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Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory
by Carpo, Mario
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- 2001
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- 0262032880
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The MIT Press, 2001 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 246 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf wear, blind collector's stamp on the half-title). "The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and time of accumulated experiences, concepts, rules, and models. From the invention of the alphabet to the development of ASCII code for electronic communication, the process… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Library: A World History
by Campbell, James W. P.
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- 2013
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- 022609281x
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University of Chicago Press, 2013 4to (31.5 cm), 328 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (collector's blind stamp on half-title). "A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in Finland, to the ancient ruins of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Painted Architecture and Polychrome Monumental Sculpture in Mesoamerica (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)
by Boone, Elizabeth Hill
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- 1985
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- 0884021424
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1985 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 186 pp, 10 plates. Publisher's cloth. Papers presented at the October 10-11, 1981 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. For contents see scans. Item Price
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Fortification du Royaume de Sicile d'après le manuscript original du Château de Beloeil
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- 2020
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Brussels: Société Royale des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, 2020 Oblong folio (42 x 29.5 cm), [6], 50 pp. Laminated wrappers (book little warped). A facsimile reprint of an atlas of fortifications of the island of Sicily made for Claude Lamoral de Ligne Ier, a viceroy of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1669 to 1674. Item Price
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Victorian Thorney: The story of the remodelling of the Duke of Bedford's Fenland village by Samuel Sanders Teulon
by Teulon, Alan Edward
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- 2001
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- 1871468094
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Moulton, Northampton: Jema Publications, 2001 8vo (21 cm), 75 pp. Laminated wrappers (bookplate). Illustrated by Sian Catherine Teulon. Item Price
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Konstruktywizm polski: Próba rekonstrukcji nurtu 1921-1934 (Studia z historii sztuki) (Polish Edition)
by Turowski, Andrzej
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- 1981
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- 8304005573
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Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1981 8vo (24.5 cm), 364 pp, plates, errata loosely inserted. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket( dj frayed at extremities and little creased). In Polish with 12 pages summary in English. "Constructivism in Poland: An attempted reconstruction of the trend (1921-1931)" is a classic study of the artistic movement which begins with an exhibition of New Art… Read more about this item Item Price
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Unwanted capital. Architecture and urban planning in Krakow during the German occupation of 1939–1945
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- 2022
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- 836641941x
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Kraków: MCK, 2022 2 volumes 4to (28 cm), 366 pp; 63 pp. Publisher's boards; printed wrappers, in paper slip-case. The catalogue in Polish with an accompanied booklet in English. "This exceptional book contains over 300 illustrations, working also as a corpus of existing knowledge about the heritage of the Third Reich in Krakow. It addresses a little-known and intentionally overlooked… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dissonant heritage? The architecture of the Third Reich in Poland
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- 2020
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- 8366419193
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Kraków: MCK, 2020 4to (26 cm), 384. Publisher's boards. "Heritage can often be difficult, as best evidenced by the former Auschwitz concentration camp or the Palace of Culture and Science. In Poland, however, the most problematic is the heritage left behind by the Third Reich. The complexity of this issue is demonstrated in the latest book by the International Cultural… Read more about this item Item Price
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Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin
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- 1939
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Berlin and Leipzig:: Verlag von Kunstwissenschaft, 1939 4to (30.5 cm), XVI, 782, [2] pp. French half-morroco with corners, four raised bands, spine gilt, marbled end-papers, teg (bookplate mounted on the front pastdown). Beautiful copy of the catalog of the art library which once was the biggest and the finest in the world. 5435 works are described, part of them were… Read more about this item Item Price
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Art and architecture; A bibliography of bibliographies (The Besterman world bibliographies)
by Besterman, Theodore
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- 1971
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- 0874710456
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Rowman and Littlefield, 1971 12mo (19.5 cm), XIV, 216 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (bookplate). The fourth edition of Theodore Besterman's "A World Bibliography of Bibliographies" was published in 1965-66. It's a monumental book which contains 6664 columns. Rowman and Littlefield in 18 separate publications gathered all the titles in some of the major fields. The volume on art… Read more about this item Item Price
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Roman Imperial Architecture (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
by Ward-Perkins, J. B.
