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I Have a Weakness for a Touch of Red Essays on Art, Architecture, and Portugal
ISBN: PB: 9783037786000, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2019
276 pp., 22x14 cm, 70 colour and black&white illus.
In "I Have a Weakness for a Touch of Red" the passionate art and architecture critic Yehuda Emmanuel Safran collects a selection of his essays on architects and artists from Portugal that he has written since the 1980s. These are supplemented by furt...
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£22,00
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R. Buckminster Fuller Pattern-Thinking
ISBN: PB: 9783037786093, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2019
350 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
"Pattern-Thinking" reassesses the work of Buckminster Fuller – unique hybrid between theoretician, architect, designer, educator, inventor, and author – as advancing contemporary models of design-research, practice, and pedagogy. Drawing extensively...
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£33,00
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Big-Game: Everyday Objects Industrial Design Works
ISBN: HB: 9783037786048, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2019
160 pp., 23x17 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
BIG-GAME is a Swiss design studio founded by three friends in 2004. This book presents their industrial design work on everyday objects. Through anecdotes, diagrams, and pictures made for the publication, the book gives an overview of fifteen years o...
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£20,00
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Passenger Information System Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways by Josef Muller-Brockmann
ISBN: PB: 9783037786109, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2019
222 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 320 colour and black&white illus.
In 1980 Josef Muller-Brockmann laid the cornerstone for a uniform visual identity for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with his legendary Visual Information System at Train Stations and Stops. In view of Switzerland's multilingualism, the manual prop...
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£45,00
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Poster Collection 31 Stop Motion
ISBN: PB: 9783037786017, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2019
96 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The medium of the poster is distinguished by displaying messages combining images and text on a static, two-dimensional surface. Designers have, however, always toyed with extending the plane by adding a third dimension, whether spatial or temporal,...
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£20,00
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bauhaus journal 1926-1931 facsimile edition
ISBN: PB: 9783037785881, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2019
412 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 702 illus.
One hundred years after the founding of Bauhaus, it's time to revisit bauhaus journal as significant written testimony of this iconic movement of modern art. In this journal, published periodically from 1926 to 1931, the most important voices of the...
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£65,00
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Moholy's Edit The Avant-Garde at Sea, August 1933
ISBN: PB: 9783037785669, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2018
198 pp., 24x15 cm, 95 illus.
The book concerns the four-day cruise to the Aegean islands made by the "inner circle" of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) and their friends during the 4th congress in August 1933. Structured around that sequence of Moholy-Nag...
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£27,00
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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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£30,00
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Thonik Why We Design
ISBN: PB: 9783037785560, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2018
320 pp., 24x17 cm, 200 illus.
Everybody is a designer! But why? Why do we color, organize and form the world around us – and why do we call that a profession? In this book, thonik, the Amsterdam-based studio led by lauded designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven, resear...
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£30,00
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Architecture of Closed Worlds Or, What is the Power of Shit?
ISBN: PB: 9783037785805, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2018
300 pp., 26.5x19.5 cm, 430 illus.
What do outer space capsules, submarines and office buildings have in common? Each is conceived as a closed system: a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary that does not allow for the transfer of matter o...
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£30,00
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