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Landscape Architecture

Emperor's Private Paradise Treasures from the Forbidden City

Berliner Nancy

ISBN: HB: 9780300163896, Yale University Press, August 2010
300 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 black&white illus., 120 colour illus.

For centuries, China's Forbidden City has captured the world's imagination. Parts of the Forbidden City have been open to the public since 1925, and nearly 8 million tourists flock there annually. Yet the elegant, intimate Qianlong Garden – itself wi...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Hampshire: Winchester and the North Buildings of England

Bullen Michael, Crook John, Hubbuck Rodney, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300120844, Yale University Press, August 2010
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The northern half of Hampshire covers territory ranging from the rolling chalk downland of the Test and Itchen valleys to the Wealden edge and the heathlands at the borders with Surrey and Berkshire. Winchester is not only unrivalled for medieval arc...

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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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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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Worcestershire Buildings of England

Brooks Alan, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300112986, Yale University Press, July 2007
848 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This comprehensive guide to the buildings of Worcestershire is fully revised and expanded from the first edition of 1968. The county extends from the dramatic Malvern Hills through the Severn Valley to the fringes of the Cotswolds, with architecture...

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Traditional Farm Buildings and Their Conservation

Brunskill R. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300123197, Yale University Press, June 2007
208 pp., 24.6x19 cm, 144 black&white illus.

Traditional designs for British farm buildings, including barns, mills, pigsties, cowsheds, dovecotes, and other types, originated in the Middle Ages and developed through the various agricultural revolutions, until the slump of the 1880s brought an...

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Essex Buildings of England

Bettley James, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300116144, Yale University Press, May 2007
820 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Essex is one the largest counties of England, stretching from the suburban fringes of East London to the fishing and sailing ports of Harwich and Maldon and the famous seaside resorts of Clacton, Frinton and Southend. Its buildings are appropriately...

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Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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Traditional Buildings of Britain An Introduction to Vernacular Architecture

Brunskill R. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780304366675, Yale University Press, May 2006
208 pp., 24.6x18.9 cm

The third edition contains a completely new and exciting chapter on the Vernacular Revival, which carries the story forward from the nineteenth to the late twentieth century, and is illustrated with Dr Brunskill's fine drawings, a feature of the book...

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Victory of New Building Style

Behrendt Walter Curt, Mertins Detlef, Mallgrave Harry Francis

ISBN: PB: 9780892365630, Getty Publications, March 2006
176 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 94 black&white illus.

The architect and theorist Walter Behrendt was involved with public housing and urban development as a designer and administrator for the German government after World War I. From 1925 to 1926 he edited the journal Die Form for the German Werkbund an...

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