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Fake Heritage Why We Rebuild Monuments
ISBN: HB: 9780300246766, Yale University Press, October 2020
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 160 illus.
What happens when the past – or, more specifically, a piece of cultural heritage – is fabricated? From 50 replica Eiffel Towers located around the world to Saddam Hussein's reconstructions of ancient cities, examples of forged heritage are widespread...
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£25,00
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Fringe Shifts Transforming Planning for New Suburban Habitats
ISBN: PB: 9788899854300, Bookport, ListLab, July 2020
208 pp., 23x16 cm, colour illus.
The fringe is the contemporary city 'in-between space', in which urban and periurban features interweave. In European cities, this transitional belt often matches with the Post World War II expansion. Nowadays, the urban fringe, generally in decline,...
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£18,95
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Facades A Visual Compendium
ISBN: HB: 9783791385174, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
448 pp., 24x18.5 cm, 400 colour illus.
A building's facade sets the aesthetic tone for its entire design while serving a variety of functions, from regulating light and protecting against the elements to providing insulation for temperature and sound. This absorbing book details hundreds...
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£35,00
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From Stone to Paper Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300233179, Yale University Press, February 2019
232 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 97 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.
By the 18th century, the Mughal Empire was well beyond its so-called golden age. Its control of the Indian subcontinent was increasingly threatened by regional Indian states, as well as by the encroaching British Empire. In response to a rapidly chan...
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£50,00
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Formal Basis of Modern Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9783037785737, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2018
384 pp., 24x23 cm, 600 illus.
In "The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture" the internationally acclaimed US-American architect Peter Eisenman – world famous for his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2005) – confronts historicism with theory and the analysis of form, whose distinguish...
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£27,00
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Floating Houses Living Over the Water
ISBN: HB: 9788416500734, GMC Group, Monsa, March 2018
144 pp., 17x23 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! There is a growing trend around the world –especially in Europe and America– to build greener and more sustainable housing, such as floating homes. Cities like Amsterdam and Seattle boast spectacular neighbourhoo...
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£19,99
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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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Future Cities Laboratory Indicia 01
ISBN: PB: 9783037785454, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2017
240 pp., 24x17 cm, 100 illus.
"Future Cities Laboratory" reports on the same named research program and its mission to shape sustainable future cities through science, by design, in place. It offers a global perspective on cities from the vantage point of the world's most populou...
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£40,00
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Food Trucks Delights on Wheels
ISBN: HB: 9788416500444, GMC Group, Monsa, March 2017
144 pp., 22x15 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! Food Trucks are something of an institution in American culture, and have been around for more than a century. These days there is a huge range of gastronomic treats available, dished up out of an incredible vari...
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£17,99
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Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco
ISBN: HB: 9780300215021, Yale University Press, October 2016
224 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 77 colour illus., 79 black&white illus.
An unprecedented look at the architect's storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay Area Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) often spent time in San Francisco, which he called "the most charming city in America". Paul V. Turner looks at the archi...
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£45,00
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