History of architecture Books
Hirmer Verlag Fragments of Metropolis - Berlin: Berlin's
Book SynopsisFresh from their success with "Modernism London Style", hailed by The Financial Times on 29.6.13 as 'this gorgeous photographic survey', photographer Niels Lehmann and editor Christoph Rauhut present their latest exciting project. Fragments of Metropolis documents all the remaining Expressionist buildings in Berlin, arguably the movement’s most important architectural centre. The architecture of Expressionism heralded the onset of the roaring twenties. Berlin's remaining Expressionist buildings demonstrate a great creativity of form and a skilful use of light, colour and material. In contrast to the Bauhaus architecture of the same era, they sought complexity, vertical enhancement and drama to create the modern metropolis. Fragments of Metropolis documents 120 buildings in Berlin and its environs with Niels Lehmann's new photographs, drawings, an illustrated index of every building, and maps that divide the locations into areas. In celebrating the birth of the metropolis Berlin, the book is the rediscovery an important part of the city's heritage.
£23.92
Hirmer Verlag Form and Light: From Bauhaus to Tel Aviv
Book Synopsis"Yigal Gawze’s photographs capture the abstraction, the simplicity and the optimism of early modernism in Tel Aviv. He distils the essence of the Bauhaus to bring it alive in a modern city and concentrates on the subtle effects of natural light upon architecture, a technique that the masters of the modern movement themselves applauded." - Nonie Niesewand, design editor & author The fragment - an essential part of the structure which carries within it the genetic code of the whole, is in the core of this visual inquiry depicting Tel Aviv’s White City. The encounter between a building style originating in Europe and the Mediterranean glare, is highlighted by the colour photography. While paying homage to the Bauhaus spirit and the avant-garde photographers of the 1920s, it is also a tribute to past ideals and present renewal, enhancing the current relevance of the Modern Movement in an exceptional urban setting. The images add up to create a portrait of a place by revealing the poetic essence of its architecture and the role light takes in shaping it.
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Hirmer Verlag Hopetoun: Scotland’s Finest Stately Home
Book SynopsisHopetoun House, on the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, is the seat of the Marquess of Linlithgow. The lavishly illustrated book presents the architecture (initially designed by Sir William Bruce in the 1690s and greatly extended by William Adam and his sons from the 1720s), sumptuously decorated rooms and art collection, as well as the landscape and gardens.This volume discusses Hopetoun both as the historic seat of a noble family and as a complex work of art. It covers its architecture, interior design and furnishing, its collection of paintings, its designed landscape and also the family who have built, inhabited and developed it since the late 17th century. The text is a joint production by eminent specialists. Appealing photographs of the interiors by Frank Dalton and of the new Walled Garden by Claire Takacs form an important part of the book. Chapters written by members of the family, Lord and Lady Hopetoun as well as Lord Alexander Hope, connect the historic place to the present and the future of the etate.
£39.96
Hirmer Verlag Santiago Calatrava: In the Glyptothek (Bilingual
Book SynopsisSantiago Calatrava’s (* 1951) encounter with the sculpture collection at the Glyptothek in Munich thirty years ago prompted him to create an extensive series of sculptures with the title Die Aegineten (The Aeginetans). This volume focuses attention for the first time on the sculptures and paintings of the famous architect and shows how he was influenced by Antiquity. Die Aegineten – 14 large-format sculptures made of wrought iron on a pedestal of aged oak – appear as modern, almost abstract variations on the ancient warriors of the temple of Aphaea. They are presented in an exceptional dialogue with the permanent sculpture collection of the Glyptothek and are complemented by a selection of 30 drawings, watercolours, studies and sculptures of different themes and series which show Calatrava’s interest in the human body and nature, which influences his architectural style.
£28.90
Hirmer Verlag Modernism London Style: The Art Deco Heritage
Book Synopsis'Modernism London Style' chronicles the creativity of the architects and designers of the period, as well as the currents in the city’s culture that helped shape their work. Architecture scholar Adam Caruso sheds light on the key features of the Art Deco style and architectural historian Christoph Rauhut and photographer Niels Lehmann capture the architectural Art Deco heritage of London in a photographic tour.
