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London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Two volume set written by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Building Research Station) covering contemporary building design, materials and methods. Volume 1: Part I. The Building as a Whole; Part II. The Wall and its Functions. Reprinted 1964. Slight rubbing to ends of spine and corners. Volume II Floors and Roofs. Reprinted 1963. As Vol 1 this volume is intended as a supplement to, and not substitute for, a text-book on building construction. Previous owner's details on front paste-down, spine slightly faded with slight rubbing to ends of spine and corners. Both volumes are illustrated with b/w diagrams, charts and photographs.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ARCHITECTURE BUILDINGS DESIGN TECHNOLOGY WALLS FLOORS ROOFS. more information

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London: Phaidon Press, 1999. Highly illustrated, colourful and vibrant, punctuated with Jerde's personal philosophy, his conceptual sketches and newly commissioned colour photography, the book reflects the potent complexity and provocative exuberance of this work.240pp.. ISBN: 0714838306. D/J in Protective Wrapper. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ARCHITECTURE GENERAL. more information

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London: Phaidon Press, 2001. The brainchild of art-school graduate Gary Withers, Imagination encapsulates the essence of a creative professional collective, based on pooled skills, the vision to blend them and now an impressively conceived and packaged book to showcase them. Started in 1978, the company's role finally emerged in the early 1990s as "brand experience", whereby they enable clients to express corporate identity through innovative product presentation that bears Imagination's mark but the client's brand. 205pp.. ISBN: 0714840858. D/J in Protective Wrapper. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS ARCHITECTURE GENERAL. more information

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London: Bloomsbury, 1987. 244pp.. ISBN: 0906223849. Fourth Impression. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SCOTTISH HISTORY ARCHITECTURE ROBERT ADAM. more information

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Colchester: Mersea Bookshop, 1983. 120pp.. ISBN: 0950891908. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ESSEX WATERMILLS INDUSTRIAL HISTORY. more information

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London: Mitchell Beazley, 1998. This work features over 120 properties illustrating the development of town house architecture since 1400, ranging from medieval gabled merchant's houses and simple Victorian artisan dwellings to white-walled Modernist housing and 1990s glass and steel structures. 176pp.. ISBN: 1840000295. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. TOWN HOUSE ARCHITECTURE. more information

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Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 2004. This work contains text in English and German. When the German Embassy in Washington was completed in 1964, the architectural critic of the "Washington Post" wrote that the express aim of those commissioning the building had been to make an architectural statement that would embody the spirit of the young German democracy and avoid any form that could revive grim memories of the past. The paper felt that it had been right to engage Egon Eiermann for this project, as he had already solved the same problem of 'architectural diplomacy' with his German Pavilion for the Brussels World Fair in 1958.60pp.. ISBN: 3930698544. Cloth. New/New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. ARCHITECTURE TOWN PLANNING PUBLIC COMMERCIAL EGON EIERMANN GERMAN EMBASSY USA WASHINGTON. more information

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Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 2004. The book presents four of the most important contemporary museums of the world: Museo Canoviano, Possagno; Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa; The Audrey Jones Beck Building, MFAH; and, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg. Each essay details the unique design concepts of each museum, illustrated with interior and exterior details. 222pp.. ISBN: 3930698684. First Edition. Cloth/Laminated Boards. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ARCHITECTURE, MODERN_20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS AND. more information

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Helsinki: SkS, 2003. For decades, the international professional press has described Finland's architecture as characterized by clear-cut forms, logical use of natural materials, attention to detail, careful construction, and sympathetic approach to the landscape. In 'Constructing a Legend', architect-researcher Petra Ceferin takes a critical, strikingly fresh look at the international image surrounding Finnish architecture today, and more importantly, what lies behind it, why this particular image emerged. The Museum of Finnish Architecture was created, in part, to promote Finnish architecture abroad. Employing a series of carefully crafted exhibition tours comprised largely of photographs, the museum strove to define and disseminate the best architecture the country had to offer. Both the name and work of the renown Alvar Aalto lent credibility and celebrity to these events, capturing the imagination of the public and the press alike. Ceferin sees this exhibition-process as the making of a legend, a rich story handed down from the past, the truth of which she questions with a rare mix of revealing empirical research and a sharp sense of investigative irony. Why do we talk about Finnish architecture the way we do? Why does it appear so easy to recognize its central features in the buildings designed by Finnish architects? And why it is so difficult to describe them in a way that does not correspond with what we know as Finnish architecture? Seizing on the notion that we know architecture principally through photography -- that architecture was conveyed to the public through the photographs at these exhibitions -- she points to the curious role of this medium in creating a specific image of Finnish architecture. The foundations of modern architecture are in for some critical restoration. 199pp.. ISBN: 9517465424. First Edition. Cloth. As New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ARCHITECTURE TOWN PLANNING CURRENT EVENTS. more information

