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Dorgeloh Hartmut, Wolter Bernhard

ISBN: HB: 9783791358376, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
248 pp., 32x24 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

The 2019 opening of the Humboldt Forum heralds a massive achievement in cultural understanding. Bringing together more than 20,000 objects and designed to offer diverse exhibitions, events, and venues, this enormous complex will use state-of-the-art...

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Fake Heritage Why We Rebuild Monuments

Darlington John

ISBN: HB: 9780300246766, Yale University Press, October 2020
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 160 illus.

What happens when the past – or, more specifically, a piece of cultural heritage – is fabricated? From 50 replica Eiffel Towers located around the world to Saddam Hussein's reconstructions of ancient cities, examples of forged heritage are widespread...

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Thomas Jefferson, Architect Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals

DeWitt Lloyd, Piper Corey, Neil Erik H., Burns Howard, Beltramini Guido, Guy Wilson Richard, Bergdoll Barry, Nelson Louis P., Wilson Mabel O.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246209, Yale University Press, January 2020
208 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 88 colour illus., 86 black&white illus.

Renowned as a politician and statesman, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was also one of the premier architects of the early United States. Adept at reworking Renaissance – particularly Palladian – and Enlightenment ideals to the needs of the new republi...

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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures Landscape as Art and Urbanism

Doherty Gareth

ISBN: PB: 9783037786253, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2020
288 pp., 20x15 cm, 73 illus.

Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx's own words have...

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Souto de Moura Memory, Projects, Works

Dal Co Francesco, Graca Moura Nuno

ISBN: HB: 9780300248654, Yale University Press, November 2019
432 pp., 25.1x20 cm, 800 colour and black&white illus.

The architect Eduardo Souto de Moura (b. 1952) has won many accolades, including the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Based in Porto, Souto de Moura studied under Fernando Tavora and worked under fellow Portuguese architect alvaro Siza, with whom he...

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From Stone to Paper Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire

Dadlani Chanchal B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300233179, Yale University Press, February 2019
232 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 97 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.

By the 18th century, the Mughal Empire was well beyond its so-called golden age. Its control of the Indian subcontinent was increasingly threatened by regional Indian states, as well as by the encroaching British Empire. In response to a rapidly chan...

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Lina Bo Bardi

de Lima Zeuler R. M. A., Bergdoll Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780300244229, Yale University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 81 colour illus., 95 black&white illus.

One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil in 19...

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Architecture

Handbook of Tyranny

Deutinger Theo

ISBN: HB: 9783037785348, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2017
160 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 987 illus.

"Handbook of Tyranny" portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence – they reflect day-to-day implementation of la...

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Guggenheim Frank Lloyd Wright's Iconoclastic Masterpiece

Dal Co Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780300226058, Yale University Press, July 2017
176 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 63 colour illus., 104 black&white illus.

The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings. Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often...

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Centre Pompidou Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument

Dal Co Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780300221299, Yale University Press, January 2017
168 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 43 colour illus., 89 black&white illus.

A lively intellectual biography of one of the 20th century's most iconic buildings The Centre Georges Pompidou, also called Beaubourg, is today considered an icon of contemporary Paris, the quintessence of a modern building, and a model for what a mu...

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