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Architecture
Developing Expertise Architecture and Real Estate in Metropolitan America
Stevens Sara
ISBN: HB: 9780300209938, Yale University Press, November 2016
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 163 black&white illus.
Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decline of downtowns and the rise of suburbs into separate tales, Sara Stevens uses the figure of the real e...
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Pevsner Architectural Guides
Derbyshire The Buildings of England
Hartwell Clare, Pevsner Nikolaus, Williamson Elizabeth
ISBN: HB: 9780300215595, Yale University Press, May 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
This is the essential guide to the architecture of Pevsner's "county of contrasts", home to an amazingly diverse assortment of landmarks. Among Derbyshire's many distinguished country houses are Haddon Hall and Hardwick Hall. 17th-century highlights...
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Design for Eternity Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas
Pillsbury Joanne, Sarro Patricia, Doyle James, Wiersema Juliet
ISBN: PB: 9781588395764, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
160 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.
From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural effigies to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic,...
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Durability in Construction Rebuilding Traditions in 21st Century Architecture
Economakis Richard
ISBN: PB: 9781906506551, GMC Group, Papadakis, May 2015
224 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, colour illus.
For centuries the idea of durability was central to the practice of architecture. It went without saying that a building should be made to last as long as possible, with materials and techniques chosen toward this end. Today ephemeral, short term con...
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David Adjaye Form, Heft, Material
Ryan Zoe, Enwezor Okwui, Allison Peter, Adjaye David, Phillips Andrea, Wilson Mabel O.
ISBN: PB: 9780300207750, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
296 pp., 25.1x18.1 cm, 181 colour illus., 58 black&white illus.
Born in Tanzania, David Adjaye (b. 1966) is rapidly emerging as a major international figure in architecture and design-and this stunning catalogue serves only to cement his role as one of the most important architects of our time. His expanding port...
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Durham Cathedral History, Fabric and Culture
Brown David
ISBN: HB: 9780300208184, Yale University Press, October 2014
544 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
For over a millennium Durham has occupied a central place in English religious history, with its Norman rebuilding (1093-1133) marking it as an internationally significant masterpiece in the history of architecture. Its setting, perched on a peninsul...
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Landscape Architecture
Dan Graham The Roof Garden Commission
Alteveer Ian, Wagstaff Sheena
ISBN: MIX MEDIA: 9780300208757, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2014
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 60 colour illus.
The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham has examined the symbiosis between architectural environments and...
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Don't Brand My Public Space!
Baur Ruedi, Thiery Sebastien
ISBN: PB: 9783037783481, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1669 illus.
"Don't Brand My Public Space!" is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces. Isn't it about time to look at their often banal images as part of a crisis of political representation? In the conte...
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Architecture
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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Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architecture after Images
Dimendberg Edward
ISBN: HB: 9780226151816, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
248 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 31 halftones
In "Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images", Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofi...
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