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Park Books A House to Live With
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£51.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Mies
Book SynopsisThe classic and most definitive monograph on iconic architect Mies van der Rohe
£75.00
Rizzoli International Publications Frank Lloyd Wright Natural Design Lessons for
Book SynopsisAn unsung prophet of today’s green movement in architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an innovator of eco-sensitive design generations ahead of his time. An architect and designer of far-reaching vision, it is not surprising that Frank Lloyd Wright anticipated many of the hallmarks of today’s green movement. Across his work—which stands upon a philosophy Wright termed organic—widespread evidence is seen of a refined sensitivity to environment, to social organization as impacted by buildings, and to sustainable and sensible use of space. The desire to work and live with nature to create livable homes and cities is an ongoing theme of American architecture and planning. This book explores Wright’s lessons on how climate, sustainability, sunlight, modern technology, local materials, and passive environmental controls can become the inspiration for excellent design, and highlights a selection of Wright’s buildings to show how he dealt with these issues.
£29.75
Rizzoli International Publications 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
Book Synopsis50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright begins with a simple question. What lessons can designers today learn from Frank Lloyd Wright? Unlike recent books focusing on Wright’s tumultuous personal life and the Taliesin Fellowship, and equally unlike certain works that paint Wright as a mythical hero or genius, this handsome and valuable volume aims to reveal some of the design tools Wright used to create exceptional architecture, interiors, and landscapes—and how we may glean insight from an American master and find inspiration for the thoughtful design of our own homes. By means of succinct examples, pithy texts by noted architecture experts Aaron Betsky and Gideon Fink Shapiro, and evocative visuals provided by photographer Andrew Pielage, they share fifty lessons, or learning points, with an eye to Wright-designed houses and interiors, ranging from Let Nature Inspire You, Screen, Don’t Close, and Embroider Rooms with Textiles, to Look Trade Review"Aaron Betsky, the former president of the School of Architecture at Taliesin, extracts 50 design lessons to be learned from American design icon Frank Lloyd Wright." —ELLE DECOR"...an earnest endeavor to understand the design concepts embraced across Wright’s prolific, 70-year-long career." —ARCHITECTSANDARTISANS.COM
£24.38
Rizzoli International Publications Richard Meier Architect Volume 8
Book SynopsisThis is Rizzoli’s eighth volume in the definitive series of monographs on the work of Richard Meier, one of America’s most acclaimed architects.Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 8 vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier’s unique and celebrated vision. Thirty residential, commercial, and civic projects are featured in a dazzling variety of scales and locales, including Manhattan, Los Angeles, the Hamptons, Las Vegas, Mexico City, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo, among many other venues. The development and significance of Meier’s work is discussed in authoritative essays by the distinguished architectural historian and curator Kurt W. Forster and world-renowned architect Alberto Campo Baeza. The architect himself contributes a preface that offers firsthand insight into his thought processes and working methods. A biographical chronology and selected bibliography complete this exhaustive and lavish monograph on a modern
£60.00
Quart Publishers Atelier Scheidegger Keller: Workbook
Book SynopsisThis volume compiles the buildings and projects produced by Atelier Scheidegger Keller since 2009. The collection is not a traditional architectural monograph, but is instead comparable to the logbook of a ship’s voyage: it records all the particulars and actions on the journey. Models, diagrams, codes, texts, maps, plans, sketches, mock-ups, building and detail plans, engineering and workshop drawings, building-site images and photo series all document the process, as well as the spatial, typological and constructive research involved. The result is direct insight into the multifaceted working methods and conceptual world of Atelier Scheidegger Keller. The four constructed buildings include the highly-acclaimed House with two Columns in Wilen (2014) and the Rosengarten student accommodation in Zurich-Wipkingen (2020), with its raw materialisation and double-storey halls and loggias. Text contributions by: Christian Scheidegger, Jürg Keller With articles from various sources by: Tibor Joanelly, Christian Kerez, Mario Monotti, Christoph Ramisch, Christoph Wieser, Raphael Zuber et al. Text in English and German.
£33.75
Birkhauser Haus Tugendhat. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Book SynopsisBuilt and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1928–1930, the Tugendhat House in Brno / Czech Republic is one of the most significant buildings of European modernism. In 2001, UNESCO added the house to the List of World Cultural Heritage Sites. In this third, updated edition, the authors give personal and historic insights relating to the house; also documenting aspects pertaining to art history and conservation-science studies. The comprehensive description and in-depth discussion of the materials used is a special feature in this field of research. The appeal of this monograph lies in the publication of photographs from the family archive which, for the first time, show the house in its lived-in condition. The experimental artistic color photographs by Fritz Tugendhat are among the pioneering achievements of amateur photography.
