75 Architects for a Sustainable World
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791393070,
Prestel Publishing,
December 2024
272 pp., 28,5x22,0 cm, 250 colour illus.
272 pp., 28,5x22,0 cm, 250 colour illus.
Filled with striking photography as well as design inspiration and hope for a better tomorrow, this beautifully designed volume profiles the work of a global selection of visionary architects who are reimagining our built world for the future.
Drive...
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40.00 GBP
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Brutalist Japan
A Photographic Tour of Post-War Japanese Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9783791393100,
Prestel Publishing,
October 2024
240 pp., 26,0x21,0 cm, 220 colour illus.
240 pp., 26,0x21,0 cm, 220 colour illus.
Featuring striking photography by an expert in the field, this exploration of Japanese Brutalist architecture celebrates the surprising beauty and grace of buildings forged in concrete.
Emerging in the devastating aftermath of World War II, Brutalis...
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40.00 GBP
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Apprentice at Taliesin
A Personal Experience in the School of Frank Lloyd Wright
ISBN: PB: 9788862425834,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
August 2024
272 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
272 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
Francesco Santoro tells, thirty years later, the story of his apprenticeship in the Taliesin Fellowship, founded by Frank Lloyd Wright. The volume summarizes the experiences made at Taliesin West in the Arizona desert and at Taliesin in the Wisconsin...
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16.99 GBP
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Memory and the City
A Handbook in Action
ISBN: PB: 9788862425926,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
August 2024
184 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
184 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
This handbook for urban research offers a critical introduction to the methodological instruments available to scholars working on urban memory from different areas of expertise. Architects, urban scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and historia...
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16.99 GBP
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Drawing Analogies
Graphic Manual of Architecture
Drawing analogies proposes an innovative way of drawing by means of which we can go from observing an existing architectural model to a design idea inspired by the same model. Using exclusively free hand drawing, the author presents a series of cases...
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17.99 GBP
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Exlibris
16 Keywords of Contemporary Architecture
Architects write a lot, especially now that conceptual aspects have become central in advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices for an ultimate legitimation. In the growing mass of publications, the...
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17.99 GBP
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Carlo Scarpa
The Complete Buildings
ISBN: HB: 9783791377148,
Prestel Publishing,
April 2024
352 pp., 32,4x21,6 cm, 280 colour illus.
352 pp., 32,4x21,6 cm, 280 colour illus.
Featuring exquisite photographs of every structure the architect designed from scratch or incorporated into a historical building, this elegant volume is as sumptuous and inviting as
a Scarpa interior.
Although he was not widely known during his lif...
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50.00 GBP
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Building with Wood
The New Timber Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9783791389240,
Prestel Publishing,
April 2023
240 pp., 27,3x21,0 cm, 250 colour illus., 50 plans
240 pp., 27,3x21,0 cm, 250 colour illus., 50 plans
Learn how cutting-edge innovations using one of civilization's oldest construction materials are reshaping the built environment in sustainable and beautiful ways.
Natural, renewable, reusable, and aesthetically pleasing, wood is the consummate buil...
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37.50 GBP
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Plattenbau Berlin
Urban Residential Architecture: A Photographic Journey
ISBN: HB: 9783791388359,
Prestel Publishing,
March 2022
248 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, 205 colour illus.
248 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, 205 colour illus.
his book takes a fresh look at Plattenbauten, the iconic residential buildings that Berliners love to hate; celebrating the beauty of their textural details and discovering a microcosm of 20th-century urbanism in the story of their construction.
Mad...
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22.50 GBP
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Totem and Taboo in Architectural Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9788862425919,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
February 2022
208 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
208 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
Identify powerful features of the architecture of the present time seeking to illuminate hidden knowledge and processes through a few key concepts. The image: apparently, it seems so essential to understand today's architecture but which, on closer a...
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9.99 GBP
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