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Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA
Yuko Hasegawa
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 190431340X
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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SANAA, the collaborative office of architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryueishizawa is a multidisciplinary practice that extends beyond traditionalractice into the realms of landscape, interior, exhibition, furniture, androduct design. Internationally celebrated for what one critic terms its "uminous minim....MORE
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Le Corbusier : Les voyages d'Allemagne
Giuliano Gresleri , Facsimile
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313078
RRP Price: £19.95 Paperback
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Le Corbusier's notebooks from his travels in Germany span the period April to May 1911. During his travels, touching on Munich, Berlin, Halle, Naumburg, Ratisbon and Augsburg, he met individuals who would have a profound influence on him: among others, Theodore Fischer, Baron Günther von Pechmann, W....MORE
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Le Corbusier : Voyage d'Orient
Giuliano Gresleri , Facsimile
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 190431306X
RRP Price: £24.95 Paperback
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Le Corbusier, the brilliant architect of the twentieth century, always carried along a sketchbook, a kind of diary in which, observing the "grand tour" tradition and the "fads" of famous nineteenth-century travellers, he amassed observations, calculations, and drawings of works and designs, carefull....MORE
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José Luis Sert
Josep Rovira
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313213
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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José Luis Sert (1902-1983), architect and town planner, friend and collaborator of Le Corbusier, member of CIAM, and founder of the Grupo Este of the GATEPAC in Barcelona, took the Spanish architectural avant-garde of the thirties as the starting point for his work. Sert left Spain in 1939 to settle....MORE
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Carlos Ferrater
Massimo Preziosi
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313086
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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The book offers a survey of the work of Carlos Ferrater, one of the most active and internationally-acclaimed Spanish architects. Carlos Ferrater Lambarri was born in 1944 in Barcelona, where he graduated in architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in 1971. Since then he has work....MORE
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Dominique Perrault
Laurent Stalder
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313035
RRP Price: £35.00 Hardback
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Electa presents the complete edition of the work of Dominique Perrault, who achieved worldwide acclaim with the construction of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (1997). Born in 1953, Perrault won a series of international awards, including the Grand Prix National d'Architecture (1993) and the pr....MORE
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Hans Kollhoff
Jasper Cepl
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313272
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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* Comprehensive monograph on renowned German architects Hans Kollhoff and Helga Timmerman
* Contextualizing essay by architecture critic Jasper Cepl
* More than 100 projects presented chronologically....MORE
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Kengo Kuma
Lugi Aline , Kengo Kuma
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313426
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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Since the age of ten, when he first saw the monumental concrete gymnasium designed by Kenzo Tange for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Kengo Kuma (b. 1954) has aspired to create architecture that utilizes materials in an expressive manner. Despite his early fascination with concrete, Kuma has become better ....MORE
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Kengo Kuma
Luigi Aline , Kengo Kuma
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313612
RRP Price: £22.95 Paperback
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Since the age of ten, when he first saw the monumental concrete gymnasium designed by Kenzo Tange for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Kengo Kuma (b. 1954) has aspired to create architecture that utilizes materials in an expressive manner. Despite his early fascination with concrete, Kuma has become better ....MORE
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Mathias Klotz
Miquel Adria
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313418
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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Since winning Italy's prestigious Borromini prize in 2001, Mathias Klotz has been considered one of the most accomplished young architects working in the world today. Born and raised in Chile as the grandson of German immigrants, Klotz brings a unique perspective to the work he does, whether at home....MORE
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Sean Godsell
Leon Van Schaik
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313337
RRP Price: £35.00 Hardback
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At the age of 44, Sean Godsell (b.1960) is one of Australia's leading young architects and is beginning to attract an international following for his spare industrial forms and innovative use of materials. Trained at the University of Melbourne, Godsell travelled through Europe and Asia in the early....MORE
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Shuhei Endo
Hiroyuki Suzuki , Shuhei Endo
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313140
RRP Price: £35.00 Hardback
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Japanese architect Shuhei Endo can be defined as an architect of steel since he distinctly favours this material in the buildings he designs and continually experiments with its infinite possibilities. His works are apparently weightless and communicate a sense of liberty: undulating sheets of steel....MORE
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Steven Holl Architect
Kenneth Frampton
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313027
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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This in-depth monograph is devoted to one of the leading United States architects on the contemporary scene: Steven Holl (b.1947). Illustrated by a large portfolio of photographs, the book introduces the artist's personality and works, and the studio he founded in 1976, Steven Holl architects. Holl ....MORE
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Toyo Ito
Andrea Maffei
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313019
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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The Architectural Documents series sees the publication of the first monograph on one of the most extraordinary figures on the contemporary architectural scene, Toyo Ito of Japan (b. 1941). Since the 1970s Ito has been carrying out research into building materials, light and space, research which ha....MORE
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Waro Kishi
Masao Furuyama
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313388
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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Based in Kyoto, Japan, Waro Kishi (b.1950) belongs to the generation of Japanese architects that emerged after Tadao Ando. Although he has acknowledged the influence of the Osaka architect, Kishi has a sensibility all his own. Made primarily of glass and steel rather than massive expanses of concret....MORE
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Wiel Arets
Massimo Faiferri , Geert Bekaert
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313264
RRP Price: £39.95 Hardback
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* First monograph on one of Holland's most internationally recognized young architects
* More than 30 significant buildings and projects presented in detail
Wiel Arets (b. 1955) is one of Holland's leading young architects and has won an international following for his spare industrial forms and....MORE
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Railway Stations
Alessia Ferrarini
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313345
RRP Price: £29.95 Hardback
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Similar in format to the successful Electaarchitecture title Twenty Houses by Twenty Architects, this book presents a history of the railway station, fron the Gare de l'Est in Paris of the 1850s to the striking proposal by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merril's for a new Pennsylvania Station in....MORE
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Twenty Houses by Twenty Architects
Mercedes Daguerre
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313353
RRP Price: £19.95 Paperback
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This volume inaugurates a new series, aimed at a broad readership, and focuses in particular on the configuration of domestic space while also paying attention to the different modes of living that are beginning to emerge in the twenty-first century. The book presents twenty houses designed by the m....MORE
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Twenty Houses by Twenty Architects
Mercedes Daguerre
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313183
RRP Price: £24.95 Hardback
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This volume inaugurates a new series, aimed at a broad readership, and focuses in particular on the configuration of domestic space while also paying attention to the different modes of living that are beginning to emerge in the twenty-first century. The book presents twenty houses designed by the m....MORE
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Ancient Architecture
Hans Wolfgang Müller , Seton Lloyd
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313280
RRP Price: £19.95 Hardback
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Seton Lloyd and Hans Wolfgang Müller describe the beginnings of architecture in the Ancient Near Middle East and Egypt, the brithplace of Western civilisation, where the newly born science of construction merged with an emerging aesthetic practice. This book examines sites and structures from neolit....MORE
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