£51.78
König, Walther Johan Dehlin Five Buildings by Frank Gehry
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£41.25
Rizzoli International Publications Ride Antoine Predock
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£71.25
Ilios Editore Le Corbusier: Hospital in Venice: 1963-1970
Book SynopsisThe new Hospital Project in Venice was one of the most important works of Le Corbusier that has never been built. The death of the Swiss architect marked the end of one of the most exciting and dangerous experiments in the most spectacular city in the world.The new hospital's design in Venice was an acrobatic and audacious exercise that could have changed how Venice, the ever-still lagoon city, was perceived. This is the story of an unfinished masterpiece, the last shaped by Le Corbusier, and the intuition that allowed the most modern architect to shape the most modern project. Text but also the sharp description of the project by architectural design. Seventy-five original drawings describe and render the unfinished masterpiece of the French master. The project is interpreted, redesigned and described by consulting the massive archive and through the well known graphic techniques used by Ilios for all of its books. Original text and notes take the reader through a fantastic tour into one of the most crucial modern architecture projects. Examining one of the most important, unbuilt project of Le Corbusier Includes 44 photos and 75 drawings Written in English and Italian Print run of 300 copies
£28.50
Walther & Franz König 2G 93 SOS. Olafur Eliasson Sebastian Behmann
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£30.40
Yale University Press James Ensor
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] very useful guide to Ensor’s life and art...Tricot has uncovered new data about Ensor’s life from memoirs and Ensor’s own letters.”—Alexander Adams, Alexander Adams Art
£28.50
St Martin's Press The Hare with Amber Eyes
Book SynopsisA New York Times BestsellerAn Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful potswhich are then sold, collected, and handed onhe has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins The Hare with Amber Eyes, this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden f
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Rizzoli International Publications OMA NY
Book SynopsisThe long-anticipated monograph on OMA New York by Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long is sure to be the design and architecture book of the season. Presenting more than 20 radical architectural projects from a new generation of the firm, this mammoth volume is the first compendium by OMA, since Content and Rem Koolhaas’s S, M, L, XL. Well into its fourth decade, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975, remains one of the most influential and successful practices of its kind. OMA describes itself as “a firm operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism that applies architectural thinking to domains beyond.” OMA New York, has grown from an American outpost to a full-fledged operation with its own attitudes, contributing to the evolution of the globally acclaimed office. Through a diversity of projects, the firm has transformed our understanding of the city and our evolvTrade Review"There is something about architecture firm OMA’s new monograph, with its glossy, razor thin pages and jam-packed spreads, that calls to mind the Uline catalogue. Covered in a plastic sheath, the hefty coffee table book unpacks 23 projects past and present as a way into the question: what is OMA NY? Expert witnesses are called. Pioneers like Virgil Abloh, Alice Waters, David Byrne and Massimiliano Gioni all make a case for what continues to put the design studio ahead of its time." —CULTURED"For the New York office’s first monograph, OMA NY: Search Term (Rizzoli), the firm partners Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long re-examine their most influential projects: residential skyscrapers in Miami and San Francisco, mixed-use developments in Tokyo and Houston, more intimate spaces such as the studio for artist Cai Guo-Qiang, and more." —SURFACE
£59.50
Editions Norma Ricardo Bofill
Book SynopsisRenowned in Europe as an avant-garde architect in the 1970s, the Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill was called to the French stage following the destruction of Les Halles de Baltard in 1971. Called upon to compete in 1974, the architect attempted to revive the historic forms of Parisian architecture and urban planning. Rejected in April 1978 after more than 3 years of projects and models by Jacques Chirac, the first mayor of Paris, who preferred a neutral and less monumental architecture, Bofill nevertheless played a leading role in the development of new towns in France from 1972 to 1985, with projects that were as striking as they were controversial: These included Abraxas in Marne-la-Vallée, Le Lac in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Place Majeure in Cergy-le-Haut and the Antigone district of Montpellier.Designed as a fully illustrated diary describing the close relationship between architecture and politics under Valéry Giscard d''Estaing and François Mitterand, this book is the
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Other Press LLC The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin
Book SynopsisHumane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell—a British-American art critic, adrift in her midforties—becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house’s various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city’s familiar narratives.
£15.60
Vitra Design Museum The Vitra Campus: Architecture Design Industry
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s, Vitra has enlisted some of the world’s leading architects to design buildings for its campus, including Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw and Herzog & de Meuron. This has resulted in a unique architectural ensemble that attracts 350,000 visitors each year, about which Philip Johnson wrote: “Since the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart in 1927, there has not been a gathering in a single place of a group of buildings designed by the most distinguished architects in the Western world.” While the renowned Vitra Design Museum presents alternating exhibitions, the Schaudepot gives visitors an insight into parts of the museum’s extensive collection. In addition, during their time on the Campus, visitors can take part in a guided tour of the architecture or a workshop, enjoy the view from the Vitra Slide Tower and afterwards slide down the 37-meter-long slide, experience furniture classics and new products from the Vitra Home Collection in the VitraHaus as well as savour the offers of the shops and cafés. Originally published in 2014, this revised flexibound edition of The Vitra Campus offers an overview of Vitra architecture, its daily use, the development of the Campus and biographies of the contributing architects. An ideal souvenir and campus guide, The Vitra Campus is also a fascinating read about some of the most significant architects and buildings of our time.
