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Atlantikwall as Military Archaeological Landscape

Bassanelli Michela, Postiglione Gennaro

ISBN: PB: 9788862422635, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2017
188 pp., 22x17.1 cm, illustrations throughout

Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the 'Conflict archaeological landscape' cut...

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Architecture

Photography

Concrete Lines The Model as a Way to See

Mayr Kuno

ISBN: PB: 9788862422284, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, September 2017
72 pp., 22x22 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

The Architect Kuno Mayr has developed a way of working on reality in which the rigorousness of his process manifests itself first in the model. Through a long and laborious procedure, overlooked things are saved from abandonment and neglect so as to...

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Architecture

Explorations in the Middle-Class City

ISBN: HB: 9788862421584, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, August 2017
160 pp., 22x17 cm

The book looks at the residential buildings erected in Turin for the middle classes in the decades after World War II: a period marked by a remarkable urban growth in which a signi cant part of newly produced housing was aimed at social groups lookin...

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Architecture

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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Design

100 Logos The Power of the Symbol

Milani Armando

ISBN: PB: 9788862422505, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2017
120 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The book is a collection of 100 logos designed between 1965 and 2017 by one of the world renowned italian graphic designer, Armando Milani.

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Posters

Design

100 Posters From the Eye to the Heart

Milani Armando

ISBN: PB: 9788862422499, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2017
128 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The book is a collection of 100 posters designed between 1967 and 2017 by one of the world renowned italian graphic designer, Armando Milani.

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Architecture

Architecture and Light Basic Principles for Designing with Daylight

Capanni Fabio

ISBN: PB: 9788862422154, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, April 2017
80 pp., 16.5x12 cm, colour illus.

Light is the soul of space, a breath that runs through it and gives it life. It chases the shadows relentlessly in a ritual that makes the passing of time visible. Architecture is, above all else, the implementation of this ritual, which ignites the...

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Architecture

Japanese Contemporary House Small Anthology of Floating Spaces

Sordelli Alice, Zanoni Elena

ISBN: PB: 9788862421591, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, February 2017
144 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

Five essays about the contemporary Japanese house illustrated by a selection of designs by young architects. The domestic space becomes a symbol of the ability to adapt to new cultural and technological patterns. The designers provide brilliant medit...

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Architecture

Dr. Corbellini's Pills Tips for Architecture Beginners

Corbellini Giovanni

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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