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Wooden Houses in Pure Nature
ISBN: HB: 9788417557003, GMC Group, Monsa, March 2019
144 pp., 17x23 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! The new criteria for sustainable housing planning benefit from an inexhaustible source of ideas, based on wood due to its versatility. The variety of finishes and the fact that it is easy to recycle, facilitate t...
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£19,99
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Lina Bo Bardi
ISBN: PB: 9780300244229, Yale University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 81 colour illus., 95 black&white illus.
One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil in 19...
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£30,00
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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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Best Highrises 2018/19 The International Highrise Award 2018
ISBN: PB: 9783791358314, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
144 pp., 27x21 cm, 230 colour illus.
The International Highrise Award celebrates architectural excellence in buildings that integrate sustainability, design, and community interaction. Bestowed biennially by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), DekaBank, and the City of Frankfurt, the...
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£29,99
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From Stone to Paper Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300233179, Yale University Press, February 2019
232 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 97 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.
By the 18th century, the Mughal Empire was well beyond its so-called golden age. Its control of the Indian subcontinent was increasingly threatened by regional Indian states, as well as by the encroaching British Empire. In response to a rapidly chan...
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£50,00
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Open Hand Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh
ISBN: HB: 9781947359031, DAP, August Editions, February 2019
92 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 45 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Le Corbusier's Capitol Complex at Chandigarh, India, remains one of the major touchstones of 20th-century architecture. Commissioned by the government of India after gaining independence, the complex of brutalist concrete s...
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£45,00
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Transitional Moments Marcel Breuer, W. C. Vaughan & Co. and the Bauhaus in America
ISBN: HB: 9780985995867, DAP, August Editions, February 2019
144 pp., 27.2x29.7 cm, 85 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Architect Marcel Breuer's "House in the Museum Garden", now considered one of the most influential architecture exhibitions of the 20th century, was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and built in their garden in 1949...
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Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986
ISBN: HB: 9781606065815, Getty Publications, January 2019
208 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illus.
Arthur Drexler (1921-1987) served as the curator and director of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from 1951 until 1986-the longest curatorship in the museum's history. Over four decades he conceived and oversa...
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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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Smart Landscape Architecture of the "Micro Smart Grid" as a Resilience Strategy for Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788898774524, Bookport, ListLab, December 2018
160 pp., 23.9x21.1 cm, colour illus.
Renewable energies have an important role in today's changing landscapes. This research analyses the current transition to sustainable energy from the architectural landscape point of view.
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£12,95
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