£22.10
DOM Publishers Melnikov House: Icon of Modernism, Family Home,
Book SynopsisThe Melnikov House, a building designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov in Moscow for his family (1927 – 1929), is an icon of the architectural avant-garde. The house was originally built as an experimental cylindrical house to test out Konstantin Melnikov’s very own concept of mass construction of residential estate. The original layout, elegant spatial arrangement, and smart engineering techniques made this masterpiece world famous. According to the words of Melnikov, the essence of the house lies in its “even distribution of weight, light, air, and heat”. Being of a unique architectural form, it still looks modern while retaining the authentic memorial atmosphere of the twentieth century, thus reflecting the tragic life of this maverick architect. This book covers the house in its current condition – during its transformation from a family home to the State Melnikovs Museum, awaiting an in-depth survey by specialists and conservation works. The book contains rich archival materials as well as recent photographs. It describes the challenges and choices that need to be made during the process of museumification. Many of the memorial objects from the house linked to the professional life of the architect will be published for the first time.
£999.99
Lars Muller Publishers Andrea Palladio Unbuilt Venice
Book SynopsisAfter the successful conclusion of the centenary celebrations of Andrea Palladio''s birth, there are still many unanswered questions about his work. Antonio Foscari retraces Andrea Palladio''s life and offers new perspectives on the architects built and unbuilt work. The author reveals an image of Venice that differs from the one we all know: a city that projects herself into the modern age by abandoning the accepted principles of late medieval culture that had so profoundly influenced its formation.
£30.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American
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£25.19
Taschen GmbH Niemeyer
Book SynopsisUntil his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming skylines from Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria, to his homeland masterpiece Brasília. Niemeyer’s work took the reduced forms of modernism and infused them with free-flowing grace. In place of pared-down starkness, his structures rippled with sinuous and seductive lines. In buildings such as the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Edifício Copan, or the Metropolitan Cathedral in Brasília, he brought curvaceousness to the concrete jungle. In the futuristic federal capital of Brasília, he designed almost all public buildings, and thus became integral to the global image of Brazil. With rich illustrations documenting highlights from his prolific career, this book introduces Niemeyer’s unique vision and its transformative influence on buildings of business, faith, culture, and the public imagination of Brazil.
£14.25
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Escaping the Delta
Book SynopsisThis close-up look at the life and music of Robert Johnson and his contributions to the evolution of blues music describes his obscurity during his own life, his innovative influence on American popular music, and how the history of blues music was shaped and transformed by white fans with different tastes and standards.Trade Review"If you read only one book about blues...read this one." -- Starred Booklist on Escaping the Delta
£11.99
Monacelli Press Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect
Book SynopsisFirst study of the role of architecture in the work of Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American painting. At the height of his career as the leader of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting, Thomas Cole listed himself in the New York City Directory as an architect. Why would this renowned painter, who had never before designed a building, advertise himself as such? The importance of Cole’s paintings and the significance of his essays, poems, and philosophy are well established, yet an analysis of his architectural endeavors and their impact on his painting has not been undertaken - until now. In celebration of the recreation of the artist’s self-designed Italianate studio at Cedar Grove in Catskill, New York, now the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, this book focuses on Cole’s architectural interests through architectural elements found in his paintings and drawings as well as in his realized and visionary projects, expanding our understanding of the breadth of his talents and interests. An essay by noted art historian Annette Blaugrund and a contribution by Franklin Kelly, illustrated with Cole’s famous works, sketches, and architectural renderings, reveal an unexplored, yet fascinating, aspect of the career of this beloved artist—and thus, a crucial moment in the development of the Hudson River School and American art. Published to coincide with the exhibition “Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect” at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and travelling to the Columbus Art Museum, the book adds a new dimension to scholarship on the artist.Trade Review“Annette Blaugrund not only captured Cole's rise to prominence in the exhibition, which is on display through October - after which it travels to the Columbus Museum of Art - but also in a new book of the same name. 'No one ever wrote about his architecture before and put it together like this,' she says. 'It is absolutely unique.'” - Architectural Digest “The Thomas Cole National Historic Site’s inaugural art exhibition in its 'New Studio' building will be 'Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect' - the first exhibition to focus on a little-known but highly significant aspect of Cole’s contribution to American art, his architectural achievements, including the design for a significant public building: the Ohio State Capitol. Accompanying the exhibition is a new hardcover book of the same title. The 120-page publication contains 63 full-color images; an essay by Dr. Blaugrund about Cole’s architectural endeavors as seen in his paintings, drawings and realized projects; and a contextual essay on the legacy of Thomas Cole by Franklin Kelly, deputy director and chief curator at the National Gallery of Art.” - Antiques and the Arts Weekly “Annette Blaugrund examines the often forgotten architectural pursuits of the Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole on the occasion of the reconstruction of his self-designed studio at his home in Catskill, New York. She charts the tendency in Cole's work for natural landscapes to fall away in favor of increasingly imaginative architecture in paintings, such as The Architect's Dream and the Course of Empire series; this makes it abundantly clear why actual building was not a remotely surprising undertaking.” - Publishers Weekly
£27.17
De Gruyter Designing Spaces for Children: A Child’s Eye View
Book SynopsisMeeting children as equals is not only a question of pedagogical attitude. Designing Spaces for Children shows how architecture and interior design can promote childhood development. Based on historical and current concepts of progressive education, the book sketches design principles for building daycare centers and schools that can also be transferred to other spaces, such as pediatric clinics. Rooms can invite discovery; they can promote communication and social interaction, strengthen self-confidence, and be places of retreat or landscapes for play. For years, the Berlin architectural firm baukind has been creatively balancing the strict legal requirements and architectural possibilities of architecture suitable for children—always with a view to children’s needs. The book presents realized projects, such as the Kita Weltenbummler in Berlin, and aims to foster the equal involvement of children in the design of our environment.
