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Making the Most of Tomorrow A North Bohemian Laboratory of Socialist Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9788024640174, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2019
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to redevelop the city began, hope and expecta...
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£20,00
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Social Design
ISBN: PB: 9783037785706, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2018
192 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 242 illus.
Social design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society, government, and the economy. Social design is thus...
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£20,00
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Michael Webb Two Journeys
ISBN: HB: 9783037785546, Lars Muller Publishers, May 2018
206 pp., 28x21 cm, 284 illus.
"Two Journeys" is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Michael Webb, an artist and trained architect, who operates at the intersection of the two disciplines. The publication assembles sixty years of Webb's work into a continuously evolvi...
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£37,00
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum A Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300226478, Yale University Press, March 2018
216 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 130 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
This updated guide to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum charts new pathways through the beloved institution's superb collection. Gardner, a trail-blazing American who was among the most prominent patrons of her day, built a Venetian-inspired palazz...
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£17,99
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Camp and the City Territories of Extraction
ISBN: PB: 9788898774753, Bookport, ListLab, September 2017
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, colour illus.
Urbanization metabolizes territories surrounding cities as well as territories that are located far beyond the centers themselves and provide the needed resources and goods. Landscapes of extraction are probably one of the most evident examples of th...
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£23,50
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New Architecture London
ISBN: HB: 9783791382784, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
176 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 150 colour illus.
London has always been known for its iconic buildings, but the city has recently witnessed an explosion of new architecture from the world's most acclaimed architects. This breathtaking volume offers a fascinating look at the city's rapidly changing...
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£29,99
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British Art Ancient Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9781911300144, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, April 2017
120 pp., 28x21.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
Published to accompany an exhibition at Salisbury Museum and Art Gallery, this volume explores the most significant works of art engaged with prehistoric moments across Britain from the 18th century to the 21st. While some of the works in the earlier...
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£25,00
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Japanese Contemporary House Small Anthology of Floating Spaces
ISBN: PB: 9788862421591, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, February 2017
144 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
Five essays about the contemporary Japanese house illustrated by a selection of designs by young architects. The domestic space becomes a symbol of the ability to adapt to new cultural and technological patterns. The designers provide brilliant medit...
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£17,99
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Developing Expertise Architecture and Real Estate in Metropolitan America
ISBN: HB: 9780300209938, Yale University Press, November 2016
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 163 black&white illus.
Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decline of downtowns and the rise of suburbs into separate tales, Sara Stevens uses the figure of the real e...
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£35,00
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Jean Prouve Ecole Provisoire Villejuif Temporary School, 1956
ISBN: HB: 9782909187143, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, September 2016
80 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Jean Prouve began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouve to design inexpensive, effective housing for the newly...
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£30,00
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