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Vendor:Yale University Press
Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America
Hardcover | 25.15 x 2.54 x 28.45 cm | 264 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9780300234220 This spirited volume shows how postwar designers and architects embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War...- £20.00
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Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot
Chad Randyl Softcover | 19.37 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm | 208 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2008 | 9781568986814 Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have...- £10.00
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Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design
Aileen Kwun & Bryn Smith Softcover | 17.8 x 22.9 cm | 224 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2016 | 9781616892814 20 Over 80 collects intimate interview portraits of inspiring and enduring creatives from the fields of architecture and design. Featuring legendary figures from graphic, product,...- £12.00
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Rethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and Design
Burkhard Meltzer & Tido von Oppeln Softcover | 6.76 x 2.29 x 24.13 cm | 298 pp Thames and Hudson | 2016 | 9780500292358 The modular did not have to be invented: it can be found everywhere. We divide surfaces into grids, spaces into parts, and...- £13.50
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Vendor:MIT Press
Bauhaus Futures
Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.92 x 23.65 cm | 376 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262042918 Essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and a play explore the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if...- £22.50
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Vendor:Scheidegger & Spiess
What Moves Us?: Le Corbusier and Asger Jorn in Art and Architecture
Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm | 210 pp Scheidegger & Spiess | 2015 | 9783858817730 Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one the most influential architects of the 20th century. In the Scandinavian countries, his influence is arguably most pronounced in the writings...- £17.50
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Vendor:Monacelli Press
Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture
Paul Goldberger Hardcover | 27.31 x 2.86 x 25.72 cm | 288 pp Monacelli Press | 2009 | 9781580932646 The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize...- £10.00
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Vendor:Birkhäuser
Tadao Ando
Yann Nussaume Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.91 x 26.04 cm | 192 pp Birkhäuser | 2009 | 9783034600057 The minimalist concrete architecture of Tadao Ando has roots both in Japanese traditions and in Western architecture. This book begins with both contexts: it explores how Ando...- £17.50
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American City X: Syracuse After the Master Plan (Non-mint)
Mark Robbins Hardcover | 19.05 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm | 160 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2013 | 9781616891060 Exploring the intersection of architecture, landscape, infrastructure and planning in the redevelopment of the civic realm, American City X looks at the impact of strategic...- £10.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Karen Kice Softcover | 21.6 x 13.7 x 1 cm | 88 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300210637 A bold, theoretical look at an emerging generation of architects, this volume is devoted to five contemporary practices-Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder,...- £7.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Precision
Francesca Hughes Softcover | 18.11 x 2.69 x 25.4 cm | 320 pp MIT Press | 2014 | 9780262526364 When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that once organised...- £20.00
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Vendor:Bauer & Dean
Jock Peters: The Varieties of Modernism - Architecture and Design
Christopher Long Hardcover | 21.77 x 2.49 x 26.97 cm | 304 pp Bauer & Dean | 2021 | 9781735600116 Scholar and historian Christopher Long turns his attention to the little-known German-born architect and designer Jock Peters (1889–1934). Long’s engaging study introduces us to...- £17.50
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Vendor:Liverpool University Press
Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City Branding
Jonathan Harris & Dr. Richard Williams Softcover | 21.59 x 2.03 x 17.02 cm | 336 pp Liverpool University Press | 2011 | 9781846316401 This collection is an essential guide to, and critique of, visual arts regeneration strategies mobilised by local and national governments...- £20.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Hector Zamora: Lattice Detour (The Roof Garden Commission)
Softcover | 11.3 x 0.3 x 18.34 cm | 64 pp | 43 illustrations Yale University Press | 2020 | 9781588396891 The work of Mexican artist Héctor Zamora engages with urban or built environments, both disrupting and re-articulating the viewer’s interaction with the site....- £5.00
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Vendor:Black Dog Publishing
House of the Book: Zvi Hecker's Jewish Community School
Peter Cook, John Hejduk & Zvi Hecker Softcover | 16.46 x 0.86 x 22.5 cm | 112 pp Black Dog Publishing | 2005 | 9781901033151 The commission for the Jewish Community School was won in 1991 by the Israeli architect Zvi Hecker, whose other works...- £4.50
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Vendor:Coracle
dubh: Dialogues in Black
Richard Deming & Marianne Mays Hardcover | 24.7 x 1.8 x 15.9 cm | 128 pp Coracle | 2012 | 9780906630457 The colour black has long held a fascination in art, craft and design. dubh: Dialogues in black looks at black as both a physical and...- £5.00
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Vendor:Phaidon
Drama: David Rockwell (Non-mint)
Hardcover | 22.73 x 3.18 x 30.1 cm | 312 pp Phaidon | 2021 | 9781838662585 A celebration of the work of contemporary architect David Rockwell, who works at the intersection of architecture and performance. This unique insight into the projects and philosophy of...- £20.00
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Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service Through Architecture
Bryan Bell Softcover | 16 x 2.3 x 22.4 cm | 239 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2003 | 9781568983912 With rare exceptions, we tend to think of architects as working in the domain of the rich and the commercial. Not so Bryan Bell or the...- £15.00
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Vendor:Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Mysteries of the Mall and Other Essays (Non-mint)
Witold Rybczynski Hardcover | 14.7 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm | 336 pp Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2015 | 9780374269937 A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes.In Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How Architecture Works,...- £12.00
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Vendor:Black Dog Press
Arcade: Artists and Place-making
Softcover | 20.96 x 1.27 x 26.04 cm | 160 pp Black Dog Publishing | 2006 | 9781904772545 Arcade Artists and Place-making is a documentation by artists, academics, architects, writers and lay commentators of the work surrounding the regeneration of the Gorbals area of Glasgow....- £5.00
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