£27.45
Phaidon Press Ltd The Architecture of Chanel
Book SynopsisAs featured in Harper’s Bazaar, WWD, Vogue, Cultured, and Forbes A celebration of the wonderful creative intersection between the architecture of Peter Marino and the aesthetic of fashion-house Chanel - a behind-the-scenes look at the buildings designed by Marino for Chanel in Chicago, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Nanjing, New York, Miami, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo This stunning celebration of the 25-year collaboration between two remarkable legends - the fashion house Chanel and Peter Marino - through a stunning collection of buildings that Marino designed to elevate Chanel's luxury retail spaces to the realm of fine art. With more than 300 stunning images, including architectural plans and original sketches by Marino together with an introduction by New York Times and Architectural Digest contributor Pilar Viladas, an interview by creator of Pin-Up magazine Felix Burrichter, and project descriptions by local writers, each perfectly placed to discuss Marino's work in its geographical context, this book features all 16 Chanel buildings worldwide for which Marino designed both the buildings and interiors - from the USA to Asia. Through his dedication to his craft and expert devotion to Coco Chanel's vision and resolutely modern spirit, Marino has ushered Chanel into a new age, all while perfecting the always elusive art of the timeless in architecture and design.Trade Review 'A behind-the-scenes look … of 16 of the fashion house’s most luxe retail locations.' – InStyle'This stylish coffee table book celebrates 25 years of collaboration between the iconic French design house and the rebellious American architect.' – Elle Decor 'A stunning celebration of the long-standing collaboration between Marino and the fashion powerhouse that is Chanel.' – Fast Company '[An] impressive portfolio of work.' – Bal Harbour Magazine'An elegant book showcasing elegant architecture and interiors that are, in turn, showcasing elegant women’s clothing.' – Interior Design Magazine'Oversized [and] richly illustrated.' – AD Pro'Magnificent.' – Forbes'A passport into [Marino’s] wonderland-like buildings.' – Galerie
£80.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Work of MacKayLyons Sweetapple Architects
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive monograph of this major North American practice winners of more than 100 awards, including the 2015 Gold Medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.Trade Review'McCarter’s writing exhibits a rare combination of the designer’s understanding of materials and methods with the historian’s grasp of precedent and style' - Library Journal
£48.00
Back Bay Books Hold Still
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Fallingwater Rising
Book SynopsisFallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight. Into his orbit stepped Edgar J. Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh department-store mogul-“the smartest retailer in America”-and a philanthropist with the burning ambition to build a world-famous work of architecture. It was an unlikely collaboration: the Jewish merchant who had little concern for modern architecture and the brilliant modernist who was leery of Jews. But the two men collaborated to produce an extraordinary building of lasting architectural significance that brought international fame to them both and confirmed WrightR
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WW Norton & Co An Infinity of Graces
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the work of the English architect and landscape designer who practiced almost exclusively in Italy from 1907 to midcentury.Trade Review"[H]andsome publication . . . beautiful illustrations . . . The scholarly aspects and completeness of this study are evident in the notes and bibliography of this very beautiful book. Highly Recommended." -- CHOICE
£34.19
Park Books Visiting
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Yale University Press The Sheldonian Theatre
Book SynopsisA jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. Published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the building's construction, this book takes a fresh look at the historical influences that shaped the Sheldonian's development.Trade Review“His book is a learned and fascinating account of the Sheldonian in its academic, intellectual and religious contexts.”—Peter Howell, The Art Newspaper -- Peter Howell * The Art Newspaper *Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock 2014 Award sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. -- Alice Davis Hitchcock Award * Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain *
£33.25
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Frida Kahlo: Una biografía / Frida Kahlo: A
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Right Angle Publishing Ltd Allies Morrison Buildings and Projects
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Penguin Putnam Inc Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of
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£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Hawksmoors London Churches Architecture
Book SynopsisSix remarkable churches built by Nicholas Hawksmoor from 1712 to 1731 still stand in London. This work examines these designs as a coherent whole - a single masterpiece reflecting Hawksmoor's design principles and his desire to reconnect architecturally with pure Christianity.Trade Review"Du Prey's well-argued book enhances our understanding of Hawksmoor's design processes, and sheds light into the murky corners of early 18th-century theological and political concerns. This latest book adds lustre to an engaging writer's reputation." - James Stevens Curl, Building Design "The close study of Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches in London extends du Prey's fascination with the legacy, appropriation, and adaption of classical principles and motifs in the evolving pattern of architectural representation.... The resulting book is a fascinating reconstruction of the social networks and cultural resources upon which Hawksmoor drew in designing his remarkable churches, enriched by intelligent analysis of the architectural fabric." - Choice
