Jennie C. Jones: Ensemble
The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588397942,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
July 2025
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 40 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 40 colour illus.
Documenting Jennie C. Jones's multisensory site-specific artwork, this volume highlights her inspirations – from Minimalism and Modernism to avant-garde music.
Best known as a painter, Jennie C. Jones draws on the aesthetics and conceptual underpin...
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7.50 GBP
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Royal Pavilion Brighton
A Regency Palace of Colour and Sensation
ISBN: HB: 9780300266665,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
272 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 250 colour illus.
272 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 250 colour illus.
The first in-depth study since the 1980s of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, a building that is often considered the most poignant architectural expression of the Romantic imagination and that has become a hallmark of Regency style.
Created between...
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35.00 GBP
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Architecture for Reading in Public
Henri Labrouste's Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve
ISBN: HB: 9780300275339,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
296 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 145 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
296 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 145 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
An in-depth look at the iconic mid-nineteenth-century building and its construction during a period of revolution and its transformative impact on the history of architecture.
Since its completion in 1850, the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve has been...
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60.00 GBP
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Manifesto House
Buildings that Changed the Future of Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9780300260540,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
240 pp., 25,6x19,2 cm, 70 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
240 pp., 25,6x19,2 cm, 70 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Manifesto houses reflect new visions for how we can live. Often extreme and uncompromising, they are vehicles for innovation, new ideas and news ways of doing things.
Most houses are the product of multiple layers of norms and expectations built up...
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30.00 GBP
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House of Victor Horta
20 Years of Conservation
ISBN: HB: 9780300273205,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
April 2025
160 pp., 26,5x17,0 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
160 pp., 26,5x17,0 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
The story of how the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta conceived his private residence/studio and how architect Barbara Van Der Wee restored it to its original splendour.
Victor Horta (1861-1947) is considered the most prominent Belgian ar...
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40.00 GBP
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Suspended Moment
The Architecture of Frida Escobedo
ISBN: PB: 9781588397867,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2025
112 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 130 colour and black&white illus.
112 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 130 colour and black&white illus.
An illuminating profile of one of today's most innovative and forward-looking architects, whose materials-based practice explores how space can provoke emotional response.
Frida Escobedo's (b. 1979) designs for public spaces have received global ac...
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25.00 GBP
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Form and Fortification
The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780300272048,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
256 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 134 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.
256 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 134 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.
A revelatory exploration of a crucial Renaissance art form – military architecture – and its unexpected connections with contemporary aesthetic, cultural, and technological innovations.
Urban fortifications were the most colossal artistic achieveme...
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60.00 GBP
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Isaac Julien
Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement
ISBN: HB: 9780300279702,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
256 pp., 29,8x24,1 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
256 pp., 29,8x24,1 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
A visual record and philosophical investigation of Isaac Julien's immersive installation on the modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi.
Isaac Julien's multiscreen installation "Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement" is a poetic portrait exploring the...
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65.00 GBP
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Slow Wood
Greener Building from Local Forests
ISBN: HB: 9780300273472,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 48 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 48 black&white illus.
A counterintuitive proposal for healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of local wood in home building.
American homes are typically made of lumber and plywood delivered by a global system of ruthles...
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25.00 GBP
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Concrete Alliance
Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France
ISBN: HB: 9780300259346,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
288 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 62 colour illus., 88 black&white illus.
288 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 62 colour illus., 88 black&white illus.
The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France.
The massive reshaping of French cities that took place between 1958 and 1981 is commonly regarded as a unique episode in which moderni...
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50.00 GBP
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