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Distance and Engagement Walking, Thinking and Making Landscape
ISBN: HB: 9783037781968, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2010
480 pp., 16.5x24 cm, 1000 illus.
Gunther Vogt and his landscape designers bring a lot of passion to their research and to their search for ideas for transforming undesigned sites or tracts of land into landscapes. They don't want to depend just on knowledge acquired from books. They...
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£45,00
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Tree Nurseries Cultivating the Urban Jungle
ISBN: PB: 9783037782187, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2010
240 pp., 33x24 cm, 600 illus.
Exotic trees in England and a rainforest in Zurich, a seed bank on the arctic island of Spitsbergen and urban agriculture in Tanzania, trade in old trees in China and biodiversity in Senegal. Tree Nursery. Cultivating the Urban Jungle uses the exampl...
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£30,00
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What Anchors a House in Itself Seven Buildings
ISBN: PB: 9783037782408, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2010
216 pp., 24.8x18.6 cm, 167 illus.
The Zurich architects Fuhrimann Hنchler take on the most diverse building commissions. The present volume is devoted in particular to private residences, most of them realized for clients who are at home in the architectural and art scenes. These hom...
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£35,00
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Patterns and Structure Selected Writings 1973-2008
ISBN: PB: 9783037782194, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2010
464 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 218 illus.
This rich collection of writings and criticisms by structural engineer and Princeton University professor Guy Nordenson, brings together previously published essays on structural engineering, architecture, design, and seismic research from 1973 to 20...
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£40,00
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Andrea Palladio Unbuilt Venice
ISBN: HB: 9783037782224, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2010
288 pp., 24x15 cm, 230 illus.
After the successful conclusion of the centenary celebrations of Andrea Palladio's birth, there are still many unanswered questions about his work. Antonio Foscari retraces Andrea Palladio's life and offers new perspectives on the architects built an...
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£35,00
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Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out The Domincan Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9783037782217, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2010
240 pp., 24x30 cm, 233 illus.
Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings – seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves – are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred – mostly unpublished...
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£55,00
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Tropical Gift The Business of Oil and Gas in Nigeria
ISBN: HB: 9783037782262, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2010
96 pp., 30x24 cm, 52 illus.
Christian Lutz continues his photographic study of power structures with "Tropical Gift". He took portraits in Nigeria of people who live by and with the economic force that dominates everything there, the oil and gas industry. The photographs observ...
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£30,00
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Brasilia – Chandigarh Living with Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9783037782286, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2010
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 illus.
In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising according to plans by Le Corbusier. The "test tube city"...
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£35,00
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Uncarved Block
ISBN: HB: 9783037782279, Lars Muller Publishers, June 2010
160 pp., 30x24 cm, 120 illus.
Hamish Fulton's photographic work focuses on nature and the way people experience nature. He has been hiking all over the world for 30 years, and translates what he experiences and sees into art. In 2009, Hamish Fulton and an expedition team climbed...
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£30,00
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Your Chance Encounter
ISBN: HB: 9783037782118, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2010
216 pp., 20x24 cm, 200 illus.
The acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson developed a sequence of spatial experiments for his Your Chance Encounter exhibition in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. His piece challenges visitors to move around a...
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£40,00
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