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Breisch Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781606064900, Getty Publications, December 2016
256 pp., 25x15 cm

In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library'searly history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution's first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in...

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Hardwick Hall A Great Old Castle of Romance

Adshead David, Taylor David, Cooper Nicholas, Cowell Ben, Garnett Oliver, Henderson Paula, Jervis Simon, Rowell Christopher, Wells-Cole Anthony, Hirst Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300218909, Yale University Press, November 2016
384 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 320 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among the National Trust's greatest architectural landmarks, with much of its original interior and ornamentation still i...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Buildings of Scotland

Close Rob, Gifford John, Walker Frank Arneil

ISBN: HB: 9780300215588, Yale University Press, November 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the north-...

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Developing Expertise Architecture and Real Estate in Metropolitan America

Stevens Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780300209938, Yale University Press, November 2016
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 163 black&white illus.

Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decline of downtowns and the rise of suburbs into separate tales, Sara Stevens uses the figure of the real e...

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Aesthetics of Sustainability Systemic Thinking and Self-organization in the Evolution of Cities

Di Carlo Ilaria

ISBN: PB: 9788898774975, Bookport, ListLab, October 2016
196 pp., 20x14 cm, colour illus.

Sustainability may well determine the future of the human race. However, despite its importance, it often lacks one essential quality for success: seduction. An anthropic place must, as the name suggests, appeal to people. Sustainability has to find...

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Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco

Turner Paul V.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215021, Yale University Press, October 2016
224 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 77 colour illus., 79 black&white illus.

An unprecedented look at the architect's storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay Area Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) often spent time in San Francisco, which he called "the most charming city in America". Paul V. Turner looks at the archi...

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Charles Percier Revolutions in Architecture and Design

Garric Jean-Philippe, Bedard Jean-Francois, Sarmant Thierry, Cochet Vincent, Tedeschi Letizia, Lievaux Pascal, Droguet Vincent, Moon Iris, Belhoste Jean-Francois, Dion-Tenenbaum Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300221589, Yale University Press, October 2016
304 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 228 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Handsomely designed and richly illustrated, this publication surveys the magnificent spectrum of projects undertaken by French architect and interior designer Charles Percier (1764-1838). After gaining an illustrious reputation for supervising the sc...

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Building

Araguez Jose

ISBN: HB: 9783037784983, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2016
416 pp., 24x17 cm, 244 illus.

For nearly fifty years "the building" has primarily been viewed as a means rather than an end within architectural history and theory. This volume presents an alternative to that trend by reconceiving it as a central discursive category in its own ri...

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Ethics of the Urban The City and the Spaces of the Political

Mostafavi Mohsen

ISBN: HB: 9783037783818, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2016
368 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 200 illus.

Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities, houses, streets, and public spaces – the borders, the neighborhoods, the monuments – bearers of our values? In a world of intensifying geo-economic integration, extreme financial and g...

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Wall as Living Place Hollow Structural Forms in Louis Kahn's Work

Cacciatore Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9788862422031, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2016
120 pp., 21x15 cm, black&white illus.

There is ample evidence as to how the modern masters, in their shared pursuit of formal inventions and constructional inventions, variously referred to past examples they had freely chosen as guides that could inspire and support them in their strenu...

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