£31.96
Schnell & Steiner Festungen in Hessen
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Schnell & Steiner Breslau/Wroclaw: Ein Kunstgeschichtlicher
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Schnell & Steiner Welterbe Wartburg: Portrat Einer Tausendjahrigen
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Schnell & Steiner Festungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Schnell & Steiner Das Berliner Schloss: Die Erhaltene
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Schnell & Steiner GmbH Kaiserpfalz Gelnhausen
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£8.90
Schnell & Steiner Die Schwarze Kirche Zu Kronstadt - Reformation
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Schnell & Steiner Fruhe Festungen Im Deutschen Sudwesten 1450-1620
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Schnell & Steiner Gestern - Heute - Morgen Erhaltung Durch Wandel:
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Schnell & Steiner GmbH Das totale Kunstwerk
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Thorbecke Die Veitskapelle in Muhlhausen: Bohmen in
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Taschen GmbH Gio Ponti
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Taschen GmbH Contemporary Japanese Architecture. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisJapan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize.Since Osaka World Expo ’70 highlighted contemporary forms, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Tadao Ando's geometry put Japanese building on the map, bridging East and West. After his concrete buildings, figures like Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Kazuyo Sejima pioneered a more sustainable approach. Younger generations have taken new directions, in harmony with nature, traditional building, and an endless search for forms.Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book links this unique creativity to Japan's high population density, modern economy, long history, and continual disasters in the form of earthquakes. Accepting ambiguity, constant change, and catastrophe is a key to understanding how Japanese architecture differs from that of Europe or America.This compact edition highlights 37 architects and 53 exceptional projects by Japanese masters—from Tadao Ando’s Shanghai Poly Theater, Shigeru Ban’s concert hall La Seine Musical, SANAA’s Grace Farms, Fumihiko Maki’s 4 World Trade Center to Takashi Suo’s much smaller sustainable dental clinic. An elaborate essay traces the building scene from the Metabolists to today, showing how the interaction of past, present, and future has earned contemporary Japanese architecture worldwide recognition.Trade Review“The book hops around Japan and around the globe introducing readers to some of the more spectacular recent buildings from Japanese architects.” * dailybeast.com *“A bible of the most beautiful contemporary Japanese monuments.” * Architectures à Vivre *“A survey of the most innovative projects from the country’s recent past.” * Architect Magazine *
£22.50
Gta Verlag Year Zero to Economic Miracle - Hans Schwippert
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JOVIS Verlag Women in Architecture Berlin: Facetten weiblicher
Book SynopsisFrauen in der Architektur sicht- und hörbar zu machen, ihnen eine Bühne zu geben, ihre Leistungen zu zeigen – das war das Anliegen des Women in Architecture Berlin Festivals 2021. Institutionen, Verbände und Initiativen im Bereich der Baukultur waren aufgefordert teilzunehmen. 70 Jahre nach dem Tod von Emilie Winkelmann, der ersten erfolgreichen deutschen Architektin, sollte Bilanz gezogen werden: Wer sind die starken Frauen von heute? Werden sie wahrgenommen? Wie steht es um die Gleichstellung in der Baukultur und den Umbau des Berufsbildes? Die Publikation zeigt auf, was Institutionen aus Politik, Lehre und Wirtschaft, was Chef*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen, Hochschulleiter*innen und Professor*innen tun können oder schon getan haben, damit es vorangeht auf der Baustelle Gleichstellung.
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JOVIS Verlag Die Tankstelle: Ein Bautypus im Wandel seiner
Book SynopsisFrom early modernist designs like Hans Poelzig’s archetypal gas station to the Stuttgarter Schule standardized filling stations on the Reichsautobahn, and through to Lothar Götz’s modular post-war constructions—which paved the way for the standardized corporate designs that flourished later—gas stations have been a key element of our surroundings since the 1920s. While the design and construction of gas stations has since become a significant area of work for well-known architecture and engineering firms, this type of building has thus far received barely any attention in academic discourse. Franz Arlart examines and systematizes the development of gas stations in Germany with reference to the architects that designed them. Taking into account functional, technical, and symbolic considerations, this book presents the architectural development of the building type from 1920 to 2020 and outlines the trends that will shape gas station design going forward.
