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Landscape Architecture

Vauxhall Gardens A History

Coke David E., Borg Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300173826, Yale University Press, May 2011
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 200 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

From their early beginnings in the Restoration until the final closure in Queen Victoria's reign, Vauxhall Gardens developed from a rural tavern and place of assignation into a dream-world filled with visual arts and music, and finally into a commerc...

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Architecture

Architecture in Uniform Designing and Building for the Second World War

Cohen Jean-Louis

ISBN: HB: 9782754105309, Yale University Press, April 2011
448 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm, 300 illus.

This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen contends instead that duri...

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Architecture

Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond

Crinson Mark, Zimmerman Claire

ISBN: HB: 9780300166187, Yale University Press, December 2010
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 97 colour illus.

The neo-avant-garde and postmodernism have long been understood in terms of their re-working of modernism and a narrative emphasizing rupture and new beginnings. Compelling continuities between the two, especially in postwar Britain, suggest that a n...

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Architecture

Architecture in the Balkans From Diocletian to Suleyman the Magnificent, 300-1550

Curcic Slobodan

ISBN: HB: 9780300115703, Yale University Press, March 2010
608 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 600 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

This book is the first of its kind to discuss the history of the Balkan Peninsula from late antiquity to the height of the Ottoman era by focusing on architecture as its principal gauge. In doing so, it transcends various established conventions in s...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Modern Wing Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago

Cuno James, Goldberger Paul, Rosa Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300141122, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
160 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour images, 20 duotone illus.

This handsome book examines the remarkable new addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano and scheduled to open in May 2009. This expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, wil...

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Contemporary Art

Architecture

Automatic Cities The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art

Clark Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780934418713, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, November 2009
160 pp., 23.5x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The "architectural imaginary" describes architecture in its broadest sense: images of cities drawn from collective experience and imagination. Hailing from 11 countries, each of the 14 artists who have contributed to "Autom...

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Architecture

Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840

Colvin Howard

ISBN: HB: 9780300125085, Yale University Press, May 2008
1264 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practised in England, Scotland and Wales from the time of Inigo Jones (1573-1652) to that of Wil...

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History of Art

Architecture

Art, Design, and Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920

Clegg Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300111200, Yale University Press, May 2006
356 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

In this unprecedentedly wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves a forceful integration of political and cultural de...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Borders Buildings of Scotland

Cruft Kitty, Dunbar John, Fawcett Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300107029, Yale University Press, February 2006
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The Scottish Borders have some of the most romantic countryside in Scotland, ranging from rocky coastline to rolling moors and farmland. The early buildings reflect a history of conflict, expressed in the plethora of castle strongholds and tower hous...

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Landscape Architecture

Riverside Gardens of Thomas More's London

Christianson C. Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300109054, Yale University Press, November 2005
160 pp., 23.4x18.9 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

All but forgotten today, eight historic gardens that once flourished along the length of the Thames in early Tudor London are here historically recreated and analysed in this richly illustrated book. One of the gardens belonged to Sir Thomas More and...

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