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Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Reconstructing Urban Landscapes

Berrizbeitia Anita, Goldberger Paul, Amidon Jane, Blum Andrew, Carr Ethan, Jong Erik, Fergusson Peter, Gleeson Rachel, Pollak Linda, Rosenberg Elissa

ISBN: HB: 9780300135855, Yale University Press, May 2009
320 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 185 colour illus.

Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers...

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Modernist Museum in Perspective The East Building, National Gallery of Art

Alofsin Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300121599, Yale University Press, March 2009
248 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 58 colour images, 207 black&white illus.

This fascinating book is the first critical examination of the East Building, I. M. Pei's celebrated addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Distinguished contributors consider this iconic building from various historical vantage...

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Architecture

Managing Change Sustainable Approaches to the Conservation of the Built Environment

Teutonico Jeanne Marie, Matero Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780892366927, Getty Publications, March 2006
224 pp., 30.2x21 cm, 16 colour illus., 77 black&white illus.

Since the 1970s sustainability has evolved as a significant mode of thought in nearly every field of intellectual activity. In 1992 the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro brought the ideas of sustainability and...

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Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings

Teige Karel, Cohen Jean-Louis, Murray Irena, Britt David

ISBN: PB: 9780892365968, Getty Publications, March 2006
384 pp., 25.5x17.8 cm, 328 black&white illus.

Karel Teige (1900-1951) was a graphic designer, critic, and Czech partisan who in 1920 founded a group to promote modernism in the international sphere through polemics and manifestos. This is a translation of Karel Teige's 1930 publication that brou...

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Architecture

Medieval London Houses

Schofield John

ISBN: PB: 9780300082838, Yale University Press, May 2003
288 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 300 illus.

A comprehensive study of domestic buildings in London from about 1200 to the Great Fire in 1666. John Schofield describes houses and such related buildings as almshouses, taverns, inns, shops and livery company halls, drawing on evidence from survivi...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Manchester City Guides

Hartwell Clare

ISBN: PB: 9780300096668, Yale University Press, January 2001
374 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, colour illus.

Manchester is the first in a brand new series of affordable, pocket-sized guides to England's cities and the first to include integrated colour illustrations. Clare Hartwell's detailed guide examines the full range and variety of Manchester's buildin...

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Medicine and Magnificence British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815

Stevenson Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300085365, Yale University Press, November 2000
312 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 96 illus.

The late-17th and 18th centuries represent a golden age in terms of the design and construction of hospitals in Britain and its US colonies. This account of this period of planning and construction considers both the architecture and function of the...

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