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Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice Voices from the Archives
ISBN: HB: 9783037786390, Lars Muller Publishers, May 2021
320 pp., 26x20 cm, 280 illus.
Sverre Fehn's Nordic Pavilion in Venice is a masterpiece in postwar architecture. The young Norwegian architect won the competition in 1958 and the building was inaugurated in 1962. Through six decades the beloved structure has been mired in phenomen...
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£40,00
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Sarnath A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began
ISBN: PB: 9781606066164, Getty Publications, February 2020
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (...
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Story of New York's Staircase
ISBN: PB: 9783791384733, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus.
A public space like no other, Vessel was designed by the renowned Heatherwick Studio to give New Yorkers and visitors a unique vertical experience. In this book, readers can witness every part of its development, from initial designs to the finished...
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Science for the Sustainable City Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9780300246285, ISBN: HB: 9780300238327, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.
In a world of more than seven billion people – who mostly reside in cities and towns – the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagem...
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Souto de Moura Memory, Projects, Works
ISBN: HB: 9780300248654, Yale University Press, November 2019
432 pp., 25.1x20 cm, 800 colour and black&white illus.
The architect Eduardo Souto de Moura (b. 1952) has won many accolades, including the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Based in Porto, Souto de Moura studied under Fernando Tavora and worked under fellow Portuguese architect alvaro Siza, with whom he...
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Small Houses Big Ideas for Today's Small Homes
ISBN: PB: 9781641550628, GMC Group, Taunton Press, July 2019
224 pp., 27.4x21.6 cm, 300 colour illus.
With the growing popularity of small, micro, and tiny houses, it's no surprise that average house size is actually trending smaller in recent years. More and more people are seeing the benefits of the smaller house, for both economic and environmenta...
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£22,99
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Sussex: West Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300225211, Yale University Press, May 2019
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
This volume covers some of the finest landscape and architecture in southern England, much of it set within the South Downs National Park. The county's small towns and villages feature a pleasing mix of stone, timber, and brick houses of every period...
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£60,00
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Smart Landscape Architecture of the "Micro Smart Grid" as a Resilience Strategy for Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788898774524, Bookport, ListLab, December 2018
160 pp., 23.9x21.1 cm, colour illus.
Renewable energies have an important role in today's changing landscapes. This research analyses the current transition to sustainable energy from the architectural landscape point of view.
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£12,95
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Sigfried Giedion Liberated Dwelling
ISBN: HB: 9783037785683, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2018
100 pp., 19x12.5 cm, 86 illus.
Sigfried Giedion's small, but vocal manifesto Befreites Wohnen (1929) is an early manifestation of modernist housing ideology and as such key to the broader understanding of the ambitions of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM)...
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Social Design
ISBN: PB: 9783037785706, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2018
192 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 242 illus.
Social design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society, government, and the economy. Social design is thus...
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