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Sketchbook

Fujimoto Sou

ISBN: HB: 9783037783276, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
240 pp., 21x13 cm

The works of Sou Fujimoto resist any form of conventional categorization. This young Japanese architect stands for unconventional buildings that cannot be described by standard criteria and definitions such as inside/outside or public/private. Clear...

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Sketchbook No. 76

Souto de Moura Eduardo

ISBN: HB: 9783037783122, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
200 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 200 illus.

"Sketchbook No. 76 "is the reproduction of a sketchbook of the renowned Portuguese architect and last year's Pritzker Prize laureate, Eduardo Souto de Moura. The sketchbook was in use between September 2011 and January 2012 and records first ideas, f...

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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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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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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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Steven Holl Scale: An Architect's Sketch Book

Holl Steven

ISBN: HB: 9783037782514, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2012
480 pp., 12.6x16.8 cm, 400 illus.

Following "Written in Water" (2002), this is the second publication devoted to Steven Holl's legendary watercolors. Four hundred watercolors represent the creative process of this renowned and influential American architect and reveal his highly pers...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Somerset: North and Bristol Buildings of England

Foyle Andrew, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300126587, Yale University Press, October 2011
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This fully revised survey is the essential companion to the architecture of one of England's most rewarding regions. The Georgian spa of Bath and the medieval cathedral city of Wells are deservedly famous, each the finest of its kind in the country....

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Schlepping Through Ambivalence Essays on an American Architectural Condition

Tigerman Stanley, Petit Emmanuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300175417, Yale University Press, October 2011
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour images, 39 black&white illus.

Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake". Though he is at times sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural discourse has opened this insular world to a b...

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Jewish Studies

Synagogues of Britain and Ireland An Architectural and Social History

Kadish Sharman

ISBN: HB: 9780300170511, Yale University Press, March 2011
398 pp., 28.6x22.8 cm, 170 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

The religious buildings of the Jewish community in Britain have never been explored in print. Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished images and photographs taken specially by English Heritage, this book traces the architecture of the synago...

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Design

Structure of Light Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture

Neumann Dietrich

ISBN: HB: 9780300163704, Yale University Press, November 2010
256 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 131 black&white illus., 114 colour illus.

The potential of electric light as a new building "material" was recognized in the 1920s and became a useful design tool by the mid-century. Skilful lighting allowed for theatricality, narrative, and a new emphasis on structure and space. "The Struct...

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