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Vancouver, BC, Canada: Granville Island Publishing, 2006. In contrast to the typical panorama shots of Vancouver, this collection is a nod to the built structures of the city. Far more than a photo collection, this book is a guide complete with maps and pointers. It is an invitation to explore the subjects of its pages, that bring together old and new, bridges and buildings, objective and subjective realities. The area covered encompasses the city's downtown core, from Stanley Park eastward to the neighbourhoods of Chinatown and Citygate, and from Coal Harbour south to English Bay, Granville Island and False Creek. Offering a fresh exploration of the city's downtown areas, this highly readable book will appeal to visitors, newcomers and long-time residents alike. 229pp.. ISBN: 1894694449. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. VANCOUVER PHOTOGRAPHY CITY LIFE. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, 1987. Tracing the history and success of Kohn Pedersen Fox. With colour photographs throughout.351pp.. ISBN: 0847807495. First U.S. Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ARCHITECTURE UNITED STATES HISTORY. more information

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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Vital public places - squares, post office steps, playgrounds, street corners - are centres of joyful celebration, heartbroken communion, civic discussion, or for simply hanging out. "Squares" is intended to help designers, planners, public officials, students, developers, and community leaders understand the history and theories of public commons, elicit community dialogue and desires, respond to the natural and built environment, and design compelling places. Mark C Childs contends that places built to support conviviality are critical components of a good town. He includes theory, brief case studies, and 126 design queries and discussions. Childs explores the design implications of the automobile, electronic media, the natural environment, urban furniture and structures, public safety, and public art. Interspersed with Childs' text are brief essays by other authors addressing particular kinds of public spaces: parks, urban beaches, farmers' markets, and community gardens.208pp.. ISBN: 0826330045. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CITY PLANNING ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC SPACES. more information

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Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, 1990. This book is an A-Z of public buildings and the first, earliest known or oldest surviving buildings of those types.The author covers a variety of buildings from Roman churches to multiscreen cinemas and from Bronze Age Harbours to international airports. Illustrated with b/w photographs and includes lengthy bibliography/resource list. 192pp. Slight rubbing head and tail of cover spine, removed label mark bottom of rear paste-down, corners of d/j at joint with insert chipped esp top rear.. ISBN: 0715392719. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D/J In Protective Wrapper. BUILDING ARCHITECTURE HISTORY PUBLIC BUILDINGS. more information

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Victoria, BC, Canada: Dear Brutus Publishing, 2005. Percy Leonard James was one of Victoria, British Columbia's preeminent architects through the early decades of the twentieth century. This well-researched biography, written by his daughter, chronicles James' personal and professional life from his early days in England to his becoming one of Victoria's most influential designers. As James' work is often overshadowed by his contemporary architects, Samuel Maclure and Francis Mawson Rattenbury, this book is long overdue and, in some instances, sets the record straight.220pp.. ISBN: 0973725907. Paperback. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CANADA_BIOGRAPHY ARCHITECTURE_CANADA ARCHITECTS_BIOGRAPHY. more information

