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Powys Buildings of Wales

Scourfield Robert, Haslam Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300185089, Yale University Press, November 2013
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The historic counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire are described in this final volume of the Buildings of Wales series, expanded and revised from the first edition of 1979. Prehistoric hill-forts and standing stones, Roman encampme...

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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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Ecology

Peaceful Journey Original Ecology Hotel

ISBN: HB: 9789881683410, Bookport, SendPoints, October 2012
320 pp., 29x24 cm, colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! Original ecology hotels are devoted to be green, ecological and comfortable and bring concrete jungle inhabitants back to the peace of nature, through the composition of space, architectural shapes and the color of the déc...

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Private Palladio

Palladio Andrea

ISBN: HB: 9783037782996, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
120 pp., 20.4x10.8 cm, 50 illus.

Andrea Palladio's Renaissance villa architecture is still admired for its elegance and harmony, but little is known about the person behind the buildings. Experienced Palladio researcher Guido Beltramini has worked meticulously on material from histo...

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Landscape Architecture

Planting Paradise Cultivating the Garden

Harris Stephen A.

ISBN: HB: 9781851243433, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2010
176 pp., 25x25 cm, 51 colour illus.

An astonishing 430,000 green plant species and 350,000 flowering plant species have been identified since the early sixteenth century. According to Stephen Harris, author of "Planting Paradise", "these figures reflect the exploration, the accumulatio...

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Patterns and Structure Selected Writings 1973-2008

Nordenson Guy

ISBN: PB: 9783037782194, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2010
464 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 218 illus.

This rich collection of writings and criticisms by structural engineer and Princeton University professor Guy Nordenson, brings together previously published essays on structural engineering, architecture, design, and seismic research from 1973 to 20...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Perth and Kinross Buildings of Scotland

Gifford John

ISBN: HB: 9780300109221, Yale University Press, March 2007
640 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Perth and Kinross, at the geographical heart of Scotland, contain buildings which range from the remains of a Roman line of forts and watch towers (the fort at Ardoch, of the first and second centuries, is one of the best preserved and least known of...

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Plants in the Getty's Central Garden

Duggan Jim, Irwin Robert, Cohen Becky

ISBN: PB: 9780892367146, Getty Publications, March 2006
164 pp., 22.5x14.1 cm, 373 colour illus.

"Plants in the Getty's Central Garden" is Jim Duggan's sequel to the book Robert Irwin Getty Garden, Lawrence Weschler's account of the making of the Central Garden at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Designed by contemporary artist Robert Irwin, thi...

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Pembrokeshire Buildings of Wales

Lloyd Thomas, Orbach Julian, Scourfield Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300101782, Yale University Press, March 2004
536 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 64 colour illus.

This authoritative guide to the southwest corner of Wales by three local experts encompasses a wide sweep of history, from the rugged prehistoric remains that stud the distinctive windswept landscape overlooking the Atlantic to distinguished 20th-cen...

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Principles of Roman Architecture

Wilson Jones Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300102024, Yale University Press, November 2003
282 pp., 28.5x20.5 cm, 245 black&white illus., 39 colour illus.

Mark Wilson Jones explores how the architects of ancient Rome approached design. Drawing on new archaeological discoveries and his own analyses of Roman monuments, the author discusses how the ancient architects dealt with the principles of architect...

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