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Le Corbusier: Beton Brut and Ineffable Space (1940 – 1965)
Roberto Gargiani, Anna Rosellini
Routledge
ISBN: 0415681715
RRP Price: £80.00 Hardback
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This groundbreaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It is innovative in showing the role of materials and construction techniques in the architecture of Le Corbusier and the book also delves into the....MORE
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture
Anat Geva
Routledge
ISBN: 0415775086
RRP Price: £44.99 Hardback
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A comprehensive study of the sacred buildings built and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this book offers scholarly discussion with analytical drawings and photographs. These projects represent different periods of Wright’s career (from 1886 to 1958), new building technologies, and application of his....MORE
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Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History
Christopher Drew Armstrong
Routledge
ISBN: 0415778891
RRP Price: £80.00 Hardback
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This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724–1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy.
Despite not leaving any built work, Leroy is a major international figure of eighteenth-century architectural theory and culture. Considering ....MORE
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Glorious Visions
Helene Furján
Routledge
ISBN: 0415781574
RRP Price: £100.00 Hardback
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Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book ....MORE
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Glorious Visions
Helene Furján
Routledge
ISBN: 0415781582
RRP Price: £29.99 Paperback
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Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book ....MORE
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Will Alsop - The Noise
Tom Porter
Routledge
ISBN: 0415549612
RRP Price: £31.99 Paperback
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The design process of Will Alsop acts as a conduit for the dreams and aspirations of others. Moving from public consultation to the privacy of his painting studio – here ideas are born in the liquidity of paint, the serendipity of collage and the flourish of line, resulting in the avant-garde and vi....MORE
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Le Corbusier and Britain
Irena Murray, Julian Osley
Routledge
ISBN: 0415608651
RRP Price: £14.99 Paperback
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Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that he designed no permanent buildings in the United Kingdom, more than any other individual he was responsible for shaping British post-war architecture.
Le Corbusier and Britain trace....MORE
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Le Corbusier and Britain
Irena Murray, Julian Osley
Routledge
ISBN: 0415479940
RRP Price: £35.99 Hardback
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Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that he designed no permanent buildings in the United Kingdom, more than any other individual he was responsible for shaping British post-war architecture.
Le Corbusier and Britain trace....MORE
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François Blondel
Anthony Gerbino
Routledge
ISBN: 0415491991
RRP Price: £80.00 Hardback
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First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today.
Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as....MORE
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James Stirling
Mark Crinson
Routledge
ISBN: 0415550599
RRP Price: £24.99 Paperback
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James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling’s reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the Leicester University Engineering Building (1959-63, with James Gowan), at one end of his career, and the Neue Staatsg....MORE
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James Stirling
Mark Crinson
Routledge
ISBN: 0415550580
RRP Price: £100.00 Hardback
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James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling’s reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the Leicester University Engineering Building (1959-63, with James Gowan), at one end of his career, and the Neue Staatsg....MORE
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P.V. Jensen-Klint
Thomas Bo Jensen
Routledge
ISBN: 0415553180
RRP Price: £80.00 Hardback
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Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1853-1930) is one of the most important background figures for twentieth century Danish architecture and design. His serious and profoundly reflective approach to his work instilled courage in a new generation of architects that wanted to work in an idiom for their own ag....MORE
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Analysing Architecture
Simon Unwin
Routledge
ISBN: 0415489288
RRP Price: £24.99 Paperback
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Clear and accessible, Analysing Architecture opens a fresh way to understanding architecture. It offers a unique ?notebook? of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author?s original ....MORE
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Rem Koolhaas / OMA
Roberto Gargiani
Routledge
ISBN: 0415461456
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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In this book, the projects, buildings and theories of Koolhaas, as well as the other members of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, are examined in chronological and thematic sequence, beginning with the period of Koolhaas’ education at the Architectural Association School of Architecture of L....MORE
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Le Corbusier in Detail
Flora Samuel
Routledge
ISBN: 0750663545
RRP Price: £29.99 Paperback
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This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings. It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier's details were expressive of his overall philosophical intentions. It is not a construction book in the usual sense- rather it focusses on the mean....MORE
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Understanding Architecture
Hazel Conway , Rowan Roenisch
Routledge
ISBN: 0415320585
RRP Price: £74.99 Paperback
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Understanding Architecture is a comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach. It explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edi....MORE
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Actions of Architecture
Jonathan Hill
Routledge
ISBN: 0415290430
RRP Price: £34.99 Paperback
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Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader. The book's thesis is informed by the text 'The Death of the Author....MORE
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Nature and Space
Sarah Menin, Flora Samuel
Routledge
ISBN: 0415281253
RRP Price: £47.99 Paperback
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This book is a unique comparative study of two of the very greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. In assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influences of their attitudes to nature and the creative direction of their work, this book offers a unique unders....MORE
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan
Kevin Nute
Routledge
ISBN: 0415232694
RRP Price: £50.00 Paperback
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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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Wilford Stirling Wilford
Michael Wilford and Partners
Routledge
ISBN: 1901050009
RRP Price: £55.00 Paperback
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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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