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Marcel Breuer Building Global Institutions
ISBN: PB: 9783037785195, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2018
368 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 345 illus.
"Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions" is a collection of essays by a group of scholars, which examine Breuer's approach and way of working, his strategies and his signature buildings. These essays draw on an abundance of newly available docum...
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£29,00
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Automatic Architecture Motivating Form after Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780226496498, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 53 halftones, 15 line drawings
In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor,...
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£34,00
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Charas The Improbable Dome Builders
ISBN: PB: 9781945711053, DAP, Pioneer Works Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 150 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, and six ex-gang members who called themselves "...
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£24,00
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Drawing after Architecture Renaissance Architectural Drawings and their Reception
ISBN: PB: 9788831726740, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2018
288 pp., 24.9x20.3 cm, 185 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Why did early modern architects continue copying drawings long after the invention of print should have made such copying obsolete? Carolyn Yerkes answers that question in a fresh investigation into the status of architectu...
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£35,00
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Positions on Emancipation Architecture between Aesthetics and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9783037785515, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2018
264 pp., 20x14 cm, 48 illus.
During the last decades architecture has been largely characterized by a lack of strong positions. A form of neoliberal indifference has become endemic, something that can be attributed to the fact that modernism has lost its claim to be both emancip...
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£22,00
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Masterworks of Architectural Drawing from the Albertina Museum
ISBN: HB: 9783791357218, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
328 pp., 29x25 cm, 187 colour illus.
Since the medium began, artists have used architectural drawings to document the urban and rural past and to envision the future. Covering a period that runs from the 16th-century to today, this collection of 140 architectural drawings presents a pan...
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£45,00
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