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The New Modern House: Redefining Functionalism
Jonathan Bell , Ellie Stathaki
Laurence King
ISBN: 1780670257
RRP Price: £19.95
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Modern architecture is a story of movements, styles and genres. But what of the work that remains defiantly unique, refusing to submit to a label? The New Modern House is a comprehensive look at the emerging trend of architecture that favours substance over style, combining functional design and sus....MORE
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Ernst May 1886-1970
Claudia Quiring, Wolfgang Voigt, Peter Cachola Schmal, Eckhard Herrel
Prestel
ISBN: 379135132X
RRP Price: £40.00
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This book provides an overview of the work of Ernst May, one of the outstanding figures of classic modernist architecture.
Exhibition Itinerary:
Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, July 27–November 13, 2011
This catalog accompanies the first exhibition dedicated to the entirety of....MORE
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The Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme
Philip Jodidio
Prestel
ISBN: 3791344064
RRP Price: £50.00
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The extraordinary accomplishments of the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme are celebrated in this generously illustrated volume that includes hundreds of photographs, maps, and drawings along with informative text, offering fascinating insight into the built environment of Muslim societies around t....MORE
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The Story of Renaissance Architecture
Sonia Servida
Prestel
ISBN: 3791345974
RRP Price: £14.99
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Focusing on the Renaissance period, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this style.
Part of an accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features the Renaissance period’s most ....MORE
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The Story of Modern Architecture
Paolo Favole
Prestel
ISBN: 3791346415
RRP Price: £14.99
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Focusing on modern architecture, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this diverse period.
Part of an accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features modern architecture’s mo....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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The Story of Gothic Architecture
Francesca Prina
Prestel
ISBN: 3791345966
RRP Price: £14.99
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Focusing on the Gothic period, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this style.
Part of a new, accessibly written, and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features the Gothic period’s most impor....MORE
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The Story of Baroque Architecture
Daniela Tarabra, Claudia Zanlungo
Prestel
ISBN: 3791345958
RRP Price: £14.99
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Focusing on the Baroque period, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this style.
Part of a new, accessibly written, and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features Baroque’s most important arch....MORE
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Bernini
Howard Hibbard
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140135987
RRP Price: £12.99
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Sculptor and architect, Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in seventeenth-century Italy. He has left his greatest mark on Rome where Papal patronage provided him with enormous architectural commissions. ....MORE
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Handmade Houses & Other Buildings
John May, Consultant Editor Anthony Reid
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050034258X
RRP Price: £14.95
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Architects of the world's great buildings are celebrated, but makers of the more humble ‘vernacular architecture’ are too often anonymous.
This information-packed, visual guide introduces the wealth of local structures worldwide, accompanied by an expert narrative exploring cultural approaches an....MORE
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The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Maurice Howard
Yale
ISBN: 0300135432
RRP Price: £45.00
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The dissolution of the monasteries ravaged England in the 1530s and resulted in the greatest destruction of the built fabric of the country. It was also, however, a time in which many new initiatives emerged. In the following century, former monasteries were adapted to a variety of uses in both publ....MORE
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Arts of the City Victorious
Jonathan M. Bloom
Yale
ISBN: 0300135424
RRP Price: £45.00
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"Arts of the City Victorious" is the first book-length study of the art and architecture of the Fatimids, the Ismaili Shi'i dynasty that ruled in North Africa and Egypt from 909 to 1171. The Fatimids are most famous for founding the city of al-Qahira (whence the name Cairo) in 969, and their art - p....MORE
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Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht
Dieter Arnold
Yale
ISBN: 0300123442
RRP Price: £45.00
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This volume documents twenty-two private tombs of the Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty that were excavated by the Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition from 1906 to 1934 and 1986 to 1989. Focusing on the study and reconstruction of the architecture of the tombs, the book also includes remains of wall deco....MORE
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Elizabethan Architecture
Mark Girouard
Yale
ISBN: 0300093861
RRP Price: £45.00
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Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture - not the friendly, unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the great and powerful, ranging from huge houses to gem-like pavilions and lodges designed for feasting and hunting - is a phenomenon as remar....MORE
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Building-in-time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion
Marvin Trachtenberg
Yale
ISBN: 0300165927
RRP Price: £45.00
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This grand, ambitious book is about a way of building that for centuries dominated the making of monumental architecture - yet now not only is it lost as practice, but knowledge of its very existence is also lost. In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, bric....MORE
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