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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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Building Globalization Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China

Ren Xuefei

ISBN: PB: 9780226709819, ISBN: HB: 9780226709802, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 maps, 15 tables, 18 halftones

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. Combining ethnographic fieldwork, historical research, and network...

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Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion

Trachtenberg Marvin

ISBN: HB: 9780300165920, Yale University Press, October 2010
516 pp., 28x23 cm, 200 black&white illus., 120 colour illus.

This ambitious book is about a way of building that for centuries dominated the making of monumental architecture – yet now not only is it lost as practice, but knowledge of its very existence is consigned to oblivion. In pre-modern Europe, the archi...

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Blueprint for Disaster The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing

Hunt D. Bradford

ISBN: PB: 9780226360867, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table, 28 halftones

Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago's public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing...

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Brasilia – Chandigarh Living with Modernity

Baan Iwan

ISBN: PB: 9783037782286, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2010
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 illus.

In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising according to plans by Le Corbusier. The "test tube city"...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Berkshire Buildings of England

Tyack Geoffrey, Bradley Simon, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300126624, Yale University Press, June 2010
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 illus.

Nikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as "half home county, half West Country". This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area transferred to Oxfordshire in the 1970s. The variety of architecture is, in...

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Brick and Clay Building in Britain

Brunskill R. W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300116878, Yale University Press, June 2009
262 pp., 24.6x19.6 cm

"Brick and Clay Building in Britain" has been widely praised both for its clear and well-balanced text and for the quality of the illustrations. This new edition includes a fascinating account of how bricks, brick files and terracotta have been made...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Brighton and Hove City Guides

Antram Nicholas, Morrice Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300126617, Yale University Press, July 2008
256 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This book is the first comprehensive guide to the historic heart of Brighton and Hove, the greatest of England's seaside resorts. A series of walks trace its development from late medieval fishing settlement to the "Queen of the Watering Places", wit...

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