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Building After Auschwitz Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust

Rosenfeld Gavriel David

ISBN: HB: 9780300169140, Yale University Press, November 2011
440 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 25 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Since the end of World War II, Jewish architects have risen to unprecedented international prominence. Whether as modernists, postmodernists, or deconstructivists, architects such as Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Louis I. Kahn, Daniel Libeskind, Richa...

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Bertrand Goldberg Architecture of Invention

Ryan Zoe, Fisher Alison, Smith Elizabeth, Whiting Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300167047, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 140 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Bertrand Goldberg (1913-1997) was a visionary Chicago architect whose designs for housing, urban planning, and industrial design made a distinctive mark in the modern era. This handsome publication, the first to focus indepth on the entirety of Goldb...

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Beth Sholom Synagogue Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture

Siry Joseph M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226761404, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
736 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 295 halftones, 10 colour illus.

In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and among his finest religious buildings. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007, Beth Sholom was one of Wright's last completed project...

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Canterbury Cathedral Priory in Age of Becket

Fergusson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300175691, Yale University Press, October 2011
288 pp., 28x22 cm, 100 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

This fascinating book recounts the extensive building programme that took place at Canterbury Cathedral Priory, England, from 1153 to 1167, during the time when Thomas Becket served as Royal Chancellor and then as archbishop of Canterbury. Mastermind...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Somerset: North and Bristol Buildings of England

Foyle Andrew, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300126587, Yale University Press, October 2011
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This fully revised survey is the essential companion to the architecture of one of England's most rewarding regions. The Georgian spa of Bath and the medieval cathedral city of Wells are deservedly famous, each the finest of its kind in the country....

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Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2010 Implicate and Explicate

Mostafavi Mohsen

ISBN: HB: 9783037782422, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2011
352 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 191 illus.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1977 to identify and encourage excellence in architecture and other forms of intervention in the built environment of societies with Muslim presence. The award is giv...

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Five North American Architects An Anthology by Kenneth Frampton

Frampton Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9783037782569, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2011
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 136 illus.

Five North American Architects brings together five architectural practices that, while all distinct, share a particular sensibility for the impact of craftsmanship and climate on the generation of form, as well as a concern for the expressive tactil...

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Schlepping Through Ambivalence Essays on an American Architectural Condition

Tigerman Stanley, Petit Emmanuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300175417, Yale University Press, October 2011
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour images, 39 black&white illus.

Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake". Though he is at times sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural discourse has opened this insular world to a b...

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Jean Prouve & Jean Nouvel Ferembal Hous

ISBN: HB: 9782909187013, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, October 2011
336 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 240 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Jean Prouve's Ferembal House was built in Nancy, France, in 1948, as the office for a can factory. Composed of five axial frames clad with wooden panels, set on a tall masonry base and occupying less than 600 square feet in...

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Inigo Jones The Architect of Kings

Hart Vaughan

ISBN: HB: 9780300141498, Yale University Press, September 2011
336 pp., 28x22 cm, 100 colour images, 130 black&white illus.

Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He fam...

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