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Stuttgart and London: Edition Axel Menges, 2009. The text is in English and German. The challenges facing the 21st century are staggering: rapidly increasing population, mounting social instability due to global imbalances of wealth and welfare, resource scarcity and resulting conflicts related to their exploitation and distribution, and certainly the ongoing distress of the environment as a whole. Such severe conditions, including climate change, continue to become greater in number, complexity, and clarity, even though most of them had already been introduced as areas of concern in the 1970s and 1980s. Part I of the book describes potential strategies that will play an essential role in curbing carbon emissions, reducing - or replacing - fossil fuel usage. To better understand the current global energy industry, the book is unique in showing energy consumption data across the globe in comparable units, and it explains how fossil fuels could be replaced by renewable energy resources. Part II explains how the necessary significant reductions in energy consumption can be achieved by alternative means at reasonable cost for power generation to be maintained. A great number of projects are described in the book as case studies that fulfil the variety of international energy codes. Part III addresses the technological possibilities for energy savings and resource-sensitive solutions related to buildings. Here, the potential of building-integrated solar systems, wind-power generation, rain-water harvesting, and the use of geothermal energy, as well as their implementation in the architecture are presented in detail. On the one hand, the book presents the background for a broader understanding of the medium-range and long-range changes in our energy landscape, and on the other it provides the basis for avenues required to enable us to design strategies based on local conditions and individual geographical locations. Over the past 20 years, Klaus Daniels and the engineers of his engineering consultancy HL Technik have published four volumes of seminal work related to this subject, and their work is continuously being updated. In this series, the new book is an attempt to illustrate how modern architecture needs to be adaptive to energy conditions and how design and technology can be blended successfully. 368pp.. ISBN: 9783936681253. First Edition. Cloth. New/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ENERGY DESIGN FUTURE PROBLEMS POPULATION ARCHITECTURE. more information

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom: National Museums of Scotland Publishing, 2001. Examines the history,design and function of various Scottish homes,their cultural context within the country's heritage and how they should be cared for.128pp.. ISBN: 1901663620. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. D/J in Protective Wrapper. NATIONAL TRUST SCOTLAND BUKILDINGS HERITAGE ARCHITECTURE. more information

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Stuttgart and London: Edition Axel Menges, 2004. This work contains text in English and German. In the summer 1978, the cover of the magazine "Bauwelt" showed a photograph of an unusual building. It was tersely introduced to readers as a 'private house with office in Bad Nauheim', but it was immediately obvious that this was a built manifesto. What appeared was a strictly symmetrically articulated, steeply rising facade, emanating dignity and composure. It also seemed able to manage without windows, which further enhanced its austere elegance. And then there were the strikingly slender, sharp-angled wall elements, which seemed captivatingly graceful, or even delicate and fragile - as though folded from paper. The fact is that, long before Gilles Deleuze had cast his spell on a new generation of aesthetically ambitious architects, Johannes Peter Holzinger was putting his folding skills into practice as a matter of course.60pp.. ISBN: 3930698536. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ARCHITECTURE GERMAN. more information

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New York, U.S.A.: The Vendome Press, 1983. 144pp.. ISBN: 0865650357. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. BRIGHTON PAVILION ARCHITECTURE. more information

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Zurich: Eugen Rentsch , 1925. Slight spotting on last two pages. Contains 39 photographs.208pp.. Cloth/Gilt. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ARCHITECTURE FRANCE SWITZERLAND ART HISTORY. more information

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Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Urban Land Institute, 2006. Extremely practical, this book reveals how to develop an environmentally sustainable office building in a cost-effective way. Not only does it teach about the business case for green buildings, but it also explains the nuts and bolts of site planning, design, sustainable construction, facilities management, financing and leasing, and government policies and trends. 366pp.. ISBN: 0874209374. Second Printing. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ENVIROMENT ECO GRENN DEVELOPMENT. more information

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London: Thames & Hudson, 1997. Recognized as one of Japan's finest architects, Fumihiko Maki reached a greater audience in the 1990s with the completion of his first major projects in the United States and Europe - the Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, and the Isar Buropark in Munich. This study focuses on 25 of the architect's buildings, tracing the evolution of his ideas and architectural vocabulary. Arranged thematically, a range of work is featured, from a small house in Poland to the massive construction of the Makuhari Messe complex on Tokyo Bay. The text includes essays by Botond Bognar, Paolo Polledri, Kenichi Echigoshima and Alex Krieger as well as excerpts from "Investigations in Collective Form", written by Maki in 1964 and the basis for much of his subsequent practice. 288pp.. ISBN: 0500280312. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ARCHITECTURE BUILDINGS JAPAN. more information

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Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Urban Land Institute, 2008. Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it - by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. . ISBN: 0874200822. First Edition. Cloth/Laminated Boards. New/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ENVIRONMENTALISM URBAN DEVLOPMENT ARCHITECTURE. more information

