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Under One Roof EPFL ArtLab in Lausanne by Kengo Kuma
ISBN: HB: 9783791358055, Prestel Publishing, December 2019
176 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
This superbly illustrated volume presents the ArtLab project, which highlights the intersection of science, art, and the public at the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland. Designed by the renowned Japanese architect Kengo K...
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Lahore: The Historic City The Historic City and Regional Cultural Heritage
ISBN: HB: 9783791358567, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
368 pp., 28x22 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.
The cultural capital of Pakistan, and one of the world's most historically fascinating cities – Lahore – has retained much of its historic heritage despite centuries of turbulence. Today it remains a vibrant epicenter of commercial and cultural activ...
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Pierre Koenig A View from the Archive
ISBN: HB: 9781606065778, Getty Publications, February 2019
320 pp., 28x25.4 cm, illus.
In this remarkable and gorgeously illustrated book, Neil Jackson presents a vibrant profile of the Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, who Time magazine said lived long enough to become "cool twice". From the influences of Koenig's youth in San Fran...
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What is Landscape?
ISBN: PB: 9788898774999, Bookport, ListLab, December 2018
158 pp., 21x14.5 cm, colour illus.
The contemporary debate on landscape is no longer expressed through the exclusie idiolect of a social class. We are instead confronted with a relentless landscape chatter, which invades every domain of daily life. Human sciences have participated in...
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£20,95
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Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396464, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 40 colour illus.
Often described as "post apocalyptic", the work of Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) responds to the violence and turmoil in the world around her through depictions of anthropomorphic figures that often appear to be dismembered, melted, or dis...
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£6,95
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Cairo Renewing the Historic City
ISBN: HB: 9783791356419, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
304 pp., 28x22 cm, 250 colour illus.
Once a city of verdant gardens and parks, Cairo in the 1980s was severely overcrowded, economically struggling, and many of its inhabitants lived in unsanitary conditions. Historic Cairo, a World Heritage Site centered on the original Fatimid settlem...
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£55,00
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Gardens of Court and Country English Design 1630-1730
ISBN: HB: 9780300222012, Yale University Press, April 2017
416 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
"Gardens of Court and Country" provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that became fashionable later in the 18th century, English...
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Rediscovering Architecture Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory
ISBN: HB: 9780300195750, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 100 colour images, 185 black&white illus.
The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous limestone temples with rough, heavy columns were entirely unlike the classical...
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Twentieth-Century Building Materials History and Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781606063255, Getty Publications, September 2014
352 pp., 24.3x17.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 188 black&white illus.
This is a definitive guide to the materials used in architecture during the past century, as well as tips on building repair and restoration. Over the concluding decades of the 20th-century, the historic preservation community increasingly turned its...
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Norman Foster Works 6
ISBN: HB: 9783791332598, Prestel Publishing, February 2014
580 pp., 30x24 cm, 1000 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.
The sixth volume in a monumental survey of the works of Norman Foster focuses on the years 1996-2009 – and projects towards an exciting future of continued architectural excellence. Winner of the Pritzker Prize and the Praemium Imperiale, Norman Fos...
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