£999.99
Pointed Leaf Press Tham Ma Da: The Adventurous Interiors of Paola
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£58.50
John Wiley & Sons Inc BuckyWorks Buckminster Fullers Ideas for Today
Book Synopsis"A pleasure to read. " -Architectural Review "A wonderful, nontechnical introduction to one of this century's most fascinating minds. " -Whole Earth Review "Original... [and] valuable, because it describes... Fuller's original techniques. " -Architectural Record.Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Mission of Guinea Pig B 2 Chapter 2 The Lightful House 12 Chapter 3 The Design Science Revolution 62 Chapter 4 Getting Around 84 Chapter 5 Domes 110 Chapter 6 The Sorcerer's Apprentices 128 Chapter 7 Instant Domes 142 Chapter 8 The Garden of Eden 150 Chapter 9 Megastructures 182 Chapter 10 Spaceship Earth 192 Chapter 11 Jobs and Work 222 Appendix A – Selected Bibliography 230 Appendix B – Resources 236 Index 238
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Historic England Howell Killick Partridge and Amis
Book SynopsisThe Roehampton Lane (Alton West) estate is widely acclaimed as one of the seminal works of the Modern Movement in Britain. Less well known is the identity of its designers, four ambitious young architects in the employ of the London County Council: Bill Howell, John Killick, John Partridge and Stan Amis. Launched into practice with a maverick design for Churchill College, Cambridge, their output ranged from additions to Oxford and Cambridge colleges to theatres, houses and government buildings.Deriving a distinctive design language from revealed structure and highly modelled surfaces, HKPA developed a rich, allusive and extrovert architecture. Although a mastery of pre-cast concrete and a preference for raw finishes earned them an early reputation as Brutalists, their sensitivity to context, refined sense of light and materials and eye for the qualities of historic buildings transcends any single style. Geraint Franklin has combined interviews with archival research to tell the story of the individuals, collaborations and aspirations behind the built and unrealised projects. Lavishly illustrated with new photography by James O. Davies and images from the practice archive, this book is a must for architects, students and enthusiasts wanting to discover this key practice in British post-war architecture.Trade ReviewThis terrific set of books, masterminded by the Twentieth Century Society, is blasting apart lazy assumptions about the architecture of the period as being subsumed into dreariness by modernist dogma. Instead post-war Britain is seen as a country that blended a rich range of flavours, of which HKPA must surely be one of the more piquant. ... The quality that shines out most clearly from this excellent survey is the joyful pleasure the quartet took in the business of architecture. ... succinct, richly illustrated, and elegantly constructed survey.Otto Saumarez, The RIBA Journal...Franklin's incisive and sympathetic analysis of one of the most important architectural practices of the 20th century has been worth waiting for.Peter de Figueiredo, ContextTable of Contents1 Who were Howell Killick Partridge & Amis? 2 Roehampton Lane 3 Churchill College 4 Oxford 5 Cambridge 6 Learning elsewhere 7 Living 8 Performance 9 Law and Order 10 Legacy
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Princeton University Press The Life of Isamu Noguchi
Book SynopsisIsamu Noguchi was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. This book features his biography. It draws on Noguchi's letters, his reminiscences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast light on his youth, his creativity, and his relationships.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2005 Kiriyama Prize in Nonfiction, Pacific Rim Voices One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005 "One artist who succeeded brilliantly in absorbing Asian and Western influences was American sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi... One of the many merits of Masayo Duus's biography of Noguchi is her lively treatment of Noguchi's estranged father, Yonejiro (Yone") Noguchi... Whatever one makes of his poetry, Yonejiro was a pioneer in expressing his Japanese sensibility in a Western medium... [Isamu] Noguchi pared his vision down to a basic sensuality, which owed something to Brancusi and European modernism, and something to Japanese traditional craftsmanship, but mostly to his own extraordinary talent and sensibility, which allowed him to find warm life in the hardest stones."--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books "Masayo Duus's Life is well considered and never merely effusive... Noguchi was a consummate professional who excelled at whatever he undertook... [He] was forever a Japanese-American. This was a source of energy, and perseverance, and an ambition that never faltered. But it was not a source of serenity."--John Russell, Times Literary Supplement "Noguchi believed that 'my longing for affiliation has been the source of my creativity.' This is something that his biographer, Masayo Duus, also knows, and she has here most persuasively presented the interpretation that Noguchi would most have endorsed. The amount of material in her book is prodigious."--Donald Richie, Times Higher Education Supplement "Factually dense but lyrically written, Duus's vivid biography of Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi is as sleek and sophisticated as her subject's marble sculptures... Duus animates this packed biography with her detailed research and poignant anecdotes."--Publishers Weekly "Masayo Duus ... has very persuasively presented the interpretation that Noguchi himself would most have endorsed. The amount of material given is prodigious and her labors must have been enormous."--Donald Richie, Japan Times "[A] magisterial biography, based on archival research, thorough readings, and extensive interviews with almost 200 individuals... Duus seems to have ferreted out every piece of data on Noguchi's life and placed it in streams of accessible and fascinating reading, populated with major personalities of the time... Noguchi's work is placed sensitively in the context of his life and times."