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Jean Prouve Ferembal Demountable House
ISBN: HB: 9782909187105, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! The Ateliers Jean Prouve built the structure housing the Ferembal offices in Nancy in 1948. At the request of the Galerie Patrick Seguin, in 2010, architect Jean Nouvel undertook a thoroughgoing "adaptation" of the Prouve b...
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Jean Prouve Maison Demontable 6x6 Demountable House
ISBN: HB: 9782909187082, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! This is the revised edition of Patrick Seguin's 2013 volume on Jean Prouve's Maison Demontable 6x6 Demountable House. It includes new images and layout. At the end of the Second World War, Prouve began designing temporary h...
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Jean Prouve Maison Demontable 8x8 Demountable House
ISBN: HB: 9782909187099, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! This revised edition of Patrick Seguin's 2013 volume on Jean Prouve's Maison Demontable 8x8 Demountable House includes new images and layout. In 1938, continuing his research into demountable houses, Prouve came up with the...
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Jean Prouve Filling Station
ISBN: HB: 9782909187112, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! In 1969, the French oil company Total began implementing a mass-production model for its gas stations – large ones for France's freeways, and the smaller roadside units. The company called in Jean Prouve, who had already am...
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Jean Prouve 5 Volume Box Set
ISBN: HB: 9782909187136, DAP, Galerie Patrick Seguin, May 2015
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! This limited-edition boxed set compiles all five of Galerie Patrick Seguin's volumes on the "demontable" architecture of Jean Prouve: the revised editions of 6x6 and 8x8, plus three new monographs on the BCC Demountable Hou...
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£210,00
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Banteay Chhmar Garrison Temple of the Khmer Empire
ISBN: PB: 9786167339207, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2015
192 pp., 23.6x17.2 cm, illustrations throughout
Banteay Chhmar is the second monument of ancient Cambodia's greatest king, Jayavarman VII. This temple, built in the late 12th-Century by one of Cambodia's most original stone carving and architectural workshops, lay in ruins for almost a thousand ye...
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£19,95
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Young-Old Urban Utopias of an Aging Society
ISBN: HB: 9783037783504, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2015
576 pp., 24x17 cm, 270 illus.
"Young-Old" examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations of our time: aging populations. Distinguishing between different phases of old age, the book identifi...
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£35,00
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Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart Reader
ISBN: HB: 9780226203003, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 64 colour plates, 48 line drawings
German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) died nearly a century ago, but his influence is still being felt today. Considered by some a mad eccentric and by others a visionary political thinker in his own time, he is now experien...
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£30,00
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New Portable Architecture Designing Mobile and Temporary Structures
ISBN: HB: 9788415967231, Hoaki, September 2014
240 pp., 28.5x21 cm, richly illustrated
We live in a moving world, and so does our architecture. This title deals with the challenges that architects and designers face in creating spaces that can be rapidly constructed, taken down and even relocated. In revealing the cutting-edge techniqu...
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£39,99
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Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India
ISBN: HB: 9780300198447, Yale University Press, July 2014
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 colour images, 150 black&white illus.
This pioneering book is the first full-length study of the matha, or Hindu monastery, which developed in India at the turn of the first millennium. Rendered monumentally in stone, the matha represented more than just an architectural innovation: it s...
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£55,00
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