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Lina Bo Bardi  Habitat
ISBN: PB: 9783791359649, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
352 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 398 illus.
Lina Bo Bardi is regarded as one of the most important architects in Brazil's history. Beginning her career as a Modernist architect in Rome, Bo Bardi and her husband emigrated to Brazil following the end of WWII. Bo Bardi quickly resumed her practic...
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£45,00
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East German Modern
ISBN: HB: 9783791385358, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
208 pp., 28x24 cm, 130 colour illus.
The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the architecture of the German Democratic Republic was created with an eye toward modernity and effici...
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£35,00
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Bauhaus Architecture 1919-1933
ISBN: HB: 9783791384818, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
152 pp., 28x24 cm, 120 colour illus.
Now available in an expanded and revised edition, this book contains an outstanding collection of photographs by the renowned architectural photographer Hans Engels and provides a detailed survey of surviving Bauhaus architecture in Europe. Focusing...
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£29,99
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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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Le Corbusier The Complete Buildings
ISBN: HB: 9783791384023, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
320 pp., 32.4x21.6 cm, 280 colour illus.
In 2010, photographer Cemal Emden set out to document every building designed by the master architect Le Corbusier. Traveling through three continents, Emden photographed all the 52 buildings that remain standing. Each of these buildings is featured...
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£39,99
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Renaovate Inovate Reclaimed and Upcycled Dwellings
ISBN: HB: 9783791383095, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 275 colour illus.
From converted factories and chapels to cabins built from salvaged wood, this collection of innovative, beautiful, and sustainable dwellings showcases a worldwide trend for upcycling in home design. Antonia Edwards' first book, Upcyclist, explored h...
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£35,00
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Creating the Countryside The Rural Idyll
ISBN: PB: 9781911300106, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, March 2017
120 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus.
From High Art to propaganda, garden centres to air fresheners, contemporary art to computer games – a constellation of powerful images and ideas contribute to our understandings of the rural. This publication offers new ways of thinking about the rur...
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£20,00
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Palladio Virtuel
ISBN: HB: 9780300213881, Yale University Press, December 2015
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 297 colour illus., 51 black&white illus.
Many historians of architecture have viewed the villas of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) as physical manifestations of the classical architectural principles described in his treatise The Four Books of Architecture (I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura). W...
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£55,00
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Durability in Construction Rebuilding Traditions in 21st Century Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9781906506551, GMC Group, Papadakis, May 2015
224 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, colour illus.
For centuries the idea of durability was central to the practice of architecture. It went without saying that a building should be made to last as long as possible, with materials and techniques chosen toward this end. Today ephemeral, short term con...
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