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Automatic Architecture Motivating Form after Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780226496498, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 53 halftones, 15 line drawings
In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor,...
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£34,00
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Bauhaus Travel Book
ISBN: HB: 9783791382531, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
304 pp., 23x13.5 cm, 122 black&white illus.
A comprehensive travel guide dedicated to Germany's Bauhaus architecture, this book takes an in-depth look at over 100 locations that can still be visited today. Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the wor...
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£19,99
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Your Private Sky R. Buckminster Fuller Diskurs
ISBN: HB: 9783037785249, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2017
336 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 80 illus.
Discourse uses numerous text by Buckminster Fuller to give an insight into his architectural, technical and philosophical visions.
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£32,00
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50 Architects You Should Know New Edition
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383408, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, colour illus.
Now available in a new edition, this introduction to fifty visionary architects traces the major aesthetic movements over the past six centuries and offers concise portraits of the geniuses behind them. Starting with the Renaissance, this accessible...
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£14,99
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Georgii Krutikov The Flying City and Beyond
ISBN: PB: 9788493923181, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, October 2015
160 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 90 line drawings
In 1927, while a student of architecture at the Moscow Vhutemas, Georgii Krutikov presented a vision for a flying city. More than just a flight of architectural fancy, Krutikov's flying city was a utopian dream, a plan to solve the seemingly intracta...
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£19,50
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Chatter Architecture Talks Back
ISBN: PB: 9780300210637, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2015
88 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm, 85 colour illus.
A bold, theoretical look at an emerging generation of architects, this volume is devoted to five contemporary architects-Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder, and John Szot Studio-and the diverse meth...
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£12,99
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House as Open Form: The Hansens' Summer Residence in Szumin Dom jako Forma Otwarta. Szumin Hansenow
ISBN: PB: 9788364177149, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2014
200 pp., 27.1x19.8 cm, 120 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! This beautifully illustrated volume offers a photographic tour of the iconic house of Polish architect couple: Oskar Hansen, member of Team 10, and his wife, Zofia. Located in Szumin in central Poland and designed in 1968, t...
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£22,50
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Fundamentals 14th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia
ISBN: PB: 9788831718691, DAP, Marsilio Editori, August 2014
348 pp., 24.7x19.6 cm, 735 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The official Biennale catalogue – a global overview of architecture of the last one hundred years. The emphasis of the 2014 Biennale is on architectural history. Each country is asked to narrate its history over the last on...
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£90,00
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Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism On Open Form Architecture, Art and Didactics
ISBN: PB: 9788364177057, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2014
350 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 100 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! Following an international conference organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, "Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism" analyzes diverse aspects of the architectural, theoretical, and didactical oeuvre of Oskar Han...
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£22,00
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Stretching Thoughts
ISBN: HB: 9781861543417, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, February 2014
304 pp., 21x15 cm, fully Illustrated
Lebanese artist and architect Nadim Karam is renowned for his public art and work in urban regeneration and his interventions have been seen in cities as diverse as Melbourne, Prague, Dubai, Beirut, London and Nara, Japan. These interventions often t...
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