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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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£25,00
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Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities In Search of a Position
ISBN: HB: 9783037783047, Lars Muller Publishers, December 2014
228 pp., 19x12 cm, 64 illus.
Picking up on architecture's tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Gunther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape a...
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£20,00
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London Square Gardens in the Midst of Town
ISBN: HB: 9780300152012, Yale University Press, May 2012
304 pp., 27x21.7 cm, 100 colour images, 160 black&white illus.
Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. These green enclaves, known as squares, are among the most distinctive and admired features of the metro...
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Landscape Manifesto
ISBN: HB: 9780300156584, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 24.1x23.7 cm, 18 black&white illus., 215 colour illus.
Diana Balmori, an innovative and influential landscape architect in the field of urban design, makes the case for landscape as an art in her timely and provocative Manifesto. This book presents Balmori's most complete vision yet of the theory and pra...
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£60,00
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London Town Garden, 1700-1840
ISBN: HB: 9780300085389, Yale University Press, March 2001
298 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 200 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.
Much has been written about London's terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet the small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this great city have until now bee...
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Language of Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9780300082944, Yale University Press, August 2000
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 84 illus.
This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape and thereby to avoid making profound aesthetic and environmental mistakes in landscape design. Using examples that range across thousands of years and f...
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£30,00
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Landscape in Sight Looking at America
ISBN: PB: 9780300080742, Yale University Press, April 2000
428 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm, 51 illus.
Focusing not on nature but on landscape – land shaped by human presence – Jackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson's sketches and photographs, brings togeth...
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