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London: Al Turath in Asssociation with the London Centre of Arab Studies, 1997. Until 1986, when it was acquired by H.R.H. Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Sa'ud, the old farmhouse at al-'Udhaibat was a tumble-down, neglected mud-brick ruin, no different from many other such buildings which have survived in Saudi Arabia from before modernisation. It was unmaintained and - as all buildings of sun-dried mud will, if left - was quietly subsiding into oblivion. Al-'Udhaibat is situated just north of the metropolitan sprawl of modern Riyadh, in a location of special resonance for Saudi Arabians. For it lies in the great Wadi Hanifah, just south of al-Dir'iyyah, the old, ruined mud-built capital of the First Saudi State and hub of the 18th-century Islamic reform movement. How the attempt to restore this modest farmhouse, once owned by the late King Faisal, developed into a complex project with important implications for rural housing and the place of traditional materials in modern building, is the story told in this book. Al-'Udhaibat remains a test-bed, its performance under constant scrutiny, and a source of inspiration for the new generation of Saudi architects. Topics covered in this lavishly illustrated book, aimed alike at architects, planners and general readers, include: The role of vernacular style in modern architecture; The environmental and historical setting of al-'Udhaibat; Traditional techniques of adobe building in Najd; Issues in adobe restoration and re-building; The re-building process in detail; The reclamation and re-conditioning of the farmland; The future of adobe in the modern world. Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Sa'ud is a grandson of the late King 'Abd al-'Aziz and a nephew of the late King Faisal. He is perhaps best known to the general public for becoming, in 1985, the first Arab astronaut. He is today, however, equally prominent as an opinion-former, and his commitment to Islamic values and his concern for architecture and the environment are well-known. He is currently the President of the High Commission for Tourism in the Kingdom.216pp. . ISBN: 1900404133. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ADOBE BUILDING MIDDLE EAST SAUDI ARABIA ARCHITECTURE HISTORY. more information

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Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 2008. Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for two opposing environments: the peaceful garden--a carefree paradise--and the New City--a harmonious community. For Gunther Feuerstein, all these cities and towns, though only fictitious, have long since been built, and he strolls through them together with the architects, planners, writers, and philosophers, just as Thomas More, Antonio Filarete, William Morris, and many others once led us through their cities.414pp.. ISBN: 9783930698264. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ARCHITECTURE HISTORY ART. more information

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Stuttgart/London: Axel Menges, 2005. This title features text in German. The title of the publication is intended as an allusion to the virtually manifesto-like treatise 'Ornament und Verbrechen' of 1908 by the Viennese architect Adolf Loos. For more than six decades - from the Deutscher Werkbund and the Bauhaus to the Ulm School and Functionalism - this influential document effectively legitimized the taboo on every kind of decoration and ornamentation. Our title thus calls attention to the change of perspective unanimously adopted by architecture and product design primarily in the 1980s. Both Postmodernism and Memphis - two movements which today exhibit greater similarities than differences - were above all aesthetic reactions to Functionalism, which they considered cold, technocratic and one-sidedly rational.64pp.GERMAN TEXT.. ISBN: 3932565452. Paperback. New/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. DECORATION AND ORNAMENT ARCHITECTURE. more information

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Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 2003. This title features text in English and German. The distinguished architect and Pritzker laureate Richard Meier has attracted public attention mainly with his museum and cultural buildings including the Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Stadthaus in Ulm and the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The book accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt, which has recently been relaunched with differently conceived museum facilities and new service areas; these are addressed in detail in an appendix to the book. 127pp.N.B.Rubbing to d/j.. ISBN: 3932565320. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. DESIGNERS ARCHITECTURE. more information

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London: Alec Tiranti, 1966. Some darkening to d/j.174pp.. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ARCHITECTURE ITALY VILLAS FRASCATI. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Slight rubbing and darkening to d/j spine.,slight chipping to head of d/j spine.Previous owner's dedication on ffep.184pp.. Fifth Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HISTORIC ORNAMENT ART DESIGN ARCHITECTURE. more information

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Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004. With elements of catalogue, guidebook, and historical summary, this richly illustrated book offers a comprehensive source of information for art historians, folk art enthusiasts, museum curators, and the casual traveller to Chiapas. The Mexican state of Chiapas and its historical connections to Guatemala during the colonial period, offers travellers an experience different from most states in Mexico. Here they see Indians and Ladinos living side by side following centuries-old traditions, each with their own interpretation of Catholicism, and a symbolic language that distinguishes their culture and customs. This book documents a fast-disappearing tradition of iron crosses as house blessings as collected by the late Frans Blom, now located at Na Bolom, the Museum and Cultural Centre established in 1960 in San Cristobal de Las Casas. By extending her purview from this collection to the more than two hundred extant crosses of iron, wood, and cement that are still visible on roofs of San Cristobal, Guess presents a wealth of information that traces the tradition from its origins, identifies stylistic variations that occur among these roof crosses, and provides interpretations of the symbols that adorn them. In a series of walking tours the author guides readers through the streets of the old barrios where the crosses still can be viewed. Interviews with homeowners and ironworkers provide explanations as to the importance of these talismans to those who make them and those who use them to bless their homes. 206pp.. ISBN: 0890134286. D/J in Protective Wrapper. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MAYA ART SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS MEXICO SYMBOLISM ROOF CROSS TRADITION ANTHROPOLOGY RELIGION CHIAPAS ARCHITECTURE ART. more information

