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Baroque Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788024643762, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2021
330 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 200 colour plates, 20 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Baroque Prague" is a lavish excursion through Prague's important baroque period, beginning with the defeat of Czech Protestants at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and ending with the...
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£24,00
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Choosing Architecture Criticism, History and Theory since the 19th Century
ISBN: PB: 9782889153299, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For as long as there have been buildings, architecture has been a major subject of public discussion, considered and argued about not just by architects or residents, but also by critics, theoreticians, historians, and writers. This book offers an ov...
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Mutation and Morphosis Landscape as Aggregate
ISBN: PB: 9783037786185, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2020
700 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1100 colour and black&white illus.
Anyone viewing what we call a ''landscape'' from a distance will recognize that it is an artifact, a habitat created by humans as part of our built environment. Designing this realm carefully is a discipline that is taking on increasing importance to...
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Wooden Houses in Pure Nature
ISBN: HB: 9788417557003, GMC Group, Monsa, March 2019
144 pp., 17x23 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! The new criteria for sustainable housing planning benefit from an inexhaustible source of ideas, based on wood due to its versatility. The variety of finishes and the fact that it is easy to recycle, facilitate t...
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Purging the Poorest Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
ISBN: PB: 9780226012452, ISBN: HB: 9780226012315, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 63 halftones, 6 line illus.
The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In "Purging the Poorest", Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle t...
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£79,00
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Miniature and Panorama Vogt Landscape Architects, Projects 2000-2012
ISBN: PB: 9783037782330, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2012
608 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1250 illus.
Using a typological structure (landscape, park, square, garden, promenade, etc.), Gunther Vogt describes the theoretical foundation on which the successful projects of Vogt Landscape Architects are based. In recent years the offi ce has realized inte...
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James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive
ISBN: HB: 9780300167238, Yale University Press, October 2010
300 pp., 27x20.5 cm, 330 colour illus.
The British architect James Frazer Stirling (1924-1992) stimulated impassioned responses among both supporters and detractors, and he continues to be the subject of fierce debate. He earned international renown through such innovative and frequently...
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Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America
ISBN: PB: 9780226846941, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 80 halftones
On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruine...
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Gloucestershire, Volume 2: Vale and Forest of Dean Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300097337, Yale University Press, January 2002
832 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, maps, glossary, indexes, 107 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This volume, along with its companion work, "Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds" provides a comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring toge...
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Gloucestershire, Volume 1: Cotswolds Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300096040, Yale University Press, January 1999
832 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 64 illus.
A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the buildings in one of the best-loved and most beautiful areas of England. Major buildings include great medieval wool churches and grand country houses such as Badminton and Dyrham, besides some remarkable re...
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