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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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Project Japan, Metabolism Talks…
Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Taschen
ISBN: 3836525089
RRP Price: £34.99
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Back to the future
Visionary architecture in postwar Japan
“Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and des....MORE
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Lost Vanguard
Richard Pare, Jean-Louis Cohen
Monacelli Press
ISBN: 1580931855
RRP Price: £55.00
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The Lost Vanguard documents the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new a....MORE
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Katsura Imperial Villa
Arata Isozaki
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714862541
RRP Price: £29.95
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A detailed history of Katsura, the seventeenth-century Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan, a pivotal work of Japanese architecture, often described as the 'quintessence of Japanese taste'. First revealed to the modern architectural world by Bruno Taut, the great German architect, in the early twentieth....MORE
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CCCP Frédéric Chaubin, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
Frédéric Chaubin
Taschen
ISBN: 3836525194
RRP Price: £34.99
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The beauty of Soviet brutalism
A photographic record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR
Photographer Frédéric Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture. H....MORE
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Ando, Art Edition
Philip Jodidio
Taschen
ISBN: 3836517256
RRP Price: £650.00
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Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Philip Drew calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, an....MORE
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Shigeru Ban
Jodidio, Philip
Taschen
ISBN: 3836507358
RRP Price: £99.99
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Master of Innovation
Every building ever realized by the renowned Japanese master
Shigeru Ban (born Tokyo, 1957) attended SCI-Arc in California and earned his degree at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York. Based in Tokyo and Paris, Ban consistently challenges accepted notions o....MORE
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Katsura - Picturing Modernism in Traditional Architecture
Yasufumi Nakamori
Yale
ISBN: 0300163339
RRP Price: £35.00
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Originally published by Yale University Press in 1960, "Katsura: Tradition and Creation of Japanese Architecture" is the most significant photographic publication about the relationship of modernity and tradition in postwar Japan. Designed by famed Bauhaus graphic artist Herbert Bayer, "Katsura" com....MORE
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Beijing
daab
ISBN: 3866540736
RRP Price: £34.95
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Apart from being one of Asia’s largest metropolises, Beijing is an ultimate visual challenge. The country's growing economy and construction boom has attracted the attention of the world's finest architects eager to create masterworks in this city. The new is rapidly replacing the old in the country....MORE
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Japanese Design
daab
ISBN: 3937718079
RRP Price: £22.50
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Japan embodies the fascinating cross-section of a country endowed with a rich and varied culture, firmly imbued with traditional knowledge, skill and experience. The book features more than 50 projects of about 20 architectural and design studios from all over Japan, presented and divided into categ....MORE
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Indian Design
daab
ISBN: 3937718044
RRP Price: £22.50
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India is diverse, multilayered, and rich in traditions with a past still passing by. Today India is able to maintain a ritualistic link with the heritage of the skilled craftsmanship, the remarkable presence of the past and the modern building process used; a high quality building stone and other tr....MORE
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Chinese Design
daab
ISBN: 3937718346
RRP Price: £22.50
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In this book Chinese Design, we are pleased to introduce a wide array of different architectural projects, and the various designers, architectural ateliers and developers that have made these works come to light. The distribution of the book has been done in three chapters according to the three ma....MORE
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Asia Beyond Growth
Edited by AECOM
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500288607
RRP Price: £19.95
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For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and most of these cities are in Asia.
Here are the challenges – population explosion, pollution, destruction of eco-systems, water shortages, sanitation, inhuman social environments – and here are some of the....MORE
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Young Asian Architects
daab
ISBN: 3937718710
RRP Price: £22.50
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This second volume of a new series about young architects introduces to the projects of 57 young and innovative architects from India to Australia. The book features key architectural works in the form of luscious images and insightful descriptions. An index with contact information of the architect....MORE
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