Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-12-04
Dewey code: 943
RRP: £9.50
Price: £5.59
Review The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape / University of Chicago Press:
Creator: G. Bull
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1987-08-27
Dewey code: 709.45
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.00
Review Lives of the Artists: A Selection v. 2 (Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Philip Ursprung
Edition: Mul
Publication date: 2008-04-25
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £80.00
Price: £54.91
Review Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopaedia (Extra Large Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Authors
- "
- Solar Energy International"
Dewey code: 621.31244
RRP: £44.50
Price: £22.30
Review Photovoltaics: Design and Installation Manual / New Society Publishers:
Creator: Ricard Pla
Edition: New title
Publication date: 1998-04-30
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £9.95
Price: £4.99
Review Gaudi: An Introduction to His Architecture (Gaudi) / Triangle Postals , S.L:
Edition: Pocket Ed
Publication date: 2000-08-15
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.27
Review Twentieth Century Architecture / Carlton Books Ltd:Human life in the 20th century has involved a fight for living space. To live in architecturally interesting housing has often meant either being very rich, or conversely very poor. Unfortunately, in this respect, vast swathes of the world have fallen between the two, resulting in buildings at best undistinguished and at worst uninhabitable. Pushing aside this ignoble architectural rubble, Jonathan Glancey has constructed a pantheon to memorable structures, 370 in total, which have shaped an extreme century. He proves an inspired choice for the job. Stripping his text of the dehumanising jargon beloved of designers, Glancey has arranged his selections in eight sections: Arts and Crafts, Classicism, Organic, Modernism, Postmodernism, Robotic, Futures and Cities, and what a city they collectively make. Within each chapter superbly reproduced photographs are each accompanied by an informative and suitably fulsome or pithy paragraph from Glancey, who is fiercely critical of laziness, yet always quick to applaud honesty and innovative vision. Instructive mistakes are included, as are buildings that no longer exist and a few that never will, and such scope contributes to a diversely rewarding compendium geared to a British audience that has, it must be said, too little of its own to cheer. The big guns are well represented-Horta, Rennie Mackintosh, Lloyd Wright, Behrens, Lutyens, Gaudi, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Rogers and Foster-as are landmark structures, such as the Chrysler Building, the Guggenheim Museums, Sydney Opera House and the "bowellist" Lloyd's Building in London. It has been a century dominated by the moral quest of Modernism (the core of the book and its largest contingent, defying Mies van der Rohe's dictum "less is more"), but if God is in the detail, then the marvels of this collection are the lesser-known buildings that sit comfortably beside their more famous counterparts, and give perspective to the ambitious "big picture". [+]This is an inspiring and consistently enjoyable read, like the very best of its contents, and an invaluably erudite introduction to a towering subject. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 2007-09-25
Dewey code: 728.80942
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.97
Review English Manor Houses: From the Archives of "Country Life" (Country Life): From the Archives of "Country Life" (Country Life) / Aurum Press Ltd:Found in all the best lavatories in Britain, the magazine Country Life is famous for two things: its "girls in pearls" photos of upper class young British women, and the endless glossy property pages full of Cotswold stone rectories, Scottish hunting lodges and grand Palladian mansions. A lot of these property shots are advertising, pure and simple. But some are editorial: ever since its inception in 1897 the journal has deliberately showcased, each week, at least one notably interesting manor house or "stately"-quite often one that has been recently renewed or rejigged. This book, edited by a Country Life writer aims to collect the best of these photo-studies, from the years before World War II. And a very worthwhile exercise it is. Whether it's neo-classical Kelmarsh, neo-medieval Sissinghurst, or neo-Regency Biddesden, the nobility of these houses is more than apparent. Admittedly, the photographs-and the houses-weren't always what they seemed: the author confesses in his accompanying text that the furniture was often rearranged, the interiors remodelled, and any annoyingly untidy real people rigorously excluded, so as to match the editor's conception of the timeless "ideal". But it doesn't matter. Gazing at these suave and alluring snapshots of a wonderful, refined, unspoilt, perfect England, the urge to believe and admire is palpable. This is an intriguing and very elegant book.
Publication date: 2008-05-09
Dewey code: 747
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.00
Review Kim Parker Home / Stewart, Tabori, & Chang:
Publication date: 2001-03-22
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £21.00
Price: £13.22
Review Radical Reconstruction / Princeton Architectural Press:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1990-09
Dewey code: 304.23
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.33
Review The Hidden Dimension / Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-02-01
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £14.95
Price: £8.15
Review Warped Space: Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture / MIT Press:
Creator: Alex Ramsay
Publication date: 2006-11-01
Dewey code: 712.0945
RRP: £30.00
Price: £18.57
Review Italian Gardens / Frances Lincoln Publishers:
Edition: Har/Cdr
Publication date: 2004-06-25
Dewey code: 702
RRP: £25.98
Price: £12.83
Review Virtual Pose 3: The Ultimate Visual Reference Series for Drawing the Human Figure (Virtual Pose) / North Light Books:
Authors
- Walter Pokorny
- Thomas Zelger
- Karl Torghele
Publication date: 2006-07-01
Dewey code: 728
RRP: £70.00
Price: £54.21
Review Passivhaus-bauteilkatalog, Okologisch Bewertete Konstruktionen - Details for Passive Houses, A Catalogue of Ecologically Rated Constructions / Springer-Verlag, Austria:
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £5.95
Price: £3.56
Review Secrets of the Serpent: In Search of the Sacred Past / Reality Entertainment:
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Publication date: 1995-06-23
Dewey code: 712.6
RRP: £23.95
Price: £14.92
Review Gardens Are for People / University of California Press:
Publication date: 2007-04-30
Dewey code: 704
RRP: £25.00
Price: £11.04
Review Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art / Gingko Press:
Publication date: 2008-08-12
Dewey code: 790.132
RRP: £10.50
Price: £10.50
Review Collections of Nothing / Chicago University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-08-05
Dewey code: 304.23
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.09
Review The Lure of the Local: The Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society / The New Press:
Edition: 2New Ed
Publication date: 1971-01-01
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £19.95
Price: £13.16
Review Wiltshire (Pevsner Buildings of England) / Yale University Press:
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The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape, Lives of the Artists: A Selection v. 2 (Classics), Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopaedia (Extra Large Series), Photovoltaics: Design and Installation Manual, Gaudi: An Introduction to His Architecture (Gaudi), Twentieth Century Architecture, English Manor Houses: From the Archives of "Country Life" (Country Life): From the Archives of "Country Life" (Country Life), Kim Parker Home, Radical Reconstruction, The Hidden Dimension, Warped Space: Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture, Italian Gardens, Virtual Pose 3: The Ultimate Visual Reference Series for Drawing the Human Figure (Virtual Pose), Passivhaus-bauteilkatalog, Okologisch Bewertete Konstruktionen - Details for Passive Houses, A Catalogue of Ecologically Rated Constructions, Secrets of the Serpent: In Search of the Sacred Past, Gardens Are for People, Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art, Collections of Nothing, The Lure of the Local: The Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society, Wiltshire (Pevsner Buildings of England) |
