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Rem Koolhaas/OMA The Construction of Merveilles
ISBN: PB: 9782889153121, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic marvels amid the skylines of America, Europe, and Asia, Rem Koolhaas, along with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is justly considered as one of the leaders of contemporary archit...
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£65,00
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Dross City: Urban Metabolism Resilence and Drosscapes Recycling Project
ISBN: PB: 9788899854195, Bookport, ListLab, July 2020
334 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus.
Dross is waste: solid impurities that form on the surface of the smelting pot. While most is thrown away, some is reusable or recyclable. Hence 'DrossScape', a term conceived by land economist Alan Berger. Working off Berger's theories, this book exp...
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£23,50
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Story of New York's Staircase
ISBN: PB: 9783791384733, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus.
A public space like no other, Vessel was designed by the renowned Heatherwick Studio to give New Yorkers and visitors a unique vertical experience. In this book, readers can witness every part of its development, from initial designs to the finished...
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£18,00
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Vertical Europe The Sociology of High-Rise Construction
ISBN: PB: 9783593510163, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 5 halftones
More high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city's most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings...
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£36,00
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Tropical Toolbox Fry and Drew and the Search for an African Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9788862423687, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2019
220 pp., 20x14.5 cm, 140 colour and black&white illus.
Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew are two key figures of British architecture from the second half of the twentieth century. Their most important work was the book ''Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones'', a manual compiled from experience...
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£19,99
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Importance of Being Urban Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940
ISBN: HB: 9780226634548, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 table
For half a century – from the 1890s through World War II – the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power, but in urban school districts and classrooms".The Importance of Being Urb...
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£38,00
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Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9780300234930, Yale University Press, May 2019
280 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 135 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
This crucial reassessment of Aldo Rossi's (1931-1997) architecture simultaneously examines his writings, drawings, and product design, including the coffeepots and clocks he designed for the Italian firm Alessi. The first Italian to receive the Pritz...
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£50,00
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Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves
ISBN: HB: 9780226599854, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 5 tables
Urban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a neighborhood is. But behind that daunting existential question lies a much murkier problem: never mind how you define them – how do you make neighborhoods productive and fair for their r...
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£42,00
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Smart Landscape Architecture of the "Micro Smart Grid" as a Resilience Strategy for Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788898774524, Bookport, ListLab, December 2018
160 pp., 23.9x21.1 cm, colour illus.
Renewable energies have an important role in today's changing landscapes. This research analyses the current transition to sustainable energy from the architectural landscape point of view.
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£12,95
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Sigfried Giedion Liberated Dwelling
ISBN: HB: 9783037785683, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2018
100 pp., 19x12.5 cm, 86 illus.
Sigfried Giedion's small, but vocal manifesto Befreites Wohnen (1929) is an early manifestation of modernist housing ideology and as such key to the broader understanding of the ambitions of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM)...
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