--Choice "Masayo Duss's recent biography of the artist is a refreshing change of pace. Duus highlights the diversity of Noguchi's life and artistic experience while refraining, for the most part, from pigeonholing him as an artist whose work reflects an essentially Japanese aesthetic... [S]he seems to think ... that Noguchi's unwavering commitment to artistic experimentation and a diversity of viewpoints and his unwillingness to be pinned down as an artist are what make his work and his life so compelling."--Amy Lyford, Art JournalTable of ContentsPrologue 6 Chapter One: Yone and Leonie 11 Chapter Two: His Mother's Child 33 Chapter Three: All-American Boy 77 Chapter Four: Journey of Self-Discovery 111 Chapter Five: Becoming a Nisei 149 Chapter Six: The Song of a Small 177 Chapter Seven: Honeymoon with Japan 205 Chapter Eight: The World of Dreams 239 Chapter Nine: The Universe in a Garden 273 Chapter Ten: Encounter with a Stonecutter 311 Chapter Eleven: Farewell to s Dreamer 349 Epilogue 390 Notes 397 Bibliography 420 Acknowledgments 428 Index 430 Photgraphy Credits 439
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Phaidon Press Ltd Eliot Noyes
Book SynopsisThe first publication about Eliot Noyes, an important figure in 20th-century design in America.Trade Review"Bruce, who worked with Noyes for around 10 years up to his death, knows his stuff. The text is conversational yet authoritative and the personal insights prove he was there. Discreetly designed with over 500 illustrations, it has a gorgeous back cover with an intriguing spider graph of Noyes' influence... Gropius said of Noyes that he was 'the only architect to make effective use of the Bauhaus' academic principles'. Read this and find out why."—Building Design "A great insight into Noyes' life, featuring extended interviews with many of his relatives and acquaintances, and bursting with colour photography, drawings plans and a diverse range of documentary material."—Wonderland "The story of the Bauhaus refugees' influence on American design is well known; but is is surely architect, educator and design consultant Eliot Noyes who warrants a place in history as the one who fed the Bauhaus system of 'total design' in the maw of corporate America."—Architecture Today "Biographies of the great American designers of the mid-20th century have a heroic quality that makes them different from those of other lands and eras... Noyes is less well known, yet his is a remarkable story... [A] combination of architecture with industrial design [...] made Noyes [...] well positioned to transform the image of American industry... This book is a fine tribute, beautifully designed, to a major player."—World of InteriorsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Early Years Chapter 3: The Harvard School of Architecture Chapter 4: The Museum of Modern Art Chapter 5: Building an Architectural and Industrial Design Profession Chapter 6: International Business Machines Chapter 7: Curator of Corporate Ethos Chapter 8: Final Years Endmatter: Timeline, Index
£38.25
Phaidon Press Ltd Hopkins 2
Book SynopsisThe second volume on the award-winning architect and his firm.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Colin Davies / Buildings: Glyndebourne Opera House, 1989-1994; Inland Revenue Centre, 1992-95; Queen's Building, Emmanuel College, 1993-95; Buckingham Palace Ticket Office, 1994-95; Jewish Care, 1993-96; Saga Group Headquarters, 1996 98; Dynamic Earth, 1990 99; Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, 1996-99; Sherborne School, 1999-2000; Wildscreen, Bristol, 1995-2000; Charterhouse Sheltered Housing, 1994-2000; Westminster Underground Station, 1990-98; New Parliamentary Building, 1989-2000 / 'Open House at Westminster: the New Parliamentary Building', by Patrick Hodgkinson / Projects: Hampshire County Cricket Club, 1994-2001; Manchester City Art Gallery, 1994-2001; Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Project, 1996-2001; Haberdasher's Hall, 1996-2001; Goodwood Racccourse, 1997-2001; Cakehouse, St James' Park, 1997-2001; Royal Academy Art Gallery, 1995-2003; Norwich Cathedral Visitors' Centre, 1005-2003; King Fahad National Library, Saudi Arabia, 1999; Wellcome Trust, 1999-2003; Evelina Children's Hospital, 1999 2003 / 'Hopkins Gravitas' by Charles Jencks / Chronology; Credits; Bibliography; Index.
£38.25
Lars Muller Publishers Miniature and Panorama: Vogt Landscape
Book SynopsisUsing a typological structure (landscape, park, square, garden, promenade, etc.), Gunther Vogt describes the theoretical foundation on which the successful projects of Vogt Landscape Architects are based. In recent years they have realized international projects in Europe and the United States, including a new type of city park for the Tate Modern in London (with Herzog & de Meuron); an "all-weather garden" with great poetic power at the Hyatt Hotel in Zurich (with Meili, Peter Architekten);an indoor tropical garden for the Novartis Campus in Basel (with Diener & Diener); and the exterior spaces of the Allianz Arena in Munich (with Herzog & de Meuron). The updated edition shows the finished projects that were presented as plans in the previous edition.
£42.50
Taschen GmbH Calatrava
Book SynopsisSpanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Famed for bridges as much as buildings, he has made his name with neofuturistic structures that combine deft engineering solutions with dramatic visual impact. From the Athens 2004 Olympic sports complex and the Museum of Tomorrow to the Peace Bridge in Calgary, Alamillo Bridge in Seville, and the Mujer Bridge in Buenos Aires, Calatrava’s creations show particular interest in the meeting point of movement and balance. With influences ranging from NASA space design to da Vinci’s nature studies, the structures dazzle with a sense of lightness, agility, and aerodynamism, but always with a graceful poise amid their particular surroundings. This compact introduction explores Calatrava’s unique aesthetic with key projects from his career, from early breakthroughs to his most recent work. Through buildings of culture, science, faith, and across his many famous bridges, we explore his integration of organic forms and human movements, and a uniquely fluid futurism, soaring towards tomorrow.