£43.20
DOM Publishers Chicago: Architectural Guide
Book SynopsisSome architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched collection of first-rate buildings in every possible style since late nineteenth-century industrialization. This book looks at Chicago through the prism of Post-Modernism — under the premise that this style did not cease to exist sometime in the 1990s, but is, in fact, still with us today. Starting with the 1978 Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, curator and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky presents 100 structures, most of which were created after the turn of the millennium. These lavishly illustrated building descriptions are supplemented by introductory essays and interviews with Chicago architects, including Stanley Tigerman, Helmut Jahn and Jeanne Gang.
£29.75
DOM Publishers Ukraine: Art for Architecture
Book SynopsisIn the times when the Ukrainian art sphere was regulated by the Soviet institutions, local monumental and decorative arts existed at the frontier of the Party’s propaganda and the artistic thirst to experiments. Nowadays, Ukrainian mosaics are wrested out of the architectural context of the country in both literal and metaphorical ways. The artworks are liquidated from the buildings they were specifically created for and indiscriminately despised as ideological pieces of no value. Furthermore, in legal terms mosaics are not defined as objects of art that makes them unguarded in the face of the decommunization process. Initially incepted as a guide, this book is an equally beneficial companion for the journey through space (in the context of the geographical area of modern Ukraine) and hitchhiking through time (in terms of Ukrainian cultural history). It incorporates the selection of Ukrainian mosaics which undermines the simplified perspective on the Soviet art heritage in Ukraine. The volume is generously supplemented with unique photographs of the documentary photographer Yevgen Nikiforov who continues the research, initially presented in the book Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics (2017). Together with the art historian Polina Baitsym who reveals striking linkages of the mosaics’ plots with broader historical context, he will guide you through the testimonies of the genuine creativity of Ukrainian monumental artists which managed to flourish on the most infertile soil.
£28.80
DOM Publishers Dhaka: Architectural Guide
Book SynopsisDiscover the architectural gems of Dhaka, the bustling capital of Bangladesh, in the first-ever architectural guide to Dhaka. More than 150 buildings and projects have been handpicked by architect and author Sayed Ahmed to illustrate the more-than-1000-year history of this vibrant city. From Louis Kahn’s world-famous Parliament Building to the modern residential high-rises of its evolving urban culture, Dhaka offers a rich tapestry of architectural heritage stretching far beyond the 200 years of British colonialism. So, get ready to explore the best of Dhaka’s architectural landscapes, such as Gulshan and Banani, which have developed a modern urban character in the past two decades. QR codes and detailed maps will help you navigate the concrete jungle of this metropolis with its population of 22 million. Lavishly illustrated, this guidebook is a must-read for architecture enthusiasts, travellers, and residents alike.
£30.60
DOM Publishers The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
Book SynopsisThe machines that orbit our planet live in a void environment – however, space travel itself does not exist in a vacuum. Travelling to space is an immense effort of humans and machines, taking not just ‘a small step for a man’ but leaving a huge carbon footprint in the process. We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in which private companies and leadership figures in the form of billionaires are re-popularising space travel to an extent not seen since the space race between the USSR and USA. Space exists isolated from the place that births its mechanical and a few select human inhabitants. Thus, we tend to forget that every single thing that exits our atmosphere takes with it more than just its own weight of materials when it departs our fragile blue marble. This title is the first of its kind: An atlas of all major sites where space rockets have been launched since the World’s first Sputnik in 1958. On 272 pages, the author Brian Harvey and his co-author Gurbir Singh showcase the steps of space travel as they have never been presented before. Detailed maps allow deep insights to places which are restricted to the public. This book offers a unique look at the physical footprints of Earth’s launch sites. With most places hidden away in jungles, deserts, or amid the Central Asian steppes, these places exist for the most part out of the eye of the general public. With satellites facilitating our modern society and a modern space age ever-present in today’s news cycle, it is now more important than ever to think about the imprint these undertakings leave on Earth. To begin to answer the new socio-economic questions raised by our rapid expansion into the void, we need to look no further than the cracks in the concrete of our planetary launch sites. The rusty train tracks leading to the pads break the pristine and sterile look of space and reopen our eyes to the realities of space exploration.
