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Tropical Toolbox Fry and Drew and the Search for an African Modernity

Galli Jacopo

ISBN: PB: 9788862423687, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2019
220 pp., 20x14.5 cm, 140 colour and black&white illus.

Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew are two key figures of British architecture from the second half of the twentieth century. Their most important work was the book ''Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones'', a manual compiled from experience...

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A4A Architecture for Animals

Ghisoni Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9788862421157, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2017
192 pp., 22x17 cm, illustrations throughout

This book is a concise selection of twenty buildings designed to shelter animals. While being examples of contemporary architecture they also clearly illustrate the evolution of our relationship with animals. Man has always exploited and tamed animal...

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Imre Makovecz and the Hungarian Organic Architecture

Giustra Martina

ISBN: PB: 9788862421423, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2014
160 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

The first time I met Makovecz, he drew me a map of Hungary, marking the most significant places through which I could get closer to his work. With the promise that I would return, we said goodbye. From this map, my research began.

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House Between Two Pine Trees

Gambardella Cherubino

ISBN: PB: 9788862421003, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, November 2013
120 pp., 22.6x17.3 cm, colour photos

A book about a house and a Mediterranean myth. A theory illustrated by a constellation of examples that predate and follow the white ceramic architecture between two ancient pine trees.

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