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Katsura - Picturing Modernism in Traditional Architecture
Yasufumi Nakamori
Yale
ISBN: 0300163339
RRP Price: £35.00 Hardback
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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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American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture
Alice T. Friedman
Yale
ISBN: 0300116543
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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The sleek lines and gleaming facades of the architecture of the late 1940s and 1950s reflect a culture fascinated by the promise of the Jet Age. Buildings like Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at JFK Airport and Philip Johnson's Four Seasons Restaurant retain a thrilling allure, seeming to transform the....MORE
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Berkshire
Geoffrey Tyack & Simon Bradley & Nikolaus Pevsner
Yale
ISBN: 030012662X
RRP Price: £35.00 Hardback
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Nikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as 'half home county, half West Country'. This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area transferred to Oxfordshire in the 1970s. The variety of architecture is, in consequence, broad and remarkable. Berkshire's hou....MORE
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Building-in-time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion
Marvin Trachtenberg
Yale
ISBN: 0300165927
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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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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Cabin, Quarter, Plantation
Clifton Ellis & Rebecca Ginsburg
Yale
ISBN: 0300120427
RRP Price: £30.00 Hardback
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Visitors to such historic homes as the Hermitage and Monticello today can study the remains of places where slaves once lived and worked and, in some cases, can view historically reconstructed cabins, garden plots, and settlements. New archaeological and historical scholarship can tell us much about....MORE
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The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960
Richard Longstreth
Yale
ISBN: 0300149387
RRP Price: £40.00 Hardback
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After attaining classic stature with palaces erected in the early twentieth century, the American department store continued to evolve in ways that were influenced by changes in business practices, shopping patterns, design approaches, and urban structure. This masterful and innovative history of a ....MORE
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Venice
Richard J. Goy
Yale
ISBN: 0300148828
RRP Price: £14.99 Paperback
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Each year, millions of visitors travel to Venice to admire the architectural marvels of this famed city. In this brief yet comprehensive volume, distinguished architect and critic Richard Goy offers a convenient and accessible guide to the city's piazzas, palazzos, basilicas, and other architectural....MORE
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Newcastle and Gateshead
Grace McCombie
Yale
ISBN: 0300126646
RRP Price: £9.99 Paperback
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This book offers a lively and authoritative survey of the buildings of Tyneside, from the medieval castle and cathedral at Newcastle to the spectacular buildings spearheading the renaissance of Gateshead on the river's south bank. Both urban centres are explored in a series of walks, including the m....MORE
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Elizabethan Architecture
Mark Girouard
Yale
ISBN: 0300093861
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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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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Compass and Rule
Anthony Gerbino & Stephen Johnston
Yale
ISBN: 0300150938
RRP Price: £30.00 Hardback
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The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders in social standing and perceived intellectual prowess. This stimulating book, which focuses in particular on the scientist, mathematici....MORE
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Gwynedd
Richard Haslam & Julian Orbach & Adam Voelcker
Yale
ISBN: 0300141696
RRP Price: £35.00 Hardback
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The spectacular landscapes of Gwynedd - the historic counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon and Merioneth - are the setting for many of Wales' greatest buildings. Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Conwy and Harlech castles are unsurpassed as works of medieval military architecture. Penrhyn is the epitome of romantic....MORE
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Palladio's Rome
Editor(s) Vaughan Hart & Peter Hicks
Yale
ISBN: 0300151470
RRP Price: £14.99 Paperback
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Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome's ancient and medieva....MORE
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Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht
Dieter Arnold
Yale
ISBN: 0300123442
RRP Price: £45.00 Hardback
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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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Prato
Alick M. McLean
Yale
ISBN: 0300137141
RRP Price: £40.00 Hardback
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This handsome book recounts the historical development of one city republic, Prato in Tuscany, from the eleventh through the fourteenth century. In telling the story of Prato's origins, construction, and demise, Alick McLean considers the planning, art, architecture, politics, faith, and daily life ....MORE
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Revisiting the Glass House
Jessica Hough & David Montagut
Yale
ISBN: 0300135874
RRP Price: £25.00 Paperback
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In recent years, there has been an enormous interest among emerging and established artists in architecture of the modern period. "Revisiting the Glass House" explores the ways in which contemporary artists incorporate images of modern buildings in their work as a means to explore the Utopian potent....MORE
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Nottingham
Elain Harwood
Yale
ISBN: 0300126662
RRP Price: £12.50 Paperback
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This is a lively, authoritative and practical guide to the buildings of Nottingham, from its medieval beginnings to the innovative architecture of the 21st century. Outstanding buildings range from the famous Castle, a Baroque palace on an unforgettable cliff-top site, to the internationally importa....MORE
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Survey of London v. 46 and 47; Clerkenwell
Yale
ISBN: 0300140630
RRP Price: £135.00 Hardback
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Yale University Press is delighted to announce publication of future volumes of the Survey of London, the official history of London's buildings, in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and English Heritage. These newest volumes focus on Clerkenwell, one of the most var....MORE
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A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840
Howard Colvin
Yale
ISBN: 0300125089
RRP Price: £75.00 Hardback
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The authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practised in England, Scotland and Wales from the time of Inigo Jones (1573-1652) to that of William Burn (1789-1870) and Sir Charles Barry (1795-....MORE
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South and East Clerkenwell v. 46 Survey of London
Philip Temple
Yale
ISBN: 0300137273
RRP Price: £75.00 Hardback
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Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly historic districts of England's capital city. Its choice for study by the Survey of London is a mark both of its age-old fascination and of its contemporary appeal. Today Southern Clerkenwell, just north of the City, has become a fashionabl....MORE
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Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville v. 47 Survey of London
Philip Temple
Yale
ISBN: 0300139373
RRP Price: £75.00 Hardback
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Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly historic districts of England's capital city. Its choice for study by the Survey of London is a mark both of its age-old fascination and of its contemporary appeal. Today Southern Clerkenwell, just north of the City, has become a fashionabl....MORE
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