£68.00
DOM Publishers Cairo: Architectural Guide
Book SynopsisFrom the Arab conquest to the Arab Spring: in its capacity for architectural and social transformation and in its tension between religious tradition and modern glitter, Cairo is like no other city in the Islamic world. In this book, Swiss architect Thomas Meyer-Wieser explores the idea of the North African city that was once the heart of ancient civilisation and is now the capital of modern Egypt. As well as looking at more than 300 buildings, he takes the reader on 20 walks and excursions. • The Arab conquest: 7th to 10th centuries • Fatimid rule: 10th to 12th centuries • The Golden Age: 12th to 15th centuries • Ottoman provincial city: 16th to 18th centuries • ‘Paris on the Nile’: Cairo in the 19th century • The modern metropolis: 20th to 21st centuries
£35.70
DOM Publishers Mass Housing in Ukraine
Book SynopsisWith the scale of damage and loss in mind and the future wide-ranging reconstruction that will inevitably occur after the war, this study examines the history and typologies of mass housing in Ukraine.
£38.25
AVEdition Stuttgart Architecture Guide
Book SynopsisThis book presents around 100 buildings that were erected between 1917 and 2017, and are already considered to be classics of architectural history. With informative texts accentuated by photos, plans, archive material and, most importantly, facts (planners, construction period, addresses, access), this book is the holistic guide to Stuttgart's incredible architecture that the world has been waiting for. Featured buildings are by: Theodor Fischer, Martin Elsaesser, Paul Bonatz, Paul Schmitthenner, Rolf Gutbrod, Paul Stohrer, Gunther Behnisch, Hans Kammerer, Fritz Leonhardt, Frei Otto, Hans Scharoun, James Stirling, Schlaich und Partner, LRO, UN Studio, Auer und Weber, Atelier 5, Hascher Jehle, Wulf und Partner, and many more.
£18.05
Spector Books Bauhaus Issue 4 Photo: The Bauhaus Dessau
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De Gruyter DIE NEUE HEIMAT (1950–1982): Eine
Book SynopsisDie „Neue Heimat” war der größte und bedeutendste nicht-staatliche Wohnungsbaukonzern im Europa der Nachkriegszeit. In einem Zeitraum von über dreißig Jahren hat das Gewerkschaftsunternehmen mehr als 400.000 Wohnungen und seit den sechziger Jahren auch zahlreiche Kommunal- und Gewerbebauten in Deutschland geplant und ausgeführt. Die „Neue Heimat“ war ein Hoffnungsträger für die Teilhabe am Wirtschaftswunder – und der skandalträchtige Zusammenbruch des Unternehmens Anfang der achtziger Jahre wirkte wie ein Schock auf die westdeutsche Bevölkerung. Der zeitliche Abstand von über einer Generation bietet die Chance für eine kritische Untersuchung: Was waren die Ansätze der sozialdemokratischen Visionen und was ist aus dem bis heute angestrebten „Wohnen für Alle“ geworden? Anhand zahlreicher historischer Foto- und Planmaterialien und Kurzbeiträgen werden u.a. Großsiedlungen wie die Neue Vahr Bremen oder die Entlastungsstadt Neuperlach sowie gigantische Großprojekte der „Neuen Heimat Städtebau“ wie das ICC Berlin dokumentiert.
