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Understanding Architecture
Robert McCarther, Juhani Pallasmaa
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714848093
RRP Price: £49.95 Hardback
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A new way of reading and understanding architecture
A personal tour of 72 significant buildings from the Pyramids and the Pantheon to the Sydney Opera House
Accessible text and images enable readers to experience the buildings as if they were visiting them
Each building is presented with a ....MORE
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20th-Century World Architecture
Phaidon Editors
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714857068
RRP Price: £125.00 Hardback
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Over 750 of the most outstanding works of architecture built between 1900 and 1999
20th-Century World Architecture portrays, for the first time, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999. The unprecedented global scope of this collection of....MORE
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Eduardo Souto de Moura
Antonio Esposito, Giovanni Leoni
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750072
RRP Price: £59.95 Hardback
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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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Richard Meier
Kenneth Frampton
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750048
RRP Price: £35.00 Paperback
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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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Filippo Brunelleschi
Eugenio Battisti
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750013
RRP Price: £29.95 Paperback
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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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Composing Space
Hélène Binet
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714861197
RRP Price: £100.00 Hardback
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This book is an elegant overview of Binet’s career, bringing together black & white and color work. It is divided into thematic sections, each highlighting specific architects and designers as well as a particular aspect of their work that Binet’s dramatic photographs draw out and present. Interlude....MORE
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Concrete
Edited by William Hall, Leonard Koren
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714863548
RRP Price: £29.95 Hardback
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Concrete is a visual celebration of concrete architecture, through an exploration of 180 structures from ancient Rome to the present day, in
Concrete is the most extensive book of its kind on this popular material.
Covering everything from monuments and churches to bus stations and crematorium....MORE
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Visual Inventory
John Pawson
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714863505
RRP Price: £29.95 Hardback
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John Pawson’s career as an architect and designer spans a variety of sizes and programmes: from bowls to bridges, and monasteries to Calvin Klein stores. In addition to his acclaimed design work, he is the author of Phaidon’s successful Minimum, a book that paired images and captions to illustrate t....MORE
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Michelangelo
Giulio Carlo Argan, Bruno Contardi, photographs by Gabriele Basilico
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750056
RRP Price: £29.95 Paperback
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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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The Future of Architecture Since 1889
Jean-Louis Cohen
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714845981
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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Truly far-ranging – both conceptually and geographically – The Future of Architecture Since 1889 is a rich, compelling history that will shape future thinking about this period for years to come. Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today’s most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an autho....MORE
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Vitamin Green
Phaidon
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714862290
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscap....MORE
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Gunnar Asplund
Peter Blundell Jones
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714863157
RRP Price: £24.95 Paperback
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A contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund pursued a unique architecture that displayed a blend of classical tradition, vernacular architecture and Modernism. Above all, he achieved a sensitive understanding of the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscap....MORE
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On and By Frank Lloyd Wright
Robert McCarter
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714863165
RRP Price: £19.95 Paperback
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This volume brings together the most important essays on and by Wright, providing both an illuminating study of one of the key figures of the 20th century, as well as an overview of the very principles that are at the foundation of great architecture.
The editor of this volume, Robert McCarter, p....MORE
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Latin American Houses
Mercedes Daguerre
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750005
RRP Price: £19.95 Paperback
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Since the early twentieth century, Latin America has been home to some of the most compelling architecture--from the large-scale and otherworldly civic structures of the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer to the more intimate work of Mexico's Luis Barragan. In her new book Latin American Houses, historian Mer....MORE
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Katsura Imperial Villa
Arata Isozaki
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714862541
RRP Price: £29.95 Paperback
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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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Room 606
Michael Sheridan
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714861081
RRP Price: £24.95 Paperback
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In the centre of Copenhagen, on the sixth floor of the Royal Hotel, a single room preserves a microcosm of the definitive masterwork of Danish architect and furniture designer Arne Jacobsen (1902-71). Room 606 is the last surviving interior of the SAS House: an unparalleled example of modern archite....MORE
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Building the New Millennium
Phaidon Editors
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714856002
RRP Price: £22.95 Hardback
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This book looks at the most extraordinary buildings featured in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. Focusing on landmarks and public buildings, this is a well-informed survey of the most innovative structures to be built in recent years. Each project is given a full double page spr....MORE
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The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture Travel Edition
Phaidon
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714848786
RRP Price: £14.95 Hardback
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For everyone who enjoys looking at architecture, this portable companion to the comprehensive edition of The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture is an ideal guide for the architectural tourist
For everyone who enjoys looking at architecture, this portable companion to the compreh....MORE
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Diener & Diener
Roger Diener, Joseph Abram, Martin Steinmann
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714859192
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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This will be the only available monograph on the remarkable architecture of the Swiss practice of Diener & Diener. Known for their subtle, sophisticated Modernist buildings and town plans, Diener & Diener have recently begun to design buildings that add a new lightness and liveliness to the geometri....MORE
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Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett, Deyan Sudjic
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714861189
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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In 2050, over three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities. This follow-up to Phaidon’s successful The Endless City is a close look at the issues that affect cities, and thus human life across the globe in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of conferences held by the London ....MORE
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