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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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Writings of Josep Lluis Sert

Mumford Eric, Sert Josep Lluis, Mostafavi Mohsen

ISBN: HB: 9780300207392, Yale University Press, February 2015
184 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 75 black&white illus.

Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983) was the last president of CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, where he founded the discipline of urban design. His writings offer a n...

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Modern Architecture Symposia, 1962-1966 A Critical Edition

Bletter Rosemarie Haag, Ockman Joan, Eklund Nancy

ISBN: HB: 9780300209952, Yale University Press, February 2015
340 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 123 black&white illus.

In a series of three symposia at Columbia University in the 1960s, leading scholars and critics gathered to re-examine the architecture of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s and assess its scope and significance anew. Chaired by Henry-Russell Hitchcock with...

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Rediscovering Architecture Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory

Jong Sigrid De

ISBN: HB: 9780300195750, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 100 colour images, 185 black&white illus.

The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous limestone temples with rough, heavy columns were entirely unlike the classical...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Somerset: South and West Buildings of England

Orbach Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780300207408, Yale University Press, November 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 70 black&white illus.

This expertly revised and enlarged survey is the perfect architectural companion to one of England's most beautiful regions. From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor and the Mendips, the Somerset landscape in enriched by buildings of outstandin...

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Landscape Architecture

Rich Spot of Earth Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello

Hatch Peter J., Waters Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300208627, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 201 illus.

Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favoured are thriving. Extensively and painstakingly restored under...

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Architecture

City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Bussard Katherine A., Fisher Alison, Foster-Rice Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780300207859, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...

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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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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Cambridgeshire Buildings of England

Bradley Simon, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300205961, Yale University Press, October 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years. Half of the book is devoted to the famous University city, with its astonishingly rich and varied inheritance of college buildings...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough Buildings of England

O'Brien Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300208214, Yale University Press, September 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Bedfordshire is one of the smallest English counties but encompasses a great variety in landscape and architecture. Its major monument is Woburn Abbey, one of the finest Georgian country houses in England, and the influence of the estate is widely fe...

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