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Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi
ISBN: HB: 9780300203950, Yale University Press, June 2015
240 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 35 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.
A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. A paucity of biographical documentation and a modest number of surviving buildings, coupled with an undeservedly cr...
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£60,00
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Aberdeenshire: North and Moray The Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300204285, Yale University Press, May 2015
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
The north-east of Scotland is one of the least known areas of the country but has an architectural heritage as rich as the Highlands and Angus with which it shares its borders. This volume is the first of two to illuminate its buildings and covers no...
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Natural History of English Gardening 1650-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300196368, Yale University Press, May 2015
464 pp., 28.6x24.8 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Inspired by the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White, who viewed natural history as the common study of cultural and natural communities, Mark Laird unearths forgotten historical data to reveal the complex visual cultures of early modern gardening. Ra...
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£45,00
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Cavity and Limit
ISBN: PB: 9788862421560, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, May 2015
120 pp., 22x16.7 cm, black&white illus., language: English / Italian
Cavity and limit is a book that shows a clear determination to investigate architecture through a specific area of research, that of the limit and its corrosion, of cavity. The book analyzes the built form through two different ideas of making archit...
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£17,99
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Modernism and Landscape Architecture, 1890-1940
ISBN: HB: 9780300196399, Yale University Press, May 2015
344 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 75 colour illus., 173 black&white illus.
In the period from 1890 to 1940, landscape architects organized as a profession distinct from art and architecture, bringing to the fore a variety of theories and aspirations-to influence urban growth, reinforce national identity, and shape land cons...
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£50,00
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Jean Prouve Ferembal Demountable House
ISBN: HB: 9782909187105, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! The Ateliers Jean Prouve built the structure housing the Ferembal offices in Nancy in 1948. At the request of the Galerie Patrick Seguin, in 2010, architect Jean Nouvel undertook a thoroughgoing "adaptation" of the Prouve b...
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Jean Prouve Maison Demontable 6x6 Demountable House
ISBN: HB: 9782909187082, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! This is the revised edition of Patrick Seguin's 2013 volume on Jean Prouve's Maison Demontable 6x6 Demountable House. It includes new images and layout. At the end of the Second World War, Prouve began designing temporary h...
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Jean Prouve Maison Demontable 8x8 Demountable House
ISBN: HB: 9782909187099, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! This revised edition of Patrick Seguin's 2013 volume on Jean Prouve's Maison Demontable 8x8 Demountable House includes new images and layout. In 1938, continuing his research into demountable houses, Prouve came up with the...
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Jean Prouve Filling Station
ISBN: HB: 9782909187112, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! In 1969, the French oil company Total began implementing a mass-production model for its gas stations – large ones for France's freeways, and the smaller roadside units. The company called in Jean Prouve, who had already am...
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Jean Prouve 5 Volume Box Set
ISBN: HB: 9782909187136, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! This limited-edition boxed set compiles all five of Galerie Patrick Seguin's volumes on the "demontable" architecture of Jean Prouve: the revised editions of 6x6 and 8x8, plus three new monographs on the BCC Demountable Hou...
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£210,00
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