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Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove Buildings of England

Antram Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300184730, Yale University Press, May 2013
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The "East Sussex" volume of "The Buildings of England" covers an area ranging from the High Weald in the north of the county to the massive ridge of the South Downs and the resort towns and ancient ports of the coast. Its coastal resorts are particul...

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Chicago's Historic Hyde Park

O'Connor Davis Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780226138145, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
528 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 343 halftones, 11 line illus.

Stretching south from 47th Street to the Midway Plaisance and east from Washington Park to the lake's shore, the historic neighborhood of Hyde Park – Kenwood covers nearly two square miles of Chicago's south side. At one time a wealthy township outsi...

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Imperial Gothic Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870

Bremner G. A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300187038, Yale University Press, April 2013
384 pp., 28x23 cm, 60 colour images, 230 black&white illus.

The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with 18th – and 19th – century British cultural politics. By the middle of the 19th century, architects and theorists had transformed the movement into a serious scholarly endeavour,...

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Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror The City in Thepru, Photography and Film

Stierli Martino

ISBN: PB: 9781606061374, Getty Publications, April 2013
352 pp., 25.6x17.1 cm, 136 colour illus., 88 black&white illus.

This is an intelligent and superbly illustrated reevaluation of the seminal architectural manifesto Learning from Las Vegas. Learning from Las Vegas – published in 1972 by the American architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour...

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Ham House Four Hundred Years of Collecting and Patronage

Rowell Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300185409, Yale University Press, April 2013
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Built in 1610 during the reign of James I and remodeled in 1637-1639 by the future first Earl of Dysart, "Ham House" and its gardens have endured through centuries of English history while remaining representative of the styles and culture of the ori...

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South Ulster, the Counties of Armagh, Cavan, and Monaghan Buildings of Ireland

Mulligan Kevin V.

ISBN: HB: 9780300186017, Yale University Press, April 2013
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The newest volume in the "Buildings of Ireland" series covers the inland counties of Cavan, Monaghan, and Armagh, an area stretching from the thinly populated uplands around the Cuilcagh Mountains and the cradle of the Shannon to the fertile Blackwat...

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Culture:City

Wang Wilfried

ISBN: HB: 9783037783351, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2013
232 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 406 illus.

Since the late 1990s cultural icons have been built in numerous cities throughout the world in order to court the attention of potential visitors in a globally competitive market. The book "Culture:City" analyzes this phenomenon from the point of vie...

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Display Didactics for a Relational Architecture

Navarra Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788862420761, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, April 2013
320 pp., 22x17 cm, illus.

The sixteen didactic exhibitions illustrated in this book are a meditation on display, a design workshop's nal exercise. Installing a display is an acceleration of the ongoing labour of architecture that stimulates "collaborative doing and thinking"....

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Purging the Poorest Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

Vale Lawrence J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012452, ISBN: HB: 9780226012315, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 63 halftones, 6 line illus.

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In "Purging the Poorest", Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle t...

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Overdrive L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990

Wit Wim de, Alexander Christopher James

ISBN: HB: 9781606061282, Getty Publications, March 2013
320 pp., 27.2x25.6 cm, 112 colour illus., 98 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating and intelligently illustrated study of architectural innovation in Los Angeles. From 1940 to 1990, Los Angeles rapidly evolved into one of the most populous and influential industrial, economic, and creative capitals in the worl...

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