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Eileen Gray, Designer and Architect
ISBN: HB: 9780300251067, Yale University Press, February 2020
430 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome volume chronicles Gray's career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The bo...
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Sarnath A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began
ISBN: PB: 9781606066164, Getty Publications, February 2020
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (...
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Story of New York's Staircase
ISBN: PB: 9783791384733, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus.
A public space like no other, Vessel was designed by the renowned Heatherwick Studio to give New Yorkers and visitors a unique vertical experience. In this book, readers can witness every part of its development, from initial designs to the finished...
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Urban Improvise Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities
ISBN: HB: 9780300243048, Yale University Press, February 2020
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
The built environment in today's hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human activity into spaces that have a more fluid behavior. Based o...
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Chicago Apartments A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury
ISBN: HB: 9780226610870, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 344 duotones
The Chicago lakefront is one of America's urban wonders. The ribbon of high-rise luxury apartment buildings along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained architectural significance. This historic confluence of site, m...
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£68,00
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Mutation and Morphosis Landscape as Aggregate
ISBN: PB: 9783037786185, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2020
700 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1100 colour and black&white illus.
Anyone viewing what we call a ''landscape'' from a distance will recognize that it is an artifact, a habitat created by humans as part of our built environment. Designing this realm carefully is a discipline that is taking on increasing importance to...
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Tatiana Bilbao The Architect's Studio
ISBN: HB: 9783037786178, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
The third volume of the series "The Architect's Studio" focuses on Tatiana Bilbao's exploration of the landscape: from the territory of Mexico over the urban to the interior landscape of the individual building, always taking social conditions into a...
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Return to the Source New Energy Landscapes from the Land Art Generator Initiative Abu Dhabi
ISBN: HB: 9783791359380, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 300 colour illus.
The Land Art Generator Initiative is one of the world's most exciting design competitions and for its 2019 challenge, entrants from around the world were asked to create a renewable energy-producing artwork for the UAE's Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. The...
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Patch Atlas Integrating Design Practices and Ecological Knowledge for Cities as Complex Systems
ISBN: PB: 9780300239935, Yale University Press, January 2020
128 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 104 colour illus.
Using a new, hybrid approach to urban land cover classification as an impetus to bring ecologists and urban designers together, this atlas is a unique conceptual tool to describe and analyze cities as complex systems. It brings together over a decade...
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Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leadi
ISBN: HB: 9781606066249, Getty Publications, January 2020
368 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Baron Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzuglichsten Voelker in...
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£65,00
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