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Baldassare Longhena and Venetian Baroque Architecture

Hopkins Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300181098, Yale University Press, May 2012
384 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 62 colour images, 305 black&white illus.

This fascinating book offers the first comprehensive study in English of Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682), the indispensable architect of the Venetian Baroque. While Longhena's legacy is most visible in his iconic Madonna della Salute, the 17th-centur...

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Architecture

Stirling and Gowan Architecture from Austerity to Affluence

Crinson Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300177282, Yale University Press, May 2012
288 pp., 25.6x11.2 cm, 60 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

James Stirling (1924-1992) is acclaimed as the most influential and controversial modern British architect. His partnership with James Gowan (b. 1923) between 1956 and 1963 put postwar British architecture on the international map, and their Leiceste...

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Architecture

From Rules to Constraints

Mansilla Luis M., Tunon Emilio

ISBN: PB: 9783037782811, Lars Muller Publishers, May 2012
248 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 242 illus.

From 2008 to 2010, the architects Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tunon held the Jean Labatut Visiting Professorship at the Princeton School of Architecture. Examining both student and also Mansilla + Tunon's own design work, From Rules to Constraints pr...

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Architecture

Culture Studies

Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America

Doss Erika

ISBN: PB: 9780226159416, ISBN: HB: 9780226159386, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
480 pp., 23x15 cm, 161 halftones

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally...

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Landscape Architecture

Miniature and Panorama Vogt Landscape Architects, Projects 2000-2012

Vogt Gunther

ISBN: PB: 9783037782330, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2012
608 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1250 illus.

Using a typological structure (landscape, park, square, garden, promenade, etc.), Gunther Vogt describes the theoretical foundation on which the successful projects of Vogt Landscape Architects are based. In recent years the offi ce has realized inte...

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Architecture

Steven Holl Colour Light Time

Holl Steven

ISBN: HB: 9783037782521, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2012
176 pp., 16.8x12.6 cm, 70 illus.

"Color Light Time" sets out to examine the current work of New York-based architect Steven Holl, one of the most outstanding representatives of contemporary American architecture. For nearly three decades now, Steven Holl has developed his architectu...

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Architecture

Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument

Strehlke Carl Brandon

ISBN: HB: 9780300135893, Yale University Press, April 2012
416 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 145 colour images, 176 black&white illus.

This far-ranging collection of essays – the first book-length scholarly exploration of Orsanmichele since 1996 – marks the conclusion of a decades-long campaign to restore the magnificent medieval church and its art, most notably Orsanmichele's celeb...

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Architecture

Sauerbruch Hutton Colour in Architecture

Sauerbruch Matthias, Hutton Louisa

ISBN: HB: 9783942405386, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
288 pp., 32x23.5 cm, 160 colour illus., language: English / German

Sauerbruch Hutton are unique among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours...

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Architecture

Carson Pirie Scott Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store

Siry Joseph M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226761374, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
298 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 132 halftones

Long recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. The last large commercial structure designed by Louis Sullivan, the Carson building reflected the culmination of th...

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Architecture

Aalto and America

Anderson Stanford, Fenske Gail, Fixler David

ISBN: HB: 9780300176001, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 black&white illus.,150 colour illus.

Aalto built three major works in America that counted among the most important in his career: the Finland Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, Baker House at MIT, and the Library at Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon. Beyond the works themselves, the intera...

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