£23.40
Die Gestalten Verlag Temples of Books: Magnificent Libraries Around
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Steidl Publishers Heiner Thofern: Beautiful Games: Roman Entrances
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£28.00
JOVIS Verlag „Berlin kommt wieder“: Die Architekten Paul
Book SynopsisZwei Architekten sind in den Publikationen zum Wiederaufbau (West-)Berlins nach 1945 bisher wenig gewürdigt worden, dabei haben sie dessen stadträumlichen Charakter nachhaltig geprägt: Paul Schwebes und Hans Schoszberger, die ab 1956 in einer Bürogemeinschaft zusammengearbeitet haben. Einige ihrer Bauten repräsentieren bis heute die City West und prägen zwischen Kurfürstendamm und Tauentzienstraße, Ernst-Reuter-Platz und Breitscheidplatz, Budapester Straße und in anderen Bezirken das urbane Flair der Stadt. Der vorliegende Band rekonstruiert über 160 Projekte aus den Vor- und Nachkriegsjahren, die wesentlich dem tertiären Sektor und seltener dem Wohnbau angehörten. Dabei werden auch die politisch-ökonomischen Voraussetzungen deutlich, die diese Architektur nach 1945 zu Symbolen einer neuen Zeit und eines offenen Gesellschaftsbildes werden ließen. Zentrales Kapitel der (West-)Berliner Architekturgeschichte nach 1945 Umfangreicher Werkkatalog der Bürogemeinschaft Paul Schwebes und Hans Schoszberger Ausführliche Bilddokumentation mit bislang unveröffentlichtem Bildmaterial
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Jovis Verlag GmbH Carceral Architecture
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Birkhauser Rotes Wien: Architektur 1919–1934: Stadt – Raum –
Book Synopsis1919 initiierte die sozialdemokratische Wiener Stadtregierung ein Reformprogramm um die Infrastruktur nach sozialistischen Vorstellungen zu formen. Das Herzstück des „Roten Wien“ waren die Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 städtische Häuserblöcke, die, verteilt über die ganze Stadt, Wohnraum für ein Zehntel der Stadtbevölkerung bot. Während der Baukampagne wurde Österreich jedoch von einer konservativ-klerikalen, antisozialistischen Mehrheit regiert.In ihrem Buch zeigt Eve Blau wie dieser ideologische Konflikt die Bauten des Roten Wien formte, wie sich die Architektur ihrer eigenen Codes, Praktiken und Geschichte bediente um ihre Position gegenüber den politischen Rahmenbedingungen abzugrenzen.Das Buch, längst Standardwerk in der Architektur- und Kunsthistorikerausbildung, liegt nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor.Table of ContentsVorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe, 2014.- Vorwort zu englischen Ausgabe, 1999. - Einführung. - Gegen die Idee der Gewalt die Gewalt der Ideen: Kommunalsozialismus und die Politik des Austromarxismus. – Die historische Stadt: Muster von Wachstum und urbanem Leben. - Wohnen lernen: 1919-1923. - Wien baut auf sich (auf). – Grossstadt und Proletariat: Entwurf der sozialistischen Stadt. – Das neue Wohnen: Der Gemeinde-Wien-Typ. – Der Rote Hof: Sozialdemokratisches Programm und die Praxis der Wagner-Schule. – Bauen und Stadt: Die Politik des Plans. – Architektur und Proletariat: Die Semantik der Form. - Anmerkungen. - Index.
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Editon Synapse English Homes and Gardens, part 3 (3-vol. ES set)
Book SynopsisThis is the third and final part of a 10-volume reprint series of ‘English Homes and Gardens’, edited by H. Avray Tipping and originally published in London in the 1920s. Included in these final volumes are 45 homes in Georgian style architecture, covered in in two volumes, and one additional volume which is thoroughly dedicated to the 52 leading gardens in England.The 10 volume series gathers records of British residential architecture, with many photographs and plans. All-together, the series covered around 250 castles, manor houses and country houses, and introduced them with plans and more than 7,000 photographs, illustrating not only exteriors, but also interiors and gardens. Many of the buildings covered are now completely or partially lost, thus the collection will provide researchers, particularly those concerned with the history of architecture, with a vital resource.Table of ContentsVolume 8: Lockleys, HertfordshireChevening, KentMereworth Castle, KentHoughton Hall, NorfolkWolterton Hall, NorfolkCompton Place, East SussexChiswick House, Greater LondonRokeby Hall, DurhamMoor Park, HertfordshireStoneleigh Abbey, WarwickshireBuntingsdale, ShropshireSutton Scarsdale , DerbyshireWingerworth Hall, DerbyshireMawley Hall, ShropshireBarnsley Park, GloucestershireRainham Hall, EssexGodmersham Parkm, KentHonington Hall, WarwickshireKirtlington Park, OxfordshireEdgcote, NorthamptonshireHolkham, NorfolkHagley Park, WorcestershireThe Royal Fort, BristolLlanwern Park, NewportVolume 9: Brocket Hall, HertfordshireTabley House, CheshireCrichel, DorsetKyre Park, WorcestershireForemark, DerbyshireStrawberry Hill, Greater LondonMersham-Le-Hatch, KentSyon House, Greater LondonSaltram, DevonPadworth