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Exlibris 16 Keywords of Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423359, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
160 pp., 22x16.5 cm
Architects write a lot, especially now that conceptual aspects have become central in advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices for an ultimate legitimation. In the growing mass of publications, the...
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£17,99
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Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses
ISBN: HB: 9781913107093, Yale University Press, May 2020
248 pp., 27.1x21.5 cm, 196 colour and black&white illus.
This landmark study of Irish high crosses focuses on the carvings of an unnamed artist, the "Muiredach Master", whose monuments – completed in the early years of the 10th century – deserve a place alongside the Book of Kells as great works of their t...
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£40,00
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Eileen Gray, Designer and Architect
ISBN: HB: 9780300251067, Yale University Press, February 2020
430 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome volume chronicles Gray's career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The bo...
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£45,00
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Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets
ISBN: PB: 9781947602663, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2020
180 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 75 colour illus., 23 line drawings and figures
"Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets" draws attention to the simple but elusive architectural space of public and farmers markets. It discusses three seminal types of markets – heritage building, open-air pavil...
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£29,00
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Emulating Antiquity Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo
ISBN: HB: 9780300225761, Yale University Press, November 2019
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways...
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£55,00
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Ernest Gimson Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect
ISBN: HB: 9780300246261, Yale University Press, October 2019
372 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 320 colour and black&white illus.
This study of the renowned designer-maker Ernest Gimson (1864-1919) combines biography with analysis of his work as an architect and designer of furniture, metalwork, plaster decoration, embroidery, and more. It also examines Gimson's significance wi...
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£50,00
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East German Modern
ISBN: HB: 9783791385358, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
208 pp., 28x24 cm, 130 colour illus.
The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the architecture of the German Democratic Republic was created with an eye toward modernity and effici...
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£35,00
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Ephemeral Architecture Projects and Installations in the Public Space
ISBN: PB: 9788417412227, Hoaki, May 2019
320 pp., 23x21 cm, fully illustrated in colour
The term ephemeral is faithfully illustrative of our times. However, constructions with a limited lifespan have been a constant in the history of architecture. Research of materials and, above all, the evolution of design; have made this discipline a...
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£22,50
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Eco House Plans
ISBN: HB: 9788417557089, GMC Group, Monsa, May 2019
144 pp., 23x17 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! Eco House Plans contains more than 300 floor and elevations plans, as well as constructive details of 36 ecological architecture projects. The specific criteria for a project, location, setting, type, morphology...
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£19,99
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Elemental The Architect's Studio
ISBN: HB: 9783037785720, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2018
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 240 illus.
The ELEMENTAL studio, headed by artistic director Alejandro Aravena and based in the capital of Chile, Santiago, is untraditionally composed of people with a variety of skills and abilities. Their analytical approach to architecture and urban plannin...
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