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Imre Makovecz and the Hungarian Organic Architecture

Giustra Martina

ISBN: PB: 9788862421423, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2014
160 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

The first time I met Makovecz, he drew me a map of Hungary, marking the most significant places through which I could get closer to his work. With the promise that I would return, we said goodbye. From this map, my research began.

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Loose Ends

Grasso Cannizzo Maria Giuseppina

ISBN: HB: 9783037784518, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2014
380 pp., 24x16.8 cm, 900 illus.

Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2004 and 2008, and was honored by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2012. That same year she won a gold medal for her life's work at the Milan Triennial, and has b...

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Elements of Venice

Giulia Foscari

ISBN: PB: 9783037784297, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2014
696 pp., 16.7x12 cm, 1500 illus.

Developed as a parallel research project of Fundamentals – the exhibition at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas – the book offers insights on Venetian facades, stairs, corridors, floors, ramps, ceilings, doors, hearths, win...

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House Between Two Pine Trees

Gambardella Cherubino

ISBN: PB: 9788862421003, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, November 2013
120 pp., 22.6x17.3 cm, colour photos

A book about a house and a Mediterranean myth. A theory illustrated by a constellation of examples that predate and follow the white ceramic architecture between two ancient pine trees.

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Confederacy of Heretics

Gannon Todd, Branda Ewan

ISBN: PB: 9781606062630, Getty Publications, November 2013
214 pp., 25.3x22 cm

"A Confederacy of Heretics" examines the explosion of activity associated with the Architecture Gallery, the first gallery in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to architecture. Instigated by Thom Mayne in the fall of 1979, the Architecture Gallery st...

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Sheldonian Theatre Architecture and Learning in Seventeenth-Century Oxford

Geraghty Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300195040, Yale University Press, September 2013
168 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 45 colour images, 22 black&white illus.

A jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. Published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the building's construction, this meticul...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Dundee and Angus Buildings of Scotland

Gifford John

ISBN: HB: 9780300141719, Yale University Press, June 2012
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Dundee is the fourth largest of Scotland's cities and has some of the finest ecclesiastical, public, commercial and industrial buildings in the country, evidence of its Victorian pre-eminence as a port and manufacturing centre. But beyond the city li...

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J. B. Fischer von Erlach Architecture as Theater in the Baroque Era

Gordon Dotson Esther, Ashton Mark Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300166682, Yale University Press, February 2012
208 pp., 28x22 cm, 50 colour images, 60 black&white illus.

Though little known in the English-speaking world, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) was one of the most important and influential European baroque architects. The buildings that he designed for the emperor of Austria and his courtiers r...

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America

City of American Dreams A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

Garb Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226282107, ISBN: HB: 9780226282091, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 maps, 15 halftones

In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing v...

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Why X Matters

Why Architecture Matters

Goldberger Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300168174, Yale University Press, April 2011
304 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 54 black&white illus.

"Why Architecture Matters" is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of "Why Architecture Matters" is to "come to grips with how things feel t...

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