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The Edifice Complex
Deyan Sudjic
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0241952778
RRP Price: £8.99 Paperback
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The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs? From Blair to Mitterrand, from H....MORE
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The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141015004
RRP Price: £9.99 Paperback
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Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. He asks:
What makes a house truly beautiful?
Why are many new....MORE
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The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141806753
RRP Price: £12.72 CD
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In his extraordinary new book, Alain de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight, considering such questions as: Why do people disagree about taste? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Not to mention: What makes a window frame attractive? ....MORE
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Palladio
James S. Ackerman
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140135006
RRP Price: £10.99 Paperback
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Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness to produce one of the most beautiful, and easily the most influential, series of buildings in the history of art.
In this brilliantly incisive study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the great....MORE
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The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
John Fleming , Hugh Honour , Nikolaus Pevsner
Penguin Books
ISBN: 014051323X
RRP Price: £10.99 Paperback
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Without doubt, the standard work in the field. As reflected by its new title, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has now been expanded to include recent developments in the field of landscape architecture. Full account has been taken, too, of the huge range of building....MORE
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England's Thousand Best Houses
Simon Jenkins
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141006250
RRP Price: £18.99 Paperback
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England's houses are a treasure trove of riches and a unique, living record of the nation's history. Simon Jenkins's magnificent guide selects the finest palaces, mansions, halls, castles and cottages throughout the land, from the stately to the humble, in a glorious celebration of English life.
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England's Thousand Best Churches
Simon Jenkins
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140297952
RRP Price: £22.00 Paperback
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Simon Jenkins travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county sections are prefaced by a map locating each church, and lavishly....MORE
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Pioneers of Modern Design
Nikolaus Pevsner
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140137149
RRP Price: £12.99 Paperback
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Moving from William Morris to Walter Gropius, taking in artists and architects from Britain, Europe and the USA, Nicholas Pevsner shows how the foundation of the best that remains today was laid by a small group of people who thought and taught as well as designed. First published in 1936 and twice ....MORE
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Charles Nicholl , Steven D. Levitt
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141035331
RRP Price: £7.99 Paperback
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Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself in manuscripts, pai....MORE
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God's Architect
Rosemary Hill
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140280995
RRP Price: £10.99 Paperback
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Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and w....MORE
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England's Thousand Best Houses
Simon Jenkins
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141039299
RRP Price: £12.99 Paperback
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England's houses are a treasure trove of riches and a unique, living record of the nation's history. Simon Jenkins's magnificent guide selects the finest palaces, mansions, halls, castles and cottages throughout the land, from the stately to the humble, in a glorious celebration of English life.....MORE
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England's Thousand Best Churches
Simon Jenkins
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141039302
RRP Price: £12.99 Paperback
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Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select its thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county sections are prefaced by a map locating each church, and lavi....MORE
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Structures
JE Gordon
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140136282
RRP Price: £10.99 Paperback
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PENGUIN SCIENCE
For those who find difficulty in communicating with engineers, Professor Gordon is a godsend
His The Science of Strong Materials made plain the secrets of materials science, and now with this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures in a way, whi....MORE
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A Festival on the River
Charlotte Mullins
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141034394
RRP Price: £9.99 Paperback
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Southbank Centre has played host to premières and parties, chance encounters and artistic interventions, since the Royal Festival Hall opened in 1951. As Southbank Centre now looks to the future, this book celebrates its past and present. A Festival on the River charts some of the many historic mome....MORE
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Bernini
Howard Hibbard
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140135987
RRP Price: £12.99 Paperback
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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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