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Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 2005. China possesses a long continuous architectural history, and architecture plays a distinctive role in Chinese civilisation itself, in which the concept of architecture and the way of construction are entirely different from those in the West. In the field of architectural history, a specialist study by a variety of distinguished scholars, both Chinese and non-Chinese, covered the style and aesthetics of Chinese architecture that has been recognised as timelessness and unchanging quality. The architectural diversity and variation, and technological innovation and evolution of Chinese architecture have largely been ignored. This book presents a thematic discussion of architectural history and a critical evaluation of city planning, with a focus on the issues of ideas, methods and techniques in the context of the culture, politics and religion of the pre-modern China. In the book, Qinghua Guo establishes a broad periodisation for the architectural formation and development with a clear conceptual framework for it, and interprets its architectonics and typology in details. This study attempts to identify major characters of Chinese architecture and planning in order to understand how they were formed and why.166pp. . ISBN: 3932565541. First Edition. Cloth. New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ARCHITECTURE CHINA DESIGN. more information

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Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Urban Land Institute, 2007. Practical how to information on designing and developing attractive, profitable, and environmentally responsible planned communities. This book includes 10 case studies of successful projects in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.221pp.. ISBN: 9780874209914. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ARCHITECTURE ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABLE PLANNED COMMUNITIES ARCHITECTURE. more information

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Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 1998. This book features text in English and German. Linking art and architecture is one of the great Utopias of our century. Art has been released from its traditional bonds and sees itself faced with a world that has made systems independent to the extent that a link between art and building based on the idea of unity is no longer admissible. The collapse of our 'world into pieces' also typifies that situation of the arts looking for new orders. Now, artist-architect Johannes Peter Holzinger, in co-operation with artists Eberhard Fiebig, Ottmar Horl/Formalhaut, Leonardo Mosso, Norbert Muller-Everling, Ansgar Nierhoff and Andreas Sobeck, working on the government buildings on the Hardthohe in Bonn, has succeeded in creating 'an avant-garde landmark that shows in the interplay of the arts that the avant-garde can also work positively in a team', as Dieter Ronte, director of the Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, put it in a contribution to this book. Holzinger links heterogeneous artistic positions in attempting an order of the different. The art in the outer areas of the complex mediates between the surroundings and the buildings. The visual signing system leads further into the centres, which are the same shape, of the existing administrative buildings, and creates some thing that is unmistakable there. The special structures designed by Holzinger, an intermediate form of architecture and landscape developed from the relief, include the earth itself, and in the casino architecture and art combine to form an indissoluble unit. 71pp.N.B.Slight mark on front d/j.. ISBN: 3932565096. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. PUBLIC BUILDINGS PUBLIC ART ARCHITECTURE DESIGN. more information

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Canada: Dundurn Group Ltd ,Canada, 2004. Osgoode Hall is a national monument and one of the architectural treasures of Canada. Of the many public buildings erected in pre-confederation Canada and British North America, it best encapsulates the diverse stylistic forces that shaped public buildings in the first half of the nineteenth century. The gated lawns, grandly Venetian rotunda, the noble dimensions of its library, handsome and ornate courtroom, portrait-lined walls and stained glass evoke a venerable dignity to which few Canadian institutions even aspire. It has been the seat of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1832 and of several of the Superior Courts of the province for almost as long. Intended to be the focal point of the legal profession in Upper Canada it has become a symbol of the legal tradition not only in Ontario but throughout Canada and beyond. 331pp.. ISBN: 1550025139. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE CANADA ONTARIO TORONTO. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: Key Porter Books, 1998. Two blacked out library stickers on title page, lacks ffep, library stamp on rear inside cover. 192pp.. ISBN: 1550139622. Reprint. Paperback. Good/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex Library. BUILDING REPAIR MAINTAINANCE RESTORATION. more information