£14.25
Edition Axel Menges Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Fortress Complexes
Book SynopsisText in English & German. Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millennium later by their semiotic character. They represent an extreme of European architectural history, occupying a position where architecture and sculpture cannot be sharply distinguished any longer. The alien-looking creations represented in this book have their origins in a particular historic situation: the emergence of firearms in the 14th century and their spread in the 15th century had shifted the balance of warfare in favour of the attacking side, against which the defensive structure had not yet found a remedy. Enter Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439 to 1502) at this point, a native of Siena and one of the Quattrocento's highly versatile artists. He worked mainly in Federico da Montefeltro's Urbino, and left behind a body of work that included painting -- the three famous prospects of ideal cities in Berlin, Baltimore and Urbino are attributed to him -- sculpture -- primarily his imposing reliefs -- and architecture -- here he was definitely the outstanding figure between Alberti and Bramante. His achievements as an engineer are equally impressive, and his elaborate designs for machines strongly influenced those of Leonardo da Vinci. He was a true Renaissance uomo universale, though, despite of his voluminous and influential theoretical work, less in the sense of a humanist homme de lettres than as an all-round artist. Francesco's sacred and secular structures are classicist and austere in nature, yet his fortress structures look as if, moving beyond all functional concerns, he is exploiting the newness of the task, the lack of any tried and tested technical solutions and the removal of all typological boundaries to give his architectonic fantasies free rein, resulting in an apotheosis of the new, the unfamiliar and the alien. This book is an attempt to understand the strangely grandiose semiotic character of these structures. In doing so, it poses the question of what strategies can be used when seeking a shape for buildings for which there is no precedent.
£36.46
Edition Axel Menges Ernst von Ihne / Heinz Tesar Bode Museum, Berlin:
Book SynopsisText in English and German. Heinz Tesar has carefully preserved the existing Bode Museum building on the Museum Island in Berlin, and provided it with highly unusual additional sections for the anticipated hordes of visitors. His work proved its extraordinary qualities even at the opening. There is scarcely anywhere else in the world where the contrasting styles arising from a museum's various building periods come together to form such an individual whole, at best comparable in its density with the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa's museum designs. The essential basis for this successful symbiosis of heterogeneous stylistic elements is the variable historical architecture that museum director Wilhelm Bode invited architect Ernst Eberhard von Ihne to develop around 1900 for the collections, which were very disparate in both style and genre. When the museum opened in 1904, the magnificent architecture still had a political message to proclaim. It was called the 'Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum' at first, and there was a definite programme behind this: invoking the name of the art-minded earlier emperor and erecting ostentatious equestrian statues of figures from Prussian history was intended as a powerful pictorial display to anchor the Prussian dynasty in German history and European culture. But as Ihne eschewed any sense of regional identification, the museum could have carried his name after the abolition of the monarchy. But it was renamed Bode-Museum after its inventor Wilhelm von Bode in the GDR years, which indicates the significance of the stylistic spaces Bode created for the development of exhibition techniques. The text in the book provides a reminder of museum's first collection, a mixed one consisting of paintings, sculpture and furniture. The pictorial section then records the present content of the restored galleries, shaped by Heinz Tesar and using objects from the sculpture collection, the Byzantine museum and the numismatic collection. Tesar carried out some architectural interventions of considerable sculptural quality in the new basement under the small dome, in other words in the rotunda where the planned underground passage from the Pergamon-Museum will come in, and in the new stairwell added as a slim section in one of the courtyards.
