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Drawing Analogies Graphic Manual of Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423311, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
120 pp., 22x22 cm
Drawing analogies proposes an innovative way of drawing by means of which we can go from observing an existing architectural model to a design idea inspired by the same model. Using exclusively free hand drawing, the author presents a series of cases...
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£17,99
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Dross City: Urban Metabolism Resilence and Drosscapes Recycling Project
ISBN: PB: 9788899854195, Bookport, ListLab, July 2020
334 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus.
Dross is waste: solid impurities that form on the surface of the smelting pot. While most is thrown away, some is reusable or recyclable. Hence 'DrossScape', a term conceived by land economist Alan Berger. Working off Berger's theories, this book exp...
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£23,50
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Dialogues on Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423724, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, February 2020
352 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 84 colour and black&white illus.
In this book, a number of protagonists of Italian modern architecture provide vivid dialogues – here taken to mean 'the talking of the soul with itself' – on how they perceive the interaction between idea, design and construction. Drawing on these pe...
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£24,99
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Design for the Crowd Patriotism and Protest in Union Square
ISBN: HB: 9780226080826, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 43 halftones
Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originally designed in 1830 to beautify a residential neighbo...
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£27,00
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Data from Nature Nature, Digitisation and Design
ISBN: PB: 9788832080025, Bookport, ListLab, July 2019
224 pp., 23x16 cm, colour illus.
A fascinating exploration of exquisite images captured from natural materials, and of their applications in fashion, environmental design, and apps that anticipate a new era of digitally-driven individual creativity. "Data From Nature" begins with th...
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£45,00
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Discovering Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9781787080287, GMC Group, Button Books, April 2019
48 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.
Who built the first houses? What's the difference between an arch and an architrave? How does a dome stay up? Who invented concrete? Can you build a house from paper? If you want to know more about the buildings around you, this entertaining illustra...
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£12,99
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Dorset Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300224788, Yale University Press, May 2018
864 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 128 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
Fully revised, updated, and expanded, this book offers a fresh and comprehensive account of the buildings of Dorset, one of England's best-loved and most beautiful counties. With its wonderful variety of building stones, Dorset offers visual pleasure...
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£60,00
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Designing the Modern City Urbanism Since 1850
ISBN: HB: 9780300207729, Yale University Press, May 2018
360 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 black&white illus.
Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in th...
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£30,00
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Drawing after Architecture Renaissance Architectural Drawings and their Reception
ISBN: PB: 9788831726740, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2018
288 pp., 24.9x20.3 cm, 185 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Why did early modern architects continue copying drawings long after the invention of print should have made such copying obsolete? Carolyn Yerkes answers that question in a fresh investigation into the status of architectu...
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£35,00
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Dr. Corbellini's Pills Tips for Architecture Beginners
ISBN: PB: 9788862422086, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, January 2017
80 pp., 18x12 cm, illus
Architecture is doomed to a permanent process of reinvention, which produces constitutionally partial, transient and questionable truths. Much of its charm lies precisely in its instability, which insists we explore it and, at the same time, makes it...
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£11,99
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