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Fellbach, Germany: Edition Axel Menges, 2006. The text is both in English and German. The building for the Alfred-Wegener-Institut fur Polar- und Meeresforschung is near the city centre by the commercial harbour. What is striking is the unusual facade: a pattern is made with glazed tiles in white, grey and black, seeming more regular than it actually is. 60pp.. ISBN: 3932565606. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ARCHITECTURE TOWN PLANNING PUBLIC COMMERCIAL STEIDLE ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUT BREMERHAVEN. more information

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Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2007. At the urban scale the harbour is a grandiose meeting between the town and the fjord landscape, representing an interesting interface between the local life and the big world. Here we still have a great variety of old and new architectural typologies. This scenery calls for quality. The waterfront is a common gift for all citizens and it has been the gateway for hopes for a better life and a meeting place between 'tradition' and 'the new'. In 2005 the 'Harbourscape Aalborg' workshop and conference took place at Aalborg University with the participation of 45 architects, engineers and planners from Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The aim was to develop visionary strategies and design proposals emphasising the concepts of the development and regeneration of the waterfront in Aalborg. This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the different methodological approaches and the resulting design concepts. The aim has been to investigate a full-scale dialogue on concepts and architectural quality in the waterfront development among stakeholders in this process, and to illustrate how different design-based methods can serve as tolls in the said process. "Harbourscape" does not provide architectural solutions to well defined problems and projects. It is an eye-opener towards new concepts in waterfront development and the use of design-based methods in regeneration projects - provided by young architects as well as more experienced designers and academics. 183pp.. ISBN: 9788773077900. First Edition. Paperback. New/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT WATER FRONT ARCHITECTURE. more information

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Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2003. This book discusses changing ideas about the nature and function of the city as an essential cultural network, one that each of its inhabitants participates in, whether consciously or unconsciously. The city acts as a backdrop to everyday life and influences the ways in which individuals interact with a greater cultural community. How would life be different for us as individuals if we lived in a different kind of city? What interventions can be made at an architectural level to make our city a more engaging place to live? In this theoretical discussion and visual display of urbanism, vital connections are made between modernism as an international movement and its manifestations in Canadian architecture. With contributions from experts in diverse fields of inquiry, the book offers a discussion of the dynamic relationship between form and culture in word and picture. 170pp. . ISBN: 1552381056. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SOCIAL SCIENCES SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY URBAN ARCHITECTURE GENERAL. more information

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Dundurn Group Ltd ,Canada, 1995. 118pp.. ISBN: 1550022040. Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. BIOGRAPHY ARCHITECTURE INDIVIDUAL ARCHITECT. more information

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Stillwater, MN, U.S.A.: Voyageur Press, Incorporated, 2001. This is both an exciting history and a tour guide, illustrating the fascinating development of the lighthouses of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Long Island. Marcus and Kelly explain and show the technological evolution of lighthouses, the development of lights and lenses, the architecture of lighthouses, their construction and maintenance on remote sites, the life of the Lighthouse Service keepers, and the movement today to preserve and restore lights. Also included are excerpts from original logs and a descriptive tour of the last manned lighthouse in America, Boston Light, with its three resident Coast Guardsmen and their dog. The stunning photography includes intriguing images of lights in all kinds of weather -- plus photographs that bring readers inside the structures, showing the curling stairways, lenses, the keeper's homes, and more. A comprehensive appendix lists all the current New England lighthouses. 160pp.. ISBN: 0896586170. Paperback. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. LIGHTHOUSES NEW ENGLAND DESCRIPTION TRAVEL MUSEUMS TOURS POINTS INTEREST UNITED STATES NORTHEAST CT MA ME NH RI VT. more information

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New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. Traces the evolution of the country house from the Middle Ages to the world of Evelyn Waugh and P.G.Wodehouse.250 plates,33 in colour.344pp.Very slight spotting to page edges.. ISBN: 0300022735. Second Corrected Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good/Price Clipped. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Life in the English Country House/Social History/Architecture/English Society. more information

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Printed in Huddersfield : Millstream Books, 1988. 224pp.. ISBN: 094897513X. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. JOHN WOOD ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ART BATH. more information

