp to City" examines the theme of the refugee camp in the context of urbanism and architecture. Using the examples of the refugee camps in the Algerian desert in which Sahrawis originally from the Western Sahara have been living for 35 years,...
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£45,00
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In the Life of Cities Parallel Narratives of the Urban
ISBN: HB: 9783037783023, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
376 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 286 illus.
What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are...
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£30,00
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