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Two Sides of the Border Reimagining the Region
ISBN: HB: 9783037786086, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Under the direction of Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, thirteen architecture studios and students across the United States and Mexico undertook the monumental task of attempting to capture the complex and dynamic region of the US/Mexican border. "T...
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£33,00
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Building a New New World Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9780300248159, Yale University Press, November 2020
450 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 450 colour and black&white illus.
Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful...
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£30,00
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Anupama Kundoo The Architect's Studio
ISBN: HB: 9783037786376, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 illus.
The fourth volume in the series The Architect's Studio is dedicated to the works of Anupama Kundoo. The much appraised Indian architect aims to shed light on a scarce resource in our life: time. Kundoo sees time as a forgotten resource in architectur...
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Industrious City Rethinking Urban Industry in the Digital Age
ISBN: PB: 9783037786147, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
353 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 210 illus.
Cities have always been places where commerce and production, working and living are physically and functionally integrated. Only with the rise of industry have zoning regulations been introduced to separate these functions in space. But what is the...
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Louis Kahn The Importance of a Drawing
ISBN: HB: 9783037786444, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
496 pp., 30x24 cm, 743 illus.
"The importance of a drawing is immense, because it's the architect's language" – Louis Kahn to his masterclass, 1967 Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was one of the most significant architects of the twentieth century and his influence is present today in...
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£80,00
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Garden at Monceau
ISBN: HB: 9780300254686, Yale University Press, November 2020
196 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 62 colour illus., 18 duotone illus.
Originally published in 1779, "Garden at Monceau" is a richly illustrated presentation of the garden Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, designed on the eve of the French Revolution for Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orleans, duc de Chartres. With its arr...
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£60,00
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Walls of Suzhou Gardens A Photographic Journey
ISBN: HB: 9783037786604, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
64 pp., 25x20 cm, 31 illus.
At the Classical Gardens of Suzhou in China, surface transforms into space; walls become landscapes. In her journey through this UNESCO World Heritage Site, Swiss French photographer Helene Binet captures the traces of environmental influences on bui...
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£33,00
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Temple of Science The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History
ISBN: HB: 9781851245567, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
192 pp., 25x21 cm, 100 colour illus.
Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with...
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£35,00
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Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
ISBN: HB: 9780226318943, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 179 halftones, 1 table
Between 1898 and 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright's residential studio in the idyllic Chicago suburb of Oak Park served as a nontraditional work setting as he matured into a leader in his field and formulized his iconic design ideology. Here, architecture hi...
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£28,00
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Carl Pruscha Singular Personality
ISBN: HB: 9783037785904, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
240 pp., 29.8x21 cm, illus.
This monograph on the work of Austrian architect Carl Pruscha (born 1936) is divided into the three geographical areas of his life and legacy: the United States, Kathmandu, and Vienna. Following his study of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts V...
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£44,00
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