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Ove Arup A Philosophy of Design
Nigel Tonks
Prestel
ISBN: 3791347314
RRP Price: £24.99
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Featuring a number of essays published for the first time, this collection of writings by the inspirational structural engineer Ove Arup provides valuable insight into one of the greatest minds the field has witnessed.
The founder of the eponymous engineering firm, which continues to realize semi....MORE
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Gaudí Pop-Ups
Courtney Watson McCarthy
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500516502
RRP Price: £19.95
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For over a century the fantastical works of the Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudí have enraptured visitors to the city of Barcelona. Gaudí’s creations reflected his abiding passion for nature and religion, as well as his meticulous attention to detail. Perhaps no other architect has become....MORE
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Continuum: Farrells 2001-2011, Work of The Hong Kong & London Offices
Terry Farrell
Laurence King
ISBN: 1856698440
RRP Price: £50.00
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Terry Farrell is one of the world's leading urban designers and one of Britain’s foremost architects. He has worked on high-profile building schemes and masterplans in cities as diverse as Seattle, London and Seoul. This book focuses on the work of his practice from the last 10 years.
The book in....MORE
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Kengo Kuma
Kenneth Frampton
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342830
RRP Price: £39.95
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The quintessential Japanese architect of today, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines his country’s traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials.
From his iconic Glass House to Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum, this complete record of Kuma....MORE
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Architect
Ruth Peltason , Grace Ong-Yan
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342652
RRP Price: £28.00
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27.80 x 24.10 cm
PLC (with jacket)
376pp
706 Illustrations, 603 in colour
First published 2010
£28.00
The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for architecture. Awarded annually to a living architect by an independent jury of experts, its purpose i....MORE
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Adjaye · Africa · Architecture
David Adjaye, Peter Allison
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050028914X
RRP Price: £65.00
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A beautifully produced 7-volume slipcased survey of Africa's architecture: One of the most original and important architectural publications of our timeAdjaye - Africa - Architecture
David Adjaye is one of the world’s most exciting and accomplished architects, and has built many highly acclaimed ....MORE
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Richard Meier
Kenneth Frampton
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750048
RRP Price: £35.00
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Richard Meier (b.1934) is one of America’s most distinguished architects and the winner in 1984 of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.
This detailed monograph is a comprehensive study of his work from 1965-2002 and covers 90 of his buildings including his best-known Getty Center in Los A....MORE
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Michelangelo
Giulio Carlo Argan, Bruno Contardi, photographs by Gabriele Basilico
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750056
RRP Price: £29.95
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Michelangelo (1475–1564), one of the great artistic figures of the Renaissance, is best known as a sculptor and painter. However he was also an important and highly original architect despite asserting that architecture was not his profession.
This comprehensive study examines the complex story o....MORE
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Eduardo Souto de Moura
Antonio Esposito, Giovanni Leoni
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750072
RRP Price: £59.95
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Eduardo Souto de Moura (b 1952) has long been one of Portugal’s leading architects but gained wider international recognition when he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011. Born in Porto, he collaborated with the much-respected Alvaro Siza from 1974 to 1979 before establishing his own architec....MORE
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Filippo Brunelleschi
Eugenio Battisti
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750013
RRP Price: £29.95
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Comprehensive study of the major Florentine architect and sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446)
Contains all Brunelleschi’s major architectural works in Florence including the Foundling Hospital (c.1419–45), the Pazzi Chapel (c.1441–60) and the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore (c.1420–36)
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ARCHI-TECTONICS
Winka Dubbeldam
daab
ISBN: 3942597004
RRP Price: £22.50
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With her progressive architectural office Archi-Tectonics, Winka Dubbeldam has advanced to the very top of the New York architecture scene. Her innovative projects are grounded within the context of urban planning, society and technology and attest to a unique interplay of materials and methods. Thi....MORE
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Ai WEIWEI ARCHITECTURE
Caroline Klein
daab
ISBN: 3942597012
RRP Price: £22.50
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Ai Weiwei is undoubtedly one of the most significant Chinese artists of our time. He works as an architect, an independent curator, a conceptual artist and is the founder of the "China Art Warehouse" gallery. His work, in part politically motivated, is strongly influenced by Dadaism and the New York....MORE
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Wilford Stirling Wilford
Michael Wilford and Partners
Routledge
ISBN: 1901050009
RRP Price: £55.00
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Over a period of 30 years the partnership of James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates became one of the most renowned international architectural practices. This partnership ended with the death of Sir James Stirling in 1992. This book traces the evolution of that partnership into the current p....MORE
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Wilford Stirling Wilford
Michael Wilford and Partners
Routledge
ISBN: 1901050009
RRP Price: £55.00
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Over a period of 30 years the partnership of James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates became one of the most renowned international architectural practices. This partnership ended with the death of Sir James Stirling in 1992. This book traces the evolution of that partnership into the current p....MORE
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan
Kevin Nute
Routledge
ISBN: 0415232694
RRP Price: £50.00
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This book is the first thorough account of Frank Lloyd Wright's relationship with Japan and its arts. It presents significant new information on the nature and extent of Wright's formal and philosophical debt to Japanese art and architecture. Eight primary channels of influence are examined in detai....MORE
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