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Atlantikwall as Military Archaeological Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788862422635, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2017
188 pp., 22x17.1 cm, illustrations throughout
Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the 'Conflict archaeological landscape' cut...
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£25,00
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Landscape of Faith Interventions Along the Mexican Pilgrimage Route
ISBN: PB: 9783037784990, Lars Muller Publishers, December 2017
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 202 illus.
"Landscape of Faith" is a documentation of the way architecture can increase the identity of a pilgrimage route and add layers of meaning that reach far beyond the religious. The book presents sculptural and infrastructural interventions – in constan...
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Augmented City A Paradigm Shift
ISBN: PB: 9788899854201, Bookport, ListLab, November 2017
220 pp., 16.5x12.2 cm, colour illus.
The perfect city is a vibrant organism of data and information, sensors and actuators, actions and reactions, generated by users and environment both. Ten thousand years ago the city was invented as an aide for evolving communities. It bought togethe...
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£14,95
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Not twins, but one tower split in two
ISBN: HB: 9783954762095, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, November 2017
156 pp., 33x26.5 cm, 56 colour illus., language: English / German
Dominique Perrault (born 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand, lives and works in Paris) is one of France's star architects. He became internationally known through the construction of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, which was completed in 1995. I...
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£39,90
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Facies Urban Architectures
ISBN: PB: 9788899854287, Bookport, ListLab, November 2017
192 pp., 21x15 cm, colour illus.
"Facies" refers to the ability of architecture to enable, by means of its outward appearance, interaction between the space occupied by the building and the setting within which it is found. Architecture, Gio Ponti argues, is made to be looked at, b...
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£18,95
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Handbook of Tyranny
ISBN: HB: 9783037785348, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2017
160 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 987 illus.
"Handbook of Tyranny" portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence – they reflect day-to-day implementation of la...
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Gordon Matta-Clark Anarchitect
ISBN: HB: 9780300230437, Yale University Press, November 2017
184 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour illus.
This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell Universit...
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Sustainable Architecture Details in Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9788416504206, Hoaki, November 2017
240 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, richly illustrated
From the most cutting-edge studios around the world, this book is a superb showcase of some of the sustainable architectural creations that have set the pace in this field at the beginning of the 21th century. Featuring an extensive collection of ful...
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£32,00
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South-East Marylebone Survey of London: Volumes 51 and 52
ISBN: HB: 9780300221978, Yale University Press, October 2017
800 pp., 28.6x22.2 cm, 670 colour illus., maps, plans
Providing essential knowledge about the British capital's built environment, these two volumes cover a large portion of the parish of St. Marylebone, bounded to the south by Oxford Street and to the north by the Marylebone Road, and stretching from j...
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£150,00
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New Architecture New York
ISBN: HB: 9783791383682, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
216 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
From Bjarke Ingels Group's VIA West 57 to SHoP Architects' Barclays Center, and from Diller Scofidio + Renfro's High Line to SOM's One World Trade Center, New York City has been home to some of this century's most exciting new architecture. Profiling...
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