House, BerkshireHeaton Park, Greater ManchesterWoodhall Park, HertfordshireBroadlands, HampshireHitchin Priory, HertfordshirePeper Harow, SurreyAttingham, ShropshireAlthorp, NorthamptonshireIckworth, SuffolkAshridge Park, HertfordshireHeveningham Hall, SuffolkBayfordbury, HertfordshireVolume 10: Abbotswood (Garden), GloucestershireAyscoughfee Hall (Garden), LincolnshireBodnant (Garden), DenbighshireBramham Park (Garden), West YorkshireBridge House (Garden), SurreyBrockhurst (Garden) West SussexBroughton Castle (Garden), OxfordshireBrownsea Castle (Garden), DorsetBuckhurst Park (Garden) , East SussexCanons Ashby (Garden), NorthamptonshireCanons Park (Garden), Greater LondonChatsworth (Garden), DerbyshireChequers (Garden), BuckinghamshireChilham Castle (Garden), KentCompton Beauchamp (Garden), BerkshireCompton End (Garden), HampshireCranborne Manor (Garden), DorsetCrowherst Place (Garden), SurreyDanby Hall (Garden), North YorkshireDerwent Hall (Garden), DerbyshireEwhurst (Garden), HampshireFolly Farm (Garden), BerkshireGravetye Manor (Garden), West SussexGreat Fosters (Garden), SurreyHallingbury (Garden), EssexHam House (Garden), SurreyHarleyford (Garden), BuckinghamshireHerstmonceux Castle (Garden), East SussexHestercombe (Garden), SomersetHighhead (Garden), CumbriaIford (Garden), WiltshireMathern Palace (Garden), MonmouthshireMounton House (Garden), MonmouthshireMunstead Wood (Garden) , SurreyNewstead (Garden), NottinghamshireNorthbourne Court (Garden), KentOxford Physic Garden (Garden), OxfordshirePackwood (Garden), WarwickshirePetwood (Garden), LincolnshirePinbury (Garden), GloucestershirePort Lympne (Garden), KentPowis Castle (Garden), PowysReigate Priory (Garden), SurreyRockingham Castle (Garden), NorthamptonshireRotherfield Hall (Garden) , East SussexScotney Castle (Garden), KentSpetchley Park (Garden), WorcestershireSudeley Castle (Garden), GloucestershireThornbury Castle (Garden), GloucestershireWarley Place (Garden), EssexWestbury Court (Garden), GloucestershireWooton Lodge (Garden), Staffordshire
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Strandberg Publishing Untold Stories: Women, Gender, and Architecture
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Strandberg Publishing Lauritz de Thurah: Architecture and Worldviews in
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Strandberg Publishing Architecture of the Glyptotek
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Skira Heliopolis 21
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Skira Conceiving the Plan: In Honor of Diane Lewis
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Maggioli Spa Open Being: Mino Caggiula Architects
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£22.50
Valiz Luc Deleu - T.O.P. Office: Orban Space
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Leuven University Press Architecture in Oceania 18401970
£42.75
McGill-Queen's University Press Casa Loma
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly book dedicated to this Canadian landmark, Casa Loma brings to light a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival images and documentation of the house’s visual and material culture, weaving together a textured account of the design, use, and life of this unique building over the course of the twentieth century.Trade Review“Collaborative and archive-based, this thought-provoking kaleidoscope of ideas, images, and documentary materials will provide the foundation for all future investigations of this unique Canadian site. The story of the multifaceted lives of Casa Loma enriches our understanding of the wide-ranging ways in which historical monuments of art and architecture have been shaped, perceived, and subsequently reappropriated by later generations to serve contemporary needs.” Kathryn Brush, University of Western Ontario“Sir Henry Pellatt’s Casa Loma has been loved and loathed since before shovels even went into the ground in the early twentieth century. Designed with the most modern of touches, the imitation castle was never completed, and its builder died with little to his name other than a tarnished reputation. While largely misunderstood, their combined story is a fascinating one, now told with new rigour and archival insight in a wonderful collection of essays … .” Literary Review of Canada
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MO - University of Illinois Press The First American Women Architects