£8.50
Gta Verlag The Stones of Fernand Pouillon - an Alternative
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£54.00
Simon & Schuster Leonardo da Vinci
Book SynopsisThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studieTrade Review"As always, [Isaacson] writes with a strongly synthesizing intelligence across a tremendous range; the result is a valuable introduction to a complex subject. . . . Beneath its diligent research, the book is a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it. . . . Most important, Isaacson tells a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life." —The New Yorker“To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time and in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages." —David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wright Brothers and 1776“I’ve read a lot about Leonardo over the years, but I had never found one book that satisfactorily covered all the different facets of his life and work. Walter—a talented journalist and author I’ve gotten to know over the years—did a great job pulling it all together. . . . More than any other Leonardo book I’ve read, this one helps you see him as a complete human being and understand just how special he was.” —Bill Gates“Isaacson’s essential subject is the singular life of brilliance. . . . Isaacson deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo . . . a masterpiece of concision.” —San Francisco Chronicle“A captivating narrative about art and science, curiosity and discipline.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Originals“He comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography . . . a vigorous, insightful portrait of the world’s most famous portraitist...Isaacson’s purpose is a thorough synthesis, which he achieves with flair.” —The Washington Post“Walter Isaacson is a renaissance man. . . . Rather like Leonardo, he’s driven by a joyful desire to discover. That joy bubbles forth in this magnificent book. In Isaacson, Leonardo gets the biographer he deserves—an author capable of comprehending his often frenetic, frequently weird quest to understand. This is not just a joyful book; it’s also a joy to behold. . . . Isaacson deserves immense praise for producing a very human portrait of a genius.” —The Times of London“The pleasure of an Isaacson biography is that it doesn’t traffic in such cynical stuff; the author tells stories of people who, by definition, are inimitable....Isaacson is at his finest when he analyzes what made Leonardo human.” —The New York Times“Monumental . . . Leonardo led an astonishingly interesting eventful life. And Isaacson brilliantly captures its essence.” —The Toronto Star"Majestic . . . Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize. . . . Totally enthralling, masterful, and passionate.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Illuminating . . . This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure." —Publishers Weekly, starred review“Isaacson uses his subject’s contradictions to give him humanity and depth.” —Anthony Grafton, The New York Times “Encompassing in its coverage, robust in its artistic explanations, yet written in a smart, conversational tone, this is both a solid introduction to the man and a sweeping saga of his genius.” —Booklist, starred review“A fresh and enthusiastic reading of the extraordinary da Vinci notebooks, written in a way that makes them both accessible and contemporary. Absorbing, enlightening and always engaging.” —Miranda Seymour, author of Mary Shelley“Isaacson's biography is linear enough to follow easily, yet it returns, as did the artist, time and again, to the highly concrete, enticingly yet rigorously investigable mysteries of the human and natural world. Model . . . . This beautiful book, on coated stock, showing text and illustrations to the best advantage, is a pleasure to hold.” —Bay Area Reporter“Isaacson, to his credit, helps us see Leonardo’s artistic vision with fresh eyes. . . . He writes simply and clearly, and even though his principal character hails from antiquity, the narrative hums like a headline from the morning paper, alert to topical parallels between then and now . . . we finish the book with a renewed conviction that the world’s most famous Renaissance man was, in essence, inimitable.” —Christian Science Monitor“A full and engrossing profile of the artist . . . The author moves fluidly between the scientific inquiries of Leonardo’s notebooks and the artistic achievements in his sketchbooks, and carries the same themes, such as the artist’s boundless curiosity and inquiry, through them in a way that does not seem too facile or overapplied.” —East Hampton Star“A 21st century page-turner." —USA Today“Exuberant . . . a richly illustrated ride through the artist’s life . . . a fascinating, bonbon-size tribute to the man who thought to ask.” —Newsday “Beautifully produced and illustrated, the biography is an ideal match of author and subject. . . . Fascinated by Leonardo’s genius, Isaacson lucidly and lovingly captures his stunning powers of observation that spanned so many disciplines. . . . Isaacson’s monumental and magnificent biography does succeed in helping us understand what made da Vinci’s paintings so memorable, and in making Leonardo much more accessible, as a genius, a man of and outside of his times, and as a 'quirky, obsessive, playful, and easily distracted' human being.” —Tulsa World“In some ways this is Walter Isaacson's most ambitious book. He uses the life he recounts in a wonderful way to speculate on the source of geniuses...always you are informed, entertained, stimulated, satisfied. This has to be the most beautifully illustrated and printed book I've seen in recent years.” —Fareed Zakaria GPS“[A] splendid work that provides an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millennium’s greatest minds.” —Guardian US"Leonardo da Vinci's prowess as a polymath — driven by insatiable curiosity about everything from the human womb to deadly weaponry — still stuns. In this copiously illustrated biography, we feel its force all over again. Walter Isaacson wonderfully conveys how Leonardo's genius unified science and art." —NATURE"Dazzling" —HARVARD GAZETTE"Luminous . . . Leonardo Da Vinci is an elegantly illustrated book that broadens Isaacson’s viewfinder on the psychology of major lives – Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs are the subjects of his previous biographies, best-sellers all." —THE DAILY BEAST
£19.80
Rizzoli International Publications Fallingwater Rizzoli Classics
Book SynopsisThis seminal volume, now back in print in a new format and at a reduced price, offers a deeply immersive tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most legendary building. A landmark volume to commemorate what is arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With stunning photography commissioned especially for the book, Fallingwater captures the much-loved masterpiece by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The book includes authoritative texts on Fallingwater’s history, structure, restoration, and collections, including the house’s relationship to its setting and its importance to the sustainability movement; its meaning in the context of Wright’s body of work; the analysis and planning process that went into Fallingwater’s restoration and how a seemingly unsolvable problem was overcome through modern engineering. The book is a tribute to the genius behind this masterwork.Trade Review“Editor Lynda Waggoner and photographer Christopher Little have produced a remarkable tribute to one of Wright’s signature works on the 75th anniversary of the 1936 groundbreaking (construction took three years).” ~Wall Street Journal “The book includes her introduction, as well as a great deal of new information, including correspondence between Wright and Kaufman never published before.” ~Architects and Artisans"Both informative and aesthetically pleasing, this definitive work will be well appreciated..." ~Publishers Weekly “…the book brings to the foreground the emotional experience that a visitor can extract from visiting this exceptional place.” ~Archinovations"Thanks to Fallingwater, a new book of essays and sumptuous photographs edited by Fallingwater's director, Lynda Waggoner, you can take an engrossing armchair tour. Those cantilevered decks still inspire..." ~Houseplans.com
£22.50
