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Louis Kahn The Importance of a Drawing
ISBN: HB: 9783037786444, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
496 pp., 30x24 cm, 743 illus.
"The importance of a drawing is immense, because it's the architect's language" – Louis Kahn to his masterclass, 1967 Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was one of the most significant architects of the twentieth century and his influence is present today in...
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£80,00
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Ljubljana: A City by Heart Joze Plecnik's Legacy and Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423571, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, June 2020
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
Nowadays there are many studies, researches and publications about Joze Plecnik's work, as well as there are many authors who contributed to the knowledge and divulgation of the great Slovenian master work. The text in here, driven in this track, do...
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£16,99
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Living with Palladio in the Sixteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9783037786383, Lars Muller Publishers, May 2020
128 pp., 20.4x10.8 cm, 71 illus.
Visiting the villas built by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one inevitably asks oneself how people lived there in the sixteenth century. Palladio articulated the villas as "small towns" (piccole citta) that formed a unit with adjacent service buildings...
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£22,00
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Lina Bo Bardi  Habitat
ISBN: PB: 9783791359649, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
352 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 398 illus.
Lina Bo Bardi is regarded as one of the most important architects in Brazil's history. Beginning her career as a Modernist architect in Rome, Bo Bardi and her husband emigrated to Brazil following the end of WWII. Bo Bardi quickly resumed her practic...
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£45,00
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Lahore: The Historic City The Historic City and Regional Cultural Heritage
ISBN: HB: 9783791358567, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
368 pp., 28x22 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.
The cultural capital of Pakistan, and one of the world's most historically fascinating cities – Lahore – has retained much of its historic heritage despite centuries of turbulence. Today it remains a vibrant epicenter of commercial and cultural activ...
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London's Great Theatres
ISBN: HB: 9783791383866, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 143 colour and black&white illus.
This richly illustrated exploration of the most remarkable London theatres features witty and engaging texts by actor Simon Callow, whose knowledge of the city's dramatic venues is intimate and wide-ranging. One of the most prominent photographers of...
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£29,99
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Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland
ISBN: PB: 9781913107000, Yale University Press, August 2019
272 pp., 24.8x21.6 cm, 132 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
For aristocrats and gentry in 18th-century Ireland, the townhouses and country estates they resided in were carefully constructed to accommodate their cultivated lifestyles. Based on new research from Irish national collections and correspondence cul...
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£25,00
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Low Cost Natural Resources in Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9788417557041, GMC Group, Monsa, May 2019
144 pp., 17x23 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! One objective of this book is to study the budget for each individual project, as far as possible, in terms of construction methods and materials, energy and sustainability factors, in order to carry out a global...
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£19,99
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Lina Bo Bardi
ISBN: PB: 9780300244229, Yale University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 81 colour illus., 95 black&white illus.
One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil in 19...
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Landscape of Faith Interventions Along the Mexican Pilgrimage Route
ISBN: PB: 9783037784990, Lars Muller Publishers, December 2017
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 202 illus.
"Landscape of Faith" is a documentation of the way architecture can increase the identity of a pilgrimage route and add layers of meaning that reach far beyond the religious. The book presents sculptural and infrastructural interventions – in constan...
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