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- 1992
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- 0300052928
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Yale University Press, 1992 8vo (21 cm), 532 pp. Laminated wrappers. "The history of Roman Imperial architecture is one of the interaction of two dominant themes: in Rome itself the emergence of a new architecture based on the use of a revolutionary new material, Roman concrete; and in the provinces, the development of interrelated but distinctive Romano-provicial schools. The metropolitan… Read more about this item Item Price
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Glamour: Fashion, Design, Architecture: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture
by Rosa, Joseph; Patton, Phil; Postrel, Virginia; Steele, Valerie; Keffer, Ruth; Joseph Rosa
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- 2004
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- 0300106408
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Yale University Press, 2004 4to (30 cm), 192 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj rubbed at extremities, couple of tears to dj's inner fold, binding and text fine). "As one of the most alluring yet elusive concepts in contemporary style, glamour is an ideal that permeates our visual culture. This lavishly illustrated book radically revises our understanding of glamour… Read more about this item Item Price
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Flight of Fancy: The Banishment and Return of Ornament
by Brolin, Brent C.
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- 1985
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- 0312296134
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St. Martin's Press, 1985 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 319 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities). The book reveals the fascinating interplay of art, society, politics, and commerce from antiquity through modernism and explains ornament's near demise and recent revival. It is a stunningly documented argument against artistic chauvinism and a lively survey of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
by Langins, Janis
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- 2003
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- 0262122588
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The MIT Press, 2003 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 532 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. "The origins of the modern science of engineering can be traced to France's Royal Corps of Engineering in the eighteenth century. In Conserving the Enlightenment, Janis Langins gives us a history of this prototypical technical bureaucracy, using as his point of entry a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ulm Design: The Morality of Objects
by Lindinger, Herbert
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- 1991
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- 0262121476
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The MIT Press, 1991 4to (27 cm), 287 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "During its brief existence from 1955 to 1968, the HfG Ulm exerted an influence that no one could have predicted from its small size, improbable location, or short lifespan. Originally conceived as a successor to the Bauhaus, the school quickly abandoned that model and set out… Read more about this item Item Price
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Experiencing Architecture
by Rasmussen, Steen Eiler
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- 1997
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- 0262680025
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The MIT Press, 1997 8vo (20.5 cm), 245 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence - ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace -… Read more about this item Item Price
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Algorithmic Architecture
by Terzidis, Kostas
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- 2006
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- 0750667257
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Architectural Press, 2006 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 159 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides and why is his philosophy still puzzling today? This unique volume challenges the reader… Read more about this item Item Price
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Inigo Jones
by Summerson, John
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- 2000
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- 0300082444
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Paul Mellon Centre, 2000 8vo (21 cm), VII, 148 pp. Laminated wrappers (blind stamp on the title). Inigo Jones was the first English classical architect, famous in his own time (he was nine years junior to Shakespeare) and the posthumous sponsor of the Palladianism of the 18th century. Sir John Summerson clears away a mass of legend in order to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Towns and Buildings
by Rasmussen, Steen Eiler
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- 1969
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- 0262680114
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MIT Press, 1969 8vo (23 cm), [8], 203 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. Later printing. Today's bustling tourism has proved itself a double-edged sword: on the one hand it acquaints great numbers of people with cities and sights they might otherwise have missed; on the other it focuses on individual landmarks that the city as a whole is obscured and confused.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic
by Cooper, Tracy E.
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- 2006
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- 0300105827
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Yale University Press, 2006 4to (29.5 cm), XII, 392 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Celebrated Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) devoted much of his career to the city of Venice. Famous for public buildings he had designed in his native Vicenza and country villas he had built for wealthy patricians there, he arrived in Venice in the mid- 1550s… Read more about this item Item Price
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