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London: Phaidon, 2001. This work is a general introduction to architecture told through a narrative sequence of 21 chapters, each charting a stage in the devlopment of architecture. These chapters divide the text into natural study units covering the entire world and the whole of human architectural history. Without using technical language, Patrick Nuttgens draws on his own architectural experience to enable the reader to enter the mind of the architects - trying always to answer the simple question such as: "Why is it like that ?"352pp.. ISBN: 071483615X. Second Edition Reprint. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ARCHITECTURE HISTORY. more information

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New York: Blue Dome Press, 2008. 276pp.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/No d/j as Published. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. TOPKAPI PALACE OTTOMAN HISTORY ARCHITECTURE. more information

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Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 2005. Early in the 20th century, Robert Bosch, the founder of the Stuttgart electrical business, built a large villa on the hills east of the city. It was half Palladian, half in the reform style of the period before the First World War. The building was to meet the head of the company's need for prestige, and to provide a private refuge thanks to the pleasant qualities of it's large park and open position. The foundation of the same name is now housed in the Villa Bosch, but the space available has not been adequate for some time. As the company also needed rooms for seminars and other events, a decision was taken to build new accommodation next to the villa. Seven well-known teams took part in a restricted competition, including Tadao Ando, Richard Meier and Richard Rogers. The commission went to Peter Kulka, based in Cologne and Dresden. He found a convincing solution to the problem of leaving the dominance of the old building untouched and at the same time making the foundation's new accommodation attractive in it's own right. He came up with a second "villa" slightly below the first one, precise in it's volume and minimalist in it's resources. The building responds impressively to the challenges of the topography, the landscape around it and it's neighbouring building. Kulka's work combines transparency with physical presence, structural austerity with poetry. This villa suburbana represents a milestone in his career. Kulka, born in 1937, was a pupil of Selman Selmanagic and worked with Hermann Henselmann, Hans Scharoun and in various partnerships before setting up his own practice in 1979. He has been seen as a member of the German architectural avant-garde since his Dresden parliament building (1991 - 94). 60pp. . ISBN: 3930698552. Cloth. New/New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. ARCHITECTURE TOWN PLANNING DOMESTIC PETER KULKA. more information

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Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 2001. Featuring photographs, drawings, and paintings, this volume offers a visual history of New Zealand interiors. The homes presented represent the living-spaces of the Maori, of missionaries and settlers, and of the suburban middle-class. Architecture, construction, design, decoration, and use are all discussed. 172pp.. ISBN: 1877276146. First Edition. Paperback. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ART HISTORY ARCHITECTURE INTERIOR DESIGN. more information

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Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 2006. In this book Nili Portugali, presents her particular interpretation of the holistic-phenomenological worldview in theory and in practice, a worldview which stands in recent years at the forefront of the scientific discourse, and is tightly related to Buddhist philosophy. The purpose of architecture is first and foremost to create a human environment for human beings. The real challenge of current architectural practice is to make the best use of the potential inherent in our modern technological age. Yet, modern society has lost the value of man and thus created a feeling of alienation between man and the environment. Contemporary architecture sought to dissociate itself from the world of emotions and connect the design process to the world of ideas, thus creating a rational relation between building and man, devoid of any emotion. Portugali argues that in order to change the feeling of the environment and create places and buildings we really feel 'at home' and want to live in, what is needed is not a change of style or fashion, but a transformation of the mechanistic worldview underlying current thought and approaches. Based on Christopher Alexander's basic assumption that behind human architecture there are universal and eternal codes common to us all as human beings, and that there is absolute truth underlying beauty and comfort, Portugali demonstrates how this approach, as well as her unique planning process stemming from it (based on the way things actually exist already on site) generates that common spiritual experience people undergo in buildings endowed with soul, no matter where or from what culture they come from. That she demonstrates through a variety of her buildings and projects (with over 600 color illustrations and drawings), in relation to the physical, cultural and social reality of the place they were planned and built on, an Israeli reality which reflects a unique interface between the orient and the west, a cultural interface she personally represents.245pp.. ISBN: 3936681058. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ARCHITECTURE HISTORY. more information