Book SynopsisAn invaluable reference covering the history of women architectsTrade Review“This reference packs exceptional informational breadth and scholarly passion.”--Library Journal"This work is very valuable for its coverage and documentation and as a sourcebook for further research. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"The biographical entries are all fascinating and include numerous photos and lists of buildings to commemorate these remarkable women. . . . An inspiring book."--Feminist Review online“Enlightening and pleasurable to read.”--Feminist Collections"This well-researched book is unlike anything else that is currently available on the subject of early women architects. An invaluable starting place for researchers and a highly recommended introduction to the underexplored field of women in architecture and design."--Amelia Peck, coauthor of Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875-1900"Sarah Allaback's definitive work completes the history of twentieth-century American architecture by documenting the buildings and careers of more than seventy-five women designers. I wish I had had this excellent resource to inform my earlier work. The First American Women Architects should be on the shelf of every architecture school library."--Daphne Spain, author of How Women Saved the City"The First American Women Architects is an amazing discovery. Sarah Allaback has unearthed a treasure chest of information, mostly undocumented until now. Some of these architects worked under pseudonyms to disguise their gender. Most faced harsh barriers in design education and practice. All leave a legacy that deserves recognition. Allaback's prodigious research provides scholars and architects with detailed building lists, publications, photographs, sources, and locations of papers, opening the door to further study of these ground-breaking women."--Kathryn H. Anthony, author of Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession
£35.10
University of Illinois Press Aesthetics and Technology in Building
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) was one of Europe's leading architects and most innovative structural engineers from the 1930s to his death. Cristiana Chiorino is an architect based in Turin and coeditor of Pier Luigi Nervi: Architecture as Challenge . Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi is Secretary General of the Pier Luigi Nervi Project in Brussels. Thomas Leslie is the Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture at Iowa State University. He is the author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 and Beauty's Rigor: Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi .Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Preface ELISABETTA MARGIOTTA NERVI Introduction CRISTIANA CHIORINO AND THOMAS LESLIE 1. Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) GABRIELE NERI 2. Toward Aesthetics and Technology in Building: Pier Luigi Nervi and the Clever Construction of an Ephemeral Success in the United States, 1951-1965 ALBERTO BOLOGNA 3. The Genesis of Aesthetics and Technology in Building ROBERTO EINAUDI 4. The Shape of Beauty HANS-CHRISTIAN SCHINK 5. Aesthetics and Technology in Building PIER LUIGI NERVI I. From the Past to the Present II. The Plastic Richness of Concrete Cast in Place III. The Plastic Richness of Precast Concrete IV. The Foreseeable Future and the Training of Architects Afterword. Pier Luigi Nervi: An Aesthetic of Thinking JOSEPH ABRAM INDEX
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University of Illinois Press Chicagoland Dream Houses
Book SynopsisChicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago's twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and builders.--Michelangelo Sabatino, coauthor of Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 19291975Trade Review"Moroney's book digs deep into the mid-century housing market and the mindset that produced so many homes after the Second World War and through to the present. . . . Readers may never see the vast stock of postwar homes the same way again. Not only did their designs refashion the family home, they created an ideal made possible by a combination of media attention, marketing and government intervention." --NewCity“An impressively documented work on an important, generally overlooked postwar homes competition. What makes the book exceptional is that it covers ‘architecture and design for everyday life,’ created by trained architects along with others, including those who were talented amateurs. That populist aspect makes Moroney’s work compelling and very different from many other books.”--John Zukowsky, author of Building Chicago: The Architectural MasterworksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Shortages: The Postwar Housing Crisis and Architectural Competitions To the Rescue: The Chicago Tribune’s Chicagoland Prize Homes Competition Spreading the News: Putting the Competition before the Public A More Permanent Legacy: Publishing the Prize Homes Book House Design and Domestic Life: Analyzing the Houses Modernism Skepticism: Contemporaneous Views of the Modern Aesthetic Competing Visions: Other Architectural Competitions Breaking Ground: The Building Project Houses in Flux: Prize Homes Houses Evolve Conclusion: A Competition Like No Other Appendix I Known Entries to the Prize Homes Competition Appendix II Prize Homes Competition Winners and the Designs Known to Be Built Notes Index
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