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Nicholas Hawksmoor Rebuilding Ancient Wonders
ISBN: PB: 9780300135404, Yale University Press, December 2007
316 pp., 28x22 cm, 144 colour images, 212 black&white illus.
The diverse works of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (?1661-1736) ranged from small architectural details to ambitious urban plans, from new parish churches to work on the monument of his age, St. Paul's Cathedral. As a young man Hawksmoor assisted Chri...
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£16,99
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Nearest Thing to Heaven The Empire State Building and American Dreams
ISBN: PB: 9780300126129, Yale University Press, November 2007
252 pp., 23.4x5.6 cm, black&white illus.
This elegantly written appreciation of the Empire State Building opens up the building's richness and importance as an icon of America. The book leads us through the facts surrounding the skyscraper's conception and construction, then enters into a p...
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£19,00
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Holy Place Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia
ISBN: HB: 9780300110272, Yale University Press, October 2007
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 colour illus.
This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glo...
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£39,00
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Building a New Europe Portraits of Modern Architects, Essays by George Nelson, 1935-1936
ISBN: HB: 9780300115659, Yale University Press, August 2007
192 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 124 black&white illus.
Architect, designer, and architectural critic, George Nelson (1908-1986) was a young and impressionable architect when he wrote a series of articles in 1935 and 1936 that eloquently introduced astonishing buildings and fascinating personalities from...
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£55,00
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Worcestershire Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300112986, Yale University Press, July 2007
848 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
This comprehensive guide to the buildings of Worcestershire is fully revised and expanded from the first edition of 1968. The county extends from the dramatic Malvern Hills through the Severn Valley to the fringes of the Cotswolds, with architecture...
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£60,00
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Architecture Choice or Fate
ISBN: PB: 9781901092752, GMC Group, Papadakis, July 2007
208 pp., 17.8x14.5 cm, colour illus.
Leon Krier, theorist and reformer of modern traditional architecture and urbanism, reveals in this layman's manifesto why, in matters of democracy, architecture is far behind politics. The fact that modernism has never been a popular choice is not, a...
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£9,95
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Traditional Farm Buildings and Their Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9780300123197, Yale University Press, June 2007
208 pp., 24.6x19 cm, 144 black&white illus.
Traditional designs for British farm buildings, including barns, mills, pigsties, cowsheds, dovecotes, and other types, originated in the Middle Ages and developed through the various agricultural revolutions, until the slump of the 1880s brought an...
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£30,00
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Essex Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300116144, Yale University Press, May 2007
820 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
Essex is one the largest counties of England, stretching from the suburban fringes of East London to the fishing and sailing ports of Harwich and Maldon and the famous seaside resorts of Clacton, Frinton and Southend. Its buildings are appropriately...
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£60,00
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Perth and Kinross Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300109221, Yale University Press, March 2007
640 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
Perth and Kinross, at the geographical heart of Scotland, contain buildings which range from the remains of a Roman line of forts and watch towers (the fort at Ardoch, of the first and second centuries, is one of the best preserved and least known of...
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£60,00
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Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780300117295, Yale University Press, February 2007
240 pp., 28x22 cm, 60 colour, 140 black&white illus.
In this ground-breaking volume, the first book-length study for forty years on one of England's greatest and most influential classical architects, conventional assumptions about Inigo Jones are turned on their head. Traditionally, Jones has been loo...
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£40,00
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