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Germany: Axel Menges, 2009. Cities are often seen as symbols of order: the existence of city walls, fortified gates, palaces, temples, roads, pavements, highways, public institutions, city centers and residential areas is interpreted as indicating the existence of a central authority that plans and controls the city. On the other hand, the very same cities are also seen as symbols of chaos, disorder and spontaneous growth. The little winding streets and alleys, the mixture of physical structures, styles and human activities have often given the impression that cities, like forests, and other natural entities are organic structures - strange 'natural artefacts'. Tokyo is a good example for this dual nature of cities. When you first encounter it, you get the impression of chaos: old buildings with one or two storeys next to 30-, 40- or 50-storey skyscrapers; pedestrians, cars, trains moving in all directions, each with its own trajectory and so on. But then you realise that this seemingly chaotic structure provides a context for perfectly ordered human activities: trains leave and arrive as timetabled, their doors open at the exact points that are marked with yellow lines on the platforms, every morning after midnight fishermen bring their catch to Tokyo's big fish market, auctions are held, and by six o'clock in the morning this huge amount of sea food has already been distributed among thousands of restaurants all over the city. And if you look deeper you learn that the chaotic face of Tokyo is the pre-condition for its ordered and organised life. Complexity theory or self-organisation theory are umbrella terms for a set of theories that study the interplay between chaos and order. Originating in the sciences, these theories have been applied to the study of cities in the last three decades. They show that as in natural systems, in the artificial systems that we call cities, chaos and order do not stand in opposition to each other. Rather, they coexist in an ongoing interplay of circular causality: chaos is the precondition for new urban orders to emerge and then to reproduce themselves, whereas order and organisation set the boundaries within which chaotic structures and behaviours can take place.60pp.. ISBN: 9783936681277. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHY CITIES ARCHITECTURE. more information

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London: Thames & Hudson, 1999. A monograph of one of Britain's most internationally acclaimed architects. Representing the latest generation of the universally popular High Tech movement - and one of its most refined practitioners - McAslan has built his reputation on a combination of sensitive restoration/renovation projects and slick new buildings. An introduction by established architect critic Kenneth Powell gives an overview of McAslan's influences and his career, while placing him in the context of 20th-century British and international architecture. The book's core is McAslan's complete work, organized by building use (commerce, education, arts, transport and residential) and presented in photographs, sketches and plans. A comprehensive appendix details the specifications of each project. 176pp.. ISBN: 0500281742. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ARCHITECTURE DESIGN MCASLAN. more information

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Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 2007. The fact that there is Gypsy architecture may surprise quite a few people, for Gypsies are regarded as nomads who roam through the world and settle now here, now there, never stay long in one place, and consider everything that normal citizens find important to be an unreasonable restriction of their freedom. Nevertheless, in southeastern Europe, there exists a remarkable architecture created by Gypsies. It seems to have been created from a dream: Unreal, abstruse, and colourful, it is a composition of all the architectural styles of this world. Uninfluenced by any deeper knowledge of architectural culture, each family head chose the style, size and finishings on the basis of his own personal tastes or memories of travels, houses and things seen in other countries. The result has been the creation of bizarre and fantastic jumbles of buildings that it is hard to classify in terms of western stylistic features. Very often the houses are the result of enormous jigsaw puzzles created from an assembly of images or photographs of various different buildings, and their execution precisely follows these crazy guidelines, perhaps because they are incomprehensible to those carrying out the project. Otherwise, how could one possibly explain Indian-style roofs crowning neoclassical buildings, mansard roofs on structures of improbable style, Frenchified Chinese pagodas, heterogeneous assemblies of diverse and contrasting elements. The structures, the villas gradually soften their bizarre and fantastic imagery the closer they are built to European countries. Undoubtedly, the cultural influence of neighbouring countries already immersed in the culture and lifestyle of Europe has helped to 'contaminate' the owners and bring their dwellings, the expression of their wishes, more into line with the ruling culture. What, however, remains staggering is the quality of the execution of the complex decorations, of the architectural elements and buildings that are very often contrasting, of widely differing facades surmounted by steepling roofs of no practical use whose only function is to represent, through their lack of proportion and absolute needlessness, the financial and social power of the family. Besides pieces of sculpture that are undoubtedly ritual and symbolic and originating from Indian culture, suns with spiny rays, various forms of pinnacle, geometrical moons, zoomorphic decorations, the tops of the roofs bear metalwork inscriptions giving the date of building and the name of the family or that of the wife, symbolising a desire for display and the proclamation of ownership. 156pp.N.B.Top right hand corner ffep clipped.. ISBN: 9783936681123. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ARCHITECTURE GYPSY. more information

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New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1947. Based on a series of lectures given in the Spring of 1944.308pp.Boards and book edges a little darkened.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. HOSPITAL DESIGN USA ARCHITECTURE BUILDING. more information

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