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Ecology

Eco-Architecture 1000 Ideas by 100 Architects

Serrats Marta

ISBN: HB: 9788492810451, Hoaki, July 2012
320 pp., 23.4x23.4 cm, richly illustrated

100 architects, international experts in sustainable architecture, present the basis of what should be taken for truly ecological architecture through the analysis of their work. This is an inspirational book suitable for everyone who is interested i...

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Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument

Strehlke Carl Brandon

ISBN: HB: 9780300135893, Yale University Press, April 2012
416 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 145 colour images, 176 black&white illus.

This far-ranging collection of essays – the first book-length scholarly exploration of Orsanmichele since 1996 – marks the conclusion of a decades-long campaign to restore the magnificent medieval church and its art, most notably Orsanmichele's celeb...

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Architecture

Sauerbruch Hutton Colour in Architecture

Sauerbruch Matthias, Hutton Louisa

ISBN: HB: 9783942405386, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
288 pp., 32x23.5 cm, 160 colour illus., language: English / German

Sauerbruch Hutton are unique among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours...

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Architecture

Carson Pirie Scott Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store

Siry Joseph M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226761374, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
298 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 132 halftones

Long recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. The last large commercial structure designed by Louis Sullivan, the Carson building reflected the culmination of th...

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Architecture

Tradition and Invention in Architecture Conversations and Essays

Stern Robert A. M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181159, Yale University Press, January 2012
208 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 123 black&white illus.

Among practising architects today, perhaps only Robert A. M. Stern once contemplated a career as a historian, an interest that has informed both his built work and his writings. "Tradition and Invention in Architecture" brings together 26 of Stern's...

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Beth Sholom Synagogue Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture

Siry Joseph M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226761404, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
736 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 295 halftones, 10 colour illus.

In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and among his finest religious buildings. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007, Beth Sholom was one of Wright's last completed project...

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Literary Criticism

Architecture

Unpacking My Library Architects and Their Books

Steffens Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780300158939, Yale University Press, November 2009
208 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 284 colour images, 24 black&white illus.

What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? "Unpacking...

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Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism Collected Essays, 1964-1988

Stern Robert A. M., Davidson Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9780300153972, Yale University Press, October 2009
208 pp., 26x19.9 cm, 89 black&white illus.

Robert A. M. Stern is one of contemporary architecture's most influential figures, with a career encompassing every facet of the profession: he has a flourishing private practice; he is a noted authority on New York architectural history; his own arc...

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Design

Architect and Engineer A Study in Sibling Rivalry

Saint Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300124439, Yale University Press, February 2008
480 pp., 28x23 cm, 260 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

How architects and engineers relate to one another has long been debated but never before addressed over a broad span of history. There are many controversial issues: about professional demarcation, about credit for design, about the value we attach...

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Architecture

Architecture of Aftermath

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780226764696, ISBN: HB: 9780226764689, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
280 pp., 25.2x17.5 cm, 58 halftones

The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power". In "The Architecture of Aftermath